Sentences with phrase «key improvements at»

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They also examined moves after the news of an FBI investigation into Clinton emails, and when Trump won key Republican primaries.PredictIt.org on Friday put the odds of a Trump win at 31 percent and a Clinton win at 74 percent, an improvement of about 6 points for Clinton over Thursday's level.

«At a regional level, the sharp improvement in Ontario's manufacturing sector during February was a key factor in raising the Manufacturing PMI to its highest level since August 2015».

I mean people underestimate us we made defensive improvements / additions mid way through the season & we had many key players out injured at the begging of the season all at the same time missing 2 of our main goal scores.

I am not disputing that young players can not help to improve the team, and contribute to succeeding at the highest level, but it is an approach that needs to be used in tandem with a more ambitious transfer policy, where a marked, genuine and immediate improvement is made to the team; similar to the one Bayern Munich use, or how Arsenal in recent windows have bought key and top quality players (Özil, Sanchez, Cech and now Xhaka).

The idea arrived at a key time — nearly a decade into the No Child Left Behind era, when schools nationwide focused obsessively on year - to - year improvements in students» basic math and reading skills.

He said Ghana has moved up five places in the Africa competitive skill which looks among other places at how open economies are to international trade, adding that the national single window initiative is one of the key component that has helped Ghana to achieve this improvement.

Key Clinton County projects include building improvements to the North Country Veterans Association, production line expansions at SSF Production, renovation work at the proposed Keeseville Waterfront Park and funds to modernize elevators at the Plattsburgh Housing Authority.

And if it's a big enough improvement on current technology, the Air Force might place similar telescopes at key sites around the globe for 360 - degree surveillance.

«Our results suggest that the use of these small, relatively inexpensive devices is associated with significant increases in physical activity and improvements in some key health outcomes, at least in the short term,» internist Dena Bravata of Stanford University and her colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Elliott Main, M.D. who is the medical director of the CMQCC and the presenter of the study at the SMFM annual meeting, explained, «The keys for success were (1) multi-partner engagement, (2) rapid cycle data and (3) use of a novel quality improvement model involving pairing physician and nurse mentors working with five to eight hospitals at a time, all within the construct of a large statewide project.»

In fact, ACOs achieved meaningful improvements for patients in some key areas,» said lead author of the study J. Michael McWilliams, associate professor of health care policy and medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

One key improvement to allow for longer - distance flight will be a form of computer monitoring, so that the human pilot will be able to rest during the at least five - day and five - night Pacific Ocean overflight while the autopilot keeps the airplane stable.

She played a key role in guiding overall strategy of the company and at the same time provided leadership for operational improvements.

He also believes that the keys to a successful treatment plan starts with a thorough assessment and patient education, as optimal recovery and sustained improvements come from a team approach between the patient and the therapists at RISE Health.

These inquiries, and the many others being carried out at Bialik, are key to our curriculum improvement process.

Collaboration is the key word at this year's Excellence in Professional Practice Conference, as members of the education community share their stories of school - based improvement projects.

Denise founded the company in 2001 on the belief that engagement and professional accountability at an individual level is critical to school improvement and ensuring that everyone understands their role in supporting the school to achieve its key outcomes.

Growing your own Groundwork also worked with Key Stage 1 pupils and teachers at Our Lady and St Anne's RC Primary School, in Newcastle upon Tyne to plan, design and implement their outdoor growing space, with professional contractors carrying out the physical improvement works.

Dave Smith, senior vice chair of Naace and ICT advisor at Havering School Improvement Services, believes schools should start by forming answers to some key questions in order to ensure that they know what success will look like for them.

This Informed Educator examines research - proven strategies for implementing and sustaining school improvement by looking at the key elements of the process, enabling conditions for improvement, issues of school culture, and implementation.

Staff - developed research programs are key to the curriculum improvement process at this school.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Most support that was offered to schools was directed at senior leadership teams, with other popular support categories including «key» subject improvement and increasing the quality of special educational needs.

At Howenstine, they kick - started the process with a school - based assessment and improvement system called KEYS (Keys to Excellence for Your Schools).

«Despite these improvements, the government response confirms that key stage 1 will remain in place until at least 2023 and KS2 SATs will remain in place indefinitely,» he said.

«Despite these improvements, the Government response confirms that Key Stage 1 will remain in place until at least 2023 and KS2 SATs will remain in place indefinitely.

