Sentences with phrase «local community school leaders»

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«Agents provide community health education through regular community health talks, especially leveraging connections with local community groups, schools, places of worship, and support from local leaders and council members.»

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

At Macdonough Elementary School in Middletown, Connecticut, students recently enjoyed a breakfast tailgate party that brought community leaders, school staff, students, parents, local business owners, and NFL's Fuel Up to Play 60 team together — along with a great PR opportunity for the sSchool in Middletown, Connecticut, students recently enjoyed a breakfast tailgate party that brought community leaders, school staff, students, parents, local business owners, and NFL's Fuel Up to Play 60 team together — along with a great PR opportunity for the sschool staff, students, parents, local business owners, and NFL's Fuel Up to Play 60 team together — along with a great PR opportunity for the schoolschool.

Thanks to the commitment of teachers, principals, parents and community leaders, along with No Kid Hungry's national and local partners across the country, 3 million more kids are eating school breakfast since 2010.

If you are curious about the specific reasons your child's school community has chosen to be a part of the National PTA or an independent PTO, your local leaders should be able to answer your questions.

Brown today was concentrating his attacks on the Conservatives, while the Tory leader, David Cameron, promoted his party's flagship policy of creating a new generation of state schools run by parents and local communities.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today joined leaders of the Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties, the Presidents of Mohawk Valley Community College, Herkimer County Community College, Morrisville State College, Utica School of Commerce and SUNY Institute of Technology and representatives of local... Read more

Partnership for Student Advocacy (PFSA): An advocacy organization that closely collaborates with schools and school communities, PFSA takes an inventory of local elected officials and reaches out through letters, phone calls, and personal visits to enlist the active support of key leaders on behalf of the schools it serves.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

Adams, who made his recommendations after months of input from community leaders, said the project needed to address overcrowding in local schools and maintain all residential units related to the development as «permanently affordable.»

Asked whether his bill would make it harder to close or truncate poorly performing schools, Benjamin said it would simply require the city to make a better case to the community while possibly coming up with a more comprehensive plan that would satisfy local leaders and parents.

«Therefore it would be great, I think, to see the leader out on the stump every day in factories, in local businesses, in schools, in hospitals, making it clear to people why staying in is so important for our economy and our communities.»

For Hope Hart, Syngenta's product safety team leader, the company's commitment to social responsibility reinforces her volunteer work at local schools or community groups where she discusses the safety of GM crops or how they help increase small - farm — holders» profits.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

It is the responsibility of the school business manager to ensure that the school works alongside parents, the local community and business leaders in order to establish a culture of parental participation and various stakeholder engagement.

Many local business leaders are Kiwanis members, who have taken an active role in sponsoring and advising the school's community service club.

Those leaders - in - training can include older Frontiers students and adult community members, such as retirees, local businesspeople, and school bus drivers.

In other words, the average school leader faces pressure from the school district, the state, the parents and the local community to get high test scores.

«We recognize that teens are leaders today, not only in school but within their Clubs, their local communities and beyond.

Local charter school leaders were supportive, but their naiveté about the political process stood in sharp contrast to the strategic organizing in the labor community.

In addition to including prominent Minnesota school superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engschool superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engSchool Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engaged).

In fact, Reading School District superintendent Melissa Jamula, the daughter of a former Reading police captain, is by all accounts a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community and local and state government leaders.

Reading School District Superintendent Melissa Jamula is, by all accounts, a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community as well as local and state government leaders.

«Local leaders, not us, know their children and communities best — to try to micromanage 100,000 schools from Washington would be the height of arrogance,» he said.

These CMOs could still guide facilities design, pedagogy, principal and teacher development, and community relations, while trusting local leaders like Singer and Cowan to open and run their schools.

The school itself is seen as an important part of the local community and these schools often find ways to involve business and community leaders in the work of the school, as well as to establish partnerships with other agencies and businesses to advance school goals.

They discovered a major change in how parents, educators, community and business leaders, and public officials come together to direct changes in local public schools.

