Sentences with phrase «increasing share of their resources»

Instead of hiring more teachers or increasing teacher salaries, school districts are devoting an increasing share of their resources to employee benefits.

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MDU Resources shares have increased 4.5 percent since the beginning of the year.

There's a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization's strategy and objectives: new customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting... just to name a few.

This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector's productivity and economic share, together with a greater economic role for state - owned enterprises (and for state - owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource nationalism, trade protectionism, import - substitution industrialisation policies, and imposition of capital controls.

As a result of this sustained growth, the share of Australia's total exports to China accounted for by resources has increased from 45 per cent in 1990 to around two - thirds today.

Emerging markets have been demanding an increasing share of global resources, and we anticipate that trend to persist.

Maximizing Gold Ownership per Share: One of the greatest risks to shareholders of junior gold companies is the indiscriminate issuance of shares to raise money, pay overhead costs and do work that does not generate an increase in gold resources or reserves.

By working together, coalitions can conserve resources by reducing duplication and sharing expenses, foster cooperation between diverse sectors, and increase the credibility and often the impact of their efforts.

Mohrbacher, Nancy and Kathleen Kendall - Tackett BREASTFEEDING MADE SIMPLE New Harbinger, 2005 In this easy - to - use resource, the authors share seven basic principles of breastfeeding that can help mothers dramatically increase their likelihood of success and make breastfeeding the enjoyable experience it should be.

«In addition to the shared role of leadership in the operation of the chamber and committees, I am eager to codify reforms to the legislative process, including an equitable distribution of resources and increased transparency, consistent with the recommendations from senators and from the Temporary Committee on Rules and Administration Reform,» they wrote.

While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.

These rural districts face many of the same issues, Hults said, so the continued increase of opportunities to share services and pool resources are appreciated.

Washburn's quite legitimate concern, which I share, is that the university's roles as a disinterested arbiter of knowledge and society's thoughtful critic could be lost in an environment that is increasingly dominated by the university's unrestrained search for increased resources.

Given the large number of water users, the growing demand for water resources, the variety of stakeholders involved and the increasing intensity of climate change impacts, collective action and shared solutions are needed to alleviate the pressure on the environment, business and communities.

Despite its fruitful adaptations, the crop has gotten its share of flack for consuming precious water and nutrient resources, especially as its acreage has increased to meet biofuel and animal feed demands.

NEPAD should facilitate the building of networks of research groups that share expertise and facilities through collaboration with international groups that can increase the flow of resources into the continent.

This understanding will enable the development of recommendations on how to cope with and adapt to change, how to reduce the risk of conflict, and increase the prospects for sustainable, equitable use of shared marine resources.

I thought it might be helpful to share some of my favorite word - centric, Web - based resources, and see what other folks can share back.All of these sites help increase one's control over words, and hey, words are power, right?

Instead of hiring even more teachers or paying them more money, districts are devoting an increasing share of finite resources to employee benefits.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

The campaign is supported by the Free Time Consortium, which is founded on the principle of sharing information and resources to support more children to play more often, and is a growing collective of local and specialist organisations working together to increase children's freedom to play in our schools and streets, parks and wild places.

Get connected to a community of other Nearpod Certified Educators, and receive increased support and resources for sharing Nearpod with your colleagues.

To increase institutional efficiency and strengthen service to students, groups of community colleges should pool resources and develop shared systems for managing student data, institutional research, professional development, and other efforts that support student learning.

As the consumption - based model of technology integration transitions to a participatory approach and technology transitions from a tool for accessing information to a tool to (a) support student authoring and creativity, (b) facilitate collaboration, communication, and social learning, (c) allow for more efficient organization and accumulation of resources, (d) provide venues for student voices through publication and sharing, and (e) support student immersion in learning environments, educators also transition from «extending learning beyond what could be done without technology» (Mason et al., 2000) to «use technologies to promote effective student learning» (Hicks et al., 2014) In the revisioning of the first principle, the authors did a commendable job of affording increased value to range of tools, methods, content, abilities, and varied contexts of social studies classrooms.

Our members are united, however, in their commitment to increasing resources, celebrating rural education and sharing best practices to ensure that all of Colorado's students have access to world - class education and opportunities.

What steps might you take to foster a community that shares ideas, resources, and knowledge for the purpose of increasing student learning?

