Sentences with phrase «based systemic reform»

Smith, a senior official in the Clinton administration's U.S. Department of Education, was a key author of the strategy of standards - based systemic reform.

Professional development for science teachers is widely recognized as a key element for successful standards - based systemic reform, yet there is little empirical evidence to justify design decisions

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He argues that the leadership of the Milwaukee schools, the school board and the central office, attempted to respond with systemic and school - based reforms, but were perpetually thwarted by managerial and political constraints that he describes with chilling insight and accuracy.

As a guiding principle of restructured schools and systemic reform, outcomes - based education becomes a new way of approaching students and viewing classrooms.

The town of Hartsville agreed to be a testing ground for systemic education reform based on the work of James Comer, Ph.D..

Most states are turning to standards - based reforms to achieve systemic improvement of education, according to a new report outlining state education initiatives.

The program explores the challenges of implementing standards - based reform and equips participants with strategies for overcoming common hurdles and becoming catalysts of systemic change.

In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities around the country.

The findings are based on case studies of 12 reforming schools located in six reforming school districts in three states that have taken somewhat different approaches to systemic reform — California, Michigan, and Vermont.

The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates scholar learning, uses research - based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.

As we learned from the 1990 - 2005 era of systemic state standards - based reform, when academic standards change, so do policies related to student assessment and school accountability.

The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates student learning, uses research based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.

She was the co-lead author of It's More Than Money; Tying Earning to Learning: The Link Between Teacher Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largest district).

AFC is a recognized leader in school reform efforts, with expertise in bringing together community - based organizations, parents» groups, and government agencies to address systemic problems and improve outcomes and options for all students.

The Problem of the School Inspector Concept: Give the Education Sector credit for offering a new approach to systemic reform with last week's report on how states and the federal government could embrace the school inspection concept based on the model used in Great Britain.

State and federal education policy over the past 20 years has been developed within a standards - based reform framework which has emphasized a systemic approach to education reform.

Smith convinced Basam Shakashiri, then director of the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use the concept of systemic reform for a grants competition for states to take on building standards - based reform in K - 12 science.

Other members include the Philadelphia Student Union (which collected $ 20,000 from AFT last fiscal year and whose board includes Anissa Weinraub, a flunky with the union's City of Brotherly Love local), Youth United for Change (another Philadelphia - based outfit which picked up $ 60,000 from the union last year), and ACTION United, the beneficiary of $ 49,120 in AFT largesse for helping the union stall systemic reform of the traditional district there.

West Coast LEAF's mission is to achieve equality by changing historic patterns of systemic discrimination against women, through BC - based equality rights litigation, law reform and public legal education.

Instead, we should develop a framework for investment law reform on the basis of more fundamental principles, in particular if we are looking for «systemic reform» that makes international investment law acceptable to all states.