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The Rotman One Year Executive MBA's curriculum was the perfect mix of the analytical skills needed for any senior position and the leadership skills needed for effective problem - solving.

The School's reputation for academic excellence and its innovative curriculum will unlock your leadership potential and give you the tools you need to succeed.

The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex education curriculum by candidates in this race.

The implication is that the causes of the malaise are internal; they are to be found in the structure of the church, the curriculum, the strategy for evangelism, the quality of pastoral leadership, or the general level of Christian commitment.

Thanks to the leadership of the Dept. and the relevance of it in our time, the concern for social analysis has taken root as an essential aspect of the Christian theological enterprise, not only in the TTS but also in most other Indian theological schools and in the Serampore University curriculum itself.

Upon completion of the curriculum, the associate sits for a panel certification interview to validate knowledge and gain exposure to local leadership.

Mary has held roles in education, curriculum and program development, and non-profit leadership for over 20 years.

Character Education: State Board of Education Policy 2109 (2005) requires character education to be incorporated into the curriculum for all grades modeled by moral leadership from school administrators, teachers, and students.

A student leadership program that's easy - to - run Fits easily into the existing curriculum Caters for the whole class as well as elected student leaders

Under Astorino's leadership, Narcan training was added to the curriculum for all police recruits who attend the Westchester County Police Academy.

As the project's curriculum director, she participated in the development of Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Resources for Science Literacy: Professional Development and, as director, provided leadership for and contributed to the development of Atlas of Science Literacy, Vol.

She has also provided leadership in graduate education as the director of the base program for the biomedical sciences graduate program from 2011 to 2014, director of the graduate core curriculum from 2012 to 2015 and director of the cellular and molecular biology graduate program from 2011 to present.

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC), for example, provides students from around the world with hands - on work experience in the nation's capital combined with an academic curriculum, civic engagement work and leadership development.

They are designed to cater for all alternative curriculum students — those within the pupil premium category, in exclusion or inclusion, home education or isolation, school refusers, target groups, or those with low literacy / numeracy levels, to mention just a few — and meet the needs of their teaching assistants, senior leadership and parents.

In other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.»

The central focus of professional development and training for teachers and principals should be the educator (teacher or principal) who as a person lives and works within an educational, social and political context in differing ways and engages in curriculum decision making and leadership in unique ways that must be respected and celebrated — there is no sense in a «one - size fits all» approach to training and development;

So, when it came to designing this new building, the leadership team was keen to balance this out with the demands of a modern curriculum for 21st Century learners.

The transition has also been made easier because I'm surrounded by talented people in leadership roles at the school, including the administrative dean, Bob Fogel, and the associate deans — Jack Jennings for finance; Daphne Layton for curriculum and faculty appointments; Bill McKersie for development; and Jim Stiles, for degree programs.

School students, principals, teaching staff and school communities will directly benefit from the Student Voice Hub which will provide capacity building resources, information and support for students and schools to develop curriculum and student leadership.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

«IL's unique curriculum, with its emphasis on organizational leadership and adult development, is vital for teachers who take on these leadership roles working with and advising colleagues,» Boles says.

She taught middle school humanities in several New York City public schools for 11 years and took on various leadership positions serving as a director of middle school curriculum and instruction, curriculum developer, project advisor, and teacher mentor.

«It is right at the heart of both our new deal for the education workforce and our leadership strategy which we are in the process of refreshing — and it is more important than ever as we work to develop a new curriculum for Wales.»

She was previously the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher lCurriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher lcurriculum, and teacher leadership.

When seeking partner schools for summer programs, it is important that they offer «curriculum to enhance leadership, college readiness, and academic and social skills,» says Allen.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

I think this same factor has come through David Gonski's most recent report that's just been out for the last couple of days, looking again at the administrative dimension of things, versus the more unadulterated educational leadership, curriculum, teaching, learning.

The primary version covers: • Early reading and phonics • Reading for enjoyment • Reading comprehension • Writing environment • Writing composition — a curriculum fit for purpose • Writing composition — vocabulary, grammar and punctuation • Writing transcription — spelling and handwriting • Spoken language • Leadership and assessment This sample section focuses on leadership and assessment.

18 — Education leadership: «Transformational Leadership for Teachers,» workshop, sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center, for teachers, administrators, and curriculum directors, to be held at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

Modular approach Our aim in creating the leadership curriculum has been to provide leaders with a clear and comprehensive structure for career progression, but with the freedom to choose professional development most relevant to them, at a time when they need it.

Themes and areas of focus include: unlocking enthusiasm and impact: the secrets to implementing ed - tech for acceptance and expertise, a wealth of online safety, different approaches to your computing curriculum, IT in special schools settings, Technology in Early Years, blogging, mastery in computing, engaging parents, creative coding, progression, collaborative learning in leadership and much more..

«The film also showcases good leadership,» Bigler commented in the November 19 Bulletin of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

Advocacy for teacher professionalism and expanded leadership roles is based on the understanding that teachers, because they have daily contacts with learners, are in the best position to make critical decisions about curriculum and instruction.

The PTLC is an ongoing process designed to work systemically to improve the quality of professional development; the use of data to inform instructional and programmatic decisions; the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to standards; the monitoring of student learning; and leadership support for continuous school improvement.

The Usable Knowledge website is organized around five topic areas that align with high priorities for educators: leadership and policy; learning and development; decisions through data; community and family; and teaching and curriculum.

She has served as the Chief Academic Officer for the District of Columbia Public Schools as well as the Deputy Chief for the Office of Teaching and Learning, providing leadership for PK - 12 education by managing the offices of Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, Early Childhood Education, College and Career Readiness, Youth Engagement, Bilingual Education, Out of School Time, School Counseling, Educational Technology, Gifted and Talented, and Library Media Services.

One can even say that it is underlying disdain for the very kids in his district that is a critical reason why he is such an abject failure as a school leader: If you don't care for kids, you can not do the hard work of transforming the quality of instruction, curricula and leadership that is needed to give kids cultures of genius in which to succeed.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

The leadership that a teacher leader can provide to a curriculum committee, for example, is closely related to his or her depth of knowledge in a content area.

When teachers share leadership for instruction, they actively participate in decisions about curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

The Rendell Center for Civics and Civics Engagement leveraged strategies and concepts from the fields of civic education, student voice, and distributed leadership to build a youth - adult school governance system and schoolwide civic literacy curriculum at Edwin M. Stanton Elementary School in the School District of Philadelphia.

It would be a logical error to infer that leadership as it is distributed and practiced for one leadership scenario, such as leading a new reading initiative, would necessarily be similar to leadership distribution across other scenarios, such as changes made in the science curriculum.

Bringing your leadership skills into your grade level collaboration meetings will set a positive framework for the many changes that are upon us as we embrace the Common Core Curriculum.

It is helpful for a teacher leader providing leadership in a group setting to demonstrate credibility based on familiarity with different constituents (e.g., the teachers, administrators, and community members on a curriculum committee) and knowledge of their various needs and interests.

We sampled states to ensure variation in geography, student demographics, state governance for education, curriculum standards, leadership policies, and accountability systems.

We asked principals and vice principals about the principal «s leadership in areas such as student achievement goals, vision for the school, and student learning; making decisions about instruction; leadership distribution in the school; professional development experiences for principals and teachers; curriculum and instruction; school culture; state and district influences on administrators «and teachers «work in the school; and the impact of parents and the wider school community.

Their yearlong effort to build schoolwide civic learning illustrates how civics can be an effective conduit for connecting curriculum and leadership practices: School improvement becomes both a collective endeavor and a means for teaching active citizenship.