Sentences with phrase «finding quality principal»

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The survey, filled out by 436 so - called lunch ladies, also found that half of the respondents «rarely or never» see principals eating school lunch and 61 percent feared they'd be disciplined for reporting food «quality or safety concerns to parents or kids.»

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

But Komdeur found that this space was in low - quality areas — defined as having a meagre supply of insects, the birds» principal food.

«Our main finding was that diet quality influenced sleep quality,» said principal investigator Marie - Pierre St - Onge, PhD, assistant professor in the department of medicine and Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, N.Y. «It was most surprising that a single day of greater fat intake and lower fiber could influence sleep parameters.»

Many agencies within the profession, including teachers and principals, are concerned about finding a balance between the compliance discourse that accompanies standards and regulation and the discourse of innovation that is central to the development of rigorous and high quality teaching and educational leadership.

«The one quality I try to find is a teacher who will be a «Kid magnet,»» says Steven Podd, principal at Islip (N.Y.) Middle School.

McCartney, one of the principal investigators of the long - term study, presents a balanced view on the findings, including the benefits of high - quality childcare...

But the proportion of unsatisfactory ratings that Kraft and Gilmour found is about three times the rate before the introduction of the new grading systems, when evaluations were infrequent and typically amounted to nothing more than quick classroom visits by principals wielding simplistic checklists that stressed comportment over quality instruction and student learning.

The Institute's CEO Jim Davies recommended that school communities create space for principals to get to the core business — leading quality teaching and learning in their schools — and find ways the principal can put effort into the things that account for students in classrooms.

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Drawing on these findings, researchers provide practical advice on how to make high - quality principal preparation the rule rather than the exception.

They found that a principal in the top 16 percent of the quality distribution will produce annual student gains that are at least 0.05 standard deviations higher than will an average principal for all students in their school, or roughly two additional months of learning.

The Learning Policy Institute's Principal Research Manager Marjorie Wechsler presented the report findings, which include 10 important elements of high - quality early childhood education programs, as indicated by research and professional standards.

While some districts are building internal principal development programs to bolster the quality of their pool, a TNTP study found that assistant and regional superintendents report that «they had far fewer assistant principals — fewer than half in most districts surveyed — ready to become excellent principals than they had openings.»

A distinguishing trait of the world's best school systems - systems that regularly outperform the school systems in the United States - is that they «invest in high - quality preparation, mentoring and professional development for teachers and leaders, completely at government expense,» according to an international analysis.39 If U.S. school districts were to heed that finding, they would, for starters, provide mentoring for all novice principals for at least a year.

«But one of the things we found in our study was that as some of those people were reached out to and got the message that being a principal could be about... building the quality of instruction, they said, «Oh, well I might actually want to do that.»

Some districts have found that the quickest way to get high - quality principals is to provide incentives for the principals to move into the improvement site.

It further found that some teachers who were highly rated on student surveys, in classroom observations by principals, and through other indicators of quality had students who scored poorly on tests.

He served as a middle school teacher and union chapter leader, and spent seven years as a school principal, first at a district middle school and then as the founding principal of a charter high school serving over-age and under - credited students who were court - involved or in foster care He comes to Parent Revolution with a deep belief that all students, from all communities and in all kinds of situations, deserve excellent schools and the opportunities afforded by a high quality education.

The Learning Professional addresses timely professional learning issues such as learning communities, the role of principals, finding time for professional learning, and teacher quality.

Kency Nittler, manager for teacher trends at the National Council on Teacher Quality, said their 2011 survey of LA Unified principals found that «the majority of principals in LAUSD were rarely or never satisfied with the teachers they were forced to hire from the must - place list.

Indeed, we found that graduates of these innovative programs report higher quality program practices, feel better prepared, feel better about the principalship as a job and a vocation, and enact more effective leadership practices than principals with more conventional preparation.

Positive findings will prove to the field that quality supports for school principals succeed in impacting student achievement in schools of all backgrounds, from multiple states, and facing a myriad of challenges.

One key lever of the partnership is to improve the way high quality principals are matched with the schools that need them, so LSCs are better able to find and attract best fit candidates.

Foremost among their findings is that the principals who lead these schools do not rely on ineffable qualities like supersized charisma; rather, they enact a common set of actions and practices that, when implemented continuously and with fidelity, reliably enable teachers, students, and schools to thrive.

Research has also found that high - quality principals are associated with increased high school graduation rates.Coelli, M., & Green, D. A. (2012).

Most important, the research finds that it is possible for districts to put in place the four key parts of a strong principal pipeline: apt standards for principals, high - quality pre-service training, rigorous hiring procedures, and tightly aligned on - the - job performance evaluation and support.

Among several findings, the study shows that the quality of principals» actions is more relevant to outcomes than the amount of time devoted to the actions.

In the project's early work, we found that not one of the school districts actually had a consensus around which five to 10 high - impact practices principals should be enacting every day to improve the quality of teaching.

Research, in fact, consistently finds a strong correlation between measures of principal quality and school characteristics — especially student performance levels and the percentage of the school population living in poverty enrolled in the school.

The mission of Dogs Deserve Better comprises the following six principals: advocate and become a voice for dogs living chained or penned outside; educate society to evolve to higher ethical and moral standards for the treatment of dogs living under these conditions; meet with caretakers of dogs chained outside to advocate on behalf of the dogs and discuss other options available to them; fence yards to improve the quality of life for these dogs; provide low - cost or no - cost housetraining for dogs whose caretakers wish to bring them into the home; temporarily foster and find new homes for dogs whose caretakers wish them to have a better life, but are unwilling or unable to provide that for them.

According to many international school principals, if you're only posting jobs or paying recruiters to find your teachers, you are either spending too much money or getting lots of low - quality applicants.

In this study, significant intervention effects were only found in those settings where both principal support and implementation quality was high; that is, neither high implementation quality nor high principal support by itself predicted intervention effectiveness.

The Learning Policy Institute's Principal Research Manager Marjorie Wechsler presented the report findings, which include 10 important elements of high - quality early childhood education programs, as indicated by research and professional standards.

«Mr. Shoemaker was astute at finding quality real estate opportunity, understanding the questions and concerns and then solving the issues that would make the properties valuable,» said Mark Tanguay, managing principal with Edgemark Midwest Development, who worked with Mr. Shoemaker at Coldwell Banker and with the Hawthorne Works property.

Led by Opticos Founding Principal Daniel Parolek, this session will explain, illustrate, and compare examples of high - quality, medium - density housing types such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts called Missing Middle Housing.

One of my founding principals and a requirement of new agent hires is passion for real estate and I make sure to inform the public on my about us page, [LINK REMOVED], so they too know how important that quality is in the person they're considering hiring.