Sentences with phrase «district efforts»

Others have focused on the link between strategy and effect in district efforts to improve schools.

Since 2000, the foundation has invested $ 2 billion in innovative school models, improved systems for data and accountability, and school district efforts.

Among other achievements, he said he helped stop district efforts to use teacher performance ratings in evaluations and protected thousands of jobs from elimination last year.

Section 2.1 extends the analysis of collective leadership presented in Section 1.1 to include district efforts to involve community members and parents.

Would they view district efforts as supportive of their own work in the classroom: helping to motivate students, sending the message that achievement matters, and ensuring that students have the basic skills they need before they advance to the next grade?

It's also part of a broader district effort to reduce stress and anxiety in an overburdened student population.

Irwin, who has been a club professional at many courses, said the park district effort is the most extensive he has seen.

Third, charters are particularly well - suited to tackle these questions because they don't have to wrestle with all the parental griping and constituency politics that hamper district efforts to establish strong codes of conduct, to encourage political participation, or to promote character development.

The results of the Signature District efforts will be promulgated widely so that other districts may take advantage of the practical research resulting from this unique partnership.

Rigorous academic standards, as well as the levers and wrap - around supports within the «develop» column above, are the core of each partner districts efforts to improve teaching by leveraging current human capital.

Evers» group hopes to narrow the racial achievement gap across Wisconsin by highlighting and sharing across districts those efforts that seem to be working.

The Education Foundation of Brown Deer supports various district efforts through different grants.

Overcome organizational «silos» to enable a concerted, focused effort that positively impacts the district

It was the importance of knowing more about these aspects of educational leadership that prompted the Wallace Foundation's call for, and support of, our study entitled Learning from District Efforts to Strengthen Education Leadership.

Here we draw upon this literature to illustrate findings on the district role in reform in three areas: the challenges confronting district efforts to implement system - wide improvements in student learning; district strategies for improving student learning; and evidence of impact on the nature and quality of teaching and learning.

This report describes our assessment of HISD's strengths and areas in need of improvement with respect to its special education program, and identifies recommendations for HISD to consider as it continues its efforts to improve services for students with disabilities in the district

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

(Michele Mason is executive director of the Newark Charter School Fund, founded in 2008 to help provide all Newark students with access to great schools in collaboration with district efforts to improve the quality of Newark public education.)

It's part of his Adopt a District effort.

The group, American Action Network, is targeting six districts overall in New York as part of a 41 - district effort.

With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become content curators, as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.

In fact, district efforts to «recruit» middle - class white families can further marginalize existing low - income, minority students and families, and lead to further segregation if white and middle - class families cluster in the same schools.

Simply put, when the focus is placed on the real effects of state and district efforts, a goodly number of states have a lot less to crow about.

Despite union and district efforts to overturn the vote, the Green Dot supporters succeeded, and after a year of transition, in which there was a good deal of disorder, Green Dot took over the school, with a new principal and new teachers.

Read about two districts efforts.

This master set of rubrics is designed to support school and district efforts to integrate 4Cs assessment strategies into teaching and learning systems.»

Through her focus on collaboration, mutual accountability, and empowered decision - making by educators who work most closely with students, Anderson championed ASD and local school district efforts to improve the performance of all students in Priority Schools statewide.

Based on the evidence available, authors identify four main factors that are driving the emerging teacher shortage: A decline in teacher preparation enrollments, district efforts to return to pre-recession pupil - teacher ratios, increasing student enrollment, and high teacher attrition.

Curriculum is often at the center of school and district efforts to transition to the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards.

«Business as usual is not an option for anybody, charter schools included,» she told LA School Report, referring to district efforts to address the needs of under - performing schools.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy has expressed great enthusiasm for the 10 - district effort to win a so - called «waiver» from some aspects of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which sets accountability rules and governs the distribution of billions in education funding from Washington.

Further, teachers are more likely to buy in to the work of a STEM PLC if they perceive it as aligned to other school / district efforts, and if they believe it is valued by the school / district administration.

The Office of School Turnaround (OST) is responsible for providing financial assistance and other support, including through the administration of the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, for state and district efforts to turn around the lowest - performing five percent of schools in each state.

Insight in action At the onset of a district effort to identify teachers leaders in each school, one middle school principal dedicated half of the school year to increasing understanding of teacher leadership and its importance among the school's entire instructional staff.

These shortages have been emerging as teacher education enrollments have taken a deep dive, while demand for teachers has begun to climb, largely due to district efforts to return to pre-recession staffing levels.

«Not only does the legislation implement a toothless teacher evaluation system, the bill could jeopardize school district efforts to put great teachers in every classroom,» said Tim Melton, vice president of legislative affairs for StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based national educational advocacy organization.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $ 70 million to support state and district efforts to keep students safe at school.

Charter news unfolded slowly this week with more analysis of what Louisiana - style recovery school district efforts have produced, and then caught steam as the Georgia senate voted in favor of Governor Deal's Opportunity School District plan: AJC's Greg Bluestein analyzes the political landscape as Governor Deal's OSD proposal comes up for a vote in the -LSB-...]

Reauthorization of the Perkins Act provides an opportunity to support and expand state and district efforts to address CTE teacher shortages.

These rubrics are designed to support school and district efforts to integrate 4Cs assessment strategies into teaching and learning systems.