Sentences with phrase «leader effectiveness efforts»

This may include instructional program improvements, job - embedded professional development, student support, health and safety adjustments, and teacher and leader effectiveness efforts.

Not exact matches

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

The National Association of School Business Management (NASBM) therefore commissioned research into operational effectiveness and efficiency of schools, asking some searching questions of school leaders and their understanding of the strategic deployment of resources and effort.

District leaders need to establish clear expectations across multiple dimensions of improvement activity as the bases for increasing coherence, coordination, and synergy in the effectiveness of district improvement efforts over time.

This week, principals from across Florida graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) as part of a multistate effort to increase school leader effectiveness and improve student learning.

We also applaud Congress for maintaining the Title II funding that supports the professional development of educators and rejecting the administration's efforts to eliminate the only funding dedicated to enhance the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Concurrent with efforts to directly develop principals» skills and improve their schools» effectiveness, the project also aims to develop and leverage a growing talent pool of school leaders in participating districts through a virtuous circle of «train - the - trainer» and «train - the - coach» development activities.

A combination of high retail electricity prices and industry efforts to brings offshore wind's levelized cost of energy (LCOE) down will make the Northeast and some Eastern Seaboard regions the most likely early leaders in cost - effectiveness, NREL reported.