Sentences with phrase «autonomy at the school level»

3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City became an empowerment district with a high degree of autonomy at the school level, but the NYC DOE actively closed and replaced low performing schools.

However, the presence of autonomy at the school level does not mean it is the cause of improved or higher performance.

The Zone is characterized by a unique board - based governance structure, which facilitates implementation of increased autonomies at the school level outside of standard district systems.

Not exact matches

But based on the amount of student improvement, Hartford Public Schools administrators placed the pre-K - to - grade -6-school into the category of defined autonomy at the district level.

«We are committed to establishing a worldwide educational system by simultaneously raising the standards of learning, affording greater autonomy at the local school level, and creating increased accountability for student success,» said Lillian Gonzalez, the director of the Department of Defense Education Activity,...

Understanding your spend Schools have autonomy over the use of their budgets and so it is for heads and governors to determine at school level how to secure better value for money.

But if school autonomy means more flexibility at school level to think of and react on the needs of the community by crafting curriculum, teaching and assessment so that they benefit all children, then I think more autonomy can really enhance both quality and equity of education.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

This reduced funding, argued proponents of the bill, could be offset at the district level by employee contributions to health - care and pension programs as well as savings gained by local school districts exercising greater autonomy over spending.

Under new guidelines intended to stimulate innovation and creativity, teachers at the provincial, local, and school levels are beginning to enjoy the autonomy to develop and select textbooks.

You'll also choose among more than 50 practical workshops, for educators at all levels, devoted to topics like school transformation, change leadership, inspirational feedback, cultivating student autonomy, building collaborative school culture, and reframing classroom instruction to inspire learning like never before.

«There's a level of autonomy at the school so the school can turn, and the teachers have a level of autonomy, so it goes all the way down.

His unprecedented autonomy allowed him to engage in bold experiments regarding the governance and operation of the city's schools, expanding choice at all levels of the system by closing failing schools and opening charter schools, decentralizing authority, and creating a new accountability system to drive innovation.

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

refers to the level of control, autonomy, and power that learners have in their experience at school.

Student agency refers to the level of control, autonomy, and power that learners have in their experience at school.

Like Hartford, districts around the country are shifting responsibilities that once rested at the central office to principals, who may be operating magnet schools, charter schools, or neighborhood schools with varying levels of autonomy, all under one school system umbrella.

Hawaii Public Charter Schools were implemented as a system to give more power, autonomy and flexibility to schools at the localSchools were implemented as a system to give more power, autonomy and flexibility to schools at the localschools at the local level.

Nothing from our now substantial experience with DCSD evidences a true desire to allow meaningful autonomy or local control at the cluster or school level.

Even as New Orleans handed power back to educators — increasing their autonomy and ability to make decisions at the school level — we lacked a clear strategy to empower them to invent, test, and scale their ideas on how to boost academic performance.

The program, which was authorized through the state's new education law, H.B. 7069, provides greater flexibility and autonomy to the principals of the highest - performing 20 percent of schools at each level.

To help everyone in the school community see themselves as a change agent, school leaders need to remove barriers to the change process, eradicate the fear of failure, provide autonomy, and empower teachers to drive change at the classroom level.

Increasingly so, it appears that each new policy, whether imposed at the state or national level, has complicated the role of the public school teacher, causing teachers to sacrifice their autonomy for the sake of rigor and accountability in the classroom.