Sentences with phrase «as encouraging»

The theory is that negative interest rates encourage more business borrowing and spending on plant and equipment, as well as encouraging investors to seek out riskier investments with higher expected returns.

IDC reported that Microsoft shipped a little under 900,000 units in its last quarterly report, so the fact that those shipments didn't sink after the holidays could be seen as encouraging.

Building a community around your blog or website can be as simple as encouraging discussion, responding to comments and writing on requested topics.

Brassard wants to rent shelf - space to individual authors for four - month periods, as well as encouraging indie presses to rent entire shelves for a year.

Virtual Writing Groups SkyPen is a new writers community and forum launched by Irish publisher Blackstaff Press that promotes physical writing groups as well as encouraging new writers to air their work.

How the service will cope on Christmas day we can't yet tell, but even late on a Sunday evening we were promptly given service and similar tests while reviewing the Kindle Fire HDX 7 were just as encouraging.

Clare is an expert on managing the change process as well as encouraging personal development and resilience.

The fact that the the market is expanding should be viewed as encouraging to those who want to make a living at this stuff.

«We are keen to support public and school libraries,» Charlie Redmayne, Pottermore CEO, said in the press release, «and OverDrive, as one of the leading suppliers in this market, provides us with a global network that helps us achieve this, as well as encouraging the discovery of these amazing books across the world.»

Switching hats from reader to publisher, I see this as encouraging.

Other features include a memory function for the driver's seat, heated front and rear seats, a climate control system with efficient operation and driver - only modes and an Eco-Driving Assistant System (ECO-DAS) that assesses the driving route and enables the most efficient battery charging or extra motor assistance as required by the predicted road conditions, as well as encouraging efficient coasting.

This helped to get the knowledge across, as well as encouraging higher knowledge retention and a significant change in behaviours.

«We will have a new president in the White House, and the Democratic candidate has not been as encouraging or as vocal about her support of charters as her husband was, and the Republican candidate is, shall we say, a little difficult to define,» Rees said, drawing laughs with her Donald Trump reference.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

As encouraging as this progress has been, American schools still have a long way to go before they achieve equitable treatment of all their students.

Furthermore, teachers from these schools who were surveyed were, on average, significantly more likely than teachers in a national sample to view their school leaders as encouraging professional collaboration, facilitating professional development for teachers, and encouraging staff to use evaluation results in planning curriculum and instruction.

Deasy asserts that summer learning programs create a learning laboratory for teachers to practice Common Core techniques, such as encouraging students to tackle complex, open - ended questions, make active choices related to what they are learning, and connect with themes and knowledge across subject matters.

385 «community conversations» and forums held in local communities to engage them in enrolment campaigns and resource mobilisation, as well as encouraging more support for girls» education and acceptance of girls» rights

Word was more likely to be seen as encouraging formal language in reflection entries, as the preservice teachers» responses explained: «I maybe talked more formally than I would have if it was handwritten,» «My reflection was more «formal» because of the Word format,» and «I think it made me more conscious of my spelling / grammar and made me pay attention to make sure my writing was proper.»

One study, for example, used a number of useful strategies to help children share semantic similarities between words.32 Strategies such as encouraging children to look at two picture cards with words on them and make inferences about how these words work together helped them make comparisons of concepts.

Some see these moves as encouraging proof that education reform is working.

Encourage parents: As with students, sometimes something as simple as encouraging parents to return their meal participation paperwork and make sure they're aware of the nutritional values of school meals can make all the difference in meal participation.

Other forms of parental engagement, such as encouraging volunteering in the classroom, are associated with improvements in student performance.

Educators must explicitly teach students a variety of collaborative skills, including basic social skills, such as addressing classmates by name and offering praise; group process skills, such as encouraging peer participation and paraphrasing others» ideas; and reflection skills, such as assessing a group's success and identifying personal contributions to that success.

They need knowledge and training about Change Methodology for School Managers, Leaders and Teachers, as well as encouraging and accompanying a participatory process of all the educational community.

