Sentences with phrase «kind of school leader»

These days, with the federal Race to the Top program and state legislation loosening teacher tenure, many districts across the country are looking for a new kind of school leader — principals with an intense focus on evaluating teachers, helping them improve, rewarding those deemed «most effective,» and firing ones who are persistently substandard.

Not exact matches

You can't go to school to become a «thought leader,» nor can you complete a one - off program and earn some kind of certificate or formal recognition as such.

But I think it's very important that schools encourage across gender lines all kinds of children to be leaders and give them opportunities to showcase their talents, whether in a single - gender school or a co-ed school.

Communication by Connie Starzynski from the Art of Administration was written as a guide to administrators and Waldorf school leaders to shed light on the dynamics of communication of all kinds in a Waldorf school.

All of the progressive things that California's doing and Oregon and Washington — campaign finance reform and voting reform and fully funding our schools and being a leader in renewable energy and enacting real criminal justice reform... this is the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.

Throughout the grammar schools debate there has been an underlying suspicion from many that the Eton - educated Tory leader is denying others the kind of elite education that grammar schools traditionally provided poorer parents.

As part of the first - of - its - kind county / school collaboration, local leaders opened the Center for Safe and Healthy Youth, a one - stop location for needs assessment, as well as school support, mental health and social services and juvenile justice - related services for struggling youngsters in Rockland County, ages 10 to 18.

Charter schools leaders are putting the public back in public education of all kinds.

But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.

And maybe you get that the fastest way to reach scale that has lasting political impact is actually to partner with private schools, who served the charter school base and educated generations of minority leaders, including our last president, long before the word «charter» was anything more than a kind of bus.

[09:37] RV: And it's true that you found that architects were the best kinds of leaders for turning around a failing school...?

The 2018 Australian Schools Gender Survey is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, and points to consistent patterns of severe bias in hiring practices, salaries and professional development plans, a boys» club culture in some schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education Schools Gender Survey is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, and points to consistent patterns of severe bias in hiring practices, salaries and professional development plans, a boys» club culture in some schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education sector.

These are the kinds of problems — murky, time - sensitive, and without clear roadmaps — that educators, school leaders, and parents know well, says Professor Meira Levinson, a former teacher who now studies ethical dilemmas in the classroom.

Unlike cities like Boston, where Mayor Thomas Menino installed Thomas Payzant, a nationally known education leader, or San Diego, where former federal prosecutor turned schools chief Alan Bersin brought in the big education guns in the form of New York City's Tony Alvarado (who some say would have joined Vallas if he had asked), Vallas rarely availed himself of that kind of advice.

Any right - thinking school leader would want — and arguably needs — that kind of flexibility so that suspensions (and other forms of discipline) can be tailored and customized to take into account an array of factors regarding individual circumstances and histories, classroom conditions, and the larger school culture.

I will develop myself to be that kind of instructional leader I believe we need more of throughout our school systems.

School leaders could encourage students to express their views in a letter to the editor, a video, or another kind of statement.

Just five of the teacher contracts in the nation's largest school districts grant school leaders the kind of flexibility they need to run schools well, but two - thirds of the rest do not obviously hamstring administrators with rules applying to teachers, according to a report released today by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

For tomorrow's leaders and innovators to reflect America's diversity, today's schools must do far better at cultivating talented children from every kind of background.

It was inspirational, and it was an opportunity to learn more of what it takes to prepare and support the kinds of outstanding leaders our schools need to ensure every child receives a great education and achieves at high levels.

These findings suggest the need for increased attention to how neighborhood disadvantage influences student conduct, and for policymakers and school leaders to consider the kinds of school resources that could support students facing adverse home and community circumstances.

And then once it begins to grow, your job as a principal is to provide what it is that they're asking for, because before you know it, you have a school full of instructional leaders, and your instructional leaders have to be those folks that are in the classroom, knowing what kind of tools they need to do the job that they do everyday.»

Regardless of the kind of discipline districts choose to employ, policymakers and school leaders must recognize that school disorder and violence have adverse effects on all students.

So, we'll find schools where leaders are very much focused around accountability data that they're developing... that are administered from the outside, and that provides one kind of frame, but that accountability frame tends not to be useful for instructional improvement.

