Sentences with phrase «public school administrators willing»

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

Considering that the Superintendent will be replaced by a permanent Superintendent in the proximate future and that the permanent Superintendent will want to put in place administrators, exempt and non-exempt, to operate the Buffalo Public Schools (BPS), I move that the Superintendent not hire or appoint any new administrators, extend the contracts of any present administrators or in any way make any representations or execute any MOUs, or conduct any negotiations with any of the various unions of the personnel of the BPS pending his departure from his position.

The results will hopefully assist Ministries of Health, public health administrators and oral health planners in low and middle - income countries in the Asian region in designing evidence based school health programmes.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

It's too early to say how many of these traditionally private school parents will make the switch or choose public schools from the start, but many administrators hope they go public.

Yet by no means are the men and women creating this new school a downtrodden bunch of world - weary public school educators: MACA provides an opportunity for the teachers and administrators to be as involved as their students will be.

Public education will (and should) always be driven predominantly by local actors — teachers, administrators, school board members, and state legislators.

Superintendent Dr. Drew Echelson and administrators from Waltham Public Schools (Mass.), along with an administrator from Metro Nashville Public Schools (Tenn.), will discuss how their districts are using data indicators to prepare their students for success in the 21st century.

Getting better - qualified teachers into California's classrooms will require improved teacher education, higher salaries for public school teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report issued last week.

In fact, the Clinton Administration will make history by including two former school administrators in key posts — Thomas W. Payzant, who will leave the helm of the San Diego public schools to become the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, and Ramon C. Cortines, a former San...

In fact, a student's high school GPA is generally a more accurate predictor of first year college success and completion, yet bureaucrats and some school administrators claim PARCC will provide better information than the SAT or GPA for New Jersey's public school children and parents.

Rep. Rob Bryan is working on legislation behind the scenes in the General Assembly that could turn over poorly performing public schools to for - profit charter school companies who could then fire teachers and administrators at will with no accountability.

The California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) will be working from now until Proposition 58 is implemented in July, 2017 to help support and prepare our schools, teachers, administrators and school board members to best plan for this exciting new era in public education» said Karling Aguilera Fort, president of CABE.

The Local Wellness Committee will represent all school levels (elementary and secondary schools) and include (to the extent possible), but not be limited to: parents and caregivers; students; representatives of the school nutrition program (e.g., school nutrition director); physical education teachers; health education teachers; school health professionals (e.g., health education teachers, school health services staff (e.g., nurses, physicians, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel who provide school health services), and mental health and social services staff (e.g., school counselors, psychologists, social workers, or psychiatrists); school administrators (e.g., superintendent, principal, vice principal); school board members; health professionals (e.g., dietitians, doctors, nurses, dentists); and the general public.

The Senate version of Gov. Jerry Brown's school finance restructuring proposal would require district and county administrators to hold public hearings and develop plans detailing how they will use additional state support to improve the performance of educationally disadvantaged students...

At one school, Capital City Public Charter School, the focus will be on deeper learning and how teachers and administrators are providing students with rich academic learning alongside deeper learning sschool, Capital City Public Charter School, the focus will be on deeper learning and how teachers and administrators are providing students with rich academic learning alongside deeper learning sSchool, the focus will be on deeper learning and how teachers and administrators are providing students with rich academic learning alongside deeper learning skills.

The national conference will attract more than 1,200 public magnet school principals, teachers, and administrators.

In a statement, AROS proclaimed ``... we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.»

We don't have all the details yet about time and place as the public hearing notice has not yet been posted; however, the Commission will be taking testimony from school leaders (including board members, district administrators and school business officials) at this meeting.

They will never be public until they accept ALL children and hire credentialed teachers, led by actual school administrators who understand children and how they learn.

This latest outrage is proof that Pryor should resign and turn the State Department of Education over to someone willing to support and protect students, parents, teachers, school administrators and public schools rather than use public funds to do the dirty work for the corporate education reform industry.

The organizers said they are objecting to «a national movement to Reclaim Our Schools from privatization efforts that will bankrupt public education, we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.Schools from privatization efforts that will bankrupt public education, we will stand with Los Angeles parents, educators, students, administrators, and community members for fully funded public schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.schools and call on corporate charter schools to pay their fair share to the district.schools to pay their fair share to the district.»

