Sentences with phrase «hold ourselves to the high standards set»

As part of our commitment, we voluntarily hold ourselves to the high standards set out by the American Animal Hospital Association.

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House Speaker Paul Ryan is adamant that Congress should be held to «high standards» and set an example for the rest of the country in how women are treated in the workplace amid a flood of recent allegations of sexual harassment both on the Hill and across the country.

I hold atheists like myself up to a higher standards than those I set for theists.

Right now, I'm trying to convince my daughter that she does not have to hold her friends to any higher standards than what they set for themselves.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

However, some states, such as Georgia, have used this flexibility to create a loophole from compliance with the standards by setting a high number for how many exempt fundraisers schools can hold per year.

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

But as educators, we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard when posting publicly and set a good model for our students.

We have set high standards and created a school accountability system that holds schools responsible for outcomes and gives schools, parents, and educators the information they need to address students» strengths and weaknesses.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

The first track is standards - based: Set clear, high expectations in core academic subjects; test students regularly to see which schools and students are clearing the bar; and hold schools (and perhaps also educators and pupils) to account for the results.

In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

They are held account financially to the Department for Education through their funding agreement which also sets out the high standards of education expected of them as a new school.

Many policy makers agreed: set higher standards; test to see if students have mastered them; hold back students or prevent them from graduating if they don't pass.

Important questions to consider include whether states will set high standards for holding schools accountable, Jeffries said, and whether states and districts will intervene smartly when schools fall short.

The reason, in my view, is that the politicians most likely to stand up for smart, robust education reforms — expanding charter schools but also holding them accountable, for example, or setting high standards and empowering educators to meet them as they see fit — are mainstream conservative Republicans.

Peer sexual harassment is essentially the companion issue to the high court's ruling in June that set a new standard for holding districts liable for a teacher's sexual harassment of a student.

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

A spokesman for Scotland biggest teaching union, the EIS, said: «Scottish teachers are some of the best qualified in the world, and are held to a particularly high set of professional standards.

By requiring the states to set high standards, pairing them with assessments that measured whether students were achieving those standards, and holding schools accountable if students failed to do so, NCLB, in the eyes of its sponsors, would close achievement gaps and make America's schools the envy of the world.

We believe kids rise to the level of expectations adults hold for them, so we set high standards for all kids.

We hold students to high academic standards and encourages teachers and staff to set high expectations.

The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.

National Heritage Academies was founded on a set of principles — core values that reflect the high personal and educational standards we hold ourselves to.

Certified pre-owned vehicles are held to a higher standard and must be within five recent model years and have less than a set amount of miles.

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Though I don't agree with many of the marketing efforts such sets employ, I also will not condemn them (I don't think authors must necessarily be held to a higher moral standard than any other small business seeking visibility).

Because MI selection is currently handled by the lender as part of the primary market process, the IMAGIN program sets a precedent of allowing the GSEs to participate in primary market activities while also putting the taxpayer at greater risk by circumventing the high capital and regulatory standards that MIs are held to today.

We're also set apart because we hold ourself to a higher standard.

Held to human food standards, meaning it contains the highest quality ingredients and maintains production as set by the FDA.

«Peru strives to set the highest possible bar to raise the standards of excellence in travel and tourism and it has been an honour to hold the World Travel Awards here for the first time.»

The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee on Thursday held a hearing on S. 398, a bill to set higher energy efficiency standards for a wide variety of products, and on S. 395, the Better Use of Light Bulbs (or BULB) Act, a bill introduced by Sen. Mike Enzi (R - Wyo.)

In finding Commission Decision 2002/520 establishing the Safe Harbor to be invalid (para. 106), the Court affirms the need for a high standard of data protection as set out in its previous case law such as Digital Rights Ireland (Joined Cases C - 293 / 12 and C - 594 / 12), and holds that while data protection standards in third countries need not be «identical» to those in the EU, they must be «equivalent» (para. 73).

We're also set apart because we hold ourself to a higher standard.

• 7 years» extensive experience in providing physical education • Committed to deliver modern, high quality, results - oriented lessons • Highly skilled in using assessment data to recalibrate curriculum • Demonstrated ability to set and hold students to high academic, behavioral, and character standards • In - depth knowledge of developing motor skills and physical development in young adults

During class I always set out clear instructional goals to those I teach, promote a culture of excellence at every opportunity and hold my students to extremely high academic standards.

The staff holds externs to high standards and work hard to help students get a clear picture of the reality of working in an organized and fast - paced office setting.

As the largest professional association, the NAR helps improve real estate by setting standards high and holding its members to a higher - than - required level of training and experience, and a strict code of conduct.