Sentences with phrase «school districts around the country»

It doesn't do the kids and the schools any good for him to propose the kind of teacher merit pay system that has failed in school districts around the country.

And to make an impact, we'd probably have to engage in hundreds of school districts around the country.

Currently, she works with school districts around the country to create custom strategies, textbooks, and lesson plans that promote and support each district's education standards and objectives.

In many school districts around the country, however, the majority of students do not have smartphones.

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

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

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

There is a small number of school districts around the country that have development offices.

In discussions with school districts around the country, the foundation learned that many schools are in need of high - quality STEM educators.

With food and fuel prices increasing sharply, food and nutrition directors in school districts around the country are finding themselves facing some uncomfortable choices.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

The SNA's assertions regarding increased food waste have been echoed in anecdotal reports from school districts around the country, but school food advocates are urging Congress to stay the course and keep the new system in place.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

In a new series of short videos, superintendents of six large, urban school districts around the country share lessons for improving development of leaders for their districts» schools.

I've met with many school districts around the country using the two Marzano models together, and I emphatically recommend this alignment.

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

High school districts around the country are using StudentTracker for High Schools to assess and improve their college preparation efforts.

Wolf also expected NSF to make it easy for school districts around the country to incorporate the findings into their classrooms.

«I called school districts around the country and, especially when they heard I had an M.B.A., they'd say things to me like, - Well, we can transfer you to our business department, we need an accountant.»

The Change Leadership Group will be a first - in - the - nation program to recruit, train, and supervise a network of education experts to deliver on - site training and support to school districts around the country engaged in reinvention.

Many school districts around the country tailor their calendar around events when there would be high rates of absenteeism otherwise.

They watch with trepidation as school districts around the country adapt curricula to introduce letters and their sounds to children as early as possible.

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Unfortunately for the naysayers, standardized tests are now being used as part of a teacher's evaluation in various school districts around the country.

This influx of cash and aid is propelling school districts around the country — from New York City to San Diego, Minneapolis to Baltimore, and Boston to Mapleton, a suburb of Denver — to radically transform one of the most firmly entrenched icons in American education.

I've spent over 15 years talking to school districts around the country about how they support their employees» professional growth.

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.»

Madison also faces the same issues as many school districts around the country related to growing low - income and minority populations, shrinking budgets and increased public scrutiny, Kupfer said.

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.»

Five demographic trends in the United States are influencing school districts around the country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The organization has so become entrenched in promoting this pessimistic view of student acceptance (despite contrary evidence from school districts around the country), that it raised eyebrows even among some of its own members by refusing to allow Sam Kass, former White House chef and Executive Director of Let's Move!

Like many large urban school districts around the country, HISD has outsourced its food services to a food service management company (FSMC)-- in this case, Aramark.

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.

The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student assessments.

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

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

While it is encouraging that so many school districts around the country are implementing the MTSS framework, the focus needs to shift from implementation to sustainability.

As school districts around the country have revised their discipline codes, many are zeroing in on limiting or eliminating the ability to suspend students for broad offenses like «willful defiance» and «disruption.»

My son, Daniel teaches mindfulness practices to teachers and children in school districts around the country.

I am rebooting the School Meals That Rock blog — starting with my spring visits to school districts around the country.