Sentences with phrase «yearly meeting of»

The eighth annual Art House Convergence, the only yearly meeting of independent art house owners and operators in the U.S. and Canada, will be held January 15 — 18, 2018, in Midway, Utah.

In addition to our team of science journalists attending the yearly meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes this blog, we're opening up our site this year to guest bloggers — the scientists and public attending the event.

Not exact matches

The level of transparency is mind - blowing: from Marc sharing his yearly objectives on company - wide TV (where all employees can view and participate), to every single employee's annual goals posted for all to see — it's phenomenal to walk into a meeting with someone where you know what's important to them, and be able to share how your common goals can be accelerated by working together.»

«You really need to be able to convey what you do in the first 30 to 60 seconds,» says Sanjay Parekh, a serial technology entrepreneur and founder of Startup Riot, a twice - yearly competition in Atlanta that gives contestants three minutes to pitch and compete for startup cash and initial investor meetings.

This proposal, which was subsequently adopted and is now in operation, provided for a small body of state and provincial delegates meeting yearly to assume direct responsibility for the General Service Headquarters.

A large proportion of those respondents having much higher than average yearly figures were those having AA groups meeting in their church halls, or otherwise having a close relationship with AA.

According to a declaration of 132 nations that met in Naples, Italy in November, 1994, the yearly global expenditure on drugs, prostitution and arms totals $ 732 billion, a sum equal to 40 percent of the per capita income of humanity.

I grew up in Iowa Yearly Meeting and have been in college (both in IA and IN) since their move out here, so even five years later, I'm still not all that familiar with the workings of Western and Indiana Yearly Meetings.

Not the sort of atmosphere one might expect from a gathering of Quakers, but that's what over 1,000 members are experiencing at the Yearly Meeting taking place at Warwick University this week.

Obtaining our certification requires a yearly inspection of our milling facility and records to insure that our products meet industry standards.

I continue to be a member of the same group helping new Mums where I can and supporting by paying my yearly subscription, and helping out at meetings.

With the Old South Meeting house, they have a yearly reenactment of the Boston Tea Party with a parade of a thousand or so people march down the streets of Boston to watch a professional lights and sound performance.

By meeting yearly with your teen, the doctor can keep track of changes in physical, mental, and social development and offer advice about avoiding unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking and drinking.

Reps will provide a useful link for services within your community and Lunch & Learns provide RPT's with an opportunity to meet the yearly requirement of 12 C.E.U.'s (6 C.E.U.'s — Lunch & Learn and 6 C.E.U.'s — Annual Conference).

These committees meet with administrative staff yearly to review and recommend changes in each of their respective athletic activities.

It would be recalled that Mr Bamikole Omishore, the Special Adviser to Saraki on New Media, had said on Sunday in Abuja that he would contact SERAP and other CSOs for a meeting to give more details on the yearly earnings of senators.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

The Senate passed additional amendments that will create a parent training center, an arts council, yearly school safety meetings, and expanded oversight of principals by superintendents.

«We will use the opportunity of the face - to - face meeting to ask pertinent questions and seek detailed information and clarifications on the exact salaries and allowances that each senator receives monthly or yearly.»

«It is equally significant to state that the current recruitment of additional Ten Thousand (10,000) Police Personnel into the Force by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the request by the Inspector General of Police to Government for approval of the recruitment of Thirty One Thousand (31,000) Police Personnel yearly for a period of 5 years will definitely increase the strength of the Force to meet up with the UN ratio of One (1) Policeman to Four Hundred (400) citizens.

Quirk recalled yearly union summits in Puerto Rico, where Seabrook refused to stay in the same hotel with his fellow leaders — favoring instead a more luxurious resort with a casino, where Seabrook spent much of his time instead of going to meetings with his colleagues.

For many Nobel Laureates, the Lindau Meetings have become an integral part of their yearly schedule.

