Sentences with phrase «sustainable schools effort»

In his first term, former president Barack Obama included approximately $ 30 million in his American Jobs Act to both boost the sustainable schools effort and simultaneously stimulate the economy.

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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.

But Julie Corbett of Mass Insight Education, a nonprofit that focuses on school - turnaround efforts, says actually turning around a failing school requires comprehensive, sustainable planning and a willingness to look for outside help.

As I reflect on my first year at the Partnership Schools, I will be writing a blog series that explores some lessons from our new network - wide effort to rebuild academically excellent, operationally efficient, and financially sustainable urban Catholic sSchools, I will be writing a blog series that explores some lessons from our new network - wide effort to rebuild academically excellent, operationally efficient, and financially sustainable urban Catholic schoolsschools.

We're partial to the Opportunity Culture approach, because unlike other efforts, it is financially sustainable — and thus scalable to any school anywhere.

Solution Tree's on - site professional development in school improvement and school culture will help guide you through the shift to a thriving school and ensure your efforts are meaningful and sustainable over time.

Anthony Muhammad, in Transforming School Culture, Second Edition, has not only shined a light on why such change efforts rarely work — due to ignoring a school's culture — but has gone on to describe how school leaders can and should address sustainable cultural cSchool Culture, Second Edition, has not only shined a light on why such change efforts rarely work — due to ignoring a school's culture — but has gone on to describe how school leaders can and should address sustainable cultural cschool's culture — but has gone on to describe how school leaders can and should address sustainable cultural cschool leaders can and should address sustainable cultural change.

Through this work, we realize that schools need a framework for creating effective and sustainable behavior systems to support the academic efforts in their schools and include accountability components.

With implementation science research in mind, there are three drivers that need to be in place for school improvement efforts to succeed, including ensuring fidelity of implementation and sustainable long - term results.

This Whole - School Implementation Guide is designed to offer a step by step evidence - based approach that ensures an inclusive, comprehensive, successful and sustainable change effort through the implementation of Restorative Practices.

The goal is to coordinate the city's existing cultural and educational resources in an effort to create sustainable access to innovative arts learning for all Chicago Public School students.

«My hope, as states grapple with ESSA, is that they think about sustainable school improvement efforts which integrate and support academic and the so - called nonacademic aspects of student learning,» Cohen says.

Develop teacher recruitment strategies that include sufficient and sustainable financial incentives coupled with efforts to empower school principals with the authority and autonomy to improve working conditions for teachers.

These leaders pour tremendous effort into establishing sustainable and ethical business practices, helping their charter meet academic goals and promoting their school's values to business partners and the community.

By aligning each of the school efforts — professional development, classroom instruction, assessments, and community engagement — with the mission statement and prioritizing whole child support in that mission, Magnolia Elementary has set up a successful and sustainable environment for student growth.

Miami, FL — November 19, 2014 Students, alumni, educators and parents represented the Dade Coalition for Education and Economic Justice at a meeting with the Miami - Dade School Board in an effort to end high - stakes testing and call for all low - performing schools to be transformed into sustainable community schools.

Can decision - makers and everyone who is responsible for implementing school improvement efforts come together to build a better, more sustainable approach to local improvement?

Also critical to sustainable and systemic school improvement efforts is ensuring that individuals across all levels of the system are engaged in reform.

The crucial question is not just how can we train future leaders, but how can we train leaders that will succeed in specific school environments and be part of a sustainable reform effort.

The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD model, including the viability of charter schools within a community - based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run turnaround effort, called iZone.

framework helps schools focus their efforts and see quick gains in student success while working toward long - term goals and sustainable change.

The ASD has collaborated with high - performing charter operators to conduct school turnarounds in neighborhood schools; collaborated with philanthropic leaders to build a sustainable educator talent pipeline for the bottom 5 percent of the state's schools; engaged neighborhood communities in the process of matching charter operators to schools selected into the ASD; and influenced district - led turnaround efforts.

CAP and ERS outline sustainable turnaround practices for state policymakers and recommend the appropriate roles for the federal government, states, districts, and schools to play in supporting successful turnaround efforts.

The goal of creating a sustainable financial model for the school can not be separated from these efforts toward community building and governance.

The school has made efforts to return to a free tuition model that is sustainable and does not infringe on academic quality.

Global Green is a national leader in advancing sustainable and resilient communities to green cities, schools, and affordable housing to help protect human health, improve livability, and support our planet's natural systems in an effort to stem climate change.

About Global Green Global Green is a national leader in advancing sustainable and resilient communities to green cities, schools, and affordable housing to help protect human health, improve livability, and support our planet's natural systems in an effort to stem climate change.

Global Green is also leading efforts to help rebuild a green New Orleans through its sustainable green village and green schools initiatives.

It is a partnership between the city of Oberlin and Oberlin College to: (1) create a sustainable economy driven, first, by the redevelopment of a 13 acre Green Arts District to USGBC platinumnd standards; (2) achieve climate neutrality; (3) create a 20,000 acre greenbelt for a revived local farm economy; (4) create an educational collaborative including the College, public schools, a Vo - Tech School, and a Two year College to prepare young people for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century; and (5) replicate our experience through a network of similar efforts at varying scales and circumstances nationwide.

From Michelle Obama being urged to take «meat unfit for KFC» off school menus, to efforts to introduce healthy sustainable food for day cares and

«This is a remarkable effort; a sage, inspiring, pragmatic and well presented manual of best practices for every one seeking to provide «safe, effective, inclusive, and sustainable» yoga classes in schools.

The Narragunnawali Awards — held in partnership with BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities — celebrate the efforts of an outstanding school (and two finalists) and an outstanding early learning service (and two finalists), as selected by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education experts.