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Read more below about the teacher support programs, how district leaders described the impetus behind each program and what outcomes they observed in practice.

The study, Starting With Why: How District Leaders Create a Compelling Sense of Urgency to Drive District - wide Change, features the Wilkinson County School District in Irwinton, GA and examines how leaders developed, promoted, and supported a district - wide culture of instructional innovation that laid the groundwork for steady gains in 8th grade math achievement for African - American males and economically disadvantaged students.

C - SAIL co-director Laura Desimone discusses how district leaders, principals, and teachers in Texas and Ohio differ in their perceptions of their states» policy environments.

Two examples in the report — one from Oakland and another from Los Angeles — show how district leaders, schools, and community partners integrate student supports that build both institutional and instructional capacity in and across districts, schools, classrooms, and communities.

The study, Starting With Why: How District Leaders Create a Compelling Sense of Urgency to Drive District - wide Change, features the Wilkinson County School District in Irwinton, GA...

From training teachers to recognize and support trauma victims to partnering with community organizations making sure you have the right counselors on staff to support children, this blog by Carole Learned - Miller outlines how district leaders can ensure they have trauma sensitive schools.

Deb Page, Insitute President said, «Dr. Hinton set the bar nationally for how district leaders coach, supervise, support and assess their LAUNCH participants.

The differences reflect differences in state accountability systems; they also reflect differences in how district leaders use the data resources provided by the states, and in how they compensate for perceived deficiencies.

This guidebook highlights how district leaders can use the research - based FRS framework and free planning resources to overcome challenges inherent in their rural setting to transform teaching and create a personalized learning experience for their students.

This guidebook highlights how district leaders can use the research - based FRS framework and free planning resources to leverage opportunities and overcome challenges inherent in their rural setting to transform teaching and create a personalized learning experience for their students.

Not exact matches

The Buffalo Public School District has had four superintendent's in five years, and infighting over how a new leader should be chosen spurred Peoples - Stokes» proposal.

We are locking up the district assembly», the youth leader revealed and when asked how such defiance was to be carried through in the presence of the soldiers, he answered: «when we get to the bridge we shall cross».

«Brad and I had good conversations about this campaign and how my experience as a community activist and Democratic District Leader would be an asset in the State Assembly,» she said.

Both legislative leaders said yesterday that her proposals are a template from which to re-start negotiations, although there is a school of thought — one particularly of concern to black and Latino leaders in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan — that Mann's lines will end up standing, since they allow the majorities in both the Senate and Assembly to punt on hard decisions about whose district to eliminate and how.

Mostly Uprising has focused on a technical issue: how party leaders create political districts.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

Word is out that the possible challenge may come from Yudelka Tapia, who has run so many times (and lost) that I'm not sure how much credibility she has these days (although she may have won the female District Leader).

A Bellone spokesman last week said that he had no details on how the county executive plans to proceed, but legislative leaders in both parties urged Bellone to undertake a national search, given the scandals that have rocked the police and sheriff's departments and now the district attorney «s office.

«This new congressional district is heavily Asian, and I will be sitting down with our Queens Democratic Organization Chairman, Congressman Joseph Crowley, our community leaders and activists to discuss how the coming months may shape out,» she said, while praising Mr. Ackerman.

«Brad and I had good conversations about this campaign and how my experience as a community activist and Democratic district leader would be an asset in the state Assembly,» Ms. Simon said in a statement.

sean is a true gentleman and a great guy cares about his community and knows exactly how to get things done for his future constituents he WILL bring home the bacon for his district and do whats right when those decisions are most needed now for our fiscal security and our future for our children i will be voting for Sean FOR SURE — lets support a proven leader and a great american

«Already, the leaders of the city, the school district, and the county have begun discussing how the three of us can work together.»

A group of Brooklyn teachers, chapter leaders and UFT representatives met on June 7 at a local diner with City Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positions.

