They make sure our Healthy Schools Program is up to date with the most current best practices and provide the latest resources to support
school leaders in their efforts to make sustainable change on their campuses.
Not exact matches
One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish
leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies
in the public
school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an
effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.
But we're going to make this a very urgent
effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the
schools, the ability to call
in the
school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.
Senate Minority
Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Thursday weighed
in on the education funding discussions
in the state budget, saying
in a statement
school aid should not be «held hostage»
in the ongoing
effort instill education reforms.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately at the state Capitol with
school and government
leaders from Hoosick Falls about ongoing
efforts to deal with the discovery of a toxic chemical that contaminated public and private water supplies
in the Rensselaer County community
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach) and City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park) sparred over their records and qualifications for Senate at a spirited debate last Thursday at Our Lady of Hope
School in Middle Village, with Addabbo portraying himself as a
leader who stands up for workers and families during tough fiscal times and Ulrich arguing the
effort has not been enough to change New York's economy.
Latino elected
leaders joined liberal anti-charter
school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter
Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role
in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending
in a desperate
effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]
In another effort to reduce tobacco use, students from Tappan Zee High School met with local leaders and lobbied in Albany and their hard work paid of
In another
effort to reduce tobacco use, students from Tappan Zee High
School met with local
leaders and lobbied
in Albany and their hard work paid of
in Albany and their hard work paid off.
It is part of an
effort by state
leaders in Albany to boost after -
school enrollment by 36 percent, or more than 20,000 students statewide.
Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a
leader in the
effort that recently overturned the public
schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
While calling on all stakeholders
in the education sector to double their
efforts to achieve government desire for success
in the sector, she urged members and
leaders of various Community Development Associations (CDAs) to join hands and support government initiatives by ensuring adequate protection for
schools infrastructure
in their areas so that government huge investment
in education will not be a waste.
«For any postdoctoral fellow, having extra training
in teaching skills gives them a leg up as they go on the job market, and we have fantastic partners at HFC and WCCCD to help our fellows enhance their teaching skills,» says Bishr Omary, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the U-M Medical
School Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and one of the
leaders of this
effort.
94, state superintendent of public instruction for Montana, discussed
school improvement
efforts in her state and the importance of being a
leader at the Askwith Forum on Friday, March 1.
And it means that the district provides teacher
leaders like Golden to support them
in that
effort — teacher
leaders who meet monthly with the district's academic services division for professional learning to equip them with the skills they need to help
schools succeed.
CEO Fergal Roche went on to say that «while the
school funding system should not rely on entrepreneurial
efforts in schools to make ends meet» there has been «more and more
school leaders looking for ways to generate extra income and make better use of their funding».
Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business
leaders concluded that «
efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students
in a given
school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».
A new
effort, Project for Policy Innovation
in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational
leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact
in their communities.
Those
school's
leaders have envisioned the opportunities possible, put
in the concerted
effort and are finally beginning to exemplify why,
in time, it will be imperative for all
schools to fashion an ecology where the use of the digital is normalised.
This focus on outcomes has its roots
in her experiences
in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of
School Boards and worked on several education improvement
efforts piloted by business
leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.
In a strongly worded letter sent this month to chief state
school officers, legislators, state board of education members, representatives of the National Education Association, and publishers nationwide, the Florida
leaders point to the «pervasive» influence of textbooks and other classroom materials on the educational process and say that their state's
school - improvement
efforts «have been impeded repeatedly by the declining...
IPads ® were the
leaders in the tablet wave, but their device is a consumer device and while Apple ® has made great
efforts to adapt it to
schools, many
schools have purchase hundreds of iPads and have had to make their own adaptations.
«Although there are
efforts to create teams of teachers to improve teaching and learning
in schools, only recently has there been a broad
effort to appoint expert teachers as instructional coaches or teacher
leaders,» Johnson says.
Texas is frequently cited as a national
leader in efforts to raise academic performance and hold
schools accountable for student performance.
Maryland would have been the first state
in the country to take over
schools for NCLB restructuring, but Grasmick's
efforts met with intense political opposition from Baltimore's mayor and other political
leaders, and the state legislature passed a bill blocking the takeover.
As a new Administration takes shape
in Washington, with an education
leader who has long been an advocate of parental choice, the charter
school movement needs to redouble its
efforts to turn happy parents into active warriors for charter
schools and
school choice.
