Sentences with phrase «quality schools action»

Courage to Connect — A Quality Schools Action Framework (San Antonio: Intercultural Development Research Association, 2010).

IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework ™, developed by IDRA President Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, is a guide for bringing about positive outcomes in school systems (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010).

IDRA's new book, Courage to Connect — A Quality Schools Action Framework ™ shows how communities and schools can work together to be successful with all of their students.

Each element of the Quality Schools Action Framework developed by Dr. Robledo Montecel requires equity to be effective.

Robledo Montecel, M. «A Quality Schools Action Framework — Framing Systems Change for Student Success,» IDRA Newsletter (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, November - December 2005).

By using the Quality Schools Action Framework we tell the story of how one school district has brought that ideal closer to reality for all students,» added Dr. Robledo Montecel.

IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework guides communities and schools in identifying weak areas and strengthening public schools» capacities to graduate and prepare all students for success.

IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework focuses change on what research and experience say matters: parents as partners involved in consistent and meaningful ways, engaged students who know they belong in schools and are supported by caring adults, competent caring educators who are well - paid and supported in their work, and high - quality curriculum that prepares students for 21st Century opportunities.

Robledo Montecel, M., & Goodman, C. Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association).

IDRA's book, Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework shows how communities and schools can work together to be successful with all of their students.

IDRA has developed the Quality Schools Action Framework that details a schema for systems change in schools that includes student engagement as a key element.

In the IDRA Quality Schools Action Framework, we define community involvement as the «creation of a partnership based on respect and the shared goals of academic success and integration of the community into decision - elements:

Our Quality Schools Action Framework presents a way of looking at systems change to produce student success and increased graduation (Robledo Montecel, 2005).

As described in IDRA's new book, Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework, teaching quality is one of four indicators that are tied to student success.

Robledo Montecel, M. «A Quality Schools Action Framework — Framing Systems Change for Student Success,» IDRA Newsletter (Intercultural Development Research Association, November - December 2005).

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

Her presentation is framed around the IDRA Quality Schools Action Framework that shows how we can strengthen public education for all students.

Robledo Montecel, M. «From «Dropping Out» to «Holding On» — Seven Lessons from Texas,» Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework ™ (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, 2010).

In our work at the higher education level and with institutions of higher education, we are finding that proven strategies for increasing college completion parallel the Quality Schools Action Framework.

For the last several years, IDRA has utilized our Quality Schools Action Framework ™ to guide our work in educational reform.

IDRA's new book, Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework, edited by Dr. Robledo Montecel and Christie Goodman, shows how communities and schools can work together to strengthen their capacity to be successful with all of their students using the Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by Dr. Robledo Montecel.

Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework ™ (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, 2010).

In the book we are releasing today, Courage to Connect — The Quality Schools Action Framework, we share our learnings.

The Quality Schools Action Framework ™ is based on experience and empirical evidence that emerges from existing theories of change.

DRA's Classnotes Podcast produced a series of three episodes about the Quality Schools Action Framework ™, featuring IDRA president and CEO, María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, Ph.D..

«The Quality Schools Action Framework helps people hone in on what's important and needed in their local school context.

IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework ™ shows how we can strengthen public education for all students.

Below is the Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by IDRA (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010) that may assist the Legislature in drafting future laws that could help the state achieve its public education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § 4.001).

Courage to Connect — A Quality Schools Action Framework (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association).

IDRA's Quality School Action Framework shows how communities and schools can work together to identify where these elements are weak and strengthen their schools» capacities to improve their holding power.

IDRA's Quality School Action Framework ™ guides communities and schools in identifying weak areas and strengthening public schools» capacities to graduate and prepare all students for success.

Not exact matches

«We are excited to see Chicago Public Schools continue to be a leader by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness, quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.

You can find planners specialized for students piled up on tables at bookstores and office supply stores at back - to - school time, and you can also order roomy ones from Action Agendas and special education ones from Quality Planners.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality across New York City public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in schools with the highest needs.

With this irresponsible action, the SUNY Charter Schools Committee has eroded the quality of teachers in New York State and negatively impacted student achievement.»

Parents will be joined by Citizen Action and alliance for quality education as well as community members in a rally before Wednesday's school board meeting take place at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.

The UFT / NYSUT lawsuit, which asks the court to overturn the Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.»

Representatives from the Alliance for Quality Education, PUSH Buffalo and Citizen Action were among the group calling on New York State to provide the funding owed to area schools.

Collaborating with the Alliance for Quality Education and Citizen Action of New York in efforts to fairly fund public schools, she sits on NYSUT's LGBTQ Task Force, which resolves to support legislation banning conversion therapy and to protect intended parental rights.

In a news conference just before the board meeting in Performing Arts School, an alliance of Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education says the new system still suspends minority students out of their proportion in the schools.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

A near faultlessly calibrated slice of futurama (err, future drama), Looper is 2012's action flick to beat in terms of quality, and its old - school restraint has a contrasting lure that might make it a viable slot - filler (think the annual foreign trend in the Animation category).

Ofsted's guidance on effective self - evaluation highlights that it needs to be able to capture the impact of the school's actions on the quality of teaching, students» achievement, behaviour and safety.

In his second major release, Visible Learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning, Hattie presents eight «mind frames» or ways of thinking that must underpin every action and decision made in schools and educational systems if they are striving to improve the quality of education.

A goal of Action for Healthy Kids is that all schools provide daily, quality physical education for all students from kindergarten to 12th grade.

• Manage the actions of the dozen charter authorizers, the Detroit Public Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something better.

«The Quest for Quality: An Evaluation of the Health Action Schools Project,» (Unpublished Report).

The danger with your argument — that we may have no choice but to rely on test scores — is that it rationalizes ignorant actions by policy makers whose knowledge of school or program quality consists almost entirely of test score results.

He continued, «I think each class at HGSE has a defining quality, and I have come to think of your class as exceptionally big - hearted, in large part because of what I saw of your collective character after the election» — actions which included organizing a solidarity rally, participating in a dean's challenge looking to reduce bullying and discrimination in schools, and creating an art installation titled «Love in the Time of...».