Sentences with phrase «systemic efforts in»

Ensuring that SEAs and districts support systemic efforts in the lowest - performing schools to increase student achievement, graduation, and college and career success and to close achievement gaps.

«Accordingly, it is clear these districts have no systemic effort in place to fully comply with the Stull Act, and two districts explicitly violate the law.»

Not exact matches

So it was a little strange to see Will publish an article last week praising Brown's legislative efforts to shrink America's largest banks in order to remove any systemic threat that their failure might pose to the U.S. economy.

Systemic efforts to rein in costs have been met with some success.

My own view right now is that we need to be engaged in an intense systemic consciousness - raising effort in the light of radical transcendence.

For those of us who have invested years of professional training in putting on the intrapsychic glasses, it usually requires strenuous effort to learn to also see people through the interpersonal - systemic glasses.

GOP Congressman Michael Grimm lost the Independence Party's ballot line when he did not turn in enough valid signatures from voters in the district, but he appealed the decision arguing that a systemic problem with the Board of Elections unfairly placed obstacles in his signature - gathering efforts.

In a wide - ranging speech on «ending systemic racism,» Hillary Clinton presented a $ 125 billion plan to assist poor and minority communities with job training, education and re-entering society after incarceration, part of an effort to speak directly to African - American voters as the Democratic primary contest heads to South Carolina.

She gave the example of the effort to pass public financing in New York State as one solution to target the systemic problem of money in politics.

«These officials were supposed to lead New York State's efforts to modernize technology, but my office found flagrant misconduct and that no one within OFT stepped forward to question these actions, indicating a systemic breakdown in agency ethics,» DiNapoli said.

Viral vectors have the main adverse effect of inducing neutralizing antibodies, while several non-viral vectors present toxic effects (e.g. respiratory system).14, 15 In an effort to deliver efficiently the necessary drug concentration to the tumor site and prevent systemic adverse effects, the concept of administering local treatment for lung cancer has been explored.

Intensive local therapy was followed by up to a year of less intense systemic treatment with cis - retinoic acid (a derivative of vitamin A) and interferon in an effort to control any microscopic tumors that had spread to distant sites from the initial cancer.

In our latest efforts to evaluate our PD, we realize that progress toward our 1:1 goals needs to be more systemic.

When we first visited schools in spring 2016 for this project — a multi-year, multi-method study of systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning — teachers seemed to be taking on an unsustainably heavy lift as they transitioned to personalizing student learning (PL).

Written by the RAND Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif., the study analyzes efforts by the New York City - based Wallace Foundation to foster systemic out - of - school - time programs in five cities: Boston; Chicago; New York City; Providence, R.I.; and the District of Columbia.

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 impacIn 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 impacin 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 impacin state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

Through these efforts teachers will be able to will enhance school climate, make a difference in the lives of their students, change the fabric of their classroom communities and impact systemic change in their districts.

How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping educational reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

Chief in these efforts is the Smart Arkansas suite, a series of programs that deal with elementary, middle and high school reform, professional development, and that combine for a more strategic and systemic way to support low - performing students.

But it is a tad difficult to take the president seriously on his commitment to systemic reform in light of his effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have helped spur a decade of systemic reforms.

He previously served as Chief Operating Officer for the Christina School District, Delaware's largest district, providing leadership for the New Directions in Christina systemic reform effort.

We've collaborated with the Collaboration for Effective Educators Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Center and The National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) as well as launched a diverse coalition of organizations to support states in their efforts to develop teachers and leader who can successfully prepare students with disabilities to achieve college and career - ready standards.

AFC is a recognized leader in school reform efforts, with expertise in bringing together community - based organizations, parents» groups, and government agencies to address systemic problems and improve outcomes and options for all students.

In recent years, we have partnered with an urban school district in a systemic middle level science curriculum reform efforIn recent years, we have partnered with an urban school district in a systemic middle level science curriculum reform efforin a systemic middle level science curriculum reform effort.

