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As the Minister says, those that can be addressed will be, but those that need time will obviously need time.
The teachers and parents need not be disingenuous and follow the correct protocols and procedures.
Yes they realize they have “power” but who wins at the end of the day?
The Minister has his own daughter in public school, so clearly he is invested in the public education system, more-so than any other recent Minister. Lets take him at his word. There are obvious issues in education, but in my view this Minister has been more vocal, more accessible and more open than many others. Lets stay focused.
No bow tie today Mr Minister?
Time for a snap election.
Why? The problem is not with the Minister, or any of the previous Ministers who have run into a stone wall at the DOE.
Fear not. They’re just testing the (political) waters to see what they can get away with in terms of manipulating the very people who they know count on them for their votes.
More money (that we do not have) will be coming soon .
Glad none of you are doctors cause the only sick you can comprehend in your limited understanding is physically sick in order to not attend school. Irresponsible to request better conditions and resources? Oh my shame on them…lol You got some of you alls bebe kids disrupting classes and the teachers are supposed to magically teach. Oh oh and waaaah I don’t have nowhere to put my child I’m being inconvenienced by this sick out on this one day. Try a term of inconvenience but yet the teachers are the selfish ones. Tell me again how your house is not made of glass?
The standard-model performance review is an unhelpful barrage of built-up criticism. Instead, give feedback consistently so that your employees hear the good with the bad and make improvement a matter of routine.
Let’s cut to the chase: If the only feedback your employees get from you is in the form of a 6- or 12-month performance review, it’s time to change your approach to feedback. Dropping bombs on employees once or twice a year only serves to build up pressure and make feedback sessions feel like indictments. And most importantly, it does little to alter behavior and improve performance and productivity, which should be your goal.
So instead of waiting for the obligatory performance reviews to come around, you should have a built-in feedback loop with your reports. “The best approach is to be giving people feedback on an ongoing basis about how their performance is lining up with expectations, and giving them guidance, support, and helping them make adjustments,” says Tulgan.
With this kind of ongoing dialogue, and by encouraging transparency and candid truth-telling company-wide, everyone stands to benefit through improved performance and enhanced working relationships.
There are a litany of reasons managers give for why they don’t provide feedback more frequently, says Tulgan. They don’t have the time. They think that empowering people means letting them figure everything out for themselves, including what they’re doing right and wrong. Some feel they aren’t any good at coaching, while others are conflict avoidant or afraid of spoiling the collegial work culture. “All of these things contribute to managers being either unwilling or unable to engage in sufficiently detailed and consistent dialogue with their people,” says Tulgan.
Not that performance reviews should be tossed out altogether. But instead of bringing new feedback to the table, they should summarize the ongoing dialogue and how the employee can take his performance to the next level. Big picture stuff. Meanwhile, the ongoing discussions should provide clear goals, concrete expectations, a timeline, and requirements within which to meet agreed upon goals.
It’s important to make sure the feedback sessions stay on track, both in terms of the topic at hand, as well as the emotional balance. “You need to be clear on the points you’re trying to make and if people are moving off topic, you’ve got to be good at bringing it back to the central point,” says Grenny.
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Team GB on track for the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games.
If you can't make it to the Winter Olympics, you can still step inside the stadium -- as Eurosport captures the action in virtual reality.
This year's Winter Olympic Games kick off in PyeongChang in South Korea on 9 Feb. Through a dedicated Eurosport VR app you'll be able to watch events including skiing, curling, figure skating, ice hockey and snowboarding, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. In addition to choosing a spot in the stadium to watch live in 360-degrees, you'll be able to immerse yourself in on-demand VR replays and daily highlights.
The app is available on 1 Feb. for iOS and Android phones, or Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.
Rep. Joe Kennedy Joseph (Joe) Patrick KennedyOvernight Defense: Transgender troops rally as ban nears \| Trump may call more troops to border \| National Guard expects 3M training shortfall from border deployment \| Pentagon to find housing for 5,000 migrant children Transgender troops rally as Pentagon prepares to implement ban The Hill's Morning Report — Presented by Pass USMCA Coalition — Trump rallies for second term on 'promises kept' MORE III (D-Mass.) says he “would hope” to be able to support a revised "Medicare for all" bill next year, but said he has concerns with the current version of the bill.
