Sentences with phrase «focuses on the performance rather»

After years of false starts we instituted a real teacher evaluation process that focuses on performance rather than merely growing the bureaucracy.

Beyond dollars and cents, promoting partnerships between affluent and higher - poverty schools would improve offerings on both campuses.71 Several school systems already take a similar approach — focused on performance rather than demographics — that could be transferred to high - and low - resource schools.

Although styling was somewhat similar to the 2000GT, employing the same front - engined, RWD layout, the 240Z had a sportier stance and focused on performance rather than luxury.

Manufacturers have focused on performance rather than ergonomics and it shows particularly with this version of the Nook.

Hence the name skill - based and functional as the layout focuses on the performance rather than the companies.

Not exact matches

The company segmented stores based on performance, too, and focused intently on stocking up its top 25 locations, rather than treating all stores in the same manner.

A matter of focusing on the present moment rather than reliving the past or worrying about the future, this practice has been shown to reduce stress and improve performance.

This means that when they step into management jobs, they already focused on managing by performance and achievement rather than face time, because they've never lived in a world where butt - in - seat time was the way lots of people managed.

Likewise, Martin says, CEOs should focus on their companies» real performance, rather than on how they perform relative to the expectations of stock analysts.

The company's proprietary platform looks deeper into the health of small businesses, focusing on the overall business performance, rather than the owner's personal credit history.

The company's proprietary credit models look deeper into the health of businesses, focusing on overall business performance, rather than the owner's personal credit history.

«It has to do with exploring how your performance is going to be affected under a plausible range of scenarios, rather than focusing on one that has a very high likelihood,» Gundlach countered.

Our rule - based trading system forces us to focus much more on the performance of leading stocks, rather than the price action of the main stock market indexes.

The following are a list of 5 reports that can be used to track the success of a link building campaign, it gives a better overview of performance, rather than focusing on just keyphrase rank.

The point is to make sure we are focused on the right thing — business performance relative to expectations — rather than the share price.

Too early to focus on the log table but rather team cohesion, consistency and performance and come May we see who tops the log.

Too early to slay anyone but rather focus on our performance taking it game after game and continue to expect our rivals drop some points.

«But I would focus on the performances they have put in against Liverpool, Stoke and now Chelsea, rather than the results.

Not unexpectedly much media attention has focused on Tottenham's «lethargic» performance rather than our own part in it.

Jürgen Klopp himself presents a rather intriguing prospect too, he is very much focussed on the concept of team building, and a collective ethos and spirit, in which the sum of the parts is greater than the value of the individual parts themselves — maybe Klopp will go some way to healing the hurt left from Suarez's departure, as he himself is also immensely popular amongst the fans, but his players will certainly have a key role in that becoming a reality, as ultimately it is performances on the pitch that mean the most to the fans.

Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

Primer for Performance It is interesting that the title of Elizabeth Svoboda's article, «Avoiding the Big Choke,» focuses on the negative rather than the positive.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center's high performance computing capabilities allow researchers to focus on the problems they are tackling rather than computational challenges.

Though a 20 - foot walk is a far cry from a 26.2 - mile marathon, intently focusing on your goal, rather than pretending you're somewhere else, can boost performance, says New York City running and triathlon coach Jonathan Cane, founder City Coach Multisport.

They too, struggle with performance anxiety and so focus all their attention on proving that they can climax, rather than experiencing the moment they are sharing.

So, you'll do far better for your race performance in an ironman or half - iron to focus overwhelmingly on developing your aerobic system, rather than your anaerobic one.

«All of these things save money and resources and make the shoot day focused on creativity and performances rather than logistics,» Dawson adds.

Wayne's Oscar win received some criticism at the time from those who seemed unwilling to give the man his due as an actor, preferring to complain about his then - unpopular Vietnam politics rather than focus on what was a richly multi-faceted performance.

However if plot is your main focus rather than dialogue and performances, you would probably seek your entertainment on another screen.

Powered by brilliant performances from Maxine Peake and its young leads (Molly Windsor, Ria Zmitrowicz and Liv Hill), it's an unpleasant and effecting watch, but succeeds largely due to the sympathy and and focus it places on the victims rather than the abusers — something that time and time again, the media fails to do.

Rather than focusing on academic performance, they wanted to understand students» academic process.

Focus on the student's individual progress rather than on his performance in relation to his peers.

The HGSE team took a different approach by focusing on mentoring and improving teacher's performance rather than firing them.

You can avoid that by focusing on the student's improvement rather than on his performance relative to his classmates.

Rather than focus solely on a teacher's performance during the most recent academic year, the teacher evaluation system should allow tenured teachers to accumulate a longer - term track record of excellence.

Barron and Darling - Hammond (2008) recommend providing students with several opportunities to review and revise their project work (as a way of delivering a polished performance) and providing comments rather than grades during these assessments to focus attention on the quality of work rather than the worker.

The school leadership were keen to provide a supported approach that empowered all staff with a focus on developing, rather than managing performance.

The old Title IIA focused on improving the performance of individuals rather than schools and districts.

It is in this vein that we submit these comments, which are not intended to reflect the entirety of our concerns with the proposed regulations, but rather to illustrate where they impede progress toward ESSA's overall goal: to provide states with maximum flexibility while ensuring a focus on improving performance, equity and access, and improvement for all students.

«They, and we, are in need of something nimbler, real - time, and more individualized — something squarely focused on fueling performance in the future rather than assessing it in the past... We've arrived at a very different and much simpler design for managing people's performance.

It also focuses on changes in individual student performance rather than on school composition over time, since the performance of each student is «fixed» with his or her original school and compared to his or her original classmates throughout their careers at NYC district schools.

«By introducing a progress measure, we will ensure schools are fairly judged on the performance of all their pupils rather than focusing entirely on attainment, which created a perverse incentive for schools to focus on some children at the expense of others.»

Rather than waiting to see how those changes would affect their schools, the district set out in 2008 to incorporate a bold vision into its strategic plan: Vancouver would create an «opportunity zone» where schools would focus on addressing the impact of poverty that can affect students» classroom performance.

These tests typically yield qualitative feedback (rather than scores) that focuses on the details of a student's performance.

Layton's article, and the UCLA Civil Rights Project report referenced in it, were based on assumptions and incomplete data, and solely focus their findings on demographics and «exposure» to diversity, rather than the academic performance of charter school students.

The focus of the initiatives has been on providing software and media that students consume — the «sexier» use case — rather than using the devices as a generator of student performance data.

The federal law focuses on «proficiency» rather than «growth» as a factor in assessing a school's performance, but a consensus among education experts has emerged that both should be considered in evaluating a school's performance.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.