STEDI Templates for
Schools focuses on the actions teachers, administrators, and staff at the local site can initiate in assisting permanent teachers and principals to more smoothly work with and integrate substitute teachers into the classroom.
Not exact matches
With
school lunch being debated
on Capitol Hill, «Top Chef» should get in
on the
action and
focus some kitchen challenges
on school meals.
Byrne Creek Secondary
School was the 2012 winner of the ASCD Whole Child Award that recognizes
schools that move beyond a narrow
focus on academic achievement to take
action for the whole child.
Whole Child Award that recognizes
schools that move beyond a narrow
focus on academic achievement to take
action for the
Former NYC Mayor Mike Michael Bloomberg is among the nation's top financial backers of the
school - choice movement, topping the list of New York's political contributors by donating $ 1.8 million to ballot measures and political
action committees
focused primarily
on school choice.
In the remaining nine months of 2014, pro-charter groups
focused more
on strengthening accountability measures for teachers and pushing the state and city to take immediate
action to fix failing
schools.
We need to
focus the state's limited resources
on badly needed
school aid and basic services in the places where the economy has been hit the hardest,» said Blue Carreker, Campaigns Manager, Citizen
Action of New York.
By
focusing on DOOM's brutal, ultraviolent heart iD has created an all -
action FPS in the old -
school style, but with next - gen looks and a handful of mod - cons.
A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative
Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admis
Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League
Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative
Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admis
Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering
on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admission
on «Diversity» Ignores the Real
Focus of Affirmative
Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admis
Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal
Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admission
On Affirmative
Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admis
Action Centers
On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admission
On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative
Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admis
Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in
on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admission
on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative
action in college admis
action in college admissions.
Rather than attempt to make a summative statement about the success of Newark
school reform, this research project
focuses on key questions at the core of the theory of
action in Newark.
Early
on, the role of charter
school authorizers seemed so straightforward that little
focus was placed
on them, while the politics of chartering and the
action surrounding the
schools themselves consumed most of the attention.
The project will
focus on contexts of interest to both ISV and PZ: settings of organizational development, organizational and
school leadership, and student learning for
action.
A consistent
focus on student engagement within and across AL projects at CPAHS has been influenced by Munns, Sawyer and Cole's Teachers for a Fair Go3, an
action research project
on student engagement among low - SES primary
school students in Sydney's South West.
With Charisse L. Nixon, Davis recently published a study of 13,177 students in fifth through twelfth grades from 31
schools and in 12 states,
focusing on giving students a chance to speak about
school connection, peer mistreatment, and student and adult
actions.
There are too many to mention here, but examples include free twilight CPD programmes to all staff within an alliance; placement schemes for senior leaders to gain experience of working in other
schools and contexts; a mentoring programme for newly - employed heads; developing innovative programmes for
School Direct trainees; SLEs offering one - day diagnostics as well as longer deployments
focused on increasing attainment and progress in specific subjects; and the establishment of cross-alliance research groups meeting regularly to develop
action research.
The Ashden Sustainable
School Awards judging panel found Marton Primary
School to be an excellent role model for other small
schools where the staff and pupils have adopted a very simple approach,
focusing on low cost or no cost
actions such as behaviour change to really make a difference.
South Australia's Innovation Community
Action Network (ICAN), which offers flexible learning options outside mainstream
schooling but still under the responsibility of a
school principal, and CARE
Schools in Western Australia, which
focuses on practical learning to support the transition to further training and employment, also feature in the report.
If minority leaders can be weaned away from traditional alliances, the underlying public support will translate into effective legislative
action, especially if choice laws
focus on schools in urban areas.
In total, the space was out of
action for approximately 4 months, which did put pressure
on other areas of the
school but the community
focussed on the final product with many staff and students trying to sneak a peek of the space!
In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been
focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of
schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective
action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.
It was with those students in mind, with their future at stake, and in the interest of the Commonwealth's economic vitality, that the governor engaged more than 200 citizens to develop an
action plan, a series of recommendations spanning 10 years with an immediate
focus on turning around low - performing
schools and ensuring that students are receiving the support they need outside of
school to take full advantage of improved teaching and learning inside of
school.
Joellen Killion, the former NSDC director of special projects, added that a solid repertoire of professional learning is
focused on student results — standards - based,
school - based, and content - specific — and includes training, study groups,
action research, and observation.
«Where
schools are not doing this and are
focusing on ideological indoctrination instead, we will not hesitate to take
action including closing the
school or working with the police if necessary.»
Grades: Professional, Parents
Action for Healthy Kids is a partnership of over fifty public and private agencies that
focuses on changes in
schools to improve nutrition and increase physical activity.
This long - term, whole -
school approach
focusses on improving the skills and capacity of all staff (including non-teaching staff) through various means, including
action learning projects and peer - to - peer support and coaching.
The
focus has always been
on supporting staff and with a vision and framework to embed a long - term, whole -
school approach improving the skills and capacity of all staff (including non-teaching staff) through various means, including
action learning projects and peer coaching.
She manages a range of survey projects that
focus on teacher perceptions and
school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter
school closure
actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their
schools.
Other leadership
actions that nurture
school turnarounds include (1) sending a clear signal that dramatic change is urgently needed, (2) maintaining a consistent
focus on improving instruction, (3) making visible improvements quickly, and (4) building a staff that is committed to the
school's improvement goals.
The program brings together educators, seasoned practitioners and Harvard faculty for an intensive experience that provides the tools to develop a plan of
action specific to their
school context,
focusing on establishing priorities to achieve rapid and meaningful improvement.
The program brings together educators, seasoned practitioners and Harvard faculty for an intensive experience that provides the tools to develop a plan of
action specific to their
school context —
focusing on establishing priorities to achieve rapid and meaningful improvement.
The Youth
Action Research Institute in Hartford, Connecticut, has coordinated student - led research projects
focused on schools and education for many years.
Other research has pointed to the possibility that top - down and bottom - up approaches need not be viewed as alternatives, but can be combined.235 Recent research
on the district role in
school - improvement activity has
focused increasingly
on the identification of specific district - level policies,
actions, and conditions that are related to improvement in teachers «and students «performance.
Some specific
actions steps include providing teachers time to meet in grade - level professional learning communities, improving
school climate by addressing discipline challenges, or helping teachers formulate an essential question to
focus on, e.g..
When they are involved in researching
schools with students, adults can help facilitate participatory
action research
focusing on classroom and
school improvement.
Thus, this third learning activity engages learners in proposing a problem of practice that will
focus the professional learning efforts within a
school and the
actions for vetting and reaching a consensus
on that problem across the boundaries of
school, academy and community.
We distributed
school leadership between specialists and grade - level team leaders; and we discussed increasing students» achievement in a collaborative team setting where teachers internally
focused on what
actions they could take to make improvements.
Podcasts about Comunitario PTA PTA Comunitarios
Focus on Strengthening their
Schools Episode 148 (February 10, 2014) Building Parent Voice for
Action Episode 146 (October 14, 2014) PTA Comunitarios are Born in their Communities Episode 144 (August 25, 2014) How to...
The updated «Taking
Action» handout
focuses on practical strategies that education leaders can use at
school, with families, and in the community to help ease the transition into kindergarten and the early grades.
Insight in
Action An elementary
school - based PLC
focused on differentiating instruction.
NYC offers an embarrassment of riches when it comes to private
school options, including K - 5, K - 8, and K - 12
schools, traditional and progressive
schools, single sex and coed
schools, religious and secular
schools, as well as
schools with a special
focus on the arts, sciences, social
action, etc..
Vision in
Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award is designed to recognize
schools that that have changed the conversation about education from a
focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child.
Meaningful Student Involvement happens when PAR emphasizes co-learning among students and between students and adults, and embeds
action with stated learning goals
focused on students experiencing and transforming
schools in new ways.
These
schools engaged more than 300 students in
action projects
focused on student - driven anti-discrimination work
focused on stopping bias against race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and other issues in
school.
The
action plan will
focus on the instructional and social inputs for
schools versus
school outcomes.
This annual award recognizes
schools that have moved beyond a narrow
focus on academic achievement to take
action for the whole child, creating learners who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically active, artistically engaged, prepared for economic self - sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal
schooling.
He conducts highly motivational professional development leadership seminars worldwide with a
focus on turning
school vision into realized
action that creates greater equity for students through the effective delivery of the PLC process by faculty and administrators.
A redesigned
School Turnaround Learning Community (STLC) site provides access to a range of free resources and opportunities for engagement focused on school turnaround in a
School Turnaround Learning Community (STLC) site provides access to a range of free resources and opportunities for engagement
focused on school turnaround in a
school turnaround in
action.
The reports by the National Alliance of Public Charter
Schools and the Century Foundation and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, profile schools that focus on serving disadvantaged or socioeconomically diverse communities, and their suc
Schools and the Century Foundation and the Poverty & Race Research
Action Council, profile
schools that focus on serving disadvantaged or socioeconomically diverse communities, and their suc
schools that
focus on serving disadvantaged or socioeconomically diverse communities, and their successes.
In November, she along with a team of Michigan
school counseling advocates traveled to San Diego State University to
focus on creating and implementing measurable
action plans for improving
school counseling preparation, programs and practices with the goal of increasing college access for all students.
But knowing about character and putting character into
action are two different things, so in 1987 a group of 120 concerned citizens gathered to decide which values would be important to
focus on for the students and families in the Friendswood Independent
School District.