Kennedy has come under pressure from progressive activists to support the current version of the Medicare for all bill, known as H.R. 676. But Kennedy told The Hill that his concerns with the way the current bill is written prevent him from signing on.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal Pramila JayapalOvernight Health Care: Trump poised to roll back transgender health protections \| House Dems plan 'Medicare for All' hearing next week \| Walgreens, Rite Aid raise tobacco-buying age to 21 \| Drug distributor faces charges for role in opioid crisis House Dems to hold hearing on 'Medicare for All' next week Overnight Health Care: How 2020 Dems want to overhaul health care \| Brooklyn parents sue over measles vaccination mandate \| Measles outbreak nears record MORE (D-Wash.) is working on a revised version of the bill to introduce in the new session of Congress in January.
“I would hope I would be able to support that,” Kennedy said of the revised measure.
He says his concerns about the current bill include that it includes restrictions on abortion funding and could negatively affect investor-owned hospitals, which include Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts.
The comments are a note of caution to progressives, who are energized at the prospect of voting on a Medicare for all bill now that Democrats have won back the House.
Kennedy said he “absolutely” supports the idea of single-payer health insurance, which has the government provide health insurance for everyone.
But he pointed to Republicans’ failure to repeal ObamaCare last year as a warning.
“I think that we have also seen over the course of the past two years that the details around health care actually matter,” Kennedy said.
“What I think needs to happen, which our Republican colleagues certainly did not do, to their detriment, is to actually come up with and put an awful lot of thought into what a strong single-payer bill would look like, and some of the alternatives, and actually flesh them out to get vetted,” he added.
Republicans have attacked the need for tax increases to pay for the trillions of dollars in costs of a Medicare for all, single-payer system.
“I think everybody's clear that taxes are going to have to go up in order to finance this,” Kennedy said, adding that the details of who gets taxed more matter. “How does that impact lower income families? How does it impact middle class families?” he said.
House Democrats are divided between progressives pushing for a vote on Medicare for all and more centrist members who want to take smaller, more measured steps to strengthen the Affordable Care Act.
Kennedy said he thinks “both” of those steps need to happen.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maurice Harkless hit a corner 3-pointer at the buzzer, and the Portland Trail Blazers secured home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs with a 104-101 victory Tuesday night over the Los Angeles Lakers a few hours after Magic Johnson abruptly resigned as their president of basketball operations.
Johnson shocked the Lakers with his announcement about 90 minutes before tipoff of the last game in the Lakers' sixth consecutive losing season. The Hall of Fame guard had been in charge of the Lakers for just 26 months, and his departure throws the 16-time NBA champion franchise's offseason into turmoil even before it began.
Harkless scored 26 points and Enes Kanter had 22 points and 16 rebounds while the Blazers rallied in the fourth quarter to claim their 52nd win of the season. Damian Lillard had 20 points and eight assists while the Blazers wrapped up home court for their first-round series against the Utah Jazz.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 32 points and Mike Muscala added 16 for the Lakers, who have missed the playoffs in a franchise-record six consecutive seasons. Alex Caruso capped his incredible late-season surge with 12 points and 13 assists.
Los Angeles still went 6-5 after being eliminated from playoff contention March 22, and its 37 wins are the franchise's most since that last playoff season in 2013.
LeBron James watched from the bench while a mishmash lineup of veterans and G League regulars improbably maintained a fourth-quarter lead over the talented, ostensibly hungry Blazers.
The Blazers pulled even on a 3-pointer by Lillard midway through the fourth, and Harkless scored five consecutive points to put Portland up 99-97 with 1:21 left. Caruso tied it with two free throws before putting the Lakers up 101-99 on a jumper with 43 seconds left.
Harkless hit a layup with 33 seconds left, and after Seth Curry swiped the ball from Caruso on the other end, the Blazers wound down the clock. C.J. McCollum got the ball to Harkless, who nailed his 3 at the buzzer.
Johnson's departure represents a major change and an opportunity for the remaining Lakers, whose gifted young core finished the season largely sidelined by injuries.
The Lakers' final performances of the season suggested they have a significant talent base, and a new general manager could be less likely to get rid of that talent in a trade for a superstar. Coach Luke Walton also was widely expected to be fired by Johnson this week, but Magic's departure could mean Walton will get another chance after going 98-148 in three seasons.
Trail Blazers: Lillard hit three more 3-pointers, increasing his single-season franchise record to 237. ... Curry scored 19 points.
Lakers: They finished the season with seven players unavailable due to injuries: James, Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart, Lance Stephenson and Reggie Bullock. ... Jemerrio Jones had 11 points and 15 rebounds.
Trail Blazers: Host Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Jim McElwain can handle the heat, the hate and even the harassment.
