Mark was a faculty member for IACP teleconference 2011 «
Effective Practice Group Meetings, How to Keep Your Members Coming Back!».
Our solutions can also reduce risk by improving quality and consistency, such as through improved training and mentoring, use of substantive and process checklists and more
effective practice group meetings.
Not exact matches
In addition, attendees joined small
group discussions about
effective and successful policies and
practices at the school, district, and state level pertaining to three
groups of activities that catalyze efforts to
meet and exceed Smart Snacks requirements:
If policies did result in disproportionality — and thus had an adverse impact on certain
groups of students — schools would have to justify them by proving to the Department of Education that their policies were «necessary to
meet an important educational goal» and that there's no «comparatively
effective alternative policies or
practices» that the schools could use instead.
Factors considered important to the reform included the following: (a)
meeting for 1 hour a week in study
groups; (b)
meeting in cross-grade
groups; (c) reflecting on teaching in study
groups; (d) considering research - based «best
practices» in study
groups; (e) completing action plans in study
groups; (f) selecting substantive topics for study; (g) maintaining topics over time; (h)
meeting as a whole faculty once a month to discuss reform efforts; (i) working on parent partnerships and making
effective use of the external facilitator; and (j) making
effective use of the internal leadership team.
If the policy is necessary to
meet an important educational goal, then are there comparably
effective alternative policies or
practices that would
meet the school's stated educational goal with less of a burden or adverse impact on the disproportionately affected racial
group?
The ACA put a stop to those
practices, and all individual and small
group health insurance policies
effective since January 2014 have had to
meet minimum coverage standards.
• Managed talent acquisition programs for multi-billion dollar companies across the United States • Clients included Yahoo!, Microsoft, Tumbleweed Communications, BEA, & Aderactive • Responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive recruitment and training programs • Trained and led staffing team consisting of recruiters, sourcers, coordinators, and schedulers • Offered guidance in recruitment, interview, negotiation, and training best
practices • Developed execution plans offering metrics, hiring goals, and improvement strategies • Evaluated company staffing model, identified needs, and recommended remedial measures • Interacted with company CEO's, Presidents, and other members of senior leadership • Partnered with HR, Development, and other company departments to best
meet company goals • Significantly cut personnel costs and turnover rate through recruitment of career employees • Recruited, interviewed, screened, and filled positions from entry level to senior leadership • Negotiated and finalized compensation packages and job descriptions • Managed complex personnel issues during company acquisitions and mergers • Responsible for ensuring that recruitment procedures empowered underrepresented
groups • Authored reports detailing cost per hire, turnover ratios, and retention statistics • Utilized online and in - person recruitment tools and methods to attract best possible candidates • Developed working knowledge of varied professional fields to best fill positions • Built strong, long - term relationships with industry leaders across multiple professions • Cultivated sourcing pool for technology, sales, marketing, and other professional skill sets • Maintain strong ties to leading colleges and universities for recruitment purposes • Performed all duties in professional, efficient, and
effective manner
Our 12 - week program is adapted from MBSR, a structured 8 - week program of instruction in the cultivation of mindfulness, a
practice of purposeful nonjudgmental attention to the happenings of the present moment.5 MBSR programs consist of 3 components: (1) didactic material related to mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and the mind - body connection; (2) experiential
practice of various mindfulness meditations, mindful yoga, and body awareness during
group meetings and encouragement of home
practice; and (3)
group discussion focused on the application of mindfulness to everyday situations and problem - solving related to barriers to
effective practice.5, 13,14 The MBSR program includes a number of formal and informal techniques, all of which share the goal of enhancing nonjudgmental present - focused awareness, aimed to reduce dysregulated focus on the past (ie, rumination) and worries about the future (ie, anxiety).