Sentences with phrase «helping school district leadership»

Still, as faculty chair of HISL, Peterkin knew that the weeklong institute — a Program in Professional Education focused on helping school district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators needed.

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In between there's time spent recruiting, training, team building and doing all that a Starbucks district manager does, along with helping her children with school work and her own coursework (she's studying organizational leadership through the Starbucks College Achievement Plan).

When schools expand their breakfast program through the implementation of one or more new strategies like BIC and / or CEP, there are several factors that help support a successful outcome: Strong leadership within the district, a diverse and engaged coalition of stakeholders (state agency, school nutrition department, anti-hunger and health partners, et al.), staff engagement and training on sharing the positive benefits of school breakfast, and strong overall communications and transparency.

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.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

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.

Teitel has coached individual superintendents, helped set up ongoing learning networks among superintendents and among principals, and has worked with intact leadership teams to help them support school and district improvement.

Suzanne Bond, an associate professor in educational leadership at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington, has helped to facilitate the development of mission statements at both the school and district level.

Since 2000, Wallace has helped states and school districts develop and test ways to improve leadership by principals and others in schools.

The promising outcomes of these exemplary programs include the capacities they develop in individual principals as well as the ways in which they help reshape the principal workforce and the district culture of school leadership.

We also offer facilitator training and a leadership academy to help you strengthen your skills around leading an ELL - focused learning community, facilitate training on ELL strategies, and increase your school or district's capacity to address the unique needs of ELL students.

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.

«Among them: partnerships between school districts and colleges to help communities grow their own teachers and align recruitment to high - need fields; competitive salaries as well as incentives, financial and otherwise, for hard - to - fill positions; the creation of strong mentoring programs and professional learning communities that make schools places teachers want to be; and effective leadership at the school level to maintain a supportive, collaborative school environment.»

In addition to supporting the four districts, the Bush Institute will be releasing tools, resources, and case studies on the work to contribute to the broader field of school leadership that will have the potential to help educators and students across the country.

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.

A unique combination of technology and personalized leadership coaching, the Kickboard school culture system helps educators streamline and simplify behavior management and interventions, positive behavior reinforcement, classroom management, social and emotional learning, and district - wide school culture analysis.

Teacher leaders can play a leadership role in helping their district or school adopt the highest - quality instructional materials available.

Documentation and evaluation: With school leadership and the district captain, establish a means for regular access to chronic absenteeism data, and help facilitate weekly data review meetings

Through short video overviews and supplemental resources, CPE analysts will provide exclusive insights for school boards that can be used at the board table, by district leadership teams, or with community groups to help citizens understand public education issues.

The Future Ready Schools Interactive Planning Dashboard is a free, online tool to help district leadership teams plan systemically to use technology effectively to engage students, empower teachers, and improve learning outcomes.

We will continue to provide in - depth leadership coaching to school and district leaders, helping them to capitalize on their emerging vision of high - quality teaching with new leadership strategies and actions.

The district's HR leadership team will share details of their transition from manual processes to using Hire, Records and Perform — including how creating a hiring handbook, updating job descriptions, adding portable hardware, attracting diverse candidates, and strengthening partnerships across district schools helped them achieve goals and operate more efficiently.

The Office of the Chief of Staff coordinates internal and external district - wide communications and strategic partnerships to increase transparency, support, and confidence in MPS; helps to identify, develop, engage, and integrate external resources and stakeholders to support schools, students and their families to increase student achievement; provides leadership, guidance, and consulting services for the District on strategic planning, performance management, and organizational process streamlining to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency, better inform future planning and budget formulation, and accountdistrict - wide communications and strategic partnerships to increase transparency, support, and confidence in MPS; helps to identify, develop, engage, and integrate external resources and stakeholders to support schools, students and their families to increase student achievement; provides leadership, guidance, and consulting services for the District on strategic planning, performance management, and organizational process streamlining to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency, better inform future planning and budget formulation, and accountDistrict on strategic planning, performance management, and organizational process streamlining to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency, better inform future planning and budget formulation, and accountability.

Solution Tree's experts will help you build strong leadership across your school or district.

A unique combination of technology and personalized leadership coaching, the Kickboard school culture system helps educators streamline and simplify behavior management and interventions, positive behavior reinforcement, classroom management, social - emotional learning, and district - wide school culture analysis.

Under Garcia's leadership, SEIU collaborated with both the Los Angeles Parents Union, which I co-founded, and Green Dot Public Schools to help parents gain the advocacy skills to communicate with teachers and district administrators to demand quality education.

Nevertheless, policy leaders should recognize that there are important elements to consider when starting new schools or changing school structures, which include a design and implementation plan; community involvement and support; a capable, supported school leader; and district leadership and help targeted at meeting each school's individual needs.

