Sentences with phrase «school holding power»

She said, «Governance efficacy strengthens school holding power when administrative and supervisory personnel have the capacity to deliver quality educational services to all students, along with the policymaking and pro-active support of a school board to hold on to every student.»

This research is an integral part of our collaboration with parents, students, families and communities working to increase school holding power.

The definition focuses on student failure and «environmental, familial, economic, social, developmental or other psychosocial factors» rather than school holding power and school factors that failed students.

If Texas is to reach its goal of graduating at least 95 percent of its students, then it must change course — from masking the number of dropouts to making each child count, from dropout prevention or recovery to a graduation plan for each student, from dropping out to school holding power, from at - risk students to high school reforms that produce high school graduates.

Strengthen school holding power from pre-kindergarten to completion, ensuring that every student is valued, graduates from high school with a diploma, and is prepared for college, work and civic engagement.

And a co-founder and representative of the group addressed a major conference Graduation Guaranteed / Graduación Garantizada — Statewide Summit on School Holding Power, sponsored by IDRA and League of United Latin American Citizens.

School Holding Power Texas schools are losing 11 students per hour Nationally, our schools are losing one of every four students.

This lack of school holding power affects every one of us.

To respond to this need for actionable knowledge at the local level, IDRA has developed a web - based portal that can be used by community - school partners as they craft a shared vision; assess local needs and assets; identify proven practices that strengthen school holding power; develop ways to implement, monitor and evaluate local actions plans; and build inclusive enduring partnerships to sustain momentum and action.

IDRA School Holding Power portal (Texas high school level information)-- Designed for educators and community members to find out how well their high school campus is preparing and graduating students, what factors may be weakening school holding power, and what they can do together to address them.

Dr. Robledo Montecel has authored and co-authored a number of publications focusing on effective bilingual education, school holding power and parent leadership.

The program design is based on IDRA research on the dropout issue and school holding power.

Yet, if we really want to hold our schools accountable, we need to also look at school holding power.

Not exact matches

The Senate is also considering boosting spending on mental health programs for schools and giving law - enforcement greater power to involuntarily hold someone considered a danger to themselves.

Kang, who holds a cross-appointment with the Rotman School of Management, was curious about how employees could combat the pressures that come with negotiating with someone in a higher position of power.

The extreme opposites of the bi-nationalist school, the hard - line protagonists of violence and armed power as the only way to establish and maintain a Zionist settlement in Palestine (or over all of it), held that the Arabs were intransigently opposed to this venture and regarded the immigrating European Jews as racial outsiders, as intruders in their own ancestral living - space, and would harass and murder them and strangle their venture unless they were beaten back by superior fire - power.

I am referring to the fact that the fervent effort to please the powers we rely on for our sense of self - esteem may cause us to deny those aspects of our existence that seem to conflict with the conditions of worth held out to us by family, school, fraternity, sorority, church, government, place of employment, etc..

The other school of thought holds that the capsaicin in chiles has the power to cure ulcers.

Parents (and students) are customers of schools and hold tremendous power to influence school policies and practices.

The Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan the Oyo state capital, has held that Secondary School Teachers in Osun state lack power to withdraw their membership from...

Dennis Conta of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association (from left), Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines and state Sen. Alberta Darling hold a press conference outside 38th Street School in Milwaukee Wednesday to announce proposed state legislation that would grant the city power to approve sales of vacant school builSchool in Milwaukee Wednesday to announce proposed state legislation that would grant the city power to approve sales of vacant school builschool buildings.

ALBANY — The day after Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his dramatic and contentious education agenda, the state lawmaker who holds the most power over New York's schools was arrested on federal corruption charges.

They promised change and reform and now the power once held by the majority on the school board has fizzled.

«The Obama administration now is playing down the power held by the guidance it issued to schools in May that directed them to allow transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender identity.»

But now the power that Osborne holds in Whitehall threatens independent institutions (BBC, universities), as localism in education has come to paradoxically mean schools being run from the Department of Education and local government securing extra powers only on Osborne's terms.

«Power generation roving around 4000 MW, the same stage it was when Olusegun Obasanjo left office in 2007, rampageous killings, Boko Haram, kidnapping and the arranged freeing of Dapchi School girls but still holding Leah Suaribu in captivity, the killing in Offa Kwara State.

Any doubt of a significant power shift on the Buffalo School Board disappeared with Friday's appointment of the group's new leadership.Barbara Seals Nevergold will serve as president, a role she held before the outgoing majority took control in 2014.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

My power tower is a single, sturdy, free standing piece of equipment that allows me to perform a variety of pull ups, chin - ups, dips, knee raises and pushups, my power tower will even hold my feet when I do my old school military sit - ups!

I designed the Rasa Yoga leggings with the mythopoetic symbolism of the Dragon Descent & the Phoenix Power, the mythic creatures who hold the full circuitry of energy flow for our Fire & Nectar yoga school.

Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School showed that holding a power pose for just two minutes — e.g. standing with your arms and feet wide, or with your hands on your waist — can reliably boost testosterone and reduce cortisol levels.

This scene will likely hold its place in film school classes teaching the awful power of the camera's gaze.

Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows Light Turner (Nat Wolff) a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.

The closing night gala was held at the Grand Theatre Lumiere and launched in glamourous style by Mistress of Ceremonies, Monica Bellucci, whose movie star moxie ushered in an evening in which old - school star power was feted in the key categories.

«We do not believe there is capacity within the system to withdraw funding and powers for councils to support school improvement and hold schools to account in August 2017 as currently planned by the government.

Supporters of the Quality Performance Accreditation, the assessment and accountability portion of the state's 1992 School District Finance and Quality Performance Act, anticipate that they have the political power to hold off the plan's foes.

Typically held at the start of the school day, morning meetings, also called «Circle of Power and Respect» (CPR), characteristically feature a greeting, sharing, a group activity, news, and announcements.

The biggest misconception about urban schools is to solely regard these youth as «at risk,» instead of as youth who bring a multitude of strengths to the school community including leadership capacity that we as educators can help unleash if we are willing to share the power we hold.

In their latest book, The Power of Teacher Teams, the pair draws attention to this invaluable network of educators, professionals, and administrators, claiming that, when executed correctly, teacher teams may hold the power to transform schools in such a way that they can offer a more successful and effective learning experiPower of Teacher Teams, the pair draws attention to this invaluable network of educators, professionals, and administrators, claiming that, when executed correctly, teacher teams may hold the power to transform schools in such a way that they can offer a more successful and effective learning experipower to transform schools in such a way that they can offer a more successful and effective learning experience.

They do everything in their power to make sure the ideas they believe are really important can take hold in schools.»

Wong and his colleagues make a solid, if still preliminary, case for shifting power away from school boards to a single, elected leader who can be held accountable to a citywide constituency.

Just as extraordinary, both as Chicago superintendent and as president of the National Education Association - the first woman to hold either post - Young promoted an ideal of teacher power and school democracy radically at odds with the views of many of her prominent colleagues.

Some interviewees thought these school leaders felt threatened and were trying to hold onto their power base; some simply thought the various principals were «not the brightest bulb in the box,» «insane,» «crazy,» «incompetent.»

In its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, the LGA has called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

Lubbers, who had become interested in charter schools after hearing educators in traditional schools complain about red tape holding them back, says that vesting the mayor (who is of course beholden to voters) with authorizing power offered the very desirable combination of freedom and accountability.

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

«In our submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, we have called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

The lesson of the Cleveland story is that any serious effort to strengthen school communities must involve a significant redistribution of the economic and governing powers that are currently held in the upper reaches of district bureaucracies.

Texas schools are failing the school - holding - power course.