Sentences with phrase «district wide curricula»

Currently, she works with teachers, principals, and district administrators to develop coursework and district wide curricula focused on assignments in an effort to ensure equity and opportunity.

As such, she was responsible for the overall administration of 26 elementary and K - 8 schools, the implementation of district wide curriculum development and improving instructional delivery methods.

Collaborated with committee members to select Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies vocabulary words for district wide curriculum use

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How might we create a district - wide approach to curriculum that engages the 21st century learner?

Gillispie: The successes we've had in this project garnered a lot of positive press for our district because [game - based learning] is still fairly cutting edge compared to the status quo; also it has opened up a lot of doors for other game - based curriculum initiatives — like the district - wide Minecraft project.

Adaptive assessment programs like MAP and SBAC are being used more and more often to help tailor school - and district - wide curricula.

In fact, teachers in these districts support a district - wide, common curriculum — precisely because they've had a hand in creating, judging, and / or improving it.

If this hodgepodge of direct - to - teacher offerings are meant to replace a coherent, school - wide (or district - wide) curriculum, are we sure that's such a good thing?

In this webinar, Debbie Thompson, math curriculum and instructional design, Wichita Public Schools, shares a step - by - step framework for designing and implementing district - wide personalized intervention programs.

Haddad highlights the core components of St. Vrain — a district - wide 1:1 program, STEM studies that start at pre-K and run into higher education, curricula that push students to problem solve and employ critical thinking skills, a «design thinking» mindset from administrators, public — private partnerships, and effective professional learning that reinforces all these ideas.

We plan to sample a wide range of educational leaders in districts, too — from curriculum coordinators to supervisors of principals to building principals.

One of Johnnie Watson's first moves after ending Memphis's experiment with whole - school reform was to order a new district - wide curriculum.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

In fact, teachers in these districts support a district - wide, common curriculum — precisely because they've had a hand in creating, judging, and improving it.

In the two districts referred to above, for example, district personnel also told stories of multi-year, district - wide curriculum development projects resulting in production of curriculum frameworks and materials that satisfied both state and local goals for student learning.

The seeds for significant gains may lie in such small insights about student mobility rates and district - wide curricula.

Compared to others, however, district leaders in higher - performing districts appear to have invested in district - wide curriculum development over a longer period of time, using well - institutionalized district curriculum systems.

For instance, some districts may adopt inquiry - based science modules from Full Option Science System (FOSS) or STC to anchor their curriculum; or they might adopt Everyday Math or Investigations district - wide.

We are hesitant to claim that district leaders in higher - performing districts uniquely promoted more standardized, district - wide curriculum content and materials, because the trend everywhere is to increase standardization.

We asked principals and vice principals about the principal «s leadership in areas such as student achievement goals, vision for the school, and student learning; making decisions about instruction; leadership distribution in the school; professional development experiences for principals and teachers; curriculum and instruction; school culture; state and district influences on administrators «and teachers «work in the school; and the impact of parents and the wider school community.

Jackie Bott who is the Assistive Technology Coordinator for the school district is always looking for ways that technology can enable students with a wide variety of disabilities to succeed within the school curriculum.

In schools and districts that take on a wide variety of roles and serve diverse student populations, more focus should be put on measures that impact individual student growth and their ability to access the curriculum.

This is a great way to easily create school - or district - wide item and assessment banks aligned to your curriculum and standards.

In Part One of a two - part interview, LA School Report contributor Vanessa Romo talks with Deasy about his relationship with teachers, the challenges of pioneering the new Common Core curriculum and the possibility that district - wide test scores might fall this year.

Charter schools ARE public schools: By law, they must adhere to all public education laws, hire appropriately licensed teachers, follow the same curriculum standards as do traditional school districts, take the same standardized, state - wide assessments and are free of tuition and open to all applicants.

As discussed in 5 Reasons Every District Leader Needs an Executive Coach, to be an effective agent of change today in districts requires leaders to have unique expertise in a wide variety of areas, including strategic planning, research and analysis, fiscal management, board and community engagement, implementation planning, communication and training, professional learning design and curriculum, and coaching.

The results of a district - wide test of the Speedometry curriculum show that Speedometry improved student learning relative to a control group.

Her areas of expertise include leading district - wide strategic planning processes, curriculum audits, curriculum development, assessment systems, leadership development, and professional development initiatives.

By allowing states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps), the administration is also letting districts not under watch off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

In July, Uplift's Senior Director of Curriculum, Mya Baker, and Network IB Coordinator, Sophia Kwong will be presenting strategies to inform a systematic approach to district - wide IB implementation at the IB Conference of the Americas in Toronto, Canada.

When he took control, Malone rolled out a district - wide curriculum so teachers at each school were teaching the same material.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

During her tenure as Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Jenny maintained highly collaborative relationships with stakeholders resulting in the design and administration of common end - of - course assessments in all high school classes as well as successful district - wide implementation of PERA including student growth.

Curriculum adoption decisions can be less stressful if there is a formal process that includes a district - wide committee, rubrics for reviewing materials, formal presentations by publishers to address questions, and detailed plans for professional development to use the new materials.

We also work in school and district - wide partnerships to achieve maximum impact on school culture and curriculum.

That said, districts typically implement new curriculum by training every teacher district - wide and it remains unclear whether districts would reach for a different option.

Ms. Golden has instructed new teachers as a Master Teacher, Teacher Leader for English Language Arts, SBAC Testing Coordinator, and written curriculum for district wide use in English Language Arts.

As my colleague Rob Samuelson points out, «the flexible nature of a charter school allows it to match curricula to individual communities, draw students from a wider geographic area and partner with local districts and organizations to attract a diverse group of students.»

Establish and require the use of a district - wide standards - based curriculum aligned with district goals and priorities for instruction and student learning?

Middle schools already have the new curriculum, and new math curriculum has already been implemented district - wide.

At Clayton County Public Schools, a district - wide initiative was launched to integrate art across core curriculums in order to focus on STEAM in everyday instruction.

Create a curriculum map with customizable categories and resources allowing users to assign any standard to a unit district wide for curriculum continuity.

This site is a roadmap that lays the foundation for District - wide implementation and integration of environmental education into K - 12 curriculum.

Worked with other secondary librarians to provide information to district curriculum leaders regarding the purchase of databases district wide to support student research (EBSCO databases have been purchased by our school district and will provide all secondary students with access to quality information for research and study beginning this July)

The documents produced in this process form the foundation of the core subject curriculums at each grade level and establish district - wide expectations for what teachers should teach and what students should learn and be able to do in relation to a specific standard.

To be an effective agent of change today in districts requires leaders to have unique expertise in a wide variety of areas, including strategic planning, research and analysis, fiscal management, board and community engagement, implementation planning, communication and training, professional learning design, curriculum, and coaching.

They've created a positive, district - wide climate of formative assessment that enables educators to target their curriculum design and instruction to more successfully meet their students needs.

She was a member of a district - wide writing team to develop rubrics and assessment and a part of her school's Social Emotional Learning team to create curriculum around character development.

It has also been clear that the administration's decision to allow states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps)-- and ignore those districts serving up mediocre instruction and curricula — will lead to widening achievement gaps.

But structure can also come from common school - wide and district - wide curriculums and lesson plans, and razor - sharp clarity about the objective of each day's lesson so that struggling students know what they are expected to learn every day.