Sentences with phrase «on alignment between»

Recognizing the potential of early interventions to promote long - term school success, West Virginia also has begun to focus on alignment between early childhood programs and the early elementary grades.

We formulated a Theory of Action, which focused on the alignment between our district's intended and enacted theories of instructional execution.

During the 2014 — 15 school year, the leadership team at ROADS decided to strengthen this outcomes - based system by focusing their attention on the alignment between their assessments, their outcomes, and their standards for rigor.

• Much of employee engagement rests on the alignment between personal and organisational views and values.

These images of the background star may be distorted, brightened and multiplied depending on the alignment between the foreground lens and the background source.

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Whether you're a startup or a billion - dollar business, having alignment between sales and marketing on go - to - market strategy is critical.

In a text currently being worked on by negotiators, the UK is prepared to agree that there'll be «regulatory alignment» on market and customs rules between both sides of the Irish border, according to reports on Monday.

The relationship between views on the death penalty and abortion — both issues in which Catholic teachings and US law are not in alignment — were zeroed in on by the panel.

One aspect that I didn't mention, but that is inherent in scaling growth is the focus and importance they place on developing and maintaining the alignment between sales and marketing.

Peltz also proposed cutting other «excess» costs, adding debt, adopting a more shareholder - friendly policy for distributing cash from CyclicalCo / CashCo, prioritizing high returns on invested capital for initiatives at GrowthCo, and introducing more shareholder - friendly governance, including tighter alignment between executive compensation and returns to shareholders.

From Scheer's perspective, that makes the optics of an alignment between his federal party and Harper on the NAFTA issue potentially poor ones.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

He said: «We are now seeing the benefits of our focus on managing volatility in the business, with more favourable contract agreements, a closer pricing alignment between our sales book and the spot market, and targeting sales of products that deliver greater value.»

«When [customers] see the Non-GMO Project verification mark on a product they feel an alignment between their personal non-GMO commitment and the commitment of the company to provide shoppers an informed choice,» said Pineau.

For the time being, Brown has chimed in on the skewed distribution of prize money for Ferrari and believes that some balance clearly needs to be restored with a more accurate alignment between payout and performance needed.

A wedge will help relieve discomfort in one or two locations, such as between the knees to keep your spine in alignment and your joints from getting sore, or wedged under your belly for support while laying on your side.

For the Republic of Ireland, adopting a «soft border strategy» means holding fast to its insistence on regulatory alignment even at the cost of a long - term trade deal between the Republic (and the rest of the EU) and the UK.

Tuesday's agreement between California and China's Ministry of Science and Technology effectively sidestepped Trump's move, bringing about alignment on an issue of rising global importance between the world's second - largest economy — China — and California, whose economy is the largest of any U.S. state and the sixth largest in the world.

In Chautauqua County, construction began in the mid-1960s on a new alignment for US 62 between the Pennsylvania state line and NY 60 between Stillwater and Frewsburg.

Because the two sites have complementary alignments — Stonehenge faces the midsummer sunrise, Durrington Walls faces the midwinter sunrise — Parker Pearson and his colleagues have suggested that a voyage on the river route between the circles represented a journey between the realms of the living and the dead.

These alignments attempt to establish equivalences between two or more polymer structures based on their shape and three - dimensional conformation.

Superconductivity is characterised by the way the electrons interact: within a superconductor electrons form pairs, and the spin alignment between the electrons of a pair may be different depending on the type — or «symmetry» — of superconductivity involved.

Instead of focusing on the negative, Europe should play to its strengths and preserve its diversity of approaches rather than seeking alignment between countries.

«In our new study we're using microwaves to match the energy between electrons and carbon - 13 nuclei rather than a magnetic field, which removes some difficult restrictions on the strength and alignment of the magnetic field and makes our technique more easy to use,» says King.

«So our preferred explanation for this continuous layer is that we're seeing mineral alignment on the shear zone between these two plates.»

The Bikram series focuses on spinal integrity and alignment, which ultimately helps to remove irritation to the neurological communication between your brain and your body.

To correct your sleeping position, try sleeping on the side with a pillow between the legs for better support and to achieve a more natural alignment of the body.

