Sentences with phrase «gave their practice groups»

Just 49 per cent of managing partners gave their practice groups a «very good» or «excellent» performance rating, while practice group leaders got the higher ratings from 52 per cent of managing partners.

Leading Practice Groups in a Time of Great Change is a new workshop designed to give Practice Group Leaders the skills and understanding they need to effectively lead their groups to higher levels of performance and success in a world of increasing change and uncertainty.

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I did the unthinkable and joined the local Toastmasters chapter where I was living, which was a group of professionals who would get together once a week to practice giving their pitches.

Gotlieb clarified that nobody at GroupM believes the company should be giving away personally identifiable information, but said that the practice of grouping and labeling a swath of individual consumers, known as audience profiling, «should be used as a good» to show consumers ads they are more likely to find useful.

The Canadian Mining Association could form a similar partnership with Canadian banks, providing training on sustainable practices to Burmese natural resource firms while leveraging the trillions of dollars raised on the TSX for projects that give environmental groups and local residents a say.

Defense's practice of giving minority companies a 10 percent price credit meant that companies owned by certain socially and economically disadvantaged groups did not have to be the lowest bidder to win federal contracts, and helped the department achieve the congressionally mandated goal.

The hip - hop mogul, whose given name is Shawn Carter, is the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 million to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

At the Value Forward Group, we give your IT company a complete health check of its current operational, organizational and functional business processes and then provide independent written best practice suggestions and executive management team coaching.

The reflection is given concreteness and specificity («context») by being embodied by the practices of this specific group of students, who are responsible to each other for the success of the process.

Special attention should be given to the practice of scheduling religious services and to the use of Church buildings by these groups, including the facilities of Catholic schools and colleges.

As must now be evident, the charismatic orientation may be cloaked in the style of those groups which call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal, but it is important to note that the charismatic negotiation is primarily a structure and as such may give form to the world views of persons and groups that do not adopt any of the features or practices of what is conventionally called charismatic religion.

Not the haburah fellowship meal celebrated by a group of Pharisees; no such meal existed (J. Jeremias, Eucharistic Words of Jesus [1965], pp. 30 f.) Not the Qumran communal meal anticipating the «messianic banquet», for all that this may have influenced the Christian practice, because that is simply a special meaning given to the regular communal meal at Qumran, whereas our evidence indicates that the Christian practice was something out of the ordinary which the early Christians did and which helped to give them a special identity.

A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

Having couples together gives them an opportunity actually to practice the new skills in the group.

This presentation was originally given to the Medical Nutrition Practice Group of the Academy...

Instruction will be given through individual and group instruction with time allotted for practice, drills and games.

We talked about appropriate behavior for her toward each group, practiced scenarios, and I also gave her permission to NOT hug or kiss anyone outside her immediate family.

Today 80 percent of ethnic groups in Asia, South America and Africa still practice this and give birth either sitting, suspend, on the knees or crouching.

Considering that the practice is widespread an ethical dilemma would arise as the control group of mothers would not be educated about how to express and store their colostrum and if their infant became hypoglycaemic artificial infant milk based on cow's milk, with all its proven association with Type 1 diabetes, would need to be given.

Village Health Committees mobilized «core groups» of women and men to identify barriers to recommended practices and implement local activities related to newborn healthb; trained grandparents, including grandfathers, to give counseling and deliver health education messages on key maternal and newborn health topics, including essential newborn careb

Reading aloud in small groups gives your child a chance to practice expressive reading, and students can work together to sound out and learn the meaning of unknown words.

Giving information to persons wishing to practice domiciliary midwifery, supporting the establishment of domiciliary midwife group practices and the Midwives Association of Ireland.

Given the wide range of practices that likely occurred in both the «intervention» and «control» groups, I am again not surprised to see no significant difference.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

A coalition of groups on Monday urged the state Board of Elections to prohibit the practice of allowing individual donors to give unlimited campaign contributions through a network of limited liability corporations.

Correction: January 10, 2006, Tuesday A front - page article on Friday about the Bloomberg administration's public health campaign regarding a circumcision rite practiced by some Orthodox Jews gave incorrect names in some copies for the group of rabbis opposing the campaign.

