Sentences with phrase «remote rural districts»

, education finance expert Marguerite Roza and co-author Georgia Heyward update the earlier analysis and set out to understand what it is that makes some remote rural districts «productivity superstars.»

The analysis, which is updated in this more recent report, shows that remote rural districts have lower productivity on average than other geographies.

Consolidation might inhibit the conditions that make superstar productivity results more likely in small, isolated remote rural districts.

Compared to just 15 percent of all districts, 25 percent of remote rural districts are «productivity superstars.»

In this paper authors Marguerite Roza and Georgia Heyward identify some common themes that makes some remote rural districts «productivity superstars» and describe steps states can take to encourage and support district productivity.

Fort Bragg Unified School District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school campus.

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He was a professor of rural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, until his retirement in 1965, and helped launch school - improvement projects in small, remote school districts.

Keeping classrooms fully staffed is especially hard in remote, rural districts, which educate 2 percent of the nation's schoolchildren.

Over the course of conversations with leaders from 30 remote rural productivity superstar districts, the authors learned that there is no «secret sauce» for creating a productive rural district.

What can a district do — particularly one located in a remote, rural area — when there simply aren't enough teacher candidates to fill open positions?

In states like Montana, where enrollment in rural districts is expected to increase and districts have limited resources to support students in remote areas, online credit recovery programs are an attractive option for keeping students on track for graduation, according to the study.

This portion of the symposium examines a case example of a school improvement network that connects «like with like» rural and remote schools and districts within the Northwest region of the United States striving to build professional capital and enhance student engagement and achievement by undertaking joint action learning projects.

This will help districts understand whether teachers leave for better economic opportunities, particularly in high - cost, urban and remote, rural areas.

Rural and remote school districts are being disproportionately affected.

Rural and remote school districts in Amarillo, Texas, and Arab, Alabama, have partnered with NHA to help facilitate distance learning and certification programs for Medical Assistant (CCMA), EKG Technician (CET), and Patient Care Technician / Assistant (CPCT / A) credentials.

There were a number of other presentations at the conference about improving delivery of palliative care services to remote communities, including work by the Far West Local Health District that was said to be transforming the palliative approach in rural residential aged care in far west New South Wales.