Sentences with phrase «get such observations»

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To get a better picture of the newfound world, astronomers would need a complementary observation, such as watching a partial eclipse (known as a transit) as the planet passes in front of its star, or making a precision measurement of the star's side - to - side motion in the sky.

Ground - based observations are great for getting data covering long time periods; they can observe bright transient outbursts (such as the volcanoes on Io); and they help to put spacecraft data into context.

What you more often get from movies is something that could be called «science fiction - flavored product» — a work that has a few of the superficial trappings of the genre, such as futuristic production design and somewhat satirical or sociological observations about humanity, but that eventually abandons its pretense for fear of alienating or boring the audience and gives way to more conventional action or horror trappings, forgetting about whatever made it seem unusual to begin with.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

To get an objective perspective and to identify how new initiatives are impacting student achievement goals, we recommend working with a third - party organization (such as Insight) who can provide some helpful observations and recommendations to inform your improvement plans and priorities.

Other successful programs have included additional elements such as: reduced course loads; providing a teacher's aide; 42 observations by former teachers and administrators; and even a crisis line that teachers can call to get a response within a certain time frame from experienced teachers.43 Overall, the goal is to provide beginning teachers with significant personalized support as they find their bearings in the classroom.

Assuming that the book gets sufficient marketing attention and that there are no special forces at play such as pent up demand or early - adopter frenzy or the kind of impatience premium that is activated, say, with some bestselling sequels, my experience and observations say that the price that is set for the same book will have a dramatic effect on sales and ultimate author receipts along lines like these over, say, the course of a month:

The sway between a structured, observational approach to image making and the free - form, improvisational gestures of his interventions is very much at the crux of Divola's practice and can be traced from his earliest foundational work of the 1970's to more recent bodies of work such as Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (1996 - 2001), where Divola documents the dogs that chased his car while working in the Southern California desert; As Far as I Could Get (1996/1997), where Divola sets up a camera and runs away from it during a given exposure; and Dark Star (2008), where his melding of intervention and observation continues to be in the foreground in large - format, color work made during the last decade.»

Had we started with a zero information prior, one such observation would have got us to 62 %.

Though the post is humorous, it contains plenty of spot - on observations such as: You are anti-authoritarian; you have the uncanny ability to get others to do all the work; you are always seeing economic opportunity in everything; you would happily invest your home's equity and life savings in a startup; and you don't see lack of money, knowledge or experience as barriers.

Curiously, this «law» almost never gets framed as such, and from what I can tell amounts to nothing more than the observation that we're not too good a predicting the future, particularly when... [more]

Instead, the PCC can only describe observations of each parents» interactions with the children, such as: «Dad started to raise his voice and get angry at the son, but then calmed himself and gave him some encouraging words.»

To get «under the hood,» schools and districts might use tools such as classroom observation rubrics, a School Quality Review in which an outside observer rates a school's environment, or an examination of the steps a district has taken to support SEL.