Ask
about incentive programs for people who drive safely.
If you employ anybody, think
about your incentive programs, urges Mike Fox on Jottings by an Employer's Lawyer.
For more information
about these incentive programs, please consult your provincial government or speak with your dealer.
The Samsons got a flyer
about an incentive program for purchasing cloth diapers from their municipal waste agency.
And Joy, I am not talking
about your incentive program — I know you are a very careful mom and I think it's great the chocolate is working.
Principal Christine Hoffman and her staff are so excited
about this incentive program and how it will positively impact all aspects of their school improvement plan.
Learn MORE
about our incentives program, Reward Your Efforts!
Ask your community manager
about our incentive program today!
Not exact matches
«If it's an
incentive program, it should be for an
incentive people can do things
about.
... Thinking
about revising your employee
incentive programs?
Some companies offer
incentive programs to encourage employee participation in health and wellness
programs because learning
about potential risks and screenings for early detection helps decrease large claims.
Stack also discusses identifying the critical numbers in any business as well as how to create
incentive programs to get the whole company thinking
about them.
The CD&A provides detailed information
about, and analysis of our annual and long - term
incentive plan compensation
programs and compensation decisions for 2007 and includes a discussion of our compensation philosophy and objectives that guided these decisions.
Then there's a bit
about how the «
incentive program» in Alpha's plan is based on metrics so easily met that it functions as «a disguised retention
program,» which is «prohibited in bankruptcy cases absent extremely specific and unusual circumstances that do not exist here.»
Learn more
about the how to get free design assistance and save money while planning, building or expanding your energy efficient winery through Pacific Gas & Electric's Savings by Design
program and find out more
about PG&E rebates and
incentive programs at PG&E Agriculture and Food Money - Back Solutions.
A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns
about fraud in the federal school lunch
program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy,
incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.
About tax
incentives for developers, Dorancy said, «These
programs were established at a time when we had a housing crisis.
One of the most persistent complaints with the health home
program — as well as the Delivery System Reform
Incentive Payment
program, the State Health Information Network and others — is a lack of timely and reliable information
about the patients.
«Outreach for systems has been their bread and butter because you can do minimal work to generate a fee and there is no
incentive to [enroll] them,» said one participant in the
program who did not wish to be named in order to speak candidly
about its flaws.
The Trump plan rolled out Monday was not a surprise, following the lines laid out by the president practically since he took office over a year ago: $ 200 billion in federal money, with
about half of it aimed at spurring state, local and private dollars through an «
Incentives Program.»
Learn
about the great
programs and
incentives in all 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries designed to encourage children to read all summer long - such as:
In the past, the group's responsibilities included recommending policies to the Town Board and educating the public
about energy
incentive programs.
Cuomo is projecting a 3.8 percent increase for school aid, which amounts to
about $ 807 million, including formula - based aid to districts and targeted funding streams for pre-kindergarten, after - school
programs and merit
incentives for teachers.
Since 2010, he said, the state alone had withheld
about $ 2 billion in funding from the city under the Aid and
Incentives for Municipalities
program.
Mike writes
about employee health
incentive programs and employee health and wellness
programs and the benefits of providing them.
Lakeshore Entertainment is
about to release «Walk of Shame,» a $ 15 million feature starring Elizabeth Banks that shot in Los Angeles after receiving credit from the California Film and Television Tax
Incentive Program.
Adams testified
about community - level health promotion
programs and businesses that offer
incentives to employees that practice healthy lifestyles.
A 2007 study of the AP
incentive program in Texas found that participating schools not only boosted AP enrollment but also reported an approximate 30 percent increase in the number of students scoring 1100 and higher on the SATs and
about an 8 percent increase in college matriculation.
About 90 percent of the system's teachers participate in at least one
incentive program, Weil noted.
Think
about your office's culture to decide what will be the best eLearning
incentives program for your employees.
Once this
program grows past the infancy stage, Mishra would like to see high - level collaborations take place between Americans and Indians, like a solutions - oriented project
about global warming, which everyone finds relevant and which will offer an even greater
incentive to work on language.
While the researchers say the results should be encouraging for districts on the fence
about implementing
incentive programs, they also warn that IMPACT is not one - size - fits - all.
Part of the answer to my colleague Mike Petrilli's «Single - minded Focus» question the other day
about the depressing college completion data is in Sam Dillon's recent front page New York Times story on the success of
incentives (i.e. $ $ $)
programs in getting poor kids into — and passing — Advanced Placement courses.
And she's not right to fail to note that the Common Core would have been — at least at this point in time — a sort of ambitious pilot
program involving a smallish number of states that were serious
about the implementation challenges, until the feds blundered into the middle of it with «
incentives» that turned it into a sort of national piñata.
Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information
about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse
incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice
program.
For state, district, and school leaders, value - added measures may aid in school improvement in at least three ways: improving
programs, making decisions
about human resources, and developing
incentives for better performance.
School, district, and state leaders may be able to improve teaching by using value - added to shape decisions
about programs, human resources, and
incentives.
Districts, states, and schools can, at least in theory, generate gains in educational outcomes for students using value - added measures in three ways: creating information on effective
programs, making better decisions
about human resources, and establishing
incentives for higher performance from teachers.
The evaluation brief synthesizes two recent NCEE impact studies, which evaluated key strategies that can be funded through the federal Teacher
Incentive Fund (TIF) grants and its successor
program, Read more
about Key Strategies to Promote Educator Effectiveness -LSB-...]
These include: · Use of instructional
programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community
about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate
incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.
In surveys
about the
program, most teachers said they were already effective without the
incentive of additional pay.
Beyond
Incentives also details key findings
about the impact of this
program, including that teachers who work with teacher leaders report that doing so helped them to improve their own practice; that those who did so frequently were more likely to report that they felt valued in their schools and saw opportunities to advance in their profession; and that teacher leadership can foster professional collaboration, which is fundamental to overall school improvement but often hard to achieve.
More information
about the VIP
incentive program for schools and school divisions is available on the VDOE website: Virginia Index of Performance (VIP)
program for schools and school divisions is available on the VDOE website: Virginia Index of Performance (VIP)
ProgramProgram
It will also share information
about the Teacher
Incentive Fund, a federal
program that helps high - need schools develop and implement performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems, and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which focuses on preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and principals.
The students are still talking
about the
program, teachers said, and it is returning this summer, but only for students who will be enrolled next year, which some hope will be an
incentive for students to choose Mann for ninth grade.
Offering teachers
incentives of up to $ 15,000 to improve student test scores produced no discernible difference in academic performance, according to a study released Tuesday, a result likely to reshape the debate
about merit pay
programs sprouting in D.C. schools and many others nationwide.
Alfie Kohn wrote a great post (amongst many)
about The Risk of Rewards... but most directly
about this topic in A Closer Look at Reading
Incentive Programs.
's most recent post (November 25, 2013)
about the non-peer-reviewed National Bureau of Economic Research's DC IMPACT study, another recently published study albeit this time in the Journal of Labor Economics, a top - field peer - reviewed journal, found no impact of
incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion
program.
We are excited to learn more
about how districts can use these
incentives to bring in specialized
programs, replicate high - performing schools, and provide enhanced learning options for students.
Despite the increasing popularity of school vouchers, education savings accounts (ESA), and tax
incentive programs, many parents of children with disabilities struggle to find quality information and are left with important questions
about how these
programs work and might impact a child with a disability.