Sentences with phrase «effectiveness level improved»

The measures also could be the foundation of new teacher salary schedules that would provide the largest pay hikes when a teacher's effectiveness level improved.

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«I'd also have everybody kind of get focused on a similar mission and drive a culture to improve health care costs by lowering them, drive greater levels of effectiveness overall and making sure that we are driving a great deal of consumer satisfaction.»

The Northern Miner, Monday, March 31, 2008 Hiring for key roles: 4 pitfalls to avoid By Andrew Pollard Special To The Northern Miner Throughout my experience working as a headhunter at the executive level and helping companies improve their overall hiring processes, I have had a unique laboratory to study the effectiveness — or lack -LSB-...]

By sharing values, contributions, and experiences, participants will have an opportunity to improve leadership skills individually and collectively — and will then positively affect organizational effectiveness at all levels.

If Betting Against the Public in the NFL can show consistent results — no matter how we study the data, it will improve our comfort level and the «robustness» and «effectiveness» of the results.

Dirschberger added, «Building this call center was an opportunity to use State and Federal money to improve our effectiveness here on the local level.»

For instance, at the individual level, mind - body interventions, such as yoga or meditation, were found to be accepted by disadvantaged groups and showed some effectiveness at improving mental and physical health outcomes.

The one developed by Zhang and his team, including Ph.D. student Inga Haedicke, U of T Assistant Professor Hai - Ling Margaret Cheng and two research groups (Dr. Timothy Scholl and Dr. Paula Foster) from Western University, can improve monitoring at the cellular level, which is a crucial element in measuring the effectiveness of stem and therapeutic cell treatments.

Limiting lung cancer screening to high - risk former smokers may improve cost - effectiveness at a population level, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine.

«Effectiveness of drug to improve natriuretic peptide levels for chronic heart failure.»

Those priorities are: improving teacher effectiveness and distribution, ensuring rigorous collection and use of student and classroom - level data, turning around...

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

For example, the domain «an expert teaching team» notes that in highly effective schools, teachers are experts in the fields in which they teach; have high levels of pedagogical knowledge and skill; collaboratively plan, deliver and review the effectiveness of their lessons; and take personal and collective responsibility for improving student learning and wellbeing.

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

It's long been noted that, by most measures, the average teacher improves enormously in the first several years on the job, after which student - achievement gains (one gauge of teacher effectiveness) level off.

iObservation provides data on the effectiveness of teaching strategies, assesses the level of instructional practice for each teacher, and delivers relevant professional development to improve instruction.

ALD4ALL successfully demonstrated the value of job - embedded professional learning, with results of 70 % of participating teachers improved their effectiveness by one or two levels and / or maintained a rating of effective or higher.

Indeed, the magnitude of that growth has been strikingly consistent across a number of sites and research methodologies: the average teacher's effectiveness improves between.05 and.08 student - level standard deviations between their first and third years of teaching.

Also in attendance will be district - and state - level administrators who want to find new and better ideas for leading their organizations to higher effectiveness levels, as well as staff developers and university professors who want to discover better ways to support teachers and administrators in improving their practice.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

The report notes that during the past five years, 37 states improved their overall grade by one full level «because of significant reform, particularly in the areas of teacher evaluation and related teacher effectiveness policies.»

NNSTOY defines teacher leadership as «the process by which highly effective educators take on roles at the classroom, school, district, state, or national levels in order to advance the profession, improve educator effectiveness, and / or increase access to great teaching and learning for all students.»

Further empirical research is required to assess the effectiveness of the program, but it is clear that key decision makers at every level of Shanghai school education consider the empowered - management program to be key to improving performance and equity.

From that point, the staff has worked to improve their effectiveness through structured grade level data teams, collection and use of data to inform their instruction, and applying job - embedded professional development in their classrooms.

Dr. Clifford directs research studies on school - level leadership as it is practiced by principals and distributed within organizations to improve teacher effectiveness and student performance.

