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The principal recommendation of this report was that Canadian governments must step up and collect the necessary data regarding foreign investment in order for policy - makers and the public to understand if foreign investment is playing a significant part in shaping urban real estate pricing and availability.

Professor Sylvia Bashevkin, Principal of University College in Toronto, wrote a compelling paper this year, «Assessing Urban Citizenship in the Context of Municipal Restructuring: The Case of Women in London and Toronto.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

But the tribes increasingly feel they are being abandoned in favour of the Palestinian - dominated urban elite, meaning that the principal no longer able to meet the demands of new jobs, higher salaries and rural development.

It is clear that the failure of urban and tribal opposition agents to unite around a common cause has weakened their ability to impose meaningful pressure on the principal.

Previous recipients of the award include former head of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price; New York State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins; civil rights attorney Mayo Bartlett, co-founder of Safe Passage; and Biondi School Assistant Principal Al Grimes, a member of the first African - American college relay team to win the National Invitational Two Mile Event.

She currently is a principal investigator and co-lead of the Engineering Thrust of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

«In addition to cooling urban microclimates, these trees, which are integrated within dense urban street networks, also provide other benefits, such as reducing the risk of flash flooding and cleaning the air,» says Peter Edwards, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory and Director of the Singapore - ETH Centre.

One of the principal strengths of urban archaeology he emphasises is that the long time sequences covered by urban sites often bridge the conventional periods into which historians have chopped the past.

As principal - in - charge for urban planning, urban design, and campus planning, Ms. Scott Brown's work has included urban planning for South Street in Philadelphia, Miami Beach, and Memphis, Tennessee; programming for the National Museum of the American Indian; and, a plan for the Bouregreg Valley in Morocco.

His principal research interests are in strong - motion seismology and its engineering applications, in particular, quantitative prediction of strong motions and urban seismic - hazard evaluation.

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New York City About Blog ULI New York's mission is to serve as the principal forum for real estate professionals in our area, reflecting the Urban Land Institute's best practices in leadership development, community service and enhancement of land use policy and practice.

In both films, these scenes are clearly the principal, if not exclusive, source of the film's appeal: Chan traverses the Hong Kong cityscape as though it were some private urban playground, tumbling headlong through parkades and shopping malls like the floors were lined with crash mats — which, even behind the scenes, they are not.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

While many of the resultant applicants will no doubt be deemed unprepared or unsuited for the jobs they pursue, there are few urban or rural principals who would not welcome the chance to pick and choose from their ranks.

In founding New Leaders for New Schools — a nonprofit organization that recruits and develops outstanding new principals for urban schools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and principals.

In October 2001, Henry became the new executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, working with Chicago Academy's principal, Donald Feinstein, then in his 18th year in the Chicago school system.

Urban charter schools are another exception: They yield strongly positive outcomes for low - income and minority students despite high rates of teacher and principal turnover.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

The respondents were superintendents, principals, curriculum supervisors, and directors of federal programs, in mid - to large - size urban U.S. districts.

«We have a diverse urban population, and the range of issues we have is pretty broad, whether in or outside the classroom,» says Dan St. Louis, University Park's principal.

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«The goal of Pride is to help young men navigate through not only school, but also through being an adolescent male with the obstacles that they're facing, and then trying to lead them through college, add reinforcement outside of the classroom, and give them very clear insight as to what to expect in college,» says Dion Steele, Urban Prep, Englewood Campus» principal.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

To take one example, if reading Deborah Meier's moving book (The Power of Their Ideas) about turning around a school enabled her readers to duplicate her performance as principal of Central Park East, urban education in the United States would be very different.

Following commencement, he worked as a teacher and principal, and cofounded two schools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leaders.

For more than 30 years, Harris had been the principal of William Penn, a large, traditional urban high school.

Currently, Jewell - Sherman serves as the director of the Urban Superintendents Program and is the principal investigator for an initiative between the faculty of HGSE and the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.

- Jane Hannaway is the director and principal researcher of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute.

The problem is also reaching outside urban areas and into suburban school districts, where large increases of minority immigration are occurring, said Gerald N. Tirozzi, executive director of the National Association for Secondary School Principals.

Bryan and his team have spent much time in the trenches of education leadership, including helping urban districts to expand their principal pipelines, evaluate leader effectiveness, and equip change agents to turn around schools.

Drawing on research with teachers, principals and superintendents in three urban districts, the Rennie Center's brief recommends that policymakers at both the state and district levels provide teachers with more time and support for the integration of data into their instructional planning.

The Texas educators attending came from nearly 70 communities throughout the state representing a mix of rural, urban, and suburban districts as well as elementary, middle, and high school principals.

HTH — with its emphasis on integrating academic and technical education through project - based learning — attracts a number of people like Duffy with «deep content knowledge who had very successful academic careers and wanted to work in an urban school at a time of profound teacher shortage,» says founding principal Larry Rosenstock.

Senior Lecturer, and future chair of the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (USL) at The Principals» Center, Deborah Jewell - Sherman notes the job is much too big for any individual educator to handle alone and that learning how to lead change alongside fellow school leaders can make a real difference.

Even though Mary Grassa O'Neill, managing director of the newly merged Principals» Center and Programs in Professional Education, has years of hands - on experience as a school leader in urban and suburban settings, she adamantly claims that she is «only a practitioner working among a genius faculty of researchers.»

Then the word spread, other teachers liked the concept, the principal gave permission to set aside the regular curriculum temporarily, and 115 kids — fully a third of the students at Springfield Middle School, an urban school in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote novels.

According to Kyle Crater, the assistant principal of Amanda E. Stout Elementary School, most district staff members live in the surrounding suburban areas in Berks County, rather than urban Reading.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

In 2010, Wallace launched the Principal Pipeline Initiative, a six - year investment to help six urban school districts develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and to determine whether this boosts student achievement districtwide, especially in the highest needs schools.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

The question the initiative seeks to answer is: «If an urban district and its principal training programs provide large numbers of talented, aspiring principals with the right training and on - the - job evaluation and support, will the result be a pipeline of principals who can improve teaching and student achievement district - wide, especially in schools with the greatest needs?»

In some urban schools, principals feel free to discipline teachers in front of their students.

One middle school principal in a Northeastern urban district told Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Temple University that the demands of extra observations and support were too great.

Essayists included Tim King of the Urban Prep Academies, Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter of the Century Foundation, and New York school principal Carol Burris.

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school principals.

When Michael Beyer, EdD Urban Education Leadership, Cohort 7 at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education, first arrived as principal at Morrill Math and Science School on Chicago's Southwest side in 2011, he found a school in physical disarray.