He completed studies at Oakland City University where he earned
his school building administrator's license.
Prior to his role at Westside, he served as director of secondary curriculum, high
school building administrator, and junior high school social studies teacher for Papillion - La Vista Public Schools in Nebraska.
Jacob's most recent work was serving as a middle and high
school building administrator with Green Dot Public Schools, a non-profit public charter management organization out of California.
When adjusting for enrollment and inflation, school funding has been cut in the following areas since leadership of the General Assembly switched hands in 2010 (a time period in which the state was already struggling to find resources as a result of the Great Recession): classroom teachers, instructional support personnel (counselors, nurses, librarians, etc.),
school building administrators (principals and assistant principals), teacher assistants, transportation, low wealth schools, disadvantaged students, central office, limited English proficiency, academically gifted, small counties, driver training, and school technology.
Not exact matches
Presenting the health, academic, and social benefits of
school breakfast to your principals and
administrators is important, and an important tool in
building the coalition you need to get breakfast - in - the - classroom off and running.
Let
administrators know if your child has any special needs, ask what information they need from the old
school and schedule a tour of the
building for you and your child.
You will find step by step instructions for how to recruit supporters,
build your team, focus your efforts, work with
school administrators and officials, promote your success to the community, and more.
This new professional development course offers teachers,
administrators, board members and parents an opportunity to reflect on and work with the challenges of
building a Waldorf
School Community that is vibrant, innovative and effective, while honoring the unique contributions of each member of the community.
The success achieved by the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom project between 2011 and today has taught us that when all stakeholders work together —
administrators,
school boards, parents, and
school building staff — breakfast - in - the - classroom becomes a sustainable and successful endeavor for
school nutrition programs.
For instance, the
Administrator said through the
Schools Support Project, the Foundation hoped to answer to infrastructural needs of schools in Lagos State and work with manufacturers of building and construction materials, building technology professionals and other well meaning sponsors to help refurbish and upgrade public schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community L
Schools Support Project, the Foundation hoped to answer to infrastructural needs of
schools in Lagos State and work with manufacturers of building and construction materials, building technology professionals and other well meaning sponsors to help refurbish and upgrade public schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community L
schools in Lagos State and work with manufacturers of
building and construction materials,
building technology professionals and other well meaning sponsors to help refurbish and upgrade public
schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community L
schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary
School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community Library.
The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a
school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested
buildings, while
administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.
Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the
Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving
school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle
school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary
school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle
Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.
One man said some
school buildings in the district are so defunct that it's impossible for teachers and
administrators to safely supervise and protect students, and that the district needs to
build new
schools with modern layouts to help solve its safety problems.
BRONX, NY — State Senator Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) joined Bronx
school administrators and parent coordinators to kick - off the new
school year and celebrate the success of Project BOOST (
Building Options and Opportunities for Students) Thursday night at a dinner held at F & J Pine restaurant.
BRONX, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), joined by more than 150 local parents,
school administrators and students, announced $ 18,000 in Project BOOST (
Building Options and Opportunities for Students) funding for P.S. 14 in the Bronx.
SRO's work closely with
school administrators, faculty and staff on
school safety plans and assist in required safety audits of all
school buildings.
When
school administrators began a green retrofit of the 220,000 - square - foot, three - story
building in 2003, they quickly realized they would need to update much of its aging electrical and ventilation system.
Inconsistent Transportation: When late buses were impacting our ability to get teachers to their PLC Data Team meetings on Thursdays, our central office and union leadership identified the problem during a no - agenda meeting — the need to change district bus schedules to accommodate all
schools — and worked with our transportation provider and
building administrators to ensure that we didn't jeopardize this initiative moving forward.
Kelley has spent most of the past six years cold - calling
school administrators, flying around the United States, and figuring out how to
build NCAA - style bracket competitions in academic subjects.
Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and
administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants,
building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more
school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.
Understanding classroom challenges, Jan collaborated with teachers, OTs, and
administrators to
build the three programs that comprise the Learning Without Tears curricula: Get Set for
School ® for kindergarten readiness, Handwriting Without Tears ® for K — 5, and Keyboarding Without Tears ® for K — 5.
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School Survivor Day Offers Lessons About Quality Learning Brenda Dyck recounts how her school's administrators used the Survivor TV show as a theme to strengthen teams, build camaraderie, present challenges — and teach a few lessons about how to create a quality classroom environment for stu
School Survivor Day Offers Lessons About Quality Learning Brenda Dyck recounts how her
school's administrators used the Survivor TV show as a theme to strengthen teams, build camaraderie, present challenges — and teach a few lessons about how to create a quality classroom environment for stu
school's
administrators used the Survivor TV show as a theme to strengthen teams,
build camaraderie, present challenges — and teach a few lessons about how to create a quality classroom environment for students!
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School Letters and Survival Kits Build Communication Many teachers and administrators have started introducing themselves to parents and students before school starts, or right at the opening
School Letters and Survival Kits
Build Communication Many teachers and
administrators have started introducing themselves to parents and students before
school starts, or right at the opening
school starts, or right at the opening bell.
