Sentences with phrase «change old practices»

«So we were especially disappointed this year to find that not enough had been done by exam boards to change these old practices and meet our revised expectations for reviews of marking.

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It was then that the 41 - year - old owner of Luxurywares (eBay User ID: luxurywares) in Briarcliff Manor, New York, which sells mostly clothing and collectibles, made some changes to her shipping practices.
«Employees were shocked that we took action,» says McGee, «they expected Chris and me to change our minds, to follow the old practice of announcing something and not doing it.»
The precise recipe for success may change — for example, my 32 - year - old company, Cypress Semiconductor, used venture funding, while Zinn preached and achieved financial independence — but Zinn shows how startups must have and truly practice their core values to succeed.
State - owned oil companies in June last year dumped the 15 - year old practice of revising rates on 1st and 16th of every month and instead adopted a dynamic daily price revision to instantly reflect changes in cost.
Many faculty members, he tells us» especially those in their late sixties and older» «resist significant change and remain committed to obsolete areas of research and outdated pedagogical practices
And watch us practice how to disagree beautifully, how to disagree like a disciple, how to disagree with the big picture of the kingdom of God before us, how to disagree with a winsome holiness of mischief, how to be gentle with our old selves, and maybe even our disagreement can be an invitation because it changes the terms of the fight.
In contrast, traditionalists have reacted to change by reemphasizing orthodox religious beliefs, stressing historic religious practices, and identifying with religious movements working to maintain or restore the «old - time religion.»
No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...
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And after policy change, the hard work of implementation, with committees, parent networks and systems for ensuring changes in practice are sustained and there isn't drift back to old ways.
Covers your older child's fears and behavior changes, as well as best practices to integrate the new baby into the family.
Feeding practices to avoid are changing to regular milk before your child is twelve months old, putting the bottle in bed or propping the bottle while feeding, feeding honey, giving too much juice, using a low - iron formula, offering juice in a bottle or heating bottles in the microwave.
The older your child is, the more they can help: use a doll with them to practice holding, feeding, diaper changing, and rocking.
The proposal by AARP could help address a big change in employer practices that's occurred since the group's members — who are 50 and older — began their working lives.
The results suggest that practicing yoga in the long - term can change the structure of your brain and could protect against cognitive decline in old age.
For entrepreneurial farmers like Sayles, the key to surviving intense droughts and other vagaries of a changing climate lies in testing new practices and abandoning old ones.
Stashed away and long - forgotten, a trio of century - old bottled beers recently discovered in the Czech Republic could help scientists better understand early 20th - century brewing practices, as well as the chemical changes that occur in beer over long periods of time.
You may find that your old practices don't fit anymore as you're changing, and that's OK.
It doesn't get old because the practice changes with me and I with it, we're divine companions.
Supplements are the best way for older people to get some nutrients unless we radically change our food fortification practices.
It wasn t that necessary in the old days but the years have changed and so have the practices.
«You'll have to practice, and you will have to change old habits and develop new ones,» Frankenberg and Dunham write.
The popular digital practices of teens and 20 - year - olds... close the doors to maturity, eroding habits of the classroom...» But he proposes no changes in school or in society to offer them serious responsibilities for learning and for life.
Have testing changes and administrative innovations softened tests so that they now indicate higher levels of student achievement than would be the case if older practices had been retained?
And that, my friends, will mean changing perspectives and habitual practices that are decades, if not centuries, old.
Despite research that says onetime workshops and short - term training sessions have poor track records for changing teacher practices, they continue to be the most common form of professional development — even now that the Common Core is supposed to be upending the old way of doing things, says Gulamhussein.
«I am seeing people start to change their practices, including older teachers, with twenty - plus years, who are suddenly excited about doing things differently,» says middle school principal Brendan Wilson.
You can't change multi-century old practices and hoping for an easy answer in a few decades, that's just silly.
Of course, even if you follow all these guidelines, like many parents, you may find that your emotionally intelligent, tolerant, respectful 15 - year - old will walk out the door one day to go to soccer practice and return home having changed into some bizarre character with a wild look in his eye, strange hair and stranger clothes.
This saving method brings to mind the old practice of saving all of your spare change in a jar, just on a grander scale.
Changing the thinking around the decades - old practice of spaying and neutering cats at the age of 6 months has long been a challenge.
These winds of change from old school thinking patterns to the current procedures being practiced today began with an important study conducted in 1987 which concluded that neutering dogs and cats much earlier than the traditional puberty or old age period had no ill effects.
In years past, it was a common practice for certain rescue groups that specialize in providing a safety net for old, sick, injured and «used up» puppy mill dogs to attend secretive breeders» auctions to buy these sad, broken animals, often for pocket change (literally).
We will consider how older media have been adapted to incorporate new media technologies and strategies, how video games and the Internet have changed our expectations of media experiences, the impact of new media on artistic practice, the important of new media in contemporary cultural economy, and related topics.
Despite differences in backgrounds and artistic practices, these artists have engaged with the theme of displacement, responding to the movement of people, the demolition of old towns and construction of new cities, and the astonishing changes the project is bringing to the local landscape.
Through various practices this group of artists tries to grasp at an ever - changing present and find the conflicts that occur where a new situation begins to overtake the old.
You want us to publish the claim that climate change is killing lodgepole pines, but you've admitted elsewhere that poor forestry practices, monocultures and the suppression of fire, not just warmer weather, created an overabundance of the older trees those beetles love to eat, hence the population explosion.
Climate Himalaya: In this article it is argued that Disaster Management practice in India need to change the old mindset of disaster relief, to include quick planning and actions, using verifiable space data and avoid delay causing detailed assessments in deciding any government run relief package.
However, change is constant, and with change comes the opportunity to revitalize age - old practices and make improvements.
Once you have an established practice with an established system and relationships, you don't really have much incentive to change but there are a lot of opportunities to bring a more high - tech style of practice to an older demographic.
Changing old patterns takes practice.
The Children and Social Work Bill would put into practice a legacy policy for the prime minister, both changing the requirements to be taken into consideration in adoption cases and creating a «care leavers» covenant» where looked - after children would be given support until they are 25 - years - old.
Please do not blame individuals or groups for misconduct, simply advocate for change to improve old or bad practices.
Oh sure, the equipment, the software and the use of computers has changed, but it is still the same old practice of law that we all know and love.
«The changes that have transpired in law practice have rendered the old model of law firm ownership not only obsolete, but harmful.»
What passes for a radical change in a law practice — new training program, some alternative billing, an extranet — is old hat in other markets.
He argues that the practice of law is itself changing The old mindset used to be: do whatever it takes for the client, do whatever the client asks, partner profits are a function of one variable — billable hours and lawyers solve legal problems not business problems.
However, the old paradigm of regional appointments which is firmly entrenched in our constitutional culture clashes with those changes in the practice of law.
Though harnessing professionals» knowledge is a pattern as old as time, working practices have now changed along with the nature of organised crime.
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