Not exact matches
Twelve Chicago
Public Schools principals and assistant
principals have been removed from their positions for allegedly falsifying forms for free and reduced lunches for their own children, the
school district and Inspector General's office announced in a joint statement this morning.
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick,
Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified
School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of
Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California
School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
The
principal and assistant
principal of a high
school on Chicago's Northwest Side face disciplinary charges after a yearlong investigation by Chicago
Public Schools» inspector general revealed abuses ranging from nepotism to fraud,
district officials confirmed Wednesday.
«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for
principals and other
school administrators and
District Council 37, the city's largest
public employee union, expired in March 2010.
New Suffolk Elementary
School principal Christopher Gallagher, center, discussing the
district's new policy of releasing
public documents at Tuesday's meeting.
The Buffalo
Public School district has placed East High
School Principal Casey Young on administrative leave.
These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more
public comment, revising the city's
school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate
schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to
district superintendents vis - à - vis
principals.
magazine hosted a videoconference this spring in HGSE's Learning Technologies Center with five national leaders in education: Mitchell Chester, Ed.D.» 91, Assistant Superintendent for Accountability, Ohio Department of Education; Karen Mapp, Ed.D.» 99, Deputy Superintendent for Family and Community Engagement, Boston
Public Schools; William Moloney, Ed.D.» 79, Colorado Commissioner of Education; Jennifer O'Day, Ed.D.» 73,
Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research; and Manuel Rivera, Ed.D.» 94, Superintendent, Rochester (NY) City
School District.
The
principal, a veteran of the city's
public schools, was so delighted that he wrote a memo to a
district official.
Her goal now is to bring Breakthrough's model to a traditional
public school district, hopefully starting as an assistant
principal next year and then moving up to
principal.
Brian Greenberg is a former teacher in Los Angeles Unified
School District, founding
principal of Leadership
Public Schools — Hayward, and Chief Academic Officer of Envision
Schools.
The legitimacy of test score increases in
District of Columbia
Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardized
Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers,
principals and
schools — on standardized
schools — on standardized tests.
Sara Mead, a member of the
District of Columbia
Public Charter
School Board and a
principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.
The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City
public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant
principal,
principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the
district's pioneering system to track student performance.
In the latest turn, the Houston
public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two
principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the
district — the state's largest — and 10 other
districts.
«
Districts can be so hard to change,» said Dan Challener, president of the
Public Education Foundation, an independent, nonprofit, community - based organization that provides training, research, and resources to teachers,
principals, and
schools in the Hamilton County area of Tennessee.
So they formed the Milwaukee
Public Schools Middle School Principals» Collaborative, a support network that has become an agent for change, not just in their schools, but in the whole di
Schools Middle
School Principals» Collaborative, a support network that has become an agent for change, not just in their
schools, but in the whole di
schools, but in the whole
district.
«An objective observer of the
District of Columbia
schools must conclude that our superintendents, principals, and teachers are being asked to do an enormously difficult job with one hand tied behind their backs,» says the report, issued last month by Parents United for the District of Columbia Public S
schools must conclude that our superintendents,
principals, and teachers are being asked to do an enormously difficult job with one hand tied behind their backs,» says the report, issued last month by Parents United for the
District of Columbia
Public SchoolsSchools.
Ross Danis, from
principal, Clinton (N.J.)
Public Schools, to director, curriculum and staff development, Randolph (N.J.)
School District.
Success Academy operates under perhaps the toughest set of norms and expectations for all participants — pupils, parents, teachers, and
principals — of any New York City
public schools, whether
district - operated or charter.
For example, they note that, just as
public school principals complain about the hundreds of directives they receive from the
school district's central office, some Catholic
school principals dislike even the few instructions sent from the archdiocese each year.
«What a
principal would wish for in my daughter's
school in our nice suburb would be so different from what a
principal in the urban
district where I work would wish for,» said Lyn McCarty, a special education administrator in an urban California
public school district.
Like many
school districts across the country, D.C.
Public Schools leaves the decision on whether to include cursive as part of the curriculum up to individual
principals and teachers.
Lisa Wilson, Director of Assessment & Research, Blue Valley
School District, KS Lisa Wilson has served in public education for twenty - seven years as a junior high and high school English teacher, lead teacher, Associate Principal for Curriculum and Instruction, and currently as the Director of Assessment and Research for Blue Valley School District, a public district in Overland Park, K
School District, KS Lisa Wilson has served in public education for twenty - seven years as a junior high and high school English teacher, lead teacher, Associate Principal for Curriculum and Instruction, and currently as the Director of Assessment and Research for Blue Valley School District, a public district in Overland Park,
District, KS Lisa Wilson has served in
public education for twenty - seven years as a junior high and high
school English teacher, lead teacher, Associate Principal for Curriculum and Instruction, and currently as the Director of Assessment and Research for Blue Valley School District, a public district in Overland Park, K
school English teacher, lead teacher, Associate
Principal for Curriculum and Instruction, and currently as the Director of Assessment and Research for Blue Valley
School District, a public district in Overland Park, K
School District, a public district in Overland Park,
District, a
public district in Overland Park,
district in Overland Park, Kansas.
