Sentences with phrase «around school improvement»

Ms Mirza described a «worrying complacency» that London was «doing all right», but warned there were «real challenges» around school improvement.

I was less offended by the «push» of the political Left than I was disappointed by how voiceless the conservative ideas around school improvement efforts have become at the national level.

Much of the public conversation around school improvement focuses on early childhood and the elementary years, in an effort to prevent or lessen inequitable outcomes for poor children.

The next most popular set of reforms have been around school improvement, including policies to target the teaching profession and school leadership.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

Pratt and her team set about looking at research around school improvement and decided to focus on differentiated teaching and learning, supported by formative assessment.

DM: And for our other podcast series, we actually based it around school improvement.

Not exact matches

Between the short time frame to demonstrate improvement and the higher stakes around teacher evaluations this year, teachers are fleeing struggling schools for schools where things aren't so bad, officials said Wednesday at a hearing in Albany.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

«We believe that the school community has recently made great strides in turning Legacy around and should be given the opportunity to make improvements,» read the Jan. 31 letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.

Contract impasses in 10 districts around the state prompted King to yank federal «School Improvement Grants.»

We believe that these proposals will not help schools to achieve the Government's ambition to «create an honest and open culture around sex and relationships», as set out in the new Framework for Sexual Health Improvement.

ST. GEORGE — Students from high schools around Staten Island had a hand in directing taxpayer money to fund improvements to their campuses as part of a $ 22 million investment from Borough President James Oddo's office.

There are still some schools around the country serving meals that need improvement.

The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited - English - speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low - performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst - performing schools.

The 43 percent court - ordered budget increase, from around $ 13 billion in operating expenditures to something approaching $ 19 billion (not including some $ 9 billion over five years for building improvements), is the largest school finance «adequacy» judgment ever awarded.

The report calls for improvements to the built environment and infrastructure around schools as a crucial component of a national strategy to get more children participating in daily exercise through active travel.

The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has produced a number of reviews of research around the key aspects of school improvement, including professional leaSchool Leadership (AITSL) has produced a number of reviews of research around the key aspects of school improvement, including professional leaschool improvement, including professional learning.

Some of the most exciting work we are doing with RIDES this year is working with schools that are shifting from seeing students as subjects of improvement around equity, to working with them to become agents of improvement.

«If Ofsted is still around in 10 years» time, the way we inspect and what we inspect would be very different in the type of school - led improvement system envisioned in the ASCL blueprint,» he said.

«So this is improvement in writing, in reading and numeracy off of a high base, but the writing results are of course really a worry and I'll be talking to state and territory ministers as part of our school reforms about how we can turn that around.»

Tom chats with Maura Marino about the work happening in DC around new school development and improvement and how quarterback organizations can support innovative new schools...

The Data Wise Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education works with educators around the world to develop resources that support collaborative improvement of teaching and learning.

They have recruited around 75 notable business leaders willing to put their reputations forward in favor of more rigorous standards in schools (including the Kentucky Core Academic Standards, which are aligned to the Common Core) and general educational improvement in the state.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

In a series of seminars led by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable steps.

Under NCLB, school improvement and corrective action provisions were strengthened, and restructuring provisions added, to compel states, districts, and schools to intensify efforts to turn around low - performing schools.

The Data Wise Improvement Process is a collaborative inquiry model that helps schools organize their daily efforts around the continuous improvement of teaching anImprovement Process is a collaborative inquiry model that helps schools organize their daily efforts around the continuous improvement of teaching animprovement of teaching and learning.

WIDE sees the HCNY grant as an opportunity to work with schools around systemic improvement not simply to provide courses for individual educators.

Mr Wright said: «This supports so many positive approaches to school led improvement and it leads to far greater awareness and collaboration around strategic planning.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus...

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 Maschool 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 MaSchool Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

Last year, under the NCLB rules, more than 8,600 schools around the country were listed as «in need of improvement» by state departments of education-less than 10 percent of all public schools in the country.

But there's also evidence, and we've reported this in a report of a survey we did of school principals around Australia [What the Principals Say], but jurisdictions are also finding the same thing when they commission reports on what might be blocking the kind of improvement they'd like to see.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.

School leaders reported that the review process was most helpful in bringing staff together around a shared improvement agenda and in promoting conversations about practice that may not otherwise have occurred.

But Ian Mearns replied: «The children in the schools we are talking about have not got five, 10, 15 years, they need the school that they are in improved around them now, and they need someone overseeing improvement and doing it very quickly.»

It is expected that audit recommendations could include: moving school entrances and play areas away from busy roads; «no engine idling» schemes; changes to local roads, including improved road layouts and pedestrianisation around school entrances; green infrastructure such as «barrier bushes» along busy roads and in playgrounds to filter toxic fumes; and improvements to encourage walking and cycling to school along less polluted routes.

Uniting A School Around Improvement A former U.S. Army officer, Samuel E. Harris set out to change the culture at Martin Luther King Jr..

So, we'll find schools where leaders are very much focused around accountability data that they're developing... that are administered from the outside, and that provides one kind of frame, but that accountability frame tends not to be useful for instructional improvement.

«We meet with what's called a School Improvement Advisor and a School Support Consultant, myself as Director and the Team Leader of Teaching and Learning, and we have a 15 minute conversation around one of those schools that we think is worthy of a conversation.

The other thing is what I think schools need to do — and I have to constantly remind myself — is contextualise what we're doing around the improvement agenda because otherwise it can get lost in terms of «this is just mainstream».

Around two - thirds of heat is lost through the building fabric in a typical school building, so making improvements to walls, floors and ceilings is important if savings are to be made.

In Monroe County, the district's data room is organized around the three goals of the Monroe County Continuous School Improvement Plan:

New York state has a program (begun by King when he was its education commissioner) to use federal school - improvement funds to turn around struggling schools by implementing attractive magnet programs.

Recommendation: We recommend revising § 200.21 and § 200.22 to provide flexibility to states around the development of School Improvement Plans by removing requirements that go beyond the plan elements specified in statute.