Sentences with phrase «specific focuses of my practice»

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When you focus and practice a specific skill set long enough, one of the unexpected benefits is you become an unintended expert in spotting those with no skills at all.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

The team comprises regional specialists for the 100 + markets covered by Glass Lewis, as well as experts within Glass Lewis» issue - specific practices focused on the analysis of mergers and acquisitions, other financial transactions and contested meetings; compensation; and environmental, social and governance («ESG») issues.

The negotiations with this party are now focused on the possible acquisition of several specific practice groups within LECG and not an acquisition of the entire firm.

The specific focus is religious practices and Christian engagement during the «Middle Passage,» the horrific middle leg of the slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in slave ships and shipped to the Americas.

An ecumenical hermeneutics is meant to serve the «specific task of focusing on how texts, symbols and practices in the various churches may be interpreted, communicated and mutually received as the churches engage in dialogue.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

FI briefing: Our evidence to the Childhood and Families Taskforce In our evidence to the Coalition Government's Children and Families Taskforce, we demonstrate the relevance of active fatherhood to all these policy issues; and explain how and why the reorienting of children / families policy and practice to include a specific focus on involving fathers is essential if the Coalition is to achieve its aims.

In 2014, MI - AIMH divided into two organizations: MI - AIMH (focused on state efforts) and the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (focused on continued national and international activity specific to global support for use of the MI - AIMH Competency Guidelines ® and the MI - AIMH Endorsement ®, research, and practice).

The focus of this new initiative will be on providing tools, materials, and resources to build a sustainable, hospital - specific training plan aimed at improving knowledge and skills on evidence - based maternity care practices.

The training begins with sedentary mindfulness practice, where participants are instructed to focus on experiences like eating and breathing, but gradually more and more movement is incorporated, culminating in a sport - specific meditation in which athletes or coaches apply a mindful style of attention to their actual sport performance.

These revolve around a daily practice of quiet yet alert sitting and letting the mind settle before embarking on a specific program, such as «focused attention» or the objectless practice of generating a state of «unconditional loving - kindness and compassion.»

It's important to keep this in mind, especially if you happen to attend a class that has a lot of focus on a specific part of the body, like the core or your arms: There are thousands of different Kundalini yoga and meditation practices that were taught by Yogi Bhajan over the years.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

Kevin's recent focus is on specific mindfulness practices to combat the physiological signs of stress.

To open up awareness and experience to the opposites of these characteristics, we need to focus meditative practice within a series of specific steps.

Apart from the practice of general awareness, one can practice specific yogic breathing techniques focused on weight reduction.

«With a specific emphasis on managing mood, Amy's book delivers dynamic insights and yoga - based practices that she has refined over decades of first - hand experience working with clients, students, and therapists, that relax, focus, and reduce the symptoms and causes of anxiety, depression, and stress, as well as prepare the mind and body for the integrative work of psychotherapy.»

Our Astanga - inspired, athletic, vinyasa classes are all building on a theme — every month, we have a specific focus that our teachers use to inspire their sequences — which gives students the chance to learn more about a posture or major tenet of the practice in a uniquely consistent way as each of our teachers approach that focus or theme in his or her own way.

Each session will focus on a specific Chakra and will be a combination of practice and discussion:

Melany strongly believes a healthy body needs a healthy foundation and bases her practice on the concept of bio-individuality, which focuses on each person's specific nutritional needs because those needs are unique.

Overall, similar genomic pattern changes occurred in practitioners of a specific mind body technique (Qi Gong) as well as in our long - term practitioners who utilized different RR practices including Vipassna, mantra, mindfulness or transcendental meditation, breath focus, Kripalu or Kundalini Yoga, and repetitive prayer.

Primary among these practices is a close relationship between teachers with students, a focus on the specific needs of these students, and building in the development of assessment and counseling skills for teachers and principals.

From legislative frameworks to classroom practices, gender - sensitive curricula, sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, and data collection, the new Joint Programme will provide a coordinated and collaborative response to the persistent gender gap in education — with a specific focus on adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24.

