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At least some of the PAC's ads targeted voters in key districts using Facebook, Google, and YouTube.

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The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court of Northern California on Thursday, alleges that Otto and Uber are using key parts of Waymo's self - driving technology, specifically related to its light detection and ranging radar.

Our new report uses more than 250,000 interviews with registered voters to provide insights at the national, state, and aggregated district level on President Trump's approval, key senator approval & re-elect ratings, generic ballot, and top issues for voters.

The Chicago Park District says one key difference this year is the field has a sand base, rather than the clay base that was used last season.

FRANKFORT — Ingenuity and forthrightness are the keys to making residents aware of how the Frankfort Park District would make use of the tax increase it is asking for in the March election, commissioners decided this week.

The investigation stemmed into de Blasio's efforts to help elect Democrats to the state Senate in 2014 using county Democratic committees to aid candidates running in key swing districts outside of New York City including the Hudson Valley and in Monroe County.

Lori Compas, a first - time candidate who took on a key Walker ally in a Republican district in Tuesday's election, says she used a private Facebook page to coordinate volunteers in the run - up to Tuesday.

State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing) used part of her second - annual report on the state of her district Monday evening to discuss the fallout over the recent closing of the Key Food supermarket on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing.

So even friendly policymakers resisted giving them the keys to funding instruments traditionally used by districts to build and maintain impressive, permanent structures.

Some schools and districts have adopted project - based learning as a key pedagogical strategy, using the work of the Buck Institute for Education to support them.

In order to remove the confounding influence of unobserved factors that have an impact on both school spending and student outcomes, we calculate how much spending in a given school district would have been predicted to change due solely to the passage of an SFR, and use that prediction, rather than the spending change the district actually experienced, as our key variable.

From the work of the originators of CBAM, and from my own personal experience using their questionnaires with district staff, the key to the acceptance of change lies in the Personal stage.

High - quality implementation data will be collected in all three phases to ensure fidelity of implementation, understand how key stakeholders use data in making decisions about expansion, and understand how a non-profit organization like CIS can successfully facilitate scale - up of READS across districts.

It was pretty radical, by New York standards, ordering school districts to evaluate teachers using student performance data as one of the key measures of teacher competence.

In a federal lawsuit filed Nov. 19, the three Brooklyn residents argue that their children's exclusion from the 15 - month course is illegal because of the June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court prohibiting districts from using students» race as a key factor in assigning students to schools.

«There's been a lot of research done [around the world]... on school turnaround, using sample schools and whole districts, to look at what are the key elements that will turn around educational outcomes for students.

Under the supervision of the Digital Content Sales & Marketing Manager, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: • Develop prospect lists the GOS team in building lists for marketing campaigns using Microsoft Excel • Contact key decision - makers, including appointment setting, cold - calling and other preliminary sales activities • Prospect research and analysis of opportunities (by school district, company, university size, budget etc.) • Help set up email templates and calling scripts • Help with prospect onboarding into platforms including Salesforce.com • Discovery and evaluation of new tools and processes to optimize data collection and lead generation

During the webinar, we will share the processes and resources districts can use to: • Develop literacy around school climate / culture and social - emotional learning • Understand survey data in order to surface key insights • Create school site and district action plans for promoting positive school climate and SEL SBCUSD and 400 other districts partner with Panorama Education to collect and use school climate and SEL data and to deliver professional development trainings and workshops.

In this webinar you'll learn about: • The impact of and lessons learned from Maine 207's journey • Best practices for implementing Google for Education tools districtwide • Key competencies teachers need to engage students using Google for Education tools • How districts can support teachers in developing these competencies using micro-credentials, and earn re-certification and graduate credit

Data: Timely, credible, interim assessments that generate actionable data were among the most powerful strategies districts used and key to engaging teachers in using data.

Mathematica's evaluation examined the implementation, key challenges, and promising strategies of initiatives that supported the strategic use of education data at the state and district levels.

When key consumers and partners — especially aspiring school leaders and school districts — have good information about key program indicators, they can use that information to make more informed choices.

States, districts, and schools can use EWS data to examine school - level patterns to address systemic issues that may be impeding a student's ability to meet key educational milestones.

From a three - year case study of the uses of evidence related to instructional decision - making at the district level, Coburn, Touré and Yamashita (2009) identified key factors influencing the uses of data.

