Sentences with phrase «leading urban educators»

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Senior Lecturer, and future chair of the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (USL) at The Principals» Center, Deborah Jewell - Sherman notes the job is much too big for any individual educator to handle alone and that learning how to lead change alongside fellow school leaders can make a real difference.

But these children will also need great schools led by amazing educators, and urban charter schools are among the most cost - effective way to provide these children the schools that they deserve.

Helping Urban Students Succeed Judy Farmer, the new chairwoman of the board of directors of the Council of the Great City Schools, thinks urban schools are doing a lot right, and more joint efforts by educators and communities can lead to greater gUrban Students Succeed Judy Farmer, the new chairwoman of the board of directors of the Council of the Great City Schools, thinks urban schools are doing a lot right, and more joint efforts by educators and communities can lead to greater gurban schools are doing a lot right, and more joint efforts by educators and communities can lead to greater gains.

Our services transform how educators work together at urban public schools, helping the most effective teachers develop the skills they need to lead their peers and drive school - wide improvement.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

In addition to being a key - team member for many of CTAC's partnerships, Mr. Eglinton served as CTAC's co-project director for the TIF - supported Leadership for Educators» Advanced Performance Initiative (LEAP) with the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, directed CTAC's National Urban Reform Network, led site research and evaluations teams in Christina (DE) Denver (CO) and Newark (NJ) and trained district leadership teams, community collaboratives, corporate leadership groups and policymaking bodies at local, state and national levels.

This common problem, which surfaces in school after school, led us to consult some of the most successful urban educators we know — teachers and principals who have been involved in founding new, small high schools in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.1 These schools, which serve low - income, minority communities, have begun to routinely graduate and send to college more than 90 percent of their students.

Leading Educators Fellows who taught mathematics in New Orleans had a statistically significant, positive effect on student achievement, and the effect size was nearly three times that of attending a highly effective urban charter school.

But the 36 - year old educator's pathway to leading a diverse, urban school is nonetheless instructive to educators, parents, and policymakers alike.

Leading Educators also provides targeted Strategic Support Initiatives on a contract basis to districts in Denver, Houston, Washington, D.C., and New York City, and in partnership with the Academy for Urban School Leadership, and Teach for America.

Leading Educators» programming is the backbone of an ambitious strategy to significantly increase academic achievement among lower income children who attend the nearly 120 district, charter, and religious schools in the Greater Grand Rapids urban area.

But the 35 - year old educator's pathway to leading a diverse, urban school is nonetheless instructive.