Sentences with phrase «most challenging schools»

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

Under the plans set out by Mr Gove, people who train to teach in some of the country's most challenging schools are to get up to # 5,000 extra.

Earlier in the day Alan Milburn, chair of the social mobility committee, called for tuition fees to be scrapped and subsidised housing for teachers working in the country's most challenging schools.

The Government should be focusing relentlessly on getting the best heads and teachers into the most challenging schools.

I have seen in my own constituency the huge difference that Teach First teachers make in the most challenging schools, such as Fullhurst in my constituency.

By supporting our work, the USDOE will allow us to position a team of highly qualified and trained school leaders for success in some of New York City's most challenging schools, including many that are on New York State's Priority or Focus school lists.

He's shown he knows what it will take to implement change, starting with paying teachers more if they're willing to work in the most challenging schools.

These are some of the poorest families in the most challenging schools.

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

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

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

A mantra of «transparency» is not used as a rationale to humiliate teachers with low results who 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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.»

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

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!!

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

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.

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.

«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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.»

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

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.