Sentences with phrase «public school principals found»

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«While we found that daily cannabis use and cigarette smoking were strongly linked among all subgroups, the most finding striking disparity in daily cannabis use was among youths aged 12 to 17 years,» said Renee Goodwin, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and principal investigator.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

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«We found a consistent pattern of success across a number of different outcome measures,» says the study's principal investigator John Walkup, MD, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member within the Center for American Indian Health.

These findings suggest that lowering the NAAQS for fine particulate matter will produce important public health benefits, especially among self - identified racial minorities and people with low incomes,» said Francesca Dominici, principal investigator of this study and professor of biostatistics at Harvard Chan School and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.

«These data are very consistent with earlier findings from EDC which showed that greater depressive symptomatology predicted the incidence of heart disease in this cohort,» said Trevor Orchard, MD, M.Med.Sci., FAHA, FACE, Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine and Pediatrics at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, and the EDC study principal investigator.

Brian Greenberg is a former teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District, founding principal of Leadership Public Schools — Hayward, and Chief Academic Officer of Envision Schools.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

Karen Kodama, founding principal of the John Stanford International School (JSIS) in Seattle, Washington, now directs international education for Seattle Public Schools.

As a former teacher and principal, and now education researcher, I find it unbelievable that our taxes are being used to put religious (and overwhelmingly Christian) men and women into our mutli - cultural public schools to «help young students as they grow and struggle to find their place in life».

A state investigation had found a public «school system fraught with unethical behavior that included teachers and principals changing wrong answers on students» answer sheets and an environment where cheating for better test scores was encouraged and whistle blowers were punished.»

The annual survey on crime, violence, and discipline in public schools — conducted in 2003 - 04 by the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the U.S. Department of Education — based its findings on questionnaires mailed to principals at 3,743 elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States.

Teachers in private secondary schools have more positive opinions about their principal, school administration, fellow teachers, and students than teachers in public schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department has found.

It is no surprise, then, that a national survey conducted in 2004 by Public Agenda found that 82 percent of public school teachers and 77 percent of principals practiced «defensive teaching» in order «to avoid legal challenges.&Public Agenda found that 82 percent of public school teachers and 77 percent of principals practiced «defensive teaching» in order «to avoid legal challenges.&public school teachers and 77 percent of principals practiced «defensive teaching» in order «to avoid legal challenges.»

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

«Early Childhood Preparation for School Leaders: Lessons from New Jersey Principal Certification Programs» by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, found that principal familiarity with pre-K is a problem nationwide but researchers zeroed in on New Jersey, which has a highly regarded public pre-K program but no requirement for principals to have college - level coursework in early childhood ePrincipal Certification Programs» by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, found that principal familiarity with pre-K is a problem nationwide but researchers zeroed in on New Jersey, which has a highly regarded public pre-K program but no requirement for principals to have college - level coursework in early childhood eprincipal familiarity with pre-K is a problem nationwide but researchers zeroed in on New Jersey, which has a highly regarded public pre-K program but no requirement for principals to have college - level coursework in early childhood education.

Audria is thrilled to be a part of the founding team as the Principal of Growth Public Schools.

Growth Public Schools Founding Principal and CEO David Richards brings years of experience as one of the founding team members of Summit Public Founding Principal and CEO David Richards brings years of experience as one of the founding team members of Summit Public founding team members of Summit Public Schools.

A new, three - year randomized control study of Milwaukee (WI) Public Schools from Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion Universities has found that students in schools led by principals who graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) outperformed their peers in math and literacy on state assesSchools from Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion Universities has found that students in schools led by principals who graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) outperformed their peers in math and literacy on state assesschools led by principals who graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) outperformed their peers in math and literacy on state assessments.

Betsy was the founding principal of STRIVE Prep — Highland (Sunnyside), which was part of a school turnaround effort in North Denver; Highland was the # 1 ranked middle school in Denver Public Schools in 2012.

