Sentences with phrase «high quality principal»

In an op - ed for School Administrator, Eli Broad describes the success of New Leaders and his support of New Leaders» research to identify training components that result in higher quality principals.

One key lever of the partnership is to improve the way high quality principals are matched with the schools that need them, so LSCs are better able to find and attract best fit candidates.

Not exact matches

«U.S. Solar's strategy of developing grid interconnected community solar projects aligns with our focus of investing in small - scale, high quality clean energy infrastructure,» said Ian Marcus, Principal at New Energy Capital Partners.

Downside protection — high - quality bonds have tended to outperform the stock market during downturns, when many investors are attracted to a bond fund's income stream and principal protection

By loaning money to a company with lower credit quality, investors face a higher risk of not receiving all of the promised interest and principal payments.

«The fact that our principals are from a restaurant background and still involved with other restaurants means we have a high sensitivity to what restaurants need, which is high quality, great service and fair pricing,» President Ray Nicholas says.

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world single - photon sources of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.

«This airborne platform provides us with higher - quality, higher - speed images than are achievable from current or previous space - borne instruments,» said Amir Caspi, Ph.D., principal investigator of the project and a senior research scientist in SwRI's Boulder, Colorado, office.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

Both Professor Lavonen and the principals of the schools we visited expressed that one of the key factors of why the Finnish system trumps all others is the huge investment that is made in developing high quality teachers.

Many agencies within the profession, including teachers and principals, are concerned about finding a balance between the compliance discourse that accompanies standards and regulation and the discourse of innovation that is central to the development of rigorous and high quality teaching and educational leadership.

«The Queensland Government is committed to ensuring state schools are equipped with high quality admin and support staff so that principals and teachers can focus on maximising student learning outcomes,» Jones said.

McCartney, one of the principal investigators of the long - term study, presents a balanced view on the findings, including the benefits of high - quality childcare...

School districts also have difficulty hiring quality principals, especially at the high school level.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

Just provide the data to teachers and principals — and continue to train the latter on how to conduct high - quality teacher observations — and call it a day.

Commenting on the project, Tim Jackson, Principal at Sparsholt College, said: «Foremans offered the most cost - effective solution to providing very high quality additional classrooms to accommodate the significant volume increases in students.

Nevertheless, even the most conservative of our three methodological approaches suggests substantial variation in principal effectiveness: a principal in the top 16 percent of the quality distribution will produce annual student gains that are 0.05 standard deviations higher than an average principal for all students in their school.

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

For student outcomes, greater emphasis on the selection and retention of high - quality principals would appear to have a very high payoff.

For the best principals, the rate of teacher turnover is highest in grades in which teachers are least effective, supporting the belief that improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.

Importantly, because high teacher turnover can be associated with both improvement and decline in the quality of instruction, the amount of turnover on its own provides little insight into the wisdom of a principal's personnel decisions.

This may reflect the fact that it is challenging in high - poverty schools to separate the effects of school circumstances from the quality of the principal, leading district administrators to give principals from high - poverty schools a chance at a different school.

The results of this analysis confirm that the relationship between higher teacher turnover and lower average valueadded in a given grade is stronger as principal quality rises.

For example, if higher - quality principals and teachers are concentrated in higher - achieving, lower - poverty schools, it should not be surprising that a program that relies on high - quality principals and teachers has larger effects in these schools.

The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school teachers and principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»

In his letter, Duncan expressed his disappointment in the failure of Washington state's legislature to heed his instruction «to put in place teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that take into account information on student learning growth based on high - quality college - and career - ready (CCR) state assessments as a significant factor in determining teacher and principal performance levels.»

Of course, more was necessary: vigorous and energetic superintendents, strong efforts to create magnet schools and to attract high - quality teachers and principals, publicity to draw students to them.

In both cases, allowing principals to obtain the resources needed to face the difficulties is crucial, and in this context a team of high quality teachers committed to helping these children overcome their constraints is the key.

At Cochrane Collegiate Academy, in Charlotte, North Carolina, high - quality teachers have been an important part of turning the school around, and many of them credit their principal, Josh Bishop, for helping them reach their full potential.

Included in Education Week's lineup of print editions are three high - profile annual reports — Quality Counts, Technology Counts, and Leaders To Learn From — and a mix of popular reports on such subjects as literacy instruction, personalized learning, student assessment, school principals, and teacher professional development.

This fact sheet summarizes key elements of high - quality and effective preparation and professional development programs designed to enable principals to improve student and school outcomes.

High - quality principals, therefore, are vital to the effectiveness of our nation's public schools, especially those serving the children with the fewest advantages in life.

This groundbreaking report documents the qualities of eight exemplary principal training programs and concludes, in the words of lead author and Stanford professor Linda Darling - Hammond, that «high - performing principals are not just born, but can be made.»

Such collaborations are viewed by many educators as key to high - quality training for aspiring principals.

• Strengthens leadership capacity of principals, deepening their ability to be leaders of high - quality professional learning.

In addition, the principal must demonstrate that she and her staff are conducting high quality observations that fairly and accurately reflect teaching performance and that teachers are using high quality measures of student achievement in the form of SGOs.

Moreover, principals strongly shape the conditions for high - quality teaching and are the prime factor in determining whether teachers stay in high - needs schools.

Title II of the ESSA remains geared toward preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and principals.

Pre-service principal training programs, run by universities, nonprofits or districts, recruit and select only the people with the potential and desire to become effective principals and provide them with high - quality training.

Supporting Effective Instruction grants provide federal funding to states for recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.

There is no getting around the fact that high - quality principal preparation and development require a comprehensive plan and significant financial commitment.

The Obama administration's $ 650 million Investing in Innovation Fund — designed to spur investments in innovative educational providers and practices — specified that applicants needed to «demonstrate their previous success in closing achievement gaps, improving student progress toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, or recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.»

Our members are working to connect principals with high - quality professional learning opportunities focused on building schools and supporting teachers that prioritize the whole child.

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Drawing on these findings, researchers provide practical advice on how to make high - quality principal preparation the rule rather than the exception.

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If headed by effective principals, schools stand a better chance of providing each and every student with the high - quality education essential for success in the 21st century.

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