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

In addition, this consensus statement outlines a core set of research - based systemic, instructional and relational goals as well as processes that underscore, characterize and shape both effective school climate improvement and pro-social instructional efforts.

Weingarten's cynical attempt to flip the definition of segregation, which has always referred to systemic efforts to exclude minorities from schools, neighborhoods, and elsewhere, is particularly hypocritical in light of the Wall Street Journal's revelations about UFT Charter School.

New systemic efforts to support schools have struggled to gain traction in the face of difficult school - level conditions: weak internal capacity, competing priorities, and the rapid pace of change.

2) school systems redirecting their efforts to making the student the center of the learning process and committing to a purposeful / systemic focus on culturally responsive pedagogy for all professional development until it becomes a part of the school culture reflective in classroom environments, teacher practices, and curriculum adoptions / design.

A caveat here in the history of such an initiative more than two decades ago: The California New Teacher Project, which funded reduced class loads and extensive mentoring for rookie teachers, resulted in improved performance of both students and teachers, but that success did not continue when the efforts did not take hold in a systemic way.

The ability to assess the level of proficiency targets is important to shining light on which states are engaging in much - needed systemic reform efforts, and casting antiseptic sunlight on those that are failing them miserably.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

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

The problems experienced in a corporation, therefore, are almost always due to systemic flaws rather than to a lack of effort or ability on the part of individuals in that organization.

With these efforts, we aim to expand our reach, shift toward systemic engagement, and increase awareness and understanding of California's new funding formula to support equity in public education.

In our efforts to turn around the state's lowest performing schools, it has become clear that underperformance is often systemic, with problems rooted in district - level leadershiIn our efforts to turn around the state's lowest performing schools, it has become clear that underperformance is often systemic, with problems rooted in district - level leadershiin district - level leadership.

Another coauthor, Philadelphia Student Union, has been one of AFT's lead groups in its effort to oppose systemic reform and school choice in the City of Brotherly Love; it collected $ 20,000 from AFT in 2013 - 2014.

There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.

Benjie Howard discusses how he inspires youth through the arts to connect across differences and engage in systemic change efforts in the school community.

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5

We learned early on that several factors are especially important in making sound decisions about technology: the support and active engagement of school boards and affected stakeholders, the need for systemic efforts across districts rather than just at the building or classroom level, and a clear line of sight between what was being purchased and how it would be deployed and actually used.

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.

To see Ms. Olsen's efforts on systemic issues first hand, here is what she said in a report to the IRS on 6/28/17:

Global Witness and Liberian civil society have documented systemic legal violations in the timber sector since the lifting of UNSC timber sanctions in 2006, which was a particular focus of international reform efforts since the end of the country's timber and diamond fuelled war in 2003.

To dismiss reports of previous melt as being purely regional seems to ignore the fact that the previous records, such as they are, are limited in scope and uniformity -LCB- almost rather anecdotal in nature -RCB-, unlike today's program of a broad systemic effort.

Our partner in this effort is the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, an independent and nonpartisan research and advocacy organization which seeks to remedy systemic injustices facing vulnerable populations within our court systems.

John Pollock: The Public Justice Center is an impact advocacy organization based in Maryland that works to bring litigation and legislative efforts that will affect change at the systemic level in Maryland, and it works on a number of different fronts.

While the Supreme Court held that the state must provide «a fair opportunity for a broad cross-section of society to participate in the jury process,» the majority held that it has no constitutional responsibility to direct efforts towards particular groups that are known to be underrepresented, or to address address any systemic barriers that may limit jury participation by certain segments of society.

In an effort to make sense of the situation, here are the stories and rationales explaining the systemic drop.

The Global Cyber Alliance, in addition to tackling particular cyber risks such as phishing through implementation of solutions like DMARC and DNS RPZ, is also undertaking an effort to measure systemic cyber risk.