Sentences with phrase «of quality improvement systems»

«NIOST was a core partner in supporting the development of quality improvement systems across the nine cities that participated in The Wallace Foundation Next Generation Afterschool System - Building Initiative.

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This significant improvement demonstrates the higher quality of earnings that we are generating as a result of system optimization.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

Groot, S.P.C.; Jalink, H.; Hospers - Brands, M.; Köhl, J.; Veerman, A.; Wenneker, M.; van der Wolf, J.M. and van den Bulk, R.W (2006) Improvement of the quality of propagation material for organic farming system.

Continuous improvement practices toward achieving this goal must be part of the Participant's quality management systems.

The Company's policy on product safety and quality confirms this commitment by ensuring regular reviews of the Quality Management System are undertaken in order to achieve best practice and implement process improvquality confirms this commitment by ensuring regular reviews of the Quality Management System are undertaken in order to achieve best practice and implement process improvQuality Management System are undertaken in order to achieve best practice and implement process improvements.

Examples of focal areas include: developing and implementing a rigorous evaluation of home visiting; selecting, adapting, and developing culturally appropriate data collection tools and measures; tracking and measuring benchmarks; developing and modifying existing data systems; continuous quality improvement; data protection and privacy; and ethical dissemination and translation of evaluation findings derived from research with AIAN to external audiences.

Since then, research, professional guidelines, state — wide health care directives, hospital systems, health care quality improvement initiatives, and federal and state - level maternity care legislation have identified many aspects of the MFCI and the Ten Steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative as key factors to improving maternal - infant health outcomes.

Implementation of the Ten Steps addresses all six Aims of Improvement first laid out in the Institute of Medicine's groundbreaking 2001 report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.

As the quality of drinking and surface water declines, why not use some of the money for water treatment systems and other water quality improvement programs?

The JUSTPAL objective is to provide an online and offline platform for justice professionals to exchange knowledge, good practices and peer - driven improvements to justice systems and thereby support countries to improve their justice sector performance, quality of justice and service delivery to citizens and businesses.

Quality Assurance Specialist: Work with various internal departments to develop, improve and execute processes and support the maintenance, development, and improvement of good manufacturing practice quality systems, including auditing (internal, supplier, and customer), training, process validation, cleaning validation, equipment qualification, environmental monitoring, water monitoring, change control, complaint handling, and documentation cQuality Assurance Specialist: Work with various internal departments to develop, improve and execute processes and support the maintenance, development, and improvement of good manufacturing practice quality systems, including auditing (internal, supplier, and customer), training, process validation, cleaning validation, equipment qualification, environmental monitoring, water monitoring, change control, complaint handling, and documentation cquality systems, including auditing (internal, supplier, and customer), training, process validation, cleaning validation, equipment qualification, environmental monitoring, water monitoring, change control, complaint handling, and documentation control.

Systems that capture, analyze, and report surgical outcomes are an increasingly important part of the quality improvement movement in health care in the United States.

Within the U.S., the most widely used surgical outcomes reporting system is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), which is coordinated through the American College of Surgeons.

The authors report that subsequently the agreement, which introduced bans on the sale of phosphate detergents, improvements in waste water collection and treatment systems, and reductions in industry discharges, did indeed help to improve water quality.

Despite a strong focus on accessibility and numerous quality - of - life improvements over previous titles, Monster Hunter: World still begs you to muscle through your initial struggles and build a comfort level with the gameplay systems and pacing.

Yet states have a long way to go before they have the kinds of data systems that will help drive student improvement, according to the latest progress report from the 3 - year - old Data Quality Campaign, which works to improve state systems.

Yet we are focused on expansion at a time when the system still needs great improvement, including increased attention to generating high - quality, affordable models of early education and care.

CORE's School Quality Improvement System attempts to provide a balanced view of quality across academics, social - emotional skills, and school cQuality Improvement System attempts to provide a balanced view of quality across academics, social - emotional skills, and school cquality across academics, social - emotional skills, and school climate.

The best starting point to get the right skills and innovation for tomorrow is to exploit the huge scope for improvements in the quality of education systems now.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

There's certainly plenty of work to do to improve the quality of the new evaluation systems, improvements that are likely to bring the differences in teacher performance into sharper focus.

The world's top - performing school systems and those coming up fast have a lesson to teach the others: Put high - quality teaching for every child at the heart of school improvement.

Although quality improvements in existing programs and system - building efforts to coordinate services and enhance access are clearly important, they are unlikely to be enough to produce breakthrough impacts for children who face the cumulative burdens of low family income, limited parent education, and social exclusion.

The Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education, is structured to highlight the best of what we currently know about healthy child development and high - quality systems, schools and classrooms of early learning, while also bringing in new thinking from other fields to provide insights that bear on the design of preK improvement and expansion.

Such a shock to the system of advanced teacher education could, however, lead to improvements in program quality.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

For too long our professional development systems have focused on the quality of the professional development «inputs» provided to teachers to improve their professional practice, with unfortunately little evidence of improvement or linkage to any «outputs» of a change in instructional practice.

