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Nikki is also a facilitator at Relay Graduate School of Education's National Principal Academy Fellowship, which trains 200 + district and charter school principals from around the country.

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05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

She starts small, asking the principal to switch her daughter from the abusive, lazy teacher she currently has to the marginally better one across the hall, but eventually moves on to other options, including a charter school lottery with too few seats.

In this view, the point of standards - based reform is to free schools from regulations; each school would then operate much like a charter school, with its principal acting as a CEO.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

Similarly, in Revolution at the Margins, Frederick Hess reports that limited competition had little impact, but the threat of serious competition from charter schools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with coschools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with coSchools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with contempt.

Since this article was written in 2000, founding principal Peggy Bryan has moved on from Sherman Oaks Community Charter School, but current principal Irene Preciado carries on the school's original vSchool, but current principal Irene Preciado carries on the school's original vschool's original vision.

After graduating from Stanford Business School, he served for five years as assistant principal, principal, and then CAO at E. L. Haynes, a Washington, D.C., charter sSchool, he served for five years as assistant principal, principal, and then CAO at E. L. Haynes, a Washington, D.C., charter schoolschool.

While they're funded with public money, they generally operate outside of collective bargaining agreements (only about one - tenth of charter schools are unionized) and other constraints that often prevent principals in public schools from innovating for the good of their students (so the argument goes).

Walsh, the principal of Our Lady Queen of Angels, said she remembers getting calls from burgeoning charter leaders in the late 1990's asking to visit the school and for practical advice, like where to buy uniforms.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

That means all of us — teachers, principals, administrators, researchers, and policymakers — in charter and in public schools alike, must redouble our commitment to scholarship and transparency in identifying «lessons learned» from the charter movement.

In fact, Constellation is only a few miles away from another principal - free charter school in South Central Los Angeles.

While the Mayor's most recent predecessor Mike Bloomberg, with Chancellor Joel Klein, used a two - pronged strategy, approaching reform both from within the system (doubling down on accountability and giving principals more autonomy) and from without (rapidly expanding school choice through charter schools), de Blasio and his Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who share what Alexander Nazaryan calls an «out - sized antipathy» towards charters, are betting the whole ball of wax on an inside job.

The second panel brought together leaders within education: a school principal from Nevada, the head of a charter network in Chicago, a senior vice president at the Boys & Girls Clubs, and a co-founder for the Forum for Youth Investment.

We invite you to meet Renaissance Charter School at Boggy Creek's founding principal, Julie Ramirez, on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, from 6:00 — 7:00 p.m....

That program began by using test scores to evaluate students, schools and educators (and, for a time, custodians and every other adult in a school building), and included a groundbreaking performance pay system paid for by philanthropists, the spread of charter schools and vouchers, and a chronic churn in teachers and principals that Rhee saw as healthy (even though research shows children, especially from low - income families, need stability).

While clashes between New York City district schools and charters get a lot of attention, a quiet effort is under way to help district teachers and principals learn from high - performing charters.

John Witte, a UW - Madison professor emeritus who was the principal researcher on a long - term study of Milwaukee's voucher school program, said studies in Milwaukee «found that competition from charter, magnet and voucher schools has had beneficial effects on the public schools.»

Principals from the District's traditional public schools and public charter schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving school leadership across the city.

Starting as a teacher and chess coach at Vaux Middle School and through his years as principal at several traditional public and charter schools, Thomas - EL has transformed the attitudes and strategies of school staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universSchool and through his years as principal at several traditional public and charter schools, Thomas - EL has transformed the attitudes and strategies of school staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universschool staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universschool but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universities.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Workschools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What WorkSchools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Workschools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What WorkSchools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

The law, formally called the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, enables a majority of parents at a low - performing school to force a major overhaul through a petition campaign, with reform options ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to converting the traditional public school into a charter.

DeBerry's bill would have lowered the threshold of petition support from 60 to 51 percent, and extended the outcome beyond charter conversions, to include options such as replacing the principal or closing the school and sending its students to a higher - achieving one.

The so - called parent trigger process, now making its way through state legislatures nationwide, lets parents at underperforming schools organize and petition for major reforms, from firing the principal and half the staff to ceding control of the school to a charter operator.

Known as the parent trigger law, the legislation allows a majority of parents at an underperforming school to force major changes ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to ceding control to a charter operator.

