Sentences with phrase «used by principals»

These sessions will introduce participants to the MPPR — Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric; tools to be used by the Principals and tools to be used by the Superintendents.

VAMs should be used by principals to measure school improvement and to determine the effectiveness of programs and instructional methods.

The results are used by principals, school leaders and teachers to inform instruction and decision - making in the classroom and at the school and district level, as well as to measure student growth over time.

While this approach is used by some principals to deliver smaller class sizes in literacy and numeracy, it is not yet a general practice for disadvantaged groups and learners with higher needs.

Products listed here are designed to help improve the management of schools, teachers, students and parents, primarily for use by principals and other school administrators.

The Evaluation Leadership Instrument is used by the principal's supervisor to evaluate how the principal establishes collaborative structures and provides teachers training, feedback, coaching, and professional learning opportunities in implementing AchieveNJ.

Sub-study one focused on the types and nature of data use by principals in their decision making; district influences on data - informed decision making by principals; and the relationship between school data use and variability in student achievement.

Collaboration, cooperation, dedication and hard work, those are the keys used by Principal Dean DeSantis and the staff at Grant Middle School.

Develop a plan of action to be used by the principal to build teams in the school building with a focus on curriculum

For example, the clips could be used by principal training programs and universities as a classroom discussion tool; by principal mentors or staff developers to generate discussion about strategies to improve teacher performance and student outcomes; and by superintendents to develop school improvement plans or to model effective practice as instructional leaders.

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«The majority of private companies can accomplish most or all of their important goals by forgoing options entirely and instead making use of a phantom - stock technique,» says Jim Scannella, a principal in Arthur Andersen's human - capital - services group.

The amendment provided for (i) an immediate reduction in the interest rate margin applicable to the loans outstanding under the Senior Secured Term Loan Facility from (a) 3.50 % to 3.00 % for LIBOR borrowings and (b) 2.50 % to 2.00 % for base rate borrowings, (ii) an immediate lowering of the LIBOR floor for loans outstanding under the Senior Secured Term Loan Facility from 1.25 % to 1.00 % and (iii) the borrowing of incremental term loans, the proceeds of which were used to repay the outstanding loans of lenders that did not consent to the repricing amendment (the Non-Consenting Lenders) in an aggregate principal amount of approximately $ 99.6 million, which is the amount of loans held by such Non-Consenting Lenders on February 8, 2013.

Principal Chief Edward Chretien Jr giving his blessing for the land to be used by L'eau Est La Vie Camp to continue protecting the water.

In other words, the institution executes its client's trade by using its own balance sheet, a practice known as principal trading.

To the extent that repayment of the principal and accrued interest due under all of the FNPA II Notes held by the Virgin Group would require less than 50 % of such remaining net proceeds, the balance would be used to repay a portion of the principal and accrued interest due under certain of the 5 % Notes held by the Virgin Group.

They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.

By: Nadine James 26th April 2018 The process for water use licence applications (WULAs) is improving as a result of an online system being put in place by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), according to SRK Consulting principal environmental scientist Jacky BurkBy: Nadine James 26th April 2018 The process for water use licence applications (WULAs) is improving as a result of an online system being put in place by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), according to SRK Consulting principal environmental scientist Jacky Burkby the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), according to SRK Consulting principal environmental scientist Jacky Burke.

For example, you could make your RRSP contribution each year, and then pay down a portion of the mortgage principal using the tax refund generated by your RRSP contribution.

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

One of the greatest achievements of New Testament criticism in the last century has been to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the gospel of Mark formed one of the principal sources used both by Matthew and Luke, and that it is both the earliest and in some ways the most important of our gospels.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

Collected for the most part by industrialized countries, where the principal financial markets are located, this money could be used to help struggle against inequalities, to promote education and public health in poor countries, and for food security and sustainable development.

Most modern scholars, especially among the Protestants, believe that Mark antedates Matthew by twenty or thirty years and that the author of Matthew used Mark as his principal source.

