Sentences with phrase «support meaningful change»

Having the capability to generate quality client profitability data and the ability to use these data to support meaningful change in an organization are two entirely different processes.

Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire states.

And campaign finance reform isn't likely because neither party would support meaningful change and are generally protected on first amendment grounds.

Not exact matches

At The Lasting Supper, we have managed to create an incredibly safe space to deconstruct, to change your beliefs, to lose or morph your faith, to make dramatic alterations to your life with meaningful support, and to be whoever you are with whatever you think.

Nevertheless, as the authors point out, a national food policy would shine a brighter spotlight on these conflicts and would also likely raise public awareness about and support for meaningful improvements to our food system — a much needed first step toward change.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Makes you feel like you're doing something meaningful to support child health while not actually changing the structures that lead to poor outcomes.

«That's a fitting, meaningful tribute to one of the great public servants of our time, and I was very proud to support the effort to change.»

Support a Constitutional Convention to enact meaningful change (this will require independent reps — not those controlled by political parties).

You can not be a «powerful force» for meaningful change on behalf of workers by spewing leftist lite rhetoric and backing neo-liberal right wingers like Andrew Cuomo... and that's all WFP ever does... they support horrific Democratic Party candidates and sheepdog many well - intended folk into voting for establishment candidates on their line.

In that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.»

«By not supporting sciences, we won't be able to make meaningful changes.»

«Programs or policies that help reduce the cost and difficulty of making long - term changes or that bring in whole communities to make long - term changes together can help support people to take big steps that have a meaningful impact on the climate.»

IPE's Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training is by far the best program I have seen or heard that supports people through meaningful changes concerning how we eat, why we eat, what we eat, and how to heal patterns that no longer serve us.

Caroline Rookes, Chief Executive of the Money Advice Service, (who kindly provided funds to support the inquiry) said: «We welcome the APPG's report and the continuing efforts to make meaningful, positive changes to the approach to financial education among young people.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

When a Superintendent takes the Future Ready Pledge, his / her district is making a firm commitment to implementing meaningful changes toward a digital learning transition that supports teachers, and addresses the district's vision for student learning.

Meaningful student involvement can support school change many ways, especially in creating supportive learning environments.

Using reflection to consider specific issues critically — such as the rapid rate of technological change, the design of technology for educational purposes or the use of specific forms of technology to support the situated nature of learning (Mishra & Koehler, 2006)-- provides preservice teachers with the opportunity to develop their technological pedagogical content knowledge while engaging in meaningful reflective practice.

Description: There are three Keys to Leadership that drive using data for meaningful change at the classroom level: expectation, support, and involvement.

• learners construct meaning; • learners see the connection between what they learn and the real world; • learners are actively engaged in purposeful tasks; • activities are integrated and meaningful; • learners work individually and as members of a group; • learners are expected and encouraged to learn; • learners internalize that what they learn and do in school makes a positive change in the community; • learners are supported by passionate, engaged coaches, mentors, and advocates; • all learners have advanced learning opportunities; and • learners see themselves as part of the community and find ways to serve the community.

Through vignettes and video, they were able to see what the three keys to leadership that drive «using data for meaningful change» look like in practice: expectation, support, and involvement.

New Leaders believes — and a meaningful, growing evidence base confirms — that when it comes to supporting teachers to grow and improve their practice, and, ultimately, accelerate student achievement, leadership changes everything.

Your support will allow young people of color to learn how to create meaningful changes by:

We seek to cultivate these dispositions in the teams we support and focus our support for central office leaders on leading meaningful principal growth and system - wide change.

We call on President Obama and other Democrats to reject these policies and join parents and education experts in support of a more positive set of changes that includes small classes, a well - rounded curriculum, more meaningful parent involvement and greater investment in teachers and families.

IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework focuses change on what research and experience say matters: parents as partners involved in consistent and meaningful ways, engaged students who know they belong in schools and are supported by caring adults, competent caring educators who are well - paid and supported in their work, and high - quality curriculum that prepares students for 21st Century opportunities.

IDRA's School TurnAround and Reenergizing for Success (STAARS) Leaders project is a unique model for school improvement that focuses on cohesive, meaningful change for struggling schools through mentoring and supporting campus leadership.

The Foundation for Child Development is dedicated to supporting research that provides useful information and leads to meaningful change.

Engaging students as partners in school change should including creating the culture to support Meaningful Student Involvement for all students in all schools, all the time.