In fact, there's a huge group of scientists who might not spot the difference between a real conference and a fake one; who might think it's a good idea to attend conferences they don't recognize, run by societies they haven't heard of; and who might think that paying to give a speech or to receive an award is standard practice.

The «deliberate practice» method begins with the instructor giving students a multiple - choice question on a particular concept, which the students discuss in small groups before answering electronically.

The award is given annually by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, to an individual, group or organization that demonstrates extraordinary contributions in science, practice or policy toward the improvement of minority health or the elimination of health disparities.

For the study, the researchers randomly assigned parents of 43 babies to one of three groups: one that started practicing controlled crying; one that took up bedtime fading; and a third, «control» group that was just given information on healthy sleep.

This group will support your home yoga practice, give you a chance to share your ideas about practice design with others, and inspire you to be more creative and precise with your yoga practice design.

Private lessons are incredible valuable to enhance your yoga practice or to help address personal needs that are not often addressed in group classes, and they can help refine your practice by giving you the opportunity to ask very specific Read More...

Last year I just squeaked by with firm's «target» number of hours (under 1900), but didn't make the informal practice group target (less than 100 more) and received the low tier bonus for my year (no complaints, wasn't sure I'd get it given how close I was).

I'm excited for this opportunity for a variety of reasons, but mostly because it will allow me still be be at home when my girls need me (like dropping off and picking up from track practice, orthodontist appointments, tennis practice, therapy appointments, youth group activities, and on and on and on...), and it will allow me to help with the family finances AND it will give me the opportunity to teach, which is something that I love to do!

The local affiliate of Great Expectations - a company called DMZ Group, also signed a settlement in which it agreed to restrict its marketing practices and give partial refunds to unsatisfied customers.

The movie's central dilemma has some dramatic juice, especially given the way it characterizes the volleyball team: There isn't a naturally great new player who can help rally an otherwise ragtag group to victory, just the grueling prospect of hard work and lots of practice.

«If you've got four teachers working as a group and can free those people up for a half day each (a full day is preferable)... even with that relatively small intervention or investment of giving people time to work together, it then seems to have an impact on their ongoing practice.»

Give both group rewards and individual rewards, helping students learn and practice social skills.

Students will practice their data collection skills through a research activity which gives them an opportunity to use student choice and discovery an animal and appropriately place in its classification group based on researching and observing specific characteristics.

While breaks can help reset student focus, a useful alternative — especially for older students — is to switch teaching strategies throughout a lesson: Try having students team up on a think - pair - share activity or work in groups, spend a few minutes reviewing concepts, or give a low - stakes practice test at the end of a lesson.

In this activity, set the timer and give mere minutes to group plan a mock birthday party, a field trip, or a group meal so they can practice their negotiation skills.

The executive director of Smarter Balanced, a consortium of states developing the new Common Core assessments, said he supports California's decision to give the field, or practice, test in the new standards to all students next spring, rather than limit the pilot to a small test group as other states are doing.

For all of these, the teacher should first model how to use the strategy, then give students an opportunity to cooperatively apply the strategy while producing group papers, and finally let students practice using the strategy while writing individual papers.

In giving air time to fears and concerns, we were able to group them into three camps: mindset, instructional practice, and logistics.

The school districts described in the above three case vignettes have much in common: a district - wide commitment to listening to public concerns; serious effort given to communicating district policies and practices to the public; and a focus on collaborating and partnering with individuals and groups from the community, including business people.

Yet, again, when these systems are implemented in practice, 70 + % of teachers are assigned a school - level student growth score, meaning that all teachers in any given school who fall into this group will all receive the same score.

Each team, consisting of the principal and at least two other school staff members, is charged with using data to identify a change in instructional practice that will accelerate learning for a given group of underperforming students, then work with others to implement and monitor the change.57

Peer tutoring involves having students work in pairs or small groups to practice new skills and give feedback to each other.

If given the opportunity, this particular group of teachers would use videotaping teaching and portfolio development in the future for reflective purposes and improvement of their teaching practice.