Sentences with phrase «rural school»

Doris Terry Williams is executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust and director of the Trust's Capacity Building Program.

Create career pathways and «Grow Your Own» programs to prepare committed individuals from urban and rural school districts.

The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation, the ROCI Task Force and Bellwether Education Partners are working to foster a better understanding of the issues that affect rural education, inform policy discussions, and bring attention to the unique needs and circumstances of rural school children.

Prior to taking on his current role, he was an Elementary Principal in two rural school districts, a school counselor, and taught at the elementary level.

I teach students in grades K - 6 with special needs in small pull - out groups and inclusive settings at a rural school in northwest Wisconsin.

Other recent work includes developing a school funding model to simulate the impact of student - based budgeting at the state level, evaluating a rural school grant, and providing strategic and research support for a nonprofit working to build the supply of great public schools in a Western state.

Danette writes on a variety of system change topics, including guest editing and contributing an article to a recent edition of Peabody Journal of Education focused on rural school improvement.

This paper combines data from the literature and other public sources, interviews, site visits, and the organizational experience of The Rural School and Community Trust in an examination of community schools from a rural perspective.

-- South Carolina education chief seizes control of failing rural school district for the second time in state history: The State.

Drawing on interviews with female superintendents of urban, small - town, and rural school districts, the cofounder of the women's studies program at the University of Tulsa examines their contradictory experiences with power and subjection.

Yet, more than five years ago, a small rural school district in the Central Valley that serves predominately English language learners from low - income families reimagined its entire strategic approach to education and learning.

A low - performing rural school in New Hampshire reached out to the local community for help turning things around.

As a small rural school on the border of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, the school uses online tools enabling teachers to use pre-assembled tests, or design tests of their own.

Saving a Community's Heart: The Small Rural School At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolidated.

NOTE: William Marsons class of 32 sixth - graders was one of five sixth - grades in a rural school of 1,000 students.

Because Crellin is a small, rural school, many of their place - based projects feature the local stream or the Environmental Learning Lab on the land behind the schoolyard.

More recently, the Rural School and Community Trust, a national nonprofit organization, asked Bickel and Howley to study School Size, Poverty, and Student Achievement in Montana, Ohio, Georgia, and Texas.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

I worked in one rural school where the building was in such bad shape, kids tried to burn it down twice.

As a rural school in Murphy, North Carolina — in Southern Appalachia — we have become acutely aware of the challenges facing our student population: They live in a historically isolated community with little access to cutting - edge, well - paid jobs.

«Over the past year, when I've been talking with people about the problems in schools, the answer is always «distance learning,»» says Rachel Tompkins, president of the Rural School and Community Trust, which advocates for online learning.

Strategies to increase leadership opportunities and provide mentoring in this area included the New South Wales education department's Rural School Leadership Program targeting early career ATSI teachers and Principals Australia Institute's Dare to Lead program, supported by the Australian Council for Educational Research.

We realised it would take a new wireless network to solve our problems — but we had a small rural school's budget to work with.

«Schools are essential institutions in the community,» says the Rural School and Community Trust's Rachel Tompkins, and online learning doesn't change that.

Horne says that developing such an online course would be unimaginable in many other rural school districts because of a lack of access to technology.

But, in 1972, after evaluating the data, she published a critical paper, Economy, Efficiency, Equality: The Myths of Rural School Consolidation (later expanded into a book cowritten with colleagues).

The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets.

One of the three lawyers representing 36 rural school districts and several individuals that sued the state in 1993, Mr. Morrison and his colleagues have spent the past 16 months arguing in this small - town...

The Annenberg Rural Challenge recently announced two new recipients of its grants to promote rural school reform.

Learners are given four sets of data one set from a rural school, one set from a town school and two sets from city schools.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

Most federal and state education policies ignore rural America's many natural advantages and force rural school districts to operate in ways similar to those in urban centers.

The small, rural school introduced Equine Studies into its curriculum about a year ago following a suggestion from a parent, who started the ball rolling by donating two horses.

I found out not so long ago when I was working for a small rural school with a timetabled literacy program.

The non-profit Rural School and Community Trust released an 86 - page report, Why Rural Matters: The Need for Every State to Take Action on Rural Education, describing rural education in each of the 50 states.

Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

How does this rural school district afford high - quality Internet access?

Local 420 asked fellow unionists across the state to oppose the bill and lobbied rural school - board members to contact their state representatives.

I am a teacher and literacy program leader at a small, rural school in Ontario, Canada, with 14 years of teaching experience both in the classroom and on e-learning platforms.

«In this publication, you can see the difference between rural areas in each state and the rest of state,» said Rachel Tompkins, president of the Rural School and Community Trust.

Stay tuned: Next month we'll be finding out how employee volunteering is supporting students at one rural school in Australia.

Walter Annenberg, a publisher, broadcaster, philanthropist, and former ambassador to the Court of St. James, established the Rural School and Community Trust in 1995 with a $ 50 million pledge.

Teach for America and KIPP, for example, both achieve impressive results in rural regions and continuously work toward new solutions, as with Teach for America's recent Rural School Leadership Principal Fellowship.

Tompkins hopes the report and subsequent annual reports will raise policy makers» awareness of rural school issues.

After developing a new literacy program at a small rural school, I recognised that, in order for it to achieve success, professional development for staff was critical.

It didn't matter whether the teacher was working in a rural school in the south west or an inner city school in the north east, the national pay scale ensured that every good teacher teaching broadly similar groups of children would receive an equivalent salary.

The Rural School and Community Trust, which emerged from the Annenberg initiative, defines place - based education as learning grounded in «the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place.»

(If you think it's expensive to offer AP Calculus as a small rural school, try building a welding shop.)

At a time when many school administrators are looking to stretch dollars and teaching time, some rural school districts are compressing the school week into four longer class days.

Despite these economic challenges, only 22 percent of federal education funds are directed toward rural school districts.