Sentences with phrase «day work year»

All teachers, as part of their approximately 180 - day work year, participate in a one - to two - week Summer Institute dedicated to collaborative planning in preparation for the school year.23 In addition, grade teams have two weeks of professional collaborative time staggered throughout the year when their students are in intensives.

Data from the National Council on Teacher Quality show that the average CBA entitles teachers to nearly thirteen days of paid sick and / or personal leave per 180 - day school year (or the equivalent of sixteen days over the typical professional's 225 - day work year).

First, paid leave for teachers in the ECEC data set is based on teachers» shorter 185 — day work year, versus roughly 260 days for most nonteachers.

By contrast, private - sector employers offer an average 10 days of time off or 4 % of work days during a 260 - day work year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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When the meal was through, they had learned a lot about him — his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street.

«Brainjolt was built on the work I did for five years every day between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 a.m..

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

You read about the struggle of 13 - year - old Clarisse Kambire working a cotton farm, subsisting on one meal a day or less, and you despair.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

For some people it takes years of hard work, stressful days, and sleepless nights, but like anything you put time and energy into, the end result is definitely worth the effort.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

Working in tech for the past 10 years, one important lesson I've learned is that it's too easy and common to get lost in day - to - day work and responsibilities.

According to Verizon's paper Bring Your Own Device: The Facts and the Future published earlier this year, over 60 % of workers report using a personal device at least once a day in their work, with 44 % using a personal smartphone in their job.

She hasn't had a vacation in years, she doesn't date, and she works seven days a week.

Today marks the additional number of days the average woman in the U.S. has to work this year to catch up to what men earned in 2017 alone.

For the first year, the duo kept their day jobs (both worked at Clarity Systems), putting their energy into refining their product and strategy rather than attracting resources.

I spent years with the pedal to the metal, working seven days a week.

I'm looking forward to the day when it gets really fine - grained — it would really have come in handy when I worked at the CBC, an absolutely giant maze of corridors that I still got lost in even after three years of working there.

«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»

You've been working for days — years, really.

«But the second year I slept okay, I have to work the next day so I have to sleep.»

Rita Alvy - Teeter came into work one bright spring day last year to find a third of the revenue pulled out from under her Irvine, California, design firm.

And I'm sad to say I've certainly sent my share of poorly written, typo infested emails over the years, and it's something I have to work on every day.

In the case of Nike, which worked with TechStars to launch the 90 - day Nike + Accelerator earlier this year, the goal was simple: to grow the Nike + ecosystem.

Sept. 30 marks the final day of fiscal year 2015 and members of Congress are working to pass a bill that would allow U.S. federal agencies to continue spending money, thus avoiding the second federal government shutdown in two years.

Major equity indexes closed lower but little changed on the last working day of the year for some traders.

Throughout the year, weeks, and even days — we float through, and in between, these various phases of conscious and unconscious creative work.

In my younger years I had a working relationship with a CEO of what would one day become one of my first company's early competitors.

Today is this year's Equal Pay Day, which represents the amount of extra time the average woman would have to work full time — 100 days — to make the same amount of money the average man made in the previous calendar year.

For much of the year, the Castillos work 16 - hour days hauling trash from D.C. to landfills in central Virginia; her mother minds the kids in the afternoon.

We have accomplished so much together over the past five years, and no words can adequately describe my appreciation for the work you do each day.

Three years ago, a mentor asked me that question and gave me life - changing advice: Schedule your day around when your brain is firing on all cylinders and hold off on brainless work until it is fatigued.

While sleeping on an air mattress in the office, dining on cans of Kroger soup, and working 18 hours a day, he spent a year and a half incubating his idea for dairy - free protein bars.

A few years ago, the company introduced new processes and systems that directly affected the day - to - day work of more than half of the organization.

Is a 20 - year employee who does just enough to get by, criticizes you and your business at work and at home, and often undermines your decisions more loyal than a 1 - year employee who genuinely embraces where you want to go, and works hard every day to help you and your company succeed?

But, ironically, our loss of sleep, despite the extra hours we put in at work, collectively adds up to more than eleven days of lost productivity per year per worker, or about $ 2,280.

Beginning on the first day of this year, Williams started working in earnest on Obvious.

«Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.»

We actually see startups in China grow at a faster pace the first three to five years than they do in the U.S.. It's not uncommon to see Chinese teams working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m, six days a week.

Like I mentioned the other day, that system may have worked in the past but since the wide - scale rise of the Internet over the past 20 years, the masses are more aware of what they don't have than ever before.

It's a problem that results in 1.2 million lost work days a year at about a $ 411 billion cost to the economy.

We not only rallied going into the close of the year, the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise, far surpassing the typical first - day putting - money - to - work story.

By the end of the first three working days of the year, the U.K.'s top bosses will each have earned on average as much as a typical worker will take home in all of 2018, according to a report.

Bruic spends her days now working at the Afghan army's two - year - old signals school, where she advises Afghan officers on communications networks and training.

It's not quite like the «one hit wonder» app's that strike it rich overnight, I've built and worked at mine every day for 10 - 12 hours for almost a year now.

Miguel Patricio, who has worked for AB InBev since the Brahma days, last year became its global CMO after spending four years as a zone president in China.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

In fact, Gallup interviews of more than 5,000 employed adults in Germany revealed that, on average, employees who are engaged at work only miss 3.9 days of work per year.