Sentences with phrase «staff meetings spent»

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In order to meet their tax obligations, the 89 companies surveyed hire 19 full - time equivalent staff and spend, on average, $ 3.96 million annually to comply with Canadian tax legislation.

While not every session is successful, the point is to give staff meetings care and attention so the time your team members invest is well spent.

Lau spends 30 minutes every other day meeting with individual employees so he can hear first - hand any challenges or issues staff are facing, as well as the good things they're doing.

Staff of the House Oversight Committee met for several hours with Pruitt's former security chief, Pasquale «Nino» Perrotta, who oversaw much of EPA's spending on perks such as first - class flights, a $ 43,000 soundproof booth and round - the - clock bodyguards.

Spend any time at political functions or summer peceptions, particularly in local government, and you will meet friendly, intelligent people who staff quangos you have never heard of.

For a start, MPs should ask the Foreign Secretary annually roughly what proportion of their time his staff spent meeting foreigners — including people from outside the ruling elites; and for some examples of diplomatic success stories that have resulted.

According to Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto, the governor spent the day in the Adirondacks with his family and is due back in Albany tonight for a staff meeting.

A third application, from the conservative group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, wasn't voted on after JCOPE staff noted that it didn't spend enough money on lobbying to meet the threshold requiring disclosure.

The other half is spent on supporting U.S. scientists» travel to meetings to put the report together, as well as funding for a small team of staff that works for Field.

After spending 20 years in government, including as staff director of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and meeting many entrepreneurs, she realized there were -LSB-...]

Rather than bringing your entire faculty to the library on a Thursday afternoon for a staff meeting to tell them about a new policy, prep them with a video explaining any new information, and invite them to spend the meeting time working on ways to improve instruction at the school.

If we spent our professional development days going to a homeless shelter and preparing meals, or if we spent one staff meeting a month having an office party, would our accidental learning communities turn into intentional communities?

«Here, we can spend an entire staff meeting talking about one child.»

«I spent time establishing basic meeting skills, shared decision making, and a system of communication among the entire staff,» Balmat continues.

It also has a handy group chat function and a live reporting function for crunching data, saving hours of precious time spent in staff meetings.

District performance - based assessments in reading, writing, spelling, and math are given, on average, three times each year, and numerous staff development hours are spent reviewing results and discussing ways in which the findings can be used to inform and change classroom instruction to meet the needs of individual students.

20 % of a head teacher's day is spent meeting with people — either face to face or virtually — from interviewing prospective new staff to observing lessons and mentoring current students.

«I officially started just last week, although I spent a lot of time this summer meeting faculty and staff,» he told them in his orientation welcome, adding jokingly, «I'm not sure who should be more nervous — me starting as a new dean, or you starting at an Ed School with a new dean.»

Schools therefore have to be more creative with where and how they spend money whilst also ensuring that they meet all mandatory requirements, such as providing training and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for all staff members.

Based on purple SEAL resources I usually do about 1 hour staff meeting - You could spend longer on an inset day Hope it saves somebody some time:)

Since Ofsted is holding to account how schools spend their additional, ring - fenced funding, it is worth reviewing how your school meets the Premium's objectives: engaging pupils in regular physical activity — kick - starting healthy and active lifestyles; raising the profile of PE and sport in school as a means of whole school improvement; Increasing the confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport; offering a broad range of sports and activities to all pupils; and increasing participation in competitive sport.

I spend the first part of my visit looking around the school, visiting classrooms, meeting staff and exploring the grounds.

«The Board staff did not inform the Board about all of the funds Daniel Hughes was personally spending to pay for unspecified supplies and administrative fees in the materials prepared for the June 2017 Board meeting — money he was diverting to his own pocket.

If principals spend time documenting and reviewing the small things, such as staff engagement at a meeting, tone of responses to an inquiry, or the types of concerns raised by parents, they might notice a larger trend, uncovering areas of strengths and areas for improvement.

