Sentences with phrase «measure your progress based»

A better way is to solve someone else's problem and measure your progress based on whether or not they pay you.

So, while it might be tempting to measure your progress based on easy, vanity metrics, you have to resist.

These separate categories are now one category and schools can devise their own scheme for measuring progress based on these steps: Assess, Plan, Do, Review.

Not exact matches

It's not about trying to implement the latest desperate attempt in a long, sad series of stopgap measures that simply adds complexity to the current code base and impedes any real progress.

Going forward, we will measure Facebook's progress with groups based on meaningful groups, not groups overall.

Since non-cash and tax - based benefits constitute a much larger part of the safety net than 50 years ago, the official poverty measure's exclusion of these benefits masks progress in reducing poverty.

Employees enjoy anytime, anywhere access to a central knowledge base to access content, share expertise and measure their professional development progress.

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

The U.S. dairy industry is committed to an open, transparent and science - based approach to measuring and communicating our sustainability progress across the dairy value chain, from grass to glass.

Many fans will still bleat on about signings... It seems that the modern fan can only associate progress or measure our chances based on who / how many we sign.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

They also agreed on the set of land - based indicators that they will use to measure progress, which they are also recommending for adoption as the primary measures of land degradation neutrality globally.

«Measuring the success of each initiative contributes to our knowledge base and furthers our progress toward a workplace that is truly inclusive.»

Evidence - based comfort measures that support progress through all stages of labor and the early weeks postpartum.

A lot of people tend to base their progress on the bathroom scale, the tape measure.

After a calibration period to understand your unique body fluctuations, your check - ins will be measured based on your progress toward your goal, not a number.

But NCLB, by requiring regular tests, soon made such progress - based measures feasible.

Rather than being judged only in terms of age - based expectations, successful learning would be measured as the progress individuals make, whatever their starting points.

Schools became assembly lines, with children progressing from one grade to the next based on time spent in a classroom, the simplest way for adults to measure progress.

Similarly, because growth measures may do a poor job of capturing the progress of high - achieving students, some states may want the weights assigned to achievement and growth to vary based on the level at which a school's students are achieving.

And based on student - growth measures, schools getting these huge sums of money are progressing at about the same rate as other schools in the state.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

Scores from these digitally based assessments were then calibrated, through careful research, to ensure a fair and consistent measure of educational progress, according to Andrew Ho, a psychometrician and member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

To cross the chasm between grades and true preparation for college and beyond, our systems will need to do more than eliminating the doomsday «F»: they must move away from measuring progress in instructional hours and instead embrace competency - based approaches.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

ESD gave just 16 percent of the city's public schools (district or charter) a C + or better in 2014, based on a combination of academic status, progress, and school climate measures.

According to the DfE, the activity - based assessment will enable better, fairer measures of primary school performance by capturing the progress teachers help pupils to make from the first weeks of reception all the way through to the end of year 6.

Nita High, principal of Landrums O.P. Earle Elementary School, says she and her staff can use the system to access a students state test and MAP [Measure of Academic Progress, based on scores on the Stanford 9 test] scores.

Teachers here know that our research - based reward system measures the progress individual students make in their classrooms, and educators who do the best job tailoring instruction to meet each child's specific needs tend to receive the highest marks.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

Until 1988, NAEP was limited to measuring student progress on a national basis.

Leeds based PE Partner developed SPIRALPE ™ in partnership with senior teaching professionals and Physical Education specialists to provide schools with a practical and highly efficient way to engage, develop and measure progress in PE and school sport.

We offer services, strategies, and resources — including our highly popular Concerns - Based Adoption Model — to help educators manage the implementation of new initiatives, create conditions for successful change, address staff concerns, and measure progress.

· Base teacher evaluations on multiple measures of performance including «value - added» data on student academic progress.

In a competency - based system, flexibly timed accountability tests may provide better measures of progress than fixed, annual tests.

That achievement level is adjusted once based on the extent to which the average achievement in that state, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is higher or lower than the national average.

Unlike the former Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on testing results, this new accountability system uses multiple measures to determine performance and progress and emphasizes equity by focusing on student group performance.

The measures are based on factors that contribute to a quality education, including high school graduation rates, college / career readiness, student test scores, English learner (EL) progress, suspension rates, and parent engagement.

However, if teachers are to be evaluated on the basis of student tests, they must insist on individually administered examinations that measure the school progress (as opposed to home learning) of each child in the class.

Almost every state is now instituting accountability systems to measure progress in standards - based reform, and almost every such system depends heavily on testing as an indicator of student or school performance.

And the second piece, though, is broadening out and redefining accountability so that we can try new things, so that it's not just about the two tests, that it's about high school graduation, but not just about high school graduation, that it's about other ways of measuring student progress and thinking about how kids learn, and engaging kids like through project - based instruction.

The report, written by Chad Aldeman for the Washington - based think tank Education Sector, argues that college readiness should be measured by observing the progress of high school graduates and gauging whether they go to college,...

Competency - based education may mean measuring credit differently; but it also means adopting a new philosophy about how students should progress through material.

Do Republicans really want to scrap the transparency that comes from measuring student (and school and district) progress from year to year and go back to the Stone Age of judging schools based on a snapshot in time?

This program uses four types of quizzes (reading practice, vocabulary practice, literacy skills, textbook quizzes) to assess students» daily progress, measuring the quality, quantity, and level of difficulty they are reading using the Advantage TASA Open Standard, a readability formula that provides reading levels based on the entire contents of books.

The test that's got Seattle teachers so fired up is a computer - based standardized test called Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP.