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The solutions offered to improve productivity and tackle work interruptions include better organization of the workspace, working in «focused bursts» of time, organizing emails better, among other measures.

Instead of focusing on how marketers can create great content for social media, this class more focuses on how exactly to measure your social investments in terms of time, cost and opportunities.

«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one - time hurricane effects and the focus on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.

And when you take measures to set yourself up for an effective delegation process, you're not only giving yourself time to focus on your most vital business activities, but you're alleviating some of the pressure of always doing everything yourself.

When you measure the success of your MVP, focusing on generic vanity metrics (things like time on site, conversion rate, revenue per user, etc.) will get you nowhere.

With today's near - maniacal focus on key metrics, dashboards, and KPIs, perhaps it's time to measure and track the good old - fashioned virtue of doing what we say.

Braasch and DeLoach measured people's performance each time and then asked which sound they preferred and which one helped them focus best.

The ability to swiftly react in real - time, draft focused creative, place ads in front of the right voters, and measure the impact of the ads made MAN1 an elite and influential political action committee.

What we do Measure your success Monthly outsourced cloud bookkeeping and accounting Free up your time so you can focus on income - producing activities.

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What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

We expect many of the concepts associated with NPM such as active management, public accountability through performance measures, and a strong focus on cost, will remain important for some time to come.

But time and time again, the suggestion of a bottom - up structure that focuses on specific policies and measures rather than overarching targets has been rejected.

And as the set of tools that we have at our disposal to improve pre-processing quality grows, so should the time we spend thinking about what we are aiming to measure, and what features should therefore be the focus of our attention.

He told the BBC Focus on Africa radio programme that measures such as sharing intelligence and setting up a new regional headquarters for aircraft involved in surveillance and possibly «operations in the field» took time.

«(The plan) continues focus on students who need extra time to meet graduation measures,» said Elia.

She decided, instead, to focus on aspects of her grad school program she does control, like how she spends her time in the lab, for example, and how she would respond — in the most measured, professional way possible, she decided — to her advisor's social mood swings.

Until recently, it was not possible to measure the exact distribution of the wave troughs and peaks at the focus of a laser beam on this time scale.

«Rather than focusing on readmissions, preventable or otherwise, time may be better spent in developing quality measures of complex disease management across a patient's continuum of care,» they write.

Aside from measuring progress by your appearance, a powerbuilding program also focuses on strength by using powerlifting techniques such as regular deloads and increasing intensity over time.

This time I tried to incorporate more pieces of clothing and I kept the color scheme light & fun, focusing on feminine details like ruffles, pastels & florals (with a dose of stripes thrown in for good measure).

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmetime and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmeTime (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

Block 2 focuses on multiplication and division and measures, including money and time.

A shift to a focus on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high - quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and quality rather than on traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

In a 2016 study, psychologist Karrie Godwin and a team of researchers measured how attentive elementary students were during class, and discovered that they spent over a quarter of the time distracted, unable to focus on the teacher or the current task.

While the focus is on life sciences to prepare students for high school biology, to ensure they have the skills for projects and labs, students spend time reviewing general principles of science, the scientific method, measurement, and measuring using the metric system.

Due to the complexity of the study, the fact that many of the classroom variables focus on grades 1 - 3 (e.g., student level of engagement, time spent in small - or whole - group instruction, preferred interaction style), and the use of different outcome measures, the kindergarten classrooms were dropped from the analysis.

For example, studies of how teachers use their time during instruction have not focused on actions principals take to monitor or set expectations for the delivery of high quality instruction.123 One purpose of our study is to clarify the concept, at least in some measure.

For the first time in the history of American public education, federal education policy set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, and finally focused attention on using data in measuring teacher quality.

By producing a growth measure for each student that is predictive of performance on high stakes tests and, for the first time, deeply connected to instructional resources in the core curriculum, the strategic partnership gives educators more time and support to focus on differentiating instruction.

At a time when a recent report shows that teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, Mieliwocki acknowledged the challenges that the profession faces and the narrow focus on student achievement and teacher evaluations as measured by standardized tests.

We believe that school accountability should measure student growth annually, ensure continuous improvement over time, and focus attention on achievement gap closing.

Through coaching provided by TSCCI partners Eskolta and reDesign, Bronx Haven's principal at the time, Lucinda Mendez, and a team of teachers launched a multiyear effort to shift the school's focus from traditional outcome measures — like standardized test scores — toward the learning process itself.

At times, an excess focus on quantitative measures also has encouraged cheating and gaming the system.

But at the same time, trying to do this by specifying simple and easily measured outcomes and raising the stakes for achieving those outcomes tends to produce education focused more on preparing students for tests than on developing genuine learning.

For example, in order to address concerns about the fairness of using student test scores to evaluate teachers, Hillsborough County Public Schools, in Tampa, Florida, decided early on to focus on the growth in test scores between two points in time rather than a static achievement measure captured only once a year.

As the Network moved from initiation to operation, the focus on the data shifted to real - time measures of teachers signing up for candidacy for Board certification.

During her time as a superintendent, Lisa's district focused on measuring educator performance data for 10 core competencies — including assessment, instruction and student engagement — based on their ability to impact student learning... but using that data to determine the most effective professional development activities requires the right technology.

Another is that Zarecki's study focuses not on increases and decreases in actual achievement and out - of - school suspensions for minor infractions, but on differences in differences, essentially looking at growth over the short time frames being measured.

Although Pennsylvania commendably requires classroom observations as part of teacher evaluations, the state should articulate guidelines that focus classroom observations on the quality of instruction, as measured by student time on task, student grasp or mastery of the lesson objective and efficient use of class time.

This article, published in the first issue of the International Journal for Research on Extended Education, focuses on how we can measure the impact out - of - school time (OST) programs have on youth development outcomes and how we can use those outcomes to better inform OST programming in a way that will benefit the youth the program is currently serving.

When student learning measures are the only focus of a school's data analysis efforts, school personnel end up using their time figuring out how to look better on the student learning measures.

It also doesn't help that as a society we spend billions on products, advertising and messaging to promote the latest type of diet, fad, program, trend, etc., each one a competing priority on our time, attention and mental energy as we try to focus on what will help us achieve our fitness goals — more times than not, simple measures like «lose weight», «gain muscle», or «reduce blood pressure.»

So let's focus on the variable that's easier to measure: time horizon.

They focus on U.S. equity and assess effects of smart beta ETFs by measuring mutual fund investment flow sensitivities to equity factor alphas over time.

Technical analysis is used as a proprietary mathematical process that focuses on trends in price measured over specific periods of time.

Better to spend time sweating over how a manager chooses assets, limits risks, etc., than to focus on quantititive measures of risk that have no relation to long term performance.

Yet it seems unlikely that the current government, which has been focused on increasing the tax rate on Canada's richest one per cent while at the same time putting in place measures to ensure that private corporations aren't inappropriately being used to sprinkle income and retain passive income, would actually consider lowering the inclusion rate, much less abolishing it altogether.