Sentences with phrase «goals of the school system»

Administrators in the district's Center for Teaching and Learning sought a scalable professional development solution that would support efforts to better align professional development to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and meet key goals of the school system's Strategic Plan 2014.

For some people, the term strategic planning brings to mind a disciplined and thoughtful process that links the values, mission, and goals of a school system with a set of coherent strategies and tasks designed to achieve those goals.

Not exact matches

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

The Broward county school system, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, has had a program with the goal of limiting outsized disciplinary measures against minority students since 2013, a year before the Obama DOE's guidelines were issued.

Educators insist, according to E. Dale David, that «a list of civic values consciously chosen by a school system to realize the goal of developing effective citizens is the necessary first step in the teaching of civic values.»

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

We identify strengths and challenges within the existing system to craft strategies to meet the goals of the school district and community.

One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.

«The goal for our study was to provide a heat transfer and thermodynamic perspective on a system that combines concentrated solar power (CSP) with thermal storage and TPV to show that such a system is worthy of renewed attention,» said Asegun Henry, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Clearly, it is essential for a user of TDDFT to have deep understanding of the theory along with hands - on experience in order to sucessfully model systems of interest - this is the goal of this school.

There is evidence that accountability systems with concrete goals change the behavior of school systems, at a minimum by refocusing efforts on disadvantaged students.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

Although our ultimate goal is a system of schooling that naturally evolves and improves, it's important to keep in mind that the capacity for experimenting and innovating resides in individual schools, not in central offices.

In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.

The goal of this case study is not to critique whether or not the response to the death of Michael Brown was appropriate, but rather to catalyze conversations about how system - level leaders can organize to combat structural racism in schools and communities in pro-active ways to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.

I'm most proud of the ability the charter sector and our partners in the district have shown to put aside our differences and commit to the shared goal of creating a system of great schools.

The first goal, enhancing property values, explains the evolution of the school system.

The partners are school systems, nonprofit organizations, mission - based for - profit organizations, and government agencies, all pursuing a common goal of ensuring that every child has the opportunity to achieve his or her full potential.

Teaching children to think is one of our main goals as educators, but we can only hope to achieve this if thinking is appreciated and encouraged throughout a school system.

San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.

Under the new system, grades one through three are measured against a goal of reading by the end of third grade; grades four through six on proficient or advanced performance on the English and math portions of a state test indicating middle school readiness; seven, eight, and nine on high school readiness with passing all ninth - grade; grades 10, 11, and 12 focus on the goal of high school graduation.

Each school therefore set its own goals and annually assesses its progress toward meeting them...» And the chapter on Canada teaches us that «the most striking feature of the Canadian system is its decentralization.»

The goal was to create «one of the best systems of schools in the country.»

My goals in coming to the Ed School were threefold: expanding my knowledge of how people, early childhood through adolescence, develop moral and ethical behaviors; creating strategies, systems, and tools that educators can use to best preserve and promote moral and ethical growth in the students they teach; and refining the leadership and research skills necessary to further my role as a teacher leader and reformer for the future.

«If we are going to reach my husband's North Star goal and have the highest proportion of graduates in the world by 2020, then good school counseling and advising can't just be a luxury for school systems that can afford it,» First Lady Michelle Obama said in a welcome video.

It's one thing to have a goal, it's another thing to really spend some time and energy and invest in the resources to build the capacity of teachers and school systems to deliver on the idea that all students ought to achieve at high levels.

The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.

Daniel Weisberg is chief executive officer of TNTP, an education nonprofit that helps school systems across the country end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students.

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The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

That's the theory behind «deeper learning,» a broad term encompassing the goals of an increasing number of U.S. schools and school systems.

Topics of discussion include: • Creating, executing, and evaluating measureable goals and benchmarks to ensure TRUE college and career readiness • Scaling implementation of programs to assess student growth and close math learning gaps • Building teacher capacity through TRUE professional learning communities and collaborative internal support systems • Leading a district - wide mindset shift toward ensuring lifelong learning for both adults and students All school and district - based leaders, and K - 12 educators are invited to attend.

(i) Conduct a self - assessment that evaluates the program's progress towards meeting goals established under paragraph (a) of this section, using aggregated child assessment data where applicable, compliance with program performance standards throughout the program year, and the effectiveness of the professional development and family engagement systems in promoting school readiness, using classroom, professional development, and parent and family engagement data, as appropriate;

The en banc Ninth Circuit declared that «when a racially diverse school system is the goal (or racial concentration or isolation is the problem), there is no more effective means than a consideration of race to achieve the solution.»

It does not prescribe particular systems or interventions for the vast majority of schools, instead setting strong goals for states and giving them the flexibility to determine how their schools and districts will meet them.

California's new school funding system is driving districts in diverse regions of the state to shift their resources to achieve one of the key goals laid out in the sweeping financial reform effort — graduating students so they are ready for college or careers.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

California is committed to providing one system of connected resources supporting Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Priorities to support local educational agencies and schools achieve the goals of the LCFF priorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student population.

This conflicts with ESSA's stated goal to identify the schools where support is most needed, as the support system would effectively focus on only one type of school because the indicators used to measure performance would not apply meaningfully to that school type.

The goal in Boston is to improve a whole system of schools.

The project will invest $ 100 million into 10 new or newly expanding schools that are rethinking how schools should operate, with the ultimate goal of inspiring changes to how the U.S. public education system as a whole teaches high school students.

Another one of UrbEd's core goals is increasing teacher diversity — more people of color and male teachers in the public school system, specifically black male educators.

We support policies, practices, and funding to strengthen the state's early childhood system, with the goals of dramatically increasing school readiness, improving third grade reading and math proficiency, supporting families, and ultimately building a strong workforce for Kentucky's future.

Although our member faculty and deans come from different states and regions, we all share the same goals of building knowledge for the field and providing quality preparation and lifelong learning experiences for school and school system leaders.

In addition to being easy for individual schools, Common Goal Systems products scale up to meet the needs of whole dioceses.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

Effective group advocacy requires individuals to be knowledgeable, organize, define goals and objectives, understand the organization and structure of the local school system, use existing local and state systems, be committed, and be persistent and patient.

CEC helped RPS revise its teacher evaluation process and learn to use student growth measures before implementing PAR; conduct and analyze a detailed system assessment before beginning strategic planning; and develop a data - based decision - making culture at the school level before the implementation of SMART Goals as a school improvement process.

The goal is to create a «system of schools rather than a school system,» said Bradley Leon, the new chief innovation officer for the Shelby County district.