Sentences with phrase «on other district leaders»

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Jackson and other religious leaders challenged the city on the measure saying the matter should be put to District voters in a ballot initiative.

Faced with growing competition from other area greens, Naperville Park District leaders are considering incentives to keep city residents golfing on the district's two District leaders are considering incentives to keep city residents golfing on the district's two district's two courses.

The Queens Democrats voted last Friday to nominate candidates in all of the borough's other districts, but Ackerman's abrupt retirement announcement Thursday night caused party leaders to delay the decision on NY - 6 until tomorrow.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

Simon, who has served as Democratic District Leader and State Committeewoman with extensive experience on issues like Atlantic Yards and the Gowanus Expressway, scored the endorsement of the New York Times as well as NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Assemblymember Joan Millman, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and many others.

State leaders, however, are close to an agreement on spending $ 300 million for pre-Kindergarten programs for New York City, with other districts receiving aid as long as they demonstrate a willingness for pre-K in their area.

Other business may be placed on the agenda only by direction of the Chairperson of the County Committee, the County Leader, the Executive Committee, the Committee on Resolutions, or by a petition submitted to the Chairperson or Secretary of the County Committee at least ten days prior to the date of such meeting signed by 500 members of the County Committee including at least 25 members from each of ten Assembly District parts within 60 days prior to its submission.

Ojudu made the disclosure at separate meetings he held with APC leaders, party executives and other stakeholders in some of the local government that make up the Ekiti South Senatorial District on Friday in continuation of his Community Mobilisation Outreach Programme which he had kick - started in Ekiti North earlier in the year.

The New York Senate and Assembly have approved new district lines, as Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders announced agreement on a number of other unrelated issues, including expansion of the state's DNA data base, pension reform, and an amendment to allow more gambling in New York.

Heaney said he «talked to Gibson's people» and other Republican leaders around the district, stood in fields with farmers and their families, talked to shop owners and businesspeople on their premises, and studied the geographically vast 19th Congressional District indistrict, stood in fields with farmers and their families, talked to shop owners and businesspeople on their premises, and studied the geographically vast 19th Congressional District inDistrict in detail.

District Leader Caroline Laskow and her family and GSD President Jeremy Sherber and his family joined other members and neighbors on a bus to Washington.

The New York Senate and Assembly were poised to vote on new district lines, as Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders announced agreement on a number of other unrelated issues, including expansion of the state's DNA data base, pension reform, and an amendment to allow more gambling in New York.

(New York, NY) On March 11, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (center) and other council member presented a proclamation to several District Council 37 leaders in appreciation of their members» heroic efforts during the recent Ebola health crisis.

The proposed amendment establishes a redistricting commission every 10 years beginning in 2020, with two members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders and two members selected by the eight legislative appointees; prohibits legislators and other elected officials from serving as commissioners; establishes principles to be used in creating districts; requires the commission to hold public hearings on proposed redistricting plans; subjects the commission's redistricting plan to legislative enactment; provides that the legislature may only amend the redistricting plan according to the established principles if the commission's plan is rejected twice by the legislature; provides for expedited court review of a challenged redistricting plan; and provides for funding and bipartisan staff to work for the commission.

Some key Dominican leaders, such as Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, are staying on the sidelines, while others like district leader and Democratic state committeewoman Maria Luna are backing Rep. Rangel.

Other district leaders work with their elected officials on many, many issues.

But it would not be feasible to simply add this role on to existing jobs — school and district leaders would need to consider other duties to remove from the plate of those professional staff members who serve as liaisons.

In other places, I'm struck at how often I chat with district or state leaders whose take on the number - crunching, vendors, and data systems seems to be, «Hey, the experts will take care of that technical stuff.»

This led to a patient explanation from other charter leaders as well as district leaders about how hard it is for communities to see a building shuttered or handed over to a charter school when generations of neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to be accomplished leaders, attended the school.

«With support from the Walton Family Foundation, the CAEL will help us reach even more educators in charge of districts, charter management organizations, state departments of education, and other systems — leaders who will, in turn, have a tangible impact on the lives of literally millions of learners,» Ryan said.

The Harvard Institute for Superintendents and District Leaders brings together experts in the field to help district leaders reflect on their practice, develop new capacities, and explore approaches to building leadership inDistrict Leaders brings together experts in the field to help district leaders reflect on their practice, develop new capacities, and explore approaches to building leadership in Leaders brings together experts in the field to help district leaders reflect on their practice, develop new capacities, and explore approaches to building leadership indistrict leaders reflect on their practice, develop new capacities, and explore approaches to building leadership in leaders reflect on their practice, develop new capacities, and explore approaches to building leadership in others.

Based on the ISTE Essential Conditions, the Lead & Transform movement provides district superintendents, CTOs, CIOs, school leaders and other decision makers with a roadmap for planning and building a successful systemwide tech initiative.

