Sentences with phrase «rural districts across»

Meanwhile, rural districts across the country are complaining that they don't have the bandwidth or the computers needed to administer the most widely used Common Core exams, known as PARCC and Smarter Balanced.

Project ACHIEVE is a comprehensive school transformation and improvement program that has been implemented in thousands of urban, suburban, and rural districts across the country since 1990.

The tools represent the best thinking of school board leaders from urban, suburban, and rural districts across every region in the country.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of districts across the nation, most of them small and rural, already do just that.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

He decried the loss of innocent lives and the destruction of cash crops and farmlands by the herdsmen in several rural communities across the Edo South senatorial district.

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

When workers from rural villages across southern China set out for cities in search of better jobs and a better life, that journey often takes them to neighborhoods like this one, a teeming section of Guangzhou's Hai zhu district.

Nicki Rehn: So, they were actually across different three rural districts in western Canada.

We're now operating in district, charter, and independent schools; in urban and rural schools; in red states and blue states; at schools with a variety of enrollment and staffing levels; and across four US time zones.

These districts — ABC Unified School District, Cerritos, California; Hillsborough, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Plattsburgh, New York; St. Francis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio — come from across the country, are both urban and rural, large and small.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Connecting and supporting educators across urban, rural and suburban districts to make research - based decisions about school improvement.

NISL has worked in districts large and small, urban and rural across the country.

Digital Learning Strategies for Rural America offers profiles of policies and programs at work in 15 states across the country, including examples of state virtual schools, course access opportunities, blended learning models, district - led online learning initiatives, and regional partnerships.

Inattention to small, rural districts no doubt reflects the fact that most students in the United States attend schools in larger districts, although smaller districts the vast majority of districts across the country..

Across the country, states and school districts experience a critical shortage of teachers, especially in hard - to - staff subjects, such as science, technology, and math, and in hard - to - staff schools, such as those in high - poverty and rural areas.

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

Recruitment and retention challenges are once again leading to teacher shortages across the nation, especially in urban and rural school districts.

As superintendents of rural schools in 106 districts across Arizona, we at the Arizona Rural Schools Association are in support of the effort that Governor Doug Ducey has undertaken to develop a valuable proposal that moves our state in the right direction on the issue of school funrural schools in 106 districts across Arizona, we at the Arizona Rural Schools Association are in support of the effort that Governor Doug Ducey has undertaken to develop a valuable proposal that moves our state in the right direction on the issue of school funRural Schools Association are in support of the effort that Governor Doug Ducey has undertaken to develop a valuable proposal that moves our state in the right direction on the issue of school funding.

Network Eight: Students in Small and Rural School Districts, which provides that activities that may support learning opportunities and improvements across the state may include projects such as professional community to mentor and support teachers and mitigate professional isolation

The findings were also based on interviews with school leaders from eight districts across Montana, representing both urban and rural districts and varying in size.

We heard from teachers in suburban, rural, and urban districts, ranging from one to 31 years of experience and across all grade levels.

Holtz's path began in an elementary school classroom in rural Minnesota, included a stint on a police force in Whitewater and traveled to five elementary principal and school district superintendent positions across Wisconsin.

Educators across the country are currently implementing Safe & Civil Schools projects in urban, suburban, and rural districts.

But places across the state, from Madison to rural districts, look a lot different.

Across the country, school districts in rural areas and other pockets with low bandwidth are confronting a difficult task of administering new Common Core - aligned standardized tests to students online.

Similarly, once the pathway for transferring licenses across state lines opens up, states would need to implement policies specifically designed to attract high - quality teachers to work in high - need school districts, particularly in rural locales, in order to limit shortages in those areas.

Mark Anderson, assistant professor in the Montana State University Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics and Mary Beth Walker, professor and dean with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, examined elementary school test score data on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) from 2001 - 2010 across the state's rural districts, fifteen of which operated on a four - day week.

The videos in this series highlight the stories of five rural and urban Illinois districts, providing a sample of the positive changes happening across the state as a result of the multiyear partnership at the district, school, and classroom levels.

Our network has grown to 150 innovative public schools, district and charter, K - 12, in urban and rural communities across 30 states, and today, we also partner directly with school districts to transform teaching through our open - source EL Education Language Arts curriculum and coaching.

For rural school districts without a local industry presence, the Department will occasionally bring business leaders from across the state or connect them to the classroom through web - based video conferencing software.

There is not much meaningful variation across district types, except that rural districts are less likely to use the percent of students advancing to the next math course, teacher feedback, and student feedback while high - performance districts are less likely to use student feedback.

Digital learning materials, high capacity broadband, data use, and related professional learning are unevenly distributed across the country — falling especially short of needed levels in rural and poor communities — and greater federal funding is needed to help states and districts address this inequity.

Further, why is it that over 75 % of those employed by schools across the country are female, yet only 18 % of superintenents across the country are female; and in most cases, those women superintendents are in charge of small rural K - 8 districts.

The 11 project schools were from eight different school districts spread across a rural area in the southeastern U.S.; an eastern city; two small towns in the Midwest; a large city in the Midwest; and a large city in the southwestern U.S..

Christy Cate, Digital Innovation Consultant, Region 14 Education Service Center, Abilene: To support learning across 12,000 square miles, Christy Cate created COMPILE (Collaborative On Mentoring & Planning Innovative Learning Environments) to bring together the resourcefulness of exceptional teachers in 42 small, rural school districts and support a culture shift to 21st century learning.

Moments after the announcement, Noelle Ellerson of the American Association of School Administrators weighed in on Twitter with yet another critique, pointing out that participating districts are all urban and thus the experiment may not be relevant to the large number of rural school districts in California and across the U.S.

The message of «enough is enough» resounded across the state, from urban to rural districts, and even in well - to - do suburban communities like Ridgewood, where residents are particularly proud of their schools.

Check & Connect is being implemented in elementary, middle, and high schools across every school district in 5 rural counties in southwest Colorado: Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, and San Juan Counties.

«Students are experiencing homelessness in over 75 percent of school districts across the U.S., and those are just the ones that have been identified; this is an issue that impacts all of us from rural Texas to the suburbs of LA to New York City,» said Liz Cohen, chief of staff, ICPH.

The Council proposes an equitable and sustainable model to extend support across both rural and urban school districts, leveraging resources through a new partnership between public education agencies, institutions and non-profit partners with flexibility for local contexts and priorities.

However, notwithstanding the growing cadre of exemplars around the country, spanning school size, district, and across both urban and rural settings, the research to explicitly identify and understand the key components of effective implementation is still nascent, especially in demonstrating a causal relationship between implementation of a comprehensive and integrated community school strategy — not just individual program pieces — and increased student achievement.

Over the years, her responsibilities have grown from 48 students across the six rural districts and a budget of $ 1.5 million to 350 students and $ 10 million in funding support.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

He draws from 39 years of educational experience in urban, suburban, and rural school district settings as he trains and works with teachers, teacher leaders, school leaders, and district leaders across North America.

Whether they are students traveling to a rural school in Alabama, walking across their Ohio district campus or classmates leaning over a desk in Washington, students across the country are moving — into the role of teacher.

These educators represent small rural districts in the Central Valley, the largest districts in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and charter leaders across the state.

Dr. Fink's work has spanned large urban, suburban and rural school districts and charter management organizations across the country.

Districts across the state in larger cities and suburbs to downstate rural communities have eliminated librarians.