I hear parents,
teachers and community members talking about their concerns over their children's online behavior, and rightfully so.
Not exact matches
School parents are the
community members that see the homework,
talk with
teachers,
and raise the children that are currently going to the schools.
Timesha Cohen, a
member of our learning
community and teacher from Propel McKeesport Public Charter School, has
talked about the impact of her participation as positively affecting herself
and her students: «My students are able to make connections between what they know
and what they need to know, as well as draw conclusions based on patterns they may notice in both math
and science.
The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies
and procedures, the prior training
and experience of
members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well
teachers know other
teachers; it also will affect the way in which
teachers form workgroups or departments to
talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional
communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional
communities to focus on instruction
and student learning.
We extend heartfelt thanks to the superintendents, principals, district administrators,
teachers, school board
and community members,
and state leaders in education who welcomed us into their busy work lives, providing time to
talk with us, to observe in classrooms,
and to complete surveys, all of which gave us the most complete national data set ever assembled to better understand issues in educational leadership.
Community and school leaders organized parents,
teachers, students,
and principals to
talk to the school board
members about the positive impact these small schools were having on increasing student achievement in Oakland schools.
«All 500 of us would travel from ECU all the way to Western Carolina,» said Miller, «
and we went to all of these different schools systems
and talk to
community members, principals, superintendents,
teachers...
and then afterward we came back to a central meeting location
and have big debriefing sessions.»
«We're organizing
members, as well as parents
and the
community to help
talk about how
teachers need collective bargaining, a fair evaluation system,
and a good public school.
Community and school leaders organized parents,
teachers, students,
and principals to
talk to school board
members about the positive impact these small schools were having on increasing student achievement in Oakland schools.
Parents,
teachers, school board
members,
community members and district staff will go door - to - door to
talk to parents about what types of supports
and services they would like to see in their schools
and community.