Sentences with phrase «build school or district»

Engaging students, parents, and community through effective communication means is a way to build a school or district's «brand.»

Build school or district facing materials which include but are not limited to the topics of change management, stakeholder engagement, and instructional coaching.

How can districts foster strong teacher leadership where teachers are prepared and empowered to lead collaborative learning opportunities with peers, while helping to build a school or district's instructional leadership capacity?

Engaging students, parents, and community through effective communication means is a way to build a school or district's «brand.»

Not exact matches

This covers such representations made on product packaging, school controlled - traditional and digital media, and on any property or facility owned or leased by the school district or school (such as school buildings, athletic fields, transportation vehicles, parking lots, or other facilities).

The Élan Dance Company Showcase begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Naperville North High School Performing Arts Center, 899 N. Mill St. Tickets are available online at https://recenroll.napervilleparks.org/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?aid=1235, by calling 630-848-5000, or in person at the Park District Administration Building, 320 W. Jackson Ave., or at the 95th Street Center, 2244 W. 95th St. Tickets are $ 8 in advance or $ 10 after Friday and at the door. ¿

The ruling also prevents Latin School from putting up bleachers, benches, lights or any signs on the $ 2 million field, which is being built on Chicago Park District land, north of LaSalle Drive and west of Lake Shore Drive.

Developers of new residential subdivisions are required to donate cash or land to the school district and the Park District for building schools and parks to accommodate the subdivision's additional redistrict and the Park District for building schools and parks to accommodate the subdivision's additional reDistrict for building schools and parks to accommodate the subdivision's additional residents.

But many work in town, for the school district or at local companies including Siemens Building Technologies or Allstate.

The 2013 - 14 Executive Budget and Management Plan builds on two years of balanced, fiscally responsible budgeting and invests in economic development, education reform, rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, provides support to local governments and school districts, and includes no new taxes or fees.

The tax cap, enacted in 2011, forces school districts and local governments to keep tax increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (with other factors built in for adjustments)-- unless approved by a 60 percent «supermajority.»

The school district released the results of testing water for lead at all 63 school buildings, which showed 308 outlets had levels above the EPA's action limit, including 18 fountains and 33 faucets typically used for consumption or food preparation.

But School districts face rising costs for employee health care, pensions and annual longevity, or «step» raises for teachers that are built into most union contracts.

He offered $ 25 million in competitive grants for low - income school districts to either build or expand pre-K programs.

WHEREAS, the Cortland County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Inc. acknowledges that in 2008, the Supreme Court established, via District of Columbia vs Heller, that the Second Amendment does not limit laws regulating the sales of guns, or prohibit possession of guns by the mentally ill or by felons, nor does it prohibit penalties against the carrying of guns in schools and government buildings; and

The Sheriffs» Association estimates that the cost of the proposal would be roughly equivalent to that of adding one teacher to each school, or one per building, depending on the district.

For example, school districts might use it to build or renovate pre-kindergarten classrooms, obtain space to eliminate trailers in overcrowded schools or to purchase high - tech security upgrades.

Many parents voiced concerns about what they believe is the district's unofficial plan to shutter one or more buildings, including the Congers school, which was closed in August 2013 due to structural damage in a gymnasium wall.

There are dozens of vending machines, installed by a myriad of companies, in buildings owned and operated by the City School District of New Rochelle but no records of contracts, payments for electricity or sales commissions.

Reflecting the expanding responsibilities of technology directors and heightened demand for schools to build students» 21st - century skills, the Consortium for School Networking has updated its framework detailing how chief technology officers, or CTOs, can become educational leaders in their districts.

The Linked Learning initiative is building a half - dozen or more career pathways in each of nine school districts, on the theory that students can get all the math, English, science, and social studies they need for a university, along with technical and job skills, but do it in a way that makes learning more fun and gives them real, relevant work experience.

Already, some cities are finding political advantage in creating «hybrid» or «partnership» schools that have the full autonomy of a charter school but operate on contract with districts within district - provided buildings, generally created by state legislation.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

Or the state could simply require that districts that fail to reduce costs responsibly get out of the property - ownership business, either by having the state assume ownership, by placing the buildings into a third - party trust, or by establishing a cooperative to which charter schools have equal rightOr the state could simply require that districts that fail to reduce costs responsibly get out of the property - ownership business, either by having the state assume ownership, by placing the buildings into a third - party trust, or by establishing a cooperative to which charter schools have equal rightor by establishing a cooperative to which charter schools have equal rights.

Yet, despite all the negatives, purchasing a portable classroom costs roughly one - half what it costs to build a new permanent classroom, and so, good or bad, budget - crunched school districts are likely to continue making the «portable» choice.

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

The parents wanted the district to construct a new building — a multi-million dollar project, according to school officials — or buy new portables.

Of these, 281, or 17 percent, have left their school buildings to take jobs at a district office (154), a nonprofit organization (47), a university (41), a federal or state government office (24), or a private company (15).

Will it even need school buildings, classrooms, or district boundaries?

This led to a patient explanation from other charter leaders as well as district leaders about how hard it is for communities to see a building shuttered or handed over to a charter school when generations of neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to be accomplished leaders, attended the school.

It used to be that when the weather turned frightful, some school districts had to dismiss employees or go to a four - day week in order to heat their buildings.

As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.

* Some state charter laws have provisions that make starting a rural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buildings

Called public - private partnerships, these can involve a district negotiating with a company to build a school; then the company leases the building to the district for the life of the building, about 20 or 30 years.

Some districts have to wait months or years for public funding to build schools when they have an urgent need for new buildings, Donahue said.

A governor who enacts a charter law may find that no school board will actually authorize such schools or allow them access to empty buildings owned by the district.

The refusal to choose between one instructional emphasis or the other symbolizes the work being done to build career pathways in nine school districts as part of Linked Learning, an initiative cited as a national model of career and technical education.

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Some communities are coming to the aid of their schools with educational foundations that support either a specific building or an entire district.

Through forming partnerships with community makerspaces or building a school makerspace, educators and decision makers everywhere have the rare chance to help bring this truly all - inclusive learning experience into their schools, districts, and communities in order to help all students.

In order for a makerspace to thrive within a school, district, or community, educators must prepare curricula so that projects built within the space are standards - aligned and link directly to the work that students are doing in their classroom.

Which came first for your school district, the technology / infrastructure or the personnel to support capacity building?

«Two big reasons students leave school are that they have no meaningful connection to an adult in the building, and no one knows their name or how to pronounce it,» said Trish Shaffer, the district's SEL coordinator.

It could be customized to fit a school's particular mission and vision, or it could be built around an entire district's long - range strategic plan.

Building on an initiative piloted this school year in Virginia, participating districts could offer students a choice of supplemental educational services, or SES, a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

The approach to building a PreK - 3rd system depends on a school district's or school's resources, leadership, population, needs, and strengths.

Schools or districts have used study circles to address issues such as the achievement gap, building projects, racism, and bullying, according to Malik.

The Framework will be designed primarily for use by schools and school districts and will be based on the premise that there is no one «right» way to build or evaluate PreK - 3rd efforts.

And second is that when [school districts] take the situation into [their] own hands and say, «I'm not going to put up with it anymore, being told it's too expensive or it can't be built,» the FCC will help.»