Sentences with phrase «of school districts around the country»

And to make an impact, we'd probably have to engage in hundreds of school districts around the country.

As Representative Tom Cole (R) of Oklahoma told Education Week, «Some of these basic programs like Title I and IDEA are important building blocks for a lot of school districts around the country.»

The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student assessments.

There is a small number of school districts around the country that have development offices.

According to the report, the National Center for Education Statistics said 88 percent of school districts around the country offered some form of credit recovery courses to their students in school year 2009 - 10, and, «as online and blended learning have grown significantly in the last five years, it is likely those numbers are significantly higher now.»

It is recognized as a valuable resource for principal development — a number of school districts around the country have worked with the Leadership Academy as they have designed their own programs.

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Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

Like most other districts around the country, it features school food formulations of highly processed breakfast items like Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal:

(And these donuts actually have less sugar than a lot of other sweetened grain items served for breakfast by schools around the country, at least before the frosting and sprinkles are added by the district.)

Here in HISD and in many districts around the country, it is not uncommon to see on high school campuses numerous, daily fundraisers conducted during the lunch hour, most of which offer foods of poor nutritional value.

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

Although partnerships vary depending on the needs of the district and local users, common practices from around the country can help alleviate any concerns about expanding access to school facilities.

School officials in the District of Columbia recently decided without fanfare to discontinue serving flavored milk and sugary cereals, a move that has reverberated around the country.

Parents freaked out after reports surfaced last week that school districts around the country were serving kids hamburgers containing up to 15 percent of the processed product known in the meat industry as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» or «Lean Beef Trimmings,» produced by Beef Products Inc..

School districts and other state agencies around the country coordinate with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sSchool districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sschool for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public schoolschool.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

USP codirector Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman was pleased with the event as a celebration of the program and Peterkin, noting that it attracted not only alums from around the country, but also superintendents from large urban districts such as Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall.

Since the 2012 shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, districts around the country have stepped up security measures,...

The Change Leadership Group will be the first - in - the - nation program to recruit, train, and supervise a network of education experts to deliver on - site training and support to school districts around the country.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus...

Foundations can continue to play an important role in enabling school districts and states around the country to understand how and why New Orleans has made better relative academic gains in such a short period of time, and to encourage them to adopt similar approaches.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.

When they're not working with schools and districts around the country, Nancy Gutierrez and Liliana Polo - McKenna sit next to each other in the offices of the NYC Leadership Academy.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

The Edge of Curriculum All around the country, schools and districts, as well as afterschool programs, are redefining what is taught and how it's assessed.

Manor New Tech is part of the New Tech Network, a nonprofit that works with schools and districts around the country providing services and support to help reform learning through project - based learning (PBL).

In school districts around the country, handwritten notes, calls home, and face - to - face meetings are rapidly ceding ground to new technologies that better meet the needs of parents and schools.

Evaluating principals has become a hot topic as districts around the country have begun formally tying the evaluation of school leaders to their students» academic growth.

Mathematica was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate one approach that uses selective teacher transfer incentives in school districts around the country.

In many school districts around the country, however, the majority of students do not have smartphones.

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

In discussions with school districts around the country, the foundation learned that many schools are in need of high - quality STEM educators.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

He has been instrumental in advancing charter school and education choice programs around the country, and in 2016, he was inducted into the District of Columbia Hall of Fame.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

As districts and schools around the country think about extending the reach of excellent teachers, they want real - life examples to show them how to tackle each of these challenges.

But I also think, as you go around the country, to some extent school districts don't like the notion of funds leaving the traditional school system into a different sector.

The remote, 85 - student district in southeastern Colorado is one of about 100 districts around the country where school is a four - day - a-week affair.

For its study of visual - arts programs, the Getty Center asked more than 100 art - education experts around the country to identify school districts with strong art curricula.

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.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, school districts around the country have been encouraged to use programs that are scientifically proven to effectively improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students.

Her choice from among leading educators and administrators from other districts around the country reflected a strong desire by the board to keep the district in the hands of someone well versed on the challenges facing the district, someone who would not need months of on - the - job learning to become familiar with issues, schools and personnel.

Nikki is also a facilitator at Relay Graduate School of Education's National Principal Academy Fellowship, which trains 200 + district and charter school principals from around the coSchool of Education's National Principal Academy Fellowship, which trains 200 + district and charter school principals from around the coschool principals from around the country.

She writes and publishes extensively, and consults, coaches, and teaches in schools and school districts around the country and in other parts of the world.

As districts and schools around the country consider implementing their own Opportunity Cultures, they want real - life examples of just how others have already done so.

Turning around one of the lowest performing school districts in the country, in a city with generations of inequity, is not a five or ten year project.