Sentences with phrase «systems change efforts»

Conducting a case study to articulate the logic model behind RSF and to develop a deep understanding of the systems change efforts as RSF unfolds over time

A growing number of preschool settings and other early childhood organizations are now using this three - tiered prevention model in order to establish prevention - focused systems change efforts.

Statewide planning teams are created when larger systems change efforts in positive behavior support are identified.

Her responsibilities and expertise include: systems change efforts, curriculum and instruction, design and evaluation of professional development, federal programs, early childhood and K - 12 literacy.

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That means managing your time in a way that allows you to prioritize your action steps, removing as many distractions from your life as possible, allotting budgetary resources to your goals, breaking ties with people who discourage your efforts to change, and cultivating a strong support system of people who want you to succeed and will help hold you accountable to your goals.

The company contends it's making the change in response to feedback from authors who feel the current system doesn't recognize the extra effort involved in producing a lengthy tome.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

Concerns are also high that Brazil's presidential election could hinder efforts to reform the country's pension system and make other fiscal changes.

The extent to which any effort to revive or even maintain community in America without a fundamental change in the economic system is a problem we will consider in the next chapter.

Their efforts finally culminated in a change of the political and educational systems that resulted in support of integration instead of segregation.

Women, like blacks and members of other oppressed groups, must break their inner bondage and gain self - esteem if they are to use fully their potential in collective efforts to change the systems of injustice (discriminatory laws, pay scales, admissions policies to professional schools, among others).

Then Graham pointed out that the impacts of climate change, peak oil and geopolitical instability mean that «the whole food system needs rethinking and massive effort needs to go into rebuilding the skills of our agricultural producers such that the nation can remain domestically food - secure».

Instead of railing against women who choose to UC, maybe your efforts should be better spent in making attended home birth more available to women, and changing the system to allow women to have a say in their own care.

Growing Home combines high quality direct service strategies with efforts to advance systems change as we work toward equality of opportunity for all.

It was not clear from this review whether or not community efforts would lead to permanent changes in breastfeeding patterns; however, this analysis confirmed previous speculation regarding the presence of a supportive health system synergized with community efforts: those community interventions that were linked to positive health systems with breastfeeding support already in place appeared to have a greater impact on breastfeeding.

He said the police investigation had been a «shock to the system» and was on the whole a «good one» because would result in changes in the way political parties were funded and had led to renewed efforts to finish the reform of the House of Lords.

As The Business Council has consistently stated, we support New York State's efforts to promote minority and women businesses» participation in government contracting However, we find that there are numerous problems in both the current system and the changes being proposed in the Executive Budget.

The system is unfair and I am delighted that, under the coalition Government, it will change to reward those who strive in the face of adversity, rather than those who sit back and ask, «What can I have for as little effort as possible?»

An effort to create a system of publicly financed campaigns was a non-starter in the state Senate this year, and lawmakers did not take up any changes to the existing campaign finance laws.

Matt Laslo reports from Washington on the Democratic senator's bipartisan effort to change the military justice system.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

The Buffalo News wrote, «the effort to establish a voluntary system of public financing of elections in New York is a critical component to change in Albany's pay - to - play culture.»

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

An effort in 2016 to make smart changes to the bail bond system and gradually increase the age at which youths are considered adults did not meet with success, but Mr. Coleman's continued support of those reforms will be relied on when the legislature reconvenes.

They discourage legislative efforts to change how the Water Authority does business because political parties directly benefit from the patronage system that exists now.

It's been a continuing nonsensical, dysfunctional effort out of this board over the years to try to change things to make this school system better,» said Paladino.

Earth - Sun System ($ 2.21 billion) funds efforts to understand Earth's weather and its changing climate.

Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).

Lo was encouraged by the variants because retroviruses are extremely mutable pathogens that change their gene sequences again and again in response to immune system efforts to kill them.

Like earlier efforts, the scheme, designed by Paul Townsend of the British Telephone Laboratories in Ipswich, U.K., relies on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — the German physicist's famous insistence that any measurement of a system changes its state.

Although many observational efforts aimed at understanding planetary - system formation have been made, this study is novel in focusing on the chemical change.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adapSystems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adapsystems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Consummate research professor at Stanford University has spent 20 years with a focus on plant - based nutrition but has recently expanded his efforts to studying food systems approach to improved diet quality and the link between social movements and improved diet change.

Any effort to improve or change education is usually met with a backlash from unions and other organizations that sense that changes in the way the system works can often cut into their power base.

There is evidence that accountability systems with concrete goals change the behavior of school systems, at a minimum by refocusing efforts on disadvantaged students.

Online educators make great efforts to bring serious changes in the educational system.

TheWashington Post's Jay Mathews pointed out, in 2012, that the new assessments would «delay, if not stop altogether, the national move toward rating teachers by student score improvements» and that radical change would force systems «to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests» before they could resume those efforts.

The authors are well aware of the limitation our complex political system places on any effort at change and reform, and in view of this complexity, they do not expect much: if some policy does more good than harm, that is good enough for them.

System - level efforts can initiate and enable change at the local level, but it is the quality, breadth and depth of the local provision that determine whether there is an impact on students.

Some of these might be categorized as efforts to build the capacity of the current system by simply paying for professional development sessions on particular topics; others might be thought of as attempts to change the system by developing new approaches to hiring, compensating, and evaluating teachers.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

The conditions, behaviors, and practices required by an effective coaching program can affect the culture of a school or system, thus embedding instructional change within broader efforts to improve school - based culture and conditions.

To have a deeper understanding of these questions, we need to dissect the current status of the Chinese educational system in such a way that any solutions we come up with our sound and geared towards change and an improved effort by all, for all.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Our efforts to change the system hadn't worked, and so we had to have a way for low - income parents to opt out of it.

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for chSystems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for chsystems of educational support and opportunity for children.

But another group — nonprofit foundations — also exerts influence on the process and outcomes of reform efforts by supporting initiatives that lead to specific changes in the system.

Learning within teams may be critical to sustaining change efforts both within schools and school systems.

On the other hand, those systems that have successfully moved toward more competency - based approaches are putting in a concerted effort to manage cultural change, or were already grounded in a competency - based, personalized culture even before the mandate was handed down.