The first step of this process is gaining clarity on what we mean by «high quality instruction» or «
high leverage strategies.»
This highly interactive session is designed for principals who are struggling with the challenges of turning around a chronically low - performing school, and provides
high leverage strategies designed to both dramatically improve schools, and create structures for sustained improvement over time.
It also brings the associated challenge of being prepared to abandon those activities that effectively have less «bang for our buck», so the effort, resources and time they involve can instead be directed to
higher leverage strategies that will genuinely improve the school.
Paige... teacher prep is such an important and
high leverage strategy to get data literacy into the classroom!
During the 2014 - 15 school year, Dr. Kishimoto rolled out a board - adopted strategic operating plan focused on three
high leverage strategy areas: scholarship, innovation, and technology.
Not exact matches
«For the remainder of 2014 we will focus on our multi-layered growth
strategy, which incorporates same - store sales growth,
leverage from
higher sales, deployment of free cash flow, increasing royalty revenues and new drive - in development to build shareholder value,» Sonic CEO Cliff Hudson said in a statement.
With over 20 years experience in successful real estate investing, he has
leveraged his unique
strategies to set new
highs in sale prices and has help many of his customers meet and exceed their real estate goals in a warm calm nurturing personal professional setting.
Perrin touched on one that he put together and
leveraged for a
high quality link, but are infographics a heavy part of your content
strategy this go round or was this more of a one time deal?
Business cycle risk
High yield issuers typically have riskier business
strategies and more
leveraged balance sheets, exposing them to greater risk of default at times of a downturn in business conditions.
An investment is a risk: I assumed the risk of losing money was
higher than the chance of making it; for that reason,
leveraging risk was never part of my
strategy.
KKR's Health Care Strategic Growth
strategy leverages KKR's deep health care expertise, sector relationships, track record of scaling companies, and extensive portfolio to identify and invest in businesses with innovative products or services and
high - quality management teams.
The funds,
High - Grade Structured - Credit
Strategies Fund and its brother Enhanced
Leverage Fund, owned $ 20 billion in collateralized debt obligations.
As equities have ground ever
higher over the past year, very large short - volatility positions have been building in the markets — largely in volatility - targeting
strategies employed by institutional investors and
leveraged exchange - traded products geared toward individuals.
We were concerned with the
high leverage, the aggressive rollup
strategy, governance issues and long - term growth rate assumptions amongst other things.
Their
strategy of
leveraging the
high - level research into practical resources has led to one of the most comprehensive and collaborative studies to date of churches that are thriving with young people.
The key elements of our business
strategy are to build and enhance leading brands, focus on opportunities in
high - growth and
high - margin categories, increase presence in
high - margin channels and packages,
leverage our integrated business model, strengthen our route - to - market and improve operating efficiency.
Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract
leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this
strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious
higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral
high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions
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.
By selectively
leveraging the most applicable practices and
strategies from the fields of Instructional Design, Network Theory, Agile Design, Entrepreneurship, Team Dynamics / Management, and Information Systems, the education technology team at MSU Denver is reshaping a longstanding paradigm within
higher education, one which has gone relatively unchanged for decades.
TeachingWorks provides a vision of the
high -
leverage practices through a video collection annotated to highlight the techniques and
strategies that teachers employ to carry out the practices.
A Note to Educators: Pedagogy Surpasses Curriculum — In this blog series, Carrie and our CEO, Kristyn Klei Borrero, discuss the power of pedagogy over curriculum and
high -
leverage pedagogical
strategies that make up any effective lesson.
Real Time Teacher Coaching supports teachers not only in engaging with their students, but in utilizing
high -
leverage pedagogical
strategies to ensure every student learns.
Teachers were implementing
high -
leverage instructional
strategies with proficiency and analyzing formative assessment data daily.
Let's explore
high -
leverage strategies you can model to move your school forward.
A member of the Tulsa team for ten years, Jamie previously served as the director of title I, leading efforts to prioritize strategic investments of funds in
high -
leverage strategies.
To help students persist through
higher - order problem solving, the math department at Harlem Renaissance
High School began to introduce students to high - leverage problem - solving strategies aligned to the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Pract
High School began to introduce students to
high - leverage problem - solving strategies aligned to the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Pract
high -
leverage problem - solving
strategies aligned to the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice.
