Sentences with phrase «district school improvement plan»

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Performance - based compensation systems should be developed and implemented as one component of the district school improvement plan and be linked to policies for recruiting and retaining highly effective principals.

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Also, districts must collaborate with the CSHAC to develop a school health improvement plan that addresses strategies for improving student nutrition, health, and physical activity.

Dozens of neighborhoods throughout the city will see their local school yards transformed from unsightly, asphalt patches with weeds growing through the cracks into grassy, park - like areas under capital improvement plans unveiled by the Chicago Park District.

District and school leadership teams are analyzing these scores to improve teaching and learning strategies and School Improvement school leadership teams are analyzing these scores to improve teaching and learning strategies and School Improvement School Improvement Plans.

Under law, distinguished educators «assess the learning environment» of schools in a designated district, and «provide assistance in the development and implementation of any district improvement plan.»

Forty percent of teachers in the Syracuse school district will have to develop improvement plans because they scored below «effective» on their state - mandated performance evaluations, according to preliminary results released by the district.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

Voters in the Greece Central School District have approved a 34 and a half million dollar school improvementSchool District have approved a 34 and a half million dollar school improvementschool improvement plan.

The Education Department says it approved six of seven school improvement grants, but only if the district is able to reach agreement with on a teacher evolution plan with the Buffalo Teachers Federation by July 1.

Central to those actions will be finalizing plans for five district schools at risk of an outside takeover if they fail to show serious improvement by the end of the school year.

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

Reacting to the concerns of local school districts, the Alaska State Board of Education has endorsed a concept that will recognize «local diversity» in the implementation of a plan for a statewide school - improvement proposed by the Governor's Task Force on Effective Schooling.

State and district guidelines for school improvement planning are focusing too heavily on standards and results - oriented improvements instead of promoting systemic changes to address barriers to teaching and learning, concludes a report from the Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Third, in the sections requiring interventions for struggling schools, districts are empowered to «locally develop and implement comprehensive support and improvement plans.»

The Houston school district has launched a large - scale plan to pay teachers bonuses based on the year - to - year improvement of their own students» test scores.

Citizens in Provo, Utah, voted late last month to approve the transfer of funds from the school district's capital - improvements budget in order to establish a career - ladder plan for teachers.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

Districts and schools receiving the lowest accountability rating are visited by a peer - review team and must develop an improvement plan.

By contrast, when a district school fails, school employees face the truly awful consequence, in most cases, of drafting so - called «school improvement» plans that promise long - term reform.

The state of Colorado has even gone as far as passing legislation that requires the inclusion of multiple student performance measures in teacher evaluations as well as the Unified Improvement Planning process for both schools and districts.

One of the most significant endorsements of String Theory Schools came when the network was engaged by Philadelphia Public Schools to implement a comprehensive school improvement plan at one of the district's underperforming school sites.

School - or district - wide «improvement plan» statistic - based goal - setting is certainly important, but it does not light the fire in a teacher's heart.

In Monroe County, the district's data room is organized around the three goals of the Monroe County Continuous School Improvement Plan:

Last week, BBA and the Learning Policy Institute got a first - hand look at a district embedding quality early childhood education in its comprehensive school improvement plan.

The superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools describes her district's school improvement plan and explains what schools can do to meet — and exceed — the expectations they have for the students theySchools describes her district's school improvement plan and explains what schools can do to meet — and exceed — the expectations they have for the students theyschools can do to meet — and exceed — the expectations they have for the students they serve.

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With the support of a dynamic school board, Mr. Runcie developed a strategic plan for the district focusing on three key areas: high - quality instruction, continuous improvement, and more effective communications.

Accreditation also measures different aspects of a district or school, in addition to student performance, such as parent communication and participation, improvement plans, leadership effectiveness, curriculum and instruction quality, student mentoring, use of technology, and professional development.

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.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

States may create lists of evidence - based interventions to better support school improvement plans developed by districts and schools; use of the list may be optional or required, depending on the state's policy preference.

States must make their exit criteria for identified schools transparent and publicly available, just as districts must ensure that school improvement plans are publicly posted to build awareness and understanding among the local community.

My Hamilton Project proposal explains how ESSA's new SNS language has the potential to unlock Title I funds for struggling students, allowing districts to spend Title I on broader school improvement strategies — such as improving a school's core curriculum, or implementing common planning time for teachers — rather than working around the edges.

The plan also «includes services to assist underperforming schools and districts through a revised model for school improvement.»

Furthermore, many of these principles also apply to the collaborative process districts and schools must use to develop school improvement plans in partnership with their local communities.

Worried that a district with a national reputation for improvement could lose its luster, civic leaders are pitching a wide - ranging plan to reorganize the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., schools.

Professional collaboration is at the heart of the District's Continuous School Improvement Planning (CSIP) process.

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.

How would a teacher know that the school improvement plan goal of raising the academic success of ELL learners is more than a written goal on the form submitted to the district office?

She is the lead coordinator and manager on many projects such as Scale - up of EC Pyramid Implementation and Routines - Based Early Intervention in school districts statewide, Part B Early Childhood RDA Initiative for State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP), Results Matter Child Outcomes B - 5 for Part B and Part C SPP / APRs, and the Statewide child assessment system.

In higher - performing districts, leaders did not expect improvement in lowperforming schools to occur merely by means of inputs required under federal and state policies (e.g., school choice, tutoring, prescribed needs assessments and schoolimprovement planning, curriculum audits, advice from external consultants).

A Targeted Process for Overcoming Challenges of Practice and Getting Results Using instructional tools, the Thoughtful Classroom team can help you build a customized improvement plan focused on overcoming those challenges of practice that are impeding achievement in your school or district.

Further, this report highlights the policy context and external partnerships that enabled the success of each district's school improvement plan.

This view was not universally shared among school personnel, who pointed to a track record of good results on the old state test and rankings, where Tortuga Shoals was always in the top 10 percent of the districts in the region.303 To legitimate these directions for improvement, the superintendent commissioned a curriculum audit by outside consultants, with the expectation that results from this audit would provide direction and legitimacy to a new plan for improving teaching and learning in the district.

They were Principal Self - Rating on Shared Leadership Skills, Principal Self - Rating on Improvement Planning Focus, Principal Rating of District School Improvement Focus, Principal Rating of District Shared Leadership Skills, District Policies to Support Organizational Learning, and District Focus on Data - Based Decision Making (see Table C1.6.2 in Appendix C).

Louis (1989), drawing from a survey and case - study investigation of initiatives in urban secondary schools, identified four district - level approaches to school improvement: innovation implementation (uniform processes and outcomes), evolutionary planning (uniform processes, variable outcomes), goal - based accountability (variable processes, uniform outcomes), and professional investment (variable processes and outcomes).

Leaders in higher - performing settings not only worked to establish and communicate clear expectations for curriculum and instruction; they developed and applied mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of district expectations through supervision systems and school - improvement plans.

Looking at the effect of diversity, we find a significant main effect for Principal Self - Rating on Improvement Planning Focus, Principal Rating of District School Improvement Focus, and District Focus on Data - Based Decision Making (see Table C1.6.3 in Appendix C).

Designed as a companion piece to Assembly Required, the Implementation Guide, with its hands - on activities and exercises, many with copyable forms and worksheets, will help busy leaders effectively and efficiently plan and implement improvement strategies in their schools & districts.