Sentences with phrase «which focused on performance»

Separate and apart from NCLB, which focuses on the performance of schools and districts, the public strongly supports reforms designed to hold individual students accountable for their performance on state tests.

Not exact matches

They must focus on the unique responsibilities of the CEO role, which includes establishing a vision and strategy and delivering performance.

The 2016 Global Innovation Index, which is an annual ranking of the innovation capabilities and performance of economies around the world, focuses on national policies, but it's individual leaders who can make a difference by driving innovation within organizations and creating a conducive environment for innovation to thrive.

In development since 2015, the opera, which runs for six performances, focuses on Jobs as he looks back on the formative events of his life as he faces his own mortality.

Additionally, except as noted below in certain circumstances, we do not provide cash or equity incentives tied to performance criteria, which could cause employees to focus solely on short - term returns at the expense of long - term growth and innovation.

He brings a broad range of customer service leadership skills and experience to the company, spanning performance management, employee and leadership development, organizational design, and strategy, all of which align to a focus on driving an incredible customer experience.

These awards were judged solely on the basis of entrants» submissions and their response to a number of specific questions, which had to be answered focusing on the client experience, not quantitative performance metrics.

Palmer managed a pooled fund, which focused on Canadian small - capitalization companies, from its inception to August 2007, achieving returns of 35.8 % annualized over a nine - year period, which ranked it No. 1 in performance by a major fund ranking service in its small - cap, pooled - fund category.

Crescent Capital, a private equity firm which owns nearly 50 % of the company's shares, has appointed a new management team which can now focus on improving the business's performance

Back then, I didn't really care about which stocks or sectors generated the best annual performance because I focused only on very short - term trends (typically 1 to 3 days holds).

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

We have recently published our Annual Report 2017, in which we review Global Dairy Trade's business achievements, the governance matters on which the GDT Events Oversight Board has focused, and key performance data.

After introductory chapters which present the chemical, physical, functional and microbiological characteristics of dairy ingredients, the book addresses the technology associated with the manufacture of the major dairy ingredients, focusing on those parameters that affect their performance and functionality in food systems.

«We focus on designing and building efficient, high performance food equipment, not for the awards, but to better support our customers, the industry and our environment, which is one reason why professionals consistently choose our brands across categories.»

Casarino will present «Perspectives on Partially Bio-Based Materials,» which focuses on bio-content sources, coupling agents and compatabilizers, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. DuPont led the industry with the first families of high - performance renewably sourced materials to help reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

He should focus more on the performance which was dire.

Arsenal currently sit joint top of the Premier League table along with Manchester City and Liverpool, but their focus will firmly be on themselves and producing an improved performance which in turn will pile further misery on David Moyes» men.

After a brief acclimation period during which his agents figure out how best to market him and make sure his on - field performance is stacking up, it would make sense for Ohtani to partner with one or two major American companies, then focus the rest of his energy on remaining top of mind in Japan.

Orlando Brown — Lots of the focus on Brown revolves around his poor combine performance, which is a concern.

Seems like your whole focus and evaluation is based on the NHL level nad playoff performance which was never a realistic expecation going in.

I was pleased with my performance but need to focus on being more consistent, by avoiding long breaks in my training which causes my fitness levels to drop.

Sports Insights is now publishing a Sports Investing Index, which reflects the performance of Betting Against the Public when applying contrarian value approaches to major US sports, focusing on our Square Play sports betting system.

Jürgen Klopp himself presents a rather intriguing prospect too, he is very much focussed on the concept of team building, and a collective ethos and spirit, in which the sum of the parts is greater than the value of the individual parts themselves — maybe Klopp will go some way to healing the hurt left from Suarez's departure, as he himself is also immensely popular amongst the fans, but his players will certainly have a key role in that becoming a reality, as ultimately it is performances on the pitch that mean the most to the fans.

Although the source of the contamination has not been identified, officials have focused on the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant, which is located near several wells that supply Hoosick Falls» water treatment plant.

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.

