Sentences with phrase «higher focus means»

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Instead of happily selling me the higher - priced car, Mikhial focused first on what I needed, even if it meant selling me a lower - priced vehicle.

Being successful at selling means setting high goals, staying focused and winning over your most important prospect: yourself.

Many executives that I coach haven't taken the time to identify their 3 - 5 highest - value activities, which means they simply don'tt know where to focus their time.

That's why high - performing CEOs and entrepreneurs keep their thoughts completely focused on success, whether that means studying successful businesses in other industries or envisioning the success of their own businesses.

It means an even lower focus on short, core keywords, and a higher focus on long - tail keywords and on conversational, colloquial types of searches.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

It could mean focusing on how reductions to future low - skill immigration also benefits our current population of foreign - born workers by restraining labor market competition in a sector of the economy where unemployment is high and wages have been stagnant.

Irvin noted, «Bega Cheese's focus on Australian and international consumer markets, strong branding and distribution alliances such as Blackmores and investment in higher value dairy nutritionals means that we are well positioned to take advantage of unfolding market opportunities.»

An Argentinian squad with 6 strikers in form means the chances of only 7 defenders being selected to the squad are very high, with extra focus on the flexibility of a defender to play in multiple positions.

Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.&raHigh School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.&rahigh school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

We never committed to one single particular book on sleep habits either — like you, I was somewhat overwhelmed by all the choices (and the LENGTH, I mean, if my kid isn't sleeping, I probably don't have the time, energy or focus to devote to a 700 - page tome ABOUT SLEEPING), and found that too many authors turned sleep into a moral high ground.

It means that the fight against homebirth should * only * be focused on informed consent for high risk women and the creation of a system that prevents midwives from practicing after they have demonstrated negligence.

The ComRes poll is also ominous for the Conservatives in putting Ukip as high as 17 % (with up to a third of electors saying they would «consider» voting for Farage's party) in seats where the electoral arithmetic means that the battle should be focused on the major government and opposition parties alone.

«We wanted to design a single planar lens with a high numerical aperture, meaning it can focus light into a spot smaller than the wavelength,» said Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad, a postdoctoral fellow in the Capasso lab and first author of the paper.

Barbara Means of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and colleagues (I am a co-principal investigator on this study) are conducting a longitudinal study comparing outcomes of ISHSs with those of non-STEM — focused high schools in three states.

They have managed to capture the behaviour of extremely short laser pulses during focusing by means of very high spatial and temporal resolution.

The message to the students is clear: Stay in school, focus your educational choices on high - demand occupations, and understand that a career in science and technology does not necessarily mean abandoning your cultural heritage.

This is why your best bet is to go for complex carbs that are higher in fiber — not only will they be more filling, but they'll also keep you satisfied longer, which means they're a good option whether you're focused on fat loss or maintenance.

Here, we have focused on the benefits of a ketogenic diet, which means eating foods high in healthy fats, with moderate protein and low net carbs (think non-fiber carbs).

# 1 If you think you have a higher calling, my advice is this: Don't overthink it, just focus on what you want to say and do in this moment, and the people who are meant to hear your message will hear it.

Now this does not mean that in a period of high volume of training where the block has cumulative training loads where you do not fully recover from each session that you will get full rest / recovery during that period, however, as you segue to the recovery phase you do need to focus on sleep and downtime rather than playing catch up in other areas of life.

Body fat produces excess estrogen, so losing fat is a focus, but avoiding high stress means of doing it is key.

Whilst we accept that this decision will mean that we risk losing high calibre staff, by focusing on other Studios with exciting new projects in development, (including continued work on PlayStation VR), we believe we will be in a stronger position going forward and able to offer the best possible content of the highest quality to our players.

Which means there are now undoubtedly about 38,000 bitchy articles lodged around the web and print... many of them undoubtedly focused on Blue is the Warmest Color, due to its high profile both from content (lesbian sex!)

Colfer's writing is clearly influe nced by his day job, given the story's focus on what it means to be an outcast in high school.

And while it's easy to point at the breakaway success of battle royale games and your typical streamer - bait titles, there are plenty of examples in the industry for high - quality, AAA story - focused titles which still achieved success, meaning Red Dead Redemption 2 focusing on story and solo play is still fitting the «trends».

Founded by tech industry leaders and educators in San Diego, High Tech High is undertaking various efforts to scale up its design, which offers a rigorous, personalized program focusing on math, science, and technology, and providing extensive connections to the «adult» world through internships and other means.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

When you add in the social element to games then the competition promotes a higher degree of focus and this means that training materials delivered in a game can be retained much easier.

Washington plays a role here, too, since the focus of the No Child Left Behind Act on low achievers and troubled schools, coupled with state and federal funding streams for special education, means that schools serving high achievers don't receive money that other public schools often do.

It does mean aiming for a much higher level of teaching expertise, and having a focus on quality teaching rather than programs.

They generally focus on middle school and high school curricula that provide hands - on, project - based activities, as well as internship and mentorship opportunities and career and technical training (Means et al., 2008).

For challenges like large class sizes, high - stakes testing, and intense focus on teacher and administrative accountability, increasing success by all students means we must engage them into the learning dialog.

It focuses on the ends that authorizers should aim to attain in creating and upholding high expectations for the schools they charter while recognizing there are many means of getting there.

The 44 higher - performing schools (those with average school - wide math and English test scores a full standard deviation above the mean) «create a shared, school - wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,» it says.

Its focus on fairness should mean greater buy - in from educators; its ability to differentiate between high - growth and low - growth schools makes it effective at signaling to policy makers which campuses deserve praise and which need major overhauls.

The main attraction was its focus on what leadership means in higher education in 2015.

That means focusing on the lower - hanging fruit in terms of cutting costs - such as cutting interest rates, which are currently up to 6.1 %, and have been attacked as bafflingly high by a long line of former Conservative and Labour education ministers.

That means having a real focus on tackling underperformance, having high expectations for every child and supporting our excellent school leaders and teachers.

He found that students in the lower groups focused less on meaning than the «high group» and spent more time focused on phonemes.

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

Teaching for meaning and understanding raises achievement by focusing on «big ideas,» by requiring students to use high - level problem solving skills within authentic contexts, and by creating meaningful and effective assessments.

Research found that a $ 3.5 billion federal program meant to fix the nation's lowest - performing schools — which focused disproportionately on high schools — did little to improve student achievement.

Barbara Means of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and colleagues (I am a co-principal investigator on this study) are conducting a longitudinal study comparing outcomes of ISHSs with those of non-STEM — focused high schools in three states.

After analyzing the data and writing each case we found that four components stood out as consistently prominent across all the schools: a broad and deep curriculum designed for all students with little tracking or ability grouping (meaning that most students get the same high quality learning experiences in all classes); a teaching staff with advanced content knowledge; a mission - focused administrative structure with a flattened hierarchy that invited collaboration with and among teachers and students; and supports for underrepresented students, such as advisories with personalized college planning, tutoring or summer research programs on college campuses.

«Collaborative Common Assessments brings compelling clarity, meaning, and power to the work of common assessments — not as another high - stakes assessment event, but as a focused practice that helps all students learn.

But the bad news is that our paltry support of innovative curriculum development and our reluctance to really change our high - stakes assessment systems means that students and teachers will continue to focus on low - level kinds of learning.

Tests are meant to chart progress toward high academic achievement for all students, not to become the sole focus of classroom time.