The need for such testing may be brought to the attention of the principal through a search authorized by § 49-6-4204 or § 49-6-4205, observed or reported use of drugs by the student on school property, or other reasonable information received from a teacher, staff member or other student.

Gifts of any size may be made under living trusts or by will to establish temporary or permanent funds for the use of both principal and income, or income alone.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

The regulation approved by a Regents committee would postpone until at least the 2019 - 20 school year any use of standardized state English and math scores in penalizing students, teachers or principals.

Leadership in both houses of the state Legislature support a two - year moratorium on using Common Core - aligned test scores to evaluate teachers and principals or to make decisions about student placement or promotion, a plan supported by teachers» unions.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

«Aside from that, both principal and subject teachers should be enjoined to ensure that they give the desired guidance to the students on the proper use of Opon Imo in the sense that whoever for any reason among the beneficiaries (students) misapply its uses, it will attract N50, 000 fine and this is backup by legislation of the Osun State House of Assembly.

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

The objective of the research project led by Marko Kallio, Principal Scientist at VTT, was to accelerate the drug development process by identifying new compounds that would possess similar binding properties and cellular phenotype, but a different chemical structure, as the selected drugs in clinical use or investigational compounds in development.

By using this technique, we demonstrated that the telomere G - tail length of leukocytes is significantly correlated with endothelial function and severity of ARWMCs,» said Professor Hidetoshi Tahara, a principal investigator of this study at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hiroshima University.

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

By using the new formula, which relies upon newly developed measurements for the figure of merit and power factor of a material — called the engineering figure of merit, or (ZT) eng, and engineering power factor, or (PF) eng — scientists will be able to determine whether devices based on a material would generate energy efficiently enough to be worth pursuing, said Zhifeng Ren, principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH).

Investment Funds shall include all gifts and bequests received without special restriction concerning the use to be made of principal and income, and all other funds designated by the Council as investment funds.

(b) Investment Funds shall include all gifts and bequests received without special restriction concerning the use to be made of principal and income, and such other funds as may be designated by the Board of Directors as investment funds.

Both principal and income of Investment Funds may be used for any purpose, but only after specific appropriations by the Council.

«These results are important as they help demonstrate that alcohol use is associated with an increase in suicide risk, and that this increase may be partially due to insomnia symptoms,» said principal investigator Michael Nadorff, PhD, assistant professor at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. «By better understanding this relationship, and the mechanisms associated with increased risk, we can better design interventions to reduce suicide risk.»

Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson technology (cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)

«The antimony trioxide crystals produced by this bacterium are far superior to those that are currently produced using chemical methods,» said James Hollibaugh, UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Professor of Marine Sciences and principal investigator for the project.

As part of an ongoing joint project between UAH, NOAA and NASA, Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, an ESSC principal scientist, use data gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth.

«By using an animal model to expand tumor cells recently removed from patients, we hoped to re-create more closely what actually happens in patients with pancreatic cancer rather than by using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the studBy using an animal model to expand tumor cells recently removed from patients, we hoped to re-create more closely what actually happens in patients with pancreatic cancer rather than by using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the studby using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the study.

Research Assistant, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology June 2002 — January 2004 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Principal Investigator: Dr. John Taylor The lab studies the evolutionary relationships of fungi, concentrating on the fungi that cause plant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their genealogy.

The Keck DEIMOS spectrograph used in the discovery was built by the University of California Observatories at UC Santa Cruz, and the Principal Investigator, Professor Sandra M. Faber, was recently honored with the National Medal of Science.

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine, led by principal investigator Michael Frankel, MD, Emory professor of neurology and director of Grady Memorial Hospitalâ $ ™ s Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center, are studying biomarkers as part of two ancillary studies of blood samples using two grants from the National Institutes of Health.

The society cited Greisen's quarter - century as «principal architect and tireless custodian» of the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS), a massive software package used by astronomers around the world, as «an invaluable service to astronomy.»