Sentences with phrase «year improvement effort»

By placing instruction and a coherent curriculum based on Common Core standards at the center of a five - to 10 - year improvement effort and by building school, district, state and organizational capacity to continuously support that implementation, we should be well on our way to a successful launch of these potentially transformative standards.

Not exact matches

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

We believe that GE is undervalued, even on rebased forward earnings, and that new CEO John Flannery is an improvement who will continue the years - long effort to refocus the company on maximizing per share.

In our continuing efforts to improve the plan sponsor and participant experience with our Retirement Directions website, accessible through www.retirementdirections.com, we are pleased to announce several improvements that will be introduced in the third quarter of this year.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

«Every year is important and there is a great effort in place to make sure that our growth falls along with continuous quality improvement,» Chairman and President Andrea Illy says.

«From a productivity standpoint, we've been able to realize an 18 percent improvement in productivity this year because of our lean efforts,» Rohm says.

He says this success has come about due to the hard work and dedication of the company's staff over the years, as well as the commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in its production and marketing efforts.

To spearhead these efforts, a volunteer Green Team comprised of employees is active throughout the vineyard and winery operations to implement ideas, identify areas of improvement and seek opportunities to innovate under the guidance of the company's five - year sustainability plan.

Dyche has also overseen the # 10.6 million improvement of the club's training ground, with efforts underway to upgrade areas of the 135 - year - old Turf Moor stadium at the same time as reinvesting Premier League prize money in the playing squad.

A loss here and the season is a failure; a win and it's an acceptable campaign and an improvement on the previous year's efforts.

Parents of children in Houston ISD schools can look forward to some improvements in the school food this year, thanks to a cooperative effort between HISD / Aramark's Food Services and its recently formed Parent Advisory Committee.

A new program offered through Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office will award local governments in New York state up to $ 20 million to help fund housing improvement and blight elimination efforts over the next two years.

«As reflected in the immense improvements recorded in the conduct of the last general elections which were applauded within and outside the country as the most credible elections in Nigeria in recent years, the Jonathan Administration has made tremendous efforts to positively change the political architecture complained about by Prof. Achebe and other Nigerians.

A new report from the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI) shows the impact of cancer screening over the past 15 years, identifying areas where increased screening and other cancer - control efforts would save lives and significantly benefit population health.

A new report from the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement shows the impact of cancer screening over the past 15 years, identifying areas where increased screening and other cancer - control efforts would save lives and significantly benefit population health.

Efforts to drastically slash automobile emissions and fuel use within 40 years don't stand a chance without subsidies, technology improvements and more stringent government standards, according to a report by a panel of experts released Monday.

The biggest improvement was found in year - round (annual) particulate levels, which the ALA attributes to recent efforts to clean up major industrial air pollution sources.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

At a cost of less than $ 500 per patient each year, this modest quality improvement effort is projected to reduce the incidence of major complications, such as end - stage renal disease, which can cost $ 44,000 per patient each year.

If you have been exercising but have an injury, are regressing in your efforts (not showing much improvement), if you often get more than one or two colds or flu a year, have allergies or asthma, or if you have not exercised before, subtract 10.

This year I really want to work on keeping my mental health in check so I'm going to make an effort to read more self - improvement books.

The improvement effort began more than 20 years ago when state legislators passed a major reform law that put rigorous academic goals and well - designed assessments front and center.

Despite years of effort by governments, there has been little or no improvement in the quality of education provided in government schools.

TheWashington Post's Jay Mathews pointed out, in 2012, that the new assessments would «delay, if not stop altogether, the national move toward rating teachers by student score improvements» and that radical change would force systems «to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests» before they could resume those efforts.

The team is made up of top teachers recruited with a promise that they could lead the school's improvement effort while earning a $ 6,000 - per - year stipend.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

New York City was in the midst of many school - improvement efforts during the years studied, including new accountability rules and interventions at low - performing schools citywide.

-LSB-...] instruction, providing quality feedback to teachers, focusing our efforts on strategies that work (Hattie's work), sustaining this improvement work over time (years), ensuring the parents are informed and -LSB-...]

For the past four years, the Leadership for Change project at Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) has been conducting case studies of leaders and their efforts to implement school improvement.

Much of the public conversation around school improvement focuses on early childhood and the elementary years, in an effort to prevent or lessen inequitable outcomes for poor children.

With unprecedented federal investment in failing schools through the multi-billion-dollar School Improvement Grant program, it's been a big year for school turnaround efforts.

Fullan asserts that, while there is no standard formula for changing the culture of an organization, sustainable improvement requires several years of effort to work through complex cultural issues such as resistance to change and acculturation of the new leader.215 Turnover that occurs every two or three years makes it unlikely that a principal will get beyond the stages of initiation and early implementation.

Teachers and school leaders know the improvements are due to their unremitting efforts to do their best for every child and young person, whatever their background, and despite the relentless changes to the curriculum, tests and exams, imposed by the Government, that have added to their workload over the past few years.

The events of the last fifty years point in the direction of another national effort being mounted in the foreseeable future to accelerate improvement in education.

With a school year's worth of data and improvement efforts behind you, it's time to build on what you've accomplished.

She says that includes updating federal officials about the new education standards and school monitoring efforts, led by the state's division of Outreach for School Improvement, which Ritz created last year.

To that end, the Quality Schools Program provides a three - year, comprehensive approach to charter school development and implementation that leverages continuous improvement efforts to positively affect students, teachers and leaders.Teams interested in the Quality Schools Program should contact Dr. Ildi Laczko - Kerr, [email protected] or 602-944-0644.

Title I Accountability and School Improvement Efforts From 2001 to 2004 (2006) examines the implementation of accountability and school improvement under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) from 2001 - 02, the year before NCLB went into effect, through 2003 - 04, the second year of implementatiImprovement Efforts From 2001 to 2004 (2006) examines the implementation of accountability and school improvement under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) from 2001 - 02, the year before NCLB went into effect, through 2003 - 04, the second year of implementatiimprovement under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) from 2001 - 02, the year before NCLB went into effect, through 2003 - 04, the second year of implementation of NCLB.

This five - year study describes how TIPA provided incentives that fostered collaborative school - wide improvement efforts.

Putting educator quality at the center of national school improvement efforts remains as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when a national commission described recruiting, preparing, and supporting teachers as the single most important in - school resource for providing all students with an equitable and excellent education.

At issue is roughly $ 1.3 million in federal School Improvement Grants, money earmarked for turnaround efforts that the schools received last year.

Too often in school improvement, evaluators are called in years after an effort has been in place.

Over the last three years, the Harrisonburg network has expanded its improvement efforts from a team of six teachers in one school to a total of 44 teachers and five administrators across three schools.

How is year 1 different from year 2 in Mario Marcos's school improvement efforts?

This year, 38 teachers from 17 schools are participating and over 2,000 students are being impacted by the network's improvement efforts.

Moreover, students at new school facilities attend an average of 4 additional days of school per academic year and elementary students show increases in teacher - reported effort, providing evidence of additional non-cognitive impacts of school facility improvements.

Jefferson, a few blocks from department headquarters, is five years into a turnaround effort and is often cited as an example of the systemwide improvements in the city's public schools.

Every first - year principal received one - on - one coaching, and we identified strong principals to form a professional learning community to support principals across the district and align efforts toward improvement.