Sentences with phrase «improving district and school»

Yet, when The Wallace Foundation became involved in education leadership, very few states had a comprehensive plan for improving district and school leadership.

While state support teams have proven to be effective in improving district and school leadership, they need to work more closely with teachers to impact student learning.

We need to understand much more about the interactive processes involved in research use, or what Tseng (2007) has called «the demand side» of research use before we can improve district and school leaders» research use.

Not exact matches

Unions at Kaiser Permanente, Harley Davidson (HOG), Southwest Airlines (LUV), ABC School District in Los Angeles and others are building and sustaining partnerships with employers to improve performance, quality and working conditions.

When Peggy Bodnar became the Food & Nutrition Services Supervisor at Boise School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellnSchool District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellnschool lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness...

Then I met Mary Lawton, a human dynamo (and great cartoonist) who's been working for six long years to improve school food in my district.

New York City Department of Education (New York), Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles), Chicago Public Schools (Chicago), Miami - Dade County Public Schools (Miami), Dallas Independent School District (Dallas), Orange County Public Schools (Orlando), Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale), Clark County Public Schools (Las Vegas), School District of Philadelphia (Philadelphia), Baltimore Public Schools (Baltimore), and Boston Public Schools (Boston) will coordinate menus to improve purchasing power from food providers so that costs are kept low.

Education Code 32270 (2003) establishes a statewide school safety cadre to facilitate interagency coordination and collaboration among school districts, youth - serving agencies, community - based organizations, and law enforcement agencies to improve school attendance, encourage good citizenship, and reduce school violence, crimes, gang membership and violence, truancy, bullying, and discrimination and harassment.

Also, districts must collaborate with the CSHAC to develop a school health improvement plan that addresses strategies for improving student nutrition, health, and physical activity.

Researchers looked at eleven Massachusetts school districts from 2011 to 2014, which was one year before and two years after improved standards for both meals and snacks took effect in that state.

So, kids — instead of just complaining, how about rolling up your sleeves and trying to figure out a way to improve the food in your school district?

Jessica currently works in many different school districts teaching the kitchen staff to improve their culinary skills and talking to the students about cooked - from - scratch foods.

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

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.

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

In early 2010, Siegel became interested in improving the food in her children's school district, Houston ISD, and soon after launched The Lunch Tray, a blog focusing on «kids and food, in school and out.»

When Peggy Bodnar became the Food & Nutrition Services Supervisor at Boise School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness of their stuSchool District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness of their stuschool lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness of their students.

For schools looking to improve the physical and mental well - being of their students, few options are more favorable than emulating the food program of the Auburn School District.

Children's Hunger Alliance consults with local school districts to improve access to breakfast and can also provide financial grants to support expansion efforts.

Overall, the food program implemented by the Auburn School District is a simple yet revolutionary approach that can provide improved dietary health and food education to students in participating schools.

Kitchen equipment upgrades are another hot topic in the news, and districts from New York to Dallas and beyond are seeking the resources necessary to continue to improve the quality of school meals.

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.

School districts long struggled with the issue of feeding children whose parents couldn't or wouldn't pay, and Diane Pratt - Heavener, spokesperson for the School Nutrition Association, recently asserted on Take Part that the improved meal standards mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act have only worsened the problem.

That's a great goal but Houston ISD, arguably one of the leading districts in the country when it comes to improving school food, has been struggling for years to source local produce and it has yet to meet its stated goal of sourcing 25 % of the produce from local farms.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Established in 2004, The Golden Carrot Awards recognize food service teams in both public and private school districts doing exceptional work to improve the healthfulness of school lunches.

That diversity of views and experiences created a particularly stimulating atmosphere and led to many productive discussions about how to improve school food while meeting the needs of school districts.

Rob volunteers as the «Executive Chef of Wellness» for schools in Nixa, Missouri, a district that's been working hard to improve school food and student wellness.

The city, in return, would redevelop school park property near that patch of land, add a walking track, improve the school district's soccer field and add a new baseball and softball field for a cost of up to $ 180,000.

Only a fraction of the additional $ 4 million went into improving the school building; the remainder was spent on attorney fees, construction delays, storm - water improvements and land swap problems caused by wrangling between the school district, Clarendon Hills Park District and Clarendon Hills village ofdistrict, Clarendon Hills Park District and Clarendon Hills village ofDistrict and Clarendon Hills village officials.

Another of his goals, he said, is to improve relationships with neighboring municipalities, the school districts and the College of DuPage.

As the co-chair of the student nutrition and physical activity committee for the San Francisco Public School District, she has personally led the charge to improve school School District, she has personally led the charge to improve school school meals.

If the meeting doesn't turn out as you had hoped, have your group brainstorm creative ways to increase awareness of school nutrition and to bring more attention to ways to improve your district's school - food program.

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would «prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals.»

These include encouraging eligible afterschool programs to maximize service by providing suppers instead of or in addition to snacks, recruiting more school districts to provide afterschool suppers and snacks, simplifying the administration of the Afterschool Supper Program, serving meals during weekends, holidays, and school closures, and improving meal quality.

He said it also could improve bond ratings for local school districts and the Fox Valley Park District, as well as spur more business investment.

Empowering local school districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara Cschool districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara CSchool Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara County.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.

Recommendation: To improve SFAs» ability to design menus that comply with the new lunch requirements, the Secretary of Agriculture should modify federal regulations or guidance to allow school districts flexibility in complying with the defined calorie ranges for schools with students in both the grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12 groups.

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.

This report focuses on one crucial set of challenges that school districts face in meeting nutrition standards for meals: the need for improved equipment and infrastructure.

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.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

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In return, the city will redevelop a school park, improve the district's soccer field and add baseball and softball fields for up to $ 180,000.

So I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be done and there are districts that are working hard to improve their food, but I definitely feel a huge amount of sympathy for school food providers that I didn't have back in May, 2010.

Five years ago, when Chicago became the largest school district in the nation to privatize its meal program, city officials said the initiative was designed to improve the quality and wholesomeness of student food.

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.

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