In the La Joya school district, for example, under the leadership of Superintendent Dr. Alda Benavides, we at IDRA have had the opportunity to help teachers create a professional learning community with mentoring and coaching in the classroom.

How can districts foster strong teacher leadership where teachers are prepared and empowered to lead collaborative learning opportunities with peers, while helping to build a school or district's instructional leadership capacity?

To help understand what systems thinking looks like in a school or district, let's explore some key habits of systems thinking that specifically pertain to school and district leadership.

Join us for a detailed examination of how effective leadership evaluations for all school - based and district leadership positions help foster a unified community of instruction.

Our case study on the key distributed leadership practices of one middle school in the Bronx, Creston Academy for Responsibility and Excellence, presents a guide intended to help other New York City principals reflect on their own approaches to meeting district - level expectations.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

Recruiting the most highly experienced teachers into administration as a final step in a long career (rather than 20 somethings with 2 yrs teaching and an 18 month degree in educational leadership) might way to enhance continuity in a school district, and help the very real administrative shortages.

In Shelby County Schools, which consolidated in 2013 with Memphis City Schools, the school board has expanded community engagement and literacy initiatives and implemented Key Performance Indicators to help the district leadership monitor the district's effectiveness in meeting the academic, social, and safety needs of students.

State and District leaders can help more turnaround - attempt schools succeed by selecting the right principals, training them, helping them transition to school models supported by teacher - leadership, tracking leading indicators of performance, and coaching principals to make needed changes fast.

CEC helps districts and school establish distributive leadership teams, including District Leadership Teams (DLTs), School Leadership Teams (SLTs), and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that work together to set, carry out, and monitor progress toward organizational priorschool establish distributive leadership teams, including District Leadership Teams (DLTs), School Leadership Teams (SLTs), and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that work together to set, carry out, and monitor progress toward organizational priorSchool Leadership Teams (SLTs), and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that work together to set, carry out, and monitor progress toward organizational priorities.

The meeting offers collaboration with other leading school districts tackling similar challenges; an opportunity to build relationships with peers in similar roles across the country and Truenorthlogic leadership; and, training to help get the most value from using Truenorthlogic's solutions.

The collaborative is also charged with helping to improve the quality of teaching and leadership in a district or school.

Because parent involvement is so important to student success, Henderson recommends that PTOs offer parent - leadership training to familiarize families with how the school district works and where to turn when they need help.

We helped Austin Independent School District launch its new - principal coaching support program by providing assistance with school leadership coach recruitment and selection, in - person and online coach training, and coach observation and feeSchool District launch its new - principal coaching support program by providing assistance with school leadership coach recruitment and selection, in - person and online coach training, and coach observation and feeschool leadership coach recruitment and selection, in - person and online coach training, and coach observation and feedback.

In partnership with the United Way, a dozen public school districts and higher learning institutions, local museums, local medical partners, and under the leadership and guidance of the YMCA of the USA, the YMCA of Greater Rochester continues to implement innovative programming that strengthens their communities, help children to be active and make healthy food choices, develop passions for arts and sciences, and strives to close the achievement gap.

NTC also partners with states and districts to report data on teaching and learning conditions using its Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning (TELL) survey to help states develop policies and practices that connect related factors, such as school leadership, teaching, and learning conditions, and specific educator policies.

Hampton City Schools has pulled students into leadership roles on its tech support team at the high school level, and these students are helping their peers and teachers with common technology issues, said John Eagle, the district's IT director.

When schools expand their breakfast program through the implementation of one or more new strategies like BIC and / or CEP, there are several factors that help support a successful outcome: Strong leadership within the district, a diverse and engaged coalition of stakeholders (state agency, school nutrition department, anti-hunger and health partners, et al.), staff engagement and training on sharing the positive benefits of school breakfast, and strong overall communications and transparency.

These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12

Schools and districts, possibly in partnership with teacher preparation programs and nonprofit organizations, can support teacher leaders as they develop the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that will help them achieve success in new leadership positions.

NYCLA provides leadership coaching, coach training, and strategic consulting for coaching programs to help districts, states, charter schools, and other education - focused organizations that work with schools leverage one of the most important factors that influences student achievement — the role of the principal.

Noticing my efforts around developing leaders, the Schools Chancellor and Bank Street College of Education asked me to help create a principal's institute to recruit minorities and women to assume school and district leadership positions in New York City.

Through our thought leadership, CTQ also works to articulate the promise of systemic change to help all stakeholders embrace the necessity of reforms that are comprehensive and wide - reaching (beyond the confines of an individual school or school district).