Sentences with phrase «at practice improvements»

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These types of innovative programs show continuous improvement in the VPP program, are shining examples, and are best practices for other companies to consider at their facilities.»

I think we are now at international best practice, but it still involves continued improvement to stay there.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Moms who experience breastfeeding difficulties are likely to see near - immediate improvements by practicing Kangaroo Care for at least 60 minutes per session, 1 - 2 times a day.

(Tuesday, 5 November 2013) The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) today petitioned for accountability, a review into clinical care practices, and national guidelines on the use of the drug misoprostol (cytotec) following the verdict of medical misadventure returned at the inquest into the death of Bimbo Onanuga at the Dublin Coroner's Court today.

Medical personnel at the Buffalo VA Medical Center failed to try to resuscitate a patient suffering cardiac arrest in late 2016, pronouncing him dead even though they should have tried to save his life, the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General's Office said in a devastating report that recommended sweeping improvements in the facility's practices during life - or - death emergencies.

Sheehan's campaign manager Steve Napier said those numbers were a reflection of voters» satisfaction with Sheehan's job performance and improvements to the city ranging from the installation of new stairs and wheelchair access at Lincoln Park to playing fields and bathrooms at Arbor Hill Park, and larger advances such as more equitable hiring practices.

The team also will spent $ 1 million for improvements to the ice rink at Cantiague Park in Hicksville, where it had planned to practice before buying Northwell.

While discussion ranged from disagreement with past practices at the cemetery to suggestions for improvement, nearly every speaker began by praising the beauty of the Blue Mountain Cemetery, which one called the most attractive in Ulster County.

«We're not advocating for one approach over another, but rather we looked at different cattle production methods, and we see best practices and areas of improvement that support environmental stewardship in grass - and grain - fed systems.»

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

The multidisciplinary team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn., developed blood utilization practice guidelines that resulted in $ 2 million in savings and a 30 percent reduction in blood utilization, according to a poster presentation at the 2016 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP ®) Conference in San Diego.

About the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire The Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) was established in 1987 to provide a coherent university - based focus for the improvement of knowledge, policies, and practices related to the lives of persons with disabilities and their families.

Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, principal investigator of the Guided Care study and director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, accepted the award at the STFM's annual Conference on Practice Improvement, held last week in Kansas City, Missouri.

We need to not look at it as a process of self - improvement, but rather a practice of self - acceptance.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

Each person had also been asked to evaluate her or his psychological state at a number of points during the entire study, and people who had practiced yoga noted a more significant reduction in anxiety as well as a greater improvement in mood than people that walked.

All of the case series studies showed improvements in clinical measures, which indicates that these outcomes can be obtained in the outpatient practice setting in at least a subset of adherent patients.

«As I incorporated plant - based nutrition as the cornerstone of my medical practice at St. Luke's, many of my patients experienced the same lifesaving health improvements that transformed my own life,» adds Dr. Loomis, who was also the team internist for the St. Louis Rams football team and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, and the tour physician for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

I've only been floating for a few months now, but I've already seen improvements in my meditation practice, creativity, and productivity at work and have felt physically better after grueling hikes and long days of climbing outside.

A conceptual failure lies at the heart of ed reform's underperformance: the mistaken assumption that education policy, not classroom practice, is the most important lever to pull to drive enduring improvement.

All leaders, regardless of role, should be working at the improvement of instructional practice and performance, rather than working to shield their institutions from outside interference.

Whilst giving a nod to examples of good practice, the tone of the letter was one of serious concern about whether or not MAT Trustees were any better at driving improvements in educational provision (particularly for those children who most need it) than the local authority from which the academies came.

Collaboration is the key word at this year's Excellence in Professional Practice Conference, as members of the education community share their stories of school - based improvement projects.

Sure, the data feeding back into the system are apt to produce slow improvement as more educators become more adept at applying that information to their classroom practice and building leadership.

At New American Schools, it has always been our practice to cooperate with — even to initiate — in - depth review that leads to improvement.

