At
the Practice Group level, Ronna was responsible for strategic planning, execution, budgeting, monitoring and closing business with the leaders and lawyers for the Private Investment Funds, Construction & Real Estate, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Corporate Finance, Securities and M&A, and Tax practices.
And I believe this evolution must occur on three levels within a law firm: at the partnership level, at
the practice group level, and at the individual lawyer level.
Cast aside, or at least gently nudge, the unqualified or uninterested from the corner office and replace them with committed leaders — at the firm - wide and
practice group level — who have or will learn new skills and who will employ experts to advise them along the way.
Get young lawyers involved in leadership and governance at the department or
practice group level.
While hiring decisions lay at
the practice group level, summer associates often have the opportunity to work on assignments from attorneys in other practice groups.
That being the case, it's time more firms start putting it to work — the kind of real, specific, in - the - trenches work that happens every day at
the practice group level.
We advise law firms on improving efficiency, increasing profits and reducing risk through top - down strategic practice management efforts, emphasizing knowledge strategy initiatives at
the practice group level.
Work process investments can include analysts who are adept at breaking down routine processes into specific steps and tasks, training in practice management, project management and process improvement, and software programs that help track progress against budget on matters or provide real time information at
the practice group level.
Not exact matches
Previously, he was president and managing director of Maritech Software (acquired by AKVA
Group ASA)-- an early - stage mid-market ERP software and consulting company — vice president in the Management Consulting
Practice at Ernst & Young, and he's held director
level positions at CGI and SAP.
We do not know whether persons in this
group, while moved by the presence and claims of individuals with whom they are in face - to - face relations, may, on another
level, be oblivious to and unmoved by more impersonal social structures and
practices that consistently put and keep persons in situations of oppression and deprivation.
Much of the time Mathews wrote as though changes in doctrinal formulations and
group practice do not affect a deeper
level of Christian identity.
Yet in both labor unions and churches, the official
group pronouncements are on a higher
level of insight than the actual
practices of great numbers of their membership.
Royalties realized from the project will be divided between the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, two professional
groups which have helped raise the
level of training and
practice in the pastoral care field.
And because a man is always tempted to live down to the average of his social
group, a searching test of character is involved in one's relationship with this dead
level of public opinion and
practice.
In addition, attendees joined small
group discussions about effective and successful policies and
practices at the school, district, and state
level pertaining to three
groups of activities that catalyze efforts to meet and exceed Smart Snacks requirements:
A national sustainable Strategy Board, including representatives from all the voluntary
groups, health professional organisations, and NGOs to share best
practice between devolved nations coordinated by a high
level funded lead specialist.
Written for all
levels of experience, from beginners to advanced practitioners, This pocket guide is an ideal resource for hospitals, clinics, medical
practices, public health offices, breastfeeding peer counselors, and mother - support
groups.
Breastfeeding Expert Work
Group Mission Statement: ACOG's Breastfeeding Expert Work
Group will assist ACOG, specifically the Committee on Obstetric
Practice and other committees as appropriate, by providing expertise in breastfeeding medicine and use that expertise to develop and promote breastfeeding tools and initiatives for providers and patients at all
levels of the community.
Each
level of the community is targeted in a way to get the message in a broad
level (commercial) but the plan narrows to focus the message in smaller
groups to reinforce that it is
practiced and talked about daily.
They examined prescribing trends in the plan's
group practice, which implemented an initiative to change physician expectations regarding clinically appropriate and safe opioid dose
levels, and compared them with trends among the health plan's contracted physicians who followed only the state guidelines.
In
practice this means that differences in GDNF
levels might explain certain differences in people's ability to learn or focus,» explains Jaakko Kopra, a researcher in Andressoo's
group.
Through our involvement in the Federal Monarch Butterfly High
Level Working
Group, the National and Tri-National Monarch Science Partnership, and the Monarch Joint Venture, we are advancing the science and
practice of monarch conservation, and shaping state, national, and international monarch conservation priorities.
Students who
practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance
level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance
level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control
group.Among the students with the lowest
levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control
group, which showed only a slight gain.
Results showed that oxytocin
levels significantly improved * in the
group practicing yoga.
They found a 27 % rise in GABA
levels in the
group that
practiced yoga right after their session, yet no change in GABA
levels in the other
group right after their time of reading.
The instructor leads class &
practices along with the
group — all
levels welcome!