For instance, before school leaders move to eliminate relatively high - cost art or music classes, they may look to see whether local providers (community centers, local colleges, etc.) can or already do provide similar services at better prices.

In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.

If you don't have strong community involvement in your school, you might start off with small steps like inviting a community leader to the school to speak about bullying prevention or seeking funding for anti-bullying activities from local businesses.

The Linkages Project supports local leaders seeking to connect early childhood programs more closely with high quality elementary schools that have deep roots in the community.

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

Local afterschool leaders could be using this data gathered during the school year — both the in - school attendance data and afterschool attendance data — to make improvements in afterschool programming and to enhance partnerships with schools, families, and other child - and family - focused community organizations in order to address poor attendance.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

Alturas International Academy School Type: Charter Public Location: Idaho Falls Grades Served: K - 8 ’20 in 10 ′ Investment: $ 1,000,000 over five years ’20 in 10 ′ Impact: 538 new seats About the School: Alturas International Academy promotes academic distinction, while empowering students to be principled and intellectual leaders as they explore, create, investigate, and analyze in a safe, engaged, collaborative environment that inspires them to make a genuine difference in their local and global community.

Our NE TURN locals are encouraged to invite representatives from their district and school administration, boards of education and community leaders to join their teams for this two - day forum.

Across the country, the number of community schools continues to grow, as local educators, community leaders, and others look for equitable, efficient, and effective ways to provide the broad range of supports and services that allow young people to become truly well - prepared to enter college or a career.

In many cases, the community school serves as a neighborhood hub, bringing together educators, families, business leaders, elected officials, and many other local partners to ensure that students have real opportunities to succeed in school and in life.

Known as Community Learning Centers, each school employs a resource coordinator who works closely with school leaders and the school's Local School Decision - Making Committee to gather data about student needs, monitor their performance, and create targeted interventions for individual students and the school as a school employs a resource coordinator who works closely with school leaders and the school's Local School Decision - Making Committee to gather data about student needs, monitor their performance, and create targeted interventions for individual students and the school as a school leaders and the school's Local School Decision - Making Committee to gather data about student needs, monitor their performance, and create targeted interventions for individual students and the school as a school's Local School Decision - Making Committee to gather data about student needs, monitor their performance, and create targeted interventions for individual students and the school as a School Decision - Making Committee to gather data about student needs, monitor their performance, and create targeted interventions for individual students and the school as a school as a whole.

Tuesday's event will include opportunities for media to speak with school leaders, students, and families, as well as local and state elected officials, regarding the unique challenges facing Connecticut's public charter school community.

Supporting Principal Leadership for Pre-K — Third Grade Learning Communities addresses ways to enhance SEA and LEA leadership capacity for building P -3 communities, cultivate standards of effective practice for P - 3 principals and related leaders, develop practical implementation strategies as described by an elementary school principal and state education leaders, and consider implications for state and local policymakers, technical assistance and professional developmental providers, and higher education.

Meanwhile, the local teachers» union and black community leaders organized a drive to reclaim «our schools» from the mostly white Legislature in Lansing.

OAKLAND, CA - Oakland area leaders joined local charter school leaders and supporters to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the California Charter Schools Act, with a community rally and information expo at Preservation Park on Saturday.

Our NW TURN locals are encouraged to invite representatives from their district and school administration, boards of education and community leaders to join their teams for this two - day forum.

Schools are the nuclei of local communities and the preparatory grounds where future leaders are educated and shaped to inform and engage in our democracy.

Are you a parent, charter school leader or part of a local community group?

From teachers and parents to elected officials, community leaders, employers, and on and on, everybody has a stake in decisions about their local school budget.

State funds for driver's education are slated to dry up beginning this fall — and while the House proposed to keep funding this program that is run by local school districts, Senate leaders want to move the responsibility of providing students with driver's education to community colleges by 2016, and they have no plan in place yet to fund the measure.

She leads the CFF's grantmaking portfolio, which focuses on investing in local public schools, nonprofits that develop teachers and school leaders, and innovative organizations that empower the local community.