Sentences with phrase «point about achievements»

I really loved her point about achievement, sometimes it's not about marking life with checkpoints and milestones but enjoying it for what it is and celebrating those little everyday triumphs.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

Key points about your background, experience, and achievements may go on one page, questions for the interview on another... but then place those notes in such a way that you won't be heard shuffling through papers.

«Trying to analyze my professional path like a «web site performance» has been hard but helpful to get an objective point of view about current achievements and future goals.»

Without taking the time to think carefully about where your notions of achievement and purpose come from and what success means to you, you're in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the point of life is something you actually don't value much at all.

A press release should always prioritize the news angle — the main point of a PR after all is to tell the press about an achievement they should take note of.

Don't boast about your possessions or your achievements — there's bound to be a Freudian in the room who'll point out that you are displacing your desire for something more significant in the way of bodily attributes or fulfilling relationships.

about the eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of salvation today.

The author seems to take great pleasure in telling us about Arsenal's great achievements so far — fifth round of the cup, only two points off the top and another fantastic European campaign, qualifying for the last 16 yet again!

To the point it nearly took away the massive feeling of achievement and what football should be about.

In a secondary analysis, the NSLY found that the achievement scores of children breastfed for at least 29 weeks were 1.5 points higher than those of children never breastfed (P =.01), but the authors considered their data about breastfeeding duration «less reliable» than data about whether a child was ever breastfed.

SED found the achievement gap stands at about 20 percentage points, though it has been narrowed slightly over the last two years.

The groups, including High Achievement New York, point to a report that found up to $ 5 billion education funding would be in peril annually — about $ 2,000 per student.

About a 30 % increase in average expenditure per pupil (over four years, between age seven and 11) is expected to produce an increase in achievement of a level equivalent to 25 - 30 points on the PISA scale.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

So, # 25 or thereabouts for some reasonably entertaining times (and a few real stand - out sequences) over about 10 hours, 500 or so easy Achievement Points, and that's about it.

Those that care about their Gamerscore / Achievements will be in for a treat, with many of the games 42 achievements, worth jAchievements will be in for a treat, with many of the games 42 achievements, worth jachievements, worth just 1 point.

Thanks to reader Micah for pointing me to this NPR interview with Andy Serkis, which offers a nice nugget to dovetail with this morning's post about Oscar - worthiness and the potential for a Special Achievement Award for the actor's work in «Rise of the Planet of the Apes.»

Yes, that tight - knit squad enjoyed unparalleled success on the court, including the national championship title, but this moving documentary focuses as much on their achievements away from the sport to drive home more important points about the value of loyalty, persistence and integrity in overcoming any adversity.

Life is about small milestones, no matter what age you are, and Lady Bird relishes the achievement experienced checking off boxes that at one point posed such significant meaning to us all.

He says NAPLAN provides an external, national reference point to assist teachers to make judgements about student achievement and where they can do better.

CASEL reports: «A landmark review found that students who receive SEL instruction had more positive attitudes about school and improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests compared to students who did not receive such instruction.»

In addition to clarity about student knowledge and achievement, you should have a clear sense of the behavior you expect at each point in the class period.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

Now, perhaps we should be worried about the six estimates in ELA and seven in math where achievement and high school graduation outcomes pointed in opposite direction.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

School trips can provide the stimulus for weeks of work for which the pupils have a real and personal reference point for their learning journey and upon which to reflect about themselves and their achievements.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

By the second year of implementation, performance bonuses improved reading and math achievement by 1 to 2 percentile points — the equivalent of about four weeks of additional learning.

Many studies, including the AFT one, are inherently suspect, inasmuch as they look only at student achievement levels at a single point in time, thereby telling us little or nothing about how much pupils are learning.

In the years immediately following the No Child Left Behind Act (2002 to 2005), about half of all states improved their average fourth grade math achievement on NAEP at a rate faster than.08 standard deviations per year (which translates to 2.3 NAEP points).

New understandings about how people learn point the way to developing more effective educational environments and instructional processes to enhance the academic achievement of all students.

Thursday's LA Times editorial about the use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations around the country (Bill Gates» warning on test scores) makes some valuable points about the dangers of rushed, half - baked teacher evaluation schemes that count test scores as more than half of a teacher's evaluation (as is being done in some states and districts)...

Proficiency is about a specific level of achievement at a specific point in time.

In particular, it is about achievement that is considered «good enough» at that point in time.

When asked about the problems associated with standardized testing — cheating, overtesting, blunt measures of student achievement — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan often points to a duo of «next - generation assessments» funded by federal money.

While these achievement levels can serve as a starting point for discussion about the performance of students and of groups of students, they will be criticized as an oversimplification.

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

Growth modeling refers to analytical methods used to make evaluative claims about the effectiveness of teachers or schools through aggregation and statistical modeling of student achievement data obtained at multiple points in time.

«As soon as I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schools.

Authorized by NAEP legislation and adopted by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), the three achievement levels are determined by cut points based on the collective judgments of experts about what students should know and be able to do.

Teachers design their instruction to yield evidence about student achievement; for example, they carefully craft hinge - point questions to create «moments of contingency,» in which the direction of the instruction will depend on student responses.

Achievement gaps between white and black or Hispanic students have narrowed somewhat since 2003, but white proficiency rates still run about 65 percentage points above black proficiency rates, and 53 to 61 percentage points above Hispanic rates.

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.

But a genuine interest in the task — or excitement about the whole idea of learning — often begins to evaporate as soon as achievement becomes the main point.»

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

Overall reading achievement was down about 1 percentage point from last year, but was slightly higher than the 2005 - 06 school year.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

A landmark review found that students who receive SEL instruction had more positive attitudes about school and improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests compared to students who did not receive such instruction.

Studies so far tell us that we can expect the «better» teacher's students to score about 6 percentile points higher, on average, on a standardized achievement test than the students of the «worse» teacher.