NREL's work was supported by the Energy Department's Vehicle Technology Office under the Battery for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program, which focuses on reducing the cost and improving the performance and durability of the lithium - ion batteries that power electric vehicles.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

«Despite budget cuts and increasing emphasis on academic skills, schools are choosing to focus on improving student health, which ultimately can support improved academic performance.»

The «Transduction» is a dance performance which focuses on the nature of intramolecular interactions, bringing the dynamics and the flow into the picture.

Focusing on foreplay also reduces the performance pressure and anxiety often associated with the act of sexual intercourse, which is too often played as a race to an orgasmic finish you can't quite locate.

The study is a follow - up to previous research, which focused on laboratory measures of creativity and found that ADHD adults show better performance on tests of creative divergent thinking.

Ms. Pirtle has co-authored a book with Sally Fallon and Dr. John D. Turner called Performance without Pain, which was published in 2006 by New Trends that focuses on the modern dietary influences in common inflammatory and degenerative conditions in musicians, athletes, dancers and the general public, and the solutions found in a diet of nutrient - dense foods.

South African researchers conducted a review on MCTs for performance enhancement in 1998 and concluded, «In the search for strategies to improve athletic performance, recent interest has focused on several nutritional procedures which may theoretically promote FA [fatty acid] oxidation, attenuate the rate of muscle glycogen depletion and improve exercise capacity... At present, there is insufficient scientific evidence to recommend that athletes either ingest fat, in the form of MCTs, during exercise...» 163

Since sprinting involves extremely short durations of time available for force production, it seems likely that strength training focused on explosive, short duration contractions (like ballistic training) will produce neural adaptations that increase high velocity - specific strength, and which transfer well to sprinting performance.

The main thing we have to focus on are the performances and the story in which we find them.

The Last of Robin Hood, which focuses on the twilight of Errol Flynn's life and career, is an uneven mix of brilliant performances and an inert, aimless story.

Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller both turn in fine performances as the two soldiers after the three women, but not much information is given about them, which seems fitting since we already have three incredibly powerful women to focus on.

Wells (The Company Men) captures life in the boring and hot plains of Osage County, but nothing else rivals these actors and their performances on screen, and he keeps all the focus on them as they come and go in and out of the house, which is steaming with secrets and a lack of air conditioning.

**** Zachary F November 29, 2012 this movie is sooo funny Jon C November 29, 2012 a fun, crude, and hilarious comedy two girl roomates formulate a plan to make their own sex hotline in order to make ends meet hijinks and raw laughs ensue between two very different people who embrace their sexuality via telephone the performances from both Graynor and Miller are pretty damn fun to watch the dialogue is insanely funny and gratuitous there's a very strange cameo in here too by Nia Vardalos Justin Long adds a nice touch being the supporting gay best friend mentoring these two girls it's just very awkwardly humorous listening to these people talk in this kind of film, there's interestingly no actual sex happening on screen, no boobs, no ass, no exposed body parts the plot mainly focuses on the bonding relationship bewteen the two leads which is a good break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..»

Nobody dismissed the quality of the filmmaking or the convincing performances, but the focus was on the story itself, which left audiences asking, «Why would someone do this?»

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

Unlike previous studies, which focused on MCAS results, the MIT report tracked performance on Advanced Placement and SAT tests.

A performance - focused training approach will result in a greater impact on other areas, all of which have a positive impact on the bottom line of the business.

The county's program, therefore, has focused its efforts on 63 K - 12 schools at which students have consistently not met state performance standards.

Too often what passes for assessment is less focused on quality of performance than on issues of format and punctuality — both of which can be important, but are not central.

Most of the sessions, which went on for several months, focused on teacher evaluations, with the big concern being the «firewall» between the evaluations and student performance on state tests, a barrier that the union had always insisted was necessary.

Certainly, one part of the problem is that, 50 years later, we are still debating the extent to which education policy ought to focus on teacher quality, and on the performance of individual teachers in particular.

Boaz Amidor is a frequent contributor to the Training Station blog, which focuses on issues related to employee learning and performance.

Usability is task and performance oriented, which means that it is focused on optimizing user task efficiency, and it is about removing problems in the User Interface.