Sentences with phrase «excellence in the school system»

Through the voices of students, teachers, and parents — and former US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan — the video explores the broad and diverse accomplishments over the past five years to inspire the next chapter of innovation and excellence in the school system.

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The growing desire for academic excellence and lack of resources in our school systems are the drivers behind today's boom.
Yet despite the upheaval in the education system from the 1960s onwards some schools have managed to maintain high academic levels of excellence.
«We want to create an education system based on real excellence, with a complete intolerance of failure,» the prime minister will say in a speech being seen by some as backing a return to elitism in schools.
«The excellence our reforms has unlocked in some parts of our schools system has not yet spread across the whole country.
«Tapping into the expertise that already exists in the system, and encouraging all schools, whether academies or maintained, to work together, will allow us to spread excellence and have a real impact on children's lives.»
Remarkably, while the school system purports to hold children to a standard of excellence, principals can be removed only if they engage in «persistent educational failure.»
Wisconsin's governor recently formed a task force on educational excellence and charged it with reviewing the state's school finance system in four areas: student and school achievement, personnel issues, special education, and early - childhood education.
If we are serious in our desire for a just and equitable society, the real question is how to create entire systems of high schools where excellence is the product of everyday practice.
Despite these gains, to fully meet our nation's challenging goals for excellence and equity in our public school systems, clearly more needs to be done.
It was felt very strongly that, given the absolutely pivotal role of leadership in schools, and particularly in the school - led and self - improving school system, we needed a standard of leadership excellence, not a minimum acceptable level of performance.
Learning to develop and sustain standards of excellence with genuinely inclusive, equity - focused schools and systems requires leaders to understand the intersection of race, identity, power, and privilege in society and, as a result, in schools.
New data and accountability Finally, when we contemplate disruption in education, many questions remain as to how the government will hold a «next - generation» school system accountable to ensure equity, rigor, and excellence.
Above all, we need a new policy regime that gives teachers and schools ample incentive to press for academic growth in all their students, just as we need a culture that embraces excellence as well as equity and demands that its education system raise the ceiling on achievement even as it also lifts the floor.
Without professional development to enhance their skills, those already teaching are not likely to move school systems forward on a reform agenda that calls for excellence in teaching and learning.
Fully decentralized systems don't provide any continuity for mobile students; they don't intervene quickly in failing schools; and they assume school communities will respond quickly to demands for performance and the freedom of empowerment to produce excellence (which doesn't always take place).
Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.
«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.
The Nordic strategy for achieving equality and excellence in education has been based on constructing a publicly funded comprehensive school system without selecting, tracking, or streaming students during their common basic education.
In 2015, OUSD, local charter organizations and the County came together to form the Oakland Public Schools Equity Pledge, a city - wide partnership to create a public education system that works in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our schoolIn 2015, OUSD, local charter organizations and the County came together to form the Oakland Public Schools Equity Pledge, a city - wide partnership to create a public education system that works in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our sSchools Equity Pledge, a city - wide partnership to create a public education system that works in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our schoolin the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our schoolin our schoolsschools.
Naressa Cofield is the director of excellence in programming for Choice Foundation where she is responsible for overseeing the foundation's strategic and tactical data initiatives and researching, reviewing, evaluating, and making recommendations on system enhancements to drive continuous instructional and organizational improvements across the charter management organization's three open - enrollment charter schools in New Orleans.
Innovations in Blended Learning and Technology - Enhanced Teaching; Partnerships to Bolster STEM Education; and Early Childhood Education have helped sustain and improve the academic excellence that has come to define our Catholic school system.
There's no reason to believe that such a system will validly identify and remove those who are unable or unwilling to improve; will improve the effectiveness of all others; will identify excellence in teaching or leadership; will provide incentives for good practices (or avoid incentives for poor practices); or will enhance school environment and working conditions.
While charter critics contend that allowing these schools into good school systems is the very antithesis of funding excellence, Gassner - Snyder says if her school were to open at full capacity — or 90 students in the first year — she'd hardly be siphoning away large amounts of money.
Participants walk away with a shared vision for leadership excellence — not only for future leaders in their school system, but also for themselves.
An effective principal is needed in every school building of a school system striving for excellence in education.
Perhaps the strongest model in the United States of a collaborative urban school system, Cincinnati has a long history dating back to the mid-1980s of experimenting with team - based instructional approaches, using innovative compensation systems to reward excellence, and providing career ladders to enable the most effective teachers to coach their colleagues.
As we position our schools to grow and thrive in the 21st century, we continue to implement our strategic initiative, Pathways to Excellence, to chart a fresh, bold course for our newly regionalized school system that will ensure excellence in all aspects of Catholic education throughout the Archdiocese.
The mission of the Georgia School Boards Association is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of educSchool Boards Association is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of educschool systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of education.
The Ounce is supporting instructional leadership in school - and center - based programs by helping leaders install systems of job - embedded professional learning and engage teachers in sustained supports for achieving instructional excellence and improvement.
«Racial discrimination in our nation's educational systems persists and both the Departments of Education and Justice are failing to protect the civil rights and educational future of our Black and brown students,» said Todd A. Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. «This administration must stop endangering students of color and instead ensure equal educational opportunities and foster educational excellence by upholding the federal school discipline guidance and promoting policies and programs that keep students safe.»
The school system's finance office this year again received a certificate for excellence in financial reporting from the Chicago - based Government Finance Officers Association.
Our vision is for Connecticut to have the highest - performing, most equitable education system in the nation — a system that provides education leaders with the flexibility needed to pursue excellence and rigorous standards to measure their success, that is supportive of many different types of schools and many paths to success and that empowers parents to be in the driver's seat of their child's education.
The mission of GSBA is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of education.
«Long Beach USD had already earned a reputation for excellence: The district received the second ever Broad Prize in 2003 as the nation's best urban school system.
Finding 1: Achieving educational excellence in Australian schools will require a focus on achievement through learning growth for all students, complemented by policies which support an adaptive, innovative and continuously improving education system.
It says: «Building a world - class school system depends on excellence in its leaders, backed and challenged by confident, supportive and capable governing bodies that act as a bridge to businesses and the wider community.
In the consultation we are asking how we can make grammars more open to disadvantaged children and ensure that the excellence that exists in grammar schools can play a stronger role in school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doinIn the consultation we are asking how we can make grammars more open to disadvantaged children and ensure that the excellence that exists in grammar schools can play a stronger role in school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doinin grammar schools can play a stronger role in school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doinin school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doing.
She pledged «a new focus on achieving excellence in areas where too few children have access to a good school and there are not yet enough high quality teachers, school and system leaders, governors and sponsors to turn them around».
In a school system with such a strong sense of hierarchy, where would grammars fit with promises of «excellence for all»?
As we begin the new school year and, in Texas, look toward the next level of school performance accountability, I believe it is important that we look beyond the test - driven accountability system, as useful as it has been, for more instructive leading indicators of progress toward excellence in public education.
The Mission of the Orange - Ulster BOCES School Library System (SLS) is to improve student learning through excellence in school library proSchool Library System (SLS) is to improve student learning through excellence in school library proschool library programs.
The Dell Medical School is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to diversity and excellence within the learning health system.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or just UNC, is arguably the most prominent of the 17 schools in the state system, and it has long been considered one of the eight original «Public Ivy League» schools with a reputation for excellence.
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