Sentences with phrase «help school district leaders»

Earlier this summer, Achieve launched the Student Assessment Inventory for School Districts, a new tool to help school district leaders to take stock of how many assessments are administered throughout a school year and for what purposes they are given.

The U.S. Department of Education will host a series of Future Ready Regional Summits to help school district leaders improve teaching and student learning outcomes through the effective use of technology...

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The group should meet regularly with each other and perhaps quarterly with the school district leader, explains lead author Elizabeth Budd, M.P.H. Tapping into existing committees and resources (like the Parent Teacher Association, physical education teachers, and parents and community members with pertinent knowledge or skills) for help also can be key.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

Glen Ellyn District 41 officials are on the hunt for a search firm to help choose a new leader after Superintendent Ann Riebock announced she will retire at the end of this school year.

Glen Ellyn District 41 officials are on the hunt for a search firm to help them choose a new leader after Ann Riebock, the current superintendent, announced her retirement at the end of this school year.

When it came to representing his district, Silver often echoed the voices of key community leaders and the many thousands they represented, so they were in a sense in «the room» helping make decisions on vital issues like schools and affordable housing.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

Hartford's Equity 2020 committee, the advisory panel that city school leaders formed months ago to consider school consolidation, got its first glimpse of what the district's consultants have been working on in recent weeks — three possible scenarios to help shrink the school system starting in the 2017 - 18 school year.

Jesse Hamilton has spent his entire career helping people, including over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as District Leader of the 43rd Assembly District.

Through his doctoral research at Columbia University and experience as a tech specialist at the Fieldston School in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their distSchool in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their distschool leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their districts.

And it means that the district provides teacher leaders like Golden to support them in that effort — teacher leaders who meet monthly with the district's academic services division for professional learning to equip them with the skills they need to help schools succeed.

This Education Week special report examines how educators and policymakers are tackling critical issues facing principals already on the job and helping districts build a bench of strong school leaders.

Facilitate school district bankruptcy: Congress can help free local leaders from the burden of bad decisions made long ago.

Good news for education researchers: Your work is influencing district and school leaders, helping to guide their decisions.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mSchool of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mschool district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

How Districts Are Joining the Fight to Close a Troubling Training Gap Among America's School Leaders (The 74 Million) Professor Liz City discusses how the combination of job experience with theory and classroom learning might help to close the training gap for education lLeaders (The 74 Million) Professor Liz City discusses how the combination of job experience with theory and classroom learning might help to close the training gap for education leadersleaders.

Drawing on her background in organizational learning and leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Monica Higgins is helping school and district leaders find solutions to their toughest challenges through collaboration and entrepreneurial thiSchool of Education Professor Monica Higgins is helping school and district leaders find solutions to their toughest challenges through collaboration and entrepreneurial thischool and district leaders find solutions to their toughest challenges through collaboration and entrepreneurial thinking.

We are developing interventions to support young readers, helping to provide school districts and states with the capacity to use data more effectively, and engaging leaders from education systems from around the world.

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.

Part of a broader assessment - and - accountability plan, the proposal would help poor schools and save money for districts, state leaders say.

Bryan and his team have spent much time in the trenches of education leadership, including helping urban districts to expand their principal pipelines, evaluate leader effectiveness, and equip change agents to turn around schools.

School partnerships do have exciting potential to level the playing field — but to make that dream a reality, policymakers and district leaders will have to go to greater lengths to help the neediest schools establish secure relationships.

Many district and school leaders are struggling to put in place personalized learning programs that help students become better problem solvers, more creative thinkers, and highly skilled users of technology.

He eschews micromanaging school leaders and instead works alongside them to help them meet the goals of the district's long - range plan and to improve teacher performance in their schools.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

I am also continually working on improving and expanding our Digital Leadership & Learning practice area at the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) to help districts, schools, leaders, and educators initiate sustainable change.

Here are 10 ways school and district leaders can drive meaningful change that helps teachers thrive and shine, not just this week, but every day.

We are the nation's first PLC dedicated to helping district leaders enhance the 4Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) in schools, preparing students for citizenship in a changing economic landscape.

Hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, NCRPP is offering an online course February 5 - 18, 2018 that will help district leaders, school leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions theySchool of Education, NCRPP is offering an online course February 5 - 18, 2018 that will help district leaders, school leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions theyschool leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions they make.

This case is designed to help teachers, school and district leaders, parents, teacher educators, and middle and high school students have nuanced conversations about the challenges posed by divisive political rhetoric for school classrooms and communities.

This toolkit helps district, school, and charter management organization leaders select teachers and staff members for the school models of an Opportunity Culture.

Prior to District 79, she was the National Director of Recruitment and Admissions for New Leaders, where she helped school districts across the country recruit and select exemplary school lLeaders, where she helped school districts across the country recruit and select exemplary school leadersleaders.

Valerie is the President and Co-Founder of EdLeader21, the PLC dedicated to helping district and school leaders scale and sustain 21st century education practices system - wide... more»

As aDirector of Digital Learning at Bristol Warren Regional School District RI, EdTechTeacher Instructor, authorized Google for Education Trainer, author and speaker, Tom is recognized nationally as a leader in helping teachers, schools and districts transform teaching and learning with technology.

With increasing teacher - turnover rates in high - poverty and urban districts, school and district leaders need to make sure that the job is satisfying and rewarding — and quality collaboration time can help lower turnover rates.

14, leverage connections near and far to help school and district leaders succeed.

In «Partnership Is a Two - Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&school district educators.»

As Leading Educators expands its work, it will focus on helping schools and districts create sustainable, paid leadership opportunities for its leaders, enabling them to advance in their careers while remaining teachers.

«I'm excited that we have begun our work with these national leaders and that our local school districts will be able to use their expertise to help build the types of comprehensive evaluation systems that will provide meaningful feedback to teachers while gauging their effectiveness in a fair manner.»

In an effort to help school districts provide students with a well rounded education that includes the humanities and arts, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state and local education leaders outlining creative ways they may enhance holistic education programs by utilizing in conjunction various federal resources.The department defines humanities in the letter as history, civics, government, economics, geography, literature, art, music and other non-STEM subjects not usually found in the English / language arts curriculum.

Teacher leaders — current or former classroom teachers who work with other teachers and educators in their schools or districts to help improve instruction — are a key feature of many school reform efforts.

District and school leaders can also select specific videos or playlists of content to help their staff in specific focus areas.

Center for Educational Leadership www.k-12leadership.org The University of Washington CEL is a proponent of effective instruction — for teachers and school and district leaders — as a means to help close the achievement gap.

Over at the State Department of Education, Stefan Pryor got rid of Connecticut's experienced Leaders in Residence and the team of experts who were dedicated to helping Connecticut's Priority School Districts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest dDistricts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest districtsdistricts.

With Common Core state standards among the latest district and school reform initiatives to be supported in many states throughout the US, Cosner was called on to help Wisconsin school districts leaders consider how to productively harness this and other such policy initiatives at the district and school level.

Changes to FERPA should also include the aforementioned new investment in helping educators and school district leaders comply with the vast array of existing federal and state privacy requirements, including expanded support for the U.S. Department of Education's Privacy and Technical Assistance Center.

District leaders faced with struggling schools were less rather than more likely to sponsor leadership - development initiatives or to provide strategic help to principals; they focused instead on recruiting a different sort of administrator.

District leaders need to find ways to help secondary and elementary school principals work with teachers in order to improve.

Networking between schools helps district leaders to identify differences in school needs and to enable school personnel to find solutions among themselves, rather than relying solely on the district for help.