Sentences with phrase «standards as the guide»

States and districts have always created their own curricula and reading lists using their state standards as the guide.

Using state standards as a guide can make integrated curricula purposeful and relevant and can increase student achievement while also being creative, innovative, and interesting for students (Drake and Burns, 2004).

And teachers who themselves are math experts may well be able to piece together a coherent program that meets their students» needs using the standards as their guide.

Teachers and curriculum designers are encouraged first to establish their program frameworks using the social studies standards as a guide, and then to use the standards from history, geography, civics, economics, and others to guide the development of grade level strands and courses.

Using standards as the guide, the lessons can be both purposeful and relevant.

Teachers are well - trained and well - compensated and, as a result, are expected to create their own lessons using best practices and the learning outcomes set by standards as guiding principles; additionally, teachers in DoD schools frequently collaborate with other teachers (C. Smrekar et al., 2001).

Fire Safety Evaluation: Visual evaluation, using Firewise standards as a guide in the urban wildland interface.

However, as the chosen architecture firm Thorne Wyness has significant expertise in passive house design, it made sense to use the standard as a guide.

In the February 2nd keynote panel discussion («How Is Technology Used in Today's Courtrooms and Cases»), judges recommended that lawyers find the right balance in their eDiscovery requests, using the new proportionality standard as a guiding principle.

And many firms, desiring to be certified, are setting internal targets and reinvigorating efforts to empower and advance women, using the WILEF standards as their guide.

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In 1991, it became the first U.S. company to officially adopt theTransFair internationally recognized standards of fair trade as guiding principles for itsbusiness.

«We should all be guided by the principle that any American who wants to serve our country and is able to meet the standards should have the opportunity to do so — and should be treated as the patriots they are.»

Using that figure as your guide, plan on having double the amount of money you have today to maintain the same standard of living in 20 years.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

He failed to acknowledge that the entire purpose of the Church's principles on issues such as the end of life is to create a standard of conduct clear enough to guide believers through their most trying challenges.

As New Urbanists came to realize that existing zoning ordinances, street design manuals and housing industry practices were all impediments to making traditional towns and neighborhoods, they began developing new kinds of zoning ordinances; found sympathetic traffic engineers to help write a different set of street design standards; renewed the practice of creating high - quality pattern books to guide home - builders; and learned how to persuade lending institutions of the economic advantages of financing traditional neighborhoods.

What makes an inquiry into Christian witness Christian theology is that it is guided by an interest to judge that witness «by the standards which pertain to it precisely as Christian witness....

The American romance with science means that, as Kass writes, «we adhere more and more to the scientific view of nature and man, which both gives us enormous power and, at the same time, denies all possibilities of standards to guide its use.»

Monster: The one you spelled out is this «Once I understood the Bible was not a good guide for morality, all of the arguments that were offered up as explanations or excuses for a book that is certainly evil by modern, civilized standards no longer held water.»

Moreover, the results seem compatible with the hypothesis that religious values serve more as standards for condemning others or as standards to rationalize one's own self pursuits than as standards to judge oneself by or to guide one's own conduct.

Do they guide social action and foster a concern for the well - being of others or are they used as standards to rationalize self - preoccupation, a withdrawal from worldly concerns or an indifference to the plight of others?

Christian moral standards were no longer publicly claimed as guides for conduct; the honor system was abandoned.

The result of the task force was the development of two practical tools: The Guide for Assessing Equivalence of Standards and Technical Regulations (EquiTool) and the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) which can be used by any government or private sector organic label scheme for recognizing other organic standards and certification performance requirements as equivalent to their own.

Find details for upcoming and past webinars as well as short video clips that will guide you through the business case for measuring food loss and waste, how to describe the scope of an inventory using the FLW Standard, and what's included in the FLW Standard.

B Lab is a global non-profit organisation that sets and raises business standards to inspire and guide corporations to act as a force for good in the world, -LSB-...]

We guide you through the increasing complexity of organic standards and regulations, and promote alternatives such as Participatory Guarantee Systems that are adapted to the diverse needs of organic farmers.

Composed as inter-connected ethical principles to inspire the organic movement — in its full diversity, they guide our development of positions, programs and standards.

