Sentences with phrase «turnaround work in»

They found that, with some exceptions, districts and schools in Washington state are approaching the turnaround work in ways only marginally different from past school improvement efforts.

She is currently leading AIR's school turnaround work in Romulus Middle School, Romulus, Michigan.

(In a July 23 letter to education officials, Mr. Cerf noted additional financial support from Startup: Education, a foundation launched by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that is engaged in turnaround work in Newark schools.)

Local school boards, superintendents, and especially communities were not interested in closing schools, and private management companies and charter schools were also not interested in the turnaround work in Florida.

Sam Payne, partner and head of insolvency at Harrison Clark Rickerbys, looks here at the issues facing businesses when problems mount up — the signs of a business in trouble, how well turnarounds work in practice and when management needs to act.

Not exact matches

The system also allows the job to be tracked from acceptance, through production and delivery.CJ King is currently providing door - to - door UK turnaround in four working days on jobs that would normally take two to three weeks in the UK.By implementing a high level of integration and standardisation over the whole prepress, print and finishing process, the company is able to run large jobs over multiple presses achieving identical results, as well as short runs without delays in changeover and make readies.

The company hasn't set any forward - looking goals of where it wants to get to in 2018, but Uber's workplace turnaround is still a work in progress.

In my case, I worked at Apple through the big turnaround on projects like Mac OS X, iMac and more.

Time spent in the trenches of a large scale, high - tech turnaround that married me to my desk night, day and weekends versus a clearly architected lifestyle work environment has produced scars of different shapes and sizes.

In a call with analysts on Wednesday, Weisler said HP's (hpq) third - straight quarter of rising sales shows that the company's turnaround since splitting with data center specialist sibling Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe) is working.

The humble smartphone could throw a wrench in the works of the car sector's post-crisis turnaround.

I would imagine working as a trainer is a bit like being a turnaround CEO, in that people come to you when they need to make a change.

Joly and his management team still have plenty of work to do, but the turnaround at Best Buy is one of the most impressive in the history of retail.

In closing, as we enter the fourth quarter, we'll continue to push forward the turnaround efforts at Gap and Banana and work to maintain the solid year - to - date performance at Old Navy.

This fast turnaround sets us apart in the world of working capital financing.

Generally speaking, those seeking short term property finance in the UK are working to short deadlines that require fast turnarounds.

«Coca - Cola is a turnaround, but still a work in progress,» he notes.

McDonald's seemed to have big plans in the works when it announced on April 22 that it would be releasing a turnaround plan on May 4.

Our experience is that we're better off investing in a good business that is constantly compounding value from the beginning of our ownership, without what to us is the unacceptable risk that the turnaround doesn't work.

Throughout the turnaround, Banducci has been at pains to keep investor expectations in check, but his aggressive push on price and services has worked faster than most would have thought.

Sherwood's style of management may have been in enough to produce a turnaround in fortunes, but it is clearly evident that it can't work for a sustained period.

«That's a phenomenal turnaround — to turn around a team in this sport takes a huge amount of hard work and effort.

I haven't seen anywhere near enough passion, desire, that hunger required for a turnaround in fortunes, from the Chelsea ranks to dig the team out of the giant hole they find themselves in, which is in stark contrast to a Bolton side who work their socks off in every game and have yet to disappoint in the crunch encounters with the big boys.

«It is a little bit difficult for us to win this competition because we already won over a billion and a half dollars in state support for our strategic initiatives including this one, Buffalo Manufacturing Works, but I would say this team is very impressed by the turnaround they've seen in Western New York and Buffalo in particular,» WNY REDC co-chairman Jeff Belt said.

She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

With extensive experience on large complex projects and the benefit of years of experience on management processes, High Bridge along with affiliate Work Management, Inc. has been the difference in achieving a successful project as demonstrated in the successful turnaround and completion of Watt Bar 2, the most recent addition to the US nuclear fleet.

Investors are starting to see signs that the leather goods company's turnaround strategy is working, in spite of continued sales softness.

The plodding timeline of a film such as «Tulip Fever» — which was in the works for about 13 years before premiering this past summer — is much more typical than a turnaround of less than a year.

Oddly, no one remarks on the turnaround in Stephanie's attitude, going from sarcasm to little miss sunshine incarnate even though, as the exposition reminds us, the demons at work make their victims irritable before they do away with them.

Despite a relatively quick turnaround time (McMillen says the game was born of a two - week game jam in September of last year), it's «by far, the largest game (level wise)» he's ever worked on.

In Finland, world renowned for its successful public school system, I talked to leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling schools turnaround and become more successful.

«My former principal (from the second school I taught at) reached out to me last summer and asked me to come out to Los Angeles to work with her in what is one of the largest turnaround organizations in the country.

Already a teacher at Sanders - Clyde Creative Arts School in Charleston, S.C. — a turnaround school that is a part of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, an effort modeled after the work of the Harlem Children's Zone — Hobson felt that she could do more.

We've worked one - on - one with hundreds of students over the last decade, and while they always start from «my teacher hates me» or «I'm just bad at this subject,» a change in their own behaviors and beliefs consistently leads to a turnaround in grades.

Later, during a speech in the auditorium, Obama touted the school's turnaround academic success and highly praised Skipper, whom he said was doing «unbelievable work.»

In total, this report is an important contribution because it suggests that SIG is failing both because turnarounds seldom work and because state processes for doling out funds have been unsound.

Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.

Finally, we should continue to provide incentives for and encouragement to charters and educational management organizations to join the state and districts in the kind of novel forms of school turnaround work and governance now being pioneered in Lawrence.

First, turnaround leaders work in an environment that gives them what we call «the big yes.»

Smarick cites literature on businesses in the private sector, where turnarounds work only one - third of the time.

Today she works as department math chair at John Dibert Community School — a turnaround charter belonging to the FirstLine Schools network — in New Orleans, where she says her education, particularly her participation in a pilot program called Instructional Leadership (IL) at HGSE has significantly influenced and shaped her daily duties.

From higher standards and 21st - century assessments, to educator effectiveness and the turnaround of failing schools, Race to the Top's program elements were anchored firmly in the good work of states and districts.

A review published in January 2003 by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of more than 100 books, articles, and briefs on turnaround efforts concluded, «There is, at present, no strong evidence that any particular intervention type works most of the time or in most places.»

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

«The story of the Erdington Academy's turnaround in such a short time has been nothing short of inspirational in the way the teachers and pupils have worked together.

implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that shall be designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of students in the turnaround school;

«We are working in a different world than just two years ago,» says Debbra Lang, the managing director of high school turnarounds at the Academy for Urban School Leadership.

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Just because we don't have clear evidence in what works in turnarounds, it doesn't mean states should just throw their hands up when it comes to students trapped in failing schools.

Now in its sixth year, that turnaround approach is seen by some as a first of its kind — both for its academic results and, education experts say, for the inclusive and pragmatic way it got traditional public schools, charters, nonprofits, and families to work together.