Sentences with phrase «new district culture»

Not exact matches

And Parkland, Florida, where the shooting took place, is exactly the kind of reasonably diverse and upscale suburban district where Donald Trump's brand of culture - war politics has alienated most people and inspired tons of new grassroots organizing.

But when there's real progress underway — when the White House advances early childhood education; when a culture of school food reform is the new normal in districts nationwide; when the work takes on a life of its own — then the entrepreneur is ready to take on a different challenge, and begin work anew.

The state capital's culture is notorious for its male privilege — the New York Times once summarized the infamous «Bear Mountain Compact» as «any liaisons with interns or young staff members that occur north of Bear Mountain Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between Orange and Westchester Counties, are not spoken about in the home districts in New York City or elsewhere.»

Manhattan District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said of the arrests, «Today's charges demonstrate, once again, that a show - me - the - money culture seems to pervade every level of New York government.

One day after charging one of New York's leading lawmakers with exploiting his office to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York delivered a stinging condemnation of the culture of corruption in Albany and said the system was set up to breed misdeeds.

But first, a reminder: VOTE!!!!! Here's a sprawling article about the 33rd Senate District primary race — Gustavo Rivera vs. Pedro Espada Jr. — from a new news and culture site, capitalnewyork.com, that looks like it was created by ex-Observer staffers.

Powell, 48, has long coveted the seat for New York's 15th District, which represents an area once known as the center of African American culture.

On Monday, a damning report by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, about the «deep - seated culture of violence» against adolescent inmates at Rikers Island singled out the episodes as particularly deplorable.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on Monday was a huge blow against Albany's culture of corruption, but it was also a major personal victory for Preet Bharara, the crusading U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

But the culture of criminal justice would also have to shift — among lawyers, judges and district attorneys — to ensure that fewer New Yorkers languish in city jails awaiting trial, experts said.

«As District Attorney, he will bring the culture of the Southern District of New York to the top law enforcement office in Suffolk County.»

It was an incredible adventure experiencing new cultures, exploring different districts, and «mastering» the transit systems.

All teachers new to a district need to learn policies and procedures, missions, philosophies, and the overall culture of their particular school and district.

A serious transmission process for innovation requires much more attention to rewarding districts that serve as alpha sites (starting with philanthropic and federal research support), easing the transfer of new solutions from district hands to independent entities, and creating a culture where such a dynamic transmission belt is regarded as a good, healthy, and normal thing.

Yet when this culture - first leader took the helm of Tennessee's new Achievement School District in 2011, he concluded that anyone's first move in that role ought to be, «Get a great lawyer, understand the legislation, and understand what you can and can not do right out of the gate.»

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

The largest district in the state, Schaumburg CCSD 54 was undergoing a transformation, with diverse immigrant cultures bringing 89 new languages into schools and swelling the student population to 14,000 students from preK to eighth grade.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

Dan Swartz, L.I.F.T.'s human capital strategies specialist, and L.I.F.T. Superintendent Denise Watts explain how they got there in a new vignette from Public Impact, Recruiting in an Opportunity Culture: Lessons Learned, with an accompanying video of principals and district leaders sharing how an Opportunity Culture attracts great teachers.

«Opportunity Culture» initiative coming to Vance County schools: Vance County Schools has become the fourth North Carolina district to participate in the national Opportunity Culture Initiative, reported The Daily Dispatch, with three elementary schools being the district's first to implement their new teaching roles and school plans in the 2017 - 18 school year.

As an Opportunity Culture multi-classroom leader in New York's Syracuse City School District, I have found that could not be further from the truth.

The Indianapolis school board and teachers union recently became the first in the country to include Opportunity Culture roles in their new contract, offering pay supplements of up to $ 18,300 — 35 percent of the district's average salary.

Public Impact's newest, free, five - step toolkit, Evaluation, Accountability, and Professional Development in an Opportunity Culture: A Practical Guide, gives schools, districts, and states what they need to create an evaluation system that primarily guides teachers» development and career opportunities.

This guide and brief join the many free Opportunity Culture materials for schools, districts, and human resources personnel to use in creating an Opportunity Culture, recruiting, selecting, training, and evaluating and developing teachers and teacher - leaders in these new roles.

