Sentences with phrase «district focusing its efforts»

Building on these best practices, CAP recommends that states and districts focus their efforts on nine critical steps required to effectively translate standards into high - quality instruction.

A district boosting retention rates for just early - career teachers is likely to see higher cumulative retention than a district focusing its efforts at the back end.

Recognizing that building a strong conceptual foundation was necessary to increase grade 6 math proficiency, the district focused its efforts two years earlier — on grade 4 math — adopting research - based practices and increasing opportunities for deeper learning that align with the districts vision for personalized, adaptive instruction.

Not exact matches

Efforts such as School Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school eEfforts such as School Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school effortsefforts.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

Democrats are focusing on more suburban districts, where they believe changing demographics are moving seats into the Democratic column, in their effort to regain the majority in the House.

Huntley, who previously worked as the president of Community School Board 28, has focused a lot of her efforts in Albany on improving the schools in her district and helping residents with the foreclosure crisis.

A direct correlation can be found with districts I carried and areas my grassroots team focused on with door - to - door and other voter contact efforts.

The Council Finance Committee chairman cited Superstorm Sandy as a factor in his decision, noting parts of his district (which includes Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Gravesend, and Sea Gate) were impacted and require «renewed focus and energy towards the recovery and rebuilding efforts.»

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

Padalino said the district will continue focusing its efforts internally on the academic success of its students, even as its administrators, teachers and parents continue their efforts to have their voices heard by the Cuomo administration.

«I think it would be fairer to have an equal distribution,» she said, adding that she focuses on securing millions in capital funding for her district and has been very successful in her efforts.

Still, the overwhelming majority of the endorsements, money and door - to - door organizing efforts in the contest have gone to Ms. Niou, whose focus on reform and Asian heritage may help draw out the well - educated professionals and Chinatown residents who make up two key constituencies in the district.

«I will continue this effort but will be able to put much more focus on my district, which will have more challenges than ever in the months ahead.»

Rather than focusing solely on changing the demographics of their workforce — an effort that can take decades as staff retire and are replaced — the district's model centers on teaching current educators how to think differently.

In Sacramento, administrator Lyn McCarty will be focusing her efforts on staff development and monitoring / coaching activities bent on the notion that more consistent literacy instruction can be achieved across classrooms and school sites within the district.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

His leadership also led to the district achieving its best - ever dropout and graduation rates, driven largely by attention to all students, a focus on adult performance, the promotion of choice and school autonomy, and intensive efforts to engage parents and the community.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

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.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

The Foundation supports the collaborative efforts of public school educators, their unions, school districts, and communities to focus on learning conditions that improve student performance.

How Federal, State, and District Funding Streams Confound Efforts to Address Different Student Types This report by Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, and Tricia Davis demonstrates in greater detail than ever before how America's methods of school finance work against a single - minded focus on...

Beth studies education policy, politics, and inequality with a focus on efforts to improve low - performing K - 12 schools and districts.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

To supplement the Basic Grant, the Concentration Grant was added in 1978 as part of an effort to focus funds on districts with higher numbers of low - income students.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

In addition, the Promise triggered efforts by the school district to increase overall academic standards and college focus among all students.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

None of these efforts will matter, if district leaders don't focus on the most important issue — respect.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

District improvement efforts should include, as foci for immediate attention, those eight sets of conditions which the best available evidence now suggests have a significant influence on principals «sense of efficacy for school improvement.

Focusing improvement efforts solely on low - performing schools and students is not a productive strategy for continual improvement in a district.

The school districts described in the above three case vignettes have much in common: a district - wide commitment to listening to public concerns; serious effort given to communicating district policies and practices to the public; and a focus on collaborating and partnering with individuals and groups from the community, including business people.

We assumed at the outset (1) that successful districts focus on and support efforts to improve teaching and learning and (2) that districts are not all alike in the ways in which they embody this focus in policies and actions.

Participants also examined ways to re-ignite PLCs to focus on the «right drivers» and heard from Education Minnesota about their efforts to engage early career educators as leaders in their association, schools and districts.

The district was not involved in university partnerships focused on local improvement efforts.

The Abbott vs. Burke decision (1985) prompted the NJDOE to focus its efforts and resources on 31 low - income / low - performing school districts.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

We plan to introduce a tiered monitoring system that will focus efforts on the lowest performing schools and districts, with an emphasis on both compliance and outcomes and with the turnaround practices as a unifying framework.

View a statement from Jed Wallace, President and CEO, CCSA, about CCSA's decision to discontinue pursuit of two facilities - related lawsuits against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and to focus renewed effort on working collaboratively with LAUSD to ensure every public school student - both traditional and charter - has a stable, suitable place to learn.

Further evidence comes from a school district in southern Minnesota that implemented full - day kindergarten in an effort to focus on providing foundational supports, building students» confidence, and paving the way for success before students began to fail (Raskin & Haar, 2009).

The effort now spans from support for teacher leaders to sitting principals and principal supervisors and accompanied district policies providing greater autonomy to principals and more explicitly focusing the principal's role on instructional leadership.

Sanger Unified School District began its reform journey in 2004 when district leaders launched an effort to focus deliberately on studeDistrict began its reform journey in 2004 when district leaders launched an effort to focus deliberately on studedistrict leaders launched an effort to focus deliberately on student data.

San Diego Unified School District's superintendent presented increased and expanded efforts to reduce the achievement gap by focusing on early childhood education, English learners, and school discipline.

Summary: This article focuses on efforts made in the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada to use social - emotional skills to tackle student engagement and academic success.

At the heart of the plan is a new accountability system for schools and districts that focuses efforts on closing the achievement gap and ensuring each student is successful and ready for the next step.»

The trip focused on, but not be limited to, Virginia's efforts to create a longitudinal data system that can inform decision making at the state, district, and classroom levels, as well as explore how districts with robust data systems can inform future development of the state system.