Sentences with phrase «requires focused effort»

Due to increasing complexity and length of annual and quarterly financial reports, meeting these criteria requires a focused effort and, perhaps, significant changes in the way research is created by most firms.

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It's no secret that a tremendous amount of pre-planning is required, but are your efforts focused on the right areas of your business?

In the report, Howard Maker, CCTS Commissioner and CEO, singled out Rogers for its focus on customer service, specifically noting, «we applaud Rogers for the time and effort it has invested in working with CCTS to reduce the number of customer interactions that require recourse to CCTS, thus improving the customer experience for its subscribers.

The 2018 report focuses on the renewed efforts required to ensure four of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals do not miss their 2030 targets.

Even the right path full of shitty obstacles and requires constant focus and effort.

If your talents are more in ecommerce marketing and less in customer or post-sale support efforts, then you might be fine focusing on products that require less repeat purchase volume from the same customer base.

We must focus on the important stuff such as liquid, food that does not require cooking, plus some protein, but nothing that involves much effort or dedication in the kitchen.

Early breastfeeding requires more focus, more effort, more hands on, more «props» than the later, easy, multitasking breastfeeding that is to come.

The Council Finance Committee chairman cited Superstorm Sandy as a factor in his decision, noting parts of his district (which includes Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Gravesend, and Sea Gate) were impacted and require «renewed focus and energy towards the recovery and rebuilding efforts.»

It is voluntary, it does require assisting in engagement and a very focused effort,» Ms. Olatoye said.

Mainly, routine things need to be streamlined so they don't require extra resources and effort or time, so we can focus on frontier research and breakthroughs.

For a long time, brain scientists believed that maintaining focus in these situations required a cascade of mental events: momentary distraction, followed by the realization that our attention has been diverted and a conscious effort to bring it back on the task at hand.

Focusing on a single line of argument or thought requires deliberate, laborious and conscious effort from which we flee.

Study authors suggest that breaking the cycle of transmission of drug - resistant TB requires a greater focus on infection control efforts — while also maintaining global programs to quickly detect and effectively treat all people with TB.

One way to conceptualize these systems is to think of the processes involved in driving a car: the novice needs to rely on controlled processing, requiring focused concentration on a sequence of operations that require mental effort and are easily disrupted by any distractions.

We focus spectroscopic efforts on under - sampled regions of galaxy color space identified in previous work in order to minimize the number of spectroscopic redshifts needed to map the color - redshift relation to the required accuracy.

But the reality is that making friends requires the same amount of time, focus, scrutiny, and effort as building a business or finding a husband.

5 is a scattered energy so extra effort is required to remain focused, grounded, and stable.

Once I noticed the resource require I was able to focus my efforts on collecting that resource and I was able to travel much further.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

But Julie Corbett of Mass Insight Education, a nonprofit that focuses on school - turnaround efforts, says actually turning around a failing school requires comprehensive, sustainable planning and a willingness to look for outside help.

In exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performance.

Schools should focus teacher evaluation and feedback efforts on the specific instructional changes required for the gap standards.

DeVos's opponents could refocus their efforts toward fighting to protect funding for these programs, but doing so will require focusing on Congress, which controls the purse strings, rather than the secretary.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

Submit a written reflection that requires you to analyze the connections and patterns among the first three components, focusing on challenges encountered as well as plans for continued professional growth and efforts to impact student learning.

Focusing on improving academics requires volunteers to work closely with teachers and administrators to make sure efforts are honing in on specific academic needs.

Instead it is a process that requires a sustained focus and team effort.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Instructional leadership requires principals to free themselves of bureaucratic tasks and focus their efforts on improving teaching and learning.

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

Building on these best practices, CAP recommends that states and districts focus their efforts on nine critical steps required to effectively translate standards into high - quality instruction.

While such partnerships require time; commitment; and systematic, intentional, results - focused efforts, they can also eliminate inefficient institutional siloing, unnecessary competition, and contentious thinking.

Another major lesson learned is that it can never be assumed that knowledge will automatically flow through a professional learning community or a school; this is something that requires explicit attention, focus, and considerable effort.

This is the third in a series of articles about transforming schools through improvement efforts and focuses on the culture shift required to engage the school community, rally them around a clear and compelling improvement strategy, and catalyze transformation..

We believe achieving these overarching goals requires us to focus our efforts in three distinct ways:

While other systems are focused on quick - fixes, Indistar acknowledges the ongoing efforts and support required to maintain measurable success.

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

While much of the ensuing discussion rightly only focuses on certain areas of Title I funding (required by the law on assessment issues) and language on whether to supplement or supplant funding, NAESP is working in tandem with these efforts to influence the USED's actions on Title II funding related to comprehensive state and local support for principals.

The initial readiness impulse could be more focused, the deceleration that follows is consistent if not exactly fierce, and the final few feet prior to standstill require rather too much pedal effort.

The effort level required by the steering and brakes is on the firmer side, yet there's lots of feedback to the driver, which makes the Focus more interesting to drive than most of its rivals.

Behaving as a support system, tools like Classroom aim to minimize the administrative effort required by teachers so they can focus more on educating their students instead of pushing paper.

Difficult assignments require all your attention and efforts but sometimes you just can't stay focused due to some external and internal irritants.

Besides it requiring extensive knowledge on the subject and particular field, it requires effort, focus and extensive research.

Why less is more — Todd at Aridni discusses why buying stocks with only a small amount of money requires you to focus your efforts and can help your learn to be a better investor.

The further emphasis we've placed on strategic ways to combine SMI's investing strategies, such as the 50-40-10 approach that invests half of a portfolio in DAA, 40 % in Fund Upgrading, and 10 % in Sector Rotation, has been a focused effort to position SMI members in «all weather» portfolios that can withstand the rigors of a bear market without requiring any type of tinkering or adjustment.

Focusing existing fund - raising efforts on TAF is the obvious strategy here — so what new resources are required to increase AUM?

After finally completing his veterinary training, an 11 year process, Dr. House is now happy to focus his efforts on helping small animals who require surgery treatment, and putting his outside efforts into his family.

It may take longer and require more focused effort to get him comfortable with things, but it can definitely be done.