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This paper, written by Lucy Steiner for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, discusses the lessons district officials in four urban districts learned about the school closure process.

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The Corporate Partner Panel is a unique opportunity for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) to learn firsthand about securing business with such local corporations and public entities as Ecolab, Minneapolis Public School District, University of Minnesota, and Xcel Energy.

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If you think your school or district could benefit from breakfast - in - the - classroom, visit the Partners for BIC website to learn more about our grant and to begin the application process today.

Walla Walla, June 2013 Food services staff from school districts in SE Washington came together on a rare rainy day in Walla Walla to visit Blue Mountain Seed to learn about chickpea production and processing, tour Welcome Table Farm to see vegetable production and visit the farm animals.

A parent survey about students learning a second language at the elementary schools is available on the Arlington Heights School District 25 website through Feb. 20.

Handall raised the idea with Jon Clark, executive director of the James S. Bower Foundation, and before he knew it, the Santa Barbara school district had obtained grant money to send a contingency down to San Antonio to learn about the program.

Join this webinar to learn more about the flexibility of school districts in implementing CEP.

Learn about possible opportunities in your state for funding Breakfast in the Classroom programs in high free and reduced schools and school districts.

Learn more about the flexibility of school districts in implementing CEP.

I don't envy the task of a trying to ensure quality control at 300 local schools, and I'll write more about the issue of on - site quality control as I learn more from my district.

I'd recently joined our district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (reluctantly because, after all, my own kids won't even eat school food), and then, realizing how much I had to learn about the byzantine National School Lunch Program, I'd read Janet Poppendeick's Free For All: Fixing School Food in America — a consciousness - raising experschool food), and then, realizing how much I had to learn about the byzantine National School Lunch Program, I'd read Janet Poppendeick's Free For All: Fixing School Food in America — a consciousness - raising experSchool Lunch Program, I'd read Janet Poppendeick's Free For All: Fixing School Food in America — a consciousness - raising experSchool Food in America — a consciousness - raising experience.

If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrSchool students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrschool, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

When Vicksburg Warren School District's Director of Child Nutrition Laura Bounds learned about the School Nutrition Hero Award one person immediately came to mind as the perfect nominee — cafeteria manager Sandy Hearn.

She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.

Mr. Zimpfer has taught in the Southern Cayuga Central School District for 18 years, and he continues to teach and inspire his students to learn about the Holocaust and to learn from it.

Some 100 parents and residents came out for the chance to tell the Wappingers Central School District Board of Education what they thought about the new Common Core learning standards.

Some members from the Buffalo Public School District will be in Albany Wednesday and Thursday to learn more about Receivership.

Use the links below to learn more about federal officials, state officials, cities, school districts, courts, and ballot measures in this county.

The tech fair, organized by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Community School District 6 and City College to help local students to learn more about careers in STEM, will also include companies like BMW, Con Edison, Major League Baseball, New York Life and Spectrum.

That's where all the new teachers come together for a day to learn about the policies and procedures of the school and district.

They learn about how school districts are organized, how funding works and how school boards govern.

Aileen Owens, director of innovation in Pittsburgh's South Fayette school district, is changing mindsets about what it means to offer hands - on, creative learning to students.

Administrators» Data Gaps: A Crisis of Confidence We surveyed a national sample of school and district leaders to learn more about their experiences and perspectives regarding the use of data analytics in K - 12 education.

Students report feeling cared about and supported at the school at a level that is above the district's average, according to the district's 2010 Conditions for Learning Survey.

Visit the Digital Learning Video Gallery on the website for the Alliance for Excellent Education to view real - life, practical stories about how district and school leaders are improving learning outcomes through effective use of tecLearning Video Gallery on the website for the Alliance for Excellent Education to view real - life, practical stories about how district and school leaders are improving learning outcomes through effective use of teclearning outcomes through effective use of technology.

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional - learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster - Wright, 2009; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

Paul E. Peterson talks with Beth Schueler about her new report, «School District Turnaround: Learning from Leadership in Lawrence, Massachusetts.»

Induction, at its core, should be about helping the new teachers understand what the school district really thinks teaching and learning should look like.

I learned plenty about whether charter schools outperform district schools, and in which conditions, and whether competitive effects from charter schools can improve the traditional public school system.

Urban school leaders who join me at the program will learn more about their personal leadership style and how they can use it most effectively to improve teaching and learning in their schools and districts.

«Third grade students in our school district learn about Maine, its forests and mammals.

The Metro Nashville district in Tennessee began an intensive high - school - redesign process six years ago, and, about three years ago, officials there began developing an intensive professional development strategy to help high school teachers improve their work in project - based learning.

The Palisades School District, of which Durham Nockamixon is a part, sent a small group of interested teachers to a national conference on looping and multiage classrooms where, Tubiello says, they were inspired by the writings of educator Jim Grant, a passionate advocate of continuous learning and author of several books about looping.

Funding Source: James Irvine Foundation to support school districts participating in the ConnectEd - directed California Linked Learning District Initiative Amount: About $ 12 million Number of Programs: 9 school districts received $ 125,000 planning grants followed by $ 1 million implementation grants to develop systems of 6 - 8 pathway options; and 2 districts received planning grants of $ 125,000 each.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

Dale Mezzacappa talks with Education Next about lessons school reformers can learn from the public school that Microsoft helped design and launch in partnership with the Philadelphia school district.

This forum brought together scholars and practitioners to explore what can be learned about genuine education reform from the experience of successful school systems and districts.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

It's about time for all schools and school districts to plan time for student learning.

Technology an Educator Can Love Tech Team members tell us about the best hardware and software introduced to their schools or districts this year - and explain how the new technology has improved teacher productivity or student learning.

The collaborative members also created leadership teams in their schools — a core group of teachers who talk about rubrics, standards, teaching, and learning — and now all the district schools have them, Onick said.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

If you'd like to learn more about this Tucson Unified School District program, the nine PDFs below are a good place to start.

Under the proposal, parents would take a weekend course in which they would learn about their child's school district, the importance of reading at home, and suggestions for «what kind of TV your child should watch and what kind they shouldn't watch,»...

In the wake of last week's tragedy, I decided to visit the Newtown, Conn., school district website and the pages for Sandy Hook Elementary to learn more about this district and school.

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.

Join Liz Anderson, head of Global Adoption Programs at Google for Education, and Jason Klein, assistant superintendent of technology and learning at Maine Township High School District 207, for a conversation about how Maine 207 successfully implemented Google for Education tools as part of their districtwide transformation.

Aspiring teachers seeking employment and school districts trying to identify their future teaching superstars can both benefit from learning more about research - based methods for screening applicants.