Sentences with phrase «plan challenges systems»

The Arizona K12 Center Professional Learning Plan challenges systems to depart from traditional goal - setting practices and consider new ways of aligning professional learning to the needs of educators, students, and communities.

Not exact matches

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Getting the plan from bill to law, however, could prove challenging, given the trouble the GOP has faced in its attempts to overhaul the US healthcare system.

Fortune spoke with 25 - year pharmaceutical vet Ramona Sequeira, president of Takeda's U.S. business unit since 2015, on the challenges of adapting an international pharma company to the U.S. healthcare and reimbursement system and the firm's America - centric business plans.

This plan and system helps me keep things moving when life decides to dump extra challenges on me.

If you are a senior leader or majority owner in a privately - owned business without a succession system in place, you should be concerned, and here's why: without a proper succession plan in place for you and the executive team, and a talent development strategy for the organization, your firm is likely to run into ownership transfer challenges in the future.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

«Tackling parts of the system in isolation, for example improving electricity network management and retrofitting buildings, will help, but the real challenge for engineers will be to find new ways to plan and manage the integrated system.

Today, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System, Buffalo Sabres Left Wing Marcus Foligno, Sabretooth and the Library's owl mascot Reada Book announced plans for the 4th annual Winter Reading Challenge — Do Re Me Read.

The head of the FDNY's union drew sharp criticism from Bloomberg after announcing he plans to file a legal challenge to the department's problem - plagued 911 system within the next 24 hours.

«Certainly we knew that there was a legal challenge that the comptroller was raising, but we had no idea that he planned to go in and tamper with the system,» said Deputy Onondaga County Executive William Fisher.

Speaking at the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) held at Muson Centre in Onikan with the theme: «Living Well Together, Tomorrow: The Challenge Of Africa's Future Cities», Ambode said government was embarking on massive reform in waste management system, expressing optimism that the plan will fully be actualized by July this year.

A Clinton aide said the plan was a «a key plank of Clinton's plan to challenge the stranglehold that wealthy interests have over our political system» and would allow «Americans to establish common sense rules to protect against the undue influence of billionaires and special interests and to restore the role of average voters in elections.»

Explaining that the school system had earlier eliminated guidance counselors, she talked about the recent hiring of 200 to help young people with both their personal challenges and their career plans.

Last week, Google announced plans to launch a computer operating system in mid-2010 based on its Chrome web browser, directly challenging Microsoft's hold on the market.

«There are fundamental research challenges that lie in all of these areas, [such as] whether the system can differentiate tall grass from a barbed wire fence, plan its path accordingly, and then follow along that planned path even when the terrain is uneven and difficult,» he adds.

For example, a dry run of all the census systems was originally planned for April in three locations, providing a variety of demographic and logistical challenges, but will instead be conducted at only one site.

The Hubble Space Telescope has an eye on storms across the solar system, but the weather on Mars is chief among the challenges NASA faces as we plan for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s.

In a given day you will find me holding proposal strategy sessions with individual faculty members; facilitating a brown bag on cracking Google research funding; reaching out to Federal Relations re: an upcoming faculty member's visit to D.C. (our Seattle location has its challenges); drafting policies related to the management of our research centers; planning our transition to an eIRB system; helicopter - parenting a proposal as it makes its way through OSP review; advising my ADR on internal seed fund requests... If it pertains to the conduct of research, I pick up the phone.

For beginners, or anyone who needs motivation I especially recommend the 30 Day Challenge Meal Plan and the Body Fuel System!

Many people start with the Body Fuel System and then get the 30 - Day Challenge Meal Plan.

It may be too strong challenge for the nervous system and for the future marriage (if there are plans for that).

However, many practical challenges remained in the way of it becoming a successful production tool for use in our game Horizon Zero Dawn: authoring cloudscapes on a regional scale, animation and transitions, integration into our atmospheric system, further optimization to pay for these new features, and the task of creating a language and long term plan for what we want to achieve in the context of our game engine, Decima.

Striking down the state's voucher plan for contravening the state constitution's requirement of a «uniform» public education system, the court opened the door to challenges to the state's 350 charters, which, by definition, are not uniform.

Learning opportunities: Educators plan for learning that accommodates differing access levels and individual student needs, for example, providing homework alternatives for students who do not have internet access at home, providing competency - based or other opportunities to demonstrate learning, scaffolding student learning to challenge and support individual students where they are and advocating for an equitable system for all students.

