Sentences with phrase «in schools around the nation»

For the master's candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the video exercise demonstrates the importance for teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.

Using insights from a 13 practitioners who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology answers the most important questions surrounding professional learning communities (PLCs).

Not exact matches

The consequences from the shooting have reverberated far beyond school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., as schools around the nation closed Friday, or canceled activities after receiving threats.

Stopping by to pick up a book, I look around the quiet office, I close my eyes and reflect on the biggest youth and high school sports stories of the year and wonder if we as a nation are any closer to our MomsTEAM mission of making sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive or if we continue to spin wildly out of control in the crazy vortex that is youth sports in the 21st century.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

But the fact that the schools chancellor isn't even aware that this ongoing project exists — one year later — speaks volumes about the miles we have to go to turn things around here in the nation's captiol, right outside Michelle Obama's door.

It sounds fabulous, but I like to point to Brazil as a more surprising model — in fact, nations around the world are already looking to Brazil for inspiration and leadership when it comes to school lunch.

«It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.»

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

A month ago in this space, I raised the idea of establishing a local gun buyback program similar to those that have been established around the nation in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

Since then, thousands have tested themselves against the Blob in various venues across the Nation and around the World, only to have it laugh in their face like the bully at school.

Duncan said of the results, «There's dramatic change happening in these schools, and in the long - term process of turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools, one year of test results only tells a small piece of the puzzle.»

Virtually no other nation around the world has school boards as we do, yet most of their school systems aren't run in tyrannical ways.

«While the media hyperventilate about MOOCs and higher education, and K 12 school districts around the country form technology committees, the nation's preschoolers have the situation well in hand.»

CCT programs are used around the world — in both the developing world and in wealthy nations — to reduce poverty and encourage a variety of goals, including school attendance and achievement.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schSchools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schschools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

Framing a discussion around her recent book, Schooling America, Warren Research Professor Patricia Albjerg Graham provided insight into what the American public has sought from its educational institutions, what educators have delivered, and what may come in the future on Wednesday, May 10, at this semester's final Askwith Forum, Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

The Change Leadership Group will be the first - in - the - nation program to recruit, train, and supervise a network of education experts to deliver on - site training and support to school districts around the country.

Perhaps the most prominent big - city superintendent in the nation, Vallas is widely credited with having turned around the Chicago school system.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

Less than 20 percent of whites and African Americans accord the nation's schools an «A» or a «B,» and only around 40 percent give the schools in their community one of these two top grades.

The nation's first modern private school choice program — in Milwaukee — has been around for more than 25 years.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

So too did a January 27, 2007, article in The Boston Globe, which mentioned that several districts around the nation were moving toward the return of K — 8 schools.

Beyond helping schools directly, data from Tripod surveys provide the AGI, graduate students, and research colleagues with a way study opportunity patterns in tens of thousands of classrooms from around the nation.

Around the nation, a new definition of educator is emerging as schools work in partnership with many community - based groups to extend learning beyond the school clock and the building's walls with noncredentialed instructors.

Equipped with high - vis vests, posters, banners and the loud voices of thousands of children, schools across the nation took part in a 500m safe walk around the roads surrounding the school, creating an eye - catching giant human bus.

«Partner» with other classes in schools in your state, region or around the nation regarding segregation in schools.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

After their first Tucson charter school was ranked the nation's sixth - best high school by Newsweek, the Blocks went on to found BASIS.ed, a management company that operates 12 BASIS Schools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, CaliSchools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, Calischools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, California.

Students from around the nation joined in the walkout against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School.

Study: Once - a-Year Teacher Evaluations Not Enough Associated Press, January 6, 2012 «Those surveys, also being piloted by the foundation in school districts around the nation, are not popularity contests, [Professor Thomas] Kane said.

Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.

Although CEL has worked in partnership with school districts around the nation, until this fall the Center had never begun a partnership with a salmon bake, campfire, and singing in the middle of the desert.

SPARK fourth graders have performed in the 70th percentile in math and the 61st percentile in reading in the nation much higher than fifth graders who enter our schools from other schools, who typically start around the 25th percentile in math and reading.

In 5th - 8th grade much emphasis is placed on mastering the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) enhanced with KIPP and national standards so that all students gain the additional knowledge and skills needed to be successful in the most competitive high schools around Austin, Texas, and the natioIn 5th - 8th grade much emphasis is placed on mastering the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) enhanced with KIPP and national standards so that all students gain the additional knowledge and skills needed to be successful in the most competitive high schools around Austin, Texas, and the natioin the most competitive high schools around Austin, Texas, and the nation.

«A new school year has begun for about 41,000 Native American students in 185 BIE schools around the nation,» said Senator John McCain....

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

But a Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.

Alison DeNisco writes in District Administration that «in light of a looming ESSA mandate to increase transparency around education spending,» district leaders across the nation «have been struggling to calculate per - pupil spending by school in accordance with state and federal requirements.»

As a nation, we're nibbling around the edges with accountability measures and other reforms, but we're ignoring the immutable core issue: much of white and wealthy America is perfectly happy with segregated schools and inequity in funding.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

Related: Can Teach For America get more teachers to stick around in some of the nation's poorest schools?

«The promise was dramatic, lasting change in turning around the nation's worst 5,000 schools,» said Andrew Smarick, a former federal education official and a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a consulting firm.

He was one of may non-educators around the nation that were being brought in to oversee struggling school systems.

Describes the School Administration Manager process or «SAM process,» an approach that about 700 schools around the nation are using to direct more of principals» time and effort to improve teaching and learning in classrooms.