In general, unless otherwise exempt, the following three criteria must be met in order for non-classroom based charters to be guaranteed full funding levels: (1) at least 80 percent of total revenues must be spent on instruction or classroom support, (2) at least 50 percent of public revenues must be spent on certificated staff salaries and benefits, and (3) the pupil - teacher ratio must be equal to or lower than the pupil - teacher ratio in the largest unified school district in the county or counties in which the school operates or the school must maintain a minimum of 25:1 ratio.

Guided by tools such as a high - tech calendar that charts the time the principal is spending with teachers and others, the SAM or SAM team meets regularly with the principal to schedule instructional leadership time, reflect on whether and how changes in time allocations are affecting instruction, and designate other school staff members to tend to busing or other matters that don't need to be handled in most cases by the principal.

At every staff meeting, I was always frustrated when we spent 15 — 20 minutes going over logistics and making announcements.

Where they used to use staff meetings to review student work and share ideas for improving lessons, they now spend hours in meetings discussing how to answer these artificial questions and enter them into the computer.

Helping students to see the value of words doesn't require spending a lot of time at staff meetings.

You can also export this information to use for parents» evenings, staff meetings and to evidence the impact of funding spend.

The crew was very flexible and spent the time to meet with staff to get to know our community.

Our staff is looking forward to meeting families and spending the afternoon with them.

Through every wake - up text message and phone call, every late night or Sunday spent lesson planning, and every celebratory announcement in Community Meeting, our revolutionary staff demonstrate their unceasing commitment to the success of our scholars, the Phoenix mission, and to creating change for high - risk students who lack access to college and career pathways.

Train Your Team Spend a staff meeting talking through the plan with your team and ensure covering emergency information is included in each employee's onboarding and early training.

It means spending time in staff offices, meeting volunteers, interacting with other dogs and learning basic manners.

Not only do they meet our needs, but the staff is extremely pleasant and the vets are professional and always willing to spend the time to address all of our questions and concerns.

Jenny, Chris and I spent the day at Vieques Humane Society where we met Aleida, the shelter director, and her staff.

She spent some time travelling around Persia and the modern middle east, by herself (albeit with guides and staff) meeting interesting people and investigating whatever ruins and historical places that she could.

In 1946 Scott was appointed Head of Painting at Bath Academy of Art, based at Corsham, and began to spend his summers in Cornwall where he met Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost and Bryan Wynter, all of whom soon joined his staff.

A solid foundation is built, however, by our senior administrative staff, who spend countless hours away from home meeting with attorneys and staff, clearing cases for ethical conflicts, teaching computer systems and new administrative processes, assisting with benefits, and essentially doing everything possible to make the transition into our firm as smooth as possible.

Set target hours for performance of time tracked per user, break down how much time is spent hourly or unbilled and see whether associates and staff are meeting their goals.

The judge might also spend time meeting with the court reporter, who is ordinarily a civilian employee on staff or a paralegal court reporter at the legal office, which is usually where the courtroom is located.

The company revealed at its launch event that it will spend «in excess of R15 - million on staff, equipment, infrastructure and technology over the next year» to meet the growing demand on social media.

• Planned all office meetings and events • Coordinated communications with vendors, clients and inter-office personnel • Handled billing and accounts payable, justified spending reports and created purchase orders • Supervised 120 person office staff and reviewed payroll

Hiring staff won't spend a lot of time analyzing your content to see if you meet the qualifications if there are other applicants who do, so emphasizing required and preferred qualifications will show staff you're qualified and move your application to the next round of the hiring process.

Options that were suggested in the consultations to minimise the effects of the problems listed above include: clear explanations and educational material so traditional owners can understand the native title process; providing opportunities for traditional owners to get to know one another outside of meetings - this may just include starting a meeting a day later while families arrive and spend time with one another; and developing the skills and knowledge of NTRB staff by supporting staff training and development and; promoting staff retention and career development.

saves courts and agencies money and staff time, with evidence that mediation can help the system to reduce the length of time a child spends in foster care and to meet legislated time frames for case processing.

If the court or the social worker says contact should be supervised, then the child and parents may be told where to meet, for example in a contact centre, and how long they can spend with their child, being supervised by staff etc..