Sentences with phrase «school and school system leaders»

What does existing research tell us about the impact that work like ours — the ways we coach and train school and school system leaders — has on student learning, school improvement, and educational equity?

School and school system leaders are responsible for ensuring that all students progress.

In colleges of education, where most of these school and school system leaders are being educated, the percent of faculty members of color is 15.5 %.

UCEA's goals center on building knowledge for the field and providing quality preparation and lifelong learning experiences for aspiring and current school and school system leaders.

We expanded our reach to our 32nd state, working in 110 school systems to support nearly 1,000 school and school system leaders whose work in turn reached more than 2 million students.

Although our member faculty and deans come from different states and regions, we all share the same goals of building knowledge for the field and providing quality preparation and lifelong learning experiences for school and school system leaders.

Not exact matches

So beyond the thought leaders, and politicians and school systems you have to have respect for yourself.

In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced a vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

NBK Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II has already invested in two companies: Qimam El Hayat, a private K - 12 school in Riyadh that provides quality education to over 2,500 students and Perkon, the market leader in the Turkish payment systems / automatic identification and data capture («AIDC») industry.

The STOP School Violence Act might be just that, although House Republican leaders voiced some support for the Senate's Fix NICS Act, which would only reinforce existing laws requiring state and federal agencies to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

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As early as World War II, the political leaders of the Free French forces had known that France would have to face up to the question of whether it was going to allow the decline of a system of schools preferred by the parents of one - sixth of all French pupils, or whether it was going to accept the hazards of open political discussion aimed at developing a new and creative solution.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

She taught school in the Texas school system before moving to Nashville, TN in 1980, where she became a Leader with La Leche League International, an educational and support organization for breastfeeding mothers.

In many ways, Lewis, 58, a brash, tough - talking South Side product of Chicago's public school system, is an unlikely foil to Emanuel and CPS leaders in the national push toward longer school days.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan decided last last night to call an audible and declare the 2017 legislative session over, without a deal in place to extend mayoral control of the NYC school system.

It would be «appalling» and «lives would be lost» if Trump follows through on proposed cuts to the gun - background - check system in light of last week's deadly school shooting, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

He was instrumental in developing New York's successful Race to the Top application and key to designing a new system for the evaluation of teachers and school leaders.

From Molinaro's view, groups of people were leveraged against each other, whether it was county leaders seeking certainty for their finances, the New York City school system and how it's leadership structure is formed or the communities affected by flooding that are in need of aid.

Negotiations are now centering on additional ethical disclosures and an overhaul of the system for evaluating public school teachers, the governor and legislative leaders said.

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

The Hempstead School Board unanimously accepted the recommendations of a state - appointed consultant who had blamed entrenched divisions among district leaders for falling academic performance and increasing safety concerns in the 8,000 - student system.

«Trust and confidence in the system of pay for school leaders will not be secured whilst headteachers» pay and rewards continue to be shrouded in secrecy.»

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board contrAnd there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board contrand Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board contrand parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

The motion, which took party leaders by surprise, said there was a risk that the new schools would increase «social divisiveness and inequity in a system that is already unfair».

NYC schools will lose $ 300 million if leaders from the UFT and DOE don't agree on a new teacher evaluation system by January 17th.

The Newtown massacre has generated so much proposed legislation — to expand the state's assault - weapons ban, make gun permit holders» names available publicly, reform the mental health system, and increase school security — that leaders of the General Assembly have decided they need to step in and direct traffic.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

Robert Hill, who makes his recommendations in a new book entitled Achieving More Together published by the Association of School and College Leaders, said experience proves that such partnerships work and should be adopted across the education system.

«We are pleased that state leaders reached agreements that paved the way for passage of a measure that includes a three year extension of sales, occupancy, mortgage recording and real estate transfer taxes; and a two year extension for mayoral control of the New York City School System,» said New York State Association of Counties President William E. Cherry.

In Wake County, N.C., school and political leaders integrated the school system by putting a 40 percent limit on the percent of students who qualify for free or reduced priced lunch at each school.

Earlier in the day, religious leaders and politicians welcomed new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black during the Convent Avenue Baptist Church's annual Martin Luther King Day service, urging her to improve the city's education system.

«New York's public schools need a leader who can reconcile opposing views among stakeholders over controversial issues, navigate the political complexities of the legislative process, and work with the Board of Regents to forge cogent policies that will make New York's education system student - focused.»

GOP leaders in the state's upper house introduced another proposal to re-authorize mayoral control of the state's largest school system, offering New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio an additional three years but pairing it with a tax credit for donations to private school scholarships — a known poison pill for Heastie and the Democratic conference he leads.

«Pace is proud to partner once again with Westchester County to mobilize high school and college students to help aging populations with technology and help prepare the next generation of technology leaders and innovators,» said Jonathan Hill, Interim Dean of Pace's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Syschool and college students to help aging populations with technology and help prepare the next generation of technology leaders and innovators,» said Jonathan Hill, Interim Dean of Pace's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information SySchool of Computer Science and Information Systems.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan have both advanced proposals that would continue the city's 15 - year - old receivership of the municipal education system but include provisions lifting the cap on new charter schools in the five boroughs.

«The treatment of multiple myeloma has improved significantly in recent years with the introduction of therapies such as proteasome inhibitors [which interfere with tumor cells» protein - disposal system] and potent immuno - modulatory agents,» said the paper's senior author and lead investigator, Paul Richardson, MD, clinical program leader and director of clinical research at Dana - Farber's Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

Alain Destexhe, Research Director of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France

Leaders from The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine and the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton - Hans Popper Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System served as associate directors of the symposium.

Additionally, TransformEd collects and archives longitudinal administrative data to conduct policy analyses for member district leaders and practitioners in order to support the CORE School Quality Improvement System (CORE SQIS).

«Working with Stronger Minds CIC, the Carnegie School of Education will develop and deliver innovative training for beginning and experienced teachers and will host a conference for system leaders in 2017.

The same folks who gave us a system that ranked 99 % of teachers as effective and which left teachers with no objective defense against politics at the school - leader level.

Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make schools — and especially school districts — work well, given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected school boards.

His role also involves strategic planning with district and school leaders, implementation of the ISSN model and the Graduation Performance System (GPS).

It is true, as would - be reformers often argue, that statutes, policies, rules, regulations, contracts, and case law make it tougher than it should be for school and system leaders to drive improvement and, well, lead.