Sentences with phrase «agree on a common goal»

In the 45 or so minutes of ensuing conversation — punctuated by a couple of screaming matches in Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goal.

Sample response: To build team spirit, it would be important that all team members are on the same page and agree on a common goal.

Not exact matches

Saying he agrees with the goals of the Common Core educational standards but believes their implementation by the New York State Education Department has been botched, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced a «comprehensive review.»

While most agree upon the goal, finding common ground on the specifics is proving to be more difficult.

Each discipline looked for ways that art could enhance their curriculum, but we agreed to focus on two literacy curricular goals based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS):

With word that some parents are already organizing on social media about efforts to have their children «opt - out» of the standardized tests in the coming school year, Cuomo released a statement Thursday saying that while he agrees with the goal of Common Core standards, he believes the implementation by the NYS Education Department has been «deeply flawed.»

For example, positive effects on reading achievement have been associated with collaboration and community building (Briggs & Thomas, 1997); targeted professional development (Frazee, 1996); curriculum and assessment alignment (Stringfield, Millsap, & Herman, 1997); clear and agreed - upon goals and objectives at the state and school levels (Rossi & Stringfield, 1997); high expectations for students (Foertsch, 1998); early interventions and strategies for struggling readers (Lein, Johnson, & Ragland, 1997; Legters & McDill, 1994); common planning time for teachers (Miles & Darling - Hammond, 1997); and strong school leadership (George, Grissom, & Just, 1996; Shields, Knapp, & Wechsler, 1995).

This does not mean that they all agree on how to pursue their goals, but they all share a common goal of improving the schools and share a common language and information base.

But this requires teachers to be given regular opportunities to model and observe good instruction, plan together, discuss goals and challenges, agree on common teaching practices and tools, and ensure that professional learning opportunities are well aligned to the design of the ELL program.

We all have different ideas for ways to save Cooper Union, and even those who share common goals may not necessarily agree on the best way to go about achieving them.

A. On May 4, 2007 the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air - Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Architecture 2030, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), supported by representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy, agreed to define the baseline starting point for their common target goals as the national average / median energy consumption of existing U.S. commercial buildings as reported by the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS).

«We may not all agree on specific action points, but we are united in a common goal of responsible environmental stewardship.»

They will point to typical project scenarios as found in the construction and information technology industries that are «benign» — where multiple parties can gather together to agree upon a common goal and construct a detailed plan of attack on how to deliver against the agreed goal.