You will also have opportunities to reflect on your personal leadership strengths and explore strategies for developing a team with the full range of capacities needed to
lead systemic reform.
Not exact matches
The former dean of the Stanford University School of Education, Smith is perhaps the
leading proponent of what's known as «
systemic»
reform in education.
Over the past decade he has
led a number of significant
systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.
Then there is this other reality: That
systemic reform, and ultimately, the mission of building brighter futures for all children, can not be sustained without mothers and fathers in the
lead.
«I came to Boston to see whether or not you could
lead a midsized urban school district toward
systemic reform,» says Payzant.
Our policy
reform efforts coupled with strategic litigation support
led to a major
systemic overhaul.
Payzant believed that a
systemic approach to school
reform led by the district was necessary to support and organize school improvement.
That
leads me to ask you, Jason, from EdChoices» philosophy about
systemic reform and your philosophy about
systemic reform, how do you think the Illinois legislature should improve their program and do you actually think they will?
AFT also helps local and state affiliates
lead the way in facilitating the kind of
systemic reform described in Moving Your Numbers.
As a consultant to the Connecticut State Department of Education for five years he
lead in the design and implementation of the Connecticut Accountability for Learning Initiative, a statewide
systemic reform program designed to improve student performance in the state's lowest performing districts.
In 2008, Canter joined Mississippi First, a nonprofit she heads as executive director, that has been
leading the charge to introduce charter schools to the state (the group is also developing sex - education curricula for public schools) and to advocate for
systemic public - school
reform.
The state - wide
systemic reform movement of the 1990s taught us that state -
led standards and testing systems would produce too much variability in quality and alignment.
Another coauthor, Philadelphia Student Union, has been one of AFT's
lead groups in its effort to oppose
systemic reform and school choice in the City of Brotherly Love; it collected $ 20,000 from AFT in 2013 - 2014.