Sentences with phrase «focus of school leadership»

However, as we have all come to realize, that can not be the primary focus of school leadership if we are to get every student to a college - and career - ready standard before they graduate from high school.

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Your support is helping to realize our vision of becoming a leading global business school, focusing on Calgary's defining elements: advanced leadership, entrepreneurship and energy.

Patrick earned his MBA at Western University's Richard Ivey School of Business, with a focus on strategic leadership.

Following a full - scale review, the business school's flagship Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) degree program underwent a number of significant changes to meet the school's new strategic focus on ethical leadership, entrepreneurship and energy.

Griffo suggested that a way to regain the focus on academics could be to split the leadership role, or house the economic development arm in a separate school or institution under the purview of the SUNY Poly president.

Under Dr. Gall's leadership, NAUW branches sponsored projects for middle and high school girls that focused on increasing their interest in mathematics and science and fostering their awareness of careers that require backgrounds in those disciplines.

Under Republican leadership, this Legislature has continuously underfunded our public schools, focused on creating low wage jobs that leave working families in a cycle of poverty, and given away millions of taxpayer dollars to insurance companies while health insurance costs for working families skyrocket.»

Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.

Dr. Deatrick worked with colleagues and patients treated at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, including Wendy Hobbie, MSN, CRNP who also provides leadership in the School's nurse practitioner concentration that focuses on pediatric oncology.

The focus of Dr. Eckert's research was leadership issues that affect medical school basic science departments in research intensive universities.

FOCUS on Health & Leadership for Women (FOCUS) has been an active program at the Perelman School since the 1990s, working to support the advancement and leadership of women in academic medicine and to promote education and research in women's health and women's careers.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy — high school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows.

I want to target at - risk students at the middle school level, focus on leadership, language arts, digital citizenship and lots of other things that tend to get less emphasis in our everyday classroom.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

Mr Stokes said the 2018 needs - based funding increase was additional to funding announced last month under the Schools Leadership Strategy to enable employment of extra support staff so principals could focus on educational leadership.

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

The project will focus on contexts of interest to both ISV and PZ: settings of organizational development, organizational and school leadership, and student learning for action.

Andy and I are delighted to have the Endeavor Foundation help launch these soon - to - be doctors of education leadership, and we are committed to the school's mission to let them focus on their degree program without the burden of tuition.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty jSchool and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty jSchool of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty jschool districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty jschool district to a panel of faculty judges.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

For example, I started writing about: the implementation of educational policy, when research at the time focused almost exclusively on the development of policy; the importance of qualitative methods, as a complement to quantitative methods that at the time ruled at the Ed School; the unheroic dimensions of leadership, when the focus was on the bigger - than - life hero who, like the Lone Ranger, rode into town with silver bullets.

This is a profession in which close to 100 percent of administrators have been trained in educational leadership programs at schools of education and have learned that it's wrongheaded to focus on managing operations or removing mediocre employees.

The point is that the market incentives that vouchers and charter schools can bring to high schools will focus school leadership on the problem of motivation.

«Given the inward focus of the program, I was uncertain if there would be an audience for this kind of leadership development, particularly during these tight economic times when school districts, colleges, and universities are all looking very carefully at every dime they spend,» Zolner says.

Focusing effort on what matters most is central to the strategic planning of any successful school, and hence should be a key focus of building leadership capacity throughout the school from the principal team down.

Thanks to strong leadership at the school and the continued commitment and focus of the board, outcomes at BVP have remained consistently excellent.

His leadership also led to the district achieving its best - ever dropout and graduation rates, driven largely by attention to all students, a focus on adult performance, the promotion of choice and school autonomy, and intensive efforts to engage parents and the community.

Bringing diverse perspectives on the principalship to the discussion, the panelists will engage in dialogue focused on how instructional leadership, distributed leadership, and accountability impact the work of principals in the 21st century and beyond, as well as how to best mentor and support the next generation of school leaders.

What is needed is standardisation of the quality assurance process across all schools and a focus on priorities that are critical to staff development and the targets set by senior leadership teams.

She was previously the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher leadeSchool of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher leadeschool improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher leadership.

This partnership gives us less control, but allows us to focus on the key levers of school success: leadership, academics, social - and - emotional learning, and college access and career readiness.

The scheme focuses on extra support to develop leadership in maths and help schools work together in support of higher standards; and supporting teachers, teaching assistant, further education lecturers and others to develop improved classroom practice.

A skilled and well - qualified school business management professional on the school leadership team can focus on ensuring the effective use of available financial and human resources, aligned to the school's pedagogical aims and development plan, whilst other members of the team focus on improving teaching and learning.

Focusing on that second area then, what are some of the challenges you found during your review in relation to school leadership first of all?

Still, as faculty chair of HISL, Peterkin knew that the weeklong institute — a Program in Professional Education focused on helping school district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators nschool district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators nSchool District educators needed.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students presSchool and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students presSchool of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students presschool districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...

The texts themselves were chosen by the leadership of my charter school network, Uncommon Schools, with guidance from both the Common Core text - selection criteria and the network's own curricular team The lesson plan sequence, questioning, activities, close reading passages, schema, and focuses were up to me and my co-teacher.

Although the interviews provide context, the main focus is on observations of classroom teaching, school leadership, and the school's capacity to improve.»

This is the question that leaps out of Public Agenda's latest work on school leadership, a series of focus groups with principals in high - needs public schools conducted for the Wallace Foundation.

All Year 6 students at Our Lady of Nativity Primary School, New South Wales, have the opportunity to take on a leadership role as part of a new focus on the importance of student voice.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

«When this [new structure] came out and the focus shifted away from management to leadership, I felt there was a great opportunity for us as a school, and as a diocese, and as a state in lots of ways, to really address the needs of our Middle Leaders in terms of professionally developing them,» MacMaster reflects.

All of this is occurring with a focus on the leadership pipeline that grows larger and more effective, impacting not only franchise schools but also traditionally configured schools across the system.

High schools increasingly make security the sole responsibility of an assistant principal, which is supposed to free the school's principal to focus on instructional leadership.

We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.

Before I came to HGSE I was interested in the big picture of education and while I continue to be interested in the entire sector, I feel more focused on the importance of school leadership and excellent teaching in local communities.

Teitel's research focuses on principal and superintendent leadership development, on interorganizational collaboration and other partnerships, especially between schools and universities, and on improvement of teaching and learning through approaches like Instructional Rounds.

While this might be a reality in many schools across the country, the most important lesson I take away from my graduate studies experience centers on replacing this model of leadership with one that focuses on collaboration and empowerment.

School practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of suSchool practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of suschool organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of suschool, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of success.