Sentences with phrase «such sustained efforts»

As Darling - Hammond et al. (2009) argue: «The duration of professional development appears to be associated with stronger impact on teachers and student learning — in part, perhaps, because such sustained efforts typically include applications to practice, often supported by study groups and / or coaching.»

Not exact matches

Their underlying assumption was that such efforts will only be sustained if they are also profitable.

This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking, as too many levers must float in your favor — such as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.

Whitehead reminded us that «The importance of philosophy lies in its sustained effort to make such schemes explicit, and thereby capable of criticism and improvement» (PR xiv, x).

More important, Nietzsche underrates the courage required to make even the effort to sustain moral commitment on such terms.

He noted that the UN had, over the years, been providing critical support to the Commission in its effort to introduce and sustain reforms of the electoral system, through agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.

«Active and direct management, perhaps in the form of sustained culling, appears to be essential to curbing local lionfish abundance and efforts to promote such activities should be encouraged,» the study concluded.

Therefore, Barrett says, a willingness to take on tasks that require sustained effort — such as learning a new language — may be a trait that super agers share.

What's more, the phosphocreatine system can provide energy for 15 seconds of sustained effort such as holding a static pose and that system can be recharged by mitochondrial oxidation of fat.

The hope is that if enough of these efforts show sustained results, funding priorities may change, and programs such as Quiet Time could find a place next to blended learning, English - language learning, and other strategies that make a substantive difference for students who face a steeper path to success.

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

The O'Farrell Charter School's academic and extracurricular programs draw on the sustained efforts of motivated students, a talented and well - prepared faculty, and the ongoing commitment of supportive parents or guardians - all committed to the FALCON Way - such that all students are empowered to become critical learners and thinkers, and responsible, contributing citizens.

Instead, he said that what works for such troubled schools is intensely local efforts over a sustained period involving a variety of community stakeholders, such as institutes of higher education, parents, and school boards.

Engaged students more often show behavioral traits such as persistence, effort, sustained attention to tasks and a greater propensity to take on challenges and achieve mastery (National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, 2004).

Such efforts can create a space to discuss and name whiteness as a set of blinders and open possibilities for sustained dialogue to understand the ways we are complicit in the underachievement of some of our students.

But I never had the time to refine such tools or sustain the effort.

That the threat posed by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities is sufficient to justify a concerted, sustained effort to curb, and eventually deeply cut, such emissions.

The likely problem is that getting together the key government research managers across such a wide range of disciplines is very difficult — it is very hard for them to find the time and sustain their interest and efforts in creating such broad - based programs given their responsibilities to make much larger, narrower efforts work.

I believe myself that civilization would break down, and we would become unable to sustain such efforts, if large releases occur.

That is, there is still a fair chance that we can «hold the 2 °C line», if strong mitigation of greenhouse gases is combined with the following three actions: (i) a slow, rather than instant, elimination of aerosol cooling, (ii) a directed effort to first remove warming aerosols like black carbon, and (iii) a concerted and sustained programme, over this century, to draw - down excessive CO2 (geo - and bio-engineering) and simultaneously reduce non-CO2 forcings, such that the final equilibrium temperature rise will be lower than would otherwise be expected on the basis of current concentrations.

Aware of how difficult it can be to sustain such effort, he said he remains impressed of how the Stoneman Douglas students and those nationally have not backed down in their demands for gun control and greater school safety.

Often avoids or strongly dislikes tasks (such as schoolwork or homework) that require sustained mental effort

We include in this category those general and specific beliefs that serve as a basis for hope and that sustain coping efforts in the face of the most adverse condition... Hope can exist only when such beliefs make a positive outcome seem possible, if not probable.

Panelists will discuss the factors that guided their initial investments in universal efforts; the extent to which such investments have impacted new parent populations and community systems; and options available for sustaining such efforts over time.

Panelists will discuss the factors which guided their initial investments in universal efforts; the extent to which such investments have impacted new parent populations and community systems; and options available for sustaining such efforts over time.

Bring in new programs to meet families» needs and work on sustaining and aligning these programs with state - level home visiting efforts if the local Project LAUNCH community has no home visiting services or inadequate access to such services.

Approach emotions (i.e., interest, smiling, joy, and anger) are related to positive aspects of behaviours, such as sustained efforts when minor difficulties are encountered, and they predict emotional competence in children.