John Witte, a UW - Madison professor emeritus who was the principal researcher on a long - term study of Milwaukee's voucher school program, said studies in Milwaukee «found that competition from charter, magnet and voucher schools has had beneficial effects on the public schools.»

As Founding Director of the new Research Center for Learning Through Music, he is designing and implementing music and music integration school programs in public schools and, most recently, became the Founding Principal Investigator for the National Music - in - Education National Consortium, a coalition of schools of music and education, arts organizations, and school reform organizations through the arts.

John Glover is founder and CEO of Alpha Public Schools and founding principal of Blanca Alvarado Middle School in San Jose.

Walter Chen, the founding principal of a new Green Dot public middle school set to open in south Seattle this fall, has a pretty simple...

Keynote speaker Paul Manna, professor of government and public policy at the College of William & Mary and the author of the report, Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning: Considerations for State Policy, summarized key findings from his research.

GO's founding Declaration of Beliefs and Visions for Improving Oakland Schools was endorsed by more than 250 parents, teachers, principals, and community leaders from the heartlands and hills, East, West, and North Oakland, charter and district public schools in 200Schools was endorsed by more than 250 parents, teachers, principals, and community leaders from the heartlands and hills, East, West, and North Oakland, charter and district public schools in 200schools in 2009 - 10.

More recently, Dr. Scripp has posted the Partnership in Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Report on ArtsEdSearch — a publication that details the expansive scope of arts learning research methods and findings in the Chicago Public Schools (see www.pairresults.org)-- and the Oakland Unified School District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school proSchool District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school proschool programs.

But over the coming years, America needs to find 5,000 high — energy, hero principals to take over these struggling schools — and they will need a quarter of a million great teachers who are willing to do the toughest work in public education.

So it's discouraging that Louisiana Association of Principals, Louisiana Federation of Teachers, Louisiana Association of Educators and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools have found common ground on suspending students.

Two California charter school leaders — Yvonne Chan, principal of the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, one of the most successful urban public schools in the U.S., and Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal of High Tech High — participated in a recent summit focusing on innovative solutions to address school improvement nationwide.

A Year of Change: Leadership in the Principal's Office — In this groundbreaking documentary series, NEW YORK VOICES goes behind - the - scenes to follow three aspiring principals enrolled in the New York City Leadership Academy as they find out if they have what it takes to run a New York City public school

Raised and educated in public schools in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, she returned there in 1995 with two master's degrees as the founding principal of a public junior high school.

Three years later, the answers to those questions made national news, with Tuesday's revelation that a state - commissioned investigation found rampant, systemwide cheating in 44 Atlanta public schools, with 178 teachers and principals routinely erasing incorrect answers on standardized tests and replacing them with correct ones.

He left a training program to become a public school principal to found BFS in 2004.

Ohio: Megan Kinsey, Principal, Ridge Middle School, Mentor Public Schools, OH Catalyst, a state - of - art observational classroom that Megan Kinsey helped co-found, contributes to her commitment as a lifelong learner because it allows her to engage in action research around new technologies and instructional strategies that can assist her in finding the best way to support the educators and learners in her building.

In addition to his seventeen years as a public school teacher and a public and independent alternative school principal, he has also founded several alternative schools and organizations and has lectured and consulted around the world.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

This climate, in turn, was a major factor in the high level of relational trust found in this most unexpected place — a 100 percent low - income, African American population in a school serving a public housing project, with a white, male principal.

The Hartford Superintendent added, «As we say thank you to Principal Perry for his service to the Hartford Public Schools, we will engage you in finding the next leader of the school....

A mentorship program for public school students headed by Pratt Institute's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program Critic at Large Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize - winning architect and founding principal at the firm Morphosis, was recently...

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.

«Our initial work found that many kids expressed anxious feelings in third grade as the classroom work becomes more developmentally complex,» said principal author Dr. Alessandra Bazzano, associate professor of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health.