The authors conducted a review of research on audience response systems (ARS) and conclude that the evidence supports benefits of ARS, including improvements to the classroom environment (increases in attendance, attention levels, participation, and engagement), learning (interaction, discussion, contingent teaching, quality of learning, and learning performance), and assessment (feedback, formative, and normative).

We support our members to develop systems that promote a culture of high - quality feedback, continuous improvement, and career advancement for teachers

A program should participate in their state or local Quality Rating and Improvement System if their state or local system has been validated to show that the tiers accurately reflect differential levels of quality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in theQuality Rating and Improvement System if their state or local system has been validated to show that the tiers accurately reflect differential levels of quality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in the System if their state or local system has been validated to show that the tiers accurately reflect differential levels of quality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in the system has been validated to show that the tiers accurately reflect differential levels of quality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in thequality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in the state.

Additionally, Smarter Balanced is developing a distributed, multi-actor system of test delivery, with the Consortium maintaining responsibility only for those aspects that are essential for ensuring continued comparability of results, quality improvements, and state - led governance.

That support can take the form of technical assistance, such as on - site coaching or consultation; financial incentives, like tiered child care subsidy reimbursement rates and quality improvement grants; and workforce supports, like wage subsidies or scholarships for teachers pursuing higher education.Aleksandra Holod et al., Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement Squality improvement grants; and workforce supports, like wage subsidies or scholarships for teachers pursuing higher education.Aleksandra Holod et al., Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvemeimprovement grants; and workforce supports, like wage subsidies or scholarships for teachers pursuing higher education.Aleksandra Holod et al., Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement SQuality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and ImprovemeImprovement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement SQuality Rating and ImprovementImprovement Systems?

Nationally acclaimed UW researcher Meredith Honig provided rich examples of how all staff can lead throughout systems to provide high - quality, differentiated, relevant services supporting instructional improvement.

The American Statistical Association concluded recently that teachers account for about 1 per cent to 14 per cent of the variability in test scores, and that the majority of opportunities for quality improvement are found in system - level conditions.4 In other words, most of what explains student achievement is beyond the control of teachers or even schools, and therefore arguing that teachers are the most important factor in improving the quality of education is simply wrong.

Wouldn't it be better to have states re-invent themselves with comprehensive systems of improvement, rather than to force them to march to the beat of the same old song about how «only one change» will magically raise the quality of the schools?

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

Just recently, the American Statistical Association said: «Most VAM studies find that teachers account for about 1 % to 14 % of the variability in test scores, and that the majority of opportunities for quality improvement are found in the system - level conditions.

Our goal — as a non-profit, quality assurance organization — is to provide a system to help you deliver on that promise: with review, improvement and certification of quality.

In this LPI Blog, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst Beth Meloy outlines key elements of a high - quality system to achieve this goal, including improvements to teacher preparation and supports for ongoing professional development.

As the senior director of strategy and performance improvement at CSUSA, Alesha founded and managed four teams — strategic planning, grants, data analysis, and quality assurance — and led CSUSA to become the first EMO to achieve AdvancED accreditation as a school system.

We need to move beyond the current practice of blaming teachers to a system of shared accountability so that donors, ministries of education, local education agencies, implementing agencies, directors and teachers are all responsible for producing measurable improvements in teaching quality.

In using ARRA funds, states and school divisions must advance core reforms identified in the legislation, including: implementation of college - and career - ready standards and assessments for all students; establishment of preschool to postsecondary and career longitudinal data systems; improvement in teacher quality — especially for students most at risk of academic failure; and improvement of low - performing schools through effective interventions.

Increasing access to Pre-K and full - day kindergarten, the spread of quality rating and improvement systems, and increased attention to the early childhood educator workforce are all signs of important progress at the state and local levels.

As new teacher evaluation systems take hold across the U.S., we have an opportunity to adopt what has been learned about improvement from the field of healthcare and use this knowledge to transform the quality of teaching and learning in our schools.

She has 20 years of experience providing support for all stages of project development (proposal, design, implementation, and evaluation) in a variety of areas including: quality assurance, performance improvement for health systems development, training, community mobilization, and behavior change.

A shortage of high quality academy sponsors and an inefficient brokering system threaten successful delivery of government's plans for improvement of coasting schools.

In some systems in other countries, such as the school - based assessment system in Victoria, Australia, school inspectors examine the tasks and student work samples that are scored locally and provide an overview of the quality of the work that is part of the feedback to the school and to the state agency for guiding the process of continual improvement.

The report features an analysis of high - quality student support programs, a description of how student supports can align within a pathway and throughout a district, five student support categories with examples, and a framework that couples integrated student supports with a continuous improvement system.

For more than 15 years, America has tried rigid systems of high - stakes testing to encourage and demand improvements in school quality, teacher effectiveness and student learning.