Sentences with phrase «broader district effort»

It's also part of a broader district effort to reduce stress and anxiety in an overburdened student population.

Not exact matches

In part, the clash pits residents concerned about preserving recreational space at a neighborhood park against Park District officials with a broader ecological interest in improving the quality of area waters and contributing to flood - control efforts.

Only in recent years have we seen serious, broad - scale efforts at cooperation, such as the charter / district compacts now sponsored in 21 cities by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

He encouraged me to start the EMERGE program and in 2013 was bold enough to promote me from a teacher to an assistant superintendent to scale the program across the district and oversee our broader postsecondary - readiness efforts.

10, are partnering with the Milton, Mass., school district to study the rollout of the Creative Computing guide, and they plan other follow - up efforts to see how this guide can fit into broader strategies of supporting teachers.

Confusion abounds among educators and the broader public about the purpose of charter schools and how these independent public schools relate to school district improvement efforts.

The foundation also appeals to the broader community and businesses for district - wide efforts.

If one examines the context more specifically, one finds that the districts» plans reflect efforts to overcome a history of segregation, embody the results of broad experience and community consultation, seek to expand student choice while reducing the need for mandatory busing, and use race - conscious criteria in highly limited ways that diminish the use of race compared to preceding integration efforts.

«OBLN's network approach presents an opportunity to create a culture of innovation in Ohio that is broader and deeper than what might arise from the work of one exceptional district, a set of policy reforms, or mere programmatic efforts.»

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

The funding will be used to make SunBay Digital Math as cost effective as possible, to improve instructional and teacher development processes, to recruit school districts to contribute to the scale and sustainability of the effort, and to identify and enable broad adoption of effective practices to introduce digital technologies into the classroom.

Despite consensus efforts like the Teacher Leader Model Standards, however, the array of teacher leadership roles in districts across the country is so broad, and the implementation of these roles so varied, that it is difficult to consistently define them or determine the best ways to support them.

Some of the most ambitious efforts to address the underachievement of African - American boys and young men have involved broad, systemic reforms — carefully conceived and clearly articulated transformations of entire school districts that are designed to run seamlessly from pre-kindergarten through high school.

In an effort to focus on the broad, national issue of pervasive testing and provide as much relevant data as possible, the AFT does not identify the individual districts.

These efforts will need to be led by a broad coalition of local leaders in and outside the district in order for improvement to outlast a particular superintendent or board configuration.

Changes to the application of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), impacting every student in grades three through eight, is as part of a broader effort to help districts spend less time testing students and more time teaching.

These reports help guide and inform district improvement efforts and provide important information about our schools to our families, community partners, and the broader public.

The guide also suggests that district leaders often miss opportunities to design indicators that integrate with the broader school - and district - level efforts to improve student performance.

It's part of a broader effort to build a teaching force that better reflects the district's student population.

From that «ah - ha moment» nearly 8 years ago have grown both a thriving home visiting effort in schools throughout the district (teachers conducted 1600 home visits in the 2016 — 17 school year) and a broader effort to partner with parents in improving educational opportunities.