The mission of KIPP MEMPHIS is to
create high performing schools in the Memphis community that will equip all students with the necessary academic and life skills needed to succeed through college and the competitive world beyond.
Green Apple helps
create high performing schools that save taxpayer dollars and provide safer, healthier and more sustainable learning environments for children.
Why can't your chain
create a high performing school that doesn't rely on test scores and behavior modification as their selling point.
Not exact matches
Cuomo included $ 75 million in the budget for reform initiatives, including expanding pre-K as well as
creating community
schools, extending the
school day or year, and rewarding
high -
performing teachers.
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a
high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter
Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci
Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to
create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates
high -
performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring;
Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public
Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based
school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
With a mission of «
high -
performing public
schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low -
performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C.
schools and
creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter
schools.
The Gates grantmakers
created seven «attributes of
high -
performing schools» that would guide its giving to those who wanted to
create small
high schools: a common focus;
high expectations; personalization; respect and responsibility; time to collaborate; performance - based instruction; and using technology as a tool.
• Despite our national struggle to
create high -
performing nonselective - admissions urban
high schools, six D.C. charter
high schools made Tier - 1 status.
Balancing those funder desires, New Visions
created a Request for Proposals to all community
school districts and
high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small
high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the
highest concentration of low -
performing schools.
At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban
school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to
create high performing systems.
In England, we have something called Teach First, which is a straight rip off of Teach For America, but I also think the fact that we will have an educational official energetically teaming
high -
performing schools with underperforming
schools in order to
create new equivalents of CMOs (Charter Management Organizations), in essence chains.
Their most effective strategy — working with superintendents to
create far more
high -
performing traditional
schools that would lure parents away from charters — might require dramatic changes to teachers» contracts that unions have spent decades winning.
Specifically, RttT was designed to encourage
higher state standards,
create new data systems, improve teacher effectiveness, increase college readiness, stimulate charter -
school expansion, and strengthen low -
performing schools.
A number of cities are showing that the charter sector is best able to reliably
create and grow
high -
performing schools.
The
highest -
performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have
created strong
school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.
The Charter
School Growth Fund, seeded by the Pisces and Walton foundations, among others, aims to
create 100,000 seats in
high -
performing charter
schools by 2015.
As more large
high schools nationwide break down into smaller learning communities or
schools, many have
created «career academies» that organize curricula around themes such as health professions, the law, or the
performing arts.
In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all
schools in the ten lowest
performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and
create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the
highest - quality teachers into the
schools that need them most.
In his new book The Founders, education reporter Richard Whitmire shares the history of the top 20 percent of
high -
performing public charter
schools, and the visionary educators who did whatever it took to
create innovative
schools that works for students.
Using the same data on Tennessee's
high schools, I
created lists of «low -
performing schools» based on how the
schools ranked on different measures of
school quality.
HGSE's and HBS's new certificate program will equip current and aspiring principals with key management and leadership skills needed to lead and sustain
high -
performing schools, and prepare them to set and meet
high expectations for all children,
create conditions for excellent teaching, and engage positively with families and communities.
And we have people like Andre Agassi, who's a
high school dropout, creating a charter chain, even though his own Andre Agassi School is one of the lowest - performing schools in the state of N
school dropout,
creating a charter chain, even though his own Andre Agassi
School is one of the lowest - performing schools in the state of N
School is one of the lowest -
performing schools in the state of Nevada.
It wasn't until reformers
created nondistrict charter -
school sectors — a space for public education outside of the traditional system — that we saw a proliferation of
high -
performing high - poverty
schools.
The 44
higher -
performing schools (those with average
school - wide math and English test scores a full standard deviation above the mean) «
create a shared,
school - wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,» it says.
Those
high -
performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»;
create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous
high -
school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»
The Grand Canyon Institute wants to work with the Arizona State Board for Charter
Schools and the Arizona Charter Schools Association to create a highly competitive environment that creates high - performing charter s
Schools and the Arizona Charter
Schools Association to create a highly competitive environment that creates high - performing charter s
Schools Association to
create a highly competitive environment that
creates high -
performing charter
schoolsschools.
