Sentences with phrase «for school board leaders»

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As a Visiting Scholar at the Rotman School of Management (more specifically at the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness), I've been thinking a lot lately about how we educate tomorrow's business leaders.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Yesterday, the Chair of the board of trustees, Randy Fairfax praised the school's leaders for their «ethical, moral, and spiritual leadership» in an email to the school's community, but added, «However, we are unanimous in our decision that it is time for a new season of leadership... Understandably, there are many questions at this time.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The association offers research and trend analysis, leadership and governance guidance, and professional development opportunities for school and board leaders.»

of Center Services Executive Director: Chris Bartlett, Executive Director Board Leader: Stephanie Gross, Co-Chair Board Leader: Jeff Scotland, Co-Chair Main: 215-732-2220 Fax: [phone] Helpline: 215-732-8255 • Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburgh www.glccpgh.org 5808 Forward Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 - 2302 Main: 412-422-0114 • Upper Delaware GLBT Center PO Box 1295 Milford, PA 18337 Email: [email protected] www.udglbtcenter.blogspot.com / • Central Bucks School District Gay Straight Alliance 375 West Court St Doylestown, PA (Bucks County)[phone] • Common Roads LGBT Community Center Coalition of Central Pennsylvania Louie Malven Director of Administration and Youth Services 221 N. Front Street, 3rd Floor Harrisburg, PA Central PA 717-920-9534 [email protected] www.centralpalgbtcenter.org The LGBT Community Center Coalition of Central PA is a volunteer - led effort to create a regionally representative community center that is both a location and unifying point for Central Pennsylvania's large, diverse and multi-county LGBT population.

The Cherokee County School District recently hosted a New Leaders Reception for the School Board to meet the educators recommended by the Superintendent of Schools for leadership roles including Principal posts.

He has been a class teacher, movement teacher, school administrator, board member, regional rep, Leader of Programs for AWSNA and is currently a consultant to several schools.

At a recent Library Board meeting that drew City Council members, homeowners groups and other city leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facility.

Ms. Dowd is welcomed to the center of the gym at halftime of the student - staff basketball game fundraiser for Relay for Life by CCSD leaders, family and friends including Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower; her husband, Billy Dowd; Deputy Superintendent Trey Olson; School Board member Kelly Poole; and Principal Dr. Bob Eddy.

Keith is a member of the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association, Community Board Six, Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club, Tilden Democratic Club, Kips Bay Neighborhood Association, League of Conservation Voters, The Epiphany School Alumni Committee, University of Dayton Alumni Committee, and serves as a District Leader for the Democratic Party in Manhattan.

At 7 p.m., state Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and other elected officials attend a forum on providing diploma options for students, South Side High School Auditorium, 140 Shepherd St., Rockville Centre.

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.

One wonders why they are silent now when a company whose leader stands under indictment for alleged actions of fraud against BOCES is in a multi-million dollar agreement with the school board?

The protest comes as Paladino, a real - estate developer and school board member in Buffalo, is considering a run for governor on the Conservative Party line should the state GOP not coalesce around a candidate who doesn't support ousting the Republican leaders in the state Legislature.

The Hempstead School Board unanimously accepted the recommendations of a state - appointed consultant who had blamed entrenched divisions among district leaders for falling academic performance and increasing safety concerns in the 8,000 - student system.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

The new leader of the Buffalo Board of Education has called for a «working session'to discuss the impact of violence and safety in city schools.

He also had harsh words for union leaders last week during his opening statement at the annual School Board candidates» night in Williamsville, accusing them of following the state teachers union's «playbook» of gaining a board majority to remove superintendents and negotiate teacher - friendly contrBoard candidates» night in Williamsville, accusing them of following the state teachers union's «playbook» of gaining a board majority to remove superintendents and negotiate teacher - friendly contrboard majority to remove superintendents and negotiate teacher - friendly contracts.

Baldoni has followed and written about how the board of Penn State has struggled to overcome the 2011 sex abuse scandal involving former coach Jerry Sandusky; he said the school's leaders still haven't come to grips with what went wrong, including the error of allowing head coach Joe Paterno to remain in power for so long.