Kohl Wholesale provides an ever changing smart snack guide as well as a rotating 2 week breakfast and 6 week lunch cycle that meet the USDA nutrition standards.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

As reported by the Evening Standard this week, Paul Doswell has declared that his hopes of guiding the National League team to one of the biggest ever upsets in the tournament's long history will be almost zero if Arsene Wenger decides to name his strongest Arsenal XI on Monday evening.

The Scot raised everyone's expectations as well as the overall perception of Birmingham City when guiding the Blues to a top - ten finish in only their first season back in the top - flight, this not long after Carson Yeung bought the club in 2007, a manager who we believe has very high standards and demands which he expects McLeish and his players to uphold.

A mid-table finish would appear the likely destination of Fulham at the end of the season, with the Cottagers neither here nor there with regards to standard of their performances, while early results would indicate that Mark Hughes, despite doing his best to retain Fulham's dogged qualities which were instilled by former boss Roy Hodgson, who was undoubtedly the most successful manager the club ever had in the Premier League, that Fulham will struggle to win matches this season let alone the hearts of the entire nation as they did last season when Hodgson guided an average English team to the finals of the Europa League to the amazement of a nation and a continent.

Clinical psychologist and mindfulness instructor Inga Bohnekamp defines mindfulness in this API post as «presence of heart» and mindful parenting as «parenting from the depths of our hearts,» rather than letting us be guided by a set of pre-fixed, often unreflected, standards or rules about what is right and wrong.

But according to information gathered, the show's production team deemed Nana Boakye as below the standard of discussants on the the show which included regular panelist, Managing Editor of the Crusading Guide, Abdul - Malik Kweku Baako; former Deputy Attorney General and Member of Parliament for Bolga East, Dr Dominic Ayine; and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Ghana, Dr Eric Oduro Osae.

Aesthetics is the most reliable guide as we seek a more complete theory of matter beyond the standard model, argues Frank Wilczek

But with standard 2D images as a guide, doctors now can build a detailed 3D model of the heart from various materials, such as plaster or ceramic, to reveal even the most complicated structural abnormalities.

Soo and colleagues enrolled 121 women undergoing breast cancer diagnosis at Duke and randomly assigned them to receive one of three approaches as they underwent stereotactic and ultrasound - guided biopsy: a recorded meditation, music, or standard care with a technologist offering casual conversation and support.

MD Anderson is working closely with Guardant to expand a highly specialized CLIA - accredited lab (CLIA labs comply with federal standards known as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments that regulate all clinical laboratory testing on humans), and pre-CLIA labs, where Guardant's digital sequencing technology will be used to create disease - specific assays that will be transferred for use in the CLIA - accredited lab to help detect cancers early and guide treatment.

The methodologies in the field guide are consistent with international standards as related to guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and relevant sourcebooks (The IPCC recently developed the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands).

In Germany, where integrative medicine is practiced as the standard of care, chasteberry is approved for menstrual irregularity, PMS, and breast pain.10 Blumenthal M., et al. «The Complete German E Commission monographs: therapeutic guide to herbal medicine.»

These are standard yoga texts that you may already own and will serve as reference guides for the training.

Once I was happy with print placement, I pinned it in place on my dress form and, using the edge of the zigzag stitch as a guide, stitched the overlays onto the base dress with a standard straight stitch.

I had to be careful with the sizing as Yoins has a standard size guide on the website but individual items vary in their sizing.

The packaging is a pretty standard keepcase and inside a four page DVD Guide can be found, highlighting some of the bonus features as well as advertising upcoming releases of National Treasure and Finding Neverland.

Eighth - grade groups created mini-documentaries about their interpretation of a time period in the 1800s, using state standards as the content guide and presenting their completed work in a public event.

This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as exponent and radical • Exercises that allow students to practice using the properties of exponents to rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one short answer question • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as confusing the radical symbol and the long - division symbol • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

-- Journalism / English: Present the story of eco-tourism, as seen through the eyes of nature guides and caretakers, and develop ideas to determine if the culture of the Kichwa has been changed for the better (more economic determinism) or the worse (degrading of cultural standards) by eco-tourism.

During his two years as commissioner, Steiner helped New York develop tougher standards and guided the state to a successful Race to the Top round two victory.

was at long last being asked in earnest, the worst of these critics used it as an excuse for bombast and dark mutterings while the best sat idly by, carping on the standards rather than using the occasion to guide thoughtful implementation.

The National Board's standards of good teaching practice guided the work of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) as it began to develop a set of prototype standards for teacher licensure.