Sentences with phrase «for various school districts»

Presently, as a literacy consultant, Pat provides staff development for various school districts across the U. S. and Canada.

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Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.

Harris, a retired general manager for a Columbus, Ohio, engineering company, wants to help educate residents about various programs by working with school and Park District officials.

Lunch Lessons offers a variety of services to assist school districts and their community partners in realizing their vision for school food service, including: educational programming through speaking engagements; workshops that address a variety of needs from fiscal to culinary training; focused analysis of various aspects of existing programs; as well as full assessments which analyze all aspects of the food service department and provide recommendations to assist in strategic planning and goal setting.

This educational opportunity will provide various perspectives on the many advantages of CEP and offers innovative solutions to maximize the benefits for school districts.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

3) Determined the optimum size of land needed to run the various Programmes and secured all land through the various District Assemblies needed for the new schools including land for the Dome Kwabenya project 4) Carried out Case Studies of existing Sschools including land for the Dome Kwabenya project 4) Carried out Case Studies of existing SchoolsSchools.

After the disappearance and death of Trevyan Rowe, the Rochester City School District offered a remorseful apology for various missteps, including not spotting Rowe walking away from School # 12 immediately after getting off his morning bus.

«For example, legislators may choose to send mail to seniors regarding the EPIC program or STAR rebates; younger people about college loan forgiveness programs or people in various school districts on education aid.»

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

A «Smart Schools Commission» will advise school districts on best funding targets for various educational technology needs, and districts will spend their money with competitive bidding.

Some statewide sheriffs, like Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway, already provide armed school resource officers to various school districts, with the service paid for by the local district.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopt them; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopZwcm; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

As they have already done with Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and Universal pre-K applications, the New York City Department of Education has pushed back their deadline for parents wishing to run for a spot on various education councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several District offices.

After all, there are traditional «public district schools» that have admissions criteria (e.g Bronx School of Science), charge for various services (e.g. music, AP tests), or are open only to families who inhabit certain neighborhoods (e.g. all of them).

The idea was bringing school districts together for three days to collaborate around curating and organizing digital content that could be used in various content areas.

The federal government had policies for state agencies, various rules related to districts, requirements for schools.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

This insight will assist schools and districts as they look for opportunities to use technology to support various teaching and learning initiatives.

For his part, Justice Thomas faults my citation of various studies supporting the view that school districts can find compelling educational and civic interests in integrating their public schools.

EdLeader21 member districts and schools will also have the benefit of strategic counsel and deeper implementation support in various areas from Battelle for Kids to advance their efforts to become 21st century education systems.

The K — 12 sector has fewer expert reviewers or platforms for user reviews than does higher education because the vast majority of students attend their assigned district school and hence have little need to compare various options.

All sorts of schools would join together for various purposes and purchase services (if they choose to) from regional centers that take the place of today's school districts.

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).

On the other hand, school district leaders may be developing and implementing their own strategic responses to various school needs for improvement, in conjunction with NCLB and state - mandated interventions.

The purposes of the observations were to gain an understanding of the instructional activities in the schools, which should assist us to better place the student achievement outcomes within a context; provide some corroboration for the claims made by the various district and building interviewees about the teaching and learning conditions in the school; and provide a basis for discussion during the teacher interviews that would follow the observations.

We used a random - assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores.

No school can succeed for long without doing so, but, especially for community schools, success depends on the quality of the relationships that school and district staff maintain with various partners, including teachers, counselors, social workers, parents, clergy, elected officials, business leaders, volunteer tutors, and others.

If charter, district, state, and civic leaders in Detroit can pivot quickly from their various postures over the Free Press series and start addressing the very real problems that parents face in district - run and charter schools alike, they will have a good chance at building a vibrant system of choice for their city.

Alumni are leading change at the school level — managing people, data and processes to foster school improvement as coaches, teachers leaders, and school principals; and at the district level — working to shape a vision of academic success for all students, through various central administrative roles.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

In the session we heard from representatives of various community colleges, universities, and school districts that have been working collaboratively and strategically to leverage resources to address the state's educator workforce needs, particularly for rural communities and districts with diverse K — 12 student populations.