In addition, she recently won the Society for the History of Discoveries» yearly essay contest with an essay on the development of germ theory, which she presented at the SHD Annual Meeting in October 2014.

Furthermore the planner came with a separate booklet for contact details (of fellow bloggers, people I have worked with and people whom I've met on events) and another yearly overview which I used to record birthdays of blogger friends.

The first and most clear reason behind why female college students decide to join sugar daddy websites is to meet their financial needs by searching for an old and rich men with huge yearly salary and are capable of giving them sufficient cash each month that they can use to paying for their education.

It's common for couples to exchange gifts on the monthly and yearly anniversaries of when they first met, or when they had their first date.

What No Child Left Behind did was mandate the yearly measurement of progress toward meeting those standards and then to report the results publicly.

A common reality for teachers, especially in areas failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is loss of control and ability to be culturally responsive because of mandated, even scripted curricula, which removes opportunities to be a culturally responsive teacher (Durden, 2008).

Just as you may have to «manage up» at times with your principal (for example, by reminding them of a meeting or that it's time for your yearly review), you will at times need to lead up with your PLC leader.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

Harrowgate's solution was to initiate the Parent Partners Program that awards points to guardians for participating in different school events: parent - teacher conferences, PTA meetings, classroom service, any of the 40 yearly workshops, etc. «Parents responded to these new opportunities, making high parent involvement an embedded part of our culture,» writes Linda Wood, Harrowgate Elementary School Principal, in NAESP's Best from the Best.

Similarly, the number of Richmond schools meeting the Annual Yearly Progress criteria of No Child Left Behind increased from 20 percent to 80 percent under her leadership.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

By the 2006 - 2007 school year, Csar Chvez had made annual yearly progress (AYP) two years in a row, and started the year in Phase Zero — meaning the school did not meet AYP for a year, and then made it back to AYP, so the school had been headed back to «in need of improvement» under NCLB, but now is back on track to meeting AYP goals.

Where we disagree most with the authors is about how best to estimate the indirect costs of NCLB — the costs associated with meeting targets for adequate yearly progress.

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) marked a new level of federal oversight by requiring states to set more rigorous student evaluation standards and, through testing, demonstrate «adequate yearly progress» in how those standards were met.

Schools that failed to meet their «adequate yearly progress» targets, as required by NCLB, serve some of the most mobile student populations.

Under NCLB rules, schools that fail to meet their adequate yearly progress targets are subject to an escalating series of interventions.

«Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction took the first step Thursday toward withholding up to $ 175 million in federal funds from Milwaukee Public Schools because of the district's failure to meet yearly academic progress targets required under law.»

«One form of communication does not work for all, so we use newsletters, yearly and monthly calendars, weekly folders, e-mail, phone, regularly scheduled PTO meetings, school Web sites, and flyers posted at local businesses.»

However, with regard to adequate yearly progress, state officials do not expect a great deal of flexibility from federal officials and have conceded that their current accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index, is not likely to meet federal regulations.

Just weeks before states release their lists of schools that have not met «adequate yearly progress» targets under the main federal K - 12 law, many states are still negotiating with federal officials over changes to their accountability plans designed to reduce those numbers.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

To make «adequate yearly progress» under the law, schools must show that increasing numbers of students can meet state standards, no matter what their race or poverty level.

After the states have set their yearly performance goals, the Department of Education will have to monitor the performance of the nation's 92,000 public schools to see whether each demographic group in each grade being tested is meeting the state performance goals.

Howell neglects to mention that among the 14 largest urban districts in Massachusetts, Worcester had the second highest percentage (68 percent) of schools meeting state targets for making «adequate yearly progress» under the law; the statewide average was 48 percent.

The legislation allows for the removal of principals if their schools and students fail to meet new standards for adequate yearly progress.

For a school or district to make adequate yearly progress, both the overall student population and each subgroup of students — major racial and ethnic groups, children from low - income families, students with disabilities, and students with limited proficiency in English — must meet or exceed the target set by the state.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.