Sentences with phrase «state leadership efforts»

Identify technical assistance needs to support state leadership efforts to enhance teaching effectiveness and strategies.

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Though Massachusetts is a long - running blue state, the legalization effort in the commonwealth faced serious opposition from sitting leadership in both parties.

How the Message of Diversity & Inclusion is Starting to Change the Conversation Learn how State Street Global Advisors «Fearless Girl» installation came to life and subsequent efforts to spotlight the need for greater gender diversity on boards and corporate leadership.

Mass Audubon will continue to work with the Legislature, DCR, and the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs leadership in an attempt to restore this year's funding, and it will make every effort to ensure that Trailside funding is included in the final state budget for FY18.

Meanwhile, Cox has repeatedly said he has no intention of stepping down — even when anger with his leadership peaked following his failed effort to get Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy onto the gubernatorial ballot at last summer's state GOP convention.

The New York Legislature's Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force gave Cuomo an award recognizing his leadership in spearheading the state's effort to send manpower to Puerto Rico after the island was hit hard by Hurricane Maria.

We are fortunate to have his leadership at this crucial moment in our history and I support his effort to transform our state finances.»

And despite opposition from his party's leadership, he also led the effort to remove a State Senator convicted of a domestic violence crime — the first state legislator to get the boot in 90 years.&rState Senator convicted of a domestic violence crime — the first state legislator to get the boot in 90 years.&rstate legislator to get the boot in 90 years.»

Senator Charles Schumer has long been a strong supporter of the Remington facility and we were tickled pink that through his tireless efforts and inspirational leadership New York State will be the new home of «the black rifle.»

And while she commended the city and the state for «responding strongly» and taking leadership to make a statement and commitment to immigrant New Yorkers, she called on both to continue their efforts.

Under the leadership of Governor Cuomo, New York State is prioritizing cross-collaboration between state agencies, local governments and community partners to maximize the collective impact of their effState is prioritizing cross-collaboration between state agencies, local governments and community partners to maximize the collective impact of their effstate agencies, local governments and community partners to maximize the collective impact of their efforts.

New York state education officials say School 91, the B.U.I.L.D Academy, didn't make enough progress last year to continue efforts to turn around under local leadership.

To support this effort, under Governor Cuomo's leadership, the 2015 - 16 state budget included an additional $ 1 million in the Environmental Protection Fund targeted specifically for combatting aquatic invasive species.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

He brings a wealth of experience to DHC, and will immediately take on a leadership role in the firm's State and City lobbying efforts.

ALBANY — Republican State Senator Rob Ortt said Wednesday evening that when chamber reconvenes on Monday, he will back efforts to remove Majority Leader Dean Skelos from his leadership position.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom radio show, Ms. Stewart - Cousins praised her former colleague Cecelia Tkaczyk — an upstate Democrat who lost her bid for re-election to the State Senate last year — and indicated she sympathized the ex-legislator's efforts to become chairwoman of the party and remove the leadership the governor helped install.

The Bronx leadership will be a pivotal part of our effort to spread our message of accountability and integrity to New Yorkers across the state.»

WHEREAS, in determining its target contribution pursuant to the Paris Agreement, the United States, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, submitted a target contribution plan intending «to achieve an economy - wide target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 - 28 per cent below its 2005 level in 2025 and to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by 28 %.»

«Erie County has always taken a leadership role in developing new collaborations with our local municipalities in an effort to provide services as effectively and efficiently as possible — without any incentives or requirements from the state to do so,» Poloncarz said.

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party has stated emphatically that the party's vigilante groups are now fading out, with a deliberate effort to ensure some of them join state institutions.

General News of Friday, 18 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Freddie Blay is Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) The leadership of the New Patriotic Party has stated emphatically that the party's vigilante groups are now fading out, with a deliberate effort to ensure some of them join state institutions.

According to him, «We will continue to support the government's effort under the leadership of Gov. Aminu Tambuwal to ensure the success of education in the state.

With County Executive Poloncarz's leadership and the strong support of Mayors Brown, Pilozzi, and Szymanski, our community demonstrated the kind of regional cooperation that will serve to make the land bank a success, and it's an effort that is being justly rewarded by New York State.»