Instead, it focuses on three specific challenges that are often encountered when districts, especially small districts, grapple with the costs of their highest - need special - education students, and it makes three recommendations that districts and states could put into practice today, without waiting for reforms or help from Washington, as they seek ways to mitigate those problems:

• The third, Questions / Discussion vs. Standards / Content, measures the difference between a teacher's rating on a single standard that evaluates the use of questions and classroom discussion as an instructional strategy, and that same teacher's average rating on three standards that assess teaching practices that focus on classroom management routines, on conveying standards - based instructional objectives to students, and on demonstrating content - specific knowledge in teaching these objectives.

Finally, the letter contains a significant appendix of «illustrative» specific suggestions for policy and practice that could serve to help states and districts avoid violations, urging schools to reduce the use of suspension and other forms of exclusionary discipline, focusing instead on positive approaches.

Thoughtful and effective policies for developing a professional workforce will have to include a mix of incentives for pre-K teachers that may be different from those designed for teachers in K — 12; provide training that is focused on classroom practices and the specific challenges of teaching young children; and improve the alignment of early childhood education with K — 12.

Each team member focuses on a specific practice based on his or her greatest expertise but also works on projects in which the team's combined expertise is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Narrator: The information gathered through the LoU - focused interview can be used to monitor the progress of an implementation as well as to identify and address problems teachers might have in connecting a specific innovation or standards - based reform with their classroom practices.

Focus on creating content that is relevant and specific to the daily role and tasks of the learner so it can instantly be put into practice rather than remain theoretical.

Many teachers are unaware of the importance of deliberate practice, but once they are shown how the model can support them with its focus on specific areas for growth, they are motivated to try it.»

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.

Janet is currently participating in the Learning Forward Academy program, a 2 1/2 year cohort focused on a specific job embedded problem of practice, in this case, the CAR process.

Drawing from A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera's ASCD book of the same title, the presenters will explore specific practices for maximizing student engagement, and get attendees prepared to use instructional approaches that focus on the assets students bring with them or that create assets for the students to use in the classroom.

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

Both Leithwood and Jantzi (2008), and Fullan (2008) recommend focusing on specific effective instructional practices as a part of the district's improvement process.

Goodwin and Hubbell present 12 daily touchstones — simple and specific things any teacher can do every day — to keep classroom practice focused on the hallmarks of effective instruction and in line with three essential imperatives for teaching:

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

Dr. Kinsella details cross-curricular writing instruction imperatives for educators serving English learners and striving readers, including a focused yet accessible analytic rubric for each assignment, targeted lessons on language and rhetorical devices for specific writing types, explicit analysis of an appropriate writing model, and brief, frequent doses of interactive, teacher - meditated writing practice to build critical competencies for longer, independent assignments.

One specific way to develop a culture of public practice is to create and maintain a year - long professional development calendar based on the use of student data to determine an areas of focus.

At the end of my action research, I was able to support my students» reading skill development through clear and focused instruction, designing meaningful practice, creating formative and summative assessments that provided specific data that informed reteaching, and prioritizing time for my students to reflect and track their own growth.

Educators must be involved in site - based, collaborative learning teams focused on engaging in collegial feedback, implementing specific educational practices related to improving student learning, and engaging in intentional reflection on and adjustment of those practices; and

We have focused this work around «problems of practice», short, six - to eight - weeklong projects that try to take a specific, high - priority instructional issue from initial analysis to implementation and assessment.

Her scholarship focuses on the academic achievement of low - income students and students of color in postsecondary education, with a specific focus on understanding the educational contexts, levers, and practices that promote greater academic success for these students.

Teachers whose practice has been rated at the «proficient» (3) or «distinguished» (4) level of performance on the Comprehensive evaluation are moved to a Focused evaluation for the ensuing three years, where they focus on one specific criterion.

Measures should also include student work drawn from specific undertakings in the classroom that can be analyzed in terms of teachers» practices focused on particular learning goals.

Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education (with a specific focus on the education of Black and Latino males), literacy practices of Black girls, and Black female college reentry students.

iObservation allows teachers to isolate and assess their performance on a specific, targeted instructional strategy, engage in deliberate practice with focused implementation of that strategy, and collect formative student achievement data directly related to their implementation of that strategy.

Teachers in 2015 were more specific in their requests of needing follow - up, in - person, and situated PD support, focusing on just - in - time support in their classrooms to better support their integration of technology into their practices.