Can you provide any concrete examples of the «major initiatives» Rajkumar has «led,» or how she has used her district leader position to «consistently advocate for us downtown,» or what exactly she worked on with Nadler so closely?

Erie County Legislature's Minority Leader John J. Mills is proud to announce his appointments to serve on the Advisory Committee on Reapportionment which will convene later this month to develop, and formally submit, a recommendation on how to decrease the Legislature from 15 members to 11, and re-draw 11 district lines.

For a great article on the duties of a District Leader read M. Burgo's blog post on How To Pick A District Leader.

How can district leaders ensure that union contracts do not stifle creativity and innovation in their districts?

Reflecting the expanding responsibilities of technology directors and heightened demand for schools to build students» 21st - century skills, the Consortium for School Networking has updated its framework detailing how chief technology officers, or CTOs, can become educational leaders in their districts.

Through his doctoral research at Columbia University and experience as a tech specialist at the Fieldston School in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their districts.

Talk to your union representatives and school district leaders about how to promote your innovations to state leaders and how it can be scaled up to illustrate its effectiveness outside your classroom door.

Ultimately, however, district leaders must ensure that their staff members know how to take advantage of management rights, and school boards must charge the superintendent and senior staff with actually making full use of managerial prerogatives.

With three months left in Thomas W. Payzant's decade - long tenure as superintendent of the Boston schools, those charged with finding a successor are getting an earful from scholars, community groups, and civic leaders as they consider how much of a change agent the district needs.

This Education Week special report examines how educators and policymakers are tackling critical issues facing principals already on the job and helping districts build a bench of strong school leaders.

If you focus only on district - level work, high - level leaders won't develop a vivid vision of how family engagement policies actually affect families and students.

Join your fellow district leaders this fall at the Education Week Leadership Forum Ed Tech 2013: Powering Up Success — an interactive day focused on how to use digital tools to raise student achievement.

One of the consequences of the high - stakes state assessments that were mandated in NCLB and the requirement for a fifth indicator of school success in the present - day successor of NCLB (The Every Student Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and schools.

Visit the Digital Learning Video Gallery on the website for the Alliance for Excellent Education to view real - life, practical stories about how district and school leaders are improving learning outcomes through effective use of technology.

In other places, I'm struck at how often I chat with district or state leaders whose take on the number - crunching, vendors, and data systems seems to be, «Hey, the experts will take care of that technical stuff.»

Yet the court reasoned that it is the administrative decisions of district leaders — rather than the challenged statutes — which bear the ultimate responsibility for how teachers are distributed across the state.

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This led to a patient explanation from other charter leaders as well as district leaders about how hard it is for communities to see a building shuttered or handed over to a charter school when generations of neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to be accomplished leaders, attended the school.

Urban school leaders who join me at the program will learn more about their personal leadership style and how they can use it most effectively to improve teaching and learning in their schools and districts.

One charter leader put in stark terms how closing a district school and replacing it with a charter school can feel like a personal affront to a community if there hasn't been enough transparency about school performance:

Three days after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in American history, state and district education leaders across the country are reviewing security measures, increasing police presence, and grappling with how to answer students» questions about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Newtown, Conn., district.

Four finalists in the search for a Portland, Ore., schools superintendent have bowed out of consideration, triggering a new round in the search for a leader and a host of questions about how the district lost all four nationally prominent candidates.

Principals act as their school's instructional leader, in stark contrast to district schools, where principals, though accountable for school outcomes, have limited control over what's being taught and how.

District leaders estimate that eliminating the layers of bureaucracy that oversee the clusters would save $ 60 million over five years, though they could not say how they arrived at that figure.

Candidate Impact Through Partnership: How District Central Offices Can Foster Principals» Development as Effective Instructional Leaders Through Systems of Support, Development, and Accountability Friday, April 14, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 3

Many district leaders fall at one extreme or other, either hiding behind rules and regulations and eschewing strong actions, or taking strong actions but failing to explain how these stem from a broader strategy.