As of now, Adamowski has ten years into the State Teacher Retirement System, time that he collected for his work many years ago when was employed by various Connecticut school districts.

Most practitioners and growing research supports the idea that districts need to dedicate an office or executive level leader whose role and concomitant authority is to insure that each school receives the various and individualized supports it may require (Center for School Turnaround, 2014; Morando Rhim, 2011; Shea & Liu, school receives the various and individualized supports it may require (Center for School Turnaround, 2014; Morando Rhim, 2011; Shea & Liu, School Turnaround, 2014; Morando Rhim, 2011; Shea & Liu, 2010).

Previously, he worked in the Oakland Unified School District leading various human capital initiatives and began his career as a 4th grade bilingual teacher in Houston through Teach For America.

He was most well - known for developing «a method used to measure a district, school, and teacher's effect on student performance by tracking the year - to - year progress of students against themselves over their school career with various teachers» classes.»

Based upon the nine instructional strategies identified by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), Lee's Summit R - 7 School District has compiled a comprehensive overview of each strategy as it relates to technology, along with links to various instructional resources.

Districts & schools in southeastern WI begin developing personalized learning environments for students through various entry points.

The district school board shall act upon written recommendations submitted by the district school superintendent for positions to be filled, for minimum qualifications for personnel for the various positions, and for the persons nominated to fill such positions.

Understanding how various indicators are weighted in state plans is important because it ultimately defines which schools and districts will be identified for comprehensive or targeted support and improvement.

His notion of «relinquishment» as an organizing strategy for district reform is justly recognized as a seminal contribution to the field and one that has long influenced me in my various posts, as deputy chancellor of New York City Public Schools, New Jersey's commissioner of education, and now as superintendent of Newark Public Schools.

The authors cite innumerable studies that show that teaching for meaning actually raises achievement, from the TIMSS to research in learning and cognition to studies on mathematics reform curriculums to studies conducted in various schools and districts throughout the United States.

Opposite page at top, students from Lyford CISD's «Tech Squad» demonstrate green - screen technology during a media interview; opposite page at bottom, students from various school districts show school board members ways to integrate technology into learning; above, members of the Student Voices panel smile for the camera before panel discussion gets under way; at left, Ketu - ra Dobo, a student at Alvin ISD's Manvel High School, shares her views during a session; below, Student Voices panel moderator Andrew Brennan addresses the General Session audschool districts show school board members ways to integrate technology into learning; above, members of the Student Voices panel smile for the camera before panel discussion gets under way; at left, Ketu - ra Dobo, a student at Alvin ISD's Manvel High School, shares her views during a session; below, Student Voices panel moderator Andrew Brennan addresses the General Session audschool board members ways to integrate technology into learning; above, members of the Student Voices panel smile for the camera before panel discussion gets under way; at left, Ketu - ra Dobo, a student at Alvin ISD's Manvel High School, shares her views during a session; below, Student Voices panel moderator Andrew Brennan addresses the General Session audSchool, shares her views during a session; below, Student Voices panel moderator Andrew Brennan addresses the General Session audience.

More specifically, parents of students with disabilities reported having difficulty finding «a school that fits» and confusion regarding eligibility for various choice options in their district.

Still, since 1996 Mississippi has taken over 15 districts for various reasons, including financial mismanagement and poor academic performance, and it is set to take over more schools this year.

She has a Master's in school counseling and has been working in the Kentwood district in various roles for seven years.

55 Some districts are prioritizing this kind of teacher training: The Baltimore City Public School System, for example, is now incorporating growth mindset training into its new teacher induction programs.56 However, most states and districts lack a systematic approach to teaching educators about the various forms of learning mindsets and the greater science of learning.

A 2012 investigation by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and StateImpact Florida, for example, found student - teacher ratios at the online school K12.com, which contracts with various Florida districts to provide online classes, were as high as 275 students to one teacher.