Sentences with phrase «of standards for»

Construction is one of the standards for technology education.

The best example is their setting of standards for school improvement - known in the law as «adequate yearly progress.»

Acting independently of the wider nursing profession for the first time, the National Association of School Nurses this summer released a new set of standards for members of the profession.

Learning Forward (formally the National Staff Development Council), an organization focused on effective educator professional learning, adopted and expanded the Guskey and Sparks (2002) model by developing a set of standards for high quality educator learning (Learning Forward, 2011; National Staff Development Council, 2001).

This means that students can develop mutually reinforcing skills and exhibit mastery of standards for reading and writing across a range of texts and classrooms.

We [CGCS members] have been very clear over the last few years that we've backed the standards; we didn't want one set of standards for us and another set of standards for other kids across the country.

Clearly children's diets need attention, and there have been a number of initiatives to break the unhealthy eating habit, including: The National Healthy Schools Programme (1998 to 2009), which included healthy and nutritious foods being made available in school canteens and vending machines; The School Food Plan, (launched in 2015), which provided a new set of standards for all food served in schools, offering children more healthy, balanced diets, and withdrawing the provision of unhealthy snacks and drinks in school vending machines; and the much - publicised new sugar tax, which will be imposed on companies according to the sugar content of the energy and fizzy drinks they produce.

««The Standards» refers to all elements of the design — the wording of domain headings, cluster headings, and individual statements; the text of the grade level introductions and high school category descriptions; the placement of the standards for mathematical practice at each grade level.

The Outstanding HLTA of the Year Award is organised by the HLTA National Assessment Partnership (HNAP), an organisation made up of the four regional assessment providers that work together to manage and quality assure the assessment of standards for HLTAs across England.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

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 California State Department of Education has sent the state board a sweeping set of standards for upgrading the content of high - school courses.

The boundaries of student growth are defined by schedules for bells, buses, and vacations instead of standards for students and learning.»

In the spring of 2009, an initiative was created to develop a set of standards for all states in the United States to adhere to.

A new set of standards for all food served in schools was launched in June by former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

Arguing that academic standards for students will mean little unless educators are adequately prepared, the National Staff Development Council last week released a set of standards for effective professional development.

Asserting that it has solved many of the problems that drew sharp criticism the last time out, the National Assessment Governing Board this month began considering a new set of standards for student performance in mathematics.

Finally, in the professional development domain Ingvarson says individuals «review their performance in the light of standards for accomplished teaching and feedback about its impact», which means they can set goals and pinpoint the PD they need to help achieve them.

You can't have the highest of standards for something culling from a mix of dated sources, but the DVD illustrates that the filmmakers have done an admirable job of making everything presentable enough and consistent (with the exception of subpar speaker identifying captions).

The definitions in the DEFINITIONS section of the standards for the Small House Skilled Nursing Facilities Pilot Program (SHSNF PP) apply to the...

The military still uses the BMI as one of their standards for measuring body fat which becomes a problem for people who are heavier relative to their height because of their muscle mass (as you've probably heard that muscle weighs more than fat).

She explains how the work of the National Consortium for Credentialing of Health & Wellness Coaches (now referred to as the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching) will further develop training in the field by creating a set of standards for health coaching trainers and educational programs to meet.

Rhode Island, Kansas, Maryland, Vermont, and California are among the small handful of states that have already adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a set of standards for teaching science that were finalized last April.

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«We uncovered a host of barriers and obstacles to effective use of information, including the complexity and usability of the software, the inability of the software to support certain unique public health reporting needs, the learning curve for public health workers, and the lack of standards for effective data exchange,» Agarwal says.

Under those conditions, the cells go through a division process that has «all the hallmarks of meiosis,» says Handel, who helped develop a set of standards for documenting that process in a dish.

«The combined effects of the standards for industrial boilers and cement kilns is just 20 to 60 million tonnes of CO2 a year,» Erickson says.

Besides calling for a more transparent supply chain, many experts in the field advocate establishing a more formal, industry - wide set of standards for validating these reagents.

To address this issue, the Task Force followed a structured approach to developing a set of standards for cLBP research.

FDA representatives take an active part in the development of standards for regulatory review and warehousing of clinical data.

According a New York Daily News editorial, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein have joined those who want to halt implementation of the standards for two years.

However, Democratic Congressman Brian Higgins feels a solution to the «rushed» rollout of Common Core is delaying implementation of the standards for two years.

The current review of standards for egg and poultry farming does little to assuage fears that the industry wields too much influence.

It also provides a blue print of standards for business to follow to ensure data security and a base level of protections for consumers,» said Kristin Brown, VP for Policy and Government Relations, Empire Justice Center.

At the same time, moving forward with implementation of the standards for all schools is paramount.

Upon this need the ASTM, an internationally recognized creator of standards for consumer products and test procedures, created a subcommittee for Sling Carrier Standards.

Enlist a Family Engagement Consultant to develop a progression of standards for family engagement that would be used to determine mandatory points in YoungStar at all levels.

In the United States, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) sets many of the standards for helmets, facemasks, and shin guards.

As part of the School Food Plan, a new set of standards for all food served in schools have been introduced.

Pennsylvania has a set of standards for pre-kindergarten programs.

The 25 - year old, who has featured for Arsenal in all 12 of their league games this campaign, admits City's recent performances are setting the highest of standards for those among the chasing pack.

Application of the COROS It is intended for use in international equivalence assessments of organic standards and technical regulations and provides the basis for assessing equivalence of standards for inclusion in the IFOAM Family of Standards.

This family of standards for quality management systems is maintained by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies including:

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has developed a set of standards for producing palm oil sustainably.

There is third - party verification of standards for CAFE Practices.

A considerable variety of standards for evaluating possibilities is actually employed, and in everyday life the standards assumed are usually not explicitly recognized.

The discussion of standards for the mass media has already to some extent foreshadowed the forthcoming analysis, since the channels of mass communication are not restricted merely to the transmission of literal information.

Religion provides ways assigning particular meanings to what occurred and how it occurred, but is limited by not having any kind of standards for evaluating the validity of those meanings.

For a detailed description of the curriculum the reader is referred to the catalogue of any school offering such a program, and also to the statement of standards for membership in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

The tendency of the style of theology I am suggesting is toward activism, or if not that, toward a lowering of standards for reflection.