Districts also can use these effectiveness indicators to recognize outstanding teachers, to promote the most effective teachers into career categories, to focus intensive help for teachers in the lower effectiveness levels, and — if performance doesn't improve — for dismissal.

On a broader level, the plan maintains national attention on improving teacher effectiveness and distribution.

Inspectors said the trust had improved overall effectiveness in 20 schools since they joined, and was effective at improving provision at primary level, but «poorer capacity and weaker improvement planning» had left the trust «ill - equipped» to support schools.

As illustrated in Figure 1 below, NISL aims to provide high - quality training and coaching that is targeted to their contexts and levels of prior expertise of the principals receiving the coaching, to transform educational practices and improve school effectiveness on a large scale.

Worse is that this sometimes signals to the greater public that these «new and improved» teacher evaluation systems are being used for more discriminatory purposes (i.e., to actually differentiate between good and bad teachers on some sort of discriminating continuum), or that, indeed, there is a normal distribution of teachers, as per their levels of effectiveness.

Specifically, performance management strategies can aid schools in effectively using data at the school and classroom levels to improve instruction and learning, monitor progress toward goals, and evaluate the effectiveness of decisions.

The Task Force is really the one professional venue where ALL levels and aspects of the profession are represented and are wrestling with a topic that is important and has the potential to fundamentally improve education both in terms of equity and effectiveness.

The DOT believes that open data initiatives improve the effectiveness of transportation decisions by making DOT's extensive data available and usable to all levels of government, the private sector, and the general public.

On top of high passive safety levels — thanks in part to a passenger cell made from high - and ultra-high strength steels — active safety features include the Automatic Post-Collision Braking system, which automatically applies the vehicle brakes after an accident to reduce the chances of a second impact; the pre-crash system, which tensions seatbelts and closes windows and the sunroof if an accident is likely to improve the effectiveness of the airbags; Front Assist, which warns the driver in the event of coming too close to the vehicle in front, can prime the brakes, and operates at speeds of up to 99 mph; City Emergency Braking, which can automatically brake the vehicle at speeds below 18 mph; Automatic Distance Control, a radar - operated cruise control that maintains a set distance from the vehicle in front; and seven airbags as standard, including one for the driver's knees.

Every building starts at level 1, which you can upgrade to improve their effectiveness.

Laboratory evidence suggests that the effectiveness of photosynthesising organisms is badly hindered when CO2 levels drop below about 200ppm (and indeed commercial greenhouses pump in extra CO2 to improve the efficiency of some plant growth — my non-researched background is that tomato plants particularly respond well to this), but the geological evidence suggests that life can tolerate far higher atmospheric CO2 levels.

Yet, having regard to the EUROSUR Regulation, the limited exchange of data and information with the UK and Ireland may contribute to increase the level of situational awareness and to improve the effectiveness of the surveillance at the external borders.

Nearly 150 responses were sent to the Commission expressing a wide range of views, and the European Parliament has agreed that the Commission should take forward work in this area with a view to improving the use of private actions, noting that «the existing redress mechanisms for breaches of competition rules at European level do not guarantee the full effectiveness of Article 81 of the Treaty, in particular with regard to those suffering damage» (Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007).

Meditation has also shown its effectiveness in reducing stress levels, improving sleep, and enhancing endurance.

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Executive level position in large call center environment that allows me to use my experience to improve sales effectiveness and influence strategy.

Evidence of Effectiveness report - Learning Forward has accumulated a body of evidence that its programs and services are linked to improved professional development policy and practice at state, district, and school levels.

One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47

Florida MIECHV is committed to the principles of continuous quality improvement (CQI) and supports efforts at both the state and community - level to improve the effectiveness of the support and services provided to families with young children.

One reason the administration focused on elementary and secondary schools in the Race to the Top competition and early childhood in the Challenge Fund is that the two are at contrasting levels of development, administration officials said, with the public schools needing initiatives to improve teacher effectiveness, for instance, and early childhood needing basic structures of governance.

Ministry and coaches have access to beginning level EFT trainings to improve their effectiveness in working with couples.