Sentences with phrase «based leadership focus»

If you go back and read blog posts on this site from 5 years ago you will see most of them had a strength based leadership focus.

Strengths - based leadership focuses on aligning employee strengths and their work.

Not exact matches

Released this fall, his book Weology: How Everybody Wins When We Comes Before Me, outlines his leadership philosophy, which focuses on creating a positive business culture based on transparency, equality and collaboration.

While India has benefited from impressive GDP growth and watched its IT sector blossom into a $ 100 billion industry in the past two decades, its focus on developing engineering talent has left the country dry of Indians with leadership and management skills, says Srini Kandula, vice president of human resources for iGATE, a Freemont, Calif. - based outsourced software developer with 28,000 employees and operations in Bangalore.

They understand that through strong leadership focused on customer satisfaction, they can (and did) create something successful that their customer base loves supporting.

Once the pre-work is completed, on - site training allows the leadership team and subject matter experts to teach in a workshop - based environment that focuses on the application of basic skills to real - world situations.

Cation Capital, a private investment firm, plans to nominate four directors at the upcoming annual meeting of Calgary - based Crescent Point Energy Corp., part of its plan to bring «focused leadership with a refreshed board» to the underperforming oil and gas company.

An Argentinian Pentecostal explained that Catholic base communities gather without trained leadership, focus on issues of injustice, then read the Bible to see how God would lead them.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

Based on findings, leadership crafted a Sustainability Strategic Plan — water being one of 11 focus areas — aimed at reducing the aquarium's environmental footprint.

Following a change in leadership early last month, Focus Features will be shutting down it's London - based foreign sales office by year's end.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Impact Academy uses project - based learning across all subjects and focuses on 21 - century leadership skills.

Mr Stokes said the 2018 needs - based funding increase was additional to funding announced last month under the Schools Leadership Strategy to enable employment of extra support staff so principals could focus on educational leadership.

JE: For the last three years there, the leadership team and the staff have been focusing on evidence - based teaching and reflection and, as part of that, you've developed an approach to professional learning called the CCRP model?

Our enthusiasm for leadership is demonstrated through an academically exhilarating program with a focus on research - based practice.

Though it's always good to have well - rounded corporate leaders who are familiar with a wide range of tasks, your leadership online training program should focus on the core skill sets that your corporate leaders need on a daily basis.

South Australian - based school principal and recent leadership category winner of the SA Excellence in Public Education Awards, Olivia O'Neill, says despite the challenges of being a principal in the 21st Century principals should focus on the creativity of the job and enjoy it.

Based on its unique Rocketship Hybrid School Model, Rocketship schools focus on exceptional teaching, leadership development, individualized instruction and deep parental involvement.

Based on the largest - ever analysis of research on effective school leaders, our school - level leadership PD guides principals in choosing the right focus for school improvement efforts; effectively leading changes in your school; and transforming your school culture into a purposeful community that believes it can make a difference.

«Under Betsy's leadership, we will see a renewed focus on innovation in education, empowering parents with options, supporting and encouraging great educators, and replicating success models that serve students based on their individual needs.»

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.

Topics focus on school leadership, curriculum and theme development, project - based learning, technology integration, and much more.

And lastly, he asked me to sharpen the focus of CEP on character based leadership.

The schools» focuses include French immersion, academically rigorous elementary education, a high school geared toward leadership and entrepreneurship, and an arts - and sciences - based elementary.

Using efficient electronic tools and research - based content resources, iObservation enables administrators to focus on instructional leadership while helping them stay compliant with state and district requirements.

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

The conference, along with a NISL EDP curriculum - focused website created by MPS, served as a leadership development refresher for the NISL graduates» and allowed them to share best practices based on the NISL EDP curriculum.

Estes Elementary will engage all learners by focusing on kindergarten - readiness, project - and problem - based learning, and passion - based leadership that involves community partners.

My work with site - based management, school leadership teams, and PLCs continued to strengthen my focus on building teams with collaborative skills.

At the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schools.

«Over the next three months, the district needs to make this the primary focus of activity,» said William J. Slotnik, the executive director of the Community Training and Assistance Center, or CTAC, a Boston - based leadership and management organization.

During the 2014 — 15 school year, the leadership team at ROADS decided to strengthen this outcomes - based system by focusing their attention on the alignment between their assessments, their outcomes, and their standards for rigor.

She has expertise in building collaborative partnerships and positive cultures, utilizing a shared leadership approach, creating and implementing a framework - based appraisal system with a focus on professional development and decision - making facilitated through a district - wide joint committee.

Connect Community Charter's focus will be on shared leadership, social - emotional learning and an inquiry - based approach.

Leverage your chronic absence data to decide whether to focus on one or more elementary grades for the entire district, or let elementary school leadership determine where to start the program based upon their own data and strengths.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

In fact, when I was working with a group of administrators at a leadership retreat, it was the most commonly cited focus of site - based improvement plans.

This group, along with the district leadership, is working with the nonprofit organization Great Schools Partnership to evaluate and develop a set of competencies that will mold the foundation for competency - based advancement across the entire district, focusing on what every RUSD student needs for college, a career, and life success.

As a part of the Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, GLISI helped participating principals prepare a guide based on their own best practices, as well as those from experts in the field, to create a roadmap by principals for principals with concrete strategies and recommendations for focusing principals» time on instructional leadership for the benefit...

The leadership needed to steer this focussed work is also specific and skills - based.

Through a partnership with Digital Promise, the thought - leader in competency - based educator development, BloomBoard offers a library of over 200 micro-credentials which focus on a variety of skills such as data literacy, teacher leadership, and deeper learning.

In the afternoon, seniors focus on outdoor recreation leadership classes and work - based learning.

Coursework focuses on critical areas such as English Language Learner (ELL) instruction, cultural competency in the classroom including gender and sexually diverse student identities, evidenced - based frameworks for technology integration, educational leadership, and teacher leader / instructional coaching best practices in order to be instructional leaders in the school / district where employed.

The FEAs have taken many forms, including: sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) implementation in Texas; community - based equity assessment in Texas; IDRA's Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) program implementation in reading in Louisiana; gender equity also in Louisiana; implementation of a multicultural framework in staff development to support student success in New Mexico; parent leadership in New Mexico; unitary status planning in Arkansas; English as a second language (ESL) classroom strategies in Arkansas; service learning in Oklahoma; and meeting civil rights requirements under the law in Oklahoma.

The program meets ESSA requirements for evidence - based school improvement interventions with significant focus on leadership.

We don't necessarily see quite as much of this research - based focus on work tied to leadership, at least I don't.

SABLE Year 1: First - year participants focus on values and beliefs, data analysis, mentoring, leadership development, team - building, conflict management, site - based practical experiences and leadership assessment.

The work for both were significantly informed by the work of the Wallace Foundation, including two Michigan based Wallace Foundation grant projects focused on school level leadership development.

Given this emphasis and current research in leadership development and adult learning strategies, NJ EXCEL is designed to provide authentic, problem - based learning experiences in an inquiry - focused, project - based curriculum that emphasizes collaboration and dialogue in the examination of leadership and instructional practices.