Sentences with phrase «lead improvement efforts»

Leaders within a program should develop a shared vision for change, put systems in place that will support organizational learning, and lead improvement efforts.

As the largest body of accomplished teachers in America, Board - certified teachers are recognized as experts in what works and are often sought out to lead improvement efforts in their schools and districts.

Pryor's use of poetic license has apparently turned Barth's teaching and administrative experience with Achievement First into something that is now defined as having «led improvement efforts at two of the lowest performing schools in the Achievement First Network.»

Leading an improvement effort requires principals who can develop, with others, a clearly defined vision for improvement and who are able to communicate their vision to the school community and energize teachers to fulfill it (Council of the Great City Schools, 2015).

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In response to this decision and to MARD priorities, IRRI has offered support to Vietnam - led rice sector improvement efforts in key areas.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

FRAC launches anti-recession website www.realstimulus.org and leads effort that obtains $ 20 billion in food stamp improvements in economic recovery act.

Please sit down, use every once of intellect you have and actually analysis what is more dangerous about home births; real effort in this regard could lead to life saving improvements.

He's committed to making Central Park, once and for all, completely car - free, to advocating for protected bike lanes on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, and to leading an effort to improve conditions on the city's greenways, including the Cherry Walk section of the Hudson River Greenway, which is badly in need of safety improvements.

«Senator Diegnan will lead the Transportation Committee at a time of pressing needs for transportation reforms and improvements, Senator Singleton will assume responsibility for issues of importance to the veterans who have served our country with courage and sacrifice, and Senator Gopal will help manage the flow of bills and the work of the Senate Democratic Caucus and lead the efforts of the Manufacturing Caucus at a time when we are addressing so many demanding priorities.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement efforts.

Despite screening efforts and improvements in treatment, colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society, with approximately 50,000 deaths annually.

Dr. Klein and other members of Vancouver General's multidisciplinary cardiac surgery quality improvement team led the SSI reduction effort after finding that their average cardiac NSQIP SSI rate was 7 percent, about twice that of other comparable hospitals that participate in ACS NSQIP.

«We wanted to better understand how NSQIP could be used to drive quality improvement efforts in our hospital,» said lead study author Amber Trickey, MSc, PhD, a surgery epidemiologist and biostatistician at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

In response to this decision and to MARD priorities, IRRI has offered support to Vietnam - led rice sector improvement efforts in key areas.

While some «experts» criticize the notion that such a window exists, claiming that taking advantage of it doesn't lead to any significant improvements in performance and recovery, a vast pool of scientific data has already confirmed that by employing certain techniques, you can yield better results from your hard gym efforts.

While this may be over exaggerated at times, there is a heap of evidence to show that caffeine ingestion pre exercise will lead to improvements in performance and reductions in sensation of effort — effectively meaning that we feel as if we are doing less work when we are in fact working harder than ever.

This organization, according to its Web site, creates «opportunities for kids, teachers, and parents to lead efforts to implement environmental and health improvements in their schools and communities.»

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

In 2004, McCown served as lead author of the commission's bipartisan report, Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action, which recommends policies to overcome existing barriers and make improvement efforts on school issues like low standards.

The team is made up of top teachers recruited with a promise that they could lead the school's improvement effort while earning a $ 6,000 - per - year stipend.

By the mid-1990s, sociologist Anthony Bryk and his colleagues found that, at best, one - third of the councils had undertaken a coherent reform effort that led to improvement.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

Minimally effective teachers who chose to stay at DCPS improved their performance by roughly 11 - points on the IMPACT scale, suggesting that threat of dismissal lead to successful instructional improvement efforts.

«What we need is a credible, constructive and collegiate school improvement strategy and a serious government - led effort to reduce inequality and the number of children living in poverty.»

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

While leading the Kentucky schools, Dr. Holliday introduced innovative programs, led high student performance and brought national recognition to the state for its education improvement efforts.

Case studies provide lessons from three leading education improvement efforts that are tackling the problem of how to improve rural education in the face of challenges such as population change and financial constraints.

«The members of AASA are fearless in their willingness to lead the effort to drive improvements in public education and work on any areas of challenge identified.

Based on the largest - ever analysis of research on effective school leaders, our school - level leadership PD guides principals in choosing the right focus for school improvement efforts; effectively leading changes in your school; and transforming your school culture into a purposeful community that believes it can make a difference.

Harbormasters often lead in one or more of those areas and work in close collaboration with other local stakeholders on the other efforts to accelerate the pace and sustainability of school improvement.

Since 2009, the tutorial networks (as the grassroots initiative was called) have been leading a country - wide school improvement effort in 9000 schools with the lowest academic achievement on the national standard test.

She says that includes updating federal officials about the new education standards and school monitoring efforts, led by the state's division of Outreach for School Improvement, which Ritz created last year.

Over the six - months, the future school leader would lead a community - driven process to redesign the school, align improvement efforts and build new momentum for change.

While at the LDOE, she also served as the lead for Louisiana's Round III Race to the Top application and supported efforts resulting in awarding of grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Department of Education School Improvement Grant (SIG).

She leads the Godzilla team, which delivers process improvement and data and technology solutions, as well as the Strategy and Operations team, which provides operational support to all Aspire schools, facilitates charter petition and compliance efforts, and supports new market / growth strategy development.

The CST developed the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework (PDF) to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvemeImprovement: A Systems Framework (PDF) to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvementimprovement efforts.

Before joining the district office, Jamie led School Improvement Grant efforts as an assistant principal, while leading the magnet school development at Central High School as the performing arts coordinator.

Each session is designed to establish mindsets for leading instructional improvement efforts, promote deep cohesion among members, and learn the process for managing instructional improvement efforts in authentic situations.

Although these insights are written for people who often lead school turnaround efforts — principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders — other stakeholders involved in school improvement may also find them instructive.

This report was developed as a framework to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvement efforts.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

These efforts are likely to be welcomed — and to lead to some improvement in the recruitment and retention of minority teachers.

Innovation Zones are typically used when rapid, dramatic improvements in student learning are needed to close achievement gaps and prior efforts within districts have not led to large enough student learning gains.

«This work builds on Wisconsin's leading efforts on innovation and improvement, serving as a blueprint for rural schools across our state and nation,» Evers said.

To assist states, districts, and schools in leading or managing these efforts, in 2017 the Center on School Turnaround at WestEd (CST) developed Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework.

An accountability system designed to have sustained impact must look at the factors that lead to success or are impeding the improvement efforts so that successful strategies may be further scaled and failing approaches may be modified or abandoned.

«The Montezuma - Cortez RE-1 school board is leading a district engaged in whole system improvement efforts as well as targeted turnaround with several elementary schools.

When thinking about how to address the roles of both the SEA and LEA in school improvement, we must consider how opportunities are provided to LEAs to lead and own improvement efforts.