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Across the US, Horace Mann now cover over 4,100 different school districts as well as being publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Not exact matches

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

Just as there are different boundaries for School Districts, there are different boundaries for Park Districts within a Village.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

Late last month, Dana looked at stigma from a slightly different angle, as it relates to candy - and - soda - filled food trucks being allowed to come close to school campuses in her district of San Francisco.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

Karen Fruscello, who works as a kindergarten through sixth grade peer observer across different buildings within the Syracuse City School District, is leading this year's challenge.

Hailing the law as «a new and different approach for the federal government,» he said the measure will establish «world class» national education standards and rely on school districts at the «grassroots» to help students...

In hundreds of schools in the District and elsewhere, these conferences look drastically different as educators seek to build stronger relationships with parents and equip families with tools to reinforce classroom concepts at home.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

The Constitution can not be colorblind in the real world, he said, and school districts can adopt race - conscious measures as long as they don't treat «each student in a different fashion solely on the basis of a systematic, individual typing by race.»

But as the student population has grown, the school district has changed the start times for many individual schools in order to maintain a balanced bus schedule, generating differences in start times for the same school in different years.

• Ensure that all students within a participating school are included in the pilot and that participating districts and schools pay appropriate attention to the needs of different subgroups in designing policies to make them as equitable as possible.

The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing teacher effectiveness.»

Second, it is investing in instructional approaches that increase student and parental engagement — such as differentiated school offerings for different student needs, as well as products and services for blended - learning environments, where the bulk of K — 12 online learning will ultimately be — both for its own full - time managed schools as well as for districts through its Fuel Education business.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Since then, he and the other authors of the book have expanded the approach in different forms to the Cambridge, MA, district schools, as well as statewide in Ohio and Iowa.

Charters (and cousins such as district - sponsored pilot schools) should be different, should march to promisingly better tunes.

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

Accreditation also measures different aspects of a district or school, in addition to student performance, such as parent communication and participation, improvement plans, leadership effectiveness, curriculum and instruction quality, student mentoring, use of technology, and professional development.

A homeless child who designates the school district of current location as the district of attendance and who relocates to another temporary housing arrangement outside of such district, or to a different attendance zone or community school district within such district, shall be entitled to maintain the prior designation to continue attendance in the same school building until the end of the school year and for one additional year if the year constitutes the child's terminal year in such building.

But I also think, as you go around the country, to some extent school districts don't like the notion of funds leaving the traditional school system into a different sector.

The confidential responses from districts indicate how schools are likely to be different next year as a result of these cuts, which are expected to include teacher layoffs.

In other words, most students in the district attend schools with students of similar income backgrounds, or most of the district's schools look very different from the district as a whole in terms of poverty levels.

Offering different packages for individual educators or entire school districts, Naiku's pay - as - you - go model is extremely accessible.

Matching Teacher - Led Professional Learning Costs With Sustainable Funding Sources: Overview chart of funding sources for teacher - led professional learning, as well as a description of some broad and specific cost categories; districts and schools interested in fully and sustainably funding teacher - led professional learning can use this chart as a guide to considering how different funding sources might be used to support a range of professional learning activities http://opportunityculture.org/teacher-led-professional-learning/funding-for-teacher-led-professional-learning/

As part of the Green Ribbon Schools Application, schools and districts need to provide information on three differentSchools Application, schools and districts need to provide information on three differentschools and districts need to provide information on three different areas.

Moreover, the report included case studies of three school districts, located in separate areas of the country, each using different strategies to voluntarily increase racial and socioeconomic diversity, such as utilizing magnet schools, new student attendance zones, and school choice policies.

We are a diverse team of 13 teachers who met over several months to review research on different national efforts to address teacher attraction and retention, as well as local strategies being proposed or piloted by UTLA, Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) and local charter networks.

The tools include a detailed rubric for matching a candidate's skills and experiences to different school leadership openings and a «learning walk» protocol that gives district supervisors a way to observe and assess a candidate's point of view and interpersonal skills as the candidate observes and comments on actual school practices, teacher actions and student behaviors.

As states and districts prepare to meet these possible challenges, they have the opportunity to strengthen collaborative relationships, troubleshoot different types of problems, and develop or change policies and practices to meet the new demands of ESSA and the needs of low - performing school communities.

After successfully serving as an assistant superintendent in the Rockwood School District in St. Louis County, Anderson began her role as a superintendent in 2005 in Montgomery County Public Schools, Virginia, a district with 10,000 students that serves 23 schools in four different locDistrict in St. Louis County, Anderson began her role as a superintendent in 2005 in Montgomery County Public Schools, Virginia, a district with 10,000 students that serves 23 schools in four different locaSchools, Virginia, a district with 10,000 students that serves 23 schools in four different locdistrict with 10,000 students that serves 23 schools in four different locaschools in four different localities.

A new study commissioned by the Association for Equity in Funding (AEF) finds disparities in school funding among school districts with vastly different student demographics have negative effects on student outcome measures such as scores on school and district report cards.

The charter school's different approach to education should be kept in mind as board members consider staffing levels that are low compared to the district's approach, board member Mary Burke said.

For the past 15 years, he has served as superintendent for three different charter schools as well as co-founded a successful charter district.

A highly decentralized school district with 12 different charter authorizers has raised the cost of transportation as each charter school assumes responsibility for its transportation needs.

As a temporary solution, some students have been displaced to different school districts in the States for the remainder of the school year (Best States, 2018; Kennedy, 2017; Swaby, 2017).

While the formal or informal leadership roles of teachers may vary in different schools and districts, teacher leadership is broadly defined in the 2011 Teacher Leader Model Standards as «the process by which teachers, individually or collectively, influence their colleagues, principals, and other members of the school community to improve teaching and learning practices with the aim of increased student learning and achievement.»

The surveys were made available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Hmong, Russian, and Vietnamese and allowed participants to rank different activities for each of the State's Eight Priority Areas as well as suggest additional services and activities for the school district to invest in with LCFF funds.

As a national school improvement expert, Howie (through Project ACHIEVE's different components) has worked with thousands of schools and districts in partnerships to help them meet their respective ESEA requirements.

Each school district that has used value - added follows slightly different methods, and supporters of the approach say it should not be used as the sole measure of a teacher's ability.

UCLA's venture is different, as it is a public university partnering with the school district to create and expand public schools.

Instead, the funding follows the students themselves, just as public - school funding follows children who move to a different school district or enroll in a charter school.

The Montgomery County school district encompasses two demographically different communities, one composed almost entirely of white and Asian professional families — residing in neighborhoods that school authorities refer to as the «green zone» — and another composed of mainly poor and minority families, who live in what the school district labels the «red zone.»

Specifically, we are often in different schools and / or districts as we build our practicum and internship hours to become Nationally Certified School Psychologists (NCSP).

The price - level index is used to help account for different costs of living across the state as money is divided among school districts.

As we describe in a commentary for EdSource, school districts across the state have different standards for reclassifying these students.

While all the things that go bump in the night tell us that tests and standards and accountability are responsible for the complete and utter fall of western civilization as we once knew it, a large and impressive group of superintendents (present and former) representing some of the nation's largest school districts have a different view.

For most families, local district schools work well for them, however there are many who need something different but may lack the resources to pursue other options such as private schools and home schools.

The scenario is a little different in the 43,000 - student Adams 12 school district, where in June the Board of Education opted to close a budget hole by asking teachers to make the same pension contribution as other employee groups.