Sentences with phrase «equity and excellence»

First, this stance reduces attention to the fundamental structural changes needed in schools if they are to meet the twin goals of equity and excellence in education.

Future plans: Allowing myself to grow into an educator more committed to educational equity and excellence for all communities.

Sharing the responsibility for educational equity and excellence starts with well - informed, well - supported, and ongoing engagement.

Learn more about our priorities and how you can help inform the ongoing national dialogue in support of equity and excellence in education here.

Having a thought partner to consider the decisions and actions you need to take to advance equity and excellence in schools can be invaluable.

A key factor in achieving equity and excellence is ensuring that every student has access to high - quality schools, principals, and teachers.

If we want school choice to promote equity and excellence for all students, we need to keep it real, relevant, and meaningful.

We will examine policies, programs and practices that impact our efforts to ensure equity and excellence for all students.

I am actually borrowing a couple of his slides on equity and excellence for my presentation.

The growth of youth organizing groups signals that the new generation can be a powerful voice in the movement toward equity and excellence in the public schools.

Meeting a target is one thing, but achieving it while also reaching the goal of equity and excellence requires school leaders to be courageous.

Accordingly, this project recognizes high schools that have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to equity and excellence by giving all students the opportunity to succeed.

In telling that story, this book raises fascinating questions about the relationship between equity and excellence.

Government at every level should implement a multi-year strategy for advancing national equity and excellence goals using a combination of incentives and enforcement.

Our analysis starts from the premise that pursuing educational equity and excellence means prioritizing the needs of underserved groups.

The challenge, however, is to reconcile equity and excellence.

To achieve equity and excellence, a group must have collective efficacy in regard to its cultural proficiency.

We work with educators around the state on issues of educational equity and excellence.

The common core state standards offer schools an opportunity to advance equity and excellence.

What can a school administrator do to help create a climate in which teachers feel comfortable sharing ideas and receiving constructive criticism in pursuit of equity and excellence in middle grades education?

Equity and excellence in education are the civil rights issues of the 21st century.

These statistics are not new to the many educators and community members who are committed to equity and excellence for all students.

[provided as PDF and linked here] We invite you to join us on this journey to Build a Community of Trust through Racial Awareness with the hopes that this experience will lead you and your participants to a greater understanding of race, a deeper need for advocacy, and eventually to a passionate drive to take action to improve school experiences to provide equity and excellence for each and every student.

-- Chiefs for Change is out with a policy paper exploring how district and state leaders could use the new spending requirements under ESSA to construct a data collection and reporting system that can be used to increase equity and excellence across schools.

ESSA contains a number of new provisions that can be used to advance equity and excellence throughout our nation's schools for students of color, low - income students, English learners, students with disabilities, and those who are homeless or in foster care.

The goal of the program is to engage the nation's most promising researchers in investigating school finance solutions that secure equity and excellence for all public school students.

In the name of «sameness» we undermine true equity and excellence.

Relationships are essential to fostering equity and excellence in our schools and classrooms.

In this position, Sneed leads the Foundation's K - 12 research, strategy, and portfolio, promoting educational equity and excellence with partners at the local, state, and national levels.

«Charter schools are an important part of the public school landscape in Connecticut and of the overall vision of creating equity and excellence in education.

Island Childress will apply her wide - ranging expertise from more than two decades of teaching and leading to continuing the development of UChicago Charter as a model for fostering greater equity and excellence in urban education.

With school funding reform and a new ESSA plan, Illinois is at a launching point to dramatically move the state education system towards equity and excellence for all students, all schools, and all communities.

«The mission of the National School Boards Association to advocate for equity and excellence remains ever - vigilant as we mark the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision,» said NSBA President Anne M. Byrne, a school board member from New York's Nanuet Union Free School District.

Examined is the dilemma of balancing the educational demands of equity and excellence especially in an age of major demographic shifts.

«It is an honor to join NSBA's leading voice in Washington to champion equity and excellence in public education as a matter of national priority,» said Kelly Pollitt.

In addition to honing a shared understanding of what constitutes powerful instruction, Portland will also be developing a theory of action for how to lead and manage an agenda of equity and excellence within the district.

Develop outcome - oriented performance metrics that will be utilized to measure the impact of the professional learning in areas such as standards - based, data - driven, and differentiated instruction, equitable access to high - quality instruction, cultural competence, subject - and content - specific issues, and the effective leveraging of resources to address equity and excellence.

A growing body of work has unveiled promising policies and practices that may enable equity and excellence to coexist.

Renowned sociologist, professor and education commentator Pedro Noguera is in Rochester to explain what it takes to bring equity and excellence to schools.

Cognition is a New Zealand Ministry of Education accredited provider and has a track record of building equity and excellence for school leaders, teachers and students.

It sought to fuse equity and excellence into a single initiative, promoting academic achievement in the pursuit of equity.

If you are dedicated to and excited about working with today's diverse adolescent population; committed to pursuing equity and excellence in urban classrooms; and deeply curious about curriculum, teaching, and learning, then we hope you will join us as you prepare to enter one of today's most critically important professions.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

Achieving equity and excellence requires sufficient resources that are distributed based on student need, not zip code, and that are efficiently used.