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This Education Trends report explores successful practices for arts integration, with a focus on educator and school leader professional development, and provides an overview of research that highlights the impact of instructor preparation and professional development on student outcomes.

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If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Driven by a shared goal of creating jobs, increasing funding for schools and lowering property taxes, a broad coalition of business leaders, labor unions, economic development professionals and educators announced the formation of NY Jobs Now in support of Referendum # 1 on ballots in November, which would authorize up to four new casinos in upstate New York.

Educators and parent leaders from Brooklyn's PS / IS 180 and PS 231, the District 75 school with which it shares space, held an early - morning «Black Friday» protest against budget cuts and layoffs on June 17 as part of the ongoing series of «Fight Back Friday» demonstrations at schools around the city.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school modeOn October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school modeon educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school school model.

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.

This four - day institute convenes educators and school leaders from around the world who delve into research on family engagement and learn how to align family engagement initiatives with standards - based reform.

After years of intense focus by American policy leaders and educators on college readiness, a growing chorus is calling for schools to better prepare students for futures that might not include four - year degrees.

Education Week, published by the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), was founded in 1981 to serve the public interest by providing independent, nonpartisan reporting and analysis on American precollegiate education for school leaders, other educators, policymakers, and members of the general public.

Over 120 people attended the conference, which was held to bring together community organizers, parent leaders, education researchers, and educators to focus on community organizing and school reform in low - income communities.

They need to either give on - the - ground educators the authority and resources to make technology adoption and implementation decisions, or they need to work very closely with students, teachers, and school leaders to ensure that top - down efforts will effectively address educators» day - to - day challenges.

Leaders of the Detroit Compact said disagreements between business officials and educators have prompted the group to postpone by more than a month its deadline for agreement on how the plan will operate next fall in up to six pilot schools.

RISE was named one of 10 $ 10 - million winning school projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mSchool Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool models.

I was able to travel across the U.S. and Canada meeting with school boards leaders, community organizations, foundations, and governments to collaborate on initiatives that fostered civic education, and was grateful to see the collective passion that educators across the country held for the success of students.

Within a month after the program was announced, community leaders and reform - minded educators drew up a plan for a network of charter schools on the West Bank under the umbrella of the Algiers Charter Schools Assocschools on the West Bank under the umbrella of the Algiers Charter Schools AssocSchools Association.

On Monday, December 9, leading education strategist Sir Michael Barber led a discussion for nearly 150 policymakers, researchers, educators, and business leaders at the Harvard Graduate School of Education about the education reform agenda in Massachusetts.

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.

Teacher Toolkit, founded by educator, author and speaker Ross Morrison McGill - an award winning and experienced school leader; created the Most Influential Blog on Education in the UK.

RISE was recently named one of 10 $ 10 - million winning school projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mSchool Project — a national campaign co-led by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool models.

Written for policy makers and activists as well as school leaders and educators, The Working Class is both a timely survey of the impact of current policies and an invaluable source of practical advice on what can be done to better support disadvantaged children in the school system.

In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.

I encourage school leaders and educators to read the source material to learn more about the views of parents and guardians on these and other issues, including school choice, diversity, wraparound services, and more.

Building strategically on Education Week's reputation as the «must read» independent news source for leaders, educators, and policy experts in pre-K through high school, Editorial Projects in Education has extended its reach by serving readers, users, viewers, and clients across an array of platforms — from mobile devices to newsprint and magazine - style reports; from broadcast and Web video to webinars and live events; from targeted e-newsletters on selected topics to the online TopSchoolJobs recruitment service.

A middle school science teacher with 31 years of classroom experience, Pringle has distinguished herself as a thoughtful, passionate advocate for educators and students, focusing on issues of educator empowerment and student success, diversity, and developing future leaders.

I am also continually working on improving and expanding our Digital Leadership & Learning practice area at the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) to help districts, schools, leaders, and educators initiate sustainable change.

-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity CSchools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Cschools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Cschools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Cschools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?

We work with education leaders to measure the effectiveness of teachers, principals, and schools; to examine the equitable distribution of effective teaching; and to understand the factors that help educators have a greater impact on the students they serve.

As part of its week - long celebrations, the National Alliance will shine a spotlight on charter change makers: the educators, families, leaders, and community members who make charter schools possible and in doing so, make so much more possible for students.

While many parents, educators, school leaders, and policymakers disagree about the kinds of tests administered, how the scores should be used, and how frequently students should be tested, it is important to be supportive of your child's efforts on standardized tests, and to help her do her best.

Since 2006, the Wallace Foundation has supported a separate initiative, called the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL), to provide training on campus and in the field for teams of school - district leaders and the leaders of their state education departments (two states each year).

Thousands of kids each year begin a journey on this «school - to - prison pipeline,» and we miss out on generations of leaders, innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

As more educators begin to see the tremendous impact blended learning can have on student learning and engagement, school leaders have begun scrambling to train teachers on how to utilize technology to enhance instruction.

Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more strategically to retain experienced teachers and make a difference in the lives of students.

High school feedback reports provide educators and school leaders with information on how a class of high school graduates fares in postsecondary — information that can inform improvements to lesson plans and courses to better prepare future students for college.

The ISTE Standards act as a roadmap for bold, innovative educators and education leaders to re-engineer their schools and classrooms for digital age learning no matter where they fall on the journey to meaningful, effective ed tech integration.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

At a forum on science and technology here last week, more than two dozen educators and community leaders gathered at Patrick Henry High School to put one of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's signature policy initiatives into action.

School leaders need to focus their attention on creating the conditions where teachers have the resources, courage, and support to experiment with improving their practice, and then the space to share what they are learning with other educators.

As Leading Educators expands its work, it will focus on helping schools and districts create sustainable, paid leadership opportunities for its leaders, enabling them to advance in their careers while remaining teachers.

The Executive Leadership Program for Educators at Harvard University in association with The Wallace Foundation will emphasize midcareer development of teams of high - level education leaders that share responsibility for making changes in their organizations and across their states to broadly improve school leadership and its impact on student achievement.

by Jon Gordon, the EBSLJ is on a mission to inspire scholars and educators to help them become successful leaders and have a positive impact on their school community and the world.

«In selecting Richard Carranza, Mayor de Blasio has chosen a lifelong educator and a proven leader with a track record of leading large and diverse school districts, seeking the input of communities and teachers and focusing on improving outcomes for students who have been historically underserved - experiences that should set him up for success in our nation's largest school district,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.

Participants also examined ways to re-ignite PLCs to focus on the «right drivers» and heard from Education Minnesota about their efforts to engage early career educators as leaders in their association, schools and districts.

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

As peers and partners in empowering California educators, the authors share observations on the qualities every school leader should seek when interviewing and hiring highly effective educators, wrote Leadership Magazine of this article co-authored by CT3's William Sprankles and Kara Backman.

New Haven, CT — Parents, students, educators and school leaders from Booker T. Washington Academy (BTWA), a public charter school in New Haven, will come together on Tuesday, March 28 to demand fairness from Governor Dannel Malloy, as well as the heads of the Appropriations Committee, as the proposed budget would prevent the school from growing past the 3rd grade.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

LEAP Innovations leader of the national community of practice, the Learning Assembly — collaborated on and recently released a comprehensive toolkit to help educators, schools and districts, and edtech companies successfully develop, implement and assess edtech and personalized learning pilots.