Sentences with phrase «leaders of urban school districts»

Leaders of urban school districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

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As the leader of the Chicago Public Schools, America's third - largest urban school district, Arne has launched key initiatives all with a singular aim: improving student performance.

The Urban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban distrUrban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban distrurban districts.

The PELP faculty team invited, through a competitive process, urban school districts to partner in the design and delivery of an innovative executive education program tailored specifically to meet the actual challenges that educational leaders are facing.

We're seeing strong, transformation - minded leaders who have a talent mindset at a number of urban school districts, like our mutual friend Kaya Henderson at D.C. Public Schools.

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

Urban school districts tend to lose their focus, hopping from reform to reform, as new leaders with ideas of their own take the helm.

Bryan and his team have spent much time in the trenches of education leadership, including helping urban districts to expand their principal pipelines, evaluate leader effectiveness, and equip change agents to turn around schools.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

These organizations include not only many of the leading urban school districts (e.g., Atlanta, Denver, New York City), but also some of the most noted organizations driving change in K - 12 education (including Teach for America, New Leaders for New Schools, KIPP, and the National Center on Education and the Economy).

In an era when education leaders are held accountable for raising the academic performance of all students, the job of leading today's schools has seriously outpaced the available training, especially for state and district leaders who set policy for and lead complex urban districts.

Because the city is smaller than many urban districts, school leaders could be very selective in choosing from the pool of educators who wanted to come and work there.

Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school prDistricts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school prdistricts can build a pipeline of effective school principals.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizSchool Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

Insight in action As part of collaborative reform efforts to improve K - 6 science education across multiple urban school districts, a teacher leader was selected from each participating elementary school based on his / her knowledge of science.

The tools represent the best thinking of school board leaders from urban, suburban, and rural districts across every region in the country.

Ann previously co-designed the Collaborative Urban Leadership Program at the University of Texas in Austin, which developed effective secondary school leaders for Dallas, Houston and Austin - area school districts.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

Across the nation, the leaders of major urban school districts recognize that lessons in creativity and imaginative problem solving must begin at an early age if our children are to thrive in school and in a global economy.

New York city is one of six urban school districts taking part in Wallace's principal pipeline initiative to develop a large corps of highly effective school leaders.

In a report drawn from a convening of school district superintendents, charter leaders, school finance experts, and other education experts in Houston earlier this year, CRPE recommends that urban districts and charter schools collaborate to solve the problems associated with declining enrollment so that all students can have access to a high - quality education.

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.

In a new series of short videos, superintendents of six large, urban school districts around the country share lessons for improving development of leaders for their districts» schools.

«These school leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of Truschool leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of TruSchool District Board of Trustees.

He has provided creative and purposeful solutions to state departments of education, superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, the CCSSO, and teacher leaders in over 100 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in the US, Canada, and Central America.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.

Philanthropist Eli Broad and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came together at the Library of Congress in Washington this morning to commend Houston's leaders and those of other large urban school district that have made strides in recent years in boosting student achievement and reducing achievement gaps between low - income students and students of color and their more advantaged peers.

For example, after reading Chapter 6, «The Social Cost of Leadership Churn: The Case of an Urban School District,» I wondered about the school district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office leSchool District,» I wondered about the school district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office District,» I wondered about the school district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office leschool district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office leaders.

Chiefs for Change continues to expand into the ranks of school district leaders, with two urban schools chiefs among the four new members.

The voices of urban school district leaders are also conspicuously absent.

The Quality Schools Compact effort is an outgrowth of a roundtable discussion that occurred last February between 13 major urban school district superintendents matched with charter leaders from each of those cities.

More than 30 state and urban school leaders have offered strong statements of support for the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools Commitments on High - Quality Assessments, a series of established principles to guide state leaders and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents and teaschool leaders have offered strong statements of support for the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools Commitments on High - Quality Assessments, a series of established principles to guide state leaders and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents and teaSchool Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools Commitments on High - Quality Assessments, a series of established principles to guide state leaders and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents and teachers.

Thirty years after being labeled the worst school district in the nation and after two decades of fiscal crisis, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) welcomed more than 381,000 students back to class last month as a leader among the nation's urban school districts.

His research has examined: 1) how school reform intersects with equitable community development, with a focus on school and community leaders and 2) how geography influences educational opportunity for children of color in urban school districts.

The Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI) is an organization created by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and American Institutes for Research to help district leaders from urban, rural, and suburban schools transform their systems to ultimately drive higher student achievement.

Organizational Context There is a rich body of evidence about the relevance to leaders of such features of the organizational context as geographic location (urban, suburban, rural), level of schooling (elementary, secondary) and both school and district size.

Tredway is senior associate for IEL's Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable sLeaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable sleaders in the most vulnerable schools.

Our first example is drawn from our observations of two successful teacher leaders, Robin and Beth, who worked in the urban Horizon School District, which enrolled high numbers of ELLs, representing more than 100 native languages.

Elsewhere, similar solutions are likely in the near future, as the trend of hiring leaders with backgrounds in business, law, politics, the media or the military to run large urban school districts has shown little sign of abating.

Recent research from the Council of Great City Schools found that 86 percent of urban districts have teacher leader roles, but only 32 percent offer specialized training for the responsibilities that go with those titles.

· Provide district leaders who are knowledgeable about education and urban contexts and skillful in collaborative and democratic decision - making processes, starting with a credentialed superintendent of CPS, and transitioning from mayoral control to a democratically elected school board that is accountable to the public.

As discussed on Cloaking Inequity recently in the post Taylor v. Dewey: The 100 - year Trickle - Down vs. Pedagogical Debate / Fight in Education Reform, there is a breed of educational policy leaders in the mold of Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee that prioritize entering urban school district administrative positions to execute educational

In addition to the annual monitoring by the Chamber's Report Card committee, the success of MNPS» strategic plan, Education 2018, a plan to become the highest performing urban school district in the United States, will be dependent on the support of all of Nashville, especially its students, teachers, and leaders.

Sponsored by The Council of the Great City Colleges of Education, an affiliate group of deans working with urban school leaders, the award honors an outstanding partnership between a university and an urban school district that has had a positive, substantial impact on student learning.

He draws from 39 years of educational experience in urban, suburban, and rural school district settings as he trains and works with teachers, teacher leaders, school leaders, and district leaders across North America.

The study finds that in states with larger proportions of rural SIG schools (in comparison to states with more urban and suburban districts), significantly fewer school leaders reported that replacing principals to meet SIG requirements helped improve student achievement.