Sentences with phrase «making systemic changes»

Overall, the law's emphasis needs to shift from applying sanctions for failing to raise test scores to holding states and localities accountable for making the systemic changes that improve student achievement.»

Foley said, «The law's emphasis needs to shift from applying sanctions for failing to raise test scores to holding states and localities accountable for making the systemic changes that improve student achievement.

This includes holding schools accountable for making systemic changes through locally controlled professional development and family involvement programs.

«The new small schools actually only worked because we were making systemic changes,» says Cahill, to ensure «that teaching and learning, human resources, finance, facilities, accountability, procurement, partnerships would be coordinated and problems solved rather than going into the black hole of bureaucracy.»

He proposed killing off «bad models» and making systemic changes.

Here are some organizations working to make systemic change and ensure justice for Tina Fontaine.

But I made the point yesterday that they need to make systemic changes — not just when there's an email campaign.»

Using her office as a tool to make systemic changes is also seen in her comprehensive response to the heroin scourge.

«I want to be clear,» she said, «that my job is to make systemic change.»

To do this we need to focus on the root causes and make systemic changes to our education system to address them head - on.

Yet in his confirmation hearing, Duncan left little doubt that the administration wants to make systemic changes.

Each of the three schools made systemic changes and gathered data utilizing a variety of measures.

We can use the evaluation rubric and what's expected of people to know and be able to do to associate them with those rapid changes, and then we can make the systemic changes necessary to address student needs in real time, rather than waiting for a long period of time to do that.

In order to improve teaching and learning in the United States and keep up with changing demands on students, teachers, and schools, policymakers and education officials must make systemic changes to all aspects of the teaching profession: recruiting; training; developing; retaining; and supporting teachers with effective leaders and professional learning environments.

This guide focuses on your legal options against school districts and employees, which is the best way for making systemic change to the culture within schools, so they do a better job of preventing and responding to bullying.

Since 2012, Schott has partnered with allied organizations to produced numerous policy guides for advocates and elected officials, pointing the way for lawmakers who want to make systemic change and need a place to start.

It's shortsighted and underestimates the power of communities to make systemic change.

This spurs effective action on many levels — working on law reform to make systemic change; raising public awareness through social media campaigns and street rallies; engaging in participatory research to provide a valuable and often overlooked perspective.

The Children's Bureau prefers plans that attempt to make systemic changes to the problem areas identified during reviews.

Not exact matches

Busby says this idea of formal integration has been around for decades, but the considerable bureaucratic and planning inertia inherent in making such systemic change has until now put implementation on the back burner.

When there's a systemic problem within an organization — for example, when the way you've always done things no longer makes sense — the quicker you can elevate it to a person with the power to make a change, the better.

The Google rep also explained that the process for tweaking its algorithm involves making scalable, systemic changes rather than simply demoting individual websites.

When UNGC, DNV GL and MMGI made the Global Opportunity Report we asked more than 5,500 leaders worldwide about their views on systemic change.

Systemic and cultural changes must be made, and this kind of posturing distracts from talk about actual solutions.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

With a rising emphasis nationwide on mental health and wellness, Challenge Success is on the forefront of providing upstream solutions that support schools in making real, systemic changes that positively impact the health and well - being of students.

Coming from a tradition of Contextual Family Therapy, Attachment Theory and Neuropsychology, the RT model keeps both therapist and clients organized to make sound systemic changes in individuals and relationships.

B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between «good companies» and just good marketing; 2) accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab's GIIRS impact rating system by institutional investors; and 3) promoting supportive public policies, including creation of a new corporate form and tax, procurement, and investment incentives for sustainable business.

That would include making «systemic changes» based on recommendations from an outside consultant and publicly posting all job vacancies, improving poll worker staffing with better pay and better training, and communicating more clearly with voters about poll sites, election days and registration statuses.

«Changes made are minor and won't provide systemic change,» said Sarah Landes, a member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a collection of teachers, students and youth organizations working to reduce suspension and mandate alternative discipline methods.

By considering the patient's systemic imbalances, Dr. Hanaway was able to help the patient motivate to make targeted lifestyle changes and address the underlying causes that fed her into many symptoms.

The other major change I've made recently is reducing my protein intake by about 50g per day since I decided to take some time off from the gym for systemic recovery.

In a not so festive season when we've all been thinking hard about a lot of terrible thinkings like corrupt governments and oligarchies, sexual misconduct and systemic isms that make life such an oppressive mess for so many people (and damage everyone — even the opporessors — since we all are truly in this life together) as well as the terror of both climate change and this particular cold snap (I'm super sick right now, yay!)

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) NCREL's mission is to «strengthen and support schools and communities in systemic change so that all students achieve standards of educational excellence,»... «to help teachers teach better, students learn better, administrators provide better leadership, and policy makers make better policy.»

Having more open discussions would not only lead to more ethical decisions for individual students, but also could allow teachers to identify the systemic causes of these individual cases — and help schools begin to make sustainable change.

To borrow his words, he understands that we need real, subverting kind of change at the systemic level in order to make progress on the challenges of American public education.

With more than $ 200 million, the foundation also built political support across the country, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes.»

Through these efforts teachers will be able to will enhance school climate, make a difference in the lives of their students, change the fabric of their classroom communities and impact systemic change in their districts.

For example, the $ 31 million invested by private individuals, corporations and foundations to support The Mind Trust's efforts has helped build the infrastructure needed to transform our city's schools, making Indianapolis one of the nation's best - positioned cities to drive systemic change.

These are organizational changes, which highlights both a systemic approach AND how making curricular changes alone will not foster school improvement.

In order for postsecondary schools to effectively make systemic reform, professional educators must view PK - 12 teachers as active learners, who are willing to question and make needed changes in teaching and school - wide practices.

At the NYC Leadership Academy, we believe in meeting districts where they are, supporting them in having the hard conversations about the existence and impact of personal and systemic racism on students, and then helping them develop strategies for making and maintaining change that will work for their communities.

All of this is to reiterate (in case you haven't heard it twenty times this week) that vouchers would require systemic change throughout private schools to make it an equitable program.

Findings from year one show that the District has made a great deal happen without significant outside funding for systemic change.

It's about making a life - changing difference for students by staying involved in all aspects of the work, ensuring that policies successfully reach classrooms, and keeping parents engaged in order to build lasting, systemic momentum focused on what's best for kids.

We contend that one of the most direct systemic changes we could make to reach this goal is to change the compensation structure for educators, moving toward some form of merit pay.

It will also make connections between the PL Standards and systemic change.

Systemic reform and social change can not be fully realized without the work of networks within communities that can make things happen.

Keep up with the evolution of our field, take your career to the next level, and find ways to make sustainable, systemic change for animals!

We know what's causing it this time and we know how to stop it, but through a combination of systemic momentum making change difficult and an unwillingness to change that system, we may not be able to do so.