"To sustain these improvements" means to maintain or continue the progress or positive changes that have been made. It implies keeping things at a good level or progressing further without going back to the previous or worse state.
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This must not only continue to address the need for
sustained improvement in health services, but also consider the education of children in schools and adults in their workplaces and communities.
14 national teaching awards have followed plus a place in the top 100 schools list
for sustained improvement from 2008 to 2012.
The most important thing of all here is that people who show improvement
show sustained improvement as long as they stick to their program.
Even those that are fully implemented often fail to
sustain improvements because the schools are embedded in systems that face multiple challenges.
«Building respectful and trusting relationships with Indigenous communities» is one of five common elements identified for achieving
sustained improvements in Indigenous student outcomes.
Schools and jurisdictions that have
achieved sustained improvements for Indigenous students have pursued consistent objectives for at least a 10 year period.
«The Committee remains concerned that, without sufficient policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to
generate sustained improvement in labor market conditions,» the Federal Open Market Committee's statement said.
Results showed that adolescents receiving MI showed a quicker reduction in internalizing and externalizing behaviors but also a quicker increase in these behaviors compared to adolescents receiving EBFT, who continued to show
sustained improvements at 24 months.
A comprehensive evaluation of the cleanyourhands campaign has shown that this important intervention has
produced sustained improvements in hand hygiene over time.
One of 22 Comprehensive Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) will strengthen the capacity of State Education Agencies (SEAs) to
lead sustained improvements in early learning opportunities and outcomes.
Other challenges include finding and retaining staff in low - performing schools, staffing shortages in state education agencies that limit the ability to provide the schools with necessary support, and
sustaining improvement efforts after the grants run out.
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Without sustained improvement, and without the ability to play a full 60 minutes at a high level, they will in no way be a favorite to beat two top - four teams in the College Football Playoff and win the national title.
In a new article for Education Next, Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education argues that, similarly, education research must make a fundamental shift toward small - scale, district - level intervention studies in order to
support sustained improvement in student achievement.
That new mindset must include supporting teacher collaboration, establishing clarity of purpose, providing ongoing feedback, creating conditions that allow educators to succeed, and
sustaining improvement through the PLC process.
Using boot camp techniques and structure at home The reason that residential care has been primarily replaced by home - based services is because the best and
most sustained improvements are made in the home with the whole family's involvement.
NASUWT: Coalition's claim of increasing university places «risible» Commenting on the A-level results, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Once again the hard work and commitment of young people and their teachers has
secured sustained improvements in the results overall, building on the rising standards of achievement over the last decade.
He said that while Britain's schools have improved on the low standards of the early 1990s, «real barriers to further progress» have emerged which are
preventing sustained improvement today.
Murray explained that parents not only
reported sustained improvements for their children's ADHD behaviors, but also for their social skills and interactions with peers.
«I found that mitigation of these 17 tsunamis was rather erratic — there is
not sustained improvement with time, nor a clear correlation of the wisdom index with the geographic location of the tsunami source.»
In open - label studies treating patients for up to 3 years, some
patients sustained improvements in milestones at ages when they would otherwise be lost.1, 2
OECD Director of Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher says Indigenous students face tough challenges in most education systems, but analysis of outcomes in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia
reveals sustained improvements have been achieved through focusing on several or all of six areas.
In the process, they are increasing their own capacity to make and
sustain improvements within their schools using a sequence of steps drawn from improvement science methodology: define and learn more about the focus problem, pilot a small change in iterative cycles, and collect and reflect on data from the experience.
«Our ambition remains for all schools to become academies with more schools joining multi-academy trusts - our evidence shows this is the best way to bring
about sustained improvement.»
The report How the World's Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better analyzed school systems in 20 diverse countries that
experienced sustained improvement (Mourshed, Chijioke, & Barber, 2010).
The Office of School Improvement has developed materials to help schools prepare for the journey of school improvement, identify components of an effective improvement process, and provide strategies to
help sustain improvement efforts.
She says: «The decision was finely balanced but my conclusion was that not levying a penalty was appropriate in the circumstances to reward the effort made and to
incentivise sustained improvement.»
This robust, internationally - recognised tool brings unrivalled insights into personality and behaviour and is the most comprehensive system for
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