Sentences with phrase «central office staff»

That requires time and skilled interpretation - and unfortunately central office staff members and school leaders often lack the know - how to collect, analyze and make the best use of data.

He was judged on a video of his teaching, his analysis of another teacher's instruction, a written test on teaching strategies, and multiple rounds of interviews with central office staff.

Principals often receive requests (tasks) from central office staff with short turnaround times.

Even though principal supervisors are often designated as central office staff, their work with principals must begin by understanding the problems of student learning that schools are addressing.

The findings come from an in - depth comparative case study of the work practices of executive - level central office staff in three districts.

A districts central office staff also may have to change its thinking.

While they're often overlooked in education policy debates, district central office staff can play critical roles in improving schools and ensuring student success.

There's an enormous challenge facing school principals and central office staff administrators: How does a leader provide relevant, meaningful feedback to teachers with the goal of improving instruction?

Current board members and central office staff also were asked to provide nominations.

District teams of four or more people comprised of central office staff members responsible for supporting schools in using data to improve teaching and learning (e.g., data coaches, instructional coaches, directors of curriculum and instruction)

This is little consolation for students, families, teachers, administrators and central office staff who are all working so hard to show gains in student performance.»

And in districts too small to employ supervisors, the superintendent and other central office staff need clear and reasonable guidelines for evaluating principals, defining their scope of work, and supporting them over time.

Transportation Department: The Transportation Department seeks to build a comprehensive Professional Development training plan over a multi-year period that will support central office staff needs as described above.

ExCEED is led by principals and current and former central office staff.

• educators and schools, not central office staff, must be the locus of decision making and accountability; • dollars must follow students out of the central office and into classrooms on a per student basis; • the primary job of government has to be ensuring that every child in every neighborhood has a range of good schooling options; • parents and teachers have to be able to opt - in to schools that are a good fit, not be assigned.

(with my edits; I have to say that DCPS Central Office staff could benefit from some remedial English classes themselves.)

From our security guards to office managers, Capital City's Central Office staff work behind the scenes to ensure all students succeed.

A year later, Dallas central office staff developed inservice programs for other district schools, and by the end of the 1994 — 95 school year, staff members from all 204 schools had completed the training.

Sources have revealed to politics.co.uk that senior Conservative central office staff are returning to work immediately after the new year in order to come up with the new policy proposals despite the fact that MPs do not return to the House of Commons until January 12th.

Hodge also acknowledges the challenge of trying to change the system from within, so they are moving from training principals alone to developing reform - minded central office staff, too, and «facilitating learning across the system.»

A network of superintendents, principals, teachers, and central office staff agree to meet at regular intervals, usually monthly, each time at a different school.

In the summer of 2012, more than 30 central office staff participated in a five - day Instructional Leadership Institute administered by NISL staff.

The training helped central office staff to better align their work with the efforts of their NISL - trained school leaders.

«And then when you see central office staff being cut year after year, then that makes our pooling of resources to help school districts without the proper staff increasingly important.»

Research and experience show that central office staff play a crucial role in helping principals become excellent instructional leaders.

Foremost, a systemic approach for leading central office staff, building principals, coaches and teacher - leaders to providing a deeper understanding of both mathematics content and instruction.

It guides central office staff through a series of questions to generate information to use in discussions with key district leaders and helps districts identify the first phases of the transformation process based on such considerations as ease or urgency.

The state budget has implications on how money is spent by school districts in many ways that can cause some upheaval in teaching and central office staff positions.

On July 1, 2015, Build the Future Education Collaborative came into being to serve in this role, led by Executive Director Kelly Davenport and staffed by the previous central office staff of Freire Charter School.

The other principals and central office staff then brainstorm solutions to problems and offer strategies that may have worked in other schools.

Having a dedicated central office staff member attend all IDOE visits and networking opportunities,

Green said he is reorganizing central office staff, though he wouldn't say if central office would become smaller as a result.

Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. promised in June to cut central office staff in the Orleans Parish public schools system and drive money to classrooms.

Then a nascent charter group composed of district principals and central office staff applied to charter the district's remaining traditional schools, including Mahalia Jackson.

Decades ago, Edmonton's system leaders required central office staff to start offering services that schools would be likely to want.

And there's no need for often understaffed central office staff or HR departments to fear keeping up with the demands of a larger applicant pool; the right applicant tracking system will allow administrators to quickly identify the best teachers and move them into the interview process.

By contrast, Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools benefit their state - funded central office staff with 69 locally - funded and 17 federally - funded central office administrators.

There is a focused and collegial goal among central office staff and teachers to improve upon their own skills and expertise in order to best serve the diverse needs of their student population.

Creating learning - focused partnerships between central office staff and school principals to help deepen principals» instructional leadership;

This means equipping school leadership at all levels, from central office staff to principals, from administrators to classroom teachers.

Obviously, rural districts tend to be small, with only a handful of central office staff members, or sometimes even just the superintendent, while some big city districts employ thousands of people.

Key mediators of central office administrators» participation in the meetings include their executive - level positions, other central office staff and principal demands, the availability of professional development, and their own orientations to the work.

Jimmy Gittings is president of the principals union, which represents many principals and other school - based administrators as well as central office staff.

In spring 2015, 271 central office staff members from 32 of the largest districts in the U.S. completed a survey about their attitudes toward research and how they use research in their work.

educators and schools, not central office staff, must be the locus of decision making and accountability;

Teachers, school leaders, parent and teacher trainers, DCPS central office staff, and nonprofit partners -LSB-...]

With SEDL's assistance, central office staff developed an evaluation plan to guide the initiative.