Sentences with phrase «of strong school leaders»

This Education Week special report examines how educators and policymakers are tackling critical issues facing principals already on the job and helping districts build a bench of strong school leaders.

We asked respondents to identify the ten traits they felt were the most essential traits of a strong school leader and to rank them in order of importance from 1 (most important) to 10 (least important of the ten).

Visibility is an extremely important characteristic of a strong school leader and one of the most difficult to accomplish, according to principal Steven Podd.

Being visible — getting out of the office and being seen all over the school — was the most frequently identified quality of a strong school leader.

What is the most important quality of a strong school leader?

Now, as they look at their budgets, they can ask, given the negative impact the lack of a strong school leader has on student learning, «Can we afford NOT to spend a mere.4 % of our budget to develop a pipeline of great principals?»

Given the negative impact the lack of a strong school leader has on student learning, can district leaders afford not to spend a mere.4 % of their budgets to develop a pipeline of great principals?

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On the terrain of conservative Protestantism, especially in the regions and social classes where families remain large and strong and where leaders are motivated to send out fleets of buses to scoop up the young while parents are slugabed, any talk of the Sunday school being in trouble would not be comprehensible.

This year, Natural Products Business School will tackle the intricacies of raising capital while maintaining a strong mission with an impressive lineup of industry leaders.

Expanding on those remarks was Joe Muellenberg from the Horticulture and 4 - H Program, University of Wisconsin Extension; Joe gave examples of how intergenerational gardening (Family Garden School) and community service can build strong future leaders.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a strong school choice proponent, laced into de Blasio and hinted he'd use his office to try to discourage a rollback of New York City's education reforms.

Providing new ways of personalised learning was crucial to improving education, Mr Blair said, but warned that how schools were structured was also vital to ensure that strong school leaders, discipline and good life skills flourished.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg indicates he has strong differences of opinion with his Tory coalition partners over free schools in England.

«30 percent of the schools in the district should be reserved for protocol from the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection... The Final selection form the district which excludes the 30 % protocol should include strong women activists, female opinion leaders, other women executives, queen - mothers and members of women groups,» the statement added.

«There remains a strong demand among health care leaders to better understand this issue, and how to address it, given the link between disparities, quality, safety, cost and value,» says Betancourt, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

He was a strong advocate for the empowerment of women, a leader in interfaith dialogue and even founded a school in India (Miri Piri Acadamy) for the conscious education of the leaders of tomorrow.

Next we have the «leader of the old school», Lenny Cole [Tom Wilkinson] and his faithful number two, Archie [Mark Strong], who run the town of London from the underworld.

«Working with Stronger Minds CIC, the Carnegie School of Education will develop and deliver innovative training for beginning and experienced teachers and will host a conference for system leaders in 2017.

«She's a strong leader — both here on campus as the director of the Language and Literacy Program and in the field through her ongoing collaborations with Boston and Cambridge Public Schools.

Parents (particularly fathers) exhibit the same predispositions, whether it's their preference for speaking with a male member of staff, bullying from male parents on a school council who did not perceive that a female leader was capable of understanding the finances of a school, or just a general perception from parents that women aren't as «strong» as men and that males are better principals.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

If Teach First and schools can nurture new recruits through the earliest, most critical stages of their career we create a strong new generation of classroom leaders.

School leadership is full of paradoxes; our organizations want «strong leaders» but not someone unilateral or «top down.»

We're seeing strong, transformation - minded leaders who have a talent mindset at a number of urban school districts, like our mutual friend Kaya Henderson at D.C. Public Schools.

Overall, most charter leaders we spoke to felt that start - up funding is reasonably easy to secure, especially for school networks with a strong track record of success.

Teachers will gravitate to hard - to - staff urban campuses if they have a strong leader, Peltier - Glaze told an audience at the recent Association of School Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

Its leaders and supporters have managed not only to run better schools than some of their peers, but they're also much more open about results, even when those results aren't as strong as everyone wants.

As part of the «Strong Start, Bright Future» campaign, Waldo — deputy chief of staff for policy and programs for Duncan — accompanied the secretary on their 1,100 mile Back - to - School Bus Tour of the Southwest, visiting schools and community leaders in four different states in only five days.

«One of the levers of change is to have really strong leaders in the schools, and we didn't have the in - house capacity to recruit and train the best principals.

In the area of school leadership, Shanghai explicitly expects its principals to be strong instructional leaders.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

It's true that a single school - board member with an agenda or strong political views can jeopardize an entire curriculum, but the teacher - leader network that White and Kockler have constructed in Louisiana seems likely to insulate students from the passions and politics of the moment.

Leaders of the new effort, «Project Appleseed,» hope to establish strong state - level Parents for Public Schools organizations comparable in stature to the state affiliates of the national teachers» unions and other groups.

St. Louis has a strong public school cartel, an alliance of teachers union leaders, central board administrators, and various public - school interest groups that has an established routine for managing the schools and is typically skeptical of any proposal for change.

I saw this in research, class, and practice this year, and am more convinced than ever that we need strong leaders in our schools who are deeply committed to the development of their teachers.

But today's school leaders understand that a strong home - school connection can have a direct impact on student achievement, so they have created many new and fun ways to forge a strong relationship between parents and teachers during the opening weeks of the new school year.

As a leader in youth development during out - of - school time, BGCA is redefining the opportunity equation by leveraging the power of after - school and summer programs to ensure academic success and create a stronger generation of future leaders.

For principals and other school administrators, this list of videos, blogs, and articles includes advice and tips on effective leadership strategies, partnering with teachers, and cultivating and retaining strong leaders.

Many of the institutes underlying goals are to teach educators strategies and guidance on how to establish priorities and build a base of support in the school, as well as how to become a stronger leader.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

Franchise leaders are strong enough to handle business within the confines of the school, and rarely seek advice from central office personnel.

We're finding out as we watch the franchise concept that's being piloted in Nevada's Clark County School District impact over 2800 students in four elementary schools, all under the guidance of two strong leaders.

The Principals» Center has dedicated itself to the support and development of leaders who influence the character and quality of a school, providing new perspectives on leadership and enabling participants to engage in personal reflection and develop strong professional networks.

Initiatives to provide better incentives for improvement have included the creation of stronger performance cultures in schools, with teachers and school leaders being held personally accountable for improving students» performances.

In upper primary school, discussions about the contrasting language that is used to describe the behaviour of females and males can also be explored, for example girls who show leadership or are assertive are called «bossy» and boys «strong leaders» or boys who like more domestic activities are labelled «prissy», «girly» or even worse «gay».

Park House School Headteacher and South - Central Hub Leader, Derek Peaple, said: «The Trust will establish a strong and committed partnership of schools that provide inclusive learning for all.

Strong leaders who set and maintain direction are the heart of a successful school turnaround.

This global network would embrace the provision of strong public schools for all children, make room in the public sector for creativity and innovation, and support teachers and schools to become the leaders of change, not implementers of more mandates.

The problem is, that with unprecedented change in other areas of education — everything from school meals to SEND provision — school leaders may struggle to fulfil even more demands for curriculum space, no matter how worthy the cause and how strong their desire to help.

«As charter schools continue their reach across the country to respond to increased demand from families, we realize the mounting importance of having a stronger, improved framework in place to inform state and national leaders of what is working and where they can improve,» said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Sschools continue their reach across the country to respond to increased demand from families, we realize the mounting importance of having a stronger, improved framework in place to inform state and national leaders of what is working and where they can improve,» said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter SchoolsSchools.