Sentences with phrase «improving leadership practices»

School leaders throughout the country have improved their leadership practice and have turned around underperforming schools into those where students achieve.

Improve your leadership practice by reflecting on where you are now and how to best move forward.

See how other principals and school leaders have shaped and improved their leadership practice and learn how their techniques could apply to your education setting.

They recognise that working across both the Teacher Standards and Principal Standard is important for reflecting on and improving leadership practice, and that leadership pathways are diverse and no less valuable if they don't lead to principalship.

iObservation facilitates teacher growth and improved leadership practices through targeted and differentiated professional development to increase teacher and leadership effectiveness.

When building principals look for what students are doing to hit learning targets during today's lesson, they improve their leadership practices.

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By improving the franchisee experience through the practices of servant leadership, the customer experience became richer and more satisfying, leading to more loyal customers.

Just as professional artists must practice and experiment to develop and improve their artistic skills, so must leaders work to acquire and improve their leadership abilities.

We can certainly say that the Six Seconds training proved decisive in pushing managers and middle managers towards improving their leadership skills and towards applying at best the personnel development practices offered by our department.»

Participants will benefit from action planning after each phase of training, where they will be asked to come up with behaviors or actions that they will need to practice to improve their leadership.

Not just a «training,» leaders will focus on specific ways to practice and improve their servant leadership behaviors, and master those behaviors in their decisions and actions as leaders.

It aspires to empower individuals and organizations to exercise their own ingenuity and assume leadership, and to improve their own performance and practices, quality of life, and the well - being of their communities.

Established in 1974, the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) provides industry leadership to advocate for public policies, research and education programs, sustainable farming practices and trade positions to improve the viability of winegrape growing as an essential contributor to California's economy, culture, and landscape.

As one of the first companies to introduce an organic and fair trade vanilla from Madagascar, we are committed to programs that promote sustainable environmental practices and which enable farmers to earn a successful livelihood in countries where poverty is common.As part of this sustainability commitment, Nielsen - Massey has taken a leadership role in improving the overall health of the vanilla industry, with a particular emphasis on improving economic prospects for the farmers who make the industry possible.

He praised Marrett's «willingness to take on such an important leadership role» and said that Olsen would help improve NSF - wide management practices «in areas such as strengthening merit review and interdisciplinary research processes, workforce planning, Program Officer training and development, and succession planning.»

This «remarkable era» has been driven by concerted efforts to improve care, as well as strong leadership among health care professionals treating people with the disease, and resources from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, write David Stevens of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in New Hampshire and Bruce Marshall of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

The foundation's board of trustees provide leadership, oversight, and direct assistance in implementing the Rhode Island Hospital Foundation's purpose to «solicit and raise funds to further improve and advance the science or art of healthcare delivery and patient care and the knowledge, practice, and teaching of medicine and nursing....»

You will learn and apply practices such as deep listening and testing assumptions to improve professional relationships, diagnose challenges, achieve personal leadership goals, and respond successfully to the complex demands of education leadership.

Principals are key change agents for their schools; driving change requires the management and leadership skills to help diverse stakeholders establish priorities and improve practice.

Aimed at senior leadership teams, school business managers and governors, the bite size modules provide a cost effective route to improving school procurement skills by sharing knowledge of public procurement legislation and effective best practice.

With # 15 million set to go to eight new Partners in Practice, to expand a peer support programme between local authorities to improve children's services, and the other # 2 million being invested in improving leadership in children's social care services, which will be delivered through the Local Government Association (LGA), the funding will deliver hands - on peer support to other councils, to help improve outcomes for more children and their families.

The scheme focuses on extra support to develop leadership in maths and help schools work together in support of higher standards; and supporting teachers, teaching assistant, further education lecturers and others to develop improved classroom practice.

The book gives examples of how researchers and practitioners can understand and connect more directly to leadership practice, and how studying the day - to - day practice of leadership is important for those interested in improving schools.

Therefore, my portfolio of courses aims to prepare forward - thinking leaders in higher education who understand institutional policies, practices, and structures and the ways in which leadership decisions influence an institution's ability to change and improve.