«There's a realization and understanding on the clients» side that the factory model school that most of us went to — where you've got similarly sized classrooms marching down either side of the hallway — is not going to support the kind of teaching and learning that they're after,» says Steve Turckes, principal and K — 12 education global practice leader for Perkins + Will.

While many parents, educators, school leaders, and policymakers disagree about the kinds of tests administered, how the scores should be used, and how frequently students should be tested, it is important to be supportive of your child's efforts on standardized tests, and to help her do her best.

For school leaders to get on board with this kind of work, though, he said, «It's not for the faint - hearted.»

Then, with straight talk and pithy examples, he shows how school, system, and state leaders can take the kinds of creative action essential to bringing about fierce change.

The kind of preparation and thinking she envisions for education leaders is «what's taken for granted at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School,» which is why the Wallace Foundation originally underwrote the ExEL program to bring teams of superintendents and state education officials together.

Ras Baraka, now mayor of Newark but at the time a school principal and leader of the opposition to the new strategies, was an unusual kind of opponent to the reform movement:

No matter what kind of anti-charter school rhetoric UFT leaders choose to unleash, and no matter how many statistics they try to spin, there is one thing that they can not ignore: the overwhelming parent demand for charter schools.

School Leader Who Overhauled Discipline in Long - Troubled Baltimore Looks Back Seattle Times, 4/7/15 «There's a kind of demonization of kids as they get older.

To start making a dent in a supply problem that plagues schools nationwide, Bloomberg and Klein turned their backs on old - school education administration programs at universities and instead opted to create a nonprofit leadership academy to train school leaders to be the kind of principals who can transform struggling schools.

The many challenges and complex changes in our schools today call for a different kind of leader.

Third, district and school leaders must consider the kinds of organizational and leadership capacities that are necessary for schools to productively enact policy initiatives and they must diagnose and then develop those capacities within local schools across the district.

The Shadow a Student Challenge is a fun, illuminating, and supportive journey where school leaders come together to empathize with their students and take new kinds of...

Good heads and school leaders can identify the right kind of professional development opportunities for their individual teachers; these leaders really know their teachers and know what they need to keep them motivated.

These kinds of interactions between teacher leaders» and principals» practice help shape the overall direction of leadership and instructional improvement in schools.

District administrators and other leaders of initiatives external to the school, need to develop principals» understanding about the kinds of support teacher leadership work requires and work with them to get that support in place.

In a time where schools have seen their arts and academic enrichment budgets slashed, PS 9 — with the help of its active PTO — has been able to continue these important programs which we believe are crucial both to providing a well - rounded education and to fostering the kind of creativity that will help our students become leaders in whatever field they choose.

NEW YORK — New York City Councilmembers, charter and district school leaders and parent activists convened tonight in Brooklyn for a first - of - its - kind panel to confront the segregation crisis in New York City public schools.

The crisis in leadership can begin to be solved by schools and districts spending more time on the right kind of professional development for leaders.

It is designed for teachers and school leaders who wish to build solid shared understandings about the kinds of data used in schools, the different ways in which data can be represented and what they can tell teachers about student learning.

A broad and longstanding consensus in leadership theory holds that leaders in all walks of life and all kinds of organizations, public and private, need to depend on others to accomplish the group's purpose and need to encourage the development of leadership across the organization.15 Schools are no different.

«Still «Pale and Male»: The Persistence of Gender - Based Conceptions of Leadership in Education, and Investigating the Kinds of Messages You Are Getting About Leadership As A Young Female Leader» Harvard Graduate School of Education Cambridge, MA March 3 - 5, 2016 Learn More and Register

A system in which leaders possess that kind of data is far better equipped to boost school performance than one in which leaders have a pallette of achievement data and little else.

We must recognize that our school leaders need to engage in the same kind of deep study of instructional anatomy as our doctors do for human anatomy.

Students helped school leaders prepare for standardized testing by offering input on how they could be grouped on test day and on what kinds of incentives would encourage them to do their best.

And while most education leaders say North Carolina isn't likely to see the kind of prolonged protests or picketing that forced school districts in Kentucky and Oklahoma to temporarily shut down schools this year, teaching leaders hope the gathering will be enough to galvanize state lawmakers, many of them Republicans who've clashed numerous times with educators over pay and K - 12 funding in recent years.

Students understand that teachers and education leaders need different kinds of information about their academic (and school?)