Sentences with phrase «school district improvement efforts»

Bluum will provide support to school district improvement efforts that offer the possibility of transformative change for how learning and instruction are made available to students.

Finally, Bluum will provide support to school district improvement efforts that offer the possibility of transformative change for how learning and instruction are made available to students.

Confusion abounds among educators and the broader public about the purpose of charter schools and how these independent public schools relate to school district improvement efforts.

Not exact matches

Dubbed the DPS Renaissance Plan 2012, the purpose was to engage proven charter - school operators in the district's school - improvement effort.

A 2005 study by the Public Policy Institute of California found the improvement in reading «so definitive that San Diego's efforts are well worth a look by other school districts in California and the nation.»

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

Under NCLB, school improvement and corrective action provisions were strengthened, and restructuring provisions added, to compel states, districts, and schools to intensify efforts to turn around low - performing schools.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school distSchool Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school distschool districts.

Leaders of urban school districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maschool districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli MaSchool Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

The changes were necessary, argued Superintendent Donald W. Ingwerson, because the district's current busing program interferes with efforts to increase parental involvement and bring about other school improvements mandated under Kentucky's landmark education - reform law.

Chartering can advance district improvement efforts through R&D, i.e., be a laboratory for testing different approaches and ideas that are replicated in district schools.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should review the Title I monitoring process to ensure that steps are in place to ensure that states comply with NCLBA requirements for allocating school improvement funds to districts for district - level activities and prioritizing funds to the lowest performing schools.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of State Support is pleased to announce the new State Support Network website, an online platform designed to support school improvement efforts by providing States and districts with opportunities to engage with their peers and connect with experts and resources.

Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): The TXCC provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should, to further support the department's proposal to eliminate the hold - harmless provision, develop an analysis comparing the characteristics of districts that contribute to the set - aside with those protected by the hold - harmless provision.

Southeast Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Southeast Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the state education agencies of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

Kunjan Narechania was appointed as CEO of the Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD) in 2017, where she oversees the unification of schools in New Orleans and statewide school improvement efforts under the Every Student SucceedSchool District (RSD) in 2017, where she oversees the unification of schools in New Orleans and statewide school improvement efforts under the Every Student Succeedschool improvement efforts under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

The law mandates that parents be informed on how they can be involved in school improvement efforts, and be provided with report cards on schools in their district, to help guide their involvement.

The department shall require school districts and BOCES to report on an annual basis information related to the school district's efforts to address the performance of teachers whose performance is evaluated as unsatisfactory, including information related to the implementation of teacher improvement plans for teachers so evaluated.

Texas Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Texas Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

was appointed as CEO of the Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD) in 2017, where she oversees the unification of schools in New Orleans and statewide school improvement efforts under the Every Student SucceedSchool District (RSD) in 2017, where she oversees the unification of schools in New Orleans and statewide school improvement efforts under the Every Student Succeedschool improvement efforts under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Parents must be informed in some timely manner by their district if their child attends a school that has been identified for comprehensive or targeted support, enabling parents to become involved in school improvement efforts and to exercise school choice, if applicable.

Such detail captures multiple dimensions of school and district performance and can drive local improvement efforts tailored to each unique context.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

District improvement efforts should include, as foci for immediate attention, those eight sets of conditions which the best available evidence now suggests have a significant influence on principals «sense of efficacy for school improvement.

As relationships improve, SEAs are able to have a greater impact on district and school improvements, and to take greater satisfaction in their efforts.

However, the district has several informal means of involving the community in school - improvement efforts.

Focusing improvement efforts solely on low - performing schools and students is not a productive strategy for continual improvement in a district.

NCLB changed the ways schools and districts use data and evidence to inform improvement efforts.

District officials struggle with the task of attracting a representative group of community members to help with school improvement efforts.

Because of the contentious environment that surrounds evaluation and monitoring, respondents said, the effort to build trust is a key component of their more general effort to help schools and districts identify areas in need of improvement.

Unfortunately, the district has a history of botched high school improvement efforts over the last decade with Manual being the poster child.

In order to examine our quantitative findings more thoroughly, we turned to our qualitative data for an in - depth look at district level policies and practices intended to engage parents and community members in school - improvement efforts and, specifically, efforts to increase student learning.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

In current national dialogues about school improvement, SEAs have increasingly been asked to provide oversight and support for districts in their efforts to meet ambitious goals for increasing student achievement.268 SEAs also clarify education policy for districts.

Despite the best efforts of the teachers to provide leadership for their school, along with efforts by the district to establish formal teacher - leadership positions, the combined effects of frequent principal turnover and frequent teacher turnover made it impossible for this school to sustain any momentum in its improvement efforts.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

Whereas TSI school improvement efforts are overseen by the district, each CSI school must implement a school - specific comprehensive intervention plan that is developed by its district but is approved, monitored, and regularly reviewed by its state education agency (SEA).

If successful, the improvement efforts undertaken at one or a few schools can be considered in other schools that might benefit from a new relationship with the district.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

The CST developed the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework (PDF) to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvemeImprovement: A Systems Framework (PDF) to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvementimprovement efforts.

A primary reason for the «mixed results» found in most studies of school improvement efforts is that states, districts, and schools vary widely in their capacities and willingness to support these efforts.

Through the Meaningful Student and Family Engagement initiative, OKF increased district and school capacity to ensure the voices and priorities of over 500 youth and families of color were included in school improvement processes and reform efforts — including development of school plans, budgets, and policies at the district level and at three partner schools.

Before joining the district office, Jamie led School Improvement Grant efforts as an assistant principal, while leading the magnet school development at Central High School as the performing arts coordiSchool Improvement Grant efforts as an assistant principal, while leading the magnet school development at Central High School as the performing arts coordischool development at Central High School as the performing arts coordiSchool as the performing arts coordinator.

Her journey taught her that top - down efforts to reform a district don't work; only by starting over school by school — like businesses emerging from bankruptcy — could real improvement occur.