Partner
Build Grow, a new action guide from the Center for Health and Health Care in
Schools, helps
administrators, civic leaders, program directors, and other advocates develop plans to maintain and strengthen programs that give children the emotional and behavioral skills they need to thrive.
Building school community: Miyake - Trapp observes that
administrators in the classroom «can also openly engage in reflective processes by sharing moments of classroom success as well as challenges.
While both principals share responsibilities for the whole
building and can respond to any issue, each
administrator — Gentili, Wall, and the assistant principal — is assigned to one of the three grades in the
school.
As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in
school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the
school building, or decisions made by district
administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.
Each of these archives presents practical ideas to help principals and other
school administrators build awareness and skills.
9 — Curriculum and instruction: «Scheduling: Organizing for Effective Instruction,» and «Integrated Curriculum: Beginning To
Build Bridges,» seminars, sponsored by the New England League of Middle
Schools, for middle
school teachers and
administrators, to be held in Providence, R.I. Contact: Jean Blanchard, N.E.L.M.S., 460 Boston St., Suite 4, Topsfield, Mass. 01983 - 1223; (508) 887-6263; fax: (508) 887-6504.
Teachers and
administrators in those
buildings might not want to lose the space, or have their work compared with the efforts of a charter
school in the same
building, but we believed the space belonged to the kids, not the
schools, and if the kids wanted to choose a charter
school, they should command their share of the space as well.
I continue to strive to increase student achievement and
build capacity in our District by providing mentoring and guidance to
administrators and their
school teams.
They also give
administrators and civic leaders a strategy plus tangible resources for
building a network of after -
school enrichment programs.
Mobile devices such as smartphones and iPods, still seen as nuisances or contraband by many
schools, are now viewed by an increasing number of teachers and
administrators as cost - effective tools to
build and sustain 1 - to - 1 computing...
Ultimately, restorative practices seek to enhance relationships among students, faculty,
administrators, and parents, and to
build a sense of community in the
school.
District leaders from Student Wellness & Support Services will present how SBCUSD is approaching professional development to
build the capacity of district and
school leaders, including principals, heads of counseling, and student services
administrators, around proactive approaches to
school climate and SEL.
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School Letters and Survival Kits Build Communication Many teachers and administrators have started introducing themselves to parents and students before school s
School Letters and Survival Kits
Build Communication Many teachers and
administrators have started introducing themselves to parents and students before
school s
school starts.
The
school must post such information in clearly visible locations so that it is readily accessible for students and employees by: (1) posting such information on the district and / or
school's website (s), if such a website exists; (2) posting such information in highly - visible areas of
school buildings; (3) making such information available at the district and
school building - level administrative offices, where applicable; (4) providing such information to parents and persons in parental relation at least once per
school year in a manner as determined by the
school, including, but not limited to, through electronic communication and / or sending such information home with students; and (5) providing each teacher and
administrator in the
school with such information.
Remember that it's a good idea to ask your
administrator if there is a
school - wide policy, as well as connecting with other teachers in your
building about their policies.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any
school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of
school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable
building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and
administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high
school and high
school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
Moore also urged that all stakeholders — teachers,
administrators, parents, and community leaders — encourage coalition -
building and resource sharing and work to transform their
schools into community hubs.
Next week's article will focus on what both teachers and
administrators can do to take care of themselves and
build a healthy
school environment in the face of chronic trauma.
He has served in public education for 50 years as a teacher,
building administrator, central office
administrator and for 41 years as a
school superintendent.
Teachers, students, parents, and
administrators all share an understanding of what the
school is about: what it values, how it plans to meet its goals, the strategies it uses to understand what works well in the
building and what doesn't.
** 14 — Home
schooling: Workshop: Helping Children Achieve Academic Success:
Building Powerful Home -
School Partnerships that Yield Results, sponsored by the Lesley University Center for Children, Families, and Public Policy, for K - 3
administrators and principals, in Cambridge, Mass..
How can teachers and
administrators work to better understand and
build the complicated web of connections needed to facilitate an up - to - date and effective
school (a meta learning eco-system, as you call it)?
The Agency recommends that the constituent
school district Superintendent consult prior to the meeting with
school board members,
administrators at the central and
building levels, district employees, union representatives, parents and community leaders and to the extent necessary also other units of government.
There will never be enough
administrators in a
school building to do all of the classroom work needed to be done to truly have innovation thrive.
School Administrator / Supervisor,
School Building leader,
School District leader,
School District
Administrator,
School District Business Leader or
School Business
Administrator)
For the project as a whole, we collected two rounds of survey data from principals and teachers and three rounds of site - visit data from
schools and districts, including classroom observations and interviews with teachers and
building and district
administrators.
Why should I feel better about PARCC and Common Core just because a state bureaucrat or leader of a taxpayer funded
school board or
school administrator association tells me we have had state mandated standards and testing for a long time when the original set of standards and tests were broken and
built from an economic view point, not an educational one.