Sentences with phrase «evaluations year after»

Other principals cut - and - paste narratives and just change teachers» names or submit nearly identical evaluations year after year.

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Zachary Cruz, who lived with a family friend after his mother died last year, was also involuntarily committed for a psychiatric evaluation days after the shooting.

InterVarsity's announcement is not a calculated move in the culture war; it's a defensive posture, taken only after the ministry conducted a four - year evaluation of its doctrine and its future.

My wife commented during the closing group evaluation that it made us feel pleased (as well as slightly jealous) to see them communicating at a level, after a few years together, that it had taken us much longer to reach in our marriage.

After careful evaluation, we learned that Hormel Foods does not have manufacturing operations in areas defined as water scarce regions by the World Resource Institute (annual renewable water supply per person < 1,700 cubic meters / person / year).

After some evaluation by team doctors, head coach John Harbaugh has confirmed that Webb is lost for the year with the ACL tear, according to Aaron Wilson of Ravens Insider.

They traded Smith because Reid after working with Mahomes for a year decided his evaluation was right and that he was ready.

After receiving her Masters in Counseling Psychology, she worked inside a mega-jail for 3 years, providing mental health evaluation and treatment for criminals and substance abusers, a skill set which has actually come in handy when raising kids.

Urinary incontinence (UI) has an effect on quality of life during the postpartum period.1, 2 Fear of UI is one of the most common reasons for maternal demand for cesarean delivery.3, 4 The muscle strength of the pelvic floor returns to the antepartum value 6 — 10 weeks postpartum in most women.5, 6 However, UI symptoms after delivery do not resolve in the long term in some women.7, 8 Studies have variously concluded that the prevalence of UI changed9 or did not change within 6 months or 1 year postpartum.10, 11 A higher prevalence or incidence of UI has been observed in women who had a vaginal delivery than in women who underwent cesarean delivery.10 — 18 In contrast, a recent study found that vaginal delivery was not associated with postpartum UI.19 The long - term protective effect of cesarean delivery has not been determined.20 Validated and reliable questionnaires to evaluate UI, including severity and quality of life, are needed for postpartum evaluation.21 However, comparisons of UI severity and the effect on daily life between women who have had vaginal and cesarean deliveries are scarce.22

Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

After the months spent in the last school year in a fight over teacher evaluations, the district stands to lose nearly $ 59 million in this year's fight over evaluations.

After years of false starts we instituted a real teacher evaluation process that focuses on performance rather than merely growing the bureaucracy.

Less than a month after it was enacted, Governor Cuomo's new teacher evaluation plan seems to be in jeopardy, with the Regents Chancellor calling for a year's delay and a key Senator saying the legislature needs to revisit the issue.

After years of legal complaints and evaluations that called for an upgrade of the sewer system, the county turned to green infrastructure — such as rain gardens and green roofs — that was implemented in 2008 with the help of Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, Speer said.

Less than a month after it was enacted, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new teacher evaluation plan seems to be in jeopardy, with the Regents chancellor calling for a year's delay and a key senator saying the legislature needs to revisit the issue.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

A state Supreme Court Justice has ruled in favor of a Great Neck teacher who sued the state over its teacher evaluation model after she received an «ineffective» on the rating tied to students» test performance — one year after being rated «effective» for similar scores.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.

After schools failed to comply with an unenforceable evaluation law for years, Cuomo tied the adoption of state - approved evaluation plans to an increase in state funding.

The tests have become controversial in recent years after being tied to teacher evaluations and the new learning standards, prompting many parents to skip them in protest.

Some 20 percent of the evaluation (25 percent after two years) would be based on student scores on standardized tests.

The breakdown of the evaluation talks in the wee hours of Jan. 17, after the mayor torpedoed a deal agreed to by his own education department and the UFT, cost the city $ 280 million in state and federal funding, threatened a further loss of $ 224 million in state aid next year, and jeopardized $ 700 million in statewide Race to the Top funds.

The National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (NTIES), a Congressionally - mandated five - year study, found that whereas many clients served by federally - funded programs cut their drug use in half up to a year after treatment, many eventually relapsed.

