Sentences with phrase «from central office»

The return: Greater mobility and less travel to and from central office, which translates into increased productivity.

GEICO is a direct writer, meaning the company issues free insurance quotes and policies from its central office.

A lawyer who objects to a colleague working away from a central office because the colleague might not really be working should really worry about a more basic problem.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Principals often receive requests (tasks) from central office staff with short turnaround times.

Schools practitioners can learn from central office administrators and central office staff can learn from school practitioners.

She anticipated significant resistance from the central office and the teachers union, as well as her peers, but she felt her first action had to be to ask for support.

And good principals need support from the central office.

This community of future - focused schools, educators and coaches share interest in and commitment to doing what's best for students — from the central office to the classroom.

They said they will cut $ 30 million from the central office and $ 30 million from schools to shrink the gap.

As Doug Knecht from Bank Street explains, systems should build «a coherent throughline from the central office and pedagogical supervisors to teacher teams and their students.»

By freeing up the schools from the central office bureaucracy and most teacher contract provisions, local and state officials say, the Springfield middle schools are in complete control of their curriculums, staffing, budgeting, and ultimately their own destinies.

The Summit will be different from the Central Office Administrators Conference as MASA will be jointly sponsoring the conference with the Missouri Association of School Business Officials (MoASBO).

Turner scribbled diligently in her notepad as Santelises rattled off the groups she'd like to meet with, schools she'd like to visit, and the «projects,» «deliverables,» and «hot - button issues» from each central office department.

Invariably, when I visited schools or attended principal meetings, school leaders would tell me they were getting mixed messages from central office.

Tucker says that all she got from Central Office personnel in response to her complaints were vague promises to «support» or «mentor» J.O. Wilson's principal.

This means equipping school leadership at all levels, from central office staff to principals, from administrators to classroom teachers.

Kristin talks about her work with schools in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, where she's helping them to build strategic plans to support ELLs at all levels, from central office staff and administration to teachers in the classroom.

«One unintended consequence of that has been a workload shift from Central Office to schools,» Banda wrote, adding later, «I understand that many schools and departments have had to do more with less over the years.»

School Reform Teams and Flipping the Script in the Atlanta Public Schools: Creating a Customer - focused Culture in the Delivery of Services from the Central Office to the Schools.

To help schools meet the needs of English learners, the district will beef up support from the central office.

District officials have said that 115 administrators have been reassigned from central office positions to school sites.

Although most of the cuts are from the central office, they will nonetheless impact school services.

The study makes four recommendations: Reduce paperwork from the central office.

Decades of experience and research have shown that districts generally fail to realize district - wide improvement in teaching and learning without powerful leadership from the central office, but until now the field has had few positive examples of such leadership to draw on.

Site teams need direction from the central office, but, again, we need autonomy in order to have a stake in new programs.

Meanwhile, principals must be attuned to the needs of students and parents and responsive to requirements from the central office.

Properly used, data can make a difference in meeting the needs of every student and can be a powerful ally in stimulating positive change and improvement from the central office to the classroom.

The rest of the cuts are expected to come from central office.

They receive more cash per student because they don't get the same level of services from the central office that traditional schools do.

Toward that end, we also use data to identify Local Priority Schools and Local Attention Schools that require more specialized attention from the central office.

It conveys that the improvement of instruction is not just the work of teachers or principals under top - down directives from the central office.

In addition to sending more money to the schools, $ 14 million per year is shifted from the central office to fund prekindergarten for all IPS 4 - year olds.

Staff from the central office previously presented the information at the annual meeting.

People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring principals and teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.

The 1988 reform was based on the idea that the schools didn't need support and intervention from the central office in order to improve on a systemwide basis.

Members of the city school board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a budget for next school year that cuts $ 30 million from schools, $ 10 million from the central office and would lay off as many as 300 people district - wide.

«Of course, there is still guidance from central office, but they really think we are able to think about what we need and with teacher input [and] leadership from counselors to teachers to parents, those are the people that help me to make the decisions that are going to be best for this school.»

He said he wouldn't have been able to afford a staff position for such a program without funding from the central office.

Charters receive more money per pupil because they don't receive the same level of services from the central office as traditional schools do.

By shifting money and power away from the central office, districts are gambling that they can win back public confidence and boost test scores.

Franchise leaders are strong enough to handle business within the confines of the school, and rarely seek advice from central office personnel.

Similar benefits were not observed in schools implementing the same program the following year with less support from the central office, suggesting the importance of sustained support for teacher evaluation reform to translate into improved student performance.

It's up to superintendents to set a vision for improvement and enlist the support of a district's myriad stakeholders, from the central office to parents to the classroom, to see through lasting change.

There are many days when Teri Stokes» mail is not looked at, but her office aide knows to hand her directly any mail from the central office or other important - looking mail.

That is true, but keep in mind that the schools have no choice about which kinds of staff they receive from the central office.

These comments from him are not just his personal opinions but are core Conservative opinions from Central Office.

An extraordinary email from central office obtained by The Economist backs up the claims.

I had the support from my central office staff.

Beginning with the administration of Supt. Forrest Claypool from 1993 to 1998, the district followed the advice of watchdog groups by cutting fat from the central office and putting more emphasis on local programs and upkeep.