Students have opportunities to take leadership roles, be involved in collaborative group work and to
feel ownership of their school's projects and take pride in their own achievements.
1.9 The development of school culture and
student ownership of their school is facilitated through the use of symbols, ceremonies, celebrations, and the development of traditions.
The Fellowships are part of the national fellowship program on employee
stock ownership of the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) at Rutgers University.
«Our ultimate goal here at the department is for communities to take
ownership of their school cafeterias, similarly to how we all push for excellence in the classroom, the arts and athletics,» said Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Black.
One of the principles guiding the transformation work at Sammamish is that student achievement and engagement will increase when students have more
ownership of their school community.
Recent research from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research (Sebastian, Allensworth, & Huang, 2016) suggests that successful principals «empower school teachers and staff to take
collective ownership of the school vision» and work together to achieve school goals, whereas less effective efforts tended to rely on individuals rather than the collaborative team (Allensworth and Hart, 2018).
But a series of interviews with seven principals, 13 teachers and six parents, coupled with climate surveys of 347 teachers, showed innovation status led all three groups to express a sense of
greater ownership of their schools.
Kogi Government has solicited the co-operation of communities, groups and other stakeholders to take collective responsibility and
ownership of schools in the state.
By allowing schools and districts to develop their own performance goals aligned with their programs, existing performance, and needs of students,
ownership of school improvement will lie with the stakeholders closest to the students.»
I also started and secured funding for our school's «Culture Club,» a club that brings our diverse student population together in order to share culture, improve student achievement, perform community service, create liaisons with higher education institutions and local businesses, and empower students by helping them to be connected to and
feel ownership of their school.
Teachers should allow students the chance to
take ownership of their school's energy and environmental issues, so that they can not just lead the change within their school community, but also further afield, says Luke Wynne of Global Action Plan.
Strategies for doing more with less include adequate PD around new technology, embracing mobile solutions, low - cost high tech, and expanding
the ownership of school policy making.
Parent loyalty to the classroom, the school, and its methods is forged during these occasions, and parents begin to feel
an ownership of the school's goals.
The bottom - up plan that developed from that process focused on tangible, realistic goals that would confront widespread disengagement by giving students and community members more opportunities to express themselves and to take
ownership of the school.
I think when you move into a neighborhood, you have
ownership of that school, and basically they look at this as something that was taken away from them.»
The thinking goes, «I'm taking
ownership of my school and making my corner of it a little bit better.»
While I still love the idea of people from different walks of life, volunteers, having
ownership of a school and really feeling passionate about what happens in that school, we still have a lot of work to do around ensuring they understand what their roles and responsibilities are — and giving them the tools and the information they need to make really good decisions on behalf of kids and teachers and taxpayers.
«It really invites the community to take
ownership of their school.»
In addition, monthly training for principals, assistant principals, literacy facilitators, and math facilitators built a strong cadre of instructional leaders to take
ownership of school - based training of teachers.
The faculty had begun to increase
their ownership of our school improvement efforts.