Sentences with phrase «small urban district»

At West Somerville Neighborhood School in Somerville, MA, a small urban district outside of Boston, 7th grade social studies teacher Marisa Roque created and implemented a humanities performance assessment that covered multiple ELA state standards along with 21st century skills.

At Lincoln Elementary School in Revere, MA, another small urban district, 4th grade math and science teacher Lani Gonzalez assigned her students to design Lincoln's new playground.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

This article details an experiment in which a broad and diverse range of information about schools was assembled and presented to stakeholders in a small urban district.

You will be among 100 large and small urban districts that focus on supporting urban school boards.

Not exact matches

Day 3 Journey from the heart of District 12 (Shelby) to the belly of the Capitol (Charlotte) and sense the atmospheric change from small - town warmth to urban cool.

Interestingly enough, the large, urban, higher f / r districts seem to be doing well with the new regulations while the small, affluent districts are really hurting.

Only a very small number of districts, mostly urban districts packed with African - American voters, vote Democrat in the south.

«The fact that someone who grew up in the most urban area of the nation — Hell's Kitchen — could be welcomed into dairy barns in Delhi, and small businesses in Monticello, and mix with today's college students at New Paltz, while returning home at night to Orange County and being welcomed there also, is something that is a testament to the people of the 42nd Senate District,» said Bonacic.

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

New Mexico's charter cap shields small districts from enrollment loss, and as a result, the state's charters cluster primarily in urban settings (51 percent of charter schools operate there compared to 21 percent of New Mexico's district schools) and in suburbs (which host 12.3 percent of the state's charters but only 8.2 percent of its district schools).

Some smaller and suburban districts scored higher on the 2013 Financial Allocation Study for Texas, but Houston outpaced Dallas, the next - largest district, as well as urban districts in Fort Worth and San Antonio.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

Yes, many will take a course here and there, but the comprehensive high school in most suburban districts and proliferation of small high schools in urban systems will continue to enroll the vast majority of eligible teenagers.

In addition, while the Florida study shows that although the «negative effects of entering a middle school are somewhat smaller outside of urban districts,... they remain substantial even in rural areas.»

We purposely chose schools that were very different (big / small, urban / rural, traditional / progressive, district / charter) so we could be certain we were designing a solution that worked for everyone.

«We actually do think that urban school districts should create smaller schools because it's doing so much for the students,» Wasley explained.

Our papers in Educational Policy show that CBAs in larger districts tend to regulate far more elements of district decision - making, and CBAs in urban areas are more restrictive with respect to what administrators can and can not do than in smaller or non-urban areas.

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

They include a range of technical, service - oriented, and business - related career themes and are located in small cities and large urban school districts.

Drawing on interviews with female superintendents of urban, small - town, and rural school districts, the cofounder of the women's studies program at the University of Tulsa examines their contradictory experiences with power and subjection.

These districts — ABC Unified School District, Cerritos, California; Hillsborough, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Plattsburgh, New York; St. Francis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio — come from across the country, are both urban and rural, large and small.

NISL has worked in districts large and small, urban and rural across the country.

Boston has a smaller gap than most other urban districts in achievement between white students and black and Hispanic students.

First, the report is a small - scale pilot study of assignments at six middle schools in two urban districts — a tiny and unrepresentative sample.

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

Because the city is smaller than many urban districts, school leaders could be very selective in choosing from the pool of educators who wanted to come and work there.

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.

Eight years ago, after 21 years of serving as principal of a small, rural elementary school that housed preschool through third grade, I accepted a position as principal of a startup public school preschool in a large urban district.

Learn how school districts, including large urban and small rural schools, have paired on - demand video - based training with on - site coaching to increase the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of paraprofessionals supporting children with ASD and other developmental disabilities.

Given that the LSP is the first statewide voucher program systematically studied (other rigorously studied programs serve smaller samples of students in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;

A pre / post study of 455 fourth - and fifth - grade students in a small urban school district evaluated the efficacy of the Second Step curriculum.

She has worked closely with large urban districts, suburban districts, small rural districts, regional offices of education, and association leaders.

Also ASCD faculty in the differentiated instruction cadre, and a Solution Tree consultant and author on two books in press, Nanci has provided professional development in small, large, urban, rural, and suburban districts in 47 states, as well as the Netherlands, Singapore, and Japan.

At CCE, we are doing our small part with our Massachusetts Personalized Learning Network, comprised of urban public in - district schools that are designed around 21st - century innovative principles such as competency - based progression, anytime / anywhere and engaged learning, personal learning pathways, and robust performance assessments.

Sen. Bob Hall, R - Edgewood, noted that while a program like the one introduced in Richardson may work for larger, urban school districts, it would put small, rural districts at even more of a disadvantage in staffing classrooms with high quality teachers.

Many are small, rural districts struggling to keep enrollments stable, but several are urban districts, including one of the state's largest, 50,000 - student Riverside Unified.

To capture this context, the study team followed the OCO small school campaign over six years, collected data from multiple sources, and analyzed these data alongside data from six urban districts around the nation.

They were among the first smaller, more personal schools; «smaller» has become a rallying cry among urban school districts.

Whether you are in a small rural district with a handful of ELLs or a large urban district with a primary population of ELLs, you know that meeting the diverse needs of these learners is essential to the work we do as educators every day.

The Urban Hope Act is just a small piece of what the Christie administration seeks to accomplish in Camden, with the work on the existing district schools a major challenge given the state's track record.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

One of the Gates Foundation's initiatives provides funds to create small high schools in urban districts.

To fulfill our promise of a quality public education, every school district, whether rural or urban, small or large, must have adequate resources to fully meet the learning needs of all students.

Research shows many schools face challenges in retaining high - quality teachers, especially urban school districts and small, rural school districts.

If breaking up large urban districts into smaller ones was an integral part of the solution, he certainly never mentioned it.

Buono, a Middlesex County Democrat, on Thursday accepted the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers in New Jersey, the smaller of the state's two teachers unions, but one that represents Newark and a few other urban districts.

The four partner school districts included a small district on an Indian reservation 120 miles from the University, a small district just off another Indian reservation 150 miles from the University, a medium - sized district serving predominantly Hispanic students 190 miles from the University, and a large urban district 325 miles from the University.

The researchers looked at 14 recently converted small high schools in a large, urban school district in California.