Every year,
the PTO does something for staff appreciation week, principal JoyBeth Hicks told Education World.
If the PTO doesn't have the budget for books, it can make a request on a crowdfunding site like GoFundMe or DonorsChoose.
We hope many of you, especially our new parents, have had a chance to see and learn first - hand what
your PTO does for our school.
The PTO does an excellent job with activities for the children.
Not exact matches
We've been talking about our open - ended
PTO policy for a while, and whenever we
do, the same questions arise: Don't employees take advantage of the company by taking too much time off, damaging business result
do, the same questions arise: Don't employees take advantage of the company by taking too much time off, damaging business results?
After spending just a few months working in his first full - time position out of college, Sam realized that he didn't want a safe nine - to - five job with a 401 (k), good health insurance, and a few annual days of
PTO.
Employees also may feel less pressure to use the days or lose them as they
do in a
PTO structure.
Brady doesn't want extra
PTO.
And by finding HEEB and SQUAW VALLEY disparaging, the
PTO necessarily
did so based on its finding that the marks convey an expressive message over and above their function as source identifiers — namely, an expressive message disparaging Jewish and Native American people.»
I went to every meeting that they have had at the school, including a
PTO meeting where I was one of only 2 parents who didn't actually have a child who attended school there yet.
NICU families often wind up
doing scant visiting so that they can preserve
PTO and FMLA leave.
One Mom announced at a
PTO meeting that she was
done following «all the no peanuts rules» and was bringing peanut butter cookies to Field Day for all the students.
I'm not in it for the money (though
doing the odd review is fun), or the social connection (I know lots of other moms through
PTO, Cub Scouts and our great neighborhood), or because my inner writer is dying to come out.
Yeah many would say it is an irresponsible task because I don't have all this
PTO to
do it or I won't be saving money but in all honesty it feels right.
Rarely
do us working moms take the opportunity to
do what we really want to
do because there are too many things for us to take care of (hence the guilt of taking
PTO).
On the other hand, by deciding that an EST sequence
does not provide an adequate written description of a claim directed to «a gene,» the
PTO has preserved the possibility for a gene itself to be patented once its full - length sequence is determined.
PTO biotech section leader John Doll says: «It doesn't seem like this is going to affect biotech patenting at all.»
I think the reason why most of us don't travel as often is because we don't have the
PTO to allow us to
do so.
And some of my favorite
PTO days are the ones that I don't have anything happening.
and enjoy the plane ride, but knowing me (and Lyndsey), I'll likely not be able to resist getting a little personal productivity
done during my
PTO.
Don't get me wrong, I loved every second of it, but it made me realize how much time we volunteer... and unfortunately how easily the
PTO and room moms can be taken for granted.
Being on the
PTO is one of the most rewarding things I have ever
done in my life!
«One form of communication
does not work for all, so we use newsletters, yearly and monthly calendars, weekly folders, e-mail, phone, regularly scheduled
PTO meetings, school Web sites, and flyers posted at local businesses.»
Third, they may serve as members of
PTOs (the district encourages schools but
does not require them to have
PTOs).
I don't know if Ana Markowski has been reading
PTO Today and our parent involvement pages, but — man - oh - man —
does she ever get this stuff!
Tim talks about his top 3 things
PTO or PTA leaders can
do to encourage more parents to volunteer and get involved this school year.
«Had it not been for the
PTO, we could not have
done it,» Winer says.
An in - depth look at what works and what doesn't in middle school, and how middle school
PTOs and PTAs are different from elementary school parent groups.
The
PTO kept
doing PTO things like a Fall Festival and movie nights, and added responsibilities like enlisting community support for bringing volunteers into the school on an unprecedented level.
Tracy Donaldson, teacher grant coordinator for the East Helena (Mont.) Schools
PTO, puts it this way: «Our main goal is to allow teachers to
do their jobs by telling us what they don't have [but need] to
do it well.»
The most effective communication from middle school
PTO to home is
done adult to adult.
PTOs can
do a number of things to promote personal relationships, Henderson says.
The funny thing is that I imagine at the National Association of Elementary School Principals they get a very different question from their members: «Why
does my
PTO try to make my life so difficult?»
We confess they can be a bit overwhelming compared to a traditional
PTO meeting, but we
do a whole lot more than a traditional
PTO.
Allowing
PTO leaders to
do their jobs frees you up to
do yours and encourages even more valuable parent involvement.
The Southland
PTO has
done posters some years, which the teachers love because they can use them the next year as a classroom wall hanging.
Parent group presidents» pet peeve is principals who don't support the
PTO and its events.
While Ford
does not offer the actual
PTO units, Ford F - Series Super Duty ® engineers worked closely with two
PTO after market suppliers (Parker Chelsea and Muncie) during development of the truck.
Do you generally utilize all of your
PTO now?
I don't see how you could
do that with a
PTO «donation» to another employee.
When you donate paid time off (
PTO) to a fellow employee, you don't actually lose money.
Then we decided the Middle East really
does make sense to use a little less
PTO (yes, sadly I don't travel full time).
Your sales manager maybe would like some
PTO to
do volunteer work while your star sales agent is really passionate about a hobby (which you demonstrate by say, giving them an appropriate gift card after a particularly big sale.)
By which I mean a British guy asking Kappos open - ended questions about his 10 - month tenure as director, and Kappos
doing a fair amount of patting himself on the back for making the
PTO a super-terrific more efficient patent processing machine.
In fairness, Kappos also discusses some of the work that remains to be
done, particularly to address the global perception that the
PTO's patents are of «lower quality» than those issued by its European or Japanese counterparts.
Whether the decision will significantly affect patent prosecution practice remains to be seen, as applicants still have other incentives to disclose large volumes of art — and may have an even greater incentive to
do so if the Supreme Court holds in Microsoft v. i4i that defendants» evidentiary burden of proving invalidity depends on what was disclosed and argued to the
PTO.
The majority explains that the patent clause
does not restrict Congress to dollar - for - dollar funding of the
PTO.
In fact the patent office provides a boilerplate form [
PTO / SB / 01] to ensure it is
done correctly.
Just because the
PTO grants a patent
does not necessarily mean that any invention claimed in the patent is, in fact, legally entitled to the protection of a patent.
However, the agency
does not currently use information on patent litigation in initiating such actions; some
PTO staff said that the types of patents involved in infringement litigation could be linked to
PTO's internal data on the patent examination process, and a 2003 National Academies study showed that such analysis could be used to improve patent quality and examination by exposing patterns in the examination of patents that end up in court.