Sentences with phrase «education model the district»

Under the precepts of the decades - old, traditional public education model the district clings to, children are supposed to come to school well - fed, well - rested and from stable, middle - class families.

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And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness policies.

The Department of Education is also required by law to provide links to every school district's wellness policy and multiple examples of school wellness policies for school districts; however, the Department of Education has not produced its own model.

Guidance Materials: The Michigan State Board of Education Model Local Wellness Policy (2005) provides a comprehensive policy template for districts to meet Section 204 requirements that can be modified to address local governance issues.

Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

It came into existence in January 2000 with a remit to develop models of parenting education and support practice within the Bradford district that are child centred and fully evaluated.

Kathy Alexander, food services director of the Addison Northeast and Addison Northwest school districts, put it this way: «We're trying to fit a restaurant business into a school education model, and it doesn't work.»

Lavine's single, unified vision leading the school district and city could build off the successful Career and Technical Education model in Syracuse.

As districts move in this direction, they are taking a harder look at how they will evaluate their local models of virtual education.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Chicago is considered a national model for its turnaround program, which U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan launched while CEO of the district.

Special education has been an especially fertile area for charter cooperatives, with models emerging in the District of Columbia, Texas, Minnesota, and Indianapolis.

An experiment in place - based education, the Museum School recently won a coveted XQ Super Schools award and is driving widespread adoption of its model across the district — bringing families and students back to a city in an economic and cultural downturn.

Watch for a lot of new work from CRPE's new crop of brilliant analysts on the state education agencies of the future, district - charter collaboration, the costs of blended - learning models, charter schools and special education, and, of course, more research and tools for portfolio management.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School District).

Although these are state - run programs, as a Foundation for Excellence in Education report last year noted, districts can also expand their business models by acting as providers in the Course Access marketplace.

Although some charter school operators, such as Rocketship Education and KIPP Empower, as well as some school districts, like Riverside School District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtailed.

In our recent article for Education Next, «Choosing the Right Growth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability systems.

A district - level reform model created by the Center for Data - Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) provided consultation with district leaders on strategic use of data and selection of proven programs.

Five student groups shared their presentations with ISTE's Leadership Symposium, which is made up of more than 150 educators from across the country who strive to develop and model the effective use of technology in education in their schools, school districts, and states.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

«In one model collaboration at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, the university and the district arranged their respective schedules so that all paraprofessionals in the program could attend classes on Fridays,» Clewell told Education World.

When these systems were first considered and developed (in the 1990s and early 2000s), the single - provider district - based model was still synonymous in most places with public education.

The refusal to choose between one instructional emphasis or the other symbolizes the work being done to build career pathways in nine school districts as part of Linked Learning, an initiative cited as a national model of career and technical education.

The Center for Education Policy and Law, based at the University of San Diego, last month issued a collection of documents on what it calls «electronic communication devices,» or ECDs, which includes a six - page model district policy that outlines proper and improper use of...

But, as cited on the National Center for Education Statistics website, school districts began moving away from the junior high model in the 1960s and rapidly toward the creation of middle schools starting in grade six or even grade five.

Some districts, like the nation's largest, in New York City, have found that it helps to pair general education teachers with special education teachers in a co-teaching model, where teachers share classroom responsibilities and both receive specialized training in teaching students with autism.

The Commission will examine potential strategies to reorganize the state's education system including district consolidation and / or shared services; comparing models from other states to achieve efficiencies and improved education outcomes; identifying reforms and savings in special education; maximizing informed participation in local elections; and facilitating shared services, consolidation and regional governance.

In order to lead maker education with purpose, district and site leaders must model risk taking.

A: We look at standardized test scores in the district, and we also had an evaluation done of some of the models that [Lecturer on Education and Director of the Human Development and Psychology Program] Terry Tivnan did here at HGSE along with Lowry Hemphill, who's now at Wheelock College in Boston.

And school districts and teachers that once felt threatened by the surge of online education are embracing the technology, often in a hybrid model that blends face - to - face learning with digital teaching and curricula.

The apocalyptic warnings that anything other than the district model would ruin public education were shown to be unwarranted.

The Dallas Independent School District also is considering changes to the typical model that bases salaries on a teacher's years of experience and education level.

Transitioning into an all - ESA district would also put Washington, DC, at the forefront of education reform, serving as a model for other districts and states throughout the country.

During his tenure in the district, the high school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school reform.

Plummer and her district partnered with Discovery Education to reach girls when they were young, advocating to form connections with the community, and provide girls with role models.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

She has collaborated closely with the Education Service Center 20 in Texas and the Maricopa County Education Service Agency in Arizona to support multiple districts simultaneously with school design work, career pathway development, and creating role - specific professional learning modules She is leading a project to consider how innovative staffing models can maximize personalized learning in a variety of district, charter, and private schools.

Still, Broad was among those who hoped that districts could improve «if given the right models or if political roadblocks,» such as those Broad believes are presented by teachers unions, «could be overcome,» said Jeffrey Henig, professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

VisionSBA: K - 12 Financial Modeling Tool VisionSBA provides education leaders with a unique outlook on spending by school level within a district, delivering insight into relative spending across schools adjusted for each school's actual mix of students.

Even Paul Reville, the former state education secretary and architect of the innovation school model, questions their inclusion in the count, saying districts have been timid in their use of the freedom to innovate under the innovation school option introduced six years ago.

Currently, Goble is survey director for an evaluation of Youth CareerConnect, which encourages school districts, institutions of higher education, the workforce investment system, and their partners to scale up evidence - based high school models, overseeing all data collection as well as design and administration of parent and student surveys.

As a senior fellow for the International Center for Leadership in Education, Sheninger's work focuses on leading and learning in the digital age as a model for moving schools and school districts forward.

Her statistical model ultimately predicts that the education quality will be higher in districts with stronger union density than in districts with weak unionism.

While this can be the preferred model for district administrators when looking at continuing education requirements, teachers are finding ways shake up the idea of traditional ongoing professional learning opportunities.

During the 2014 gubernatorial campaign, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott published an education platform that included a statewide turnaround district drawing heavily on the Louisiana and Tennessee models.

Meanwhile, the Summit Public Schools charter network is offering its own innovative self - paced, project - based learning model for free to districts looking to give students more ownership of their education.

Those six words, if taken seriously and implemented with care, hold the potential to create and provide resources to sustain a new model for decision - making within state education agencies and school districts — a model that benefits students and taxpayers and, over time, enhances our knowledge of what works in education.