Sentences with phrase «leadership team of students»

Early planning also allowed plenty of time to identify obstacles and find solutions; at Wascher, this meant relocating garbage cans, a slight adjustment to the custodial schedule, and creating a leadership team of students — fourth - and fifth - graders who would be in charge of delivering breakfast to the classrooms in the morning.

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[De Blasio] has assembled a leadership team with the potential to develop policies that will benefit thousands of students a year,» she said in a statement.

Under the leadership of biology professor Dylan Fraser, the research team — which included Concordia graduate student Andrew Harbicht and research scientist Chris Wilson from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry — headed to Algonquin Provincial Park, a fisherman's paradise of lakes stocked generations ago with hatchery salmon and trout.

A leadership team composed of a dozen volunteer students and postdocs administers JST programs.

Even more remarkably, this change, though strongly supported by the departments» top leadership, largely results from planning, organizing and management by scores of graduate students and postdocs working together as a volunteer group called the Joint Safety Team (JST).

SBP has developed a six module 12 - month program that gives advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at SBP, The Scripps Research Institute, Salk Institute and University of California San Diego insight into how their innate preferences and associated behaviors can affect their leadership styles, impact their teams, and ultimately affect their career satisfaction and success.

We couldn't have done it without our leadership team, who consisted of doctoral students Wenjuan Qin, Pei Pei Liu, Ziyun Deng, Siwen Zhang, Galen McQuillen, and David Braslow.

Our student leadership team coordinated training sessions throughout the year to prepare presenters for the conference, and a large team of HGSE doctoral students reviewed research proposals in order to provide constructive feedback.

The schools leadership team has worked very hard to set up a sound, consistent, and manageable system for monitoring student behavior, and PBIS seems to be a natural extension of the program and the schools character education program, DAmato said.

Techknowledge for Schools aimed to quantify how the use of technology is helping students to develop these skills by surveying education professionals, ranging from ICT teachers to English teachers to school leadership teams.

«We know that great teaching has the biggest impact on the learning lives of students, after that it's the school principal and their leadership teams.»

It also opened my eyes to the tremendous power of hybrid leadership teams with both education expertise and business know - how to innovate and deliver excellent educational opportunities for students.

Due to all the hard work and collaborative energy of teachers, administration, school - based leadership teams, community partners, students, and families, the Edwards has reached and continues to meet our goals for student achievement and for providing middle school students in Boston with quality education in academics and enrichment.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

Even as he guides his instructional leadership team to give kids more practice analyzing data — stuff he relishes — he tries to get ahead of feelings of uncertainty among staff, students, and parents.

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.»

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

student and a member of the school leadership team at TechBoston Academy in Boston.

I am keen to represent the voice of many students here at the school and share their ideas with the Headteacher and the leadership team.»

For example, a multi-classroom leader who leads a team of teachers, coaching, co-teaching, and co-planning to achieve results for all the team's students, needs demonstrated team leadership capacity, the ability to influence others (directly and indirectly), and the drive and planning habits to serve a larger number of students exceptionally well with a team.

Dakabin principal Kelly Jeppesen says two of the school's leadership team attended the workshop and Perry's research on student voice and relationships between students and teachers resonated with them.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

Julie's leadership had a lot to do with that, as she built a talented team that remained focused on each individual student — not a batch of them — at all times.

For example, as handouts and story starters; in inclusion, extensions, differentiation; as starters, breakouts and plenaries; one - to - one, in pairs, teams and as a whole class; with students of all ages and abilities; with classes of all sizes big and small; to raise questions; encourage reflection; improve motivation; enhance discussions and analysis; as part of rich learning and communication skills; as resources that can be used by students to develop their leadership and confidence.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...

Royal Wootton Bassett Academy used feedback from student voice, parent voice and Governor comments to help formulate the overall design and throughout the process the Academy leadership team were consulted about the look and feel of the burgeoning website.

It requires headteachers and senior leadership teams who prioritise not only the operational aspects of teacher development but also, as Ofsted put it in their September 2015 handbook, «a motivated, respected and effective teaching staff» in «a culture that enables students and staff to excel».

