Sentences with phrase «helping urban district leaders»

Contact us to learn more about the Texas Institute for School Boards and how it is helping urban district leaders improve public education in our state.

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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.

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.

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.

The Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI) is an organization created by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and American Institutes for Research to help district leaders from urban, rural, and suburban schools transform their systems to ultimately drive higher student achievement.

The study finds that in states with larger proportions of rural SIG schools (in comparison to states with more urban and suburban districts), significantly fewer school leaders reported that replacing principals to meet SIG requirements helped improve student achievement.