Lynn Glueck, a school improvement coordinator at Memorial High School, said this week that Common Core focuses on developing key skills needed for college and career readiness.

Prior to her role at AIR, Jimenez served as a special assistant in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, where she advised on policy for key K - 12 education programs and initiatives, including the Title I program; Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility; School Improvement Grants; and programs that serve American Indian, Alaska Native, and homeless children.

Prior to joining CAP, Sargrad served as the deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, where he had the primary responsibility for key K - 12 education programs and initiatives, including the Title I program, Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility, and School Improvement Grants.

Community involvement and community improvement are key themes at BACS.

Early Learning as a School Improvement Intervention During this session at the Title I Conference, presenters Libby Doggett (USED), Lenay Dunn and Carlas McCauley (Center on School Turnaround), and Jana Martella (CEELO) provide an overview on how early learning strategies can advance achievement as a school improvement intervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learninImprovement Intervention During this session at the Title I Conference, presenters Libby Doggett (USED), Lenay Dunn and Carlas McCauley (Center on School Turnaround), and Jana Martella (CEELO) provide an overview on how early learning strategies can advance achievement as a school improvement intervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learninimprovement intervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learning programs.

The reality is that integration is a key improvement strategy for our nation's most at risk students, and national policy has largely abandoned it in favor of first the standards based accountability policies of the late 1980s and the 1990s and then the test and punish policies of the NCLB era.

She repeated the cycle at each benchmark assessment, emphasizing students» individual growth and effort as the key to improvement.

Collegial work groups (e.g., grade level teams, school improvement teams), sharing of expertise, networking of teachers and principals across schools, cross-role leadership and school improvement teams at school and district levels — all these and many other configurations of professional educators collaborating with one another on student achievement - focused district reform initiatives are indicative of a common emphasis on teamwork and professional community as one of the keys to continuous improvement.

These political cultures affect how different states defi ne key policies for school improvement, and they partially determine the options that are available at the district and local level.

Each state is required to develop an ESSA Implementation Plan that addresses at least three key action areas: standards and assessment, accountability, and school improvement.

During the pilot with Rockets, the restaurants saw an 11.2 % improvement in table turn time — one of the key factors restaurants are looking at when considering a tablet investment.

This year's model has a few key improvements, though, at least two of which are very meaningful: a very powerful processor, and the first multi-carrier SIM card we've seen in the U.S..

Looking at these key ratio, it is still too close call which of these two home improvement retailer stocks is a better value.

One of the key improvements to the PlayStation 3 version is definitely the loading time, with the Blu - ray version ingesting its data at almost twice the speed of the 360's DVD, although in - game area loading remains much the same.

The key ingredient in Tondro's paintings is recycled acrylic latex paint, commonly known as house paint, which she rescues from recycling centers and the «mistint» shelves at home improvement stores.

A crucial transformation is to move away from income as the key constituent of well - being and to develop new indicators that measure actual improvements in well - being at all scales.

First, the challengers claim that the «best system of emission reduction» — a key statutory term — can mean nothing more than making minimal carbon pollution reductions through small improvements in generating efficiency at individual power plants.

«Key to climate services is emphasis on the service,» said Timothy Krupnik, a systems agronomist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and South Asia project leader for Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD).

Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including: $ 28 million for safety improvements at the state's mental health hospitals; $ 7 million for recruiting new public school teachers and retaining existing ones; $ 190 million from the state's emergency fund to address damages from the last round of wildfires; $ 15 million to expand programs that combat homelessness; and, $ 8 million to backfill tuition cuts made to state colleges and universities during the 2015 session.

In her contribution, the author argues that while the EU obsession on the choice of the proper legal basis is far from being a thing of the past, the legislative process in criminal law at EU level needs improvements in other key aspects, namely the application of the ultima ratio and proportionality principles when discussing new legislative proposals.

It drills into key indicators of firm culture at the individual, group, and location level helping your firm isolate areas for improvement.

(4) Whether the failure to implement improvements in security recommended in May 2002 (principally the installation of KR locks at key points in the prison including access to residential accommodation in the event of an ordinary lock compromise) amounted to a breach of duty

In the coming months we'll be sharing some of these stories, beginning with today's look at how Adobe's Web Platform Team has helped us make key improvements for a more expressive Web experience in Windows 10.

We were skeptical of the product at first, but the manufacturer made a key design improvement that significantly changed our opinion of the product.