Sentences with phrase «effort over your achievements»

If you think about it, saying you're motivated is actually praising your effort over your achievements.

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The Partnership is also performing an intermediary function to resolve conflicts over education policy and resource allocation in an effort to keep the focus on student achievement.

Over the past several years, governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations have paid significant attention to efforts to reduce tropical deforestation, setting goals and targets for the achievement of zero deforestation.

Everyone in MELGEN would like to congratulate her on this fantastic achievement, a testament to her dedicated efforts in furthering knowledge to help melanoma patients both as a clinical dermatologist and melanoma researcher over many years.

State efforts in standards - based education over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with gains in student achievement.

Through collections of student work over time, portfolios show effort, development, and achievement using multifaceted criteria, often with personal commentary or self - analysis (Stecher, 2010).

Massive economic gains for states that invest in student achievement Fifty - state effort could increase GDP by $ 76 trillion over next 80 years

The BellSouth Foundation intends to support efforts focused on improving student achievement in the Southeast, with plans to award $ 15 million over the next five years for this purpose.

Yet sustained effort over time is the key to outstanding achievement.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

After training thousands of teachers over the past five years in a massive effort to raise reading achievement, Oklahoma officials are worried that the exercise may have been for naught.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Education researchers have made tremendous efforts to improve student achievement tests and to collect better data over the past decades.

Teachers» unions are strongly against these plans for a variety of reasons, including that they say it's nearly impossible to accurately measure an individual teacher's contribution to a student's success, since a child's achievement is cumulative over a period of years and the result of the efforts of many people.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Over the past few decades, the nation has focused on improving math achievement for girls, and this effort is paying off.

Efforts to improve ways to assess teachers have been stalled in part over disagreement about using students» academic achievement as measured by standardized test scores.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Over the years, various approaches have come in and out of favor in an effort to raise achievement.

Taft, a predominately low - income school, had with effort raised its students» low achievement scores over 10 years, and some teachers feared that the sudden influx of ELLs would roll back hard - earned gains.

Talent Development Secondary, a comprehensive school reform effort, has emerged after over 20 years of research, applications and practices, well equipped to respond effectively to the needs of schools and districts seeking the strategies, tools, materials, supports and personnel needed to dramatically improve middle and high schools marked by low achievement and low graduation rates.

McGuire Woods lobbyist Harry Kaplan explained to N.C. Policy Watch that Education Freedom Alliance was one of their clients and that on their behalf, he was behind lobbying efforts to create an «achievement school district» designed to allow charter school operators to take over the state's poorest performing schools.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

«The professional development opportunities provided through this program over the last 15 years have been critical to the commonwealth's efforts to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to prepare their students to meet Virginia's high expectations for learning and achievement in mathematics and science,» said Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

In an effort to settle the case, the district and its teachers» union reach agreement on an evaluation program that factors in standardized test scores as well as Academic Growth over Time, a mathematical formula used to measure student achievement.

Over its history, the NRCCTE has undertaken three scientifically based studies of curriculum integration models in an effort to determine if the integration of CTE courses is feasible and leads to improved student achievement in the core academic areas of math, literacy, and science.

But the bottom line, Michelle Rhee, Achievement First and ConnCAN elitists who will have spent upwards of $ 2 million on their lobby effort to sweep in and take over Connecticut's education system, with the help of Governor Malloy, have failed.

readers will recall, first came the effort to hand Hartford's Clark Elementary School over to Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company formed by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

Headlines about teacher and teacher union concerns over efforts to link teacher performance evaluations to student achievement scores leave one with the impression that teachers are either unwilling to be accountable for student achievement or that they are just resistant to changing their ways.

The effort to run over the will of the local community and hand Clark Elementary School over to a charter school management company is being led by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and Morgan Barth, Pryor's «Turnaround Director,» who illegally worked as a teacher and administrator for Achievement First, Inc before being appointed to his present position by Pryor.

As the New Haven Board of Education considers approving the deal to hand over money to help fund Achievement First Inc.'s new Elm City Imagine school, a question that arises is who exactly is behind the proposal to divert scarce taxpayer funds from New Haven and Connecticut residents to subsidize Achievement First Inc.'s effort to create the Elm City Imagine School in New Haven?

I spent this morning diving into the new NAEP numbers in an effort to paint a more complete picture of student achievement in DC over the past decade, which included the three tumultous years of Michelle Rhee's chancellorship.

With a sustained focus on these efforts over the course of more than a decade, the district's black - white achievement gap narrowed by 29 percentage points between 2003 and 2009.

But something so simple, as putting words together, to express how you feel, without the endless effort of draft over draft, editing, spell and grammar checking, beta readers, relatives hating you, and gaining the sense of some actually achievement — blogging make me feel better about myself.

Her efforts doubled NHS's adoption numbers in the first three months after she took over the shelter, and helped make Washoe County one of the nation's first no - kill communities — an achievement it's maintained to today.

Other improvements include persistent Stat Tracking that will let us pore over the way we play... and a selection of achievements to reward our more outlandish efforts.

This analytical report summarises some of the key highlights and achievements of the UN-REDD Programme over its first five years, building on its efforts from supporting nine initial countries to 51 partner countries.

After years of over reach and under achievement, I am finally achieving some success with my gardening efforts.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Achieved Employee of the Year award for three consecutive years between 2010 and 2013 for repeatedly soldering prototype boards without external assistance • Implemented an embedded system over an existing system, thereby reducing testing time by 67 % • Overhauled the existing project documentation process which significantly decreased referencing time and effort

Career Highlights * Created and launched promotional efforts during the station's lunch hour between 11am - 1 pm, thus boosting awareness and product sales scheduled four spots within two hours to, in a sense, take over the lunchtime period (Berline) * Developed added value promotional efforts to bolster client campaign achievement using local and national broadcast partners in accordance with clients» annual media expenditure...

And in an effort not to offend anyone, we end up downplaying our achievements and brushing over our credentials.