By removing real estate as an obstacle, charters were able to focus on curriculum, students and school culture — especially important because New York charter students receive several thousand dollars less per pupil than children in district schools.

In what has always been an immigrant - rich city, the San Francisco district has become increasingly attuned to the needs of its recently arrived students, developing a «newcomer» pathway to help those who are new to the United States adjust both to English and American culture.

The Newcomer Academy is a new summer program the Albany City School District aimed at helping its growing population of immigrant and refugee students adjust to a new language, school and culture.

New Teacher Immersion by Susan Totaro and Mark Wise An intensive orientation program gives novice teachers in one district a game - changing introduction to the instructional culture.

Compared to writing a new curriculum or designing a professional development program, there's nothing straightforward about coming up with a plan to address the culture of a school district.

On November 7, Los Angeles Unified's two newest board members will face early tests of their commitment to changing the district's culture as it relates to how it views and relates to the charter schools it authorizes.

In 2015, the San Antonio Independent School District School Board passed a resolution supporting the program and defining the rationale for its creation as, «new teachers who receive concentrated, coordinated support are more likely to remain in the district, thereby saving precious district funds and resources and contributing to a culture of continuous growth and improvement, leading to improved student performanceDistrict School Board passed a resolution supporting the program and defining the rationale for its creation as, «new teachers who receive concentrated, coordinated support are more likely to remain in the district, thereby saving precious district funds and resources and contributing to a culture of continuous growth and improvement, leading to improved student performancedistrict, thereby saving precious district funds and resources and contributing to a culture of continuous growth and improvement, leading to improved student performancedistrict funds and resources and contributing to a culture of continuous growth and improvement, leading to improved student performance.»

This innovative new program aligns with and supports individual district and school culture and initiatives.

The earliest of these studies (Elmore & Burney, 1999; Fink & Resnick, 2001) documented the case of New York's former Community District # 2, whose leaders placed a high priority on instruction and a collegial culture.

As the fall progressed, however, he realized the new Spanish textbooks adopted by the school district included references to many of the pop - culture questions from the pre-test.

If I had the opportunity to meet with a new school administrator regarding implementing intensive interventions within their school or district, I would advise them to focus on four main components of a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS): (1) establishing a student - focused culture in your building, (2) establishing efficient procedures for data collection and analysis, (3) establishing a strong core instructional program and (4) focusing on continuous improvement.

The argument here is that both are partially right but also partially wrong: Rhee and Klein are right to have faith in some of the new providers (many of whom are embracing the international lessons in terms of selecting talent and carefully preparing them for practice), and they are also right that the culture of bureaucratic districts tends to produce a compliance mentality that we need to escape.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

We collaborate with district partners to build a system to develop a culture of trust — with a new focus on growth and improvement among all educators.

-- A new paper from Thomas Kane in Education Next says that the Institute of Education Sciences «must redirect its efforts away from funding the interests and priorities of the research community and toward building an evidence - based culture within districts and state agencies.»

«States and the federal government have a role in changing the way districts support effective leadership in every school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important role that districts play and promote and model large shifts in organizational culture and operations.»

Under the leadership of Superintendent Tony Alvarado, New York City's Community District 2 implemented a complex and interconnect culture of reform that included standards and assessments.

Syracuse, N.Y., educators have some advice, captured in a new three - page vignette, How One Union - District Partnership Launched an Opportunity Culture.

New and updated tools are added regularly, based on Public Impact's work with leading districts nationally that are implementing an Opportunity Culture.

Teachers in Opportunity Culture districts in Tennessee, North Carolina, and New York are earning pay supplements as high as 50 percent of their state's average teacher pay.

We don't just want to sit on the board, we want to mobilize parents to take back their school district — establish a new culture of leadership and a belief that every school can succeed.»

In addition to providing teachers with all the tools they need to create a better assessment system, Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work makes a compelling case for the potential of such a system to transform the culture of schools and districts, and to propel K — 12 education to new levels of effectiveness and efficiency.

Susan Totaro and Mark Wise describe their district's four - day orientation program for new educators, which aims to provide not just basic information, but also authentic experiences of the system's instructional culture.