Sentences with phrase «instructional role of the school»
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Designed for all independent school leaders, the program covers topics such as diversity, access, equity, innovative instructional design strategies, online learning, financial sustainability, and the role of independent schools in the context of their communities.
This inspired to him to pursue a PhD in instructional design and led him to his current role as Head of Research at the school.
«They're learning how to maneuver through schools» bureaucracies and how to enlist administrators into their goal of developing instructional — not necessarily administrative — leadership roles for our finest teachers,» she says.
«Many schools have come to recognize the potential of increasing their instructional capacity by creating leadership roles for expert teachers, but they seldom are organized to prepare teachers for that work,» she says.
The Instructional Leadership (IL) strand within the L&T Program is designed for K - 12 public and independent schools teachers with at least three years of experience who are ready to take on new leadership roles in their schools.
Other have taken on school - wide roles as instructional leaders, curriculum developers, content coaches, department directors, educational coordinators, ESL coordinators, guidance counselors, and heads of schools.
According to faculty at JSIS, full - time, native - speaking teachers and instructional assistants in immersion classrooms play an important role in the success of the international school model, particularly in the younger grades.
Most school principals, for example, know they need to reconstruct their work roles from being «plant managers» to «leaders of instructional improvement,» and, in our experience, most of them want to, too.
Utilizing the research of HGSE Professor Heather Hill, the workshop explores the role of school leaders and instructional coaches in that process.
Payne: «Lack of time, the hurried pace of change, the absence of assessment, false buy - in or no buy - in, and the ambiguity of some of the new roles introduced into schools by reforms (what exactly is an instructional coach?
Los Angeles — In a speech to Hispanic school - board members here this month, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell criticized the nation's school boards for paying too little attention to instructional issues and called on them to take a leadership role in upgrading educational standards.
In 2007, after teaching in the school district in Oakland, California, for twelve years, I stepped out of the classroom and into the role of instructional coach at one of its middle schools.
Its important for community leaders to see how the leadership role of the principal has changed [since they were in school] and how instructional delivery has changed to meet the needs of all students.»
It does not address the changes we need to see in teacher compensation, the organization of the school day, the role of instructional leadership, and a range of other key factors crucial to getting the teacher - quality equation right in a workforce of 3,000,000 facing 200,000 teacher hires a year, due to high rates of turnover and mounting retirements.
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Her research focus is the principal as instructional leader in middle grades and charter school contexts, with specific interests in the principal's role in the induction and professional development of school personnel.
Today, with the rise of K — 12 blended learning, technology planning looks more and more like instructional and curriculum planning with technology playing a supporting role in new school and classroom design.
• School librarians have deep expertise in digital literacy skills; have well - developed instructional strategies based on thinking critically, communicating creatively in a variety of media, and solving problems creatively; and are often role models for strong leadership, initiative, and other career and life skills.
Today's school leaders struggle to balance their roles as instructional leaders with the many other demands of the job.
Projects have included: teacher career pathway programs that diversified roles in the teaching force; teacher career pathways that recognize, develop, and reward excellent teachers as they advance through various career stages; incentives for effective teachers who take on instructional leadership roles within their schools; incentives that attract, support, reward, and retain the most effective teachers and administrators at high - need schools; rigorous, ongoing leadership development training for teacher leaders and principals, leadership roles for teachers aimed at school turnaround; and the creation of new salary structures based on effectiveness.
At this year's Council of the Great City Schools Fall Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., CEL Associate Directors Max Silverman and June Rimmer joined by Shelby County Schools Instructional Leadership Director Reggie Jackson presented CEL's partnership work around defining and improving the role of principal supervisors in developing principals as instructiInstructional Leadership Director Reggie Jackson presented CEL's partnership work around defining and improving the role of principal supervisors in developing principals as instructionalinstructional leaders.
Further, it provides an overview of ways in which classroom teachers, teacher leaders, reading specialists, principals, and former instructional coaches can take on roles to provide professional development, foster teacher collaboration, and initiate data - based decision making within schools.
Do principals in elementary and secondary schools differ in their enactments of the instructional leadership role?
District leaders should acknowledge, and begin to reduce, ways in which secondary school principals are limited in their capacity to exercise instructional leadership by the work required of them in their role as it is currently structured.
