Sentences with phrase «by school districts across the country»

Teach for America (TFA), which has trained more teachers than any other US teacher preparation program, has been heralded by school districts across the country.

The past ten years have witnessed an explosion in the use of interim assessments by school districts across the country.

But Ball hesitated to adopt a «bring your own device» program, which has been embraced by some school districts across the country, allowing students to bring their own phone or tablet to school to use during lessons.

Not exact matches

March was National Nutrition Month and we were positively inspired by the beautiful photos and stories shared by schools and districts across the country.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

By: Sunny Young, thelunchbox.org bloggerIn addition to acting as one of the leaders in reforming school meals across the country, Chef Ann Cooper also serves as Nutrition Services director of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colschool meals across the country, Chef Ann Cooper also serves as Nutrition Services director of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, ColSchool District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colorado.

PrimeroEdge is trusted by thousands of districts across the country and we've helped millions of students by providing software that allows districts to better manage their school nutrition programs.

Prime Consultant Group reported in the summary documents provided by Weber Shandwick that it examined children's milk drinking habits in 58 schools in seven school districts across the country over a three month period in 2009.

According to the study, when chocolate milk was eliminated from cafeterias at 58 schools in seven school districts across the country, milk consumption went down by an average of 35 %, and did not recover even after a year's time.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

Today, 45 of 50 states and the District of Columbia have a state virtual school or online initiative, full - time online school, or both, according to «Keeping Pace with K - 12 Online Learning,» (3M) a 2009 report sponsored by ten schools and organizations across the country.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coSchool, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coschool districts from across the country.

Despite this, Holton is encouraged by innovation and the creativity that she sees in schools and districts across the country, as well as by the teachers who are sticking it out in difficult circumstances.

By then, she, too, had heard that the board did not plan to select her, and she was already interviewing in other school districts across the country.

Computer science is frequently offered as an elective in schools and districts across the country, but the US has a projected one million computing jobs that will be unfilled by 2020.

Our experience working across the country tells us that while attendance improvements can begin in a single classroom or school, the most effective and sustainable approaches are data - driven, supported by strong district, school and community leadership.

But they are supported by hundreds of thousands of educators across the country who are fed up with flawed evaluation systems being pushed by politicians and corporate education reformers in school districts across the country.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

According to a nationwide survey to be released soon by the National Education Association (nea), more than one in three of the 1,326 elementary - and secondary - school teachers chosen randomly from different - sized school districts across the country said they «certainly» or «probably» would not become teachers again if they were given the choice.

By Edward Graham As schools and districts across the country begin to implement the Common Core State Standards, experts...

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizSchool Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

We accomplish our goals by working in hallways across the country — from Congress and the Department of Education to schools and district offices in your community — to improve school climate and champion LGBT issues in K - 12 education.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

In addition to federal policy, school districts and charter networks across the country are doing their part to promote racial and socioeconomic integration by considering socioeconomic factors in student assignment policies.

Updating learning spaces to reflect the more collaborative, project - based educational approach that is being taken by more progressive schools across the country and reflects the district learning framework of Professional Learning Communities.

ASSISTments was developed by husband - and - wife team Neil and Cristina Heffernan at WPI and is provided for free to school districts across the country.

«We searched for two decades to support a program that wouldn't be just a Band - Aid and create a national model that could be replicated at districts across the country,» said Melanie Lundquist, who was honored with her husband by the school board last week.

The book offers a step - by - step guide to Labor - Management - Community collaboration, an intervention that has successfully improved student outcomes in a wide variety of school districts across the country.

The iPads, a five year, half billion dollar investment by LAUSD, are being introduced as school districts all across the country are implementing the new Common Core standards that will change the way English language arts and math are taught.

There's a pretty good chance Scott Walker doesn't know much about Common Core, the new set of education standards for kindergarten through high school being adopted by states and school districts across the country.

In the mid-1990s, reform was often driven by individual schools in BPS and in much of the country, which led to slow, intermittent, and uneven changes across districts.

