Sentences with phrase «of systemic school reform»

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

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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.

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.»

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;

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since systemic reform requires big changes in philosophy and policy, these three pieces were particularly welcome: David Osborne applied his steer / row framework to teacher empowerment in charters, Politico showed what D.C.'s robust charter sector is accomplishing, and Fordham offered a terrific taxonomy of state - level school governance.

The third involved business leaders» advocacy of a range of reform ideas, from school choice to higher performance standards, that were not necessarily linked to the goal of systemic...

«The one - size - fits - all high school was built for a different time,» says Hilary Pennington, vice chair and cofounder of Jobs for the Future, which advocates for systemic high school reform.

D.C. has recently undertaken two invaluable reforms that, when combined with the city's other systemic features, place D.C. on the brink of becoming the urban school system of the future.

There are major problems with this legislation; anybody who thinks federal dictates have disappeared are in for a surprise, and anybody who would like to see the federal government exercise its power to fix systemic school funding problems and seriously broaden the scope of reform are in for a letdown, too.

AFC also advocates for systemic reform with respect to school discipline and the role of New York Police Department personnel in schools.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

Further enhancing NASDC's national profile was the fact that its key scale - up idea — moving from reforming individual schools to transforming entire systems — was quite similar to the idea of systemic reform that was one of the cornerstones of the Clinton administration's education policy.

The greatest shame of his tenure was his inability to bring meaningful systemic reform to Philadelphia's schools.

JW: An expanded federal role will allow our entire nation to cut through some of the political fog that has prevented good, sound ideas about how to change our schools from getting the go - ahead to proceed as part of a major systemic reform strategy.

While it might seem hard to compare such different strategies, the heart of the larger school - reform debate is between systemic reforms like the portfolio model and resource - oriented strategies.

Deeply personal and insightful, Surreal Change contextualizes the past, present, and future of school reform to help leaders continue to bring about lasting, positive, systemic change in their organization.

In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities around the country.

The findings are based on case studies of 12 reforming schools located in six reforming school districts in three states that have taken somewhat different approaches to systemic reform — California, Michigan, and Vermont.

Chief in these efforts is the Smart Arkansas suite, a series of programs that deal with elementary, middle and high school reform, professional development, and that combine for a more strategic and systemic way to support low - performing students.

As I told UrbanFaith's Christine A. Scheller, this is just one more example of the NAACP's biggest problem: An organization which was once proudly and rightfully in the forefront of school reform in the last century lacks an education advocacy road map that supports systemic school reform.

The Public Education Association (PEA) was founded in 1895 and for over 100 years worked for systemic and sustainable reform of the city's public school system.

As we learned from the 1990 - 2005 era of systemic state standards - based reform, when academic standards change, so do policies related to student assessment and school accountability.

Jacobson's chapter, «School - Community Partnerships: A Typology for Guiding Systemic Education Reform,» draws on the experiences of the Coalition for Community Schools and other partnership efforts to help policymakers and researchers understand the value and different types of partnership approaches.

Instead of trying to buy systemic reform with school - level investments, a new goal is to leverage private money in a way that redirects how public education dollars are spent.

As the Executive Director of High Schools for Edison Schools and the Chief Academic Officer for Great Schools Workshop in Sacramento, CA, Patrick worked with building and district administrations in nine states to implement systemic high school reform.

A coalition of concerned leaders in education, social services and local government condemned the state's broken school - finance system Tuesday and called for systemic reform.

Systemic reform isn't possible without the respectful interplay of every activist, thinker, school leader, and teacher working to transform these failing super-clusters.

He also served as the director of the Systemic Supports for School Reform program at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University and as a member of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners.

The Problem of the School Inspector Concept: Give the Education Sector credit for offering a new approach to systemic reform with last week's report on how states and the federal government could embrace the school inspection concept based on the model used in Great BrSchool Inspector Concept: Give the Education Sector credit for offering a new approach to systemic reform with last week's report on how states and the federal government could embrace the school inspection concept based on the model used in Great Brschool inspection concept based on the model used in Great Britain.

Ending traditional school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and schools (which account for 34 percent of school funding in the Wolverine State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of school choice, keep poor and minority kids out of the schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.

For school reformers and criminal justice reform advocates, tackling the solidarity mindsets of the teaching and law enforcement professions is critical to the systemic overhauls of both sectors.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

Taking a bit of offense at Petrilli's statement that reformers should use Lewis» challenge as an opportunity to win teachers over to systemic reform, Weingarten declares that Petrilli and others should «change course» and «try listening to what Karen and the Chicago educators are saying about how to improve schools».

But the fact that the Obama administration granted Virginia a waiver in the first place in spite of its record of obstinacy on systemic reform, along with the fact that many of the 32 other states granted waivers (along with the District of Columbia) have also set low expectations for districts and schools to improve the achievement of the poor and minority kids in their care, has put President Obama in the uncomfortable position of supporting the soft bigotry of low expectations for children — especially those who share his race and skin color.

Her projects have been focused on complex, systemic reform work in school systems, state departments of education, and non-profit organizations.

But many of the other Letter writers in the Sunday Dialogue, Jackson included, think that school integration does not constitute the systemic reform our school system needs.

As a licensed educational psychologist, he has also provided consultation to school districts working to build and sustain systemic leadership capacity, district reform, and implementation of adult and student conflict resolution.

Effective school transformation from traditional norms and practices to those where students take control of their learning in a digital environment involves systemic reforms.