Sentences with phrase «districts across»

Yet New Orleans is very much an outlier; it is hard to imagine school districts across America voluntarily following the lead of New Orleans.

Tennessee and Louisiana will continue to support their Teacher Leader Networks; Tennessee will develop individualized teacher leadership models for implementation in districts across the state, and Louisiana will support its 5,000 Teacher Leaders and 80 Teacher Leader Advisors with an annual summit and monthly newsletter, webinars, among other supports.

While there has been a great deal of controversy over the content of standardized tests and the frequency at which they are administered, we believe that there needs to be some way of comparing schools and districts across the country.

Some charter schools and traditional public school districts across the country have started to retool their approach.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

This webinar will feature Lynn Kepp from the New Teacher Center, which works with school districts across the country to provide professional development for coaches, and Kendra Hanzlik, an instructional coach in Iowa.

In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

In school districts across the country, students face health and other issues that cause them to miss school for weeks and sometimes months.

Based on a proven instructional model that has produced results for students in districts across the country for more than a decade, iLit has been carefully crafted to meet the rigors of the Common Core State Standards and to prepare students for success.

The EPE Research Center mapped 2002 - 03 graduation rates for public school districts across the nation.

With 1:1 computing initiatives occuring in school districts across the country, never before have students had such universal access to information.

Computer science is frequently offered as an elective in schools and districts across the country, but the US has a projected one million computing jobs that will be unfilled by 2020.

The greatest insight we have gained in our work with school districts across the continent is that organisation that take the plunge and actually begin doing the work of a PLC develop their capacity to help all students learn at high levels far more effectively than schools that spend years preparing to become PLCs through reading or even training.

But, collectively, this work matters because debates like those in West Virginia, at the Supreme Court, or in other states and districts across the country — debates about teacher rights and responsibilities — have been happening for years and are no closer to resolution.

While an undetermined number of districts across the country...

Additionally, Higgins is studying the conditions that enhance the effectiveness of senior leadership teams and organizational learning in large urban school districts across the United States.

As Arne Duncan, a former member of the Ed School's visiting committee, helps school districts across the country Race to the Top and tries to give every child a chance to succeed, this idealist, competitor, and basketball pal to the president has the opportunity to do what no previous secretary of education has been able to accomplish.

To learn more certain issues, studies must be large in scale and compare the experiences of districts across states or large populations of students.

This special report, «The Chief Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

As school enrollments continue to rise and more teachers retire, school districts across the country are valiantly trying to hire and retain enough high - quality educators to meet their needs.

While contemporary organizing for education reform has deep historical roots, it has emerged as a widespread phenomenon in local districts across the country over the past 20 years.

The National Math and Science Initiative awarded grants to Arkansas, Alabama, Connecticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington to replicate the APIP and plans to expand these programs to 150 districts across 20 states.

With budget shortfalls still crippling countless school districts across the country, it will not be surprising to see similar plans attempted.

You can draw a straight line... between unfair funding, serious resource deficiencies, particularly in high - poverty schools and districts across the country and low outcomes,» said David Sciarra, executive director at Education Law Center.

Although the program has been established in 30 to 40 districts across the country and is widely considered to be successful — President Barack Obama even publicly endorsed it — the program has not been extensively evaluated.

The bulk of this important book consists of 12 detailed studies of how the law's mandated remedies for schools identified for improvement are playing out in states and districts across the country.

By then, she, too, had heard that the board did not plan to select her, and she was already interviewing in other school districts across the country.

Those giving local schools one of the two highest grades stands at 49 percent among the uninformed but just 41 percent among those told their own district's ranking relative to other districts across the state (see Figure 1).

Today, however, after five years and more than 100 fruitless attempts to find a job in 50 different school districts across the...

School districts across the country are keeping students close to home following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Since he launched the Institute in 1985, he and his staff have trained over 30,000 educators in more than 50 school districts across the country.

Over the past decade, school districts across the country have invested billions in creating wired classrooms and schools, with significant financial and moral support from government at all levels.

«We have no Y2K - related problems, all the schools are open, and everything's as it is supposed to be,» Joseph J. Kirkman, the director of educational technology services at the Broward County, Fla., schools, summed up in an assessment that was echoed in districts across the nation.

The network has grown from one school to 41 in a decade, making it larger than 95 percent of school districts across the country.

The students from Baltimore and Boston and in many other cities and districts across the country are putting their education to work and giving back to their communities in a way that allows them to create change change that benefits them and our systems of government.

Accessibility is a matter of civil rights and can also be a legal issue — several districts across the country are currently under investigation for issues related to website accessibility.

Though lacking any regulatory components, the report proved to be a blockbuster, mobilizing reform efforts in states and school districts across the country.

Researchers David N. Figlio and Joshua Winicki took a look at elementary school lunch menus in 23 randomly chosen districts across Virginia, where schools face penalties if most of their students continue to fail state Standards of Learning tests.

Most recently, Higgins has been studying the effectiveness of senior leadership teams from large urban school districts across the United States.

But some worthy repairs can be made around the periphery of current policy — and the three set forth in our new paper are well worth undertaking by states and districts across the land.

A number of years ago, I studied 57 urban school districts across the U.S. and found that they had launched an average of 13 major reforms in a three - year period — or three to four every year.

Silva, who has served as a security consultant to school districts across the country, describes informal mediation as the kind of proactive work the staff does all day, every day.

04, Ed.D.» 07, this model is already working in several school districts across the county, as well as in Australia.

As school districts across the country are working diligently to unpack and implement the Common Core Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts, another initiative has been steadily progressing.

Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said that while many school districts across the country are collaborating with shelters to arrange housing and services for homeless students, Maplewood Richmond Heights has gone one step further and committed resources to provide housing.

-- Budget Cuts Force Tough Choices School districts across the country are coping with the problems that arise when school funding provides less money than schools need.

«From instituting hiring freezes to curtailing programs; from contracting services to bringing them in - house; districts across the country have found innovative ways to operate more efficiently and effectively» without affecting the quality of the educational program, the report states.

The policy analysis showed that in districts across the United States, tenure continues to protect ineffective veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal, the shortest possible timeline for dismissing such a teacher is unreasonably protracted, and dismissal is vulnerable to challenge.

I used my experience to explain the impact particular legislation would have on schools and districts,» says Payzant, who began his teaching career at Belmont (Mass.) High School and went on to serve as superintendent of four districts across the country.

Since its inception in Toledo, Ohio, more than 25 years ago, PAR has received national attention and has spread to dozens of school districts across the country.