Sentences with phrase «in systemic school»

This publication, which supplements Working Systemically in Action: A Facilitator's Guide (No longer available, as the publication has been replaced by the book, Getting Serious About the System), provides practical guidance for educators who are seeking to engage family and community members in systemic school improvement efforts.

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - An Effective Tool in Systemic School Transformation under ESSA — Webinar Series Part I

Recent Webinars by IDRA and Our Partners January 10, 2018 — Integrated Schooling — Strategies and Benefits for Diverse Learning December 5, 2017 — Cultivating Equity - oriented Educators — What SEAs Can do to Promote Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Practices at the LEA Level — Webinar Series Part II November 15, 2017 — Culturally Responsive Pedagogy — An Effective Tool in Systemic School Transformation under ESSA — Webinar Series Part I November 8, 2017 — Diversifying the Teaching Field — Challenges and Opportunities September 20, 2017 — Ensuring a Safe and Inclusive School Environment for LGBTQ Students August 24, 2017 — How to Comment on the Texas ESSA Plan

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With a rising emphasis nationwide on mental health and wellness, Challenge Success is on the forefront of providing upstream solutions that support schools in making real, systemic changes that positively impact the health and well - being of students.

A new paradigm in the fight against childhood obesity and diet - related illnesses, Cook for America ® promotes school food reform with an emphasis on holistic, systemic change.

Although salad bars and pilot programs, such as the First Lady's Go for the Gold campaign, are positive steps, they tend to mask the larger systemic problem, namely that children can't learn if school districts continue to serve sub-standard food, day in and day out.

And according to The Wellness Impact report, innovation is precisely the ingredient needed to get a new program off the ground, positing that when barriers are encountered, «creative and dedicated schools can surmount... systemic and practical hurdles in effective, replicable ways.»

Mission, Vision, and Strategic Planning guides participants through the process of planning for systemic, sustainable change in their school meal programs.

Course Description Mission, Vision, and Strategic Planning guides participants through the process of planning for systemic, sustainable change in their school meal programs.

The study was inspired by Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith's belief that «School food reform is not separate from school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.&School food reform is not separate from school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.&school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.»

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«Changes made are minor and won't provide systemic change,» said Sarah Landes, a member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a collection of teachers, students and youth organizations working to reduce suspension and mandate alternative discipline methods.

Additionally, I will advocate for a solution to fix the systemic problems associated with a district in which a majority of school - aged children do not attend public schools.

As attorney general, Cuomo exposed what he described as systemic pension fund abuses in which government contractors — including lawyers and doctors for school districts across the state — wrongfully had themselves listed as employees in order to collect taxpayer - funded pensions.

But he had largely refrained from offering charter schools as a key solution to those problems, instead advocating systemic changes like teacher evaluations in traditional public schools.

«The best explanation for what we are seeing is that frequently, after exposure to HIV, a few cells in the genital tract are infected, without establishment of a systemic infection,» says senior investigator Eric Hunter, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«As it is known that atherosclerosis is linked to inflammation, our next step was to look for an association of high - risk plaques with other systemic inflammatory conditions such as NAFLD,» said the study's lead author, Stefan B. Puchner, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

March 27, 2018 • Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

Two years later, the investigation found that cheating had occurred in at least 44 schools and that one of Georgia's major school districts had been plagued by «organized and systemic misconduct.»

Only if these systemic changes are realized will the public find it worthwhile to invest more resources in our country's schools.

Indeed, Anderson's first year in Newark was marked by serious change — she closed six schools, reorganized her central administration team, cut 120 jobs — and marked the beginning of a deep systemic overhaul, financial and pedagogical.

Despite these large numbers — which indicate a huge systemic change — and despite the long - standing practice of social promotion in public schools, the rationale for holding students back seemed readily apparent to many parents.

