Sentences with phrase «leading high school reform efforts»

He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools (Wash.) for nine years.

He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools for the previous nine years.

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We live in a time where high school students are leading our nation's efforts for gun reform.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, CalifSchool of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool in Novato, California.

Chancellor Klein hit the ground running, talking to Michele Cahill, a senior program officer at the Carnegie Corporation with vast experience, the day after his July 2002 appointment — and asking her to lead the high - school reform efforts.

This logic is why the new wave of high school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the fschool reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the fSchool»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the family.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

James Encinas teaches fourth grade at Westminster Avenue Elementary School; Kyle Hunsberger teaches math at Cochran Middle School; Michael Stryer, a former Fairfax High School social studies teacher, leads teacher union reform efforts at Future is Now Schools

I was the lead teacher of a small school - within - a-school project inside my large comprehensive high school and a facilitator for the whole - school reform efforts that had grown out of a school funding case known as Abbott v. Burke.

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.