Sentences with phrase «works as a lever»

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«We need to rediscover government as an enabler, not a solution provider; as a platform for our own innovation, a lever for our own work, not as the deus ex machina that we've paid to do for us what we could be doing for ourselves.»

If he can't remember a song, show him how to use his body to act out parts of the tune (for example, instead of just singing «I've been working on the railroad,» he can pump his arms as if he's pulling a lever).

The State shall enforce the self - financing system in economic management to meet the requirements of the Taean work system and make proper use of such economic levers as cost, price and profit.

One of the great advantages of our more rigid foot is that it works much better as a lever during upright walking and running (as it also does in monkeys).

Vertical pins stuck into the rings engage the levers as the rings rotate, working as a mechanical binary computer to count the hours and compute the date.

*** I used a butter knife as a lever to pop them out - this seemed to work.

Understanding the centrality of that relationship, as well as other emerging findings about the science of resilience, gives policymakers a key lever to assess whether current programs designed to help disadvantaged kids are working.

Luckily, policymakers have plenty of proven levers: expand income support for families as the EITC, [27] reduce food insecurity while improving maternal health and birth outcomes through a robust SNAP, [28] maintain children's access to Medicaid, [29] and continue to work towards improving the equity and quality of general education.

It embraces techniques such as performance support, working with exemplary performers, social learning, re-designing work processes and other levers.

The flap in Girard, Pa., over the mandatory use of Studs Terkel's book Working reveals an interesting irony: the use of «academic freedom» as a lever to force students to study a book they find morally objectionable.

That can require a shift in how central office employees conceive of their work, so that they focus less on what they are used to - compliance - and more on «strengthening principals» instructional leadership as a key lever for teaching and learning improvement in schools,» as University of Washington researchers put it.29

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.

The design concept comes from Rosenstock's experience as a former teacher and headmaster in Boston as well as from his experience as director of the federal New Urban High Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school reform.

Superintendents must prioritize fiscal support for building out recruitment teams, as strategic recruitment, effective hiring, and intentional retention work are levers that positively improve a school culture and impact student achievement.

Improved pay will be most effective as a recruitment lever for high - achieving, diverse candidates if it is coupled with the kinds of working conditions that such candidates can expect in other professional fields, such as high - quality onboarding or induction, relevant professional learning opportunities, opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, and opportunities to advance within the profession.

When working with districts and schools, Allison challenges them to examine all aspects of their learning organization and focus on the connections among culture, collaboration, and communication as levers for growth.

NCTR is committed to supporting states as they work to improve teacher preparation as one critical lever to improve student outcomes.

These bureaucratic hurdles are particularly absurd when some states have shortages so severe that they have to recruit teachers from other countries, such as the Philippines, to find qualified candidates.26 Though teacher shortages are the product of several shortcomings in the teacher pipeline, including low teacher salaries and poor working conditions, licensure can serve as a meaningful lever to begin to address teacher vacancies.

Check brake light switch works, as this could have an affect on the automatic gearbox «not in park» stuff safty disable, ignition on press brake jiggle shift lever in neutral and back to park, make sure brake ligths work.

I am just not exactly sure how that works, and how I can add on a controlling lever in such a way as to not interfere in this normal variation?

I only wish the manual transmission was better sorted, as one of the highlights of the Civic is just how all the elements — from clutch take - up to lever action — work in harmony to provide an engaging experience.

In sum, these three posts work together as the wallchart estimates Financial Independence based on our retirement lifestyle supported by 4 degrees of conservatism and 4 levers and dials to ensure a secure retirement.

Hesselgren describes Titanfall 2 as a game that achieved everything that Brink was trying to work with, and while it might give you jetpacks and giant robots, it's hard not to see Brink's influence in every wall run, or the athletic way a character bounces up the back of a robot to lever its battery loose.

The exhibition features around 200 sculptures and works on paper produced over the past 50 years, ranging from his most influential works made with metallic plates, levers, ribbons and slopes, to other unique examples of his artistic practice, serving as an example with which to understand the development of his progressive concept of «sculpture as form, sculpture as structure, sculpture as place».

Sculpture as Place, 1958 — 2010 assembles a broad selection of work by the artist and poet Carl Andre (Quincy, Massachusetts, 1935), including his most influential works, produced with metallic plates, levers, ribbons and slopes, and lesser - known pieces, such as the works entitled Dada Forgeries.

Work in the Scale - Up and Prototyping program informs the JCAP scientific efforts as to where key performance levers are and also identifies gaps revealed by real - world implementation of an integrated solar - fuels generator based on artificial photosynthesis.

Significantly, the profitability of legal work will become more important as there are fewer levers for firms to pull to attain increased revenues.

• Performing assembly measures as per specifications • Installing moving parts including shafts, levers, or bearings, and working them to test free function • Bending and installing pipe for hydraulic systems • Removing minute quantities of metal to clean parts or to make close fit among parts • Drilling, taping, and reaming holes • Bringing bolts, screws and gears into line, and fasten them together

On the opposite end to the push - down toaster lever, there's a switch that controls an integrated rack that pops up that, when the dial is set to two, works as warmer and crisper.