By providing flexible funding for a broad range of field - driven projects and allowing states, school districts, non-profits, and businesses to partner together to develop and grow innovative programs, projects funded by EIR will not only contribute to the production of actionable, proven interventions in a given community or population, but will generate an evidence base that can be adapted to inform practices and funding decisions for states and school districts across the countrBy providing flexible funding for a broad range of field - driven projects and allowing states, school districts, non-profits, and businesses to partner together to develop and grow innovative programs, projects funded by EIR will not only contribute to the production of actionable, proven interventions in a given community or population, but will generate an evidence base that can be adapted to inform practices and funding decisions for states and school districts across the countrby EIR will not only contribute to the production of actionable, proven interventions in a given community or population, but will generate an evidence base that can be adapted to inform practices and funding decisions for states and school districts across the country.

The Performance Matters Growth Platform is used by more than 1 million educators and 11 million students in school districts across the country.

These programs have improved learning opportunities for millions of students across the country by enabling educators at the state, district and school levels to make informed, research - based decisions on which programs are the most effective, how to implement evidence - based practices, and how to help the lowest - performing schools.

The average tenure of principal supervisors in urban districts across the country is fairly short: about three years, according to a recent Wallace - commissioned report by the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS).

Convenings will take place in dozens of cities across the country and are supported by Summit's expert professional development team made up of former teachers, school leaders and district administrators.

«As demonstrated by the record high school graduation rate and record college enrollment rates for minority students, states, districts, educators, and students across the country are making real progress.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coSchool Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coschool instructors in the country.

Meanwhile, TAPTM: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, adopted by districts across the country, created a system of master teachers and mentor teachers to help alleviate some of the time burden on principals by providing full - or part - time release hours to conduct teacher evaluations; provide extensive feedback and instructional demonstrations; identify context - relevant, research - based instructional strategies; analyze student data; create school - wide academic achievement plans; and interact with parents.

This effort is managed and staffed by CASEL, in close partnership with collaborators from the RAND Corporation, Harvard University Taxonomy Project, California's CORE Districts, Transforming Education, xSEL Labs, and several universities, non-profit organizations, and school districts across theDistricts, Transforming Education, xSEL Labs, and several universities, non-profit organizations, and school districts across thedistricts across the country.

The problem our public school face is the suffocation of public schools by the federal and state governments across the country and here in Texas by refusing to adequately provide the resources so that every classroom, every school, and every school district has what it needs, so that teachers can provide the best education to every child.

Further, why is it that over 75 % of those employed by schools across the country are female, yet only 18 % of superintenents across the country are female; and in most cases, those women superintendents are in charge of small rural K - 8 districts.

As schools and districts across the country struggled to find high - quality, well - prepared leadership capable of improving learning, a need emerged to identify and support home - grown, innovative ideas generated by local nonprofit and community organizations, and to create new learning networks through which knowledge about improving leadership could spread to others in the field.

By Felice Atesoglu Russell and Kerry Soo Von Esch At a time when school districts across the country are experiencing fast - growing enrollments of English language learners (ELLs), many K - 12 educators are asking what they can do to meet those -LSB-...]

In Michigan, and across the country, school districts are becoming more segregated — both by race and income.

Across the country, state policy - makers, school districts, major foundations, community — based organizations, and social entrepreneurs are implementing promising initiatives designed to arrest the cycle of school failure before it starts and ensure children read well by third grade.

Ever since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the federal government and school districts across the country have responded with a massive infusion of police and law enforcement tactics in schools, supplemented by zero tolerance suspension policies that push students out of schools for even minor misbehSchool massacre in 1999, the federal government and school districts across the country have responded with a massive infusion of police and law enforcement tactics in schools, supplemented by zero tolerance suspension policies that push students out of schools for even minor misbehschool districts across the country have responded with a massive infusion of police and law enforcement tactics in schools, supplemented by zero tolerance suspension policies that push students out of schools for even minor misbehavior.