Sentences with phrase «comprehensive school change»

Its focus was on identifying and documenting ways that the arts can contribute to comprehensive school change.

As a leading design partner for comprehensive school change, New Tech Network, a national non-profit, works closely with nearly 200 districts and schools.

At the time of the Comprehensive School change one of the leading schools was Willesden Grammar School, in this writer's borough of Brent.

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In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

The AHA recommends obtaining a comprehensive personal and family history from an athlete entering high school or college, with an interim history and blood pressure check each year for the next 3 to 4 years, significant changes or abnormalities triggering another physical exam and further testing.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

Let's dedicate $ 100 million to transform every failing school in New York into a comprehensive, holistic, full - service community school and change the basic education system in this state and stop the cycle of incarceration in this state and paying for problems, rather than stopping the problems at an early age.

But local governments and green groups bitterly oppose the measure, citing concerns over reduced payments to their localities and school districts, a lack of comprehensive study and how the program might change under future administrations — all of which would lead to a larger tax burden for local taxpayers.

The 2017 - 2018 Invention Ambassadors were announced on June 1, 2017 Luis Almodovar, Ergosuture Corp.; HIMA San Pablo Hospital; University of Puerto Rico's Comprehensive Cancer Center Elaine Chen, ConceptSpring; MIT Sloan School of Management Huda Elasaad and Diana Yousef, change: Water Labs, Inc..

Emma Dunne, from the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: «This is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken on early tetrapod evolution, and uses many newly developed techniques for estimating diversity patterns of species from fossil records, allowing us greater insights into how early tetrapods responded to the changes in their environment.»

«One of the most painful things with my student loans was that one company would sell [my loan] to another and the rules would change, and you could be missing a payment or not know that you owe a payment,» says Vered Stearns, assistant professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Of course, comprehensive and ongoing anti-bullying programs are the way to make changes in the culture at school.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

Most importantly, we are bringing together community members, parents, school principals and vice principals, teachers, local authorities, officials responsible for emergency situations, media and national authorities to discuss the importance of taking joint and coordinated action on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biodiversity conservation, in a comprehensive manner and towards long - term solutions.

Participants who successfully complete all four CSML courses — Leading Change, Leading Schools, Leading People, and Leading Learning — will receive the comprehensive Certificate in School Management and Leadership.

This arrangement began to change under Labour governments in the mid-sixties, as they pushed communities to create «comprehensive» secondary schools — akin to what James B. Conant, using the same adjective, urged for the United States, and what Ted Sizer would eventually dub the «shopping mall high school.»

While surveying the landscape and statistics as our inaugural graduating class headed toward commencement, we realized immediately that in order to hold true to our efforts to create social change and increase the opportunities for young Black men, it was imperative to create something that would extend and expand upon the comprehensive supports that our schools offered students.

Finland's PISA scores and rankings slipped in 2009, and again in 2012, followed by a scathing report from the University of Helsinki that led the program's uber - advocate Pasi Sahlberg to warn that the time had come for Finns «to concede that the signals of change have been discernible already for a while and to open up a national discussion regarding the state and future of the Finnish comprehensive school that rose to international acclaim due to our students» success in the PISA studies.»

However, Melissa Benn, chair of Comprehensive Future, told Tes that grammar schools that have already changed their admissions policies to prioritise children entitled to the pupil premium have only ended up admitting «two or three» additional disadvantaged children.

We work closely with districts, schools and community - based organizations to create comprehensive in - school and out - of - school change.

Previously, he led the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative, a partnership between Battelle for Kids and 21 school districts in southeast Ohio dedicated to developing a comprehensive approach for transformational change in rural education.

True educational equity comes from comprehensive school reform, which incorporates academic improvements along with health care, housing policy, funding changes, family support and other policies that allow students to go to class safely and actually focus on their work, and that provides teachers with a work environment and enough support to operate creatively, not like infantilized robots.

Nonetheless, even though the state did not fully exploit the opportunity for comprehensive change, the schools and the system itself unquestionably are better today than at the time of the takeover.

As one put it, school reformers who hoped to receive NASDC grants had to «cast aside their old notions about schooling — to start with a clean sheet of paper, and be bold and creative in their thinking, and to give us ideas that address comprehensive, systemic change for all students for whole schools.»

The School Leadership Program was the ideal way to begin, because it provides a comprehensive study of school reform and the leadership skills you need to bring about transformative cSchool Leadership Program was the ideal way to begin, because it provides a comprehensive study of school reform and the leadership skills you need to bring about transformative cschool reform and the leadership skills you need to bring about transformative change.

Tennessee and Delaware distinguished themselves by committing to bold, comprehensive reforms, such as creating rigorous teacher evaluations tied to student learning and making big changes in failing schools.

LA School Report covered the intense race like no other publication, with comprehensive profiles of the primary candidates, what was at stake for kids, what fueled the record spending, and the rising parent movement that swept in change for public education.

Wouldn't it be better to have states re-invent themselves with comprehensive systems of improvement, rather than to force them to march to the beat of the same old song about how «only one change» will magically raise the quality of the schools?

Taken together, they suggest something even more significant, that schools are complex systems and that comprehensive arts programs can bring about systemic change, perhaps in ways that are unique.

The Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Third Year Report (2008) provides third - year study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achieComprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Third Year Report (2008) provides third - year study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Third Year Report (2008) provides third - year study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achiecomprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement gains.

This Whole - School Implementation Guide is designed to offer a step by step evidence - based approach that ensures an inclusive, comprehensive, successful and sustainable change effort through the implementation of Restorative Practices.

We work with SEAs, local education agencies (LEAs), and Regional Comprehensive Centers to identify, adopt, and sustain research - based practices and emerging promising practices that ensure equity and drive system change to rapidly improve the lowest - performing schools.

The 2001 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), gave further momentum to the CSR approach by changing it from a demonstration project to a full - fledged federal program called the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program.

Also, many districts reconstitute (change the faculty and staff) comprehensive schools when they change to small schools, but this was not the case in Boston.

The initial reform work in Boston was around changing the size of the schools from large, comprehensive high schools to small schools or small learning communities.

In the 2004 - 2005 academic year, Kearny Senior High School, a comprehensive high school, was changed into an education complex with four new, small scSchool, a comprehensive high school, was changed into an education complex with four new, small scschool, was changed into an education complex with four new, small schools.

This important book provides a comprehensive and timely overview of today's independent school business office and the myriad (and constantly changing) responsibilities facing school business and operational leaders.

Blending local programs and systemic planning, comprehensive school reforms provide blueprints for change.

In this Issue Brief, prepared by Public Impact for The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement at Learning Point Associates, we offer seven steps for district leaders to support the dramatic change required to turn around chronic low performance.

Comprehensive School Reform (CSR): The National Forum counts among its membership developers of several comprehensive school reform models aimed at bringing about whole - sComprehensive School Reform (CSR): The National Forum counts among its membership developers of several comprehensive school reform models aimed at bringing about whole - school cSchool Reform (CSR): The National Forum counts among its membership developers of several comprehensive school reform models aimed at bringing about whole - scomprehensive school reform models aimed at bringing about whole - school cschool reform models aimed at bringing about whole - school cschool change.

Project ASSIST: Comprehensive, systemic change initiative impacts school culture, climate, leadership, and instruction.

The change process required a comprehensive and strategically - planned and implemented home, school, and community collaboration that included social - capital and other economic - development initiatives targeting entire low - income neighborhoods.

This is the most comprehensive scan of what student inclusive school change looks like in schools today.

The authors draw on a variety of evidence in a comprehensive examination of the roles of students today, offering detailed accounts of students» ability to actively contribute to school change.

Lawmakers plan to meet this summer to iron out legislation that creates a comprehensive school accountability system after passing a limited school accountability bill in March that didn't impose consequences for low - performing voucher schools or make changes to the state's school report card system.

This paper presents the results of an experimental evaluation of a change in assessment practice in one comprehensive secondary school.

A century after America invented the large comprehensive high school, we stand on the brink of major change.

New approaches to teacher evaluation, combined with comprehensive professional development for teachers and school leaders and changes in the organization and capacities of school districts, can support the types of teacher knowledge acquisition and changes in instructional practices called for by the Common Core Standards and assessments.

Neil Foden, head teacher at Friars Comprehensive School, Bangor, and a member of the national executive of the NUT, blamed the pace of change in Wales.