Second, the school is run by a cooperative of teachers, who make all
the key decisions about the school — from the learning program to the budget to hiring and firing.
The Mind Trust today announced that it will award $ 50,000 grants to support leaders of high - performing schools within the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in developing plans to convert their schools into Innovation Network Schools, which empowers building - level educators to make
key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going forward.
Indianapolis — The Mind Trust today announced that it will award $ 50,000 grants to support leaders of high - performing schools within the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in developing plans to convert their schools into Innovation Network Schools, which empowers building - level educators to make
key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going forward.
In Innovation Network Schools, building - level educators are given greater management flexibility than traditional schools and are empowered to make
key decisions about their schools.
Not exact matches
«Quantitative, rigorous measurements are
key to making important
decisions about social welfare allocation and the distribution of humanitarian aid,» said lead author Joshua Blumenstock, assistant professor in the UW Information
School, who is also an adjunct professor in computer science and engineering.
The Institute's Director, Anne Hollonds said the data — from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children — examined the
key factors in parents»
decisions about the type of primary
school their child would attend.
The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by
school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed
decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence
about many things:
key features of their
school «s external context; the status of
school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.
Districts should be
key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of
school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local
decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;
States and
school districts are using the evaluation systems to make
key personnel
decisions about retention, dismissal, and compensation of teachers and principals.
Two
key issues during the 2008 - 2009
school year brought together our network of parents, educators, and community members to begin building GO Public
Schools Oakland to ensure our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accou
Schools Oakland to ensure our community had information and opportunities to shape
decisions about our public
schools and hold leaders accou
schools and hold leaders accountable.
Indeed, for the assessments to fulfill their purpose of informing educators,
schools, districts and states
about what students know and how to improve their progress,
decision - makers must ask some
key questions.
Recognized
school law experts from the NSBA Council of School Attorneys will provide an informative introduction of key concepts, legal standards, and principles that school board members must understand before making decision about hot t
school law experts from the NSBA Council of
School Attorneys will provide an informative introduction of key concepts, legal standards, and principles that school board members must understand before making decision about hot t
School Attorneys will provide an informative introduction of
key concepts, legal standards, and principles that
school board members must understand before making decision about hot t
school board members must understand before making
decision about hot topics.
A study released yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing
Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the
key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy
decisions about America's public
school teachers.
For many states, this year will be a
key juncture for
decisions about the standards — and related exams — before their full weight is felt in classrooms, district offices, and state education departments in the 2014 - 15
school year.
In Resourceful Leadership, Elizabeth A. City examines
decisions about the use of three
key resources — time, money, and staff — and how tradeoffs among them are integrated into
school leaders» improvement strategies.
Step 3: Study the
school's structure: For most parents, this meant learning everything they could
about the
school - it's programs, it's policies, the identity of the
key decision - makers and, especially, the educational point of view of the
decision - makers.
Key features of these systems include not only the instruments used for evaluation but also the expertise of the consulting teachers or mentors — skilled teachers in the same subject areas and
school levels who have released time to serve as mentors to support their fellow teachers — and the system of due process and review that involve a panel of both teachers and administrators in making recommendations
about personnel
decisions based on the evidence presented to them from the evaluations.
One
key area of agreement emerged: Teachers needed to be involved in
decisions about school operations, including a new process for evaluation that created instructional leadership specialists to help struggling teachers.
The report looks at 25 top SEL programs to identify and summarize
key features and attributes of programming for elementary - age children, addressing the need for detailed information
about SEL curricula and implementation to help
schools and OST providers make informed
decisions.
Based on two
key events during the 2008 - 2009
school year, a group of families, educators, and community members began building GO Public
Schools Oakland to ensure that our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accou
Schools Oakland to ensure that our community had information and opportunities to shape
decisions about our public
schools and hold leaders accou
schools and hold leaders accountable.
You need parental responsibility in order to make
key decisions about your child, such as consent to medical or dental treatment, consent to
school trips and taking a child abroad.