Sentences with phrase «large urban districts across»

In partnership with NoVo Foundation, CASEL launches a first - of - its - kind national effort, the Collaborating Districts Initiative to implement systemic SEL in eight large urban districts across the country.

As a Strategic Account Manager for Edgenuity, Linda brings over ten years of experience in leading implementations in large urban districts across the country.

A new report offers an unprecedented look at the testing load in large urban districts across the nation, finding considerable redundancy and a lack of coordination among the exams.

In 2003, just 15 percent of teachers in large urban districts across the country were black but in New Orleans, teaching was largely a job done by black women: 71 percent of teachers were black and 78 percent were women.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Most recently, Higgins has been studying the effectiveness of senior leadership teams from large urban school districts across the United States.

The interviews suggest that the teacher unions are typically the most powerful participants in school - board elections and that their power is common across districts of all sizes (and not restricted to large urban districts).

Additionally, Higgins is studying the conditions that enhance the effectiveness of senior leadership teams and organizational learning in large urban school districts across the United States.

Since 2011, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and large, urban districts have been taking on SEL as a districtwide priority and integrating SEL across all aspects of their districts.

In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

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.

NISL has worked in districts large and small, urban and rural across the country.

As the first noneducator to take the helm of a large urban district, Vallas inspired a trend in urban school reform across the nation.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

Based on a review of the standards and evaluation work of large urban and metropolitan districts across the country, the report shares six key lessons and their implications for enhancing standards - based leadership evaluation work.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

Collaboration to Achieve Whole School SEL Across a Large, Urban District.

Moments after the announcement, Noelle Ellerson of the American Association of School Administrators weighed in on Twitter with yet another critique, pointing out that participating districts are all urban and thus the experiment may not be relevant to the large number of rural school districts in California and across the U.S.

They report that «one study found that across five large urban districts, among teachers who were ranked in the top 20 % of effectiveness in the first year, fewer than a third were in that top group the next year, and another third moved all the way down to the bottom 40 %.

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.

Collaboration to Achieve Whole School SEL Across a Large, Urban District.

In addition to reaching thousands of children in rural, suburban, and urban districts across Georgia, SEL has had a transformative effect in one of Georgia's largest school districts.