For now, I see my role as helping people understand their problem and the system that produces it, test possible change ideas as part of their theory of improvement, and fail fast to learn quickly to identify
high leverage changes in their local contexts that are actually moving the needle on student outcomes.
Not exact matches
Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities, including
leveraged loans, generally offer
higher yields compared with investment - grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price
changes.
High saving economies routinely produce another destabilising characteristic — high leverage ratios (Wade and Veneroso 1998), which leave enterprises vulnerable to changes in the macro settings, particularly interest ra
High saving economies routinely produce another destabilising characteristic —
high leverage ratios (Wade and Veneroso 1998), which leave enterprises vulnerable to changes in the macro settings, particularly interest ra
high leverage ratios (Wade and Veneroso 1998), which leave enterprises vulnerable to
changes in the macro settings, particularly interest rates.
But from the perspective of monetary policy transmission, the
higher level of private sector
leverage also does imply a stronger impact from interest rate
changes.
High Risk — Income (H / INC) Medium to
higher risk equities of companies that are structured with a focus on providing a meaningful dividend but may face less predictable earnings (or losses), more
leveraged balance sheets, rapidly
changing market dynamics, financial and competitive issues,
higher price volatility (beta), and potential risk of principal.
High leverage, low margin and
changes in foreign exchange market can lead to considerable losses.
Other risks and uncertainties relate to NXRT's business, its industry and its common shares and include: investment risk;
changes in interest rates; risks associated with investing in
high multifamily properties; risks associated with NXRT's use of
leverage; and market risks generally.
The Democratic governor confirmed Tuesday that several of his policy proposals would be dropped from the spending plan, which must be agreed to by March 31 and in which Cuomo has a
higher degree of
leverage over lawmakers by inserting language they can not
change into appropriation bills.
Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators examines improving meetings as a
high -
leverage strategy for
changing how people work together and offers tips for setting up, facilitating, and participating effectively in meetings.
Leveraging e-learning design to
change behavior requires
higher standards, new techniques, and different approaches.
Or the incredibly successful, well - intentioned and
high - performing faculty department that is faced with
changing student needs, mandated curriculum adjustments from the Common Core, and a societal call to
leverage technology for a variety of reasons.
The Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA) initiative is seeking to
leverage web 2.0 tools and civic education best practices to provide all Oakland Unified School District
high school students civic learning opportunities that prepare them to make positive
change in their communities.
Through well - publicized partnerships with elected officials like Chicago mayor Richard Daley and through Bill and Melinda Gates's personal advocacy for their
high - school agenda in such forums as the National Governors Association and the National Economic Club, the foundation has signaled its intention to
leverage its investments through policy
change.
These goals serve as the primary tenants for advancing the
high school renewal work to: 1) establish system coherence by aligning central office and site programs, and accelerating student learning by
leveraging and expanding knowledge and skills among staff, parents, and community members; 2) improve the quality of instructional leadership by providing ongoing professional development for school leaders; 3) improve the quality of teaching throughout the district through embedded professional development; 4) increase student engagement in the learning process by personalizing learning environments to build on student interests; 5) increase community involvement in schools by giving principals ownership of the
change process, expanding student voice, and bringing parents and students into the school renewal process.
Many of these techniques require only subtle
changes in practice, yet research on the underlying strategies suggests that they have a
high «gearing» — meaning that these small
changes in practice can
leverage large gains in student learning (see Black & Wiliam, 1998; Wiliam, 2005).
Learn how to focus for improvement or innovation and identification of
high -
leverage strategies for action and gain an understanding of the importance of monitoring
change, both for the organization and for individuals.
Misses an opportunity to
leverage change: Sen. Alexander should seize this opportunity to revamp Title II — the part of the ESEA that provides for professional development and support — and create systemic
changes to grow and maintain a
high - achieving, diverse teacher workforce, such as improving teacher preparation, providing intensive induction for new teachers, and supporting job - embedded professional development, coaching, and innovative compensation systems that stretch dollars further.
Through the Coaching for
Change model, our trained and certified instructional coaches use reflective questions to guide teachers to
high -
leverage areas of strength and growth.
The
high degree of balance sheet
leverage for certain bond insurers means that small
changes in the values of these portfolios have a large impact on the bond insurers» capital base.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick -
changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in
high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing,
leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price
changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities including
leveraged loans generally offer
higher yields compared to investment grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price
changes.
The Fund's performance may not match or correlate to that of its Index, either on a daily or aggregate basis due to factors such as Fund expenses, imperfect correlation, rounding of share prices,
changes to the composition of the Index, regulatory policies,
high portfolio turnover and the use of
leverage (if any).
Compared to the municipal
high yield's 7.35 year duration and the U.S. Issued High Yield's duration of 4.86 %, the weekly reviewed leverage loan index will be least effected to the change in ra
high yield's 7.35 year duration and the U.S. Issued
High Yield's duration of 4.86 %, the weekly reviewed leverage loan index will be least effected to the change in ra
High Yield's duration of 4.86 %, the weekly reviewed
leverage loan index will be least effected to the
change in rates.
Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities, including
leveraged loans, generally offer
higher yields compared with investment - grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price
changes.
We absolutely are looking at the kind of
changes that would take on a level of credit risk that would be prudent, but clearly, I would expect that the
changes we're making would cause bad debt to go up
higher, but hopefully with improve the top line and improve the bottom line because essentially it would allow us to
leverage admissions and advertising spend, occupancy spend, even academic spending to the point of dealing with more fuller classrooms.
You are absolutely right that with the
leverage of AIG so
high any
changes in asset values of their holdings are magnified on the balance sheet.
We awarded $ 2.5 million to eight leading nonprofits that are testing new financial capability approaches by
leveraging technology and social networks to facilitate behavior
change and combining information and advice with access to
high - quality financial products and services.
6 credit card terms you can negotiate and
change — If you have a
high credit score, you may have more
leverage than you think in negotiating over these six terms.
It begins in secret with little power, but with
high leverage approaches plays a critical role in
changing how humanity sees its role on the planet and relationship with nature.
The most recent International Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) report states that «
leveraging the mitigation potential in the [forest and agriculture] sector is extremely important in meeting emission reduction targets (robust evidence;
high agreement).»
This is big - time,
high - level stuff with people who have the
leverage to really effect positive
change at all levels of global commerce and business.
Leveraging its global network, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has been at the forefront of the
highest - profile market manipulation cases... [and] have handled numerous implementation projects for clients seeking to adapt to the
changes ushered in by MiFID II and the Senior Managers Regime.
We discussed her background, how mentoring has
changed since the publication of the first edition of The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring, the challenges to providing
high quality mentoring, the difference between sponsorship and mentorship, and how the profession can
leverage mentoring in its continued evolution.
The year 2014 saw developments like tax norm
changes for debt MFs,
higher limits for tax savings, mergers and acquisitions and digital platforms being
leveraged by companies to educate existing & prospective customers.
An all - touch
higher - end device, the DTEK60
leverages the partnership with TCL / Alcatel and as such is similar to that of the TCL950 with some small key
changes.
UWP apps
leveraging the Preview SDK for this build or
higher will see this
change automatically.
Bringing to the position is the ability to cultivate corporate
change through strategic resource management, with an ability to develop talent and
high ‐ performing and diverse teams for excelled productivity,
leveraging growth, while creating a diverse globa...
Barrack
changed tack by backing away from the risky,
high - profile
leveraged buyouts that made him famous, instead turning to a series of investment vehicles that focus on lending and distressed property debt.