Sentences with phrase «district system»

We want to share what we have learned about supporting district - wide secondary transformation and the common issues that surfaced across multiple district systems and schools.

We partner with districts over the course of 5 - 7 years to enact deep transformation in specific schools while also collaborating closely with district leaders to shift district systems in ways that ensure sustainability and system - wide impact.

3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

advanced importation and exportation tools (e.g., for exchange with District systems of student information, assessment scores)

CEC offers teacher union leaders training in successfully collaborating within a complex school district system.

Mary Schilaci has long dreamed of a recreation center in Richton Park, a place where her four children could take classes or play sports as she once did in the Chicago Park District system.

But a chartered system would capitalize on market forces largely absent from district systems, such as constant innovation, competition, and replication.

What about deeper responsibility, more autonomy, and being responsible for results within district systems?»

Cohn has also focused on improving the existing district system instead of funneling all energy / funds into private operations.

New Paltz political science professor Gerry Benjamin, chairman of the charter commission in 2005 - 06 that created this single - member district system, blames not the charter but the «seemingly moribund» political parties.

We elaborate what extant research teaches about these relationships and argue that future research should aim to understand how evidence use plays out not solely within schools or central offices but across district systems and through interactions between central office and school staff.

it can happen in other single member plurality district systems.

So how do we transform today's urban district systems into chartered systems?

Increase the effectiveness and efficiencies with district systems related to student achievement and accountability

Realizing this issue, the innovative district leadership created an opt - in solution that enabled all the departments to build their own content catalog, and control their ongoing content management, in a single district system.

This handbook can be used at every level of educational organizations, from a grade - level team to a full school or district system working to ensure all students are achieving at high levels.

With SRI Education as the independent evaluator, this pilot effort in nine California districts has documented the development and implementation of Linked Learning district systems and examined their impact on student outcomes.

A systemic approach to school turnaround is fundamental to addressing district systems in need of change and building staff capacity for transformative leadership to scale up the work that advances improved instructional practice and student outcomes at struggling schools.

Currently, Tse is the survey team manager and an analyst for the Evaluation of California's Linked Learning District Initiative, a multiyear mixed - methods study of an effort to transform district systems of high schools by integrating academics, technical curriculum, and work - based learning in rigorous programs of instruction.

As outlined in the PACE report, large district systems tend to focus on the visible aspects and features of continuous improvement.

The new Civics system as some much needed complexity to building your civilizations government, and the all new District system changes the way you build cities, transforming them from single - tile towns to sprawling, multi-tile metropolises.

The length of day, the hiring and compensation procedures, the employee training programs, and the curricula are substantially similar across all traditional district systems, from the 2,000 - student system with a 10 percent poverty rate to the 25,000 - student district with an 80 percent poverty rate.

Yet the urban ring mayors saw in their school district systems the same structural flaws that the urban mayors saw in theirs.

«While the growth in charter schools does have a direct correlation to appropriations to the in - district system in some districts, this has not been the case in Boston,» explains the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.

The Chicago Park District system is wasteful, bloated with bureaucracy and nearly half of its recreational programs exist only on paper, the agency's general superintendent declared Thursday.

But he said it also means looking within district systems to give leaders more flexibility over how the school day is structured and giving schools and teachers greater autonomy — as well as accountability for delivering results.

New ways to look at data are on the horizon for Study Island, along with new ways to integrate products with district systems.

For administrators, teachers, and mentors, PEAK integrates with many existing district systems, reduces system complexity, simplifies administration, and provides intelligent reporting and analytics to enable data - driven decisions.

Bierwirth, who answers to the Education Department, is empowered to develop and roll out improvement plans for student achievement and conduct an intensive review of district systems, structures and operations.

Electoral districts may be single seat (only a single representative is elected), as in the district system, or multiple seats (more than one representative is elected).

Committee member Sydney Abbott said she spoke for former Democratic Councilman Tom Wickham, who also opposes the district system.

At Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting, the long struggle over getting more minority and women - owned businesses among the vendors to the district system turned into a discussion about using student labor.

First, chartering entered public education after a century of the district system.

And while the strong and improving achievement scores are terrific news for kids and families in the city, they also offer even more reason to believe that chartering — if done smartly — can replace the district system for delivering public education in America's cities.

This economic fact made any regionalization of district systems (or even redistricting of individual systems) bureaucratically difficult and politically hazardous.

Every aspect of the work has to be focused on ensuring that school and district systems are able to deliver high - quality education that results in students knowing more, being able to think more clearly, and being able to do more.

In many ways, replacing the district system seems inconceivable, almost heretical.

In other words, while we gain so much by empowering families and educators, we also lose the surface - level rationality and orderliness of the district system.

We are saying that a plain look at the data suggests that the charter sector she supported is significantly outperforming the traditional district system.

Our analysis argues there are three ways chartering is, in the 1996 words of Ted Kolderie, perhaps its foremost theorist, «about system reform... a way for the state to cause the district system to improve.»

Test scores in D.C. offer reason to believe that chartering — if done smartly — can replace the district system for delivering public education in America's cities.

What caught Manno's eye was the opportunity the mayor's new initiative presented to build a whole new sector of schools outside the traditional district system.

After all that, he says, «I felt like if I wanted to do my best work and make a real difference, I had to do it outside of the state and district system.»

In 2003, a private investigator found that the district system, which had about 8,000 employees, inappropriately provided checks to nearly 4,000 people and health insurance to 2,000 people.

Yet you see them as such a threat that you'd rather kill them than accept them as a viable alternative for families who don't feel served by the district systems you run.

In order to achieve this, we need competency based education to be indoctrinated across the district system.

Later, when asked if it were possible that choice programs could produce worse outcomes for students, she derided the traditional district system's outcomes: «I'm not sure how they can get a lot worse on, you know, a nationwide basis than they are today.»