Sentences with phrase «by building principals»

Five classroom observations, two done by building principals and three by teachers, were part of the evaluations, as were teacher portfolios.
And these evaluation systems are strikingly better than what they replaced: slapdash approaches involving a couple of classroom visits by a building principal for some teachers in some years that resulted in virtually all teachers being classified as high performing.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
The author David Betts, a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, concluded saying, «Improving the patient experience can help a hospital improve its financial performance by strengthening customer loyalty, building reputation and brand and boosting utilization of hospital services through increased referrals to family and friends.»
It never seems like that much when you're actually making the payments each month, but multiplying it by 12 makes it $ 3,228 by year 1, and then $ 22,596 by year 7 — which is roughly the amount we've been doing this so far... And that's ON TOP of the built in amounts going straight to principal with every payment too!
Allos leverages the investment experience and business - building skills and resources developed over the past decade by its principals in over 100 investments.
Network - like communications models built on the principal of reversibility of circuits might give indications of how to overcome this situation: a mass newspaper, written and distributed by its readers, a video network of politically active groups.
His principal concern was with building a healthy and unified mainstream culture to which socially progressive Christianity might make a contribution.10 Today o there is much more awareness that «culture» means different things to different people: Often people define themselves against the mainstream culture by defining themselves in terms of a sub-culture.
A new restaurant inspired by the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age has opened at the Mondrian Los Angeles, under the design direction of John Sofio, the Principal of the award - winning design / build firm, Built Inc..
Bishop Leonidas Polk, the principal founder, a West Point man and the man who helped select Sewanee's location, «by merit of... railway contiguity... [and] mountain air and pure water... beyond the reach of epidemics,» accepted a Confederate commission partly because Union sympathizers burned Sewanee buildings after Lincoln's election.
Principal characters include Albert B., J. Cheney, George B., and Ruth D. Wells, along with George Watson, the man behind moving the first buildings to the Village, and antiquarian Nina Fletcher Little, hired by Cheney Wells to coordinate decoration of the Towne house.
The report, by FRAC and the National Association of Elementary School Principals, provides guidance for principals interested in implementing Breakfast in the Classroom at their schools, and insights into the leadership they can provide to build a strong and sustainablPrincipals, provides guidance for principals interested in implementing Breakfast in the Classroom at their schools, and insights into the leadership they can provide to build a strong and sustainablprincipals interested in implementing Breakfast in the Classroom at their schools, and insights into the leadership they can provide to build a strong and sustainable program.
He said Verdi and former Principal Donna Connelly also failed to ease the crush by failing to renew the lease on a campus annex building.
Written comments on the draft Action Plan will be accepted through February 13, 2017 by Paul D'Orlando, Principal Contract Monitor, Erie County Department of Environment and Planning, Edward A. Rath County Office Building, 95 Franklin Street — 10th Floor, Buffalo, NY 14202.
Teacher observations for evaluations should be conducted by three people: the principal, another teacher in the building, and an outside evaluator, she said.
The principal culprit was a series of complicated policy issues — several of which seemingly had little relation to the actual budget — that had been promoted by Mr. Cuomo, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and 421 - a, a lapsed tax - cut program that encourages developers to build housing.
«By building capacity among the school districts, instead of working in isolation, we're finding more resources to bring to our kids, resources we've lacked,» said Tracy Spagnolo, initiative representative with West Seneca schools and principal at Winchester Elementary School.
Electrolysis has a bright future, according to Shane Stephens, chief development officer and principal at FirstElement Fuel, a California - based startup that was awarded $ 28 million by the CEC to build 19 hydrogen stations throughout the state.
«We have to build a large enough study to be able to look at both genes and environment together,» says Newschaffer, who is a principal investigator on a study by the Centers for Disease Control that will look at 2,700 children over the next five years.
The researchers trained their system on images from a huge database built by Torralba; Aude Oliva, a principal research scientist at CSAIL; and their students.
The Keck DEIMOS spectrograph used in the discovery was built by the University of California Observatories at UC Santa Cruz, and the Principal Investigator, Professor Sandra M. Faber, was recently honored with the National Medal of Science.
