Sentences with phrase «improve early performance»

Not exact matches

But the early enthusiasm waned after they showed mixed results in improving student performance.

A bout of euro and yen strength earlier this year raised some doubts about corporate performance, yet ended up doing little to dent improving profitability.

While the causes behind the spike of TSLA on early Tuesday isn't attributable to anything specific, speculations are high that Elon Musk's new long - term performance award might be a key driver for what appears to be investors» improved confidence.

Mr Clarke joined Treasury as chief executive in early 2014 and has sharply improved the performance of the business.

UCLA's run defense is decent and seems to have improved in recent weeks; Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey, he of the 400 - yard performance against Colorado, gained just 71 yards in 20 touches versus UCLA, and Utah's John White gained just 48 in 12 a few weeks earlier.

But whilst, his performances undeniably improved after critiscism suffered earlier in the season, they have dropped again with him missing in two of our biggest matches, at Spurs and yesterday.

Earlier this year I said that I hoped that the Devils could improve their goals for by.5 / game and goals against by.5 / game which would be a great improvement over last year's performance.

By 1972 - 73 we were improving very slightly in our early season performances.

Pardew earned a reprieve following an improved performance in last week's 1 - 0 defeat at Watford and Albion did at least offer more early spark against the Foxes.

An awful early blunder from Lee Chung - yong gifted the home side a third - minute lead they never relinquished despite a much - improved Palace performance.

Everton started that game at a blistering pace, storming into an early 2 - 0 lead, and while they did throw away their two goal advantage there were clear signs that Everton are steadily improving with their away performances and that a big victory on the road isn't too far away.

From the age of 2 years, quality early childhood education is actually associated with improved academic performance.

Early and exclusive breastfeeding helps children survive, but it also supports healthy brain development, improves cognitive performance and is associated with better educational achievement at age 5.

'' [The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance,» says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.

While our previous manuscript (Gilja et al., 2015) showed improved continuous control performance over earlier approaches, as the reviewer points out, the current study adds a parallel decoding method to enable discrete selection (the HMM), which is a critical step in developing point - and - click interfaces that would be suitable to control a general purpose computing device.

Tail use improves soft substrate performance in models of early vertebrate land locomotors.

Improving your athletic performance may be as simple as hitting the sack earlier.

Two early studies on both elderly and adult subjects found that caffeine improves attention span, psychomotor performance and cognitive function, as well as and feelings of well - being in the elderly.

Onnit started out making supplements to improve brain function and physical performance, but later began selling exercise equipment and fitness education based on techniques used by the earliest generations of strongmen (and women).

Many show extreme promise early in their careers; however, they depend upon other great athletes and coaches to improve their performance over time.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

Class Size: Reducing class sizes in the early grades has emerged as a popular policy initiative across the country as states look for ways to improve student performance.

Earlier theory had suggested that cultural capital might improve academic performance by making students falsely appear more knowledgable, even if their command of the material were no greater.

The expression, which apparently originated from a story by a farmer to his son in the early 1900s, teaches that the activity of weighing or measuring does not produce results or improve performance — it simply...

Students themselves and the United States as a whole benefit from improved performance in the early grades only if that translates into measurably higher skills at the end of school.

The fact that none of the gains observed in earlier years translate into improved high - school performance leaves one to wonder whether high schools are effectively building on the gains achieved in earlier years.

Amid changes as exciting as they are fragile, this much seems clear to the reform community: Even briefly settling for today's improved performance levels is to avail critics of the opportunity to say that school reform has stalled after early gains that were easy and perhaps unsustainable (see Figure 4).

The expression, which apparently originated from a story by a farmer to his son in the early 1900s, teaches that the activity of weighing or measuring does not produce results or improve performance — it simply measures outcomes.

Or maybe you need to start creating awareness earlier by asking team members to make notes in the weeks leading up to the training with things they like to improve or don't like in the current process.The criterion of acceptable performance is also always important.

Recent work suggests that direct training methods, such as mentoring and coaching and constructive feedback based on observation of teachers, can improve early education practice and children's performance.

Given that research has shown that a school's early - year performance almost always predicts its future performance, those weak schools are unlikely to improve.

The Children's Food Trust aims to reduce childhood obesity and malnutrition and enhance educational performance through improving the food our children eat in early years settings, schools and beyond.

Distributed leadership is about collective influence - it is not just some accidental by - product of high performing organisations but, as highlighted earlier, is a contributor to school success and improved performance (Hargreaves & Harris, 2010; Hargreaves, Boyle & Harris, 2014).

Improving school performance requires data - driven decision making at all levels, from the classroom through local and state education agencies; from early childhood through higher education.

Easily track and evaluate student performance with detailed, up to date reports that indicate where students need to improve, allowing for early remediation and data - driven instruction at the classroom, school and district levels.

If educators are empowered to incorporate lessons about the positive impact of reflecting on their learning and using specific strategies to improve academic performance from the early grades on, students will be better equipped with the skills they will need to thrive in school, in their personal lives and in the working world.

Taking a long view, from the early 1970s, white, Black, and Hispanic students improved their performance on the longitudinal National Assessment of Educational Progress, until recently.

Authorizers need to pay close attention to charters» performance early in their lives, and be willing to close stragglers if they show signs of not improving.

Our policy priorities are based on research, both locally and nationally that show that an emphasis on early interventions for at - risk students and increased access to educational options are straightforward, effective means of improving academic performance for all students.

Long overlooked as a vehicle for improving public education, attendance is increasingly viewed as a fundamental first step in boosting student performance — especially among early learners.

The research reinforces the fact that investments in high quality early childhood education and care programs for at - risk children is not only a solution for reducing achievement gaps and improving academic performance, but pays long - term dividends beyond school.

Can exposure to a live theater performance improve students» early literacy skills?

Early warning indicators and data systems can identify students at risk of dropping out and in need of support to improve academic performance.

Improve the performance of participating students in kindergarten through grade 2 on early reading assessments

This paper argues that decentralizing decisionmaking authority to schools is a reform worthy of a new look, despite the perceived failure of earlier school - based management (SBM) efforts to improve student performance.

An earlier report for the Center for American Progress, «Reforming Public School Systems through Sustained Union - Management Collaboration,» examined cases of school reform that resulted from collaborative partnerships between teachers unions and administrators working together in innovative ways to improve teaching quality and student performance.

Although asking and answering some of the questions I outlined earlier can be uncomfortable, they are necessary for improving you and your team's performance in the future.

Gordon MacInnes shows that it's possible for high - poverty schools to do a much better job of teaching low - income youngsters to read, through the tale of how a package of reforms, including high - quality pre-K and intensive, data - driven literacy instruction in the early grades, dramatically improved reading performance for children in some of New Jersey's highest - poverty, most troubled districts.

She observed that in the early years of blended learning, when teachers fully integrated online adaptive curriculum into their lessons as one tool to help personalize and differentiate instruction, not only did the data show improved performance, but students were more engaged in their learning.

Akin to the earlier analysis of EdChoice and several other studies on school choice - driven competition, this analysis reveals that the initiative improved public schools» academic performance.