Sentences with phrase «school districts across the country including»

Preferred Meals, headquartered in Berkeley, Ill., provides school lunches to 300 school districts across the country including District 89's elementary schools.

Tutor.com is already in use at school districts across the country including East Baton Rouge Parish School District (LA), Park City School District (CO), South Delta School District (MI), and New York City Department of Education's School of One.

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While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

We studied 16 charter elementary and secondary schools with a wide range of personalized learning models from across the country (we hoped to include district schools, but the data were not available).

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

Like many school districts across the country, D.C. Public Schools leaves the decision on whether to include cursive as part of the curriculum up to individual principals and teachers.

CAP outlines a series of recommendations for improving test procedures and moving away from teaching to the test and the culture of overtesting that is occurring in schools and districts across the country, including:

The Teacher Contract Database includes over 145 districts across the country, representing the 100 largest districts in the country, the largest district in each state, and member districts of the Council of Great City Schools.

Most recently we have provided professional development sessions to schools, districts, and organizations from across the country, including:

Locating new schools is just one of many issues facing charters in the District, as well as in cities across the country where charters are growing, including Kansas City and Cleveland.

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.

CTAC has conducted professional development audits in school systems across the country, including such leading districts as Duval County Public Schools in Florida, Henrico County Public Schools and Prince William County Public Schools in Virginia.

The Teach to Lead Initiative, along with 50 supporting organizations including ASCD, is hosting regional Teacher Leadership Summits to help spotlight the teacher - led work that is happening in states, districts, and schools across the country.

Over the course of a year, NCLD gathered top special education and personalized learning experts from across the country — including educators, advocates, researchers, state and district leaders, school leaders, and parents of children with disabilities — and engaged them in discussions to learn and explore ways to ensure that personalized learning systems integrate and benefit students with disabilities.

Subsequently, Derek joined the Stupski Foundation and managed efforts to support district - wide reform across the country, including efforts in districts such as Jackson Public Schools in Mississippi and the Baltimore City Public Schools System in Maryland.

Innovation School Fellows also will receive significant support during their planning year, including feedback on their school - design plans from national and local experts; opportunities to visit best - in - class schools across the country; access to a national network of school - incubation leaders; and sessions with IPS officials to learn district operaSchool Fellows also will receive significant support during their planning year, including feedback on their school - design plans from national and local experts; opportunities to visit best - in - class schools across the country; access to a national network of school - incubation leaders; and sessions with IPS officials to learn district operaschool - design plans from national and local experts; opportunities to visit best - in - class schools across the country; access to a national network of school - incubation leaders; and sessions with IPS officials to learn district operaschool - incubation leaders; and sessions with IPS officials to learn district operations.

Across the country, 12 school districts enroll more than 30 percent of their students in charter schools, including New Orleans (91 percent), Detroit (55 percent), and the District of Columbia (44 percent)(NAPCS, 2014b).

I began my career as a high school social studies teacher and, over the years, have worked in multiple educational organizations, including universities, a state department of education, a regional educational laboratory, and as consultant to the USDOE, national professional organizations, multiple SDEs, regional agencies, and school districts across the country.

That includes advancing choice in the District of Columbia, which is under the jurisdiction of Congress; creating choice for children attending federally managed Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and establishing school choice for military - connected children across the country.

School districts across the country, including Michigan, are experiencing teacher shortages.

The TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement is implemented in school districts across the country, affecting approximately 15,000 teachers and 200,000 students.46 With support from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, school districts create multiple career paths for teachers, including career, mentor, and master teacher.47 Teacher leaders participate in school leadership teams with administrators, provide colleagues with regular professional learning opportunities and individualized coaching, observe and provide feedback for instructional improvement, and are compensated for these additional responsibilities.48 Trained teacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professionally.

These ideas — choice, charter schools, vouchers — have all gained a foothold to one degree or another in struggling urban districts across the country, including in DeVos» own home turf of Detroit, where more than half of public school students now attend charter schools.

New Leaders: New Leaders is a national nonprofit that develops transformational leaders — including teacher leaders, aspiring principals, principals, instructional leadership teams, and district supervisors — in high - need communities and designs effective leadership policies and practices for school systems across the country.

The non-profit KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools, provides tools, resources, and training for excellent teaching and learning, promotes innovation, and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas within the KIPP network and with partners including: other charters, districts, colleges and universities, and non-profit organizations across the country.

Major milestones in Jason's work at Insight include co-authoring a book, Strategic Design for Student Achievement (Teachers College Press, 2009), serving as the chief architect of customized instructional frameworks for multiple school districts, providing leadership support for standards - based initiatives in schools across the country, and serving as the lead designer of a national teacher certification and training program for The New Teacher Project.

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.

NEA is engaged with affiliates at targeted sites across the country developing school - based plans and including some districts and feeder schools.

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

David Foster has provided consulting to districts across the country, including the Chicago Public Schools.

Speakers included experts from other states and districts across the country who have used similar data as part of overall school improvement efforts.

States and districts across the country have begun expanding the list of mandated reporters — those who can be penalized under the law for knowingly failing to report the abuse or neglect of a child — to include teachers and other employees of school campuses.

The 2017 — 18 scholarship cohort includes five diverse school districts, representing over 230,000 students from across the country:

Dignity in Schools Campaign, 10/28/15 — CJSF ally Dignity in Schools Campaign, whose members include several of CJSF's grantee partners, released a statement about the South Carolina student assault and calls on districts across the country to use alternatives that promote positive school climates instead of suspensions, expulsions and arrests.