Sentences with phrase «numerous changes in district»

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District performance - based assessments in reading, writing, spelling, and math are given, on average, three times each year, and numerous staff development hours are spent reviewing results and discussing ways in which the findings can be used to inform and change classroom instruction to meet the needs of individual students.

Over the last five years, there has been a heavy emphasis on the principal as the key change agent in schools, which has been accompanied by numerous coaching initiatives for school leaders by district leaders.

He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on these topics, for example serving as lead author of Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: How Schools and Districts Can Support Change (Teachers College Press, 2003) and as editor of Standards - Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for No Child Left Behind (Brookings Institution Press, 2007).

Kirst helped to initiate the Statewide Special Education Task Force that produced a report in 2015 with multiple recommendations for change, including creating a «culture of collaboration and coordination» across numerous state agencies, and giving school districts more control over special education funds.

The Wallace Foundation expects to release findings from its Principal Pipeline Initiative in 2018, but preliminary findings focusing on the role of the assistant principal have brought about change in numerous school districts that are implementing better training and supports for prospective principals and APs.