Sentences with phrase «with meaningful performance»

Unionized public school teachers currently receive lifetime job tenure after just 18 months, often with no meaningful performance review.

Vandoorne came into F1 with a glittering junior career but has yet to back up the hype with any meaningful performances.

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The base 13 - inch MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar comes standard with 8 GB of RAM, but you can give it a meaningful performance boost by opting for the 16 GB RAM option.

«Although we are pleased with these annual results, this relatively short - term performance is far less meaningful than our long - term results as financial markets can move sharply in either direction over shorter time horizons,» CPPIB chief executive Mark Wiseman said Friday as the fund manager released its annual report for the year ended March 31.

The Company believes that discussion of these additional non-GAAP measures provides investors with meaningful comparisons of current results to prior periods» results by excluding items that the Company does not believe reflect its fundamental business performance.

However, management believes that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide management and other users with additional meaningful financial information that should be considered when assessing our ongoing performance.

Management believes that presenting the Company's non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors because it (i) provides investors with meaningful supplemental information regarding financial performance by excluding certain items, (ii) permits investors to view performance using the same tools that management uses to budget, make operating and strategic decisions, and evaluate historical performance, and (iii) otherwise provides supplemental information that may be useful to investors in evaluating the Company's results.

Since their return from injury i have tried to give Welbeck and Wilshire the benefit of the doubt when others have slagged them off for some pretty average displays.Regrettably I am now of the opinion that they will never reach the standards required to make a meaningful contribution towards the revival of Arsenal and along with 3/4 others in the current squad they should be moved on.Their performances against Stoke was the last straw as far as I am concerned.It will be interesting to see if Gareth Southgate shares my views and does not include them in his World Cup squad.

Training and the usual day - to - day grind with Suso last season helped him settle in almost immediately, and we saw that comfort translate into difference - making performances over a half season in a meaningful chase towards Europe.

Based on the belief that learning must be personally meaningful rather than performance - driven, the Waldorf curriculum harmonizes with children's developmental phases and needs.

They represent something for us to strive toward and they provide us with meaningful methods to track performance.

On the Senate floor Thursday, Senator Chris Murphy, D - Conn., was highly critical of President Donald Trump and Republicans who control the House and Senate for their performances in trying to abolish Obamacare and come up with a meaningful replacement.

Provide meaningful feedback on hand hygiene performance with clear targets and an action plan for improving adherence.

Although Viola Davis offers a fantastic performance here, this disgusting melodrama is much more concerned about making you cry than saying anything meaningful, while most of the characters are one - dimensional and several unnecessary details are constantly added to the story with the sole purpose of cheap sentimentality.

This unique dramedy features one of Gosling's most moving, believable performances as a delusional young man who seeks a meaningful relationship with a sex doll who finds himself supported by the rest of his peers due to his sweet nature.

The slow cutting between the perky performance in front of the camera and the fraught, meaningful looks being exchanged between Adam and Betty from their vantage behind the lens encapsulates the divide between fantasy and reality that provides Mulholland Drive with its underlying (and tragic) dialectic.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

When we work with a client, we partner with them to jointly identify performance issues and design innovative, meaningful solutions to address those issues.

Now, as the director of performance character at Athlos Academies, he's combined these two experiences into the meaningful work of helping teachers implement social and emotional learning opportunities with their students.

Other than the PLDD crowd in their alphabet soup of reform organizations, who will advocate for and sustain meaningful performance pay for teachers where performance is defined as compliance with centralized mandates?

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The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

So, portfolios are frequently included with other types of authentic assessments because they move away from telling a student's story though test scores and, instead, focus on a meaningful collection of student performance and meaningful reflection and evaluation of that work.

Gladly, besides creating a personalised learning pathway for each learner, it's also possible to manage their performance and coordinate their training with their career progression in a meaningful and visible way.

The goal of engaging eLearning is to create meaningful performance change in the learners; they should be able to do something when they're finished with the lesson that they couldn't do before.

The Power of Teacher Teams: With Cases, Analyses, and Strategies for Success: Book provides proven strategies teacher - leaders can use on team participation, meaningful team roles, and performance expectations http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Teacher-Teams-Strategies/dp/1412991331

With robust data, including accurate assessments of current pupil performance, realistic end of year projections and targets (as agreed at the start of the year), the data across the academies will be comparable, and relevant stakeholders will be able to make meaningful inferences from the information presented.