Both
groups had the same amount of training, the same
level of expertise in the instructors, and the same amount of home
practice required by participants.
The survey sought to identify issues and successful
practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from
groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher
levels of prior achievement.
A variety of questions for age
groups and
levels (from Grade 8 / Year 9 - Grade 10 / Year 11) These questions are around the same
level as SSAT / ISEE Type
Practice Questions 2 and includes statistics, algebra manipulation, general arithmetic, fractions and more..
Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning
practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion
groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school
level.
Grouping content into clusters and
levels, building in spaced
practice and challenges that get incrementally harder.
Fiarman says this
group - learning mentality — which centers on the idea that everyone involved is working on their
practice — helps especially with superintendents and principals who, having achieved a certain
level in their career, are reluctant to admit they don't have all of the answers.
In contrast, ESSA defines four
levels of «evidence - based»
practices: «strong,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented experimental study with a statistically significant, positive effect; «moderate,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented quasi-experimental study such as a matched - comparison
group; «promising,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias.
A variety of questions for age
groups and
levels (from Grade 8 / Year 9 - Grade 10 / Year 11) The questions are not as hard as SSAT / ISEE Type
Practice Questions 6.
A variety of questions for age
groups and
levels (from Grade 8 / Year 9 - Grade 10 / Year 11) The questions are around the
level of SSAT / ISEE Type
Practice Questions 3.
Children in the READ 180 intervention participated in three 20 - minute literacy activities, including (1) individualized computer - assisted reading instruction with videos,
leveled text, and word study activities, (2) independent and modeled reading
practice with
leveled books, and (3) teacher - directed reading lessons tailored to the reading
level of children in small
groups.
Children in the READ 180 intervention participated in three 20 - min literacy activities, including (1) individualized computer - assisted reading instruction with videos,
leveled text, and word study activities, (2) independent and modeled reading
practice with
leveled books, and (3) teacher - directed reading lessons tailored to the reading
level of children in small
groups.
Proponents of tracking and of ability -
grouping (a milder version that separates students within the same classroom based on ability) say that the
practices allow students to learn at their own
levels and prevent a difficult situation for teachers: large classes where children with a wide range of different needs and skill
levels are mixed together.
Through a flexible approach of whole - class instruction, differentiated small -
group instruction, and individual student
practice, teachers have the flexibility they need to meet students at their skill
levels and adapt instruction accordingly.
Members could be a grade
level team, a department, or a
group of teachers focusing their
practice on the same element.
This kinesthetic approach to fractions
practice is
leveled from easy to difficult and makes a perfect center or small -
group activity.
Planning
group activities for independent
practice, that don't allow for all students to demonstrate mastery: if you plan
group activities for your independent
practice, be sure to also plan an independent assessment section (an exit ticket for example) that allows you to assess every students»
level of mastery.
Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low
levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline
practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist
practices such as ability
grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.
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.
Australian industry is currently bemoaning the lack of science and technology skills within the workforce, and there are calls for all
levels of national policy and
practice to address this need (Australian Industry
Group, 2013).
Groups of adult professionals learning together abound in schools today, whether they are reading clubs, data - driven sessions, subject - level department meetings, mandated ad hoc groups charged with solving a problem, or homegrown efforts examining individual teachers» pra
Groups of adult professionals learning together abound in schools today, whether they are reading clubs, data - driven sessions, subject -
level department meetings, mandated ad hoc
groups charged with solving a problem, or homegrown efforts examining individual teachers» pra
groups charged with solving a problem, or homegrown efforts examining individual teachers»
practice.
At the
group (e.g., grade or school)
level, the benefit is planning for improved system -
level practices and will make both students» and teachers» school experiences better in the future.
Importantly, however, the findings presented here bring to light several additional important considerations for both
practice (e.g., strategic student placement within
groups to facilitate higher
levels of learning) and research (e.g., relationships between social dialogue,
group membership, and demonstrated
levels of learning) involving the use of asynchronous discussion forums.
The
grouping practice is associated with efforts to eliminate a «dumbed - down» curriculum and to allow all students the benefits of access to high -
level instructional
practices.
According to Blueprint Louisiana, a nonprofit
group based in Baton Rouge that prioritizes «student success over traditional
practices,» Louisiana was ranked 48th of 50 states for K - 12 student achievement in 2011, with one - third of the state's students performing below grade
level and 44 % of schools classified as failing.