Sentences with phrase «time helping school districts»

Seeking Help in the Accountability Era Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

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It could also help Rhode Island reach its goal for aid to school districts for the first time.

In between there's time spent recruiting, training, team building and doing all that a Starbucks district manager does, along with helping her children with school work and her own coursework (she's studying organizational leadership through the Starbucks College Achievement Plan).

During her time as the Director of School Nutrition, April has introduced many exciting programs to help increase the healthy options in her district's cafeterias.

Lunch Tray readers often contact me for help in getting junk food out of their children's classrooms, but few seem to know that as of next school year, districts will for the first time have to impose a nutritional standard for classroom food.

During her time in Washington, Sarah was tasked with menu planning, as well as managing allergies and special diets, helping her to prepare for her current position of Director of Food Services in the Schuylerville Central School District in Upstate New York.

Ann asked to meet one day — she had this idea of how she could help more than one school at a time by creating a free online resource center that would offer school food support to any district that was looking to make change.

At the same time, public schools in poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among school populations.

With help from the Future Farmers of America Alumni of Northern Adirondack Central School District, students are compiling food baskets in time for Easter Sunday.

If FLVS can help the district school partners with which it works convert over time, then that would be an even more valuable contribution.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

While organizations can, like EdSurge, provide a «concierge» service to help schools and districts find digital tools, many educators won't have access to such supports, nor will they have the time to pour over multiple websites to find research - based tools.

Schools districts that rely on bond insurance to help them save money on the borrowing they do for construction projects and special programs could be affected by major ups and downs in that industry, at a time when many districts are already nervous about state budget cuts and a sagging national economy.

Yet it clearly indicates that the amount of time students had spent in school mