Sentences with phrase «in urban school systems»

Any teacher who works in an urban school system can testify to this fact.

We need teachers who are better prepared to teach in urban school systems, and who have a good grasp of their content areas.

The focus will be on teacher recruitment and retention in urban school systems.

Strong, transformative leaders in our urban school systems are essential, particularly when our most vulnerable students lack sufficient access to high - quality public schools.

Evidence - based research on the value of school nurses in an urban school system.

University of Washington research on leadership in urban school systems emphasizes the need for a leadership team (led by the principal and including assistant principals and teacher leaders) and shared responsibility for student progress, a responsibility «reflected in a set of agreements as well as unspoken norms among school staff.

I first wrote about it in «Wave of the Future,» extended the idea in «The Turnaround Fallacy,» and filled out the argument in The Urban School System of the Future.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

The Urban Scholars Program, which offers its recipients tuition - free enrollment in their selected master's programs, was started in part due to Dean Kathleen McCartney's vision of creating a prestigious fellowship for educators in urban school systems.

Please join the Alliance for Excellent Education for a webinar on the Asia Society's Global Cities Education Network, which works to identify effective strategies in urban school systems in North America and Asia to transform learning and achieve equity.

Providing embedded professional development within curriculum materials is a necessary and transformative educational mechanism to counter professional development constraints that challenge teachers who adopt and implement reform - based science curriculum in urban school systems (Fishman, Marx, Best, & Tal, 2003).

This report, prepared by Public Impact for the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation, analyzes common themes among eighteen promising programs to attract and prepare teachers and principals for success in urban school systems.

It is hard to overstate the ruinous impact of the large numbers of students — as many as 50 percent in urban school systems — who fall behind early and almost invariably never catch up.

Fewer than half of American schoolchildren are white, and the number is much lower in urban school systems like Philadelphia.

While the author of the Times piece is suspicious of parental choice and educator autonomy, having worked in urban school systems across America, I am confident that a city with such faith in the people closest to kids is more likely to develop solutions to the challenges of poverty than is a top - down, big city system of micro-management and zip - code confinement.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.

year who are working in urban school systems.

At HGSE, I wanted to be a part of a group of students who had some of those same understandings of the many problems that exist in urban school systems and who also wanted to be leaders in the sector to start fixing those problems.»

Geoffrey Canada, having grown up in an urban school system himself, had a vision for the city of Harlem and the children that resided there.

Now in its fourth year, the Urban Scholars Program has attracted dozens of candidates with superb academic records and a deep commitment to working in urban school systems.

Wilson and others say that having effective leadership in urban school systems is important, regardless of where that leadership is located.

The scholars are chosen from among those who rank in the top 10 percent of the Ed School's applicant pool and have demonstrated a commitment to working in urban school systems.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.