After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

And on Friday, the music group will meet to prepare for the school performance.

Any given performance takes a tour bus full of artists, technical experts, managers, musicians, or writers to create an appealing piece of art.

CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known lasalle quartet, CCM's philharmonic orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting baroque through modern music.

College Conservatory of Music (CCM): performances are on the main campus (校园) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett theater.

Deliberate practice activities require effort, produce no immediate rewards, and are motivated by the goal of improving performance rather than the goal of enjoyment.

On February 5, submit a first draft of your essay, performance script, or documentary highlights.

For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.

However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

I found myself increasingly unwilling to drag myself to dance performances, so I quit.

I never told my mother about my \miraculous\ experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year.

If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team's performance.

If you are stuck at home with no stress, then your level of performance will be low.

In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates.

In contrast, when individuals are involved in deliberate practice, they exhibit behavior focused on improving performance by the most effective means available.

In spite of all the problems, several of the players produced excellent performances.

Interestingly, this trend isn't evident in baseball, where additional individual talent keeps improving the team's performance.

It involves creation, performance, and promotion/marketing.

Keith Robinson, the author of the study, said, \I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance.\

Magically, that show remains the great Jason's best performance to this day.

On what occasion does a person probably suffer from performance fatigue?

Other American studies showed no connection/connections between uniforms and school performance.

Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle.

Performance: a dramatic presentation of the topic no more than 10 minutes long.

Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks.

She had big problems maintaining her performance.

The musician along with his band members has given ten performances in the last three months.

The season runs June through August, with additional performances in march and september.

These innovative solutions are meant to support better organizational performance.

They conclude that when task interdependence is high, team performance will suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positive effects on team performance when task interdependence is lower.

To explain this phenomenon, the researchers explored the degree to which a good performance by a team requires its members to coordinate their actions.

Traditional wisdom also has it that heavy television-watching lowers IQ scores and affects school performance.

Up to a certain point, the more stress you are under, the better your performance will be.

We experience this tiredness in two ways: as start-up fatigue and performance fatigue.

When individuals are involved in deliberate play, they experiment with new or different combinations of behaviors, but not necessarily in the most effective way to improve performance.

When most people think of the arts, they imagine the end product, the beautiful painting, a wonderful piece of music, or an award-winning performance in the theater.

Business schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects.

On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

Such different outlooks had a dramatic impact on performance.

It actually had a very negative effect on morale and performance, Werbach says.

In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

His product launches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and produce as if by magic an incredible new electronic gadget （小器具）in front of an amazed crowd, were the performances of a master showman.

While the emphasis on teaching to higher, test-driven standards as set in No Child Left Behind resulted in significantly better performance in elementary(and some middle)schools, high schools for a variety of reasons seemed to have made little progress.

Determining whether different schools do or don't offer a high quality of education requires a look at man different measures, including students' overall academic accomplishments and their subsequent performance in college

improving students' performance on SAsaid one Penn resident advisor (RA). Students' performance declined

Their school performance was getting worse.

While elderly people tend to sleep for fewer hours than they did when they were younger, this has a(n) negative effect on their brain's performance and they would benefit from getting more, according to research.

Now, however, recent developments in electric vehicle technology mean they can match conventional petrol engines in terms of performance and safety.

They can match conventional motor cars in performance and safety

When does the presence of an audience facilitate your performance according to Roberts

Analyzing their rivals' on-field performance.

It actually had a very negative effect on morale and performance, Werbach says.

And McDonald's wasn't alone in slowing down: Other chains also saw their drive-through performance slow down.

In a review of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic performance, investigators found that the more children moved, the better their grades were in school, particularly in the basic subjects of math, English and reading.

It's pointless unless there is a repeatable process in place to turn inspiration into financial performance.

Muscle performance can also be affected by a phenomenon called central fatigue, in which an imbalance in the body's chemical messengers prevents the central nervous system from directing muscle movements effectively.

Students risk health and well being,as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers take-home exams without clear, time-limited boundaries.

The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

The company blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.

Student performance has a lot to do with teachers.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group’s performance.

A new study from michigan State University, though, argues that all students—including high achievers—see a decline in performance when they browse the Internet during class for non-academic purposes.

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have written, if you have too much time in the performance zone, you need more time in the recovery zone, otherwise you risk burnout.

Because previous research has shown that people with high intellectual abilities are better at filtering out distractions, researchers believed students with high ACT scores would not show a significant decrease in performance due to their use of digital

College professors are increasingly raising alarm bells about the effects smartphones, laptops, and tablets have on academic performance.

College professors are increasingly raising alarm bells about the effects smart phones, laptops, and tablets have on academic performance.

Expert performance is not beyond thought.

Indeed, when the expert pays attention to the mechanics, it is liable to disrupt performance.

It's also your choice if you want to go out at night, but you will be foolish to let that affect your class performance during the day.

Macy's reported its sales plunged 5.2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wide—ranging challenges.

Moreover, it can be used to assess economic performance both across countries and over time.

Smart basketball players or skilled musicians need to pay close attention to the demands of high performance, to the challenges to be overcome.

So the voice actors are pushing for the idea of secondary compensation一a performance bonus every time a game sells 2 million copies or downloads, or reaches 2 million subscribers, with a cap at 8 million.

That means concentrating on the direction of your life in general and your own academic performance specifically.

The Jones-Klenow measure can also assess an economy's performance over time.

The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in s

Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group's performance.

They found that early attention skills were the most consistent predictor of academic success, and that likability by peers also had a modest effect on academic performance.

This is opposed to just price and performance they were concerned about in the past.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

The U.workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.economic performance.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.

Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.

Britain's new rule is a reminder to bankers that society has an interest in their performance, not just for the short term but for the long term.

Emerging in the late sixties and reaching a peak in the Seventies, Land Art was one of a range of new forms, including Body Art,Performance Art, Action Art and Installation Art, which pushed art beyond the traditional confines of the studio and gallery.

In its latest survey of CEO pay, The Wall Street Journal finds that \a substantial part\ of executive pay is now tied to performance.

In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to defer performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce \short-termism.\

The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on your performance and improvement.

We are fortunate that is it, because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.