Building on this we'll investigate the intimate relationship between the «mobility - designed» hip joint, and the «stability - designed» sacroiliac joint and how these structures can be affected by common yet misguided alignment cues and «hip - opening» strategies.

In a person with text book alignment, the head will be between the upper arms — but of course, exact placement of the neck will depend on your specific anatomy.

Different levels of joint alignment and tension in the tissue between sides commonly occur through the numerous ways we place physical stress on the body from work, sports, travel, etc.; they all have an effect.

I draw on my experiences in ballet and Bharatnatyam dance to create fun transitions between poses, graceful yet energetic flowing, and a focus on strength and alignment.

That there's fun to be had in trying to find alignments between this film and the 1979 original equates to little more than a cherry on top.

Finally, alignment between the Council and the Center's JPB Research Network on Toxic Stress, is aimed at connecting the JPB Network's original research agenda with the Council's «knowledge synthesis and translation» agenda.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

Quality Matters (QM) is an organization that has done extensive research on alignment, the direct correlation between course / lesson objectives and the activities and materials / resources that support success in demonstrating accomplishment of those objectives through the assessments.

On language arts and reading, comparison with standards from Ontario, Finland, Sweden, and New Zealand yielded alignments between 0.09 and 0.37.

If we focus only on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a high degree of alignment between achievement and attainment outcomes.

The project team will utilize meta - analytic techniques to estimate the impact of STEM teacher professional development and novel curriculum materials on student outcomes, and analyze the relationships between program effectiveness and key moderators identified in the literature, such as duration, intensity, format, grade and disciplinary topic, and alignment with NCTM / NSTA standards.

Webinar Recording: Bridging the Gap Between Afterschool and Workforce This webinar focused on two new papers: Afterschool and Workforce: Opportunities for System - Level Alignment, a white paper released by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and Building Workforce Skills in Afterschool, an issue brief released by Afterschool Alliance.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

His recent research and publication interests have focused on the relationship between English language proficiency and content assessments, standards alignment, policy issues associated with Title III accountability, and applying growth modeling techniques to address key educational questions for English language learners.

The Wallace Foundation describes this as «alignment between all adults in the building to consistently execute, day in and day out, on the concrete actions needed to instill a new culture.»

Increased alignment between K - 12 and postsecondary institutions based on the more rigorous content and practices of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

But I have been deeply involved in efforts to create greater academic alignment between K - 12 and higher education for almost a decade — first at the American Council on Education (ACE) and now at the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium — and I see more reasons for optimism than pessimism.

«I do think we are still in a space of trying to do the research... as these systems are being implemented, making sure that we are following up on things like alignment between the different measures,» said Laura Goe, a research scientist in the Learning and Teacher Research Center of the N.J. - based Educational Testing Service.

A short overview of the research on the growing dual - language learner population and its implications for policy and practice, with a focus on language and literacy development, early childhood classroom practices, and alignment between early childhood and the later grades — from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

Taking Steps Toward PK - 3 Success offers National Education Association (NEA) affiliates specific advice on state and district policies addressing class size, supporting full - day Prekindergarten and Kindergarten programs, promoting high quality teachers, targeting professional development to improve PreK - 3rd practice, clarifying the role of para-educators (especially in support of bilingual and bicultural children), and providing for adequate planning time for teachers within grades and between grades to develop integrated and coherent programs and practices throughout the age span (alignment).

Leveraging ESSA: Shining a Spotlight on K - 12 and Higher Ed Alignment In this brief by the Education Strategy Group, Every Student Succeeds Act plans from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are compared in terms of how states are working to better align strategies between the K - 12 and higher education sectors to make college and career readiness a priority in order for students to better transition to postsecondary education.

Misalignment or lack of alignment between a strategic plan and additional initiatives (such as the three levers) not in the plan can lead to confusion among staff, extra burdens on teachers as priorities may conflict, questions from school boards about approving funding for initiatives that are not clearly aligned to strategic goals and initiatives, and ultimately lack of progress towards student achievement.

Many states struggle with lack of alignment between how principals are trained, how their jobs are defined, what the job actually entails and how principals are assessed on the job.