Sentences with phrase «for urban school leaders»

Wayside Schools Principal Attends Harvard University's Prestigious National Institute for Urban School Leaders Program During Summer Break

Richard facilitated the SIIP Network for several years and coordinated curriculum and teaching for the Urban School Leaders Fellowship in Fairfield County.

Senior Lecturer, and future chair of the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (USL) at The Principals» Center, Deborah Jewell - Sherman notes the job is much too big for any individual educator to handle alone and that learning how to lead change alongside fellow school leaders can make a real difference.

It is tough — but important — for urban school leaders to enlist the support of a wide network of stakeholders to work together to improve student outcomes.

Can you tell me what it's like to be a participant in the National Institute for Urban School Leaders?

A major challenge for all urban school leaders is improving student learning — especially in the context of the achievement gap.

One of PPE's core leadership programs is the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (NIUSL)-- being held on campus July 14 — 19.

At the district and school levels, it is helpful for urban school leaders to wisely use data to inform their work.

The National Institute for Urban School Leaders, a program of The Principals» Center, examines best practices and research - based techniques in urban schools.

This July, she brought her leadership team to the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (USL).

Not exact matches

Leaders of both the Urban School Food Alliance and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation are set to meet in Chicago next week.

In founding New Leaders for New Schools — a nonprofit organization that recruits and develops outstanding new principals for urban schools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and prinSchools — a nonprofit organization that recruits and develops outstanding new principals for urban schools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and prinschools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and prinschools and principals.

In this role Ross leads professional learning networks for urban school district leaders and senior Congressional Education staffers.

«I finally had the time to read,» Marshall says, especially when he started traveling back and forth to New York, where he was recruiting and coaching urban principals for the nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools.

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.

One case in point is Cincinnati's W. E. B. Du Bois school, which was among the highest - performing urban schools in the state — before its founder and leader, Wilson Willard III, pleaded guilty to five counts of theft and records tampering, and was sent to prison for four years.

Core courses and electives are taught by recognized leaders from across Harvard's graduate programs in fields like data - based education reform, organizational change and innovation, and effective leadership strategies for urban schools.

In 1990, the school created the Urban Superintendents Program, the only comprehensive doctoral program preparing school leaders for the challenges of urban school system administraUrban Superintendents Program, the only comprehensive doctoral program preparing school leaders for the challenges of urban school system administraurban school system administration.

As an urban school leader herself, Professor Deborah Jewell - Sherman, has been the faculty chair of the program for the past five years.

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.

Here he was, a health and social studies teacher, off to his first day of class at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Urban and Public Affairs, known for producing some of the country's top public - policy leaders and managers.

Following commencement, he worked as a teacher and principal, and cofounded two schools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lschools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leSchool of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leschool that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lLeaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lSchools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leschool leadersleaders.

While Baltimore provides a cautionary tale for urban district leaders implementing the portfolio strategy, it should not be seen as the death knell for reform within a traditional school system.

Now it's a cautionary tale — a warning for leaders seeking innovative ways to save urban Catholic schools.

The Center for Urban Pedagogy, a nonprofit organization that helps schools produce experiential curricula, believes that when students engage community leaders in conversation, it can lead to real and long - lasting civics education.

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay Area for New Leaders, a division of New Leaders for New Schools — jumped at the chaschools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay Area for New Leaders, a division of New Leaders for New Schools — jumped at the chaSchools — jumped at the challenge.

The nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bLeaders for New Schools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bSchools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bleaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bschools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps by 2018.

These organizations include not only many of the leading urban school districts (e.g., Atlanta, Denver, New York City), but also some of the most noted organizations driving change in K - 12 education (including Teach for America, New Leaders for New Schools, KIPP, and the National Center on Education and the Economy).

New Leaders Trains New Principals Hoping to change urban education one school at a time, Jonathan Schnur and some colleagues founded New Leaders for New Schools, a training program for principals.

Democracy Prep's results are incomparable: 100 percent of graduates are college - bound (two college acceptances are required for graduation); 95 percent pass the Regents exams; and the schools are leaders in urban charter turnaround (with Harlem Prep skyrocketing from the third to the 96th percentile from one school year to the next).

As part of our mission, CUBE creates educational opportunities for urban school board leaders to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to serve as effective local education policymakers and as advocates for excellence and equity in public education.

We are also recognized as a leader in the Catholic school renaissance — a nationwide effort to strengthen and rebuild urban Catholic schools as models of academic rigor and transformational change for the communities, students, and families they serve.

In an era when education leaders are held accountable for raising the academic performance of all students, the job of leading today's schools has seriously outpaced the available training, especially for state and district leaders who set policy for and lead complex urban districts.

Today the average tenure for urban superintendents is only two and a half years, according to a Council of the Great City Schools report that surveyed big - city school leaders.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

The Reach Institute for School Leadership seeks to partner with schools, districts and LEAs to train, credential and support teacher and leaders that are committed to creating and sustaining effective urban schools.

See what some of the best urban charter school leaders have to say about why they do what they do (and how they achieve such great results in their inner - city schools) in our short film Unchartered Territory; click on the photo to watch this short film on SnagFilms.com for free.

The University of Chicago Women's Board and the Urban Education Institute volunteer committee welcomed nearly 60 young women from the University of Chicago Charter School's Woodlawn Campus to the Quadrangle Club on Wednesday, May 8 for an opportunity to network with female leaders in Chicago.

Click the photo to find out what the Center for Urban Education Leadership is doing to support those efforts to transform urban schools with visionary leaUrban Education Leadership is doing to support those efforts to transform urban schools with visionary leaurban schools with visionary leaders.

Ann previously co-designed the Collaborative Urban Leadership Program at the University of Texas in Austin, which developed effective secondary school leaders for Dallas, Houston and Austin - area school districts.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

In a series of columns in ASCD Express, the cofounder of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit for education reform, shares promising practices in principal leadership for improving some of the nation's most challenged urban sSchools, a nonprofit for education reform, shares promising practices in principal leadership for improving some of the nation's most challenged urban schoolsschools.

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

This July 29 letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of Education John King by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; AASA, the School Superintendents Association; the George W. Bush Institute; the National Association of Elementary School Principals; the National Association of Secondary School Principals; the NYC Leadership Academy; New Leaders; the National Institute for School Leadership; the National Urban League; the University Council for Educational Administration; and The Wallace Foundation.

PSP invests in programs focused on preparing and developing teachers and leaders for the rigors of working in urban schools.

The initiative was started by Fellow Earl Martin Phalen, a Harvard Law School graduate who co-founded Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL), through which he developed out - of - school programs in urban communSchool graduate who co-founded Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL), through which he developed out - of - school programs in urban communschool programs in urban communities.

As a New Leader, she founded the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) in Chicago.

Leadership for Student Learning Series: «Reinventing the Principalship,» «Redefining the Teacher as Leader,» «Recognizing the State's Role in Education,» and «Urban School Leadership.»

Center for Urban Education Leadership: Preparing Great School Leaders.

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.