Sentences with phrase «sustain school change»

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Families for Excellent Schools harnesses the power of families to advance policy and political changes that create and sustain excellent sSchools harnesses the power of families to advance policy and political changes that create and sustain excellent schoolsschools.

«Indeed, these changes appear to be part of a sustained pattern to privilege Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools with space and resources at the expense of the traditional public schools with which they share buildings,» de Blasio wrote.

«We saw significant and sustained positive changes in terms of attitudes about sexual health and sexual health knowledge,» said Lynn Fiellin, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine and in the Child Study Center.

«This underscores that large, sustained changes in global temperature like those observed over the last century require drivers such as increased greenhouse gas concentrations,» said lead author Patrick Brown, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

School - based prevention programs were found to be successful in having a significant impact on dating violence knowledge and attitudes and, unlike victimization experiences, changes in knowledge were sustained over time.

To determine whether an increase in certain barriers to successful cessation and sustained abstinence may be contributing to this slowed decline, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed changes in the prevalence of depression among current, former and never smokers in the U.S..

Effective leadership is a pre-requisite for a successful school; in successful schools head teachers and senior leaders understand the changing needs of their schools and their staff, continually communicate their ideals, vision and expectations, use robust monitoring and evaluation, balance support with challenge and plan ahead to sustain excellence.

One of the most challenging aspects of implementing and sustaining any whole - school program is changes in staff personnel and responsibilities, especially at the start of a new school year.

This reader submission focuses on the principal of a school that has experienced a remarkable improvement in graduation numbers, due to sustained change in the school culture.

Author Meredith Liu writes that in contrast to sustaining innovations, by which education schools might add some new faculty or online course offerings but not change their brick - and - mortar model, fully - online degree programs offer the potential to «transform the industry into one that has lower costs and higher quality, and is more widely accessible.»

Unquestionably, transforming school climate and sustaining that change are not easy, but both are well worth the time and effort.

This marks DISD's fourth leadership change in 11 years — a rate that's actually pretty typical for America's urban school systems, and that illuminates why it can be so hard for districts to make sustained progress.

If expanding school choice creates tens of thousands of beneficiaries who are willing to rally on the steps of the capitol, they can create self - sustaining policy change.

Inspired by the Earth Charter's call to involve children in changing earth's destiny, Green Cross Japan, led by its Chief Executive Officer, Tsunehiko «Tom» Kawamoto, established a global program to teach school children «not only by lecture, but by action» on ways to protect, conserve and sustain the environment.

The chronic stress of sustained or frequent boredom correlates with neurophysiologic changes that impact cognition, memory, social and emotional behavior — changes that affect school success.

Whilst schools may acknowledge the growing threat of cybercrime, many are working to strict budgets which makes it exceedingly difficult for them to sustain investment into IT security, particularly when the scale and complexity is changing.

The new federal grant to study the effectiveness of preschool programs in Boston Public Schools will provide evidence of what should be sustained and changed to ensure positive outcomes for young children,» Payzant said.

At the same time, real transparency around school results — and common gauges by which to compare them — would maintain healthy pressure on schools, districts and states, and the competitive - grant programs would sustain the momentum for change.

Strategies that target the whole school community, that are multi-dimensional, and are sustained over time, are more likely to help drive change.

In evaluations carried out last year, more than 90 per cent of the principals involved said the program had improved their «ability to inspire, lead and sustain positive change» in their school communities.

Finally, getting the school involved in the community promises a greater possibility for sustained change.

Learning within teams may be critical to sustaining change efforts both within schools and school systems.

These include The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994); The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (1999) and Schools That Learn (2000).

This session will tackle the issue of initiating cultural school change that is embraced, sustained and celebrated.

The executive leadership training programs will provide an opportunity for participating state and district teams to work more collaboratively in such areas as leading change and team development, leadership for instructional improvement, methods to accelerate leader performance, addressing stakeholder engagement around critical state and local issues, and sustaining improvements in school and student achievement.

