Sentences with phrase «helping school districts improve»

Professional development can be an important tool in helping school districts improve educator effectiveness and retain their top teachers — particularly when professional development activities are individualized to each teacher's needs.

«We are eager to use our research to help these school districts improve their policies and practices for preparing, supporting, and retaining the best principals.»

Charlotte N.C. (Aug. 10, 2017)-- Social - emotional learning (SEL) assessments can provide valuable information to help school districts improve their SEL programs and address the social - emotional strengths and needs of individual students.

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SNA is constantly promoting school meal success stories to our members so they can learn from their peers in other districts, and we provide training and educational resources to help them improve the meals they serve.

I also discussed all the perverse incentives that can lead schools to offer foods and beverages like these, which do nothing to improve student nutrition but everything to help a district's bottom line.

Last month, District 54 school board members suggested that rather than help pay for the new playground, they could improve the blacktopped play area at the school.

The expanded use of school kitchens can benefit school districts and their communities by improving access to, knowledge of, and the ability to prepare healthy foods; helping to process and store fresh produce from community gardens; and even supporting local entrepreneurship.

LeBarre said the bond measure was approved because the school district worked with members of the community, discussing the need for resources to help boost their children's long - term success with improved nutrition and the plans for how the funds will be used to accomplish these goals.

your mission is documenting HISD's school food reform journey, helping school food reform activists with a road - map to improve food in their districts, as well as bringing awareness to the issues that surround school food reform.

The Lunch Box is a website that provides guides and tools that are specifically designed to help school district food service teams improve their food and operations.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

A former Community School Board president, Jackson said that improving educational opportunities for district residents was essential to helping them raise their economic standing.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

Huntley, who previously worked as the president of Community School Board 28, has focused a lot of her efforts in Albany on improving the schools in her district and helping residents with the foreclosure crisis.

TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO The district is looking into getting a camera to help improve school security at the front of the building.

Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city's high rate of poverty.

«I want more accountability for our school district, and I want systems that help us improve outcomes.

«It's a bittersweet situation, I think we have a person that has poured themselves into the Syracuse City School District over the last five years and have helped us move forward in terms of improving graduation rates, decreasing drop - out rates and getting our schools off the receivership list,» Dorsey said.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

The Department of Education should continue to provide information and technical assistance to states, school districts, and local schools by funding education experts to help educators improve their overall operations or classroom teaching.

Michigan's governor has named a panel of 120 citizens to help the Detroit school district improve its governance, but some skeptics worry that the group's size and broad mission might hamper its effectiveness.

It can help school districts and other groups develop a common vocabulary about data, identify areas in which they can improve their use of data across their functional areas, and chart a path toward using the data more strategically.

We want to help you successfully meet these demands and improve student learning in your schools and districts.

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,»).

The Metro Nashville district in Tennessee began an intensive high - school - redesign process six years ago, and, about three years ago, officials there began developing an intensive professional development strategy to help high school teachers improve their work in project - based learning.

Further, it worked with hundreds of colleges and K - 12 school districts to help them improve educational outcomes and university admissions.

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Three provisions in the new law might help states and school districts improve their systems of school finance.

The Virtual Instruction to Accentuate Learning program in Putnam County Schools in Cookeville, Tenn., has used blended learning to improve the district's graduation rate and help hundreds of students gain college credits while in high school.

Following a spirited debate about federal spending priorities in education, the House education committee approved a bill last week that would authorize new money to help districts improve school facilities, including making them more environmentally friendly.

Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire states.

The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.

In North Carolina, in the mid-1970s, Raleigh and suburban Wake County were combined into one district, which changed the real estate picture (all homes were now in the same district) and helped improve the area's unified school system.

«Our recommendation would be that every school district have specific, proven programs for reducing stress and for helping administrative, teaching, and support staff manage stress and improve communication and problem solving skills,» urged McCraty.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scores.

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.

This type of strategy is not seen as harmful by the district because it helps them «launder» their school grades — the magnet students artificially boost the school metrics and the district can take credit for the «improving» school grades.

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.

Education Northwest's expertise extends from helping to improve schools and districts to building the capacity of nonprofit organizations to supporting community volunteers.

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

«Today's investments will help these districts and school networks — and in time, all districts — develop better systems to identify and reward great teachers, make sure the highest - need students have access to the most effective teachers every year, and give all teachers the support they need to improve.»

Penn Hills School District has implemented a new Raptor visitor management system to help improve student and staff safety.

«It's a lofty goal, considering the state average,» said Shelah Feldstein, a Tulare County Office of Education math staff development and curriculum specialist who is helping to spearhead a project that aims to improve 5th - grade math achievement in a network of area schools and districts.

«The Other Side of the Report Card is a complete implementation guide to help school districts develop or improve how they convey to families the social, emotional, and character strengths and needs of their children in a culturally appropriate way.

Improving schools starts with transparency around performance so states and districts can help low - performing schools get better.

Well - designed FERPA improvements can help build that trust and ensure that schools, districts, and states are able to use data to improve learning and strengthen education without compromising student privacy.

Likewise, it is critical that a desire for data traditionally gathered from meal applications does not stand in the way of districts and schools implementing community eligibility, which can help support educational achievement, reduce hunger, and improve children's nutrition and health.

That mistake, however, does not remove the necessity to have a national approach to help the states and local school districts to improve education.

Now, as more districts begin using online professional development to help teachers improve their skills, school administrators must be sure to avoid the same pitfalls, say experts who have watched the number and variety of cyber programs rise in recent years.