Sentences with phrase «district and school personnel»

Our goal is to help district and school personnel develop supportive environments and implement effective strategies and policies that promote positive behavior, enhance protective factors, increase academic engagement, and improve academic performance.

As a local school administrator, I know that implementing a CSR model requires cooperation between providers and district and school personnel.

In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.

In addition, the team reviews presentations by district and school personnel before they present to the board to ensure they are prepared.

District and school personnel in these settings talked enthusiastically about implementing their curriculum, and they spoke positively about achievement results for their students as evidence of its quality.

Our evidence shows a trend toward increasing the array of data that district and school personnel consult in making decisions.

(While access to trend data is increasing, however, district and school personnel were more apt to talk about its availability and potential than its use).

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

While state education agency specialists had made tools available for trend analysis in one of the states we sampled, the shift toward assembling and making trend data available to district and school personnel has been largely a district - level initiative.

Not exact matches

About 4,200 school districts and 3,500 police departments have ALICE - trained personnel, according to the company's website.

In the tradition of the Humanitarian Bowl (the former name of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl), many events during game week will raise funds and awareness for local charities, including the United Way, Optimist Youth Football, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boise School District, Treasure Valley YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts, and Armed Forces personnel.

Statute 120B.22 (2005) encourages each district to provide ongoing in - service for district school personnel to help students identify violence in the family and community, so students may learn to resolve conflict in effective, nonviolent ways.

Education Code 51264 (2003) calls for the California Department of Education to prepare and distribute guidelines for incorporating in - service training in gang violence and drug and alcohol abuse prevention for teachers, counselors, athletic directors, school board members, and other education personnel into staff development plans for each school district.

I think that this is the perfect time to bring attention to fundraising for SNF, as the USDA will be requiring — under the HHFKA — to establish standards for all levels of personnel (state agencies, local school districts and schools) for training and certification.

The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act recognized the need for USDA to establish education and training standards for all school nutrition personnel — including school nutrition assistants; managers; district supervisors and directors; and state agency directors as a means of helping to ensure that school nutrition programs meet the goal of healthy children ready to learn.

Just think about how much the school nutrition personnel in your district would contribute to SNF annually if each person committed to a nickel a day — and then multiply that amount by the number of school districts participating in the school nutrition program.

Michael has served as a consultant to families, corporations, therapists, physicians, school districts, community agencies, churches, criminal justice personnel and other professionals, traveling to approximately 20 cities per year to keynote at conferences.

In a personnel memo dated May 1, 2009, principal Robert Mcmullen wrote, in part, «Your continued campaign has caused disruption to the normal operations of the district Food Service Director, district Finance Director, myself, your colleagues and the school... Therefore, I am issuing the following directive:

This unfortunately often includes school nurses and district medical personnel.

Districts can further lessen their exposure by instituting risk management programs that ensure the safety of school personnel, students, and visitors; by seeking protection through insurance; and by putting language into shared use agreements requiring the user to assume all or part of the liability in the event of injury or property damage.

Already, Shedd offers free admission to Chicago Park District youth groups and staffs, Illinois school teachers and K - 12 groups, active duty military personnel and first responders, and families with children using Kids Museum Passports available at Chicago Public Library branches.

Leo Lesh, retired executive director of food and nutrition services for Denver schools, reported that the district provided an intensive three - week scratch cooking training program for all food service personnel.

If your school district doesn't work with a food service company, then it sounds like your food service personnel simply feel threatened and don't like losing control.

The Board also approved monthly personnel recommendations including the appointment of a dozen new school and District administrators:

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

The vacancy at Henninger will be filled by Brian Kavanagh, a local educator who most recently served as executive director of education and personnel for the Oswego City School District.

In addition to the addition of new personnel in 2014, the Department has pioneered partnerships with hospitals and school districts to station CPS workers at their facilities.

Cuts to personnel and other expenses are on the table for the Niagara Falls School District, since the district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's District, since the district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's tax cap.

Hall's professional experience includes working as Director of the Lynwood Employment and Economic Development Center, Senior Analyst of Classified Personnel - Lynwood Unified School District, and Real Estate and Economic Development Specialist.

New York City spends more money on fringe benefits for teachers and other education personnel than any other school district in country, according to a new study.

Noting that «personnel costs are the major component of school district expenditures, and have been increasing at a rate above inflation for a number of years,» the Commission recommended a series of reforms to curb these expenses, including a modification of the Triborough Amendment to exclude salary steps and lanes for teachers.

In a news release, Duran and Jones claimed that lawmakers were blindsided by provisions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persSchool Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persschool money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher personnel.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

Teachers decide whether to remain at a school for a multiplicity of reasons, which can be divided into four main categories: 1) characteristics of the job, including salary and working conditions; 2) alternative job opportunities; 3) teachers» own job and family preferences; and 4) school districts» personnel policies.

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«There is substantial evidence that the district has the adequate programs, policies, and personnel to ensure that demonstrated progress is sustained,» [Education Commissioner] Harrington wrote in a letter Tuesday to Schools Superintendent Christopher Cerf.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

It may force states, districts, and school - level personnel to be a lot more prescriptive about curriculum and instruction that any of us might like in the short term while we enhance and build capacity for the long haul.

School district administrators tend to focus on high «fixed costs» involved in running schools and they refer to personnel salary and benefits as their largest fixed cost.

In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of what is likely to improve schools or districts with particular characteristics.

The typical urban school district's personnel and budgeting systems leave principals without much say in hiring teachers or allocating resources.

The state school board last month ended its oversight of the Logan County district, granting the local school board power to direct curriculum and personnel for the first time since 1992.

Nationwide, personnel costs typically account for between 75 % and 80 % of school - district operating budgets, and that percentage is even higher in some Sun Belt states and inner cities.

Besieged by the media for so long, school district personnel are understandably encouraged to keep looking forward and discouraged from talking to the press.

Looking forward, the 2010 — 11 and 2011 — 12 school years pack a one - two punch, with school district leaders facing the end of ARRA dollars and answering tough questions about programs and personnel that have been (and will be) cut, while trying to figure out what, if any, economic recovery is in store at the state and local levels.

13 - 16 — Community involvement: 37th Annual Conference, sponsored by the National Community Education Association, for after - school practitioners, 21st Century Community Learning Center staff, school district personnel, superintendents, university personnel, and...

Sensing financial vulnerability and needing to comply with personnel notification deadlines, school districts issue layoff notices and hold mandatory public hearings, even if the probability of actual personnel layoffs is slender.

Although eligibility was originally limited to students with special needs, Arizona lawmakers subsequently expanded eligibility to include adopted children, children of active - duty military personnel, students living on Native American reservations, and students assigned to a district school with a D or F rating, as well as siblings of eligible students.

To move the district toward financial stability, Roberti closed 16 schools and laid off 14,000 employees, 200 of whom were central office personnel, critical players in the school cartel.

Teachers will be chosen by contracted schools, but will be employees of both districts and contractors (opening up districts to liability for personnel whom they neither select nor supervise).