Sentences with phrase «school districts around»

Similarly, the Excellence in Social and Emotional Learning Network brings together nine Massachusetts school districts around a shared goal of expanding social - emotional learning in schools.

She writes and publishes extensively, and consults, coaches and teaches in schools and school districts around the country and in other parts of the world.

«This reduction can be made up only through increased property taxes in school districts around the state,» a DPI analysis of the last proposal said.

An innovative approach to holistic professional development for all school district employees to improve student outcomes I've spent over 15 years talking to school districts around the cou... Read More...

One of the largest studies ever conducted to try to understand what makes good teaching, the Methods of Effective Teaching Study led by Harvard University researcher Thomas Kane, analyzed 7,500 lessons taught by 1,300 teachers from six school districts around the country and had experts score their effectiveness.

Then, drawing on a career theme for his work, Tucker focuses, in «Accountability: What the Top Performers Do», on how the top performing school districts around the world set up their successful accountability systems.

In recent years and largely in response to the pressure generated by high - stakes testing, school districts around the United States are providing instructional coaches to work in schools with a large enrollment of struggling students.

The analysis by the district finds that school districts around the state would bear the biggest burden of covering the shortfall, contributing $ 47 billion, or 63 percent of the total, through increased contributions over 32 years.

Garth currently consults to school districts around the country and provides customized professional development around a variety of topics, mainly Professional Learning Communities, Response to Intervention / Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, Learning - Centered Assessment and Grading Practices, School Improvement and Culture.

As school districts around the country face crippling budget shortfalls, Detroit's schools have been hit especially hard with staggering debt, pink - slipped teachers, school closures, high absenteeism, low college readiness and an uncertain future.

As school districts around the country struggle to find enough qualified teachers to staff their classrooms, state policymakers are considering a range of budget and policy proposals to address immediate teacher shortages and build a sustainable, high - quality, and more diverse teacher workforce.

RICHARD W. STRONG is vice president of Silver Strong & Associates and has served as a trainer / consultant to hundreds of school districts around the world.

A battle over pension reform threatens to derail the Pennsylvania state budget in the wake of a report which shows sharply rising retirement costs for school districts around the Keystone State.

As school districts around the country consider investments in technology as a way to improve student outcomes, this report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that technology — when implemented properly — can produce significant gains in student achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.

Those fellows are paid a salary for two years to develop a project to improve public schools in Indianapolis that can be replicated in other school districts around the country.

eSpark Learning partners with forward - thinking school districts around the country who are ready to invest in their teachers and technology to create an exceptional learning experience.

School districts around the country use high - quality assessments that do not require high - stakes standardized tests.

PRINCETON — Many are becoming more aware of the new public education initiative, Vision 20/20, which addresses current issues and inefficiencies many school districts around the state are facing today.

The tip sheets and webinar build on Controlling Junk Food and the Bottom Line, a report presenting case studies of schools in thirteen middle and high schools in nine school districts around the country that improved nutrition standards for their competitive food and beverages without significant negative financial impact.

We believe our unparalleled technology coupled with strong experience implementing similar systems with other leading school districts around the country best qualifies Performance Matters to successfully deliver all aspects of the Performance Matters Platform desired by the District.

By working with Francisco Partners, the organization plans to continue to evolve its solutions and expand its global presence to serve additional school districts around the world.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts around the state are hiring again.

Citing safety and disruption concerns, school districts around the country threatened disciplinary action if students participated in the walk out.

The past week, representatives from several major school districts around the country were in town observing LEAP in action, and discussing ways to bring the model elsewhere around the country.

It's primary day in Indiana, and 10 school districts around the state are posing ballot referenda asking voters to raise property taxes to help fund schools.

School districts around the state have continued to warn about a wide range of negative consequences of smaller class sizes without additional funding.

Ms. Williams was placed with the University of Virginia's Darden - Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education in Charlottesville, Va., where she works with school districts around the country to support their school turnaround efforts.

Election - to - Work agreements have been used in a variety of school districts around the nation, including in New Haven, to promote pilot projects that lengthen the school day or year or outline duties and obligations that administrators and teachers have beyond those in the standard contract.

When I look at school districts around the country, I see public education becoming more about politics and less about students and families.

It is recognized as a valuable resource for principal development — a number of school districts around the country have worked with the Leadership Academy as they have designed their own programs.

She is currently a consultant for Corwin Press, working once again with her colleague, Gary Howard, bringing his Deep Equity process to school districts around the country.

Contact: Andy Ryff, eBOARDsolutions Marketing Manager, 770.822.3632, [email protected] Simbli, eBOARDsolutions flagship board governance software solution, helps high achieving school districts around the U.S. earn top honors in 2018 Digital School District Survey Awards.

This is why school districts around the country have launched initiatives dedicated to lifting the prospects of black boys.

The shift to restorative practices is occurring in school districts around the country — most notably in Chicago, Denver, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles — with notable results.

Many school districts around the country are reversing prior decisions to cut librarians, realizing the school library can be...

Bennett and other speakers told the crowd that some of the demonstrators had traveled to successful school districts around the country during a two - year period to meet with education leaders to develop the «Bronzeville Global Achievers Village School Improvement Plan.»

Such an intervention is in fact currently underway in several school districts around the country.

The new partnership will be selling «The Vallas Turnaround System» to school districts around the country and perhaps world - wide.

School districts around the country are being accused of funneling kids from schools to juvenile jails at an alarming clip, but Connecticut has worked hard in recent years to reverse course.

~ Mirriam Webster Dictionary Bellwether Education Partners is one of several nonprofits working with school districts around the country to determine how to -LSB-...]

According to the report, the National Center for Education Statistics said 88 percent of school districts around the country offered some form of credit recovery courses to their students in school year 2009 - 10, and, «as online and blended learning have grown significantly in the last five years, it is likely those numbers are significantly higher now.»

What's exciting about Reilly & Climb Higher is that the work has transformed into building and sustaining strong and vibrant open systems amongst the coalition members and with school districts around the state.

We need our teachers to be paid at least at the level of the school districts around us, which we are not.»)

Richard W. Strong is Vice President of Silver Strong & Associates and has served as a trainer / consultant to hundreds of school districts around the world.

Gohil directs a Common Core project for which she's developed media tool kits for school districts around the San Francisco Bay Area.

For more information on strategies that school districts around the state are using to improve their community communications and outreach around LCFF, click here.

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Eleven school districts around the state will hold referendums on Tuesday, with eight of those districts requesting money to maintain class sizes and programming in the wake of reduced state aid, rising costs and, in some cases, declining enrollment.

RICHARD W. STRONG vice president of Silver Strong & Associates and Thoughtful Education Press, is an author, a program developer, and a trainer / consultant to school districts around the world.

He announced this week that he will fund every live request from Wisconsin teachers — nearly 700 projects from 140 school districts around the state.