Sentences with phrase «large school districts across the country»

This annual analysis looks at school breakfast participation and policies in 75 large school districts across the country to evaluate successful practices in reaching more low - income children with school breakfast.

The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline project is working with six large school districts across the country to better recruit and prepare APs to move into the principalship.

Not exact matches

He noted that large and growing charter networks across the city and country have a «direct analogy with a school district,» but noted that he believes New York's networks have proved their academic merit.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

Bierly and Shay surveyed and interviewed a large sample of principals, assistant principals, teachers, and teacher leaders from a cross section of school districts (varying in size and location) and chief marketing officers across the country.

The network has grown from one school to 41 in a decade, making it larger than 95 percent of school districts across the country.

These districts — ABC Unified School District, Cerritos, California; Hillsborough, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Plattsburgh, New York; St. Francis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio — come from across the country, are both urban and rural, large and small.

The Teacher Contract Database includes over 145 districts across the country, representing the 100 largest districts in the country, the largest district in each state, and member districts of the Council of Great City Schools.

Inattention to small, rural districts no doubt reflects the fact that most students in the United States attend schools in larger districts, although smaller districts the vast majority of districts across the country..

Olson is one of 244 principals in Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, one of six large urban districts across the country that since 2011 have been involved in The Wallace Foundation's «principal pipeline» initiative — designed to grow more effective principals.

Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.

Prior to EducationSuperHighway, Jeff worked with the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy to develop human capital leaders and implement strategies in large urban districts across the country.

«But the larger fact remains that across our country, school districts are cutting teachers, music, art and sports programs, health care services and other critical programs our children rely on.

National Impact: Through its work in Chicago, home to the third largest school district in the country, LEAP will build the foundation of tools, resources and knowledge to scale its personalized learning work across the country.

We are a team of educators, designers, technologists, curriculum developers, product specialists, operations experts, and implementation partners who have run school districts, created award - winning instructional programs, led large - scale deployments across the country, and trained thousands of teachers.

Large and small districts across the country have worked to improve infrastructure and connectivity in schools as curriculum and statewide testing continue to migrate to web - based platforms.

«Principals in the Pipeline,» a feature article sponsored by Wallace, profiles six districts across the country taking part in a six - year initiative to establish principal «pipelines» — local systems ensuring that a large corps of school leaders is properly trained, hired, and developed on the job.

Baltimore's scores on a rigorous national math and reading test were in the bottom third of large urban school districts across the country, though educators highlighted some progress in math and a promising trend of better - than - average results among some low - income black students.

Dr. Fink's work has spanned large urban, suburban and rural school districts and charter management organizations across the country.