In this edition of the EdCast, Roberts reflects on how «instructional rounds» can provide a framework for systemic improvement in schoolIn this edition of the EdCast, Roberts reflects on how «instructional rounds» can provide a framework for systemic improvement in schoolin schools.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) NCREL's mission is to «strengthen and support schools and communities in systemic change so that all students achieve standards of educational excellence,»... «to help teachers teach better, students learn better, administrators provide better leadership, and policy makers make better policy.»

It is often said that the best changes are «bottom up», in this case however the change will need to be «top down» with a lot of support in the form of critical friends for schools, to set in place systemic demands that override extant belief systems to give the new system a chance to prove its worth.

After years of systemic failure at Desert Trails Elementary, in 2011 parents with children at the school formed an autonomous organization, the Desert Trails Parent Union, and went door - to - door, working alongside other parents, to develop an agenda for change and get the word out about this new legal right they had.

At last week's Askwith Forum, «Transformative Change in American Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core StaSchools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Staschools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Standards.

If each teacher or school tried to evolve and improve in isolation, we would never achieve the gains needed, because there would be no systemic learning or adoption of best practice.

State and district guidelines for school improvement planning are focusing too heavily on standards and results - oriented improvements instead of promoting systemic changes to address barriers to teaching and learning, concludes a report from the Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles.

So investigators went looking for systemic discrimination, and in their view found it: «Schools with higher percentages of black students established stricter punishment for discipline incidents.»

The TAP is a systemic reform of public schools intended to attract, motivate, develop, and retain high - quality talent in the teaching profession.

Among other things, he will teach a course about systemic reform in urban schools.

That also means that in cases where a requisite degree of leadership capacity does not exist in a school, then systemic intervention, such as coaching support, may be required to ensure it is in place.

When we first visited schools in spring 2016 for this project — a multi-year, multi-method study of systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning — teachers seemed to be taking on an unsustainably heavy lift as they transitioned to personalizing student learning (PL).

The former dean of the Stanford University School of Education, Smith is perhaps the leading proponent of what's known as «systemic» reform in education.

Finally, by focusing on general trends, as opposed to merely year - to - year variations, assessments can more accurately capture the systemic performance of schools, districts, and states in educating their students with disabilities.

A Progressive Policy Institute study of D.C.'s charter experience summarized the situation perfectly: «There is no clear evidence that charter schools have had a direct impact on student achievement in DCPS schools or otherwise driven systemic reform.»

Since systemic reform requires big changes in philosophy and policy, these three pieces were particularly welcome: David Osborne applied his steer / row framework to teacher empowerment in charters, Politico showed what D.C.'s robust charter sector is accomplishing, and Fordham offered a terrific taxonomy of state - level school governance.

What signal, spoken or unspoken, leads elementary school teachers to engage in «organized and systemic misconduct» bad enough to warrant a conviction on racketeering charges?

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That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

The report, issued this month by the Washington - based Council of Chief State School Officers, reports that systemic - improvement plans in 47 states include the development of content standards in such subjects as mathematics, English, and social studies.

As leaders, how can we develop a systemic initiative to keep young people in school, learning academic and work skills effectively, motivated to be productive and engaged in their communities and the larger economy, and developing success - oriented attitudes of initiative, intelligent risk - taking, collaboration, and opportunity...

The expectation is that this collaboration will lead to the kind of systemic blend DesignShare lauds as «a seamless grade 9 - 16 curriculum» and that blur physical and program boundaries in a way some educators believe can lead to a paradigm shift for learning in all inner - city high schools.

The director of San Diego State University's School of Teacher Education, Nancy Farnan, says the switch is intended to avoid «the vagaries of personnel changes that can get in the way of systemic, ongoing change» by transforming the entire culture, curriculum, and structure of a sSchool of Teacher Education, Nancy Farnan, says the switch is intended to avoid «the vagaries of personnel changes that can get in the way of systemic, ongoing change» by transforming the entire culture, curriculum, and structure of a schoolschool.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Thus, the case for charter schools today is almost always made in social - justice terms — promoting charters» success in closing achievement gaps, boosting poor kids» chances of upward mobility, and alleviating systemic inequities.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.