Sentences with phrase «help school divisions»

By providing targeted funding to help school divisions recruit and / or retain qualified middle - school mathematics teachers, students are better able to meet curriculum standards and have a more solid foundation for success in high school mathematics.

The principal evaluation training materials are intended to help school divisions in aligning their current evaluation systems with the revised Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Principals.

The training materials are intended to help school divisions in aligning their current evaluation systems with the newly revised Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers.

The department also administers programs to help school divisions recruit and retain highly qualified teachers and recognize instructional excellence.

The Virginia Department of Education — supported by a $ 1.1 million grant from the Hewlett Foundation — is developing resources and regional and statewide professional learning opportunities to help school divisions develop the capacity to design performance - based assessments and provide instruction that supports deeper learning.

The Virginia Middle School Teacher Corps (MSTC) helps school divisions fill a critical teacher shortage area, middle school mathematics.

Please review this information and evaluate whether the identified best practices and past recommendations may help your school division direct more resources to the classroom.

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The MDR division of Dun & Bradstreet works to help companies engage with the best educators for their brands through online communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET, and School Leaders Now.

A lot of folks in the girls high school basketball community in California know about the current Harvard - Westlake team, mostly because of the prominence of the Pepperdine - signed Ruffus - Milner twins, Jayla and Jayda, who helped lift the Wolverines to the CIF Southern Section Open Division final last season before they lost 62 - 58 to Long Beach Poly.

over the last seven months coaches from high school to Division I have studied the spread - option offense that carried Utah to a 12 — 0 season, helped Smith become the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft and landed Utes coach Urban Meyer, who first conceived the offense four years ago while he was Bowling Green's coach, a seven - year, $ 14 million deal from Florida.

In early August, Pittsburgh coach Ralph Willard hired Troy Weaver, whose only coaching experience had been with an AAU program in Washington, D.C. Weaver had several Division I prospects in his program, including 6» 9» senior Attila Cosby, whom he helped place at Oak Hill Academy, a school in Mouth of Wilson, Va., known for its basketball talent, and who suddenly looks like a lock for Pitt.

Last year's historic 16 - 0 season that ended with the CIF Small Schools Open Division title really helped the Raiders pass a lot of schools heading into this Schools Open Division title really helped the Raiders pass a lot of schools heading into this schools heading into this season.

Created with funds provided by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Agriculture, the recipes were developed with the help of school foodservice professionals, and a full nutritional breakdown and national meal pattern components are supplied for each one.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

But that study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program in 15 schools statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, sticking to a sleep schedule helps increase the chances of getting the type of sleep you need.

Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills school district won the $ 100,000 top team award in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.

The Workforce Diversity Taskforce will be tasked with evaluating the notification and posting procedures for exams and hiring to ensure they are clear to all audiences, suggesting locations for posting announcements that would encourage broader participation, and helping to more broadly promote awareness for the wide variety of employment opportunities in county and local government as well as other civil divisions such as local school, fire, and library districts.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

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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.

Franklin P. Schargel, one of the authors of Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem, is chairman - elect of the Education Division of the American Society of Quality.

A major barrier to teacher professionalization is that college and university leaders too often use education schools as «cash cows» to bring revenue into the general budget helping other institutional divisions at the expense of teaching!

Hosted by the San Diego County Office of Education - Learning and Leadership Services Division, the specialized leadership institutes help school leaders implement structures and processes for providing teacher feedback and growth.

This special education leadership initiative, established in 2008 to assist school divisions and state - operated programs with succession planning, is designed to help prepare potential leaders for administrative positions in special education.

Aside from helping schools craft improvement plans, Ritz says she wants the state's liasons — and the half - dozen Indianapolis - based staffers for the Department of Education's newly - created Outreach Division — to become resources for the schools.

The Indiana School Safety Specialist's Academy, a division of the Indiana Department of Education, published a report in 2014 that identified seven design features that help boost school secSchool Safety Specialist's Academy, a division of the Indiana Department of Education, published a report in 2014 that identified seven design features that help boost school secschool security.

Summary: Just as towns and cities across the country are grappling with racial and ethnic tensions and divisions, schools and districts, too, are trying to figure out how to help students navigate these same conflicts.

Light Street Special Education Solutions (a division of Learn It Systems (helps schools succeed... Communicate effectively with instructional staff regarding learners» strengths and needs within the...

