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When we asked middle leaders in schools what was holding back their development, the most common answers were time and money.

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And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

What was striking in the aftermath of the carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is that, now, even the victims and survivors are willing to call their leaders out.

In the aftermath, school leaders are examining every aspect of the tragedy, including what role they can play in passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman saiIn the aftermath, school leaders are examining every aspect of the tragedy, including what role they can play in passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman saiin passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman said.

Business leaders at Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm, discussed areas of change that could be implemented at graduate business schools in the article «What Business Needs from Business Schools.schools in the article «What Business Needs from Business Schools.Schools.»

EDMONTON — The PCs must stop hiding and tell Albertans what they are going to do about GSAs — voluntary clubs that allow students to organize against homophobia and bullying in schools — before going into an election, said New Democrat leader Rachel Notley.

It is hard to hear our leaders and others issue what seem to be blanket condemnations of the work done in schools.

And Amar and others such as his colleague Bruce Ackerman (leaders of what Wills terms the «Yale school of nullification») have been arguing that the Federalists were not altogether successful, leaving room in our constitutional government for exceptional moments of popular intervention on behalf of a fundamental reorientation of American politics.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

One of the most enduring images we all have is that of George Bush as the leader of the free world sitting, clueless about what to do next, in a nursery school reading stories to children for 15 minutes after being told that planes had been flown into the Twin Towers.

FoodCorps is a national team of AmeriCorps leaders who serve in high - need schools to make sure students learn what healthy food is, fall in love with it, and eat it every day.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Educators, health professionals, youth leaders, and students define what a healthy school means to them in the video below.

«The NASUWT will be considering the implications of today's announcement very carefully once the detail has been shared and as there has been no consultation prior to these provisions being introduced will seek to engage with the Coalition Government to identify what support teachers, school leaders and schools will require to enable them to protect fully the children and young people in their care.»

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Leaders in the Geneva Joint 4 School District are considering what to do next after failing to persuade voters to approve $ 5.55 million for space and security upgrades.

As far back as a student leader in my school days, I was once arrested and charged for inciting students, and here we are, an officer of the law is defiling his code of ethics and Ghana is expected to believe there is nothing wrong with what this gentleman has begun, which is a time - bomb; I WILL PETITION THE IGP, IF NOTHING IS DONE WITHIN THE NEXT 72 HOURS on this gentleman.

A Populus poll for the Times today reveals the vast majority of the population is unconcerned by stories this weekend that the Conservative leader may have tried cannabis in school, but there are limits to what will be forgiven.

Legislators, union leaders and activists rallied outside City Hall today to attack Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what they alleged was his failure to honor a Court of Appeals decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State case, which determined that Albany had shortchanged New York City schools some $ 15 billion.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

The school board has issued letters to city school teachers directly outlining what's in the latest contract offer — claiming teachers might not have been notified by the union leader.

Hartford's Equity 2020 committee, the advisory panel that city school leaders formed months ago to consider school consolidation, got its first glimpse of what the district's consultants have been working on in recent weeks — three possible scenarios to help shrink the school system starting in the 2017 - 18 school year.

Mid-Hudson leaders Wednesday reacted with hopelessness and frustration to what amounts to an almost $ 80 million cut to local schools, an average 11 percent decrease in the region.

Education leaders from across New York said Wednesday they'll need more money than what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside for schools next year in order to avoid cuts and improve the overall climate.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

The Daily News took a deep dive into the city's public schools in our five - part «Fight for Their Future» series — but now we turn the spotlight over to New York's political and educational leaders to learn what they believe is best for our kids.

I arrived back in my office this afternoon just in time to hear Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman deliver — with all the ponderous determination of a four - year - old narrator at a school nativity play — what can loosely be termed «a funny».

Buffalo schools open in a month and a large group of clergy, activists, parents and school leaders turned out Monday night in Friendship Baptist Church for an emergency meeting to discuss what they see as an educational crisis.

«What I didn't get from the City Council, I got from the agencies, because I'm a great leader,» Mr. Barron said, noting he also obtained $ 80 million for schools in his district from the Bloomberg administration and oversaw the refurbishment of three public parks.

Baldoni has followed and written about how the board of Penn State has struggled to overcome the 2011 sex abuse scandal involving former coach Jerry Sandusky; he said the school's leaders still haven't come to grips with what went wrong, including the error of allowing head coach Joe Paterno to remain in power for so long.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, said it's a turning point in what has become a battle between schools, teachers, parents and New York's elected leaders over standardized testing and its effects.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

That is why Essex County leader Lord Hanningfield - one of the prime culprits behind the scenes in the destruction of the Free Schools policy - was able recently to draw the breathtaking conclusion, for a Tory, that «this is exactly what local government should be doing» as he proposed to add a chain of post offices to his own little empire.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

«An RSV vaccine with this M2 - 2 deletion could tip the balance toward a better immune response, which is what we predicted based on earlier laboratory studies,» says study leader Ruth A. Karron, MD, director of the Center for Immunization Research and a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School.

However, we did not know what would be effective in terms of treatment,» says the study's leader, Annette Erlangsen, DPH, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«What emerged was this orderly map,» says team leader Michael Long, a neuroscientist at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

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A young Lieutenant Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez) is Nantz» new commanding officer, fresh out of school (certain to waver in his decisions in combat, letting us see what a natural leader Nantz is) and with a pregnant wife at home.

As a school leader, what are the professional learning needs of your staff in relation to classroom observation?

We begin with a prominent question for many school and district leaders: What conditions must we create in order to promote the scaling of identified classroom innovations?

What we need, according to Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder and Anthony Nocella, is a critical intervention by visionary educational leaders who are willing to going together with social movements, in order to transfigure the relationship between the school and the society as part of a larger struggle for liberation.

In a resent focus group at BESA, secondary leaders told us that they were having to reconsider what was being taught and how they could manage these core subjects — often without key staff or time or space in schooIn a resent focus group at BESA, secondary leaders told us that they were having to reconsider what was being taught and how they could manage these core subjects — often without key staff or time or space in schooin school.

What has taken them off - guard, however, is the vocal and bitter opposition among many leaders in the home - schooling community.

School boards and mayors thought these leaders could do what those professionalized in the world of education could not.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

Like successful business executives, winning coaches, and triumphant politicians, good school leaders have traditionally been viewed as standouts — not because of their expertise in instructional practice (which, after all, is what their business is all about), but because of their individual character traits and actions, «in the heroic American tradition of charismatic leadership,» exlains Elmore.