Sentences with phrase «sure the school leaders»

Be involved and make sure your school leaders support parent involvement, says parent Monica Jones, who attended the 2013 Families That Can Parent Summit.

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FoodCorps is a national team of AmeriCorps leaders who serve in high - need schools to make sure students learn what healthy food is, fall in love with it, and eat it every day.

They make sure our Healthy Schools Program is up to date with the most current best practices and provide the latest resources to support school leaders in their efforts to make sustainable change on their campuses.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

Sure enough, as we toured the school, one of the amenities touted by the tour leader was the snack bar.

When I was in school I knew Marx / Lenin / Mao / Deng's theories were all listed as guiding theories in the constitution, I am pretty sure they added each for each leader after Deng.

Now, he said, chapter leaders and delegates need to make sure their principals spend wisely the additional money that will flow into school budgets.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

A group of Brooklyn teachers, chapter leaders and UFT representatives met on June 7 at a local diner with City Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positions.

The first mailer is a positive / bio piece that introduces Tkacyzk as a «mother,» «farmer» and «school board leader» — basically, a regular person who will «make sure Albany protects our interests, not special interests.»

Without great school and classroom leaders to make sure reforms are implemented, even the most ambitious and sweeping policy changes can sputter out by the time they hit your children's classrooms.

The changes we are making will put control back in the hands of teachers and school leaders - those who know their pupils best - making sure every single child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.»

Making sure this happens isn't down to the school alone; schools do not operate in a vacuum and this is why it's important for school business managers and senior leaders to build and maximise relations both within the school and outside of it.

One of the challenges facing school leaders right now is striking the right balance between pragmatism to make sure that every class has a teacher, and ensuring the bar continues to be set as a high as it should be in terms of teaching quality.»

School leaders need to provide physical activities for students during and after school hours, make sure only healthy meals and snacks are served in their buildings, and offer wellness programs to their staffs, Mr. Clinton said in his Feb. 28 speech to the National Governors Association during its annual winter meetingSchool leaders need to provide physical activities for students during and after school hours, make sure only healthy meals and snacks are served in their buildings, and offer wellness programs to their staffs, Mr. Clinton said in his Feb. 28 speech to the National Governors Association during its annual winter meetingschool hours, make sure only healthy meals and snacks are served in their buildings, and offer wellness programs to their staffs, Mr. Clinton said in his Feb. 28 speech to the National Governors Association during its annual winter meeting here.

«Urge school and political leaders to make sure they are analyzing gains, not just raw scores,» Shearon said, «then forget about the scores!

Funders may need to be more deliberate by creating a robust entity that has the sole job of coordinating across the entire geographic cluster to make sure that system leaders, principals and other school leaders, blended learning directors, teachers, and education technology companies have frequent opportunities to network and spend time with each other learning and building in a deliberate way on each other's successes and setbacks.

«There are no watchdogs in Detroit to make sure parents [of children with special needs] get what they need from schools,» said a charter school leader.

The government needs to make sure that school leaders are supported to address this trend, ensuring that resourcing is appropriate to offer the courses needed.»

School leaders must make sure classroom teachers are using instructional strategies in a way that reaches all students and are taking appropriate steps to improve teacher competence when this goal is not being met.

Speaking to more than 1,000 heads and teachers at the Association of School and College Leaders» (ASCL) annual conference in Birmingham, the Secretary of State has said that his «top priority» is making sure teaching continues to be regarded as «one of the most rewarding jobs you can do».

Surely we'd be in a better place if, for example, school systems were concrete about what great teaching looks like (as Andy suggests) and made sure that teachers and school leaders bought into that vision.

To make sure we are making good decisions, I have created a Common Core Leadership Council of 25 thoughtful school and district leaders that have been invaluable as we navigate difficult choices.

Mathematica's survey of online school leaders gives important insight as to why students may not be making gains: online charter schools offer only 3 to 6 hours of «synchronous» (teachers and students in «live» contact online) instruction per week; school leaders say they struggle the most with student engagement; and it's clear that parents are expected to play an active role in instruction and in making sure that students stay on track.

«The basic next step is for education policy makers and school leaders to prepare and make sure that this deployment of online learning is done well and not haphazardly.

So the basic next step is for education policy makers and school leaders to prepare and make sure that this deployment of online learning is done well and not haphazardly.

Tarun Kapur, CEO of the Dean Trust MAT, said: «We all know that we need to tackle the challenge of making sure that enough people become heads and senior school leaders but we can't do it if we continue to gather together in small clusters.

«Every other initiative that leaders might undertake is less important than making sure that the students in the schools learn how to read,» she says.

Recognising the BESA logo as a mark of high level of quality and service, teachers and school leaders can be sure that they are working with education companies who are as dedicated to providing high - quality education to children as they are.

I'm not quite sure of calling it «a powerful tool for educators and school leaders» while it's only contributed to reducing absences by roughly 2.4 per cent!!

JE: Now, I'm sure there are some educators and school leaders listening out there who would feel a little bit apprehensive about doing the same thing.

School leaders now have «compelling evidence» to make sure the # 4bn spent on teaching assistants each year is used in ways that improve results for pupils, the chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has said today.

In 2013, CCSSO and the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) jointly released Commitments on High - Quality Assessments which is a set of principles to guide state and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents, and teachers.

Justin Reich outlines ways school leaders can identify, apply and nurture changes that are needed to make sure education is keeping up with students» needs.

With increasing teacher - turnover rates in high - poverty and urban districts, school and district leaders need to make sure that the job is satisfying and rewarding — and quality collaboration time can help lower turnover rates.

Just as important, city and district leaders should create funding structures and partnerships to make sure that charter school autonomies and entrepreneurialism lead to innovations and improvements in special education.

Finally, Catholic leaders need to make sure we are aware of and using federally funded compensatory education programs that provide either money or services to Catholic schools and students.

It was a long running tease, with school leaders not sure if they should go all - guns blazing for more cash, or keep waiting for the government to deliver.

The first day of school is Aug. 6, but school leaders still aren't sure if the courts will allow it to open.

A DfE spokesperson said: «The changes we are making will put control back in the hands of teachers and school leaders — those who know their pupils best — making sure every single child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.»

I'm sure the idea of CPD designed by the Department for Education fills you with dread, so we have set up an independent group of experts comprising classroom teachers, school leaders and academics to do it.

As a district or school leader thinking about launching a coaching program, make sure you think through the details with your colleagues.

Now, the challenge will be to make sure we have the right school leaders in place and focus resources on redesigning schools to most effectively meet these goals.

«As school leaders, principals play a key role in evaluating and supporting teachers and we need to make sure that they get fair and useful feed - back that will ultimately benefit both teachers and students» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of E4E.

«It is critical that Arizona elect leaders who believe in empowering students, teachers and schools, and we are endorsing those candidates who share our belief that quality education remains the surest path to the American Dream.»

We advocate for public policies that empower students, teachers and schools, and support leaders who share our belief that quality education remains the surest path to the American Dream.

And we need to make sure that school leaders have the resources they need to support teachers and families in their community.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Although teachers and school leaders may be groomed to look for universal answers to complex problems, any experienced teacher would tell you there are no sure - fire, quick - fix solutions.

State and local leaders, advocates, and educators must work to continue to raise the quality of instruction for all students and to make sure all schools are fairly funded.