Sentences with phrase «districts around student»

There is a challenge in schools and districts around student dropout and delayed graduation.

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KT: Never in a million years did I think I would have made an impact in districts and schools with so many students in and around the Houston area in just over a year.

The students are now trying to take their protest district - wide, asking students from around Chicago to boycott school lunch tomorrow, December 17th.

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

Alvord Unified School District — Pamela Lambert Innovation: Systems Change by Cultivating Community In order to create a culture supportive of healthy food and lifestyles, Pamela Lambert designed events that brought the community together around health and wellness — arranging walks with the mayor, parents, and students and a health fair in the guise of a day at an indoor trampoline park.

Around the same time, Chicago Public Schools students protested their school lunch menu, and district officials agreed to overhaul the menu for the next school year to reduce or eliminate things such as nachos, doughnuts and cookies.

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

In a statement, D.O.E. spokeswoman Devora Kaye said: «After engaging stakeholders around these proposals, the panel decided to postpone the vote to allow for additional feedback and to ensure that every student in the building — district or charter — receives the high quality education they deserve.

«It is crucial that parents and members of the public know that this bond proposition, which will greatly benefit students in urban school districts around Westchester, will need support on Election Day,» said Williams.

«I'm just hoping that the district is able to move forward with the other part of the work that we started around education, curriculum and student achievement.»

According to the DOE's Executive Budget Hearing Report from May 16, 2016, a good portion of the budgeted headcount growth for the current fiscal year is in response to rising need around special education students and properly serving those students in district schools.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

States should insist that districts take aggressive action to turn around dropout factories and schools where the vast majority of students are demonstrably not on track for success.

Giving students at failing schools a choice among other schools in their district simply shuffled children around the city.

School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public school.

A lawyer breaks down the jargon around the recent Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District ruling and shows how it benefits students.

Virtual charter schools can attract students from all around the state, without regard to any traditional school - district boundary.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

Students were bused all around the district to preserve racial balance in schools.

Now with the help of Skype and other technology, kids are able to chat and work on assignments with students from across the district or around the world.

In this post, I will briefly highlight some of our members» visions and student outcomes, describe how they built consensus around these outcomes, and share examples of how some schools and districts captured their outcomes visually.

While there are practitioners around the country who have been implementing deeper learning for decades, many districts are not yet equipped to make it happen in their schools, with their teachers and students.

A pioneering effort of the Hudson School District and the Concord Consortium of Massachusetts allows students from around the world to schedule classes at their convenience in subjects not offered at their local school.

There were also several barriers — and subsequent workarounds — identified around technology and infrastructure: grappling with a slow and unwieldy public contract code for technology and even furniture procurement; allowing for Bring Your Own Device programs given the state's free public education clause; and struggling to provide sufficient technology access at school and home for all students if the district wanted to adopt digital materials.

Let's hope that Seattle and Baltimore are a stronger indication of the future of union - district cooperation around teaching evaluations than is the case of DC and that when properly engaged, unions can embrace the idea of teacher evaluations that include a component for student performance as well as compensation packages that are linked to evidence of effective teaching practices.

Since 2010, though, the district has contracted with the Capital Area Online Learning Association (CAOLA), a regional organization that works with districts in and around the state's capital to improve and support online offerings for K — 12 students.

Thanks to a $ 880,000 federal grant, the district was able to buy virtual active technology equipment such as treadmills that guide students on runs through cities around the world and stationary bikes that they can ride up a mountain.

Component 3: Social emotional learning The district will provide social and emotional learning support, including comprehensive, therapeutic, and wrap - around services for students and families.

The authors collected results from MET researchers around the country into a volume that will help school districts implement new evaluation systems that will enhance teacher performance and student achievement.

Each summer, the district provides a «boot camp» for first - year immersion teachers around the state, in which they learn how to teach content and manage students in immersion classrooms.

With the responsibility of central government trimmed back, school districts and individual schools would have the authority and freedom to innovate around curriculum, staffing, and other matters central to what students are expected to learn and how they are taught.

«Dollars drive decisions around here, no question about it,» said Alexis Moore, the spokeswoman for the 210,000 - student district.

Many state agencies modernized, reorganizing around the work of helping districts and students succeed rather than around the work of passing funds down and compliance reports up.

There the Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR), often teamed up with the Justice Department, has gone wild in pushing schools and districts around, via both formal regulations and menacing «dear colleague» letters, in far - flung realms from student discipline to bathroom access.

The transfer program has allowed 2,000 - plus students to have the opportunity for a better education and has launched a robust conversation about how to turn around struggling school districts.

If, as expected, around two - thirds of the students opt in, the district will select the top 8 percent of scorers for another round of tests two months later.

Perhaps it is time for central government to yield some of the control over standards and accountability that it has amassed in the last 30 years in exchange for the opportunity for districts and schools to innovate around what students are taught and how the actors in the system are held accountable.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

«There's been a lot of research done [around the world]... on school turnaround, using sample schools and whole districts, to look at what are the key elements that will turn around educational outcomes for students.

ePals, a free, online global learning community for K — 12 teachers and students that enables educators to find one another and protect children from unfiltered content, is already in use in many school districts around the country.

The goal was to have 90 percent of students graduating by the year 2020, or «90 by» 20,» a phrase that has become a mantra around the district.

You will learn so much from just talking with colleagues about what projects and lessons they are using with their students.I teach at a summer program for gifted and advanced students, where I work with other teachers of gifted in the school district, and I always pick up new ideas and methods from hanging around them.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

One of his first acts as chief executive was to settle a lawsuit filed against the state by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of students in 18 districts around California, most in poor communities.

Evaluating principals has become a hot topic as districts around the country have begun formally tying the evaluation of school leaders to their students» academic growth.

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In many school districts around the country, however, the majority of students do not have smartphones.

That sort of deeper engagement will likely require Cleveland's charters to offer more as well, such as committing to share the responsibility of serving the city's special education students or working with the district to turn around its chronically low - performing schools.

The conference is organized around the prime principles of successful 21st century schools, districts, camps, and learning centers: Student Agency, Climate of Achievement, Community Partnerships, Distributed Leadership, and Research and Evidence.