Sentences with phrase «educational leaders in their districts»

Reflecting the expanding responsibilities of technology directors and heightened demand for schools to build students» 21st - century skills, the Consortium for School Networking has updated its framework detailing how chief technology officers, or CTOs, can become educational leaders in their districts.

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

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She recommended that educational leaders should consider redrawing boundaries to reduce the number and fragmentation of school districts in major metropolitan areas.

As a leader who co-founded a high - performing charter school network and charter support organization, and who now leads Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and district leaders committed to educational excellence, I'm an ardent charter supporter — and I'm arguing for taking a look in the mirror.

With guidance from Harvard faculty and district and community leaders, participants study best practices in family engagement and identify strategies they can use to promote student learning and improve educational outcomes for all.

A new effort, Project for Policy Innovation in Education (PPIE), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is bringing together university - based researchers with district and state educational leaders to pursue policy research that will have a real impact in their communities.

The PELP faculty team invited, through a competitive process, urban school districts to partner in the design and delivery of an innovative executive education program tailored specifically to meet the actual challenges that educational leaders are facing.

Barbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.

Substitute Teacher Guide The San Diego Department of Education Substitute Teacher Web Site was developed at the direction of the many fine educational leaders in San Diego County's forty - three public school districts.

In discussions with district leaders, GAO found that «most did not indicate that they would use [SFSF] funds to pursue educational reforms»; instead, they wanted to fill their existing budget holes.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

Individuals and groups from K — 12 and higher education are invited to participate in this program, especially faculty, administrators, school and district leaders, and higher education administrators, as well as individuals and groups from educational nonprofits, funding organizations, and nongovernmental organizations.

This special report, the latest installment in an ongoing series on educational technology, aims to provide guidance for school leaders looking for new ideas and approaches for managing the digital evolution of their districts.

NCRPP aims to change that by focusing on three areas: studying current research use in districts and schools, identifying what conditions affect when research is used, and determining ways that research could be made more meaningful for educational leaders through long - term partnerships between researchers and practitioners.

It requires state and district policies aimed at providing the conditions, the authority and the incentives leaders and their teams need to be successful in lifting the educational fortunes of all children.

The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice studies how educational leaders — including school district supervisors and principals — use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.

The consortium is also focused on strengthening relationships among higher education leadership departments and the school districts and other agencies in which educational leaders eventually serve.

360 Edition (INSPIRE - 360)-- This instrument enables the educational leadership preparation program to document leadership practices and school improvement and organizational indicators in the schools where program graduates work from the perspective of subordinate teachers and superordinate district leader (s).

Over at the State Department of Education, Stefan Pryor got rid of Connecticut's experienced Leaders in Residence and the team of experts who were dedicated to helping Connecticut's Priority School Districts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest dDistricts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest districtsdistricts.

It is aimed at both researchers and educational leaders in schools, districts, and out of school settings.

We extend heartfelt thanks to the superintendents, principals, district administrators, teachers, school board and community members, and state leaders in education who welcomed us into their busy work lives, providing time to talk with us, to observe in classrooms, and to complete surveys, all of which gave us the most complete national data set ever assembled to better understand issues in educational leadership.

The Interdisciplinary Master of Arts (MA) degree program in Educational Leadership and Special Education Administration prepares candidates to become effective leaders and managers of educational programs and services at both the school building and school district levels of impact.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

degree program in Educational Leadership and Special Education Administration prepares candidates to become effective leaders and managers of educational program and services at both the school building and school district levels of impact.

Florida, which will soon allow any student to cross district lines to attend a public school as long as they have open seats, has been a national leader in offering parents educational options for two decades.

Superintendent Valeria S. Silva, leader of the Saint Paul Public School (SPPS) District, addresses the role of and need for racial equity in the educational setting.

The Levels of Service (LoS) approach to talent development, developed by the Center for Creative Learning in conjunction with educational leaders in several school districts and state educational agencies in the United States and Canada, seeks to to bring out the best in every student.

The Center engages in deep partnerships with state and district education leaders to increase student learning through more meaningful educational assessment and accountability practices.

This program is designed to help educational leaders identify the supports needed for their staff, students and community as they begin implementation of blended learning in their school or district.