Diaz, along with Monserrate and Sen. Pedro Espada (D - Bronx), helped precipitate the leadership crisis in the state Senate last year by briefly defecting to the Republican camp in an effort to win concessions from Democratic leaders.

Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt when the leadership of Non-Indigenes Without Borders, chaired by Emeka Onowu visited him, he asserted that deliberate efforts being made by agents of the federal government to stagnate development in Rivers State will not succeed.

This evening, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a big boost to the plan, endorsing CB3's guidelines: «I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

He also stated that in his return, he would make efforts to resolve the lingering leadership crisis in the party and would work towards ensuring that the party was formidable.

«Due to the current void in national leadership on the issue of climate change, efforts at the state and local level are more important than ever,» Saikawa says.

Successful reform efforts require leadership support, and they should address all aspects of the learning environment — from the curriculum and teaching, to how classrooms are configured, said James Collins, who is the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University: «You can't fix one point on the continuum and expect the continuum to change.»

Indeed, Skandera and Ruszkowski have started to highlight those efforts, in the form of a coauthored paper on investing in teacher leadership published in December by Chiefs for Change, a group of reform - minded state and district leaders of which Skandera is a longtime member.

The Wallace Foundation has funded leadership improvement efforts in public schools in 24 states and has issued more than 70 reports on school leadership, from how principals are trained to how they are evaluated.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievestate and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achieveState Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

Even with a Democratic president who strongly supports the charter model, and congressional leadership pre-disposed to choice and innovation; even with more money and muscle behind our movement than ever before, efforts to expand innovation and opportunity in states that already allow both, or to seed new schooling innovations to suburban areas have been roundly routed across the country.

[20] A local school board that had once been abolished and a state agency created in recent years are now increasingly meddling in the efforts of DC school leadership to make swift, effective decisions governing schools.

Lawrence provides a rare case of a leadership approach that resulted in notably impressive academic gains for students without generating the kind of negative response that typically accompanies state takeover and district turnaround efforts.

She serves as the Portfolio Director for the Foundation's Postsecondary Success grantmaking and oversees Linked Learning, the Foundation's culminating effort to transform high schools by integrating academic and career - technical education, and is now expanding across the state under the leadership of our Linked Learning partners.

If education policymakers at the state and district levels are committed to building leadership development into reform efforts, they must build in sufficient resources to support high - impact programs.

In addition, except for respondents from one state, respondents believed that states, not the federal government, were driving leadership efforts aimed at improving teaching and learning.

In this section we address our second question about the state «s leadership role in efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

While respondents from all but one state shared examples of SEA efforts to develop the leadership capacity of principals, this aspect of state leadership did not emerge in the data as a changing role of state leadership.

In the RFP under «Site Selection,» the Wallace Foundation made it clear that it expected the research to be undertaken in some of the states and districts that were then involved in their funded leadership development efforts, especially in the 15 states in the SAELP (State Action for Education Leadership) consortium and the 12 LEAD districts (Leadership for Education Achievement in Districts) in 12 of the SAELP states.

It includes four strands: (1) development of a tool (the «Framework») to guide teachers» design of student learning experiences, (2) enhancement of teachers» leadership skills (particularly related to sharing leadership for instructional improvement), (3) dissemination efforts that support understanding and use of the Framework across levels of the education system and in all areas of the state, and (4) provision of a platform that provides rural areas in Colorado with easy access to the Framework and extends access to and use of the Framework across the nation and the globe.

NSBA with Davenport and the full leadership team will continue its efforts, working with the state school board associations, to ensure that ESSA is implemented as intended, in collaboration with local school boards and other key education stakeholders, and returning the decision - making authority to state and local communities in support of academic success for every public school student across the country.

Because of her leadership and can - do attitude, she has been selected to serve on numerous community boards including the Girl Scouts of the Mid-South, Tennessee Pre-K State Advisory Council, and Common Ground, a local racial reconciliation effort.

Coordination of state and district efforts Effective school leadership depends on support from district and state officials.

Whether and how those policies become reality for young children and their families will require leadership and an intentional and intensive effort by state and district agencies and educators.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

The Wallace Foundation: State Efforts to Strengthen School Leadership: Insights from CCSSO Action Groups This report offers a glimpse of the most commonly named on - the - job supports aimed at boosting school leadership.