The
principal question is whether the degree of
public school choice at the
school district level is associated with racial imbalance between
school enrollment and the
school - age population of the geographical catchment areas of the
district's
schools.
These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while
public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run
schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling
school districts what
principals and teachers ought to do.
The
principal question is whether the degree of
public school choice at the
district level is associated with within
district racial imbalance between
school enrollment and the
school - age population of individual
schools» geographical catchment areas.
Principals from 22 states, the
District of Columbia, and countries including Australia, India, and China, representing
public, private, and religious
schools, gathered together to discuss what it means to be a leader.
The mediating role of sense of community in the relationship among
principals» characteristics,
district characteristics, and self - efficacy beliefs of
public school principals in Florida., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL..
With the data made
public and tied back to the preparation program,
school districts would need to become smart consumers and hire from the programs that prepare the most effective
principals.
Eight years ago, after 21 years of serving as
principal of a small, rural elementary
school that housed preschool through third grade, I accepted a position as
principal of a startup
public school preschool in a large urban
district.
Topics discussed include petition filed by
principals from high
schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) on the district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on th
schools in Metro Nashville
Public Schools (MNPS) on the district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on th
Schools (MNPS) on the
district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on the same.
School principals in the Seattle
Public Schools district are discovering the power of peer collaboration.
Olson is one of 244
principals in Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County
Public Schools, one of six large urban
districts across the country that since 2011 have been involved in The Wallace Foundation's «
principal pipeline» initiative — designed to grow more effective
principals.
New Orleans joins a handful of cities whose
districts give autonomy to
public school principals.
Scott Trungadi is an assistant
principal with the Greenwich
Public School District in Greenwich, Connecticut.
VERONICA McDERMOTT began her career in the
public schools of Long Island, New York, in 1970 and has worked in numerous educational roles ever since, including superintendent of
schools,
principal,
district director, dean, and classroom teacher.
Hillsborough County
Public Schools, a large
district covering the Tampa, Fla., area, has six full - time coaches who work weekly with some 45 novice
principals and provide intensive coaching for veteran
principals who need support in specific areas.
As a Program Manager with New Leaders, an education nonprofit focused on training and developing excellent
school leaders, she collaborated with
district leadership from Newark
Public Schools in creating
principal evaluation and development tools.
Drawing on a close reading of
public polling research and empirical research on factors related to
school quality, and engaging in conversations with teachers, students, families,
principals, and
district administrators, we have identified five categories — the first three being essential inputs and the last two being key outcomes — and over 30 unique measures to capture the nuances of
schools:
Most recently she served as the
principal at Westwood Elementary
School in the Oklahoma City
Public Schools District, where she had worked for a combined 17 years.
Public school principals shall supervise public school personnel as the district school board determines nece
Public school principals shall supervise
public school personnel as the district school board determines nece
public school personnel as the
district school board determines necessary.
Principals from the
District's traditional
public schools and
public charter
schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their
schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving
school leadership across the city.
Advisory committees provide important
public input to the Board of Education, Superintendent,
Principals and other staff on issues facing the
school district.
She previously served as Superintendent of
Schools in Berryessa Union
School District, San Jose (CA) and Nye County
School District, Tonopah (NV); as Director of Special Education in San Mateo Foster City
School District (CA); and as Regional Superintendent,
Principal, Counselor and Classroom Teacher in the Albuquerque
Public Schools.
The 20 - page «Guide to Leadership Education Programs in Georgia for Aspiring Leaders in Gwinnett County
Public Schools,» scheduled to be published in the 2012 - 13
school year, includes descriptions of four
principal training programs judged by the
district to share a commitment to preparing «world - class leadership.»
Mr. Larrabee previously served as Supervising Superintendent (overseeing all
district regional superintendents),
principal of a distinguished
school (one of the nation's first CTAC - assisted Standard Bearer
Schools), and as Director of Information Services during 30 years of service to the Cleveland
Public Schools (OH).
In a detailed 2010 survey,
school and
district administrators, policymakers and others declared
principal leadership among the most pressing matters on a list of issues in
public school education.
Christine also served as assistant director and program analyst focused on leadership development and
principal preparation at The Broad Foundation, worked with the Tennessee Achievement
School District on community engagement, and provided strategic support to Detroit
Public Schools.
If you are a classroom teacher,
principal, or
district administrator, you are likely aware that there is an increase in ELL enrollment in
public schools.