Sentences with phrase «principal about your district»

Also, my unsolicited advice to concerned parents is this: consider speaking with a principal about your district's high school graduation requirements.

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John Boonstra, Orion Partner / Principal in Charge, said, «We are very excited about bringing another successful and original business to the Arena District.

Back in March, during National School Breakfast Week, we spoke with Principals Margie Johnson and Kourtney Ferrua from McMinnville School District in Oregon about their support for breakfast - in - the - classroom.

Check back on the blog next week for an in - depth look at both visits, as well as our interviews with the cafeteria manager, district director, school principals — and even a few thoughts from students about what they like about BIC.

So when I didn't see a single word about the classroom food policy communicated by either our district office or my kids» school, I consulted our school principal, who agreed to send out a flyer.

We'll be talking about how to engage & rally education staff, approach principals and administrators to drum up support for initiatives, demonstrate to administrators how your initiative is essential to achieving the overall district goals and mission, and engage communities to support and embrace your program.

Larry Meyers, principal of Westchester Middle School, said his district resorted to fast foods about two years ago because «children would dump their lunches at the end of the period.»

Dodd of the park district declined to comment because of ongoing litigation, adding only that the principal is wrong about the facts of the case.

She also organizes a series of nutrition education programs for students, called «Color Me,» where district principals, teachers, the superintendent and students dress up as characters and perform skits about nutrition and healthy food choices.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.

Greater transparency for School Leadership Teams: In order for School Leadership Teams to fulfill their role of serving as advocates for their school communities, superintendents should be required to ensure that all principals in their districts give their leadership teams thorough information about fund allocations, including their schools» Galaxy Table of Organization in addition to the budget summary available on the DOE website.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

In the waning days of the Bloomberg administration, when many of the mayor's controversial education ideas are once again under attack, one chief target of critics has been the school network structure, which broke up the geographically organized school districts and allowed principals to self - select into one of about 60 support organizations.

A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.

Charland was the assistant principal for about seven years and had been principal of Franklin Middle School in the Kenmore - Town of Tonawanda School District, said Frontier Superintendent Richard Hughes.

We are the first place in the district Meet the principal, visit the classrooms, check out the school calendar, and read about activities.

Maybe it's the principal who implements a new program before the school district administration has even heard about it.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

When I crisscrossed the district to talk to principals and administrators about their student data, I was often met with fear, confusion, and skepticism.

If it's practical, you might ask your principal if you could sit in on district level committee meetings to learn more about this important work.

So Yassine traveled to Michigan and observed classrooms in these three communities, interviewing teachers, principals, and district leaders of ELL youth about their performance, resource needs, and professional development.

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.

Prior to this year, students could wear black or khaki jeans, and they would get into debates with staff about the color of their jeans, said Barbara Carrington, principal of Crosby High School, one of three high schools in the district.

Its principal task: to distribute federal funds to states and local school districts amounting to about 8 percent of the total spent nationally on education.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

And in districts where superintendents know which principals they should move into the turnaround schools, there are concerns about what happens to the progress achieved in those leaders» former schools once they are moved.

At the time, the Houston Independent School District doled out money to schools for nonteaching staff members — like assistant principals, clerks, and librarians — based on a set of enrollment formulas that topped out at about 1,200 children.

For example, they note that, just as public school principals complain about the hundreds of directives they receive from the school district's central office, some Catholic school principals dislike even the few instructions sent from the archdiocese each year.

As Guenther weighs applying for a permanent principal's position as her next career move, she is optimistic about the initiatives her district has undertaken so far to relieve some of the burdens on administrators.

Referring to the red tape and often maddening work rules she faced as principal of a district school, Icahn 3 principal Marcy Glattstein notes: «Coming from the DOE, what I appreciate most about Icahn is that it's human.

About half of the districts surveyed for this report said they had encountered a shortage of qualified candidates for the principal positions they attempted to fill last year.

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

Principal Marcia Wright would inquire about the school - level activities that district administrators want to know about and when they want to know.

I might ask about how the school prepares students for state assessment tests, what particular challenges the job presents, the skills the district is looking for in the principal they hire, but certainly I asked nothing to do with salary or vacation days, since those questions would send wrong signals in an initial interview.

Information for teachers, principals, and district leaders about walkouts, free speech, and civic activism

Teri Stokes would inquire about the kinds of support a district offers its principals.

The state instead «took a more aggressive approach to school leadership,» replacing about half of the district's principals.

«State chiefs, district superintendents, and principals are the primary audience — the people making decisions about programs for schoolchildren,» he said.

I would also want to know the level of commitment to integrating technology into the curriculum and about the district and PTA commitments to making resources available to that end, added Haws, who is principal at Oakridge Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia.

She has written extensively about low - performing schools and highstakes accountability, district reform, principal leadership, and school choice.

In the event of a workplace immigration raid in the district, implement a plan to protect the safety of all immigrant students and brief principals and other school staff about their role in ensuring child well - being, coordinate with churches and community organizations to ensure that each student has adult supervision at home, and assure parents that schools will be a safe haven for their children.

«Our waiver submission is about our collective responsibility, teacher - to - teacher, principal - to - principal, district - to - district, and school - to - school to make something better; not who's going to get punished for not hitting a target set by someone outside our local environment,» said Fresno Unified's Hanson.

About 25 percent of districts responded to the survey by the Association of California School Administrators, which represents state superintendents, principals and... read more

Districts that are serious about high - quality Common Core implementation select, evaluate, and hold principals accountable based on their skills in instruction.

«I think about the fact that someone opened the door into the largest district in this country,» says Gutierrez, who had been a principal in her native San Jose, California, before the coming to the program and completing her residency in New York City.

Kathleen McCartney: Although women account for about 25 percent of district superintendents, they comprise more than half of school principals and over 80 percent of teachers.

While most central office administrators spoke about unevenness in the leadership strengths of their principals, leaders in higher - performing districts expressed greater confidence in their ability to improve the quality of school leadership through hiring practices, leadershipdevelopment programs, school placement, and supervision (see also Section 2.2 of this report on district contributions to principals «efficacy).

Monthly e-Choice Newsletters are created specifically to help members learn more about theme - based magnet programs and the district leaders, principals, and teachers who make them thrive.

District leaders need to engage in dialogues with principals about what openness to community and parental involvement means in practice, beyond merely establishing policies and structures.