Sentences with phrase «many of these improvement efforts»

Specifically, they must monitor and challenge schools in relation to the agreed goals of collaborative activities, whilst school leaders share responsibility for the overall management of improvement efforts.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

Many districts consider development of their principals «capacity for instructional leadership — one of the district conditions included in our measures — to be a cornerstone of their improvement efforts.

In the past, only pupils on the C - D borderline were the focus of improvement efforts.

Since 2008, New York City has made «inquiry teams» a cornerstone of its improvement efforts in all of its schools.

Nampa, where 66 percent of the district's students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, has launched a series of improvement efforts including plans for a new empowerment high school that will embrace blended learning opportunities.

Partnerships between high - need school districts and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty in institutions of higher education are at the core of these improvement efforts.

Since the 1990s, businesses and foundations have funded a wide variety of improvement efforts and used the information unearthed by the UChicago Consortium and Catalyst to refine their efforts to support improvements in the school district.

We also put instruction — what goes on in the classroom and the interactions between teachers and students — at the center of our improvement efforts.

Measures that addressed the steps in the certification pipeline that teachers progress through provided a focused way for participants to understand the effect of their improvement efforts, to discuss specific problems that could be targeted for action, and to share improvements that had worked to solve those identified problems.

It places instruction at the center of improvement efforts, aims to engage all educators, students, and parents, and builds support structures to create effective school teams and continuous improvement.

With TRACTION for School Improvement ™ (TSI), we can help you and your educators reverse chronic low performance in your schools by focusing on the area where the vast majority of improvement efforts fail: implementation.

While this type of goal is specific and concise, the results will provide little to no information as to the effectiveness of improvement efforts.

The authors observed four shared strategies used by the groups in this process: 1) public conversations — open forums for deliberation among a range of stakeholders, leading to problem solving and commitments to action; 2) monitoring programs and policies — gathering and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts; 3) participating in the public arena — building political will through get - out - the - vote campaigns and meetings with elected representatives; and 4) joint ownership and relational culture — developing «public» relationships that lead to collective action.

The fundamental purpose of setting school improvement goals is to assess the effectiveness of improvement efforts.

Spurred by federal legislation, states have placed standards — statements of the content and skills all students should learn — at the center of their improvement efforts.

Not exact matches

In an effort to woo drivers, Uber launched an initiative called, 180 Days of Change — a campaign that aims to make «meaningful changes and improvements» to the driving experience.

«We truly care about our customers, and when there has been a loss of service, we bend over backwards to understand exactly what has happened, take strides to make improvements in an effort to prevent future losses of service, and can honestly identify with the experience our customers have reached out to let us know about.

His post goes on to list several techniques, including following your interests so that you enjoy the process not just the result of your efforts, focusing on self - improvement rather than external comparisons, and seeking empowering mentorship.

«It's good news but a very large but a very large proportion of this improvement came from people who left the labor force - labor force participation has declined significantly and therefore the effort to draw them back into the labor force is a structural issue.»

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

She made clear at the committee's hearing last week that she's prepared to support the Fed's extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy until there are clear signs of a sustained rebound and further improvement in the job market.

After all, Mylan acquired the EpiPen from another company, and while Bresch insists that significant improvements have been made to the epinephrine - delivering product itself, she also admitted on Thursday that a big part of the price increase rationale was to fund marketing and awareness efforts for the device.

The concept of «continuous improvement» arose in such efforts to raise quality.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

Look for areas of improvement and see if supplementing your search engine optimization efforts with pay - per - click advertising makes sense.

Clean Harbors maintains memberships in a variety of industry organizations throughout Canada dedicated to the promotion and improvement of safety through cooperative efforts.

Not only are these corporate forms a powerful tool in the fight against inequality, but there is evidence that they provide the incentives for greater effort, more cooperation, more innovation and more sharing — all of which contribute to improvements in workplace performance and company productivity.

greater efforts to raise the standing of banks in the community (through, for example, improvements in prudential standards, customer services and openness with the public).

Thus the sales department may decide to recommend they reduce their product options for the sake of possibly improvement in their general sales efforts and possible future sales that will take...

And, who knows, it may even include things like improved labour laws, improvements to public health care and education that actually mean it about the public part, requiring the Workers Compensation Board to get serious about the compensation part of its mandate and, yeah, an effort to get off the energy price rollercoaster.

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Moreover, the improvements in household and business balance sheets have been accompanied by the increased safety of the financial sector associated with the macroprudential efforts I have outlined.

The next steps for the Calgary - based Canada GEM team include disseminating the findings and applying what they've learned to guide and benchmark the university's ongoing efforts to close the gap on some of the opportunities for improvement.

There is a lot of room for improvement in corporate performance and it appears that corporate Japan is finally ready to make the effort.

In our continuing efforts to improve the plan sponsor and participant experience with our Retirement Directions website, accessible through www.retirementdirections.com, we are pleased to announce several improvements that will be introduced in the third quarter of this year.

Additional efforts to make the city safer would be part of the $ 553 million capital improvement budget.

Whitehead reminded us that «The importance of philosophy lies in its sustained effort to make such schemes explicit, and thereby capable of criticism and improvement» (PR xiv, x).

Least of all do frank appraisals and suggestions for improvement seek to denigrate the sincere efforts of parish musicians over the past few decades.

Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.

«A coaching and continuous improvement effort goes into all of our processes, whether sales, marketing customer service or accounting,» Powell says.

«From a productivity standpoint, we've been able to realize an 18 percent improvement in productivity this year because of our lean efforts,» Rohm says.

He says this success has come about due to the hard work and dedication of the company's staff over the years, as well as the commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in its production and marketing efforts.

To spearhead these efforts, a volunteer Green Team comprised of employees is active throughout the vineyard and winery operations to implement ideas, identify areas of improvement and seek opportunities to innovate under the guidance of the company's five - year sustainability plan.

In terms of energy consumption, inputs used on farm and farmers» participation, the collaborative effort towards crop improvement under low - input conditions was much more efficient in terms of energy use (see table below).

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) launched the SWP in 2002 to give growers and vintners educational tools to increase adoption of sustainable practices and to measure and demonstrate ongoing improvement.

It doesn't apply because on occasion folks here need to vent their spleen but if we were being consistent with the concept of performance improvement plans (PIP) developed without offending we would just say Brad did the best he could, or Al maximized his effort in being the GM, and other such things.

We could also try a tactical coach like simeone or allegri as this core of players have already been trained in the attacking side of football by wenger, a tactical coach would see improvement in players like mustafi, xhaka, iwobi and a kick up the ass to players like ozil, ramsey whose form and effort fluctuate between games.