The program examines four leadership themes — school improvement, instructional practice, student / adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies — and looks at how to adapt and implement specific leadership strategies.

My focus was for those five teachers at that point in time really around their implementation of numeracy, what they were doing around improvement, how they were tracking their data, what they knew about their kids, what were some of the best practices out there, how to plan effectively around numeracy.»

He applied himself to practice in these skills so effectively that the evaluation of his results at the end of Term 2 showed improvement not only in the bass guitar assessment (A to high A), but also in his Music (B to B +) and Music Extension (C to B).

Both teachers believed that the practice by students at home needed improvement, especially the technical skills, such as rhythm, progression, or systematic elimination of errors.

Teachers need practice and appropriate protocols, which can be obtained from outside the school or developed internally, to develop their capacity to look at student work as a means of instructional improvement.

A number of schools showed significant improvements in at least some areas of their practice, sometimes within as little as twelve months.

This article has been adapted from a presentation «Senior Secondary Re-imagined: Improving Practice at the Noosa Pengari Steiner school» given at the 2014 ACER Excellence in Professional Practice Conference entitled Teachers Driving School Improvement.

For example, in our improvement of pedagogy we were really looking for a way for teachers to reflect on their practice and it took us a while to look at how we could do that in a streamlined fashion; how we could use collegial observation and feedback as well as supervised observation and feedback.

Massachusetts describes how its annual teacher induction report will share best practices, identify challenge areas, provide resources, and promote reflection and continual improvement at the district level.

By the end of two years, the goal is for each state and district team to have well - trained leaders who have had extensive practice in effective problem - solving approaches and to apply them in ways that result in significant improvements in education leadership practices and student learning at the state, district, and school levels.

The data presented analyzes and compares the 2013 - 14 school discipline data for every district in the state that helped uncover promising practices and examples of effective educational accountability while at the same time highlighting the numerous areas for improvement and the deeper systemic issues that still need to be addressed.

In order to examine our quantitative findings more thoroughly, we turned to our qualitative data for an in - depth look at district level policies and practices intended to engage parents and community members in school - improvement efforts and, specifically, efforts to increase student learning.

She has spent her career seeking solutions to close the achievement gap, in part by supporting the improvement of instructional practice at both the school and system levels.

He is also the faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and practice.

In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.

Our practice With the ARCS Framework for Sustainable School Improvement at the heart of its work, Communities for Learning invests in research that inspires schools to set challenging goals as they aspire to be the very best that they can be; enables them to ask difficult questions as they probe self - identified strengths, issues and needs; supports them with experiences and tools that develop both individual and organizational expertise; empowers them to innovate and take the actions necessary to achieve their vision.

In this new column for Educational Leadership, experienced researchers at the American Institutes for Research will discuss research - based practices, providing educators on the front lines of school improvement efforts with the information they need to make the best instructional decisions.

At the annual meeting of the Society, formal presentations, workshops and informal discussions afford the opportunities for the advancement of new methods and theories relevant to prevention research as well as the dissemination of new findings relevant to the improvement of prevention practice.

He is recognized nationwide as an expert in the areas of: (a) School improvement (ESEA) and special education (IDEA) policy and practice; (b) School discipline (including disproportionality), classroom management, student engagement, and interventions with behaviorally challenging students; and (c) Multi-tiered academic and behavioral services and supports with at - risk, struggling, non-responsive, and unsuccessful students.

Historically, the field of supervision has moved from a primary focus on inspection (aimed at deciding which teachers to retain and which to dismiss) to the present focus on improvement of teaching practices.

(a) School improvement (ESEA) and special education (IDEA) policy and practice; (b) School discipline (including disproportionality), classroom management, student engagement, and interventions with behaviorally challenging students; and (c) Multi-tiered academic and behavioral services and supports with at - risk, struggling, non-responsive, and unsuccessful students.

The UChicago Consortium is based at the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute (UEI), which bridges the worlds of education research and practice in order to provide educators and education policymakers nationwide with new knowledge on what matters most for school improvement and student success.