It's all too easy to make mistakes when you're emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.

The Buffalo School Board is expected to vote on new leader for city schools Tuesday.

Tommy Torres, the current Male District Leader for the 53rd Assembly District, Community Board 1 member, and assistant principal and baseball coach at the Grand Street Campus High School, is considering a challenge against the incumbent, he said.

A multi-specialty Integrative Medical - Dental group practice Licensure: State of Maryland, July 1973, Dentistry District of Columbia, July 1973, October 1995, Dentistry District of Columbia, October 1995, Doctor of Naturopathy (registration) Academic Appointments: Howard University, School of Dentistry 1974 - 1978 Capital University of Integrative Medicine 1999 - 2005 Provost, Capital University of Integrative Medicine Professor, Department of Spiritual, Psycho - emotional Neurobiology Course Leader, Applied Neurobiology I and II Professional Organizations: (abbreviated) American Dental Association Academy of General Dentistry International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology American Academy of Neural Therapy American Academy of Environmental Medicine Holistic Dental Association Awards, Offices, Appointment, etc. (abbreviated) Cum Laude, U of Md., School of Dentistry 1973 Omicron Kappa Epsilon (National Dental Honor Fraternity) Board of Denticare, President 1978 - 1990 National Registry of Who's Who 2000 Metro Integrative Medicine Study Group 2000 National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, review panel 2001 President's Award for Excellence (CUIM) 2001 Journal of Capital University, co-editor 2001

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

Democratic leaders in the New York Assembly have joined New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the City Council, and other state and local officials in calling for the elimination of the city's current school board.

The seven - member panel expected to be named late last week to assist the New York City Board of Education's search for a new chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.»

A joint effort by Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, and several local and state representative to procure state aid for both district and charter schools is another sign factionalism is waning.

Jon Schnur, chairman of the board of New Leaders for New Schools, and Joshua Wyner, of the Aspen Institute, see no tension, and argue that equity - focused efforts to improve teaching and learning benefit students across the board.

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

For school leaders, networking provides a sounding board for leading change and a safety net for providing suppoFor school leaders, networking provides a sounding board for leading change and a safety net for providing suppofor leading change and a safety net for providing suppofor providing support.

I was able to travel across the U.S. and Canada meeting with school boards leaders, community organizations, foundations, and governments to collaborate on initiatives that fostered civic education, and was grateful to see the collective passion that educators across the country held for the success of students.

For example, earlier this year Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, the Newark City Council, and several local and state representatives all signed a letter asking Christie to provide additional state aid.

The move to promote a schools chief from within the system came despite suggestions from some, including Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, that the board should have conducted a national search for a permanent leader for the district's innovative experiments in teacher accountability and higher pay.

Institutional players — teachers unions, school boards, and state and district administrators — frequently petition state leaders for charter caps and reduced charter funding and vigorously oppose alternative authorizers and facilities aid.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

External thought partners can connect school leaders to pioneers and other peers and serve as an informed sounding board for ideas and key decisions.

Wong and his colleagues make a solid, if still preliminary, case for shifting power away from school boards to a single, elected leader who can be held accountable to a citywide constituency.

Several foundations were pushing for reform; African American and Latino leaders were engaged; and a 27 - member Commission on Secondary School Reform, appointed by the school board, had submitted reform recommendaSchool Reform, appointed by the school board, had submitted reform recommendaschool board, had submitted reform recommendations.

St. Louis has a strong public school cartel, an alliance of teachers union leaders, central board administrators, and various public - school interest groups that has an established routine for managing the schools and is typically skeptical of any proposal for change.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

So instead of attempting the go - it - alone route, seek out support from a respected community leader — a member of the school board or chamber of commerce — and ask for help in generating a buzz and lining up prospective partners.

Last year, school leaders in California, including the president of the school board in San Francisco, nominated Lee as part of President Obama's «Champions of Change» program, recognizing leaders offering high - quality summer learning experiences for students.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoSchool in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoSchool Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoschool district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.