See how Fort Wayne Community Schools established a core leadership team of principals and district leaders who are key to ensuring all schools are grounded in adult learning designs that result in a positive impact on students.

A first step in increasing the take up of Computer Science is ensuring that young people, form tutors, the senior leadership team and, of course students and their parents understand these benefits.

Having a leadership team from a range of ethnic backgrounds also helps to forge good relationships between students and staff.

The principal, working collaboratively with a leadership team, focuses on building a learning community that involves all teachers and places top priority on the education and healthy development of every student, teacher, and staff member.

Our new guidebook is for K — 12 educators and school leadership teams who are ready to drive what goes on in their building and harness the power of curiosity to advance student learning and teacher effectiveness.

In the case study, Lavely describes the leadership responsibilities she has accepted and her team's results: A set of classrooms fully proficient in both math and reading — including students in special education and English language learners — and 70 percent of those students ranking in the top two achievement categories on the 2011 — 12 state math exam, up from 52 percent the previous year.

They need support to learn to work deeply with data to track students» progress and needs, and to work as key parts of their schools» leadership teams to collaboratively envision counseling programs.

The Executive Leadership Program for Educators at Harvard University in association with The Wallace Foundation will emphasize midcareer development of teams of high - level education leaders that share responsibility for making changes in their organizations and across their states to broadly improve school leadership and its impact on student achievement.

By the end of two years, the goal is for each state and district team to have well - trained leaders who have had extensive practice in effective problem - solving approaches and to apply them in ways that result in significant improvements in education leadership practices and student learning at the state, district, and school levels.

The surveys posed questions about principals «and teachers «perceptions of parental and community involvement in schools; they also asked about stakeholders «influence in schools, the composition of leadership teams, and principals «and teachers «perceptions of parent and community openness to and involvement in promoting student learning.

It has implemented monthly attendance progress presentations from the division of Student Health and Human Services to local districts leadership teams, who then review the data with school principals.

«One of the responsibilities of school leadership teams with the strongest correlation to improve student achievement is in the area of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of school practices and their impact on student learning,» Beth Wallen, principal of Panther Lake Elementary School in Kent, Wash., summarizes the need to look at results.

Quite often, with their limited understanding of what being transgender means, school leadership teams remain uncertain on how to guide teachers, what to tell parents, how to protect their transgender students» wellbeing, and so forth.

That leadership is critical in an Opportunity Culture, which extends the reach of their excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets — but applicable to any principals leading turnarounds and those interested in strengthening teacher leadership and enabling a collaborative approach to improving student achievement.

When Opportunity Culture multi-classroom leaders describe their jobs — providing intensive, on - the - job coaching, support for planning, and data analysis leadership to a team of teachers while continuing to teach students, too — they hear the same question: How do you fit all that in?

He will serve as the association's Associate Executive Director, Public Advocacy & Communications, and join a leadership team that helped engineer the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

NSBA with Davenport and the full leadership team will continue its efforts, working with the state school board associations, to ensure that ESSA is implemented as intended, in collaboration with local school boards and other key education stakeholders, and returning the decision - making authority to state and local communities in support of academic success for every public school student across the country.

Build a leadership team of important stakeholders — including students — that is committed to improvement.

After analyzing student outcome data and comparing current student performance with annual yearly progress benchmarks for student achievement, the leadership team agrees that there are significant differences in outcomes among students of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds unrelated to socioeconomic status???.

One tenet of effective distributed leadership is empowerment of teams of teachers who share a common set of students.

Washtenaw Futures, a community network focused on making completion of postsecondary education an achievable reality for every student in Washtenaw County, was selected as the recipient of the Flagship Award because of their well - developed, respected, statewide network, dedication to collective impact, strong leadership team and focus on continuous improvement.

During the summer, the leadership team met to review the current state of affairs at Clark including student achievement, discipline, and attendance data.

The CEI team works with new principals in all aspects of the school community with a focus on instruction, improved opportunities, and outcomes for students and their families, and building capacity for school leadership.