Sentences with phrase «of systemic school»

Community Schools Strategy Can Be an Important Part of Systemic School Reform Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

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Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.

Residential schools, forced assimilation, racism, systemic murder, crippling economic inequalities, lack of adequate schooling, we have a disgusting history as a nation when it comes to our First Nations.

The third category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making the emotional climate of larger face - to - face systems (such as churches, schools, industries, and social agencies) more growth - enabling.

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have unearthed a connection between advancing age, systemic inflammation, cardiovascular disease and coffee consumption.

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.

Distinguishing the Cook for America ® approach from that of countless other school food reform projects is its emphasis on holistic, systemic change through the creation of a school foodservice work force that is both capable of preparing healthy scratch - cooked meals from whole, fresh foods, and empowered and motivated to do so.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

Mission, Vision, and Strategic Planning guides participants through the process of planning for systemic, sustainable change in their school meal programs.

Course Description Mission, Vision, and Strategic Planning guides participants through the process of planning for systemic, sustainable change in their school meal programs.

The study was inspired by Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith's belief that «School food reform is not separate from school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.&School food reform is not separate from school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.&school reform; it's part of the basic work we have to do in order to correct systemic justice, pursue equity, and give our children the best future possible.»

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

«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.

Additionally, I will advocate for a solution to fix the systemic problems associated with a district in which a majority of school - aged children do not attend public schools.

Stallings, 44, a tax professional seeking his second term on the board, said part of dealing with Hartford's systemic problems is «right - sizing» the district through school consolidation.

And the promised systemic improvements to all of our schools?

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

«The best explanation for what we are seeing is that frequently, after exposure to HIV, a few cells in the genital tract are infected, without establishment of a systemic infection,» says senior investigator Eric Hunter, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Seizures, strokes, neuromuscular disorders and encephalopathy (brain disease) are among the complications that often escape necessary investigation, «largely due to other ongoing systemic derangements requiring much attention,» report neurologists Rochelle Sweis, DO, Jorge Ortiz, MD, and José Biller, MD, of Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

«As it is known that atherosclerosis is linked to inflammation, our next step was to look for an association of high - risk plaques with other systemic inflammatory conditions such as NAFLD,» said the study's lead author, Stefan B. Puchner, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

March 27, 2018 • Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

Two years later, the investigation found that cheating had occurred in at least 44 schools and that one of Georgia's major school districts had been plagued by «organized and systemic misconduct.»

Indeed, Anderson's first year in Newark was marked by serious change — she closed six schools, reorganized her central administration team, cut 120 jobs — and marked the beginning of a deep systemic overhaul, financial and pedagogical.

Despite these large numbers — which indicate a huge systemic change — and despite the long - standing practice of social promotion in public schools, the rationale for holding students back seemed readily apparent to many parents.

In this edition of the EdCast, Roberts reflects on how «instructional rounds» can provide a framework for systemic improvement in schools.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

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.»

It is often said that the best changes are «bottom up», in this case however the change will need to be «top down» with a lot of support in the form of critical friends for schools, to set in place systemic demands that override extant belief systems to give the new system a chance to prove its worth.

Working with governments, private organizations and civil society, and often times creating pioneering programs and organizations, IEP graduates bring an acute understanding of how to support systemic school improvement at scale.

After years of systemic failure at Desert Trails Elementary, in 2011 parents with children at the school formed an autonomous organization, the Desert Trails Parent Union, and went door - to - door, working alongside other parents, to develop an agenda for change and get the word out about this new legal right they had.

At last week's Askwith Forum, «Transformative Change in American Schools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core StaSchools,» Michele Cahill, — vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, — spoke to the importance of transformative change and systemic reform within K — 12 schools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Staschools across the nation, focusing largely on Common Core Standards.

If each teacher or school tried to evolve and improve in isolation, we would never achieve the gains needed, because there would be no systemic learning or adoption of best practice.

The mission of Green Dot from day one was to create systemic change, not to create a bunch of charter schools.

He argues that the leadership of the Milwaukee schools, the school board and the central office, attempted to respond with systemic and school - based reforms, but were perpetually thwarted by managerial and political constraints that he describes with chilling insight and accuracy.

As long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districts.

«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.»

State and district guidelines for school improvement planning are focusing too heavily on standards and results - oriented improvements instead of promoting systemic changes to address barriers to teaching and learning, concludes a report from the Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles.

So investigators went looking for systemic discrimination, and in their view found it: «Schools with higher percentages of black students established stricter punishment for discipline incidents.»

Besides gaining access to district buildings, these schools also tend to attract principals and teachers who like the idea of working more closely with districts and being part of systemic reform.

The TAP is a systemic reform of public schools intended to attract, motivate, develop, and retain high - quality talent in the teaching profession.

No matter how much energy and money we spend working on systemic issues — school choice, funding, assessments, accountability, and the like — not one of these policies educates children.

That also means that in cases where a requisite degree of leadership capacity does not exist in a school, then systemic intervention, such as coaching support, may be required to ensure it is in place.

When we first visited schools in spring 2016 for this project — a multi-year, multi-method study of systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning — teachers seemed to be taking on an unsustainably heavy lift as they transitioned to personalizing student learning (PL).

The former dean of the Stanford University School of Education, Smith is perhaps the leading proponent of what's known as «systemic» reform in education.

Scattered efforts - sometimes called «random acts of innovation» - have begun to coalesce into a systemic connection between the everyday practices of labor relations and a quality school - reform agenda.

Finally, by focusing on general trends, as opposed to merely year - to - year variations, assessments can more accurately capture the systemic performance of schools, districts, and states in educating their students with disabilities.

As a guiding principle of restructured schools and systemic reform, outcomes - based education becomes a new way of approaching students and viewing classrooms.

A Progressive Policy Institute study of D.C.'s charter experience summarized the situation perfectly: «There is no clear evidence that charter schools have had a direct impact on student achievement in DCPS schools or otherwise driven systemic reform.»

October 27: Higher Education, the Cost Disease, and Systemic Reform with Professor Mark Yudof, University of California at Berkeley School of Law and president emeritus.