Sentences with phrase «local evaluations of»

The Tribal Evaluation Institute (TEI) works with tribal communities to plan and conduct rigorous local evaluations of federally funded home visiting programs.

Previously, Velette was the Project Manager for the statewide and local evaluation of the California Mathematics and Science Partnerships, which examined the growth of teachers» pedagogical and content knowledge through professional development and its effect on student outcomes.

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But overemphasis on publication can lead to a stream of superficial articles and neglect of other criteria of evaluation; preoccupation with prestige in the wider professional community can displace concern for service in one's local situation.

Local churches should participate with other community groups in establishing panels for review and evaluation of movies playing at local theatres, and in helping communicate any resulting viewpoints to church members and others in the commuLocal churches should participate with other community groups in establishing panels for review and evaluation of movies playing at local theatres, and in helping communicate any resulting viewpoints to church members and others in the commulocal theatres, and in helping communicate any resulting viewpoints to church members and others in the community.

Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates, human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.

As summarised below, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will continue to work with the Murray Darling Basin Authority, state agencies, research organisations, regional organisations, local groups and others, such as landholders to collect and collate relevant monitoring information that facilitates evaluation and reporting of the use of water under the Basin Plan.

An important component of each monitoring and evaluation plan involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, local environmental water management groups and community members.

The focus of each monitoring and evaluation plan is to determine whether Commonwealth environmental water is achieving the outcomes expected of it at the local and Basin scale.

The checklist must be returned to Child Nutrition Services along with a copy of the local wellness policy and the name of person responsible for overseeing implementation and evaluation of the policy.

Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness poliLocal Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness polilocal wellness policies.

Oregon also provides the report of its Food Choices in Oregon Schools Task Force, which includes recommendations and evaluation data that are pertinent to crafting and implementing local wellness policies.

In addition, each school district and charter school is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness policy.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

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«In the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Only four local districts — Harborfields, Longwood, Lynbrook and Tuckahoe — have obtained state approval of plans putting the new evaluation law into effect.

«Assemblywoman Nolan's version of the bill provides the Regents an extension until November 2015 and provides adequate time for local districts to negotiate teacher evaluation plans.

The Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts office is responsible for independent, accurate and timely audits, evaluations and investigations of the financial operations of Nebraska state and local governments.

The review team will include internationally renowned artists and architects, under the auspices of the New York State Council of the Arts, who will review proposed bridge designs as well as assist local community leaders and transportation experts in the evaluation process.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

Referrals for specialized care and evaluation are typically through a report to Niagara County Department of Social Services or local law enforcement.

Senate Democrats aren't the only ones seeking changes to what was approved in the budget: Republicans and Democrats in both chambers have introduced bills aimed at extending the deadline for developing regulations for the teacher evaluations as well unlinking the enactment of the standards on the local level to a boost in school aid.

Therefore, we recommend that there should be merging of ministries such as Railways Development Ministry, Aviation Ministry, Ports and Harbour Ministry to Transport Ministry; the Local Government Ministry can take care of Regional Reorganization whiles Evaluation and Monitoring can be taken care of by a unit under the Chief of Staff.

Wednesday's decision states that although 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation can still be based on test scores, half of those tests must be chosen by local school districts through collective bargaining with their union.

She said the board is looking into revising the evaluation system, which should include demonstrations of teachers» work and would be focused at the local level.

Mr Prosper Ahalivor who spoke on behalf of the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS) said it was pertinent to disclose that in its bid to improve institutional and staff capacity, competition, performance and service delivery, the Service had developed and implementing an evaluation / assessment system known as the LGS Performance Management System (PMS).

Cuomo credits the budget, as well as agreements approved in mid-March, for implementing new teacher evaluations, pension changes that create a new tier of lowered benefits for public employees, and helping local governments with Medicaid costs.

Meanwhile, test refusal groups still are calling for parents to opt their children out of state exams as well as the local tests used in teacher evaluations.

Another 20 percent of those evaluations is based on local tests, and the bulk, 60 percent, is based on observations.

The changes include protecting students and teachers from the impact of state assessments and reducing the amount of local testing associated with the teacher evaluation law.

The teacher evaluation system worked only in theory, as the validity of the results was often undermined at the local level to ensure all teachers were highly rated.

On Tuesday, several state and local education officials - including State Regents Commissioner Meryl Tisch and United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew - testified on the Common Core curriculum and teacher evaluation implementation.

The leader of the local teachers union is speaking out on recently released teacher evaluation ratings.

Board member Roger Tilles said the board also voted to base another 25 percent of a teacher's evaluations on new local tests.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

Local school districts, including New York City, have until next January to implement a systemwide teacher evaluation system, though the governor assured New Yorkers that with the day's agreement, New York City was sure to be eligible for its share of the state's 4 percent school funding increase.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

Recent passage of a new teacher evaluation system is a first step in the right direction, but we need district and local leaders to step up and agree on final details for the new system.

My proposed reforms to the evaluation system reduce the amount of testing by eliminating the existing local component of the system that leads to more testing.

But the governor did succeed in setting in motion another overhaul of the teacher evaluation system, whose details will be worked out in the months ahead by the State Education Department and in negotiations between each local school district and its teachers union.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

«The evaluation will be based on the integrated and long - term analysis of PM2.5 data, weather information and cases of local residents» diseases and deaths,» Xinhua said.

As of 9:30 P.M. local time, the «effect of this operation [was] still under evaluation,» the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) reported.

The evaluation committee judged the Kitakami site preferable because of geologic conditions, local infrastructure, and the possibility of making an international scientific community feel at home.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).