If test scores are meaningful measurements of performance (and they have to be if we have any hope of evaluating our education system), these scores show that vouchers are not providing kids with a better education.

It's a powerful approach to teacher feedback that aims to enhance formal observations with ongoing, meaningful feedback that has the potential to improve teacher performance and student learning.

Performance Matters Observation & Evaluation provides educators and evaluators with a straightforward way to manage the evaluation process and guide educator improvement, and empowers administrators and teachers alike throughout the formal observation process by streamlining observation evidence collection and fostering meaningful exchanges around performance iPerformance Matters Observation & Evaluation provides educators and evaluators with a straightforward way to manage the evaluation process and guide educator improvement, and empowers administrators and teachers alike throughout the formal observation process by streamlining observation evidence collection and fostering meaningful exchanges around performance iperformance improvement.

In schools with populations of greater than 80 % poverty rates, students who were taught by teachers in our program achieved statistically significant and meaningful increases in writing performance and critical thinking skills.

The six performance management principles and their accompanying practices in the MSM Field Guide are, however, based on a large supply of case studies from both the private and public sectors, along with professional opinions of practitioners and researchers who have experienced or witnessed meaningful, sustained improvement in performance - driven schools and districts.

As a coach, she worked hard to maximize resources, elevate her teams» performance, build athletes of character, and form meaningful connections with parents and the community.

However, infused with the characteristics of Meaningful Student Involvement presented earlier in this book, students experiences can be further enhanced by engaging them in teacher assessments, and in student - led, student - focused learning conferences where they can compare their performance to other students and set future goals.

Nor do these teacher ratings seem to correlate with school performance, suggesting teacher evaluations are not a meaningful measure of teacher effectiveness.

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

An indicator may not have strong relationships with student outcomes or provide meaningful differentiation between school performance but still provide value in a school classification system, particularly if that indicator signals what a state values and drives behavior that states want to see at the district and school levels.

The test results on a shorter «snapshot» of student achievement could, then, be put in proper perspective with more meaningful authentic measures of student learning, reflected in daily school performance, portfolio and long - term projects, report card information, graduation rate statistics, and school climate surveys.

«We look forward to working with the Legislature and other stakeholders to develop a meaningful and robust assessment and accountability system that is both aligned with the State Board of Education's strategic priorities and better informs educators and parents on student performance,» said Accountability Task Force Chair and State Board Member Brittney Cummins.

One such challenge was significant limitations regarding the underlying validity of the data that were to inform judgments about performance and accountability, which corresponded with a less than robust picture of the meaningful steps that should then be taken to improve systems and yield better student learning and outcomes.

With this in mind, have we spent the past 20 years fretting over raising standards, creating related assessments, and designing accountability systems to improve student performance, but neglecting to help students understand why any of this should be meaningful to them?

Though the work with the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium, College Station ISD has constructed a meaningful accountability system that measures what this community believes is important.

Standard I: Curriculum, Planning, and Assessment: The teacher promotes the learning and growth of all students by providing high - quality and coherent instruction, designing and administering authentic and meaningful student assessments, analyzing student performance and growth data, using this data to improve instruction, providing students with constructive feedback on an ongoing basis, and continuously refining learning objectives.

Currently, multiple systems are being used across the state with no consistency or meaningful difference in performance levels or support.

It seems clear that ESSA has provided the committee with an opportunity to design and develop an «authentic assessment», based on evidence - based classroom performance indicators, that will establish a new era of meaningful, student - centered testing that CT teachers, parents, students, and citizens have proudly come to expect from educational leadership.

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Keeping with its history of building meaningful kits for performance cars, G - Power's work on the AMG GT largely revolves around the coupe's 4.0 - liter twin - turbo V - 8 engine.

But note that the bottom fuel economy in the V6 with SH - AWD in the A-Spec is 20 MPG city and 29 MPG highway, so there's really no meaningful fuel penalty in stepping up the performance.

«In an industry which is world - wide experiencing meaningful sales declines, we are pleased with the customer response to all our transformation efforts, with the sales performance, and with the potential for further growth and profitability moving forward,» said chief executive officer Heather Reisman in a statement released by the company.

Results were driven by strong performance at our Digital Real Estate Services segment and meaningful revenues at HarperCollins, along with appropriate and ongoing management of the cost base at our news mastheads.