Sentences with phrase «district improvement efforts»

These reports help guide and inform district improvement efforts and provide important information about our schools to our families, community partners, and the broader public.

Bluum will provide support to school district improvement efforts that offer the possibility of transformative change for how learning and instruction are made available to students.

Finally, Bluum will provide support to school district improvement efforts that offer the possibility of transformative change for how learning and instruction are made available to students.

The value - added achievement awards were so successful in encouraging school and district improvement efforts that Senator Bill Frist's State Collaborative on Reforming Education launched its own rewards program in 2012.

Title III Accountability and District Improvement Efforts: A Closer Look (2010) summarizes findings from interviews with six Title III Directors and nine Title III district - level directors in the spring of 2009.

District leaders need to establish clear expectations across multiple dimensions of improvement activity as the bases for increasing coherence, coordination, and synergy in the effectiveness of district improvement efforts over time.

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.

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.

A district - improvement plan existed on paper, but it was not an operative document guiding district improvement efforts.

Confusion abounds among educators and the broader public about the purpose of charter schools and how these independent public schools relate to school district improvement efforts.

Chartering can advance district improvement efforts through R&D, i.e., be a laboratory for testing different approaches and ideas that are replicated in district schools.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, I'm feeling encouraged about my district's commitment to improving its efforts with respect to child nutrition, and believe that there's legitimate hope for future improvements.

Efforts to restore the lagoon to its former glory and to update other facilities at the Northwest Side park were initiated over the weekend, when Mayor Richard M. Daley and Chicago Park District Superintendent David Doig announced a $ 1.2 million improvement plan.

Dubbed the DPS Renaissance Plan 2012, the purpose was to engage proven charter - school operators in the district's school - improvement effort.

A 2005 study by the Public Policy Institute of California found the improvement in reading «so definitive that San Diego's efforts are well worth a look by other school districts in California and the nation.»

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

Under NCLB, school improvement and corrective action provisions were strengthened, and restructuring provisions added, to compel states, districts, and schools to intensify efforts to turn around low - performing schools.

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.

By designating a consistent day and start time, a clear message is sent that no - agenda meetings are an essential component of our district's improvement efforts.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school districts.

Leaders of urban school districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

The changes were necessary, argued Superintendent Donald W. Ingwerson, because the district's current busing program interferes with efforts to increase parental involvement and bring about other school improvements mandated under Kentucky's landmark education - reform law.

For improvement efforts to work, district - level leadership and support are critical, according to the report.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should review the Title I monitoring process to ensure that steps are in place to ensure that states comply with NCLBA requirements for allocating school improvement funds to districts for district - level activities and prioritizing funds to the lowest performing schools.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of State Support is pleased to announce the new State Support Network website, an online platform designed to support school improvement efforts by providing States and districts with opportunities to engage with their peers and connect with experts and resources.

Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): The TXCC provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should, to further support the department's proposal to eliminate the hold - harmless provision, develop an analysis comparing the characteristics of districts that contribute to the set - aside with those protected by the hold - harmless provision.

We conclude with lessons learned about the CORE Districts» innovative system that can inform other next - generation assessment and continuous improvement efforts, including those catalyzed by ESSA.

Southeast Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Southeast Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the state education agencies of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

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).

Kunjan Narechania was appointed as CEO of the Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD) in 2017, where she oversees the unification of schools in New Orleans and statewide school improvement efforts under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

The law mandates that parents be informed on how they can be involved in school improvement efforts, and be provided with report cards on schools in their district, to help guide their involvement.

In this policy proposal Nora Gordon suggests (1) reforms to ensure that the Title I formula gets enough resources to the neediest areas, and (2) improvements in federal guidance and fiscal compliance outreach efforts so that local districts understand the flexibility they have to spend effectively.

The department shall require school districts and BOCES to report on an annual basis information related to the school district's efforts to address the performance of teachers whose performance is evaluated as unsatisfactory, including information related to the implementation of teacher improvement plans for teachers so evaluated.

Texas Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Texas Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

was appointed as CEO of the Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD) in 2017, where she oversees the unification of schools in New Orleans and statewide school improvement efforts under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Rather than provide states and districts with more control over their accountability and improvement systems, as Congress intends, the side effects of the CRA can actually impinge on these efforts.

Parents must be informed in some timely manner by their district if their child attends a school that has been identified for comprehensive or targeted support, enabling parents to become involved in school improvement efforts and to exercise school choice, if applicable.

Such detail captures multiple dimensions of school and district performance and can drive local improvement efforts tailored to each unique context.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

At the same time, she facilitated ongoing improvement efforts mandated at the district level prior to her appointment (curriculum writing, implementation of a commercial mathematics program)-- collaborating with grade team and subject leaders, specialist teachers, and trainers provided by the externally developed mathematics program.

As relationships improve, SEAs are able to have a greater impact on district and school improvements, and to take greater satisfaction in their efforts.

As expected, we found that the larger districts in our sample, irrespective of the state in which they are located, see themselves as responsible for their own future and view the development of their internal resources as the key for improvement efforts.

However, the district has several informal means of involving the community in school - improvement efforts.

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

NCLB changed the ways schools and districts use data and evidence to inform improvement efforts.

District officials struggle with the task of attracting a representative group of community members to help with school improvement efforts.

Because of the contentious environment that surrounds evaluation and monitoring, respondents said, the effort to build trust is a key component of their more general effort to help schools and districts identify areas in need of improvement.