Sentences with phrase «on meaningful performance»

Learn how Perform can help you develop actionable teacher growth plans based on meaningful performance evidence.

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Comments: «In 2013, it will likely be the change in valuation that drives most of the performance of stocks, and the sentiment shift and willingness to take on risk reflected in that movement will be meaningful for bonds as well.

Though it is way too soon for this brand of conjecture regarding AAPL's performance, some may find it meaningful that after hitting an all - time high of $ 133.60 in late February (not reflected on the most recent report), the stock has flagged a bit since the Dow announcement.

The CNGC, via the CD&A s included in the Company's annual proxy statements, also already reports to shareholders on an annual basis regarding the relationship between our incentive compensation programs and the Company's ROI performance and how the Company's ROI performance may have a meaningful impact on the amount of compensation our NEOs receive.

We build focused funds from a select list of eligible securities to allow our best ideas to have a meaningful impact on fund performance.

We want our best investment ideas to have a meaningful impact on performance.

He did nothing meaningful other than the left foot which he was no where to be found when we play properly drilled defensive team.we have better all round players at the left wing and even cazorla and sanchez are miles ahead of him behind the striker.he should on his futbol instead of painting wenger as a bad person.when he was pumping the goals in from the left, he was never dropped but got dropped when his performance was deteriorating bar his occassional screamers.

Based on the belief that learning must be personally meaningful rather than performance - driven, the Waldorf curriculum harmonizes with children's developmental phases and needs.

«The mark of a good university is not about the great performance on campuses, but its ability to transform people and institutions outside for meaningful development,» he said.

On the Senate floor Thursday, Senator Chris Murphy, D - Conn., was highly critical of President Donald Trump and Republicans who control the House and Senate for their performances in trying to abolish Obamacare and come up with a meaningful replacement.

Provide meaningful feedback on hand hygiene performance with clear targets and an action plan for improving adherence.

«Their point is that the average performance of U.S. students on these comparative international tests is not a meaningful number,» Teitelbaum says.

As it's always been, American Horror Story is more of a showcase of fine actors going H.A.M. on crazy characters than it is a narrative achievement, eliciting performances that are far more engrossing and meaningful than the show's often nonsensical and disappointing plot.

Full disclosure on performance is the only way to ensure meaningful accountability.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

But because student - performance data on the state's standardized science exam indicated that our students did not understand these subject areas in a deep and meaningful way, the teachers decided to use a new approach: They chose to embrace a project - learning strategy to connect science and colonial history through a local historic site that dates back to the 1640s, the Saugus Iron Works.

This is clearly an important dimension of any performance management system, and one would not expect either a principal - based or a test - based assessment system to have a substantial impact on student outcomes unless it were accompanied by meaningful consequences.

Meaningful feedback is a very important part of any learning environment, allowing learners to monitor and track their performance, while making sure they're on the right path towards their goals.

Marshalling a vast array of data and summarizing the relevant literature, he makes a compelling case that nothing that we have done, to date, has had a meaningful, system - wide positive impact on urban schools» performance.

In fact, many employees feel that their immediate managers do not have the skills required to manage people properly: Provide meaningful and constructive feedback on performance, suggest improvements, recognize their contribution, and help them relate to the corporate culture.

For example, consideration could be given to providing opportunities for students to work collaboratively on meaningful, complex problems that require the application of learning from a number of disciplines, and then using performances on these cross-disciplinary problems as sources of information about the development of students» general capabilities.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

«A State must define annual meaningful differentiation in a manner that... [r] esults in a single rating from among at least three distinct rating categories for each school, based on a school's level of performance on each indicator, to describe a school's summative performance....»

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So, portfolios are frequently included with other types of authentic assessments because they move away from telling a student's story though test scores and, instead, focus on a meaningful collection of student performance and meaningful reflection and evaluation of that work.

Our findings suggest that the value - added model estimates provide meaningful information on teacher and school performance.

Osborne explains that chartering blends parental choice, school - level autonomy, and meaningful accountability in a way that produces school diversity, empowers educators and families, fosters entrepreneurialism, and maintains the system's focus on student performance.

But it does seek to make certification meaningful by building exacting standards into the process, standards that rely on evidence of knowledge and performance rather than a checklist of courses taken.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

Shining light on meaningful and accessible performance indicators is crucial for public accountability, and good decision - making by families.

These systems also require that all teachers and principals receive robust, timely, and meaningful feedback on their performance and support in order to inform and improve instruction so that all students meet the expectations of new CCR standards.

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Schools, districts, and states gain the potential for better selectivity, recruitment, and retention; meaningful contributions from residents; the chance to screen job candidates based on performance; and, for those hired at the school of their residency, continuity from a full year of induction into the school's culture and expectations.

Another teacher at the end of the institute day highlighted the advantage that performance tasks provide to hone in on more meaningful knowledge and skills, «I appreciate the opportunity to assess deeper knowledge as compared to typical standardized testing.»

This page serves as a clearinghouse to support states and other stakeholders as they explore these opportunities and build innovative assessment systems that produce meaningful and timely information on student performance.

Not only will principals finally receive more meaningful feedback on their performance but the union also agreed that student growth data — the major sticking point in the ongoing fight over teacher evaluations — could be one factor on which principals are rated.

The six performance management principles and their accompanying practices in the MSM Field Guide are, however, based on a large supply of case studies from both the private and public sectors, along with professional opinions of practitioners and researchers who have experienced or witnessed meaningful, sustained improvement in performance - driven schools and districts.

There is no way to pay teachers based on performance without the ability to measure that performance in a meaningful way.

Without annual information, from high - quality assessments, on school and district performance, the state and district lack meaningful data to inform and enforce intervention decisions for low - performing schools, essentially putting the most needed interventions on hold for years.

Similarly, the development of 21st century skills is measured by percentage of students passing 3 out of 5 core subjects, which, again is only a meaningful goal if we know that core subject classes are rigorous, providing grade level instruction, and leading to high levels of performance on state standardized tests.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance as required under Stull, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

But perhaps the recommendation that offers the largest shift in the education space, and more broadly, public programs overall, is a call for greater accountability and governance models that focus attention on performance and reward meaningful action over political rhetoric.

It read: «We were therefore mindful of the importance of supporting retention at this stage and of giving schools meaningful scope for differentiated, performance - based awards for those on the maxima of the main pay range.

What: A frank discussion of the unintended consequences of the current No Child Left Behind Act and presentation of the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) recommendations to shift the focus of the federal law from penalties and compliance to a more meaningful framework for supporting improved learning and stronger school and district performance.

Even if states transition to a performance - based assessment, if they fail to set a meaningful cut score and eliminate other duplicative tests, they will inevitably rely on an exam that is insufficiently rigorous and even more costly and time - consuming.

From choir angels and actors, to musicians, narrators and tech crew, our students know how to put on a meaningful holiday performance.

eObservations was founded to provide tools to school administrators that meet teachers» needs to receive meaningful, specific, non-judgmental feedback on their classroom performance.

We need to provide students opportunities to demonstrate rigorous and meaningful transfer goals through performance assessments to see impact on student learning.

The test results on a shorter «snapshot» of student achievement could, then, be put in proper perspective with more meaningful authentic measures of student learning, reflected in daily school performance, portfolio and long - term projects, report card information, graduation rate statistics, and school climate surveys.

Meaningful differentiation refers to the extent to which performance on an indicator adequately sorts school performance along a spectrum.