“Credit in this business is internal; it’s never external,” McElwain said. “It’s a good lesson for the way things are. There’s a lot of hate in this world and a lot of anger and yet (there’s) freedom to show it. The hard part is obviously when the threats [are] against your own players, death threats to your families, the ill will that’s brought upon out there.
McElwain is 22-11 in three seasons in Gainesville. The Gators (3-3, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) have lost two in a row as they prepare to play third-ranked Georgia (7-0, 4-0) in nearby Jacksonville on Saturday. Florida opened as a 14 ½-point underdog.
While on the early morning show, Shelton admitted to 'Today' anchor Tamron Hall that he actually despises having to come up with names for an album. If it was up to him, they'd all be the same.
“First of all, I hate naming albums … I want it to be like ‘Blake Shelton No. 2,’ ‘Blake Shelton No. 3,’ ‘Part 4’ all that," the singer said before explaining what the title of this album actually means. "‘Bringing Back the Sunshine,’ to me, that kinda means I’m bringing back some of the more traditional-sounding stuff, as much as you can in country music these days and still try to blend in out there."
'The Voice' coach has been plenty busy in prepping for his album release (it dropped on Sept. 30), but he's also back in the swing of things on the reality singing show. Being around more mainstream artists like Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani does add pressure, but Shelton dishes that he's the one who applies the most heat.
Shelton loved the song the moment he heard it, saying it wouldn't leave him alone: “It was one of those things where it just beat the crap out of me, no matter what I did."
When Tracy Gottlieb went off to college she carried with her a secret: Her real name was Agnes.
But she just "didn't feel like an Agnes." In the summer before her freshman year, it dawned on her that she would be at a university where few, if any, people would know her. She decided to reinvent herself.
She would leave the old, frumpy Agnes of her high school years and introduce herself as who she really wanted to be: a gregarious and energetic woman named Tracy. That bold freshman-year shift changed the trajectory of her life, she says.
Today Dr. Gottlieb is dean of freshman studies at her alma mater, Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. This summer, as in years past, she'll be sharing her story with 1,200 freshmen during orientation and asking what high-school-era proclivities they, too, might like to shed by reinventing themselves.
"It's a unique moment in life when you can create your new destiny," Gottlieb says. "Nobody's going to say, 'You're ridiculous, you're not that way.' Everyone's going to believe and accept it."
She makes it clear, however, that she is not suggesting reinventing oneself by getting a tattoo, rebelling against parents, or getting into heavy drinking. "I'm talking about thoughtfully recreating oneself, not destructive behavior," she says.
Freshmen get truckloads of advice, of course, about everything from finding roommates to finding their true interests. Bookstores are piled with snappy guides offering tidbits like "find the smart person in class and study with him" or "pick the professor, not the time of day."
But Gottlieb and others note that freshmen are seldom told explicitly about the unique opportunity they have to make changes for the better in themselves - and without anyone being shocked at those changes, no matter how drastic.
"It's one of the few times in life you can start with a tabula rasa - if you want to," says John Gardner, senior fellow at the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience at the University of South Carolina at Columbia.
Being a "blank slate" has its advantages. If you're shy, you can try to be bold, Gottlieb says. If you're a mediocre student, you can sit at the front of the class and work hard. Despite this, however, many students labor through their college years strait-jacketed by parental, peer, and past expectations.
It may be because few students have been advised to think consciously about using their freshman year to divest themselves of the "rubber stamp" put on them by others, Gottlieb says.
"It's like a light bulb goes off in their minds when I say it," she says. "They realize it's important to stop and think: 'What don't I like about myself? How could I be a better person?"
In theory, there's room and time to explore, Mr. Gardner says, but there is "this enormous societal and parental pressure to decide right away on a major, to be on the fast track. I think it's a great shame."
Jennifer Keup at the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles oversees a national survey that tallies student attitudes after their first year.
While her survey does not ask directly about students' desires to reinvent themselves, Dr. Keup conducted one-on-one interviews with a handful of students. These indicated that the strong desire to reinvent themselves may be present among some students.
Among one group of nine students she interviewed, several said they were looking forward to "breaking free of preconceptions" of their high school years. One woman told how, as a quiet, bookish freshman, she mustered the courage to tell a joke that made everyone in a large group laugh.
"For her, that was a big step toward changing who she was," Keup says.
Such deliberate efforts toward major shifts between high school and college can have a life-changing impact, many agree.
After Nataly Kogan and her parents immigrated from Russia to New Jersey in 1989, she entered public school at age 13, a self-described misfit who spoke thickly accented English and wore dowdy, Soviet-style clothing.
