Sentences with phrase «as school leaders put»

As school leaders put more attention on boosting their graduation numbers, they're also discovering other challenges that need addressing.

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«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

Responding to an email from a New York City deputy mayor's chief of staff, then - REBNY President Steven Spinola wrote in March of 2015 that it did not appear as if the state Senate majority leader at the time, Republican Dean Skelos, had put anything about school governance in his budget bills.

Prof McLean sent the analysis to the Telegraph as Alistair Darling used a visit to Aberdeen, during which he spoke to oil industry leaders, to warn that independence would mean putting Scotland's schools and hospitals at the mercy of «a volatile and declining resource».

As the debate over Europe rages on, the Labour leader opted to put it to one side — and instead attacked David Cameron over Tory plans to force all state schools in England to become academies.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that..as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that..As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

One of the institute's first education initiatives was the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership (AREL), a nationwide network of principal preparation programs with a mandate, as a 2010 press release put it, «to transform the way school districts identify, recruit, prepare, empower, and evaluate their leaders.»

As Feinberg puts it, «If we truly do a great job of recruiting and selecting a leader for a school, then technically we're done.

The latest news also comes as expectations around educational standards continue to increase, and following a Budget which revealed plans to roll out an «achieving educational excellence everywhere» strategy — putting additional pressure on teachers and school leaders.

As one education leader in Detroit put it, «We are trying to keep the dropout rate down and keep youngsters in school as long as possible by offering interesting, attractive, and constructive courses.&raquAs one education leader in Detroit put it, «We are trying to keep the dropout rate down and keep youngsters in school as long as possible by offering interesting, attractive, and constructive courses.&raquas long as possible by offering interesting, attractive, and constructive courses.&raquas possible by offering interesting, attractive, and constructive courses.»

As a school leader, what support mechanisms and professional development opportunities have you put in place to help teachers build their self - efficacy?

As a school leader, what structures would you need to put in place to introduce a «plan, act, describe, review» cycle for inquiry for staff professional learning?

School system leaders across the Baltimore area said they believe the scores will increase quickly in coming years, as teachers and students adjust to the new test and Common Core standards put into effect by most schools three years ago.

The expansion of charter schools, less university - based teacher preparation, and putting digital technology before superb teaching as a way to personalize learning for students do not characterize the policies of international educational leaders like Canada, Finland, or Singapore.

The Icahn Charter School network in the South Bronx has been quietly registering extraordinary test results for years, while nurturing its students in an atmosphere of «unconditional love,» as its emotive leader, Jeff Litt, puts it.

As I put it in Letters, «When I talk to the leaders of schools or systems heralded for their success with technology, it's striking how consistently they brush past the tech in order to talk about learning, people, problem - solving, and redesign.

, serving as a school leader is a bit like parenting: I have to trust that if my wife and I model our values and put our beliefs into practice, some of that will rub off on our three kids.

As the City Council holds a hearing this afternoon on three resolutions aimed to cap and slow the co-location of public schools, district and charter school leaders who share facilities are speaking up about their experience co-locating with other public schools; collaboration, community building and putting kids first are recurring themes among all of them, demonstrating that educators know to check politics at the door.

Thus, as the economist Friedrich von Hayek (1975) put it in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, governments (and one might say the same of philanthropists, leaders of charter school management organizations, technology entrepreneurs, and others) should behave not like craftsmen but like gardeners — «not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment.»

I have been fortunate in my career as a primary school teacher and now as an instructional coach to work with building administrators who put students first, and as a teacher leader I strive to be a true example of student - centered teaching and learning.

«As the premier professional association for education technology leaders, CoSN, along with AASA and NSBA, will empower school leadership with extraordinary professional development resources and opportunities that put education leaders on the path to build their skills and lead the digital leap.»

As each person reads, list all of the structures school leaders put in place to make this a literacy - rich school.

District leaders say they put the requirement in place to reduce distractions in the classroom, as well as bullying in schools.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioAs Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioas New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioas well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality educatioas subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

Thailand is in the midst of an education reform, putting school principals in an important role as instructional leaders; a role they have historically not been expected to fulfill.

For teachers and school leaders, the terms «formative assessment» and «summative assessment» are put to regular use as they describe the different modes of assessment they adopt.

Mostly, though, I bristle at the idea that veteran school and district leaders have to be told to put students» needs front and center, as if that were ever in question.

The idea of chartered schools as incubators for education change was put forward by progressive educators and teachers union leaders.

Act 88 has put cyber charter schools on firm ground in Pennsylvania and has only enhanced its position as a leader in the cyber charter movement.

Among the hotly disputed decisions by college leaders was the loan that put the school's interests in the Chrysler Building up as collateral.

Michelle Miles, vice president of the school's Black Law Students» Association, says two posters of black Canadians put up at Gowlings Hall were defaced shortly after they were installed on Jan. 31, as part of a larger exhibit featuring 15 to 20 leaders.