The NCCS team works with colleagues in each site to understand their strengths and challenges, including their political and economic circumstances, in order to provide customized implementation assistance — including consultation, training, strategic planning facilitation and sustainability advice — designed to build their local capacity to implement the community schools strategy at both the school site and systems levels.

Plaintiffs challenging the at - large election system for school - board members in the Del Valle (Tex.) Independent School District last week rejected a settlement offer from the school board and plan to proceed with a lawsuit filed in a state court last month.

Such strategies include teacher and principal residency programs; differentiated pay plans; human capital data reports; and targeted recruitment efforts using sophisticated web - based systems and focusing on the challenge of recruiting and retaining diverse teachers.

Implementing Data - Informed Decision Making in Schools: Teacher Access, Supports and Use (2009) describes the student data systems available to school staff members, how school staff members are using the systems and other forms of student data, teachers» understanding of data displays and data interpretation issues, and the supports and challenges for school - level use of student data in planning and implementing instruction.

The slides lay out carefully crafted, well researched and thought - out plans to tackle the serious challenges facing school systems.

State lawmakers moving to fix the nation's worst - funded pension system have a choice: a plan that saves a lot of money or one that might survive a court challenge.

CEC helps schools and districts build a blueprint for system improvement by helping them understand their strengths, challenges, and opportunities with in - depth systems assessments and support for strategic planning.

Recognizing the challenges associated with use of student growth and assessment data in the high stakes evaluation of teachers and administrators, MASSP in collaboration with MASA has designed a one day institute April 25, 2018 for central office and K - 12 building administrators, teacher leaders, and others responsible for managing student data to come together as a team to revisit current practice, identify areas of strength and challenge within their system, and make plans to further address growth requirements for the future.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

Known as the Gilmer - Aiken Act, this basic funding plan served as the primary vehicle for the support of Texas public schools for a few years until legal challenges to inequalities in public school funding caused the state to review its funding system.

Having spent the last two years working with full - time tutors and a lifetime as the daughter of a teacher, I see the challenges of the education system and the lack of time educators have for one - on - one conferences with parents, creating individualized learning plans, and collaborating with tutors.

«So I would expect Ofsted to support us in delivering our appropriate plans quickly and talk with us directly rather than devising another new system to look at the challenges.»

However, with so much talent and diversity, getting everyone to value the collective mission over individual progress can sometimes seem challenging, given the fact that traditionally our system is set up for teachers to plan, execute and reflect on their practices independently instead of as a team.

In my school system our technology mission is: «Prepare our community to meet the challenges of the 21st Century Learner, act as a conduit of continual change, serve our students to help them succeed and support the technological needs through planning and integration.»

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today said President Obama's $ 129 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the first year of a comprehensive six - year transportation plan, will lay a new foundation for economic growth and competitiveness by rebuilding the nation's transportation systems, enabling innovative solutions to transportation challenges and ensuring the highest level of safety for all Americans.

To begin to develop consensus solutions to address these challenges, U.S. DOT is releasing a draft National Freight Strategic Plan that describes the freight transportation system, including major corridors and gateways, and assesses the physical, institutional, and financial barriers to improvement.

CTA's activities encompass transportation energy and environmental concerns, safety and security challenges, planning and policy issues, systems engineering, military transportation, and transit visibility.

Alongside its development of exhaust gas cleaning technology, Honda also plans to address other technical challenges in developing clean diesel engines, such as handling diesel fuels with different cetane numbers (a problem in some markets) and meeting US On - Board Diagnostic System requirements.

The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation - each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

The report also identifies challenges including overcrowded app stores, tiered data plans that discourage heavy usage, operating system fragmentation, partial network coverage, piracy, and content regulation.

It can be challenging — that is why many plans are for state schools (like the State of Floria University System).

From years of writing on the Yes, I Am Cheap blog, Sandy has tested numerous common techniques for getting out of debt including: debt consolidation, debt management plans, debt negotiation, working from home, the snowball technique, the envelope system, no spend challenges, extreme couponing and just about every other personal finance trick in the book.

Curtis Lowe, Project Manager of Project Clean Uluwatu, describes the challenges faced in disposing of trash in Uluwatu, Bali — a world renowned surf spot with 500 + visitors per day — and plans for installing an environmentally friendly liquid waste processing system.

This exosuit system has the effect of forcing you to plan out your entire turn ahead of time, and makes adjusting on the fly a bit more challenging.