In pre-recessionary times, Kentucky was a leader in educational development, creating new plans for an increase in adolescent literacy and passing the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which redistributed over a billion dollars towards low - income school districtIn pre-recessionary times, Kentucky was a leader in educational development, creating new plans for an increase in adolescent literacy and passing the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which redistributed over a billion dollars towards low - income school districtin educational development, creating new plans for an increase in adolescent literacy and passing the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which redistributed over a billion dollars towards low - income school districtin adolescent literacy and passing the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which redistributed over a billion dollars towards low - income school districts.

* UPDATE Carl A. Cohn, a longtime educational leader in California, was named today to be the first director of the California Collaborative on Educational Excellence (CCEE), a newly - formed state agency charged with providing advice and assistance to school districts in achieving the goals set forth in the Local Control and Accountability Plans.

Brownsville ISD, Cypress - Fairbanks ISD, and Judson ISD were each named first - place winners in the Over 20,000 Students category of this year's Magna Awards, which recognizes school districts and their leaders for efforts to bring educational equity to their students.

Aimed at educational leaders as they begin to design and implement digital learning in their school or district, this program provides an overview of blended learning basics as well as a deep dive into sustainable and disruptive models.

Amelia Harper reports on a new District Administration brief, noting that school leaders «need to be aware of how the experiences of military families create special challenges in the way students connect to the world, the social and emotional challenges they face, and the educational...

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.

Carl A. Cohn, a longtime educational leader in California, was named today to be the first director of the California Collaborative on Educational Excellence (CCEE), a newly - formed state agency charged with providing advice and assistance to school districts in achieving the goals set forth in the Local Control and Accountability Plans.

When asked directly in the fall why the district hadn't done anything like it before, Gipson said, «As we are coming out of one of the worst financial times in educational history, as a leader I'm happy it is happening now for kids and we can put the resources behind it to make sure it happens for kids.»

Taking part were school principals, as well as new «educational leaders,» a coaching position now in place for every one of the district's 26 schools.

With Kickboard, educational leaders can set school - and district - wide behavior expectations to help teachers keep students engaged in learning.

A few years ago, I worked with a superintendent who was a virtuoso educational leader — an eloquent interpreter of her district's educational mission who cared passionately about student achievement and classroom performance and who was an outstanding leader of educational innovation in her district.

Change.School is a powerful 8 - week online experience for educational leaders who are serious about designing and creating relevant, sustainable change in their schools and districts.

In districts of all sizes across the country, when times are tough and educational leaders and policymakers must cut, they often look first to central offices.

Welcome to Change.School, a powerful 8 - week experience for educational leaders who are serious about designing and creating relevant, sustainable change in their schools and districts.

Most school districts now say that open educational resources are part of their overall curriculum - selection strategy; fully 80 percent of IT leaders responding to the Consortium for School Network's latest survey on the topic said this was the case in their districts.

Coursework focuses on critical areas such as English Language Learner (ELL) instruction, cultural competency in the classroom including gender and sexually diverse student identities, evidenced - based frameworks for technology integration, educational leadership, and teacher leader / instructional coaching best practices in order to be instructional leaders in the school / district where employed.

A visioning committee of business, district, faith, and educational leaders, as well as students, teachers, and parents convened to create a unified vision of school choice in Plano ISD.

This guidebook for administrators, instructional leaders and teachers in the District of Columbia unpacks the eight affirmative steps that LEAs and schools must take to ensure English Learners are provided equal access to educational opportunities.

His research has examined: 1) how school reform intersects with equitable community development, with a focus on school and community leaders and 2) how geography influences educational opportunity for children of color in urban school districts.

By aligning the school / district strategic initiatives with FRS, technology leaders can better connect their practices, policies, and procedures to educational innovation in schools.

The district has also revised the criteria for AP enrollment at the high school level In addition, the district has taken steps to support effective teachers and leaders through enhanced and targeted professional development These efforts are part of the district's implementation of a multi-year Transformation Plan to provide enhanced instruction and increased educational opportunities for its students, which OCR will monitor as part of its monitoring of the resolution agreement.