After much teasing, she changed her name from Natasha to "Nataly," vowing to become even "more American" than her peers.
Dumping all things Russian, she perfected her accent by watching television sitcoms, transforming herself into a model American teen - not to mention an honors student.
But as a university freshman in 1993, when the high school peer pressure was suddenly gone, it dawned on Kogan she could reinvent herself again, this time by returning to her Russian roots.
"When I got to college, I remember just seeing all these different people and realized it was fun to be different," Ms. Kogan says. "I started telling everyone my name was Natasha and that I was from Russia. I had a fresh slate. I had this freedom to establish my new image."
One result was that, in addition to majoring in political science and economics, Kogan also tutored students and professors in speaking Russian and wrote her thesis on the economic development of the Russian mafia.
It was for her a return to something she loved about herself.
Today, Kogan is president of NATAVI Guides, a publishing company that produces guidebooks written by recent graduates to help students succeed in college.
"I had just closed that part of myself off," Kogan says of her Russian heritage. "Sometimes, looking back, I get scared when I realize that, if I hadn't had this turnaround, I would have missed out on all of this - and not found myself. I'm really so glad I did."
When Casey Gillece arrived at Duke University in Durham, N.C., as a freshman last fall, she encountered several identity shifters and "name changers."
"Almost everyone does at least a small makeover on themselves because it is such a remarkable opportunity to leave behind their past," she says.
One friend made the switch from Chris to Christian, she wrote in an essay reprinted in the Journal of College and Character.
Another friend, Katie, announced to her new college friends she was now just to be called Kit. Ms. Gillece notes that the first weeks of college are a "free-for-all for friends," which can result in some well-meaning exaggeration.
"It's a time when you can say anything you want about yourself and nobody knows if you're telling the truth or not," she says. "That's where the ethical part comes into it. I think you have to be true to yourself."
We greatly appreciate your interest in our restaurant as mentioned in last week's review.
Immediately upon reading it, one thing was blatantly obvious -- the author cannot distinguish the difference between northern and southern Italian cuisine. To truly appreciate the variety in Italian food one must understand Italian culture. Italy itself is divided into two regions -- the industrious north and the agricultural south.
Understandably, given its location, northern Italian cuisine is primarily influenced by classic French techniques. Northern Italy is also more affluent than south, thus the reason why southern Italian dishes have been considered peasant food. Southern Italian food is a reflection of its people, welcoming, hearty, comforting and fun. Southern Italian food is all about incorporating the freshest ingredients, native to the region -- fish, chicken, hearty vegetables, fresh herbs, spices, hot crushed red pepper (not black), extra virgin olive oil (not butter), fresh crimini mushrooms (not truffles), pecorino Romano (not parmigiano cheese).
Southern Italians do not rub their garlic; they embrace it as they do life!
Given the abundance of northern Italianstyle and Italian chain restaurants in the Colorado Springs area, Paravicini is our attempt at introducing unadulterated, authentic southern Italian food, served in an open, non-pretentious, friendly atmosphere. A place where eggplant is prepared the way chef Franco's mother had been preparing it long before she came to America. A place where families can eat, drink and converse the way Italians have been doing it for generations. A place where feeding the family doesn't equal the cost of a mortgage payment.
If you're looking for croutons rubbed with garlic or eggplant discs served Napoleon style -- please stick to the French restaurants; for tofu and alfalfa sprout salad -- try the trendy nouvelle joints. If you want to experience genuine southern Italian food prepared by an authentic southern Italian, served to you as if you were dining in Mamma Pisani's kitchen, then let down your hair, unbutton your collar, check the attitude at the door and come join us to eat, drink and be merry.
P.S. Our bread is specially made for us by La Baguette.
Just a quick note to congratulate your selection of material for the "Mouthing Off" feature in the June 5-11 issue. Bill Moyers, Sen. Robert Byrd and Chris Hedges should be given as much echo as possible in these dark times. Keep up the good work.
1. Noel Black's local Safeway changes vending machines, which is proof of corporate fascism trickling down from the Bush administration.
2. Media outlets are squabbling over the Jessica Lynch story, which proves to Cara DeGette that the FCC's recent merger rules changes were bad.
In other news: The recent rainy weather in D.C. is proof Bush lied about Iraq, Gregory Peck's death is proof of global warming, and all these non sequiturs are proof that the Independent is trying a little too hard to prove its contentions.
P.S. The X-Files is just a TV show, which is proof President Bush didn't go out of his way to ruin Noel Black's Homies collection.

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