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.
Not exact matches
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 school
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 s
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 school
in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating
excellence in our school
in 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 educ
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 educ
school 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 doin
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 doin
in grammar
schools can play a stronger role
in school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doin
in 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 pro
School Library
System (SLS) is to improve student learning through
excellence in school library pro
school 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.