After countless iterations and debates, Jerry Nelson — who would become the principal designer of the Keck Observatory telescopes — convinced the University of California (UC), which was thinking of building a 7 - meter telescope, to allow him and Terry Mast of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to develop a 36 - segment design that would increase humankind's ability to collect light by a factor of four.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), built by MSSS and operated by principal investigator Mark Robinson at Arizona State University, continues to return 0.5 meter per pixel high - resolution images and 100 meter per pixel multi-spectral images after being launched in June 2009.
These were built by European and American instrument teams led by Principal Investigators.
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On several occasions, Langston interviews the principal villain, Police Colonel De Jager (played by Brendan Gleeson), whose role in the film is to articulate the principal justifications for the cruelties inflicted on Black South Africans — that they are inferior beings who need to be ruled and to preserve the prosperity built by Whites in South Africa.
A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and achievement by looking at more than 21,000 students across three states.
BRAVO principalsprincipals who understand the importance of Building Relationships with Actions that Value Others — begin by creating a shared vision on campus.
Monitoring building facilities and safety, and working closely with the custodians to ensure cleanliness, are responsibilities shouldered by most principals.
«Laws created by people who have never tried to teach a child, never seen how out - of - control behavior can disrupt learning, and never even been in a school building since their own school days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in Houston.
Funders may need to be more deliberate by creating a robust entity that has the sole job of coordinating across the entire geographic cluster to make sure that system leaders, principals and other school leaders, blended learning directors, teachers, and education technology companies have frequent opportunities to network and spend time with each other learning and building in a deliberate way on each other's successes and setbacks.
Inspired by Marshall principal Teresa Harvey - Jackson and discipline dean Itonyia Dismond, Bishop - Rice contacted City Year to see if the community - building corps could organize a service day.
Willow Run Middle School, also in Michigan, responded to the restructuring mandate by moving to a new building, replacing the principal and some staff, and implementing a comprehensive school - reform model.
As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.
Celebrities, politicians, and business leaders have left their offices and volunteered to spend a day in a school building, side - by - side with its principal, to see just what is happening in New York's public schools.
Kathleen Decker, our principal at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy Elementary School, lives by the philosophy that it takes a village to raise a child and build a school.
We determined «functional zones» for each staff member by tracing the paths connecting their workspace to two of these locations: the principal's office, staff restrooms, photocopier, student lunchroom, and nearest entrance / exit to the building.
In a recent talk about this book, I asked a school principal what the book meant to her, and she replied, «I'm exhilarated by what this means for me, the teachers in my building, and the students we teach.
The nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps by 2018.
The franchise - model CMOs have built in some safeguards: day - to - day decisions are managed by an entrepreneurial principal who has the flexibility to change programs that may not be working and to expand those that are.
Designed by Benjamin Thompson and Associates, it was built for a cost of $ 6,000,000, with the principal donation coming from New York financier Monroe C. Gutman, for whom the new building was named.
The other $ 4 billion was intended by Congress to fund grants to help states improve in four key areas: building data systems, adopting «career - and - college ready» standards and tests, hiring great teachers and principals, and turning around low - performing schools.
«College and Career Readiness: The Importance of Early Learning» by Chrys Dougherty This short but powerful report by an ACT principal research scientist shows the importance of a knowledge - rich, well - rounded curriculum through which all students master basic skills while also building an academic foundation in the early grades.
And we must give principals the authority to build their own teaching staffs by enacting mutual consent.
This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas: (1) Improving teacher and principal effectiveness; (2) Providing information to families to help them evaluate and improve their children's schools; (3) Implementing college - and career - ready standards; and (4) Improving student learning and achievement in America's lowest - performing schools by providing intensive support and effective interventions.
The Leadership Profiles build upon the Australian Professional Standard for Principals by describing the role of principals in greatPrincipals by describing the role of principals in greatprincipals in greater detail.
Nurture high - quality pre-K-3 programs by building background knowledge of early learning and leadership competencies from the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
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