Sentences with phrase «most challenged school»

When one of the leaders of standards - based school reform and one of the products of one of the nation's most challenged school districts agree on something, I pay attention.

These are only a few examples of how today's ISDs serve urban, suburban and rural K — 12 districts, enabling even the most challenged school to offer otherwise unavailable educational opportunities to its students.

Tomorrow, Connecticut's poorest and most challenged school districts must submit their «Year 2 Alliance District Plans» to Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his loyal band of education reformers.

This series follows Michelle Rhee's attempts to reform one of the most challenged school districts in America.

In its efforts to improve student achievement, MPS faced headwinds on par with the nation's most challenged school systems.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new strategy on Monday to turn around New York City's most challenged schools.

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.

We recruit and develop teachers to work in the most challenging schools, which means we work hard to find the right people.

Love Kerry, especially for the work she has done to support the arts as a strategy to turn around one of our most challenging schools in DC, but the answer is very simple: Idris, Idris, and Idris!!

Administrators, for their part, are finding these programs to be effective at encouraging experienced teachers to transfer to the most challenging schools.

At the heart of the raft of pledges, is to place the very best teachers in the most challenged schools and the commitment to ensure a good primary education for every child.

Sponsored academies are transforming some of the most challenging schools across the country, tackling decades of failure and mediocrity — new sponsors should be given the best possible opportunity to tackle these issues and transform pupils» education.»

Hobby also warned that the changes could act as a «further deterrent» to leaders to take on the most challenging schools.

Subsequently, many of our nation's most challenging schools are rife with teacher turnover; half of all novices leave the profession within the first five years.

«The most challenged schools are high poverty and high minority schools, and that's where we are struggling as a country to fulfill this promise.

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

Even when new teachers are well prepared, they are often assigned to the most challenging schools and classes and given the more demanding extracurricular duties.

The final panel session of the afternoon discussed how best to develop teachers in the most challenging schools.

When I first read Mass Insight's The Turnaround Challenge, I was thrilled by its holistic explanation of what it takes to turnaround the most challenging schools.

The TeachFirst scheme has shown how a career teaching at the frontline — in our most challenging schools — has become a prestigious destination our best graduates fight to reach.

«Great teachers help unlock children's talents and Teach First is already playing a key role by recruiting top graduates with the potential to become excellent teachers in some of our most challenging schools.

But within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children.

I explained why the predictable result of value - added evaluations, even when balanced by «multiple measures,» would be driving talent out of the most challenging schools.

The EEF is a charity, established by the Sutton Trust as the lead charity in a partnership with Impetus Trust, with a DfE endowment of # 125m to boost the attainment of disadvantaged children in some of the country's most challenging schools.

In surveys and focus groups, they have complained about feeling monitored, and harbor concerns that it's harder for teachers in the most challenging schools to get top scores on the evaluation.

The basic rationale for founding the NYC Leadership Academy was to prepare a cadre of new principals capable of turning around the city's most challenging schools.

In the past, each of these four schools has made the U.S. News and World Report list, The Washington Post list of most challenging schools, or both.

Last year, I taught in one of Massachusetts» most challenged schools.

Unless we resolve to get more of our best leaders into the most challenging schools, the poor will continue to be short changed.

And it can draw more talent to the most challenging schools.

In this file photo from 2012, a math teacher asks students questions during the opening of the BASIS DC charter school, a brand that has been called one of the most challenging schools in the country.

The City has implemented a number of initiatives in the past three years to improve middle school students» academic performance, including expanded after - school programs, the School Renewal Program (providing the most challenged schools with additional funding), instructional resources and experienced leadership, and the Community School expansion.

It does not hold the adults who care for our children accountable; it does not allow teacher evaluations based on whether students are being given the tools to succeed; it does not allow for differential pay for teachers serving in our most challenging schools, and it gives lifetime tenure usually after two to three years — making it nearly impossible to lay off ineffective teachers.

With a career that spans the entertainment industry, software, and education, Derek brings a unique and sometimes controversial perspective on what it takes for our most challenged schools to achieve academic excellence for each child.

Lewis is saying that TFA, an organization that places exceptional, idealistic young teacher - leaders in the most challenging schools in the country is responsible for killing kids.

In between, the city murder rate has been steadily climbing, disproportionately impacting the young people who populate Chicago's most challenged schools.

«These are some of our most challenged schools and to see some of them reporting percentage improvement in the double figures really is remarkable.»

«Fundamentally, this lawsuit was about protecting some of our most vulnerable students in some of the City's most challenging schools,» Mayor Villaraigosa said.

«That's why we have given all schools greater flexibility to set staff pay, reward exceptional leaders and attract strong leadership teams to work in the most challenging schools.

In 2011, they identified a statewide need for a program that could develop and prepare a pipeline of outstanding school leaders to address the needs of the most challenging schools across the state.

A mantra of «transparency» is not used as a rationale to humiliate teachers with low results who work in the most challenging schools.

As we struggle through yet another round of school improvement efforts at some of our most challenged schools, I hope that we can learn some lessons.

They include $ 147.50 per student for teacher stipends, including pay incentives for teachers who work in the district's most challenging schools.

This program gets an on - the - ground look at how the stimulus is affecting some of the nation's most challenged schools.

Friends, Parents, teachers, community members and anyone in the Linked Learning field have all seen the transformative effect that Linked Learning has on students, especially in some of the biggest, most challenging school districts across the country.

But we also have school improvement grants that go out to our most challenged schools.

Last year, we hired Karina Cremades, a Teach For America alumnus who had taught for two years in some of Houston's most challenged schools.

Two soldiers recently outshot their Marine classmates in one of the Marine Corps» most challenging schools — the Scout Sniper Course.

For more than 15 years, Wings for Kids has delivered powerful life lessons to elementary students in Charleston's most challenging schools.

After decades of financial and administrative struggles, Frederick Douglass High — once a school with a reputation for excellence — became one of the most challenged schools in the city.