The researchers limited their evaluation of the results of the technique to patients with no major weight loss or gain during the year after surgery.

Detailed findings of this study are reported and discussed in «Evaluation of S100B in the diagnosis of suspected intracranial hemorrhage after minor head injury in patients who are receiving platelet aggregation inhibitors and in patients 65 years and older,» by Heinrich Wolfgang Thaler, MD, Jochen Schmidsfeld, MD, and colleagues, published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery.

o Food allergy evaluation is recommended for children under five - years - old with persistent moderate to severe atopic dermatitis despite effective treatment or who have a history of reaction after eating certain foods.

A new evaluation of a statewide shaken baby prevention effort found that the number of calls to a nurse advice line from North Carolina parents who called because of a crying baby were reduced in the first 2 years after the intervention was implemented in 2007.

Breast cancer survivors had baseline neuropsychological evaluations within three months after primary treatments (n = 190), at six months (n = 173), at one year (n = 173) and at an average of 4.8 years after treatment (n = 102).

The new policies would have allowed the dismissal of tenured professors who, after receiving unsatisfactory evaluations 2 straight years, failed to improve their performance during the following 2 years.

Another destructive pit test scheduled for last year — after being delayed for at least a year — had to be abandoned outright because a nuclear safety analysis of the work wasn't completed, the NNSA's evaluation of the lab said.

Based on an evaluation of nearly 22,000 women included in the WHI trials, women aged younger than 40 years already in menopause had significantly higher risks for fracture than women who experienced menopause between the ages of 40 and 49 or after 50, regardless of treatment intervention.

«We retrospectively analyzed the data from the DTI sequence to derive measures of white matter integrity, which we compared to clinical measures and subsequent outcome measures 6 months to 2.5 years after the initial evaluation.»

A four - year old patient with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect (PA / VSD) after surgical repair with Contegra conduit (bovine jugular vein graft, Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) at the age of 2 years underwent repeated CMR scan under general anesthesia for evaluation of aortic regurgitation and assessment of left ventricular volumes.

If you're older than 35, remember that trying to conceive can take longer because of the impact on your eggs; if this is the case, and you have been trying to conceive for at least six months, you may consider starting your evaluation early (e.g. after six months, rather than a year).

After four years of follow - up evaluations, 200 participants were beginning to show mild cognitive impairment, problems with memory, language, thinking and judgment that are greater than normal age - related changes.

So, after almost ten years of clinical evaluation a team of doctors at Shanghai People's Hospital developed MetaPhase, a unique herbal blend that supports healthy insulin and blood sugar levels already within the normal range.

After more than twenty years, the Army has modified its fitness evaluation.

Hormone therapy does not need to be routinely discontinued in women aged older than 60 or 65 years and can be considered for continuation beyond age 65 years for persistent hot flashes, quality - of - life issues, or prevention of osteoporosis after appropriate evaluation and counseling of benefits and risks.

All the subjects had cognitive function tests at the start of the study, but only 334 of them, or about 75 %, completed a second round of brain evaluations at the end of the trial (after about four years of follow - up) to assess the impact of the diets.

Here is my personal evaluation of Holly Golightly and how I'd imagine the character to develop after all these years.

After several years in general pediatrics he completed fellowship in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics at the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

To be sure, there is nothing in our current forms of direct evaluation that requires schools and teachers to abandon a broad, knowledge - laden curriculum to boost test scores; but it should be abundantly clear that if the field hasn't gotten this message nearly fifteen years after No Child Left Behind, it's not going to.

Expanding school choice has been shown to improve achievement for minority students by about one - third of a standard deviation after a few years of intervention, according to seven of eight random - assignment evaluations (the eighth showed positive but statistically insignificant effects).

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schools.

Only after a few years of stripped - down tenure and evaluations focused on performance, and after a few locales craft some promising approaches, will it make sense for state legislatures to wade in more aggressively.

Say the results of his first - year evaluation are disappointing, confirming the sense of his parents and teachers that the special education intervention program wasn't the best fit for his needs after all.

Eric Taylor and John Tyler report that midcareer teachers in Cincinnati saw significant improvements in student outcomes in the years during and after intensive observations (see «Can Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching?»