Sentences with phrase «intentional efforts»

Five key features that boost program impact will be identified, including: 1) a focus on improving classroom management and the quality of teacher - student interactions, 2) intentional efforts to build child skills, 3) the use of professional development to promote high - fidelity implementation, 4) the inclusion of parents, and 5) integration with academic enrichment programs.

Study findings suggest that parents make active and intentional efforts to attempt, appraise, and apply the intervention material within their various life contexts, contributing to change in their parenting practices.

By looking at their relationship with a critical eye and making intentional efforts, my husband and I can build our own marriage on a firm foundation instead of sinking sand.

The challenge for all couples is once you've identified your own susceptibility to the negative (even the kindest of us get pretty defensive at times), it's important to unhook from these powerful currents and make intentional efforts to shape the interactions toward the more understanding, compassionate and appreciative energies that feed love.

Their work will lead to educating all high school students to be able to respond to the challenges and opportunities they routinely face through intentional efforts on academic, social, and emotional learning.

However, these solutions will do little to expand legal access to those most marginalized without intentional efforts to form private / public partnerships or collaborations with legal organizations whose mission is to serve the poor.

Both initiatives are intentional efforts to build positive relationships while monitoring and holding students accountable for excellence.

Further, the qualitative findings revealed the positive effects of knowledge integration prompts in facilitating students to make intentional efforts to identify and explain major concepts and their relationships that are necessary for solving the ill - structured problem.

«The question of whether character can be learned is unambiguously yes,» Yeager says, and kids absorb lessons from their social environment all the time, «but intentional efforts are far less successful than unintentional ones.»

«Diverse by design» is the latest jargon to describe intentional efforts to integrate schools.

We know that school improvement requires coordinated, sustained, and intentional efforts to create learning climates that promote students» social, emotional, ethical, and intellectual abilities (Adelman & Taylor, 2005; Devine & Cohen, 2007; Greenberg et al., 2003).

The CEL / Uinta School District partnership provides yet another example of how these intentional efforts translate into making a significant difference in the lives of our students.

While the school certainly put considerable effort into academics, they attribute a large part of their academic gains to their intentional efforts on improving student behavior.

But Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt is making intentional efforts to turn the tide.

In a context where a majority of our nation's students are students of color, but only 18 percent of our teachers are teachers of color, more of these kinds of intentional efforts to create a real pipeline of diverse educators are desperately needed.

Most intentional efforts to change or improve take what we call «the New Year's resolutions approach» or «the dieter's approach.»

The question of whether processing speed, working memory, and fluid reasoning skills can be developed through intentional efforts is an area of active debate among cognitive psychologists.

There is real promise in intentional efforts to draw fathers, as well as moms, into the process of recognizing the significant power they have to shape their children's lives.

Newton Malony describes how organization development enlivens the church body: «Organizations were hereby conceived as organic, systemic and alive entities that could be improved by intentional efforts.

In the last quarter of 2017, time spent on Facebook every day declined by 5 percent, or 50 million hours, a drop the company attributed to its intentional efforts to prioritize more meaningful content.

Transforming the workplace for the better requires consistency, thoughtfulness, and intentional efforts to define and live up to the values and expectations of the team.

It's a conscious, intentional effort to learn about team to have a real impact.»

Resting means an intentional effort throughout the week to get everything done before the Sabbath.

Sharing a meal is not something new to Christians, but making an intentional effort to share a meal with persons from a different community or perspective may be something out of the ordinary.

This suggests that the pastor's role as spiritual leader is to make an intentional effort to help the people live in faithful response to God.

I'm the sort who goes through moods (overwhelmed is a common state of mind) but I do believe that making an intentional effort to find happiness is absolutely necessary if you want to find it.

I make a specific, intentional effort to be really kind to my kids, my friends, my family, and everyone I encounter in my daily life.

Coming on the heels of the Million Man March, the Million Mom March definitely was an intentional effort to portray * women *, especially moms, as a advocates for political and social change.

It's easy to poke fun at the cliché amber necklace - wearing parents, but it takes an intentional effort to look past the superficial.

What we got this weekend was our first hint that it might be joined by an actual, intentional EFFORT to raise money from small - dollar donors and join the modern campaign - funding world.

«It was not the transposition of a number or a decimal point,» said County Comptroller John Kennedy, but rather «a willful, intentional effort on the part of the operator to deceive and to be covert in their operations.»

The resulting strength and size imbalances can be difficult to correct without proper training knowledge and lots of intentional effort.

«Making a more intentional effort to maintain a healthy sex life should be considered an issue of human sustainability, and as a result, a potential career advantage.»

Practicing actively, with conscious intentional effort, improves mental and physical awareness, and deepens self - realization over time.

The «good news» here is that it takes a lot of intentional effort (and often some extra chemical or hormonal assistance) to build massive muscles.

His unwavering and intentional effort dedicated to our family.

Even worse is when you make a great deal of intentional effort to support friends who flat - out don't return the favor.

Several years ago, there was an intentional effort to recruit middle - class families into these schools.

While I believe that EVERY teacher is a leader, I didn't consider myself a «teacher leader» because I wasn't yet making an intentional effort to drive this dynamic profession forward.

This reality, and the election's result, has made us reflect on our own work, asking whether we should make a more intentional effort to ensure that civics education is a subject that is actively pursued beyond just the coastal areas.

We must work together to deepen community, to make a conscious, intentional effort to build on the connections between us and resist the pull of the often shallow and disingenuous responses to complex issues that face our community.

More recently, the questions that educators have recommended have tended to be harder, the officials said, though there was no intentional effort to increase the rigor.

A genuine and intentional effort to preserve some of the original patina was done during the restoration to create more of a survivor look to this iconic Trans Am.

Unfortunately, the withholding of information is at best a tired out model from an industry that steadfastly refuses to adapt to the changing industry, and at worst an intentional effort to keep authors ill - informed about their own careers.

The mechanics were as was expected, and whilst I did not feel as though the maps had been tailor - made for wall - running quite like Black Ops 3 I feel as though this was an intentional effort to force emphasis on grounded combat.

And we don't see a dishonest, intentional effort to hoodwink the populace about the danger of earthquakes, etc, as we do with climate science.

Nor is it likely to be «enough» in the absence of intentional effort and policy - making.

Your comment is the first thing I've read surrounding this affair that persuades me that Gleick's action is more than a juvenile stunt and actually may have been an intentional effort to put people into harm's way.

It doesn't really matter if the error was a sincere scientific error or an intentional effort to mislead.

All of this is public record, so the smears against me must be an intentional effort to delegitimize my academic research.