Teachers at Blake had developed a shared vision for the school and were able to sustain it despite the change in leadership.

Participants will learn the procedures for creating and leading an infrastructure in a school to initiate, guide, manage, and sustain positive changes in SEL, CD, and SCC.

It helps create a common dialogue and the shared vision of effective instruction, and moves teachers as a group in a school or district forward and provides the structure for sustaining the change in instruction over time.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

The Learning Commons has the potential to drive the changes needed to bring schools into the future, improve student achievement, and thus sustain whole school improvement.

The Breaking Ranks Change Process NewsLeader editor Sarah McKibben speaks with NASSP director of program services John Nori about the latest book in the Breaking Ranks series, Breaking Ranks: A Field Guide for Leading Change and the process that moves schools beyond structural change to deeper, sustained improveChange Process NewsLeader editor Sarah McKibben speaks with NASSP director of program services John Nori about the latest book in the Breaking Ranks series, Breaking Ranks: A Field Guide for Leading Change and the process that moves schools beyond structural change to deeper, sustained improveChange and the process that moves schools beyond structural change to deeper, sustained improvechange to deeper, sustained improvements.

We work with SEAs, local education agencies (LEAs), and Regional Comprehensive Centers to identify, adopt, and sustain research - based practices and emerging promising practices that ensure equity and drive system change to rapidly improve the lowest - performing schools.

A majority vote of the membership of the district school board shall be required to sustain or change the administrative law judge's recommendation.

Going to scale: Moving from the individual classroom to school, district and state policies that can catalyze and sustain change

In the process, they are increasing their own capacity to make and sustain improvements within their schools using a sequence of steps drawn from improvement science methodology: define and learn more about the focus problem, pilot a small change in iterative cycles, and collect and reflect on data from the experience.

«What's happening in this school district is really causing us to rethink if the school turnaround process is really helping sustain schools or attempts to change schools in order to change our communities.»

High Schools with a plan to systematize, scale, or sustain their bold systems change initiative project (s) from year 1 should consider applying.

Ongoing job - embedded coaching is vital to implementing sustained changes in a school environment as it ensures that new learning is carried out with fidelity.

Big Picture Learning's mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community.

Resources are will help programs set Year Two and Three goals, plan professional development, and think about how cohorts of teachers can move to focus on student impact and sustained change in school culture.

A successful school turnaround requires a systems approach with coherent guidance and support from the state and district to complement the actions of the school; and A successful school turnaround is more than the initial jolt of bold changes in structure, authority, and personnel; it includes phases in which effective practices and processes are routinized and sustained.

The author examines how the school overcame internal and external obstacles as it implemented changes in teaching and learning that led to sustained improvements in student achievement.

We have made dramatic gains at Anderson Elementary in only two years, and the changes we implemented will be sustained because they reflect an altered approach at the school, not just quick - fix score raisers.

She provides an explicit framework for implementing these layers of coaching and explains how administrators can use the literacy leader position to build and sustain change within their schools.

There is a growing recognition in the education justice movement that community organizing and parent leadership are essential to achieving significant change, including opening and sustaining high - quality schools and systemic changes within districts and states.

Change always brings resistance, but finding ways to sustain support from teachers and school administrators will matter greatly moving forward.

Families for Excellent Schools harnesses the power of families to advance policy and political changes that create and sustain excellent sSchools harnesses the power of families to advance policy and political changes that create and sustain excellent schoolsschools.

State Boards of Education are an essential component in the efforts to redesign the nation's high schools and are the entity with the strongest probability of delivering sustained change and improvement.

This evidence - based, blended program will address multiple dimensions for transforming, creating, and sustaining a positive school culture and climate with a focus on training teams of elementary school staff (teachers, school mental health providers, and administrators) in the core concepts of social emotional learning, systems change, and coaching.

But throughout these turbulent changes across the district, Lubelfeld said what he has valued the most is the establishment of an organizational culture that can sustain what is working and repair what is failing in the school system.