Sentences with phrase «ensure system improvements»

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«Implementation of these reforms, along with ongoing evaluation of export processes and identification of further opportunities for improvement may assist the Department of Agriculture to develop a more efficient and cost effective system for ensuring welfare of exported livestock,» the report said.
The Company's policy on product safety and quality confirms this commitment by ensuring regular reviews of the Quality Management System are undertaken in order to achieve best practice and implement process improvements.
«Our nation's rail system needs improvements to ensure that we are properly shipping materials, such as oil and gas, which can be hazardous.
However, once the proposed reforms are published, I hope to see further changes to ensure better public interest accountability and a visible improvement for all of us who wish to see a thriving 21st century railway system in our country.
Real - time improvements The CDC team is intently watching healthcare workers now caring for Pham and is requiring individual monitors — a type of buddy system — to observe staff as they enter, work in, and exit isolation areas to ensure all of the steps are followed.
In addition, financing is largely absent for system - level improvements to ensure that higher - education programs prepare students with the knowledge and competencies necessary to work with young children.
Withdrawing the «right» for schools to act as their own admissions authority, and engaging with the RSA's proposed Commission on School Admissions to ensure that the «low road to school improvement» (manipulating the admissions system rather than improving teaching) is permanently closed.
In order to ensure quality, equity, accountability, and continuous improvement within this new system, I'm excited to also tease a complementary framework which will be intimately connected to AIDNet.
And one of the most important improvements they can make is to ensure that their accountability systems encourage schools to pay attention to all students, including their strivers.
The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.
For example, we've developed a comprehensive development and evaluation system for teachers, one that is about supporting, not just sorting — providing a means of continuous improvement that will ensure all kids are taught by the skilled and knowledgeable teachers they deserve.
The National Funding Formula (NFF), the biggest improvement to the school funding system for decades, will ensure that for the first time funding is based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country.
The organization can then analyze the areas for improvement in a timely manner, ensuring that the students actually benefit from the system.
Additionally, Smarter Balanced is developing a distributed, multi-actor system of test delivery, with the Consortium maintaining responsibility only for those aspects that are essential for ensuring continued comparability of results, quality improvements, and state - led governance.
Rotherham believes dramatic improvements in America's education system are integral to ensuring equality of opportunity and building a more equitable and just society.
In our view, three of the most important improvements that states can make are to ensure that their accountability systems:
He manages the Field Services component of the instructional improvement / instructional effectiveness system to ensure timely and responsive service to client needs.
In response to a query from me on behalf of NCOGS he said:»... we want to ensure that the schools system continues to benefit from the expertise of the best people in local authority teams and it recognises that there is some very effective practice within local authority school improvement teams and we expect that the strongest people in them may establish new academy trusts or take up positions within existing ones.
The District and School Improvement team provides schools with unparalleled levels of service to ensure that the district effectively and efficiently implements continuous improvement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, and the Educator EffImprovement team provides schools with unparalleled levels of service to ensure that the district effectively and efficiently implements continuous improvement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, and the Educator Effimprovement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, and the Educator Effectiveness.
But finding ways for states to ensure that public education delivers on its promise to students and families — and makes needed and urgent improvements in what Richard Elmore famously described as a «loosely coupled» system — requires bold, creative, evidence - based solutions.
Equity has been understood to be both a key driver of school improvement and a major factor in ensuring that each child is able to achieve and succeed, yet our systems and societies still harbor inequities.
The Student Performance and Improvement team provides schools with unparalleled levels of service to ensure that the district effectively and efficiently implements continuous improvement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of teaching and learning, professional development, and educator effImprovement team provides schools with unparalleled levels of service to ensure that the district effectively and efficiently implements continuous improvement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of teaching and learning, professional development, and educator effimprovement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of teaching and learning, professional development, and educator effectiveness.
There are plenty of things a proper, declared middle tier could get on with, including: ensuring a supply of good teachers; school improvement support for all schools, especially those in deprived areas; good continuing professional development for teachers and leaders; and an effective system of support for vulnerable pupils, especially those with special needs.