• An onsite workshop to support student data use • Online course focused on Using Data For Meaningful Classroom Change

Anita Elberse and Tom Dye note in a Harvard case study that, over the course of his career, he adapted to meaningful changes in the world of soccer: «Ferguson had massively expanded his backroom staff, and had appointed a team of sports scientists to support the coaching staff.»

Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public to foster radical imagination, empathy, and positive social change.

It's unfortunate that this loss or delay of valuable information that would support solid policy shift on mitigating climate change and reducing impacts including saving human lives, is not given more meaningful coverage in mainstream press.

We support your effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today.

While there have been several attempts to explain the lack of meaningful action regarding climate change, these models have not developed into an integrated and empirically supported approach.

I suspect the next administration, if it's enlightened, will take their first year attempting to mobilize support at higher levels of government for meaningful change.

With dozens of examples — from the private sector to government agencies — Stoknes shows how to retell the story of climate change and, at the same time, create positive, meaningful actions that can be supported even by deniers.

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

«Billions are being wasted on climate change policies which will have no meaningful impact on the climate and the science supporting alarmist climate theories is also crumbling.

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

Very few politicians supporting any meaningful legislation on climate change, limited discussion in the Press and political debates, projections for increasing fossil fuel use as far out as the eye can see, etc..»

We here at NWEI are proud to stand with Oregon Environmental Council and Climate Solutions in signing our support for meaningful action on climate change and a commitment to start that action right here in Oregon.

After Monday's empowering speech by the Philippines lead negotiator Naderev «Yeb» Sano and his decision to fast in support of his home country until a meaningful COP outcome was in sight, the youth of COP 19 decided to show solidarity for Yeb and the Philippines by participating in a voluntary fast for climate change.

Additionally, you will: * Lead with Heart — display empathy and compassion for your patients, customers, caregivers and colleagues on your team * Motivate, inspire and develop your Pharmacy Support Staff by balancing assignments that maximize colleagues» strengths, address development opportunities and decrease knowledge gaps * Identify critical business opportunities and meaningful solutions to drive growth and improve performance in your pharmacy * Successfully implement those solutions by leading your team to achieve specified goals * Adapt to change and adjust plans to thrive in a dynamic community healthcare setting * Seek new ways to grow, collaborate with others and deliver better outcomes * Align others around purpose to gain support and commitment * Facilitate a «team» culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm and pride * Apply acquired knowledge to help drive healthy outcomes and differentiate CVS from competitors * The above represents a summary of the functions of a Pharmacy MSupport Staff by balancing assignments that maximize colleagues» strengths, address development opportunities and decrease knowledge gaps * Identify critical business opportunities and meaningful solutions to drive growth and improve performance in your pharmacy * Successfully implement those solutions by leading your team to achieve specified goals * Adapt to change and adjust plans to thrive in a dynamic community healthcare setting * Seek new ways to grow, collaborate with others and deliver better outcomes * Align others around purpose to gain support and commitment * Facilitate a «team» culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm and pride * Apply acquired knowledge to help drive healthy outcomes and differentiate CVS from competitors * The above represents a summary of the functions of a Pharmacy Msupport and commitment * Facilitate a «team» culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm and pride * Apply acquired knowledge to help drive healthy outcomes and differentiate CVS from competitors * The above represents a summary of the functions of a Pharmacy Manager.

Operations Manager — Duties & Responsibilities Oversee organizational engineering initiatives aligning business resources and processes with organizational goals Identify and close knowledge, skill, process, and resource gaps with appropriate, sustainable solutions Train clients for sustainable change, meaningful innovation, increased engagement, and alignment with organizational goals Serve as an integral member of sales and marketing team, presenting technical information to 100 + customers worldwide Technical expert for the world's largest producer of anti-dandruff shampoo, an account providing 80 % + of biocide revenue Direct product development research and communicate technical product attributes to customers Design and implement the Quality Department, including all policies, processes, training, and client communications Champion quality process initiatives globally while managing team of 14 professional and support employees Manage global quality in product innovation, including working with internal product development teams Mentor junior team members and peers in quality processes ensuring the highest standards for company endeavors Serve as executive director of the global R&D operation for Kemin Food Technologies Oversee research and quality laboratory personnel in the US, Europe, Singapore, China, and India.

Scullion's communique also said COAG had «recommitted to working in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the issues that affect them, creating economic and social opportunities, noting that community support and a shared sense of ownership are essential for delivering meaningful, practical change.»

KidsMatter Primary helps schools to support children's mental health and wellbeing through strategic, cultural change and meaningful engagement with families.

«Creating meaningful change is more than a catchy phrase, it is what I will support you in doing.