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).
Teachers will explore, discuss, practice and reflect upon
high -
leverage strategies that are easy - to - implement, and will get our students on the path toward achieving the State Standards.
The academic model focuses on three
high -
leverage strategies:
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.
Leveraging ESSA: Shining a Spotlight on K - 12 and
Higher Ed Alignment In this brief by the Education Strategy Group, Every Student Succeeds Act plans from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are compared in terms of how states are working to better align strategies between the K - 12 and higher education sectors to make college and career readiness a priority in order for students to better transition to postsecondary educ
Higher Ed Alignment In this brief by the Education
Strategy Group, Every Student Succeeds Act plans from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are compared in terms of how states are working to better align
strategies between the K - 12 and
higher education sectors to make college and career readiness a priority in order for students to better transition to postsecondary educ
higher education sectors to make college and career readiness a priority in order for students to better transition to postsecondary education.
Instructional expertise, including comprehensive understanding and application of
high -
leverage instructional
strategies, assessments, and experience coaching instructional staff.
Making
High -
Leverage Practices in Secondary English Language Arts the Focus of Methods Courses Participants learned how to implement specific
strategies for preparing candidates to teach secondary English language arts.
Each package will be anchored by a short video that will provide
strategies for teaching novice teachers to implement specific
high -
leverage instructional practice.
The series continued to focus on methods of training new teachers in three specific teaching
high -
leverage practices: implementing organizational routines, procedures, and
strategies to support a learning environment; communicating about a student with a parent or guardian; and making content explicit through modeling.
Are the lessons you are planning incorporating the components of
high leverage pedagogical
strategies that set the stage for rigor and learning for every student?
Real Time Teacher Coaches develop skills to support teachers with classroom culture and
high -
leverage pedagogical
strategies.
NEW: Introducing 10 mini online courses for teachers to establish foundational knowledge of 10
high -
leverage pedagogical
strategies.
As consultants who work with teachers every day on how to execute
high leverage instructional
strategies, never does a
strategy elicit so much excitement from teachers than when we coach them to implement Think Pair Share, a
strategy many already think they know.
Each teacher selected a program or curriculum and, within that, a
high -
leverage instructional
strategy for the focal point of their year - long inquiry.
Ultimately, skunkworks may lead, over time, to a shift in the opportunity and achievement gaps prevalent in schools,
leverage student voice, increase the use of
higher impact
strategies, shift staff and department meeting agendas to focus more time on learning, and begin developing new forms of problem - solving across a system that focuses primarily on learning.
The series focused on methods of training new teachers in three specific teaching
high -
leverage practices: leading a whole class discussion, using data to inform instruction, and implementing organizational routines, procedures, and
strategies to support a learning environment.
Based on their research, authors identify 15
high -
leverage policies and
strategies (see sidebar) for federal, state, and district officials to consider in order to ensure that teachers lead, rather than leave the profession.
Strong book sales and back - end profits are the result of a coherent marketing
strategy that
leverages book content with
high visibility created by consistent marketing and promotion.
The
leveraged strategy delivered much
higher lifetime returns in every case, even for people who lived through the Depression or retired right after the market crash of 2008 — 09.
I've spent the last 6 years completely obsessed with net nets, trying to figure out how to
leverage the
strategy to earn the
highest possible returns while minimizing risk.
The other disadvantage of keeping the rental is that you can limit your borrowing potential for
higher leverage in various SM enhancement
strategies, which can give you much
higher growth than the rental can (without the PITA factor).
This suggests to me that most of the additional gains in the 130/30 HML
strategy over the
High BM
strategy are simply attributable to the
leverage in the HML, and not out of any protection afforded by the low BM short.
Investing is made easier if you recognize you can ignore
strategies that don't fit into your long - term plan, such as those that involve
high - risk speculation and most that use
leverage.
Strategy A is a buy - and - hold investment in the S&P 500 Index, measured relative to 20 - year US Treasuries.3 It represents the excess return of stocks versus bonds, the «go - to» source for
leveraging the long - term investment horizon of pensions into meaningfully
higher returns.