Including chronic absence in accountability systems and improvement plans ensures that schools and districts respond to chronic absence as the emergency that it is.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system
According to PEAC members, some of the issues that PEAC and state officials should look at include the requirement that statewide test data be included in evaluations, the strict formulaic approach of the system that limits judgment and takes an inordinate amount of time away from teaching and learning, specified teacher rating categories that interfere with improvement, and evaluator training that may not ensure calibration.
For the American education system and its schools to ensure that continual improvement can flourish, the role of the SEA must change.
4) Ensure that alternative and virtual schools are included in state accountability and improvement systems.
If we are committed to every child's success, we must create accountability systems that guide, support and ensure continuous improvement.
This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.
Also critical to sustainable and systemic school improvement efforts is ensuring that individuals across all levels of the system are engaged in reform.
Founded in 1897, PTA has been a leading voice in policy decisions that have forever changed the lives of America's children, including the passage of child labor laws, ensuring hot and nutritious lunches in schools, improvements to the unfair and punitive treatment of children in the justice system, and increased education opportunities for all children.
Because what works in one district may not work in every district, professional learning should be aligned and adapted to address school and system goals.25 States and school districts should work with teachers to design ongoing cycles of learning and improvement that ensure all educators can identify areas for growth and learn evidence - based strategies that will address their needs, ultimately improving their performance and increasing student achievement.26
While the article characterizes the LCFF as a strong improvement over the state's previous convoluted system of school funding, disputes remain about the state's role in the money's use and the balance between preserving local flexibility and ensuring that resources go to meet the needs of the students who generate them.
First and foremost, system leaders must come up with clear and coherent guidelines about who gets to make which decisions about local school improvement, how those decisions are to be made, what kinds of learning opportunities can be pursued, and how the district will ensure equitable access to and participation in the process.
We all acknowledge that change takes time, but it is important to put systems in place that allow for the examination of signals along the change horizon that help ensure your decisions along that horizon lead to improvement, result in some early wins, and ultimately ensure a good use of human and fiscal resources.
The Student Performance & Improvement team provides schools with unparalleled levels of service to ensure that the district effectively and efficiently implements continuous improvement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, and the Educator EffImprovement team provides schools with unparalleled levels of service to ensure that the district effectively and efficiently implements continuous improvement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, and the Educator Effimprovement systems that support, measure, and inform the district's work in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, and the Educator Effectiveness.
These systems are designed to ensure that all students receive a quality education, to identify and address problems, and to support continuous improvement.
New Hampshire New Hampshire's approach to system redesign is focused on an «improvement - to - innovation continuum,» which reflects a move toward a collaborative, support - based approach aimed at ensuring that students are able to demonstrate learning and mastery of skills on the path to college and career readiness.
They build on successful practices already underway in school districts and assist in devising and implementing programs to ensure continuous improvement and creating the best possible education systems and learning cultures.
The report's school accountability approach emphasizes two equally important goals for these new systems: 1) ensuring that accountability systems drive toward equal education opportunities by creating a system for identifying and acting on chronic low performance by particular groups of students and 2) ensuring that accountability systems are broadly framed in order to drive toward a comprehensive conception of student and school success and a culture of continuous improvement rather than just shame and punishment.
In the consultation we are asking how we can make grammars more open to disadvantaged children and ensure that the excellence that exists in grammar schools can play a stronger role in school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doing.
Our comprehensive system couples this reliable measurement with detailed reporting, ensuring the data and feedback necessary to support student self - knowledge, growth, and continuous improvement.
In 2010, FAA continued rolling out improvements and upgrades as part of NextGen, the comprehensive overhaul of our national airspace system that will make air travel more convenient and dependable while ensuring flight is as safe, secure, and hassle - free as possible.
These investments, combined with the enthusiastic implementation of a dedicated national 911 community help ensure success in generating sustainable national 911 system improvements.
Improvements to the Carrera's active suspension system (PASM), plus larger brakes for the normal 911, ensure that the new 911's handling and braking match its increased performance.
A sophisticated suspension system should ensure handling improvements for the new S3, helped along in no small terms by the optional Audi magnetic ride as standard equipment.
We're taking an in - depth look at our unranked PvP matchmaking system overall to see what kinds of improvements we can make to better ensure every match is a good one.
This includes close monitoring of our Support systems, forums, social media, and in - game data to measure traffic along with Community sentiment to ensure ongoing improvements to stability.
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