Sentences with phrase «more sustained effort»

Fostering more adaptive mindsets will kickstart self - reinforcing cycles of increased motivation, improved academic behaviors, increased and more sustained effort, and better performance that enable students to be ongoing agents in transforming their academic trajectory.

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McDonald's also noted that its continued efforts at turnaround revolve around four main pillars: menu innovation, store renovations, digital ordering and delivery in order to achieve sustained growth and attract more customers.

But by heavily investing in eroding positive market positions for our competitors, we allow our healthy, wildly profitable positions at the top to sustain itself for the longest time possible — so we can instead focus our efforts on more attractive endeavors.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

More important, Nietzsche underrates the courage required to make even the effort to sustain moral commitment on such terms.

It takes so much effort, so much anxiety, to sustain so many smaller lies in order to protect our more central big one.

Recruitment, development and skillsVisitors can also learn more about the PPMA's efforts to sustain and develop the industry's workforce on stand B01 with a special focus on recruitment, development and skills, led by PPMA BEST.

In my sustained efforts to be a more conscious parent, I realized that the tools of mindfulness and self - care are essential for this path.

Pat White, vice president for federal relations at the Association of American Universities, see the lawmakers» questions as «not as severe a threat» as stripping funding but adds that «this seems to be a more sophisticated and sustained effort to criticize NIH's portfolio.»

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

Over time — and quite quickly, according to the evidence — your fitness level will improve, you will be able to sustain a higher - intensity effort, and will be able to achieve more of these active intervals.

What's more, the phosphocreatine system can provide energy for 15 seconds of sustained effort such as holding a static pose and that system can be recharged by mitochondrial oxidation of fat.

When you are more tired during the day, you are less likely to engage in physical activity or able to sustain the effort or strength needed to have an effective workout.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

As Taylor explains, SEED - SCALE research has shown that communities become more invested when they learn together, through each other, and then make an effort to sustain an intervention on their own.

Compared to an adult brain, a young brain needs more frequent dopamine boosts to sustain effort, persevere through challenges and setbacks, and build the trait of resilience.

When individuals are learning, they are engaged in the work and so, much more likely to sustain and continue reform efforts.

Because this approach follows John Dewey's suggestion that the teaching and learning process should attempt to solve real - world problems during the course, it is hypothesized that preservice teachers would be more likely to put forth a sustained effort in the instructional planning process (Dewey, 1916).

In particular, principals in more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvement.

The American Association of School Administrators recently released a survey of superintendents that showed that while most believe there is a role for competitive grants, most also worry about over-investment in those grants at the expense of more stable dollars that districts can depend upon to sustain reform efforts.

Dee (2012) suggests that school improvement programs can be viewed as explicit efforts to align, coordinate, and sustain individual efforts into a larger and more efficient collective vision of school improvement.

Engaged students more often show behavioral traits such as persistence, effort, sustained attention to tasks and a greater propensity to take on challenges and achieve mastery (National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, 2004).

He wants to reward students who are demonstrating sustained effort over the term, and encourage those who aren't regularly practising their maths to engage with Mathletics more.

With a sustained focus on these efforts over the course of more than a decade, the district's black - white achievement gap narrowed by 29 percentage points between 2003 and 2009.

An author may be able to hire a marketer or publicist who can put together a big - picture plan that encompasses all of these areas and more, but sometimes a budget can only sustain efforts in a couple of these areas.

Kobo currently does the e-reader and ebook thing full time while Borders did it as a casual interest and put more effort into sustaining its bloated retail chain.

This is more complicated, because these companies must have an advantage that will sustain their effort versus their competition.

Tipping the balance in Nigeria toward more effective governance is vital if promising trajectories on girl's education (despite Boko Haram's efforts) and agricultural productivity are to be sustained.

Here's an excerpt from the release, which stresses that much can be done locally to sustain the resilience of corals and the myriad species that live in and around them even as a long - term effort is made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Read more...

Its clear that the struggle over Storm King played a powerful role in focusing attention on much more than the aesthetic character of the region; that the lasting legacy of this fight has been a sustained and long - lasting effort to clean up the Hudson River.

A campaign is a sustained effort toward a specific outcome, like getting a city to ban fossil fuel development or a public institution to commit to a just switch to renewable energy that communities have more control over.

Today, because of bipartisan leadership and a sustained effort, more than 21 percent of Minnesota's electricity comes from renewable sources.

Unlike coastal fisheries which have suffered due to more frequent and intense cyclones, these aquaculture efforts can be sustained even in the face of climate - related challenges.

«It represents a continued effort to provide even more clean and renewable energy that can be sustained for decades to come.

Knowing your customers can help you optimize your marketing and targeting to the point of sustaining your firm with less effort and more confidence.

The MoJ is to undertake a sustained low level campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of mediation and create a central website for separating couples — concerns as to whether previous efforts to raise the profile of mediation have been successful have been expressed and some say that it is for mediation services themselves to more effectively promote their services.

Sustaining the effort to implement common - sense gun measures will only come about through more pressure on corporate America and the voting booth.

Answer: Because much more time, effort and money is expended by newbies in pursuit of quick financial gratification (via the use of learned razzle - dazzle psychological rapport - building techniques) instead of investing in the needed time and effort to build a foundation of knowledge that will sustain them over the long term.

A real estate career takes time and effort to build and even more work to sustain.

Mentors can not only train their more junior peers on how to perform from a sales standpoint, they can also show them what it's taken to build the reputation they've acquired during a sustained effort over the years.