Sentences with phrase «continued emphasis»

Despite continued emphasis on systemic approaches to school improvement, schools struggle to use data and information in a manner consistent with systems thinking.

Self - awareness and responsive listening exercises (see above, Chapter 4) need continuing emphasis throughout a group.

Now the school is continuing its emphasis on developing students reading skills with family night activities.

FD100 is continued with continued emphasis on mark making, full value studies, point - of - view selection, basic compositional ideas and space.

Continued emphasis by coaches and officials on enforcement of the 1976 rule change which prohibited initial contact with the head in blocking and tackling (spearing).

So continued emphasis on cost reduction has to be part of the equation no matter what,» Nate says.

Also, expanding the focus on multilevel studies that include context would benefit from continued emphasis.

Overall, despite the dramatic therapeutic advances made elsewhere in the melanoma field, the poor prognosis of patients with mucosal melanoma mandates continued emphasis on laboratory and clinical research efforts in this rare subset of disease.

Programs for teens continue an emphasis on compassion and empathy, and include discussions of community responsibility, projects that can help advance the goals of animal welfare, and discussions of careers working with and for animals.

First and foremost, Google is putting continued emphasis on improving battery life and performance, this time around focusing on the access apps have while running in the background.

The committee recommended a sustained focus on HIV / AIDS through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with continued emphasis on accountability, efficiency, and measurement of results.

«We applaud the Department of Education for continuing its emphasis on robust civil rights data collection, which helps to identify our nation's gaps in educational opportunity,» Henderson said.

With the emergence of social and content marketing and the continued emphasis on «transparency» and «authenticity» in marketing, businesses of all sizes are finding that they must bring these capabilities back in house.

A fourth challenge involves the continuing emphasis our society places on progress, novelty, innovation.

And despite the continuing emphasis in this volume on the necessity of serving God in daily work, worship and prayer remain central expressions of the Christian's response to God.

There is a continuing emphasis on the integration of scientific and philosophical material with the religious and theological point of view of the student.

I viewed it simply as an opportunity to continue positive dialogue, show support for a continuing emphasis on faith issues, and pray in a forum where faith isn't typically thought to be emphasized.

We pledge to continue our emphasis on fundamentals and developing young athletes to be fine players and fine people.

With the continuing emphasis on the passing game in the NFL, that battle in the trenches is just growing in importance.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 12, 2007)-- In its continuing emphasis on illegal helmet - to - helmet contact in high school football such as spearing, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in the sport.

This is something that so easily can turn frustrating, so your continued emphasis on remaining positive was key.

The continued emphasis on reflection, ownership and options has impacted not only her doula practice, but also how she interacts with those around her.

The current peace in Northern Uganda, after all, was achieved through the Juba peace talks in 2006 and a continued emphasis on peace might be more successful than military force, which has proven to be unsuccessful in upending Kony.

His continued emphasis on holding growth in overall state spending to under 2 percent is for another year is welcomed news.

Instead, there is a continued emphasis on traditional means of reaching decision - makers including newspapers, radio and television.

The results of this study affirm a continued emphasis on public health policies that enable lifestyle changes to achieve and, especially, to maintain a healthy BMI.»

The NNI investments in 2013 and 2014 and those proposed for 2015 continue the emphasis on accelerating the transition from basic R&D to innovations that support national priorities, while maintaining a strong base of foundational research, to provide a pipeline for future nanotechnology - based innovations.

In a corresponding editorial, Karl Michaëlsson, a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, writes that given the lack of evidence to support increasing calcium and vitamin D intake for better bone health, the continued emphasis is «puzzling.»

Prom is, at the outset, awfully difficult to wholeheartedly embrace, as scripter Katie Welch's places a continuing emphasis on cliches and tropes of an almost unreasonably hoary nature that is, to put it mildly, somewhat distracting.

There's a lack of authenticity that's been hard - wired into the proceedings by writer / director David J. Burke, with the filmmaker's continued emphasis on impossible - to - swallow, downright laughable plot developments certainly not helping matters.

Wadlow's first major misstep is his continuing emphasis on Hit - Girl's tedious high - school - based exploits, as it's virtually impossible to work up any real interest in the character's efforts at ingratiating herself among several popular students (ie such elements are unreasonably familiar and hackneyed, to be sure).

And although scripters Shagan and Biderman place a continuing emphasis on curiously needless subplots - eg the ongoing problems surrounding a nearby housing project - Primal Fear ultimately lives up to its reputation as a solid drama that's elevated on an all - too - consistent basis by Norton's impressively hypnotic work.

Scripter John Hughes» sporadic reliance on elements of a decidedly less - than - fresh nature are, as a result, not as problematic as one might've feared, although, by that same token, it's not difficult to wish that certain superfluous elements had been either reduced sharply or jettisoned altogether - with the best example of this the continuing emphasis on Jack's wife's (Teri Garr's Caroline) continuing dealings with her lecherous boss (Martin Mull's Ron).

The continuing emphasis on common core standards, including the debates about the legality of them, is often interpreted as indicating that the common core is a really big deal in school reform.

Civil rights groups and others should welcome its maintenance of annual testing; its continuing emphasis on the collection and dissemination of student achievement data disaggregated by key subgroups; and its requirement that states and districts take action to deal with chronically failing schools.

What is notable about the version of teacher evaluation systems currently evolving in districts throughout the nation, however, is the continued emphasis on classroom observations, with many systems employing the same observation tool used in CPS under the EITP initiative.

«This is a consequence of a continued emphasis on threshold attainment measures that do not take into account pupil starting points — it is ironic that this announcement was made on the final day for schools to opt in early for the new accountability measure of Progress 8.»

The Department of Education's continued emphasis on comparing students across state lines is clearly aimed at implementing a scheme of national standardized testing controlled, at least in a de facto fashion, by the federal government.