His work examines the promise of distributed leadership, the potential for improved incentive systems to promote effective practices and bring them to scale, and the necessity to maintain a tight focus on instruction within an internalized accountability system.

As the most improved primary in London (second nationally, behind Thornhill), it was in special measures back in 2009, but strong leadership has seen Henry Fawcett recognised by Sir Michael Wilshaw as an example of best practice, and by the Deputy Prime Minister for excellent results and a proven commitment to making sure that all children can succeed.

We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.

In future posts, I'll discuss other strategies for improving educational practice, including improving the leadership pipeline, spurring «disruptive innovations,» and working to identify «what works» and make it more likely to get adopted in schools.

The framework covers five key domains: professional culture; leadership; a focus on student learning, wellbeing and engagement; a focus on improving professional knowledge and practice; and teachers who think systematically about their practice and learn from experience.

When these forms of leadership are similarly valued, leadership work will be interpreted as teachers acting as professionals because that means working with others in order to improve one's own practice.

Sharing best practices can help organizations fill knowledge gaps, improve efficiency, encourage leadership, and more.

Keith Witham is deputy director of the College Excellence Program, where he oversees the program's work to advance practices and leadership strategies that significantly improve community college student outcomes.

A NISL believes that effective and creative leadership will result in greatly improved practice by principals and higher achievement for all students.

Forrest Jack Lance received COSA's Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of over thirty years of outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

Both men are receiving the award in recognition of their long and outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

They bring experience in leadership roles within the School of Education, the American Educational Research Association as well as work with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Ross School of Business Center for Positive Organization, in order to present a framework for improved educational practice.

Forrest Jack Lance is receiving COSA's Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of over thirty years of outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

Standards for Professional Learning is the third iteration of standards outlining the characteristics of professional learning that lead to effective teaching practices, supportive leadership, and improved student results.

The Executive Development Program addresses a comprehensive set of leadership skills, issues and challenges intended to dramatically improve instruction in the classroom and the practice of school leadership.

Reviewers applauded administrators for embracing diversity, improving graduation rates, providing choice, charting Advanced Placement test results slightly above other North Carolina systems, and maintaining strong mental health partnerships, leadership development practices, and community support.

Utilizing an in - depth consultation protocol, attendees will conduct a thorough analysis of the practices and accountability of teachers at their school, leaving with a plan that improves leadership among teachers, instructional practice, student and adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies.

While most central office administrators spoke about unevenness in the leadership strengths of their principals, leaders in higher - performing districts expressed greater confidence in their ability to improve the quality of school leadership through hiring practices, leadershipdevelopment programs, school placement, and supervision (see also Section 2.2 of this report on district contributions to principals «efficacy).

«One of the responsibilities of school leadership teams with the strongest correlation to improve student achievement is in the area of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of school practices and their impact on student learning,» Beth Wallen, principal of Panther Lake Elementary School in Kent, Wash., summarizes the need to look at results.

Both sections report the perceptions of principals and teachers, selected according to quite different criteria, about the leadership practices they believe are helpful in improving classroom instruction.

NSBA's Council of School Attorneys (COSA) honored Nancy Fredman Krent with the 2016 COSA Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her outstanding service to public schools, the profession, and the mission of COSA to «improve the practice of school law... by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools.»

Studies also found that the opportunity to practice leadership skills, either as a simulated real - life experience or by actually serving in a teacher leader role, was linked to improved leadership abilities.

Those advocating instructional leadership emphasize the need to maintain a singular focus on classroom practice as the key to improving student achievement, and they point to the important role of the principal as a model.

Our team is dedicated to supporting district and school leaders and teachers throughout the iObservation implementation process to improve instructional leadership practices that connect to teacher effectiveness and student achievement.

In early October, central office administrators, principals and teachers from 23 Portland schools gathered in Warm Springs, Oregon, with the shared mission of increasing student achievement by improving district instructional and leadership practices.

IES program officers will describe the funding opportunities for educational leadership researchers that are currently available for Fiscal Year 2014, including those under the «Improving Education Systems» and «Partnerships and Collaborations Focused on Problems of Practice or Policy» program areas.