Culture and Collaboration Collaborate effectively and meet frequently with the MWA Division Directors, Associate School Directors, Deans of Students, Lead Teachers, Content Leads, the other divisional DCI, and MWAS team members to successfully build capacity of Teaching Faculty and Teacher Interns Work with the Data and Assessment team to compile, analyze, and respond to data on the school's schoolwide data management and assessment systems, including oversight and implementation of the schoolwide Benchmark Assessment system Through informal observations, formal observations, and other qualitative measures, utilize approved tools and matrices to assess faculty adherence and fidelity to efficacy and growth mindset instructional practices, data - informed instructional lesson planning and practices, and cultural competence practices in working with students, faculty and families Work closely with the Director of Teacher Residency to support and inform MWA Teacher Residents with the necessary entry - level skills expected of MWA teachers; this includes working with and supporting the Mentor Teachers assigned to Teacher Residents Supervise and support New Teacher Induction Program Mentor teachers towards helping new - to - the - profession teachers in «clearing» their credential and meeting state mandates for certification; this includes support for all intern teachers Develop and maintain positive relationships with various internal & external stakeholders including administrative colleagues, parents, students, teaching faculty, support and intervention staff members, and board mSchool Directors, Deans of Students, Lead Teachers, Content Leads, the other divisional DCI, and MWAS team members to successfully build capacity of Teaching Faculty and Teacher Interns Work with the Data and Assessment team to compile, analyze, and respond to data on the school's schoolwide data management and assessment systems, including oversight and implementation of the schoolwide Benchmark Assessment system Through informal observations, formal observations, and other qualitative measures, utilize approved tools and matrices to assess faculty adherence and fidelity to efficacy and growth mindset instructional practices, data - informed instructional lesson planning and practices, and cultural competence practices in working with students, faculty and families Work closely with the Director of Teacher Residency to support and inform MWA Teacher Residents with the necessary entry - level skills expected of MWA teachers; this includes working with and supporting the Mentor Teachers assigned to Teacher Residents Supervise and support New Teacher Induction Program Mentor teachers towards helping new - to - the - profession teachers in «clearing» their credential and meeting state mandates for certification; this includes support for all intern teachers Develop and maintain positive relationships with various internal & external stakeholders including administrative colleagues, parents, students, teaching faculty, support and intervention staff members, and board mschool's schoolwide data management and assessment systems, including oversight and implementation of the schoolwide Benchmark Assessment system Through informal observations, formal observations, and other qualitative measures, utilize approved tools and matrices to assess faculty adherence and fidelity to efficacy and growth mindset instructional practices, data - informed instructional lesson planning and practices, and cultural competence practices in working with students, faculty and families Work closely with the Director of Teacher Residency to support and inform MWA Teacher Residents with the necessary entry - level skills expected of MWA teachers; this includes working with and supporting the Mentor Teachers assigned to Teacher Residents Supervise and support New Teacher Induction Program Mentor teachers towards helping new - to - the - profession teachers in «clearing» their credential and meeting state mandates for certification; this includes support for all intern teachers Develop and maintain positive relationships with various internal & external stakeholders including administrative colleagues, parents, students, teaching faculty, support and intervention staff members, and board members

Institutes held at the Centers provide training and resources, and staff help facilitate efforts with local school divisions.

This fun and educational board game helps your school aged learner to practice those multiplication and division facts while having fun.

Focus schools must employ a state - approved coach to help the division develop, implement and monitor intervention strategies to improve the performance of students at risk of not meeting achievement standards or dropping out of school.

Given the above, it is hard to see how the emergence of increased competition, division and fragmentation within the teacher trade union movement is going to help teachers (and school leaders) reclaim the initiative in relation to the education policy agenda.

Previously, Mr. Cumes led the outbound education abroad division of Intrax Cultural Exchange, launching and managing several businesses dedicated to helping high school and college students study, intern, and volunteer abroad.

«What we are finding across the divisions is that these thinking routines help learners ponder topics that might not seem to invite intricate thinking at first glance,» explained educators at Randolph School, a K — 12 independent school in North AlSchool, a K — 12 independent school in North Alschool in North Alabama.

The Division of English for Speakers of Other Languages / Bilingual Programs (ESOL) has developed rigorous curricula to help elementary, middle, and high school English language learners acquire the academic English that is critical to their success in school.

While Bifulco and Reback offer some policy suggestions for ways to help mitigate financial stress as charter schools expand — such as constraining when students may enroll in charters in order to help districts plan their budgets more systematically — right now ideological divisions have left the two sectors at a stalemate.

Not all schools have Reading Recovery though, so one of the ways parents can help is to advocate for the school board, division or district to implement Reading Recovery.

During his 4 year tenure at QuinStreet he helped lead the inception and growth of the companies non-profit schools division along with developing major media partnerships with companies like Monster.com, Military.com and AOL.com.

By taking a risk, students can cross the lines of division in a safe, supported environment, meet new people and help build an inclusive and welcoming school community.

The charter school division spends $ 2.9 million more than the available funding on monitoring and helping independent charters, and routine audits can cost an average of $ 70,000, the report says.

The Academy is a program established to assist school divisions and state - operated programs with succession planning and is designed to help prepare potential leaders for future administrative positions in special education.

Any student who does not pass the lower division high school exams on their first try will be offered a customized program designed to help them succeed on their next attempt.

All VBCPS 10th - grade students are required to participate in an online SAT course through Khan Academy, and they have the opportunity to take part in SAT courses and prep classes offered at each of the division's high schools that build vocabulary, critical reading and writing skills as well as help students develop test - taking and problem - solving strategies.

The office includes a parent ombudsman and a family engagement specialist who help parents and advocates work collaboratively with school divisions to resolve concerns and navigate special education processes.

Academic review — A process for helping schools and school divisions identify and analyze instructional and organizational factors affecting student achievement.

University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries is an annual collection development tool published with the help and support of two divisions of the American Library Association: The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the Collection Development and Evaluation Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA / CODES).

The University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries is an annual collection development tool published with the help of two divisions of the American Library Association: the Public Library Association (PLA) and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).

The University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries is an annual collection development tool published with the help and support of two divisions of the American Library Association: The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and a committee of Public Library Reviewers (PLR).