Sentences with phrase «lasting changes in our school system»

«We need the involvement of people whose children actually attend the schools and people in the community in which these children are growing up if we are to bring about lasting changes in our school system,» he says.

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Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

Senior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

Posted: December 21, 2006 PayzantSenior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

The fast - growing Clark County, Nev., school district has named a new superintendent, while leadership changes in several other big - city systems, including New York and Pittsburgh, continued to unfold last week.

Laval S. Wilson, superintendent of schools in Boston, last week released the major portion of a long - awaited reform plan that calls for significant changes in the city's school system.

However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb told the Commons Education Select Committee last week that the changes to the initial teacher training system had been «successful» and resulted in higher numbers and speedier applications.

While single program implementation has important merits, we recognize that a shift in mindset that views social emotional learning as a whole systems approach is an important way to bring about true, long - lasting change in schools.

«We have learned a lot over the last four years about how to do this effectively and well, and the changes we've made are reflective of that,» said Scott Thompson, deputy chief of teacher effectiveness in the D.C. Public Schools, which launched a new evaluation system in 2009.

Over the last four years, the Park City School District has undergone intense change with dual language immersion (DLI), all - day kindergarten, removing 25 Reading and ESL instructors in grades 1 through 5, new curricula, new grading system, new testing and assessment tools.

The path to meaningful and lasting change in our public schools system is often difficult, driven by successes and slowed by setbacks along the way.

Gov. Scott Walker has said he supports holding private schools accountable, but the Legislature didn't make the necessary changes last session to incorporate them in the new system.

$ 40,000 in prizes available to school districts that have influenced lasting change in their education systems.

Brown vetoed similar legislation last year from Steinberg and state schools chief Tom Torlakson that sought some of the same changes in the school accountability system.

We build relationships with high - achieving organizations and results - oriented school systems in the hopes that, together, we will be catalysts for lasting change.

The Visible Learningplus Collaborative Impact Program is a professional learning and change program that supports systems to bring about ongoing and long - lasting improvement in school, classroom and student performance.

The emails showing former state superintendent Tony Bennett «s staff made last - minute changes to the grading criteria in 2012 has generated increased ill will toward the grading system among local school officials.

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