Golden Got Awards Highlight the Nonprofit Organization's Core Values and Focus on Student Success LOS ANGELES — As it continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary, Green Dot Public Schools will pause this Saturday to honor the teachers, administrators, counselors, and other staff members who best exemplify the core values that drive its work at its...

LOS ANGELES — As it continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary, Green Dot Public Schools will pause this Saturday to honor the teachers, administrators, counselors, and other staff members who best exemplify the core values that drive its work at its third annual Golden Dot Awards ceremony.

«In these challenging times for public education, Balch and Adamson emphasize the importance of local school governance and provide essential tools to school boards, superintendents, and administrators that will empower them to impact their communities.

The state, along with the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and various other charter schools, had asked the judge to put the 1st Circuit ruling on hold, warning that the ruling will dramatically impact more than 16,000 charter school students and thousands of teachers, administrators and otherSchools and various other charter schools, had asked the judge to put the 1st Circuit ruling on hold, warning that the ruling will dramatically impact more than 16,000 charter school students and thousands of teachers, administrators and otherschools, had asked the judge to put the 1st Circuit ruling on hold, warning that the ruling will dramatically impact more than 16,000 charter school students and thousands of teachers, administrators and other staff.

The Public School Choice Initiative will allow competition among teams of internal and external stakeholders, such as local educators, administrators, community members and organizations, charter school operators, non-profit organizations, and labor parSchool Choice Initiative will allow competition among teams of internal and external stakeholders, such as local educators, administrators, community members and organizations, charter school operators, non-profit organizations, and labor parschool operators, non-profit organizations, and labor partners.

The 2nd Annual DC Charter Conference, hosted by FOCUS, will bring together public charter school leaders, administrators, board members, and stakeholders to dive into topics including advocacy, data, development and communications, equity, governance, operations, student support, and more.

The Alabama Association of Secondary School Principals will serve as a voice and a resource for public school secondary administrSchool Principals will serve as a voice and a resource for public school secondary administrschool secondary administrators.

Hopefully more Connecticut school administrators will join education leaders like Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice and stand up, step forward and speak out against the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC), the overuse of standardized testing in Connecticut's public schools and the right of parents to opt - out their children from these unfair, unnecessary, expensive and destructive tests.

After administrators are hired, they will spend much of the 2017 school year familiarizing themselves with the educational practices at Diego Rivera Public Service and King / Drew as well as the needs of students at the expansion sites.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The other session will cover the role of Chicago Public Schools» teachers and administrators, parents, community activists and organizations as responders to the student discipline problem.

Cohen concluded, «We feel confident that these new guidelines will have positive outcomes for everyone — students, teachers, and administrators — and will allow us to continue to move forward to improve the educational opportunities for all public school students in Connecticut.»

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration misleads, lies and threatens parents, teachers and school administrators in an unethical attempt to derail the opt out movement in the Constitution State; public officials in other states actually take action to respect the will of their constituents.

As governor, I will work with our state's education leaders to create a Freedom & Flexibility Pledge for principals that outlines a certain level of flexibility and freedom that public school administrators should have.

The Institute will support their search for employment in a charter school or other public school, as well as provide a viable pool of candidates for administrators in the charter sector to recruit and hire teachers prepared to enter classrooms and transition into the teacher preparation pathway via the GCSA GaTAPP.

The solution is to support all public schools, call upon school administrators to do their job (they do have the means to identify, retrain and failing those actions, to fire bad teachers) and wake parents up to the fact that when parents are fully engaged, their children and the children of others will benefit from effective teaching.

The grant also will provide $ 400,000 for TFA's Indianapolis Principal Fellowship program, which trains new administrators who commit to serving for four years in local public schools.

Malloy failed to tell the public that Connecticut already has one of the longest teacher probation periods in the nation (4 years) and the major teacher evaluation reforms that became law in 2010 will finally require school administrators to do their job and remove teachers who are not up to the job.

The SST Intervention Specialist for Atlanta Public Schools will assist teachers, school administrators and other school personnel on the Student Support Team to...