Participants will understand the value of using art and objects for increasing cultural competencies and critical thinking; experience pre - and post-museum trip activities that can be used to develop observation, deduction, and language skills, explore themes, and reinforce program learning objectives; and share their own ideas / resources for effective museum - based learning.

As described in yesterday's Journal Sentinel, in his new book, UW - Oshkosh Professor Michael Ford describes a system in which public schools, private schools, and charter schools all compete for the same students and resources with what often seems like more concern for increasing their share of enrollment than for the overall outcomes achieved by students.

Look to a memo» via the Sarasota Herald - Tribune — In a 6 - 1 vote, the Manatee County Commission decided not to increase its share of funding for school resource officers during the next academic year, despite a state mandate for increased school security following the Parkland massacre.

We want to ensure that all resources shared with our educators are of superior quality, are easy to download and customize for their students, and serve as a tool to increase student engagement and achievement.

Individual champions committed to the shared goal of increasing the number of children who have access to and are receiving the most fundamental resources, what we call our 5 promises.

Quality of financial position plus quantity of resources, incidentally, translates into long - term earning power, whether that earning power evidences itself as unrealized and, therefore, unaccountable for appreciation of undeveloped land (St. Joe Paper); growing cash flows (Forest City Enterprises); enhanced attractiveness as a takeover candidate (Constellation Bancorp or DCA); or rapid increases over long periods in earnings per share as reported for GAAP purposes (SunAmerica).

The shares of EOG Resources increased by 56 % over the past year and 233 % over the past five years.

Pursuant to its Vision Statement, adopted in 2008, DAWS developed a ten - year plan culminating in the opening of a new facility capable of supporting increased rescues, adoptions and humane education and by allowing us to share our knowledge and resources with other animal welfare rescues and agencies.

We represent all workers in game development and we seek to increase the visibility of our cause through community building, sharing resources, and direct action.

It's mission is to enable people to share and monetize their unused possessions, increasing the efficiency of both the consumer and the planet's resources.

A case that assumes significantly higher domestic oil and natural gas resource availability results in lower natural gas prices, thus increasing natural gas's share of generation and lowering power - sector CO2 emissions.

Firefighting concerns for firefighter safety is paramount, and safety increases with the sharing of wind resource data with firefighting agencies.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) openly shared its 2010 analysis of a projected 4 to 19 % fuel price increase by 2020 as a result of the LCFS (explained below).

This from the guy who writes «It is possible to immensely improve our quality of life without increasing greenhouse gases or using up an unsustainable share of the planet's resources.»

Increased tapping of water resources for crop irrigation in one region in response to water shortages related to climate change can increase risks to adjacent areas that share those water resources.

C) Transboundary impacts: Changes in sea ice, shared water resources, and the migration of fish stocks, have the potential to increase rivalry among states.

Perhaps the key issue is to highlight which parts of the world show INCREASED rainfall as sunspot numbers drop and thus think about how to share resources across the decades in a manner which says that rain falls somewhere on earth all the time, it's just the place where it falls may oscillate quite a lot?

Hydroelectric power produced in Canada - generally known there as simply «hydro» - is another water - created, and shared resource of increasing importance to Canada and the US Northeast.

Our mission is to increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

By comparison, the Office of Fossil Energy supports a wide range of collaborative, cost - shared research projects among industry, national laboratories, and universities, with the goal of increasing the discovery rate and improving the recovery of petroleum resources.

To help address the problem, the minister wrote, Jordan is aiming to increase its share of renewable energy resources from 1 percent to 10 percent by 2020 while reducing the share of energy produced from oil from 58 percent to 40 percent.

To cut administrative costs and increase community ties, «some clinics are talking about co-locating, moving to a hub with other community agencies to share administrative back offices or rent so we can reallocate some of the resources from back office towards the service provision,» said Abramowicz.

Potential pitfalls for employees include not achieving the vesting requirements, not having the resources to buy the shares, lowered expectations in terms of salary increases and bonuses, and the potential lack of liquidity.

Bellegarde, who has been described as «fiery,» promised to decrease economic and social inequality by increasing First Nations» share of resource revenue, as well as advocating for Aboriginal rights (inherent and Treaty rights) and facilitating the process of self - determination.