-- Define social & emotional learning (SEL) and why it is essential to students» success — Understand key research relating SEL skills to student success — Relate district / organization goals to SEL — Integrate SEL into existing district / organization frameworks and protocols — Design a comprehensive approach to screening, assessing, promoting, and evaluating SEL competencies using the DESSA — Select a quality SEL curricula aligned to your specific needs — Learn how to integrate SEL - supporting practices into everyday interactions — Use SEL data to plan for instruction and intervention

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

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;

Standardized test scores, district level assessments, report cards, and discipline referrals provide us with valuable insight that we use to make many key decisions.

Subsequently, using its successful Harlem model as a starting point while accounting for key operational and cultural distinctions, Democracy Prep opened thousands of high quality public school seats in Camden, the South Bronx, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas.

While the outcomes of the act have yet to be seen, by defining key industry terms and making it easier for districts to use Title I, Title II, and Title III funds to purchase edtech tools, ESSA represents significant progress in making high - quality personalized learning accessible to all students.

Learn what is happening legislatively in key states along with takeaway strategies that districts and K — 12 HR teams can use to improve their recruitment and retention.

States and school districts are using the evaluation systems to make key personnel decisions about retention, dismissal, and compensation of teachers and principals.

Yet, according to a key measure of teacher effectiveness used by the Los Angeles Unified School District, Hunsberger is average.

Los Angeles Unified's teachers union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school district, saying administrators failed to negotiate key changes to a controversial performance evaluation system now being used to review educators.

More than 100 elementary school teachers from around the Los Angeles school district gathered Monday at Theodore Roosevelt High School in east LA as one of the first group of instructors to learn how to use the Apple iPad, a key teaching device in the academic year that opens next Tuesday.

This was one of the key lessons learned early on by EPAC and led to the recommendation to delay full implementation of the evaluation system by a year: 2012 - 2013 was scheduled in the tenure reform law as a capacity - building year for districts to choose, train in, and practice using a teacher practice instrument.

In order to use supplemental or concentration grand dollars on facilities, districts must answer two key questions around how these investments relate to its stated LCAP goals for high - needs students.

«While we await direction from ED (Department of Education) on new requirements for federal accountability, California will continue to use the API as the key indicator in determining whether the school or LEA (district) has made adequate academic progress.»

Promoting the involvement of educators, school and district leaders, and communities in using data from validated surveys to identify and improve key elements of a positive school environment.

The Key to these processes are the professionals (both at the site and involved as consultants), and their ability to use sound strategic planning processes to select the best services, supports, strategies, and interventions at the district, school, staff, and student levels to facilitate ongoing and sustained success — at all of those levels.

Student wellness and nutritious options are key words used by nutrition employee Colleen Dietz and nutrition director Jenilee McComb in the Provo City School District.

For district leaders, a key challenge in using measures of student growth, especially value - added ones, is creating communications to help minimize confusion and anxiety.

Haglund said the district used the community meetings as the key component of its needs assessment.

It guides central office staff through a series of questions to generate information to use in discussions with key district leaders and helps districts identify the first phases of the transformation process based on such considerations as ease or urgency.

Rowland Unified School District (RUSD), Rowland, CA A Leadership Model For Data Use That Embraces Three Key Components: Expectation, Support, Involvement This story describes how one district embraced and modeled best practices for using data well and supplied the support that built a culture of meaningful data use across its District (RUSD), Rowland, CA A Leadership Model For Data Use That Embraces Three Key Components: Expectation, Support, Involvement This story describes how one district embraced and modeled best practices for using data well and supplied the support that built a culture of meaningful data use across its schooUse That Embraces Three Key Components: Expectation, Support, Involvement This story describes how one district embraced and modeled best practices for using data well and supplied the support that built a culture of meaningful data use across its district embraced and modeled best practices for using data well and supplied the support that built a culture of meaningful data use across its schoouse across its schools.

Leading for Equity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational potential.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

In the remainder of this report, we provide results from our survey on a number of key issues: awareness of and compliance with the new law, the identification of common measures used to place students, and the use of evaluation measures for district placement policies.

Using three key components (early identification and recruitment, pre-service training for certification and placement, and sustained in - service training / professional development and support) these projects are impacting seven colleges and universities and more than 11 high - need school districts.

By adopting free content, districts can use their resources to supporting teachers in making key instructional shifts, which builds capacity and fosters the best student outcomes.