Democratic
leaders in Congress are highlighting recent state belt - tightening
in their
effort to win political support for greater federal spending on
schools.
In it, he chronicles the
efforts of Green Dot Public
Schools and its charismatic
leader, Steve Barr, to transform South Central Los Angeles's deeply troubled Locke High
School.
In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and
effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended
school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (
school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).
Tired of living
in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business
leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot
effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for
school.
Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small
schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness
in the U.S. education system which has hampered every
effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state
leaders, yet these
leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.
So, among the Plan's many strategies to improve
schools systemwide, Cleveland's
leaders did three key things
in an
effort to increase the demand for quality:
Leaders of the new
effort, «Project Appleseed,» hope to establish strong state - level Parents for Public
Schools organizations comparable
in stature to the state affiliates of the national teachers» unions and other groups.
The Launch of the Turning the Tide Report Marks the First Step
in Efforts of Coalition to Inspire Concern for Others
in High
School Students, Reduce Achievement Pressure, and Create Greater Equity for Economically Diverse Students New York, NY — Today, admissions deans and other
leaders from the nation's top colleges and universities joined together to announce the launch of Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions, a report with concrete recommendations to reshape the college admissions process and promote greater ethical engagement among...
For example, Austin (Texas) Independent
School District
leaders have begun implementing SEL programs across
schools in their district and have used Title II dollars to fund this
effort (Raven, 2013).
In light of this, the mayor brought education leaders together with Ofsted, the Met police, Transport for London as well as parents and young people who have been affected by knife crime, at a special summit in Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in school
In light of this, the mayor brought education
leaders together with Ofsted, the Met police, Transport for London as well as parents and young people who have been affected by knife crime, at a special summit
in Euston, to help increase efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem in school
in Euston, to help increase
efforts, and collaborate on how to best tackle the problem
in school
in schools.
Teachers and
school leaders can also take pride
in today's results, which would not be possible without their tireless
effort and dedication.
Some of those colleagues, Torres» cohortmates
in the
School Leadership Program (SLP), praised Torres for her honest contributions to class, sharing her own experiences both as a student and an educator, and encouraging the exchange of feedback
in an
effort to help make herself and her classmates better
leaders — and learners.
The Minnesota Leadership Academy for Charter and Alternative Public
Schools pairs practicing and aspiring principals and other
school administrators with business
leaders,
in an
effort to give
school leaders better training on how to manage their employees and get better results.
But is it within the competence (not to mention the legal authority) of the federal government to solve those problems, or will their
efforts to do so simply make things worse for educators,
school leaders, and policymakers
in the places that really matter?
As part of our ongoing
effort to explore and promote citizenship education at AEI (see, for instance, here), we had the pleasure of convening an array of terrific charter
school leaders and teachers
in San Francisco yesterday.
Prior to his time
in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public
Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and
school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized
effort to improve literacy instruction.
There is recognition that high quality instruction is the key to improved student learning, and teachers and
school leaders are engaged
in ongoing
efforts to understand and meet the needs of individual learners and to improve on current teaching practices.
To background themselves on the city and its
schools, they read old newspaper stories and talked to community
leaders, who told them about my involvement
in the
effort to create a separate
school district.
The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora
in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S.
efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and
school leaders.
To complement these
efforts and provide support for the
schools, the project then seeks help and involvement from the community, building relationships with parents, village
leaders, churches, and community - based organizations
in order to connect
schools with on - the - ground resources and expand support and sustainability.
The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform
in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs,
school - incubator
efforts, local funders and civic
leaders, etc. —
in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (
in this case, between government and individual
schools).
«This visit was an opportunity [for the Brazilian educators] to learn from similar
efforts in Massachusetts,
in the city of Cambridge, and
in the United States, and to engage
in conversation with some of our
leaders of thought and practice who share similar aspirations for our
schools.»
«Kemple's work examining high
school reform
efforts and assessing performance trends
in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city
leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing
school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement
in schools.»
Despite making such
efforts, more than three
in five (72 per cent)
school leaders are not confident
in their
school's ability to generate additional income over the next 12 - 24 months.
MATSITI has previously published a Teacher Workforce Scoping Plan - a blueprint for a national
effort to increase the number and capacity of Indigenous teachers and
leaders in the government and non-government
school sectors.