Sentences with phrase «of systemic reform»

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.

This would be the invaluable next step in the evolution of systemic reform.

In 2005, Oakland embarked on a set of systemic reforms aimed at preparing every student for success in college and the workplace.

During her graduate studies, Pier wrote science curriculum, designed and delivered professional development, and conducted research in Detroit public schools as part of a systemic reform initiative supporting technology - rich, inquiry - oriented science instruction in urban school districts.

AFT also helps local and state affiliates lead the way in facilitating the kind of systemic reform described in Moving Your Numbers.

«The amendment before us has lower spending, and contains a long list of systemic reforms,» said Slossberg, «given those two imperfect choices and this very difficult vote, I will be voting for the amendment before us.»

«Betsy DeVos: a fierce advocate for choice who will face a fight with Congress and unions to push through reform» (TES, 11/24/16) «Secretary designee DeVos and President elect Trump may come to see that choice is not a «silver bullet» but one strategy among a set of systemic reforms needed to boost performance in a mediocre US public school system.

Porter - Magee and I seem to have a fundamental disagreement about the value of systemic reform.

The effort was one component of a systemic reform effort in the Detroit Public Schools, and was centered on highly specified and developed project - based inquiry science units supported by aligned professional development and learning technologies.

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.

But it is a tad difficult to take the president seriously on his commitment to systemic reform in light of his effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have helped spur a decade of systemic reforms.

So for these districts and their respective states, especially those in the Beltway where Hess and Petrilli live, there is greater motivation to eviscerate the accountability provisions (and go back to ignoring poor and minority kids) than to get rid of the compliance rules that actually get in the way of systemic reform.

He coordinated the first phase of CTAC's evaluation of Denver's pay for performance initiative and guided the implementation of systemic reform initiatives in large districts throughout the United States.

One of the problems with the accountability systems is that they obscure school performance in stemming achievement gaps, a key goal of systemic reform.

A former principal, Snitily understands well the challenges and rewards of systemic reform.

As important as it is to take on the tough slow work of systemic reform, we must also create new options for getting kids out of dropout factories and cultures of mediocrity into cultures of genius and centers of learning.

Her platform, which included the embrace of education traditionalism (symbolized by her close working relationship with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have voted for her.

Smith convinced Basam Shakashiri, then director of the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use the concept of systemic reform for a grants competition for states to take on building standards - based reform in K - 12 science.

The consequences of these restrictions, along with the unwillingness of suburban district bureaucracies to embrace the array of systemic reforms taken on by big - city districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Valencia and Wixson have gathered scholarship from three disparate sources to produce the first integrated review of policy - related research on literacy education: (a) policy analyses that examine policies about literacy in the framework of systemic reform; (b) measurement and evaluation studies, conducted by psychometricians, that examine the assessments mandated by policies; and (c) studies by literacy researchers that attend to policies and literacy - specific content.

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.

Educational change must go beyond standards for academic content and performance and include equity as a «defining characteristic» of systemic reform, the report argues.