Sentences with phrase «first evaluations this year»

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In the evaluation session at the close of the first year, comments such as these were voiced: «This group has given me self - confidence as a mother, I don't feel so pushed around by what others on my street think.»

This report is the product of the first year of monitoring and evaluation in the Lower Murray River under the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) Project.

The report evaluates the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water to environmental outcomes in 2016 - 17, complementing the first two years of LTIM Project monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and previous short term monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14.

This report is the product of the first year of monitoring and evaluation in the Goulburn River under the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) Project.

This report is the product of the first year of monitoring and evaluation in the Lachlan catchment under the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) Project.

The report evaluates the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water to environmental outcomes in 2016 - 17, complementing the first two years of LTIM Project monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16.

«These latest scientific reports — the first of a five year monitoring and evaluation programme — indicate that Commonwealth environmental water use during 2014 - 15 has contributed to positive outcomes for native fish, birds, frogs, and contributed to healthy waterways and productive environments.

The report evaluates the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water to environmental outcomes in 2015 - 16, complementing the first year of LTIM Project monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2014 - 15 and previous short term monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2012 — 13 and 2013 — 14.

The report evaluates the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water to environmental outcomes in 2015 - 16, complementing the first year of LTIM Project monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2014 - 15 and previous short term monitoring and evaluation work undertaken in 2011 - 12, 2012 - 13, 2013 - 14.

This report is the product of the first year of monitoring and evaluation at the whole of Basin - scale as part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's five - year Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) Project.

The Year One Evaluation revealed that, in the first cohort of 1000 families, one third of the couples lived together during pregnancy.

As your baby grows, especially during the first two years, the pediatrician conducts almost the same kind of evaluation every visit.

Impact evaluations reviewed in The Lancet medical journal have shown reductions in child maltreatment in the first two years of life of up to 48 percent.

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragraph (a).

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

Remember when we did the teacher evaluations the first year and we asked every district to complete teacher evaluations we basically had no compliance.

In the first year, 1999, a small number of fields of each crop were sown to test the evaluation protocols.

Last year, the education department released the results from the first round of teacher evaluations in October.

The state Education Department on Tuesday released preliminary results of the second year of the mandatory teacher - evaluation system, which included data from New York City for the first time.

Cuomo said last week during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol that new data regarding the results of the second year of the evaluation system, which included New York City for the first time, caused him to reconsider signing the bill.

Cuomo wouldn't comment directly on the preliminary results of the first year of teacher evaluations, which King announced Tuesday at a Board of Regents meeting.

Schools are using the exams to establish student growth for the purpose of state - mandated teacher evaluations, which are in their second year in most of the state and their first year in New York City.

The board unanimously approved his first - year evaluation and a contract extension.

Then the board got into its first fight of the year: over how open its annual evaluation of Superintendent Kriner Cash should be.

The UFT has been trying for two years to negotiate with the DOE to create a teacher evaluation system that will help us help kids — a system whose first priority is making sure that all teachers continually improve.

Laura Ahearn is a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow who was placed in her first year in the Research and Innovation Fellowships at the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Global Development Lab where she was a monitoring and evaluation specialist.

He is a first year AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at the Department of Defense in the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and will serve his second year at the Department of Energy in the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Taser will deliver the first prototypes for testing and evaluation early next year.

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.

Moreover, late last year, when Los Alamos conducted its first scheduled destructive test of a plutonium pit since the shutdown of PF - 4 more than three years ago, it did not produce the needed results, according to NNSA's annual evaluation of Los Alamos» performance last year.

The first six satellites are set for launch later this year, but the deal does not include financing for sensors for the second round of satellites, and orders NASA to evaluate within 90 days the potential to acquire similar data from commercial startups like Spire Global and GeoOptics, who have pioneered using small satellites to acquire similar data, and began providing such data to NOAA for evaluation last year.

The correct name of the evaluation is «San Francisco Bay Area KIPP Schools: A Study of Early Implementation, First Year Report 2004 - 2005.»

The findings in the report are from the first year of a three - year evaluation of KIPP schools in the Bay area.

DCPS was in the vanguard of these efforts, and was one of the first school districts in the country to link individual performance evaluations to high - stakes decisions about pay and retention when it launched IMPACT in the 2009 10 school year.

But Cincinnati administrators offered to allow current teachers to return to the traditional salary schedule if their salary ever decreased under the new plan, according to former associate superintendent Ware, and to exempt first - year teachers from the rigorous evaluation system.

Unfortunately, in the first five years of the initiative, according to the Evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's High School Grants Initiative: 2001 — 2005 Final Report, released in August 2006, there were mixed results at best.

I could see that there was a need for [observational evaluation] beyond first - year teachers.

The first report, released last year, termed the Danielson Framework «a reliable tool for identifying low - quality teaching» and said it «has potential for improving teacher evaluation systems.»

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.

In New York City, 80 percent of the students included in the evaluation attended the first - year testing sessions; 66 percent attended the second - year sessions.

So you will see that by early next year [2012] we have to deliver on the first model, which is [teacher evaluations in] the tested subjects.

First, the latest IES evaluation of the D.C. school - voucher program, which showed that voucher users lost ground (compared with non-users) during their first year in private schools, when judged by test scFirst, the latest IES evaluation of the D.C. school - voucher program, which showed that voucher users lost ground (compared with non-users) during their first year in private schools, when judged by test scfirst year in private schools, when judged by test scores.

For beginning teachers (those evaluated in their first and fourth years), a poor evaluation could result in nonrenewal of their contract, while a successful evaluation is required before receiving tenure.

There are beaucoup reasons why the new D.C. study ought not be taken too seriously — kids often do worse during their first year in a new school and an earlier IES evaluation of the DC program found significant long - term gains (notably high school graduation) for voucher users.

MPR, the evaluation firm that administered the lottery and collected the data, over-ran its first - year budget, and only a last - minute plea for additional funding prevented the lottery from falling apart.

This schedule set the year of first evaluation based on a teacher's year of hire, thus reducing the potential for bias that would arise if the timing of evaluation coincided with, for example, a favorable class assignment.

Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053 children from grades 2 - 6 from 11 elementary schools in New York City.

Across the four schools, pilot middle - school teachers used a number of different learning programs, including Achieve3000, i - Ready, Khan Academy, ST Math, iLearn, and iPass, according to an SRI International report on the pilot's first year (see First - Year Evaluation sidefirst year (see First - Year Evaluation sidebyear (see First - Year Evaluation sideFirst - Year Evaluation sidebYear Evaluation sidebar).

But Summit has reported first - year results for SLP partner schools: Growth on the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP) exceeded national averages in reading and, very slightly, in math.

It is not my intention to make an anecdotal, simplistic evaluation of our schooling systems but 40 years as a passionate and highly experienced teacher has pointed to these causes as two central issues, the first of which needs immediate and evaluative investigation.