Technology alone will not improve academic achievement, but when used as a part of a comprehensive school improvement approach it will empower students to take a greater role in their own learning and will provide equity in access to quality instructional resources.
Use student attendance, school safety information, and student growth data as measures of effectiveness to reflect principals» roles as instructional leaders and influencers of school culture.
As the role of technology in schools continues to evolve and expand, principals will need to be at the forefront of innovation as well as continuously tend to equity and instructional leadership.
After teaching at Brooke for 4 years, I transitioned into the role of Assistant Principal at Brooke Mattapan where I have the opportunity to serve as an instructional coach to our middle school teachers.
The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).
This of course presents a huge opportunity to make strong connections for technology - enabled learning in school, supported by the role of the library as a learning commons and the teacher - librarian's role as information specialist, instructional leader, and technology coach.
They also found that when classroom teachers partnered with teaching artists and arts specialists to deliver arts - integrated instruction it had positive effects on teachers» instructional practice and satisfaction in the teaching profession; strengthened the connection of the school to its surrounding community; and enhanced the role that arts specialists played in the larger school community.
The system goes hand in glove with the district's redefined role of principals as the instructional leaders of their schools.
Reasons include evolving understanding of the principal's role as instructional leader, accountability pressures from states and the federal government, and worries about turnover and leadership shortages in high - needs schools.
In each chapter, she explains the many roles of the school librarian: teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, instructional leader, and program administrator.
Prior to these roles, Devin taught social studies at ACORN Community High School, where she was selected as the model instructional classroom teacher for a network of 15 schools and led the rollout of the school's first portfolio based assessSchool, where she was selected as the model instructional classroom teacher for a network of 15 schools and led the rollout of the school's first portfolio based assessschool's first portfolio based assessments.
To meet the goal of supporting school - based administrators and teacher leaders in their instructional leadership roles, Christina School District's professional development team turned to ASCD and their customizable and sustainable Capacity - Building solschool - based administrators and teacher leaders in their instructional leadership roles, Christina School District's professional development team turned to ASCD and their customizable and sustainable Capacity - Building solSchool District's professional development team turned to ASCD and their customizable and sustainable Capacity - Building solution.
This could include a variety of leadership roles within a school such as (but not limited to) an Instructional Coach, PLC Lead, Dean, Assistant Principal, or Principal.
While I am involved in the day - to - day operational and instructional decisions of the school, my role in that regard is to provide oversight, advise and consent to our highly capable principal.
The quality of the library program is reflected in the role that the library media specialist plays in the instructional program of the school.
In this role, Cara plans and conducts evaluations on a variety of initiatives, such as summer learning programs, community schools, and Common Core - aligned instructional materials, to support continuous improvement in MCPS schools.
As instructional leader, «the principal's role is to lead the school's teachers in a process of learning to improve teaching, while learning alongside them about what works and what doesn't.»
NACA Leadership Fellows work closely with the NACA Fellowship Team and are placed on charter school design teams of three, in the following roles: (1) Instructional Leader, (2) Operations Leader, and (3) Community Engagement Specialist.
In reading books on the principalship, perusing job descriptions, or listening to superintendents talk about the role building leaders should play, I find a pervasive assumption that a principal must be the instructional leader of the school.
As a founding team member at West Brooklyn Community High School, Nicole has been working with over-age and under - credited youth since 2006 in the roles of ELA teacher, Instructional Support Specialist, and Assistant Principal.
This information outlines the role of the school library media center as a powerful and active partner in the school instructional program and provides guidance to school library media specialists in the development of best practices for teaching and learning.
Groups representing teachers and administrators in Arizona, Kentucky, New York, and Washington State, as well as in the San Francisco and Albuquerque school districts, are partnering with each other and the National Board to dramatically boost their ranks of Board - certified teachers and match them to instructional leadership roles in high - need schools.
C. Assumes a leadership role in the study and implementation of instructional improvement and school reform initiatives.
Over the last decade, the term instructional leader has worked its way into the vernacular of the education community to describe the role of school principals.
Her role included working with teachers, administrators, school psychologists, and instructional coaches to determine student progress and necessary interventions; making instructional decisions based on data; and providing professional learning for teachers to meet the needs of their students.