The administration hopes to refocus that section away from paper credentials to teacher effectiveness, in part by asking states to devise better systems for teacher evaluation.
It is that refocusing that led to the creation of Bath & West Community Energy, a co-operative, community-owned energy company which just raised £750,000 in its first share launch.
Written by David Simon and Bill Zorzi, directed with unshowy simplicity by Paul Haggis, and based on the excellent nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin, "Show Me a Hero" is an attempt to refocus that picture — to find beauty in daily struggles and civic courage, not in bad-boy fantasies.
The Democrats have generally spent their energy defending past accomplishments, from Social Security to Medicare, rather than seeking to refocus that basic commitment to the middle class and the poor into ideas that reflect how the nation has changed since those laws were passed.
"You see their work repeatedly; you gain a familiarity with them and an expectation that they will produce a body of great works, as opposed to someone who is saying, 'My art is a lens I see the world through: it's not about the product as much as it is about me looking forward.' " The chance to refocus that lens can be invaluable, but it sparks unfamiliar worries.
A question to one of the medical staff was used twice to refocus that person, providing another tool for the consultant to lead the team.
We started tackling the group scheduling issue, and later realised that oddly enough, scheduling 1-on-1s was a much bigger pain at work, so we refocused on that".
Ms. Levy, 39, is out to refocus that, if not completely change it.
In a press release, Liberty Global's chief executive, Mike Fries, said the company was "exiting sub-scale markets tax-efficiently and at attractive prices, with the intention of refocusing that capital on existing or new markets that offer greater long-term growth and stability".
But on Monday he sought to refocus that praise elsewhere, calling himself "a person who isn't looking for attention".
