Sentences with phrase «effective reform efforts»

Most of the consultants working today seem to have a good grasp of shelter history and are very competent to lead effective reform efforts.

Indeed, success in such agitation has become contingent upon effective reform efforts mounted from within the black community.

We are not just «consumers» or «customers» but knowledgeable, necessary partners in any effective reform effort.

Not exact matches

Efforts to reform the church should come from effective, fruitful ministry rather than aggressive insistence.

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

She has led crucial reform efforts to make our judicial system both more effective and more efficient, and I am confident that she would continue this leadership on the Court of Appeals.

Steven R. Covey, best - selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, wrote this book to promote the efforts of principals around the globe who are preparing children for the 21st century by organizing their schools around Covey's «7 Habits,» a sort of accidental comprehensive school - reform model created by fans.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Moreover, because it was a top - down approach - a demand for effective management that business leaders, governors, and the public could readily understand - it came across as a natural extension of mainstream reform efforts to make the existing system work better.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

Contributors including Deborah Meier, Jeannie Oakes, Gloria Ladson - Billings, Wayne Au, Katy Swalwell, Anthony Cody, and Jim Cummins explain how reform movements affect teachers and administrators, and how widely - accepted mistruths can hinder genuine efforts to keep public education equitable, effective, and above all, truly public.

However, curriculum reform is both cost - effective and worthwhile and should become a more central part of the effort to improve the nation's schools.

The state of Texas has been making a concerted effort to raise the quality of its public charter schools through sound policy reform, effective implementation, and resources to help practitioners zero in on improvement.

Well - designed preparation programs help ensure that reform efforts are succesful by equipping teacher leaders with the necessary knowledge and skills to be effective in their work to improve instruction.

In a study by Coggins et al. (2003) coaches (i.e., teacher leaders) reported that they were most effective supporting their schools» reform efforts when facilitating teams of teachers in meetings that were focused on instruction (such as analysis of student achievement data and discussions of research).

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.

Coaches reported that other coaching responsibilities (such as finding resources for teachers or coordinating school reform efforts) were less effective at improving teachers» classroom practice.

We've collaborated with the Collaboration for Effective Educators Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Center and The National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) as well as launched a diverse coalition of organizations to support states in their efforts to develop teachers and leader who can successfully prepare students with disabilities to achieve college and career - ready standards.

With the practice of spending only about 5 % of assets each year and given the large (and effective) efforts the Foundation makes in developing country health - care, Gates only spends a couple hundred million dollars on education reform each year.

Moreover, if researchers can identify, in particular, why some teachers are more effective with under - served populations, school reform efforts might greatly benefit.

The teacher - led reform efforts proven effective by QEIA are also supported by NEA's Priority Schools Campaign.

Through our global programs, we investigate and support the effective integration of ICT in diverse settings to support international educational reform efforts.

Here are some that align perfectly with CEP's Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education and our Center's school climate reform efforts.

Factors considered important to the reform included the following: (a) meeting for 1 hour a week in study groups; (b) meeting in cross-grade groups; (c) reflecting on teaching in study groups; (d) considering research - based «best practices» in study groups; (e) completing action plans in study groups; (f) selecting substantive topics for study; (g) maintaining topics over time; (h) meeting as a whole faculty once a month to discuss reform efforts; (i) working on parent partnerships and making effective use of the external facilitator; and (j) making effective use of the internal leadership team.

November 2011: A Gates Foundation grant to the New Venture Fund — «to support efforts to better engage and mobilize public support for educational policy and advocacy goals, especially around common core standards and effective teaching reforms within and among the faith community and faith leaders.»

Our FAST intervention is based on what has been learned from research on effective professional development and directly addresses the shortcomings of past and present efforts at standards - based reform.

The information includes education research and analysis, federal legislative updates, tips on effective policymaking, coverage of education reform efforts across the nation, and other vital resource documents.

Dedicate resources to evaluating reform efforts to distinguish the effective remedies from ineffective discipline reform efforts.

«To see grading and reporting more as a challenge in effective communication than as one of simply documenting or quantifying achievement seems to be a major requirement in reform efforts today.»

It calls for a move from enforcement to prevention, from «animal control» to «animal services,» in an effort to break the cycle of unwanted, surplus companion animals, to make more effective use of citizens» tax dollars, and to reform legislation at every level.

The level of denial exhibited in this report is extremely damaging to the efforts of fossil fuel subsidy reform, especially since the German government had been so vocal in advocating for effective carbon pricing and ending subsidies.

We have played an active role in regulatory reform efforts related to Dodd - Frank, monitoring rulemakings for our clients and advising them on how to comply with the rules once finalized and effective.

While there are many dedicated people trying hard to make it work and there have been many reform efforts, the system continues to lack coherent leadership, institutional structures that can design and implement change, and appropriate coordination to ensure consistent and cost effective reform.

Moreover, doctrinal entrenchment is particularly problematic in the FISA courts, where secrecy and institutional context indicate that outside efforts at doctrinal reform are less likely to be effective than they are with courts that publish their opinions.35 Unlike published opinions, secret opinions can not provoke the public into lobbying for a legislative override36 or judicial overruling37 — two important paths of legal reform.38 Perhaps to hedge against the risks of limited external oversight, FISA limits FISC and Court of Review judges to non-renewable, seven - year terms, 39 a provision suggesting that Congress envisioned a FISA court whose membership would be responsive to shifting factual circumstances and policy priorities.40 Stare decisis, which requires judges to adhere to interpretations of law that they might otherwise reject as unjust or unpersuasive, constrains these judges» ability to adapt to such factual and policy shifts.