PCPI- Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement In American Medical Association PCPI is oriented to improve the quality, and value of care to the patients by various programs including maintenance of clinical performance measures which are evidence based, measurement science, improvement of the quality of care with the help of National Quality Registry Network (NQRN).(1) NQF – National quality forum A membership based organization that works for improvements in quality of healthcare. It
students. Thus, all teachers should and must possess leadership qualities that will help students to nurture their potentials. Teachers should be able to live up to the principles of teacher leadership. Killion in her journal article entitled “Consortium Outlines New Standards for Teacher Leaders” emphasized
their homes. Teachers not only cultivate minds in educating their subjects, but they also help to mold their students’ lives by leading by example and showing how to properly interact in everyday life. The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards were enacted to ensure that incoming teachers possess the knowledge and skills required to provide quality instruction to their students. Teachers must be aware
Introduction The following information will analyze the case “From Rookie to Reality” in regards to Standard 4 of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards: collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources. Summarize the Case Shoreline Elementary School is a kindergarten through fifth-grade school with approximately 720 students. The school is in a good community, has a low crime
TASC Reflection The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) attempts to bring together a complete and clear set of standards for teachers. These standards serve the purpose of outlining the expectations for all teachers. This set of standards create a clear picture of all that teachers are excepted to do in the realm of education (InTASC, 2011). Key Themes There are many themes that run through the TASC article including teacher preparedness, understanding, and willingness
Accessibility Evaluation Report 1. Summary This report shows the conformance of the Optus web site with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. According to W3C’s Conformance Evaluation, the Optus web site meets WCAG 2.0, Conformance Level A and Level AA. The evaluation details will show in the following sections and resources are provided in Section 7. This report is written to help understand whether the web site is accessible or not and how to fix the accessibility issues, and
The first step in an initiative to bring community policing into sharper focus is being taken by the Community Policing Consortium with the publication of Understanding Community Policing. Although it is not a finished product, the document compiles and analyzes the essential aspects of community policing in order to facilitate the learning process, as well as to provide a
North Carolina's position on Common Core State Standards is to design a system for students based on what they should know for each grade level for the three crucial subjects and disregard the importance of others. This affects schools and teachers because it's designed to support North Carolina educators in providing the most challenging education possible for the state’s students. The goal is to prepare all students to become career and college ready. In conjunction with legislation such as No
Standards Consortium, an alliance of 28 public high schools, use performance based assessments in place of standardized exams.” The New York Performance Standards Consortium created a new and innovative way to measure student growth without added stress and nervousness and reduce wasting classroom time. In addition, there are many instances of where we see minority graduation rates improving immensely.“In 2011, 86% of African American and 90% of Latino Americans, graduates of the Consortium schools
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a significant organization within the field of instructional technology. Within my current position, the organization provides a key role in understanding the functions of online learning. Currently, I assist students throughout the state of Florida with information on online learning programs and provide them with the best options to fit their needs. I believe that understanding an organization such as the Online Learning Consortium will be very beneficial
Figure 1: Ethical decision making. Source: (Vucaj, 2014) Introduction Ethics in general is about how we behave, encounter and treat one another. Without ethical principles applied in our world, injustice might take place. Ethics is not about the law or the common practice of society. According to Kirk O.Hanson, ethics is the study of standard of behavior that promotes what called good, and business ethics is the study of business behavior that promotes goods (Kirk O. Hanson, 2010). Ethical dilemma
primary structural concern is the need for a new stratagem, which would be guided by a consortium of appropriate individuals without fear of third party interference (Giror and Wilensky, 2015). Although this concern may appear to be simple, creating a realistic vision for the VHA means creating a stratagem for approximately three hundred thousand employees (Giror and Wilensky, 2015). Secondly, the new consortium would have to face the hurdle of restructuring the infrastructure of the entire organization
After reading the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, I wanted to compare this event to a present-day one happening as I write this essay. I decided to compare the people who caused such an event; the Nazi Party; to ISIS (Their full name is Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), a terrorist organization and militant group in parts of Iraq and Syria. Although these groups are very different, they share many common goals and ideals. Although the Nazi Party's crimes will stay branded into our memories forever,
Abstract In this final segment of Emerging Technologies, we learn how telemedicine has become the newest innovative technology. This paper explores telemedicine and how it has become an integral part of medicine by using electronic data and technological advancements along with communication devices (Thomas, 2015). Telemedicine explores the attributes, assessment framework, market niche, barriers, and how they affect the external environment and commercialization strategy for telemedicine. Some
According to the coursework case study (2017), A Touch of Grass by Sarah (TOG) is a small company which was registered in 2008 by Sarah Bromley, a Glassblower who learned glassblowing from her father. The company makes glass products such as glasses, vases, ornaments, sculptures and bespoke pieces. Furthermore, the organization intends to introduce glassblowing classes and tours of the facility as a way of expanding its business because most customers are interested in the glass manufacturing process
Jessica Stephan 7 November 2014 Mrs. Rankin DC English 4 6th hour Standardized Testing Sleepless students dread the days ahead. Days filled with monotone instructions, colorless test booklets, confusing questions, broken pencils, missing erasers, and an endless amount of multiple choice test bubbles. Students file into a room crammed wall to wall to fill in test bubbles that may determine if they will pass or graduate or go to college or fail. Their whole future may come down to one test. Standardized
The consortium companies were tasked with the responsibility of designing, financing and building the project. It was also their responsibility to manage, maintain and operate the plant for 30 years including the building period (ABC News 2015). It is quite clear
Inferno By Brown Dan, Doubleday Publications, 2013, $9.73 paper, ISBN 978-1400079155 Reviewed by Karthik.M A critic of Christianity but says I am not an antichristian, an explorer of the truths of Vatican and Washington D.C, a songwriter, a novelist whose books were translated to 52 languages and sold around 200 million copies, Dan Brown has once proved his class. As in Robert Langdon’s series, he travels to Vatican, Paris, Washington D.C and now Florence. Coming to the physical look of the book
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is computer scientist who’s known to be the inventor of the World Wide Web. He began his passion for electronics in 1976, when he attended Queens College at Oxford University, England. While attending school in his free time he actually built his first computer with a soldering iron as well as TTL gates and a M6800 processor, and an old television. In today’s terms we would say he’s the man who invented the internet or web if you will. He founded the web foundation to show
and preparedness efforts on the local, state, and federal levels. Communities were left with devastation that would take years to recover from, requiring assistance from social service networks such as Katrina Aid Today, KAT. KAT established a consortium, as a multi-organization/ multi-state coordinated recovery intervention and case management services program (Janis, A., Stiefel, K. M., & Carbullido, C. C. 2010. pg 66) that utilized skilled workers to assist individuals and families in the recovery