GO's founding Declaration of Beliefs and Visions for Improving Oakland Schools was endorsed by more than 250 parents, teachers, principals, and community leaders from the heartlands and hills, East, West, and North Oakland, charter and district public schools in 200Schools was endorsed by more than 250 parents, teachers, principals, and community leaders from the heartlands and hills, East, West, and North Oakland, charter and district public schools in 200schools in 2009 - 10.

Full Exemption — If a charter school Campus Administrator is the holder of a Standard Principal Certificate in good standing, or lifetime equivalent, issued by SBEC, then they are exempt from any training requirements for charter holder and / or charter school Campus Administrators.

In her 24 years of educational leadership, Aaronda Beauford has held an array of positions, from principal supervisor and turnaround principal to district human resources supervisor and charter school CEO.

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The substitute amendment also prohibits a school board, school district administrator, principal, governing body and administrator of a private voucher school, and operator of an independent charter school from encouraging or counseling a parent or guardian to request that their child be excused from taking a knowledge and concepts examination.

In spite of their differences, we should see joint statements from Louisiana Association of Principals, Louisiana Federation of Teachers, Louisiana Association of Educators and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools.

Aside from Martin emphatically declaring that «school choice is the Black choice,» and former Chicago principal Troy LaRaviere's disruptively passionate pushback and pleas to sign on to his petition to rid public education of charter schools, the disagreement did not fall there.

Working with UCLA Professor Louis Gomez, a leader in education collaboration studies, the center has launched the Los Angeles School Improvement Network, consisting of principals from 15 L.A. Unified charter and district managed schools, along with the principals of Santa Monica High School and Hawthorne High School.

Instead of simply reflecting on the heroism of teachers and school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of late).

California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, known as the parent trigger law, enables parents representing more than 50 percent of students to sign a petition to force major reforms on a low - performing school, from firing the principal and half the staff to a charter conversion.

He served as a middle school teacher and union chapter leader, and spent seven years as a school principal, first at a district middle school and then as the founding principal of a charter high school serving over-age and under - credited students who were court - involved or in foster care He comes to Parent Revolution with a deep belief that all students, from all communities and in all kinds of situations, deserve excellent schools and the opportunities afforded by a high quality education.

Steve Van Zant rose from teacher to principal to superintendent before making his fortune brokering charter school deals throughout San Diego County and California.

The principal at my nearby charter school makes over $ 300,000 per year, a 246 percent increase from her salary before the school was chartered.

Samuel credits his success with support from colleagues in the charter school industry and looks forward to helping more of Chicago's youth reach their full potential as the principal of Legal Prep.

If the idea of charter schools is to free teachers and principals from government bureaucracy, then the scandals and the lawsuits have provided ammunition for those who see the need for at least some kind of governmental oversight.

The Orleans Parish School Board decided this week to fund «stabilization» at seven school sites, including Audubon's Carrollton campus, Audubon assistant principal Dawn Collins told the charter school's governing board at a Saturday morning meeting to applause and cheers from the board and the small audSchool Board decided this week to fund «stabilization» at seven school sites, including Audubon's Carrollton campus, Audubon assistant principal Dawn Collins told the charter school's governing board at a Saturday morning meeting to applause and cheers from the board and the small audschool sites, including Audubon's Carrollton campus, Audubon assistant principal Dawn Collins told the charter school's governing board at a Saturday morning meeting to applause and cheers from the board and the small audschool's governing board at a Saturday morning meeting to applause and cheers from the board and the small audience.

We're expecting some 150 teachers, principals and other administrators from across Philly's traditional and charter schools.

Most district - run schools in the city that have converted to charters did so under leadership from their own principals.

Akili Academy's principal has stepped down from her position, and the CEO of the charter organization that runs the school has taken her place.

«Like watching Jerry Springer,» said Joey LaRoche, the principal of the KIPP charter high school here, who graduated from the city's schools before Katrina.

Although I'd mostly come to hear perspectives from charter supporters in the crowd, I found myself instead listening, horrified, as keynote speaker Steve Perry, a former charter school principal - turned - showman from Connecticut, shouted non-stop insults during his entire keynote address.

«Earlier this month [November 2014], the New York Board of Regents moved to approve a charter school application from Steve Perry, a principal of a public school in Connecticut who has formed a charter school management company in the hopes of opening up charter schools in the greater New York City region.