In a letter to parents, officials of the Burleson, Texas, school district have responded to criticism of the district's school safety training program, which has been portrayed in the news media as encouraging students to attack intruders or otherwise fight back against them.

The longitudinal study's null finding is not as encouraging as a positive finding would have been, but the nightmare world of increasing school segregation promised by Potter's lengthy speculations apparently did not come to pass in Milwaukee.

Second, the findings suggest that future research examine the role of principal behaviors such as encouraging multiple views and listening attentively in school improvement efforts.

Learning through technology also makes learning more effective as it allows pupils to learn through visual and auditory stimuli, as well as encouraging them to participate and interact with the learning content to improve retention.

Mr. Hirsch's ideas were long dismissed as encouraging a reactionary cultural tradition, but they are now beginning to command new respect among education reformers.

The school is taking part in the «Change4Life» campaign, and will be running cookery classes for children as well as encouraging «Smart Swaps» like having fruit instead of crisps.

Some cards also offer ways to invest without adding or saving money, such as encouraging the strongest principals to move to the lowest - performing schools.

The service includes a range of fiction and non-fiction books and contemporary resources that can be purchased to help instil a love of reading in all pupils and ensure that schools» libraries support the school curriculum, as well as encouraging pupils to read for pleasure.

Recent trends more generally, however, have not been as encouraging as 2008.

As well as encouraging students and staff to follow good housekeeping measures - such as turning off lights in rooms that aren't in use, making use of natural sunlight, and clearly labeling light switches - converting lighting to LED is a great way for schools to cut down their energy consumption, as LED bulbs use up to 90 % less energy than incandescent lighting (including halogen), and 60 % less than fluorescent lighting.

But in fact, the last few years have seen an exciting wave of horror films helmed by women who haven't merely joined the rank - and - file as encouraging statistics.

The Producers Guild has more than 5,700 members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry and community by providing members with employment opportunities, seeking to expand health benefits, promoting fair and impartial standards for the awarding of producing credits, as well as other education and advocacy efforts such as encouraging sustainable production practices.

Yet, hidden beneath Penn's naturalistic performance and Gus Van Sant's tender direction is a cast of actors playing the figures that made Milk the man he was, including True Grit «s Josh Brolin as his adversary, Speed Racer «s Emile Hirsch as his protégé, and Franco as his encouraging lover.

It can be physical touch, quality time, or acts of kindness, as well as encouraging words or gifts.

Removing any tight lumps, bumps and knots as well as encouraging blood flow may aid the healing process.

«We found that one session of [brain stimulation] reduced the urge to restrict food intake, levels of feeling full and levels of feeling fat, as well as encouraging more prudent decision - making.

Meditations, visualizations, breath work, energy healing / balancing and harnessing positive intentions are just some of the self help tools that Judy can share with you so you can continue the work of healing your physical body, as well as encouraging inner peace, strength and wisdom.

At first glance, the news for the youngest kids was not as encouraging.

The findings should come as encouraging news for anyone who has noticed that their newborns don't imitate them.

A new study by French and UK researchers published in a leading journal this week suggests that should no cure be found for dementia, then the biggest impact on reducing rates of this progressive brain destroying disease is likely to come from eliminating diabetes and depression and boosting education, as well as encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables.

«Social media must therefore not be viewed simply as breeding grounds for weight stigma, but also as encouraging and supportive environments.»

If improving people's well - being is as easy as encouraging active online interactions and discouraging passive browsing, «that would be amazing.»

It is probably not something that can be altered meaningfully by a throwaway remark here or there — such as an encouraging statement before taking a test — but rather is something that builds up over a lifetime of hearing that you are not as good as the dominant group.

The New York Times broke the story on 4 February, and the same day, French President François Hollande issued a statement heralding the results as encouraging.

Roelcke sees the new investigation, and particularly Wässle's involvement, as an encouraging sign that MPG is ready to fully confront its past.