Over time, as it becomes clearer which programs consistently graduate
high -
performing principals, this new approach would
create a robust marketplace that rewards institutional excellence and helps
school districts make smart hiring decisions.
Create a separate funding stream to improve student achievement at the middle and
high school levels and turn around low -
performing secondary
schools.
He demonstrated these traits as the founder of a
high performing charter
school in Massachusetts, as a leader in a
school management organization
creating strong new charter
schools in several states, and most recently, in his role as New York's Education Commissioner.
Bluum, with the support of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is committed to helping
create new,
high -
performing seats in
schools that are ready, willing, and able to serve the state's growing and increasingly - diverse student demographic.
Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public
Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public d
Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by
creating a number of
high -
performing charter
high schools using available public d
schools using available public dollars.
A successful teacher, principal and University administrator, Steven has worked with passionate educators to
create nationally recognized
schools and works with struggling
schools to reinvent themselves into
high performing, dynamic learning environments.
This
creates additional buy - in for the
high -
performing school, as the poor performance of an affiliated
school may influence the primary
school's reputation.73
That
created an environment for the Tennessee Charter
School Incubator and the Charter School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nash
School Incubator and the Charter
School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nash
School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new
school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nash
school leaders and expanding
high -
performing CMOs in Memphis and Nashville.
The education reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows
high -
performing public
school options, provides fairer funding for public charter
school students, and
creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing
schools.
... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve
schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to
create high -
performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter
schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.
In 2013 — 14, the two elementary
schools and a middle
school, part of Nashville's Innovation Zone
created to help
high - need, low -
performing schools, combined the aspiring teachers program with the Opportunity Culture Multi-Classroom Leadership model.
Klein's advice for
creating a
high -
performing system of quality
schools?
Charter
schools have
created high -
performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small
high schools of choice have shown that public -
school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.
Franklin Schargel has extensive experience working with K - 12 teachers and administrators providing staff development in the areas of dropout prevention,
school leadership,
creating positive
school cultures, establishing
high performing classrooms and working with at - risk learners.
PSP is increasing the number of
high -
performing schools in Philadelphia and
creating the conditions for great
schools to thrive.
From 2001 - 2005, CCE served as the National Turning Points Center, a New American
Schools - recognized reform model for creating high - performing middle schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation,
Schools - recognized reform model for
creating high -
performing middle
schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation,
schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle
schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation,
schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation, 1989).
If we provide district and
school leaders with tools, resources, and guidance based on NCEE's research on
high performing education systems and NISL's research on leadership development from other sectors, then they can
create systems in which all
schools are at least as effective as
schools in the
highest performing countries.
In Berkeley, we coached teams at Berkeley
High School to
create small learning communities to better meet the needs of low -
performing students of color.
From the third grader who
creates and
performs a dance to demonstrate the water cycle, to the
high school senior who builds an abstract sculpture of geometric forms, students who have an opportunity to learn through arts integration are able to explore the subject through all their intelligences in ways that have personal meaning for them.
In Trusting Teachers with
School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots we found that teachers who have authority to make the decisions influencing school success create cultures consistent with the characteristics of high - performing organiza
School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots we found that teachers who have authority to make the decisions influencing
school success create cultures consistent with the characteristics of high - performing organiza
school success
create cultures consistent with the characteristics of
high -
performing organizations.
The more elite or
higher performing schools create additional hoops that some parents don't have access to, such as attending seminars or filing extra applications.
Joining the team at East End Prep in 2018, with grades K - 7, provides an ideal opportunity to be a part of
creating and building of a
high performing school entrenched in a relentless commitment to excellence.
Creating the conditions for
high -
performing schools and systems requires operational metrics beyond student achievement.
The new initiative, however, is specifically designed to
create conditions for
high -
performing charter
schools —
schools with a proven track record of student achievement — to help with one of our state's most pressing issues: closing the opportunity gap.