Our Education Week Leadership Forums are interactive, intimate one - day events that draw together forward - thinking superintendents and other senior district leaders for an in - depth, interactive day focused on smart strategies that can be deployed to raise student achievement while managing costs.

In other words, NCLB consequences and the ways in which district leaders might have chosen to put pressure on principals (and principals on their staffs) are actually two different things.

The consortium is also focused on strengthening relationships among higher education leadership departments and the school districts and other agencies in which educational leaders eventually serve.

On the other hand, school district leaders may be developing and implementing their own strategic responses to various school needs for improvement, in conjunction with NCLB and state - mandated interventions.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

In a few districts, district and school leaders reported that analysis of trend data by district and / or state assessment specialists had led to the identification of early indicators of students academically at risk, based on test scores or other factors (e.g., family circumstances), in lower grade levels.

These studies reported on preparation programs that provided the opportunity to participants to perform as leaders, whether in a role - play in front of other program participants (Nesbit et al., 2001), while working with classroom teachers in an actual teacher leadership position in a school or district (Howe & Stubbs, 2003), or with the support of a mentor in a teacher leader training program (Harris & Townsend, 2007).

With Common Core state standards among the latest district and school reform initiatives to be supported in many states throughout the US, Cosner was called on to help Wisconsin school districts leaders consider how to productively harness this and other such policy initiatives at the district and school level.

The summits will be designed to reflect and support collaboration between supporters, local school districts, teachers associations and other key leaders on the ground to advance teacher leadership.

No school can succeed for long without doing so, but, especially for community schools, success depends on the quality of the relationships that school and district staff maintain with various partners, including teachers, counselors, social workers, parents, clergy, elected officials, business leaders, volunteer tutors, and others.

With observed teachers, the focus was on specific activities during the lessons; general approaches to pedagogy; the role of the principal as well as other leaders within the school, district, and state on pedagogy; curricular and pedagogical decision making in the school; professional development; and student learning.

The school staff had little positive to say about that consultant «s input, and district leaders did not report any district initiatives to deal with the situation other than supporting and relying on the principal and teachers to find a solution.

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

But armed with the right tools and data, district leaders can accurately identify and quickly hire the teacher and principal candidates who will deliver the most student growth... before they move on to other opportunities.

If we provide district and school leaders with tools, resources, and guidance based on NCEE's research on high performing education systems and NISL's research on leadership development from other sectors, then they can create systems in which all schools are at least as effective as schools in the highest performing countries.

After principal candidates complete the assessment, the scores are instantly available, sorted and rank - ordered with other applicants so it's easy for district leaders or administrators to quickly identify who is most likely to have the best impact on student outcomes.

Keith and other district leaders worked with LCISD's HR team to develop effective recruitment plans, which include regional job fairs, as well as posting positions and searching for applicants on SchoolSpring.com — the nation's largest K -12-specific job board, which «makes it easier for candidates to see what openings we have,» Britt explained.

To decide whether or not to provide a student with additional supports, school and district leaders rely mainly on test scores and other academic achievement data.

This RAND analysis offers guidance to states and districts on how they can choose to use the Every Student Succeeds Act to help achieve their school improvement goals by supporting principals and other school leaders.

She co-authored a range of publications on the topic, including school models and many practical tools for teachers, principals and districts; An Opportunity Culture for All; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top; A Better Blend; Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; and Improving Teaching Through Pay for Contribution for the National Governor's Association; and many others.

A developmental psychologist, Drago - Severson teaches, conducts research, and consults to school and district leaders, teacher leaders, and organizations on professional and personal growth and learning; leadership that supports principal, teacher, school, and leadership development; and coaching and developmental mentoring in K — 12 schools, university settings, and other for - profit and nonprofit organizations.

With both the Teacher EPI and the recently released Principal EPI, candidates complete the assessment, then the scores are instantly available, sorted and rank - ordered with other applicants so it's easy for district leaders to quickly identify who is most likely to have the greatest impact on student outcomes.

As the City Council holds a hearing this afternoon on three resolutions aimed to cap and slow the co-location of public schools, district and charter school leaders who share facilities are speaking up about their experience co-locating with other public schools; collaboration, community building and putting kids first are recurring themes among all of them, demonstrating that educators know to check politics at the door.

«Principals and district leaders have the most influence on decisions in all schools; however, they do not lose influence as others gain influence,» the authors write.19 Indeed, although «higher - performing schools awarded greater influence to most stakeholders... little changed in these schools» overall hierarchical structure.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

As important, the initiative will allow the districts to evaluate the performance of these novice school leaders once they are on the job — and then provide them with mentoring and other forms of professional development that address needs determined by the evaluations.

Principals are on the front lines of helping district leaders, parents, and other stakeholders understand the intricacies and impacts of these educational policies and what it means for students and schools.

Then again, in many other schools, school - level leaders report that district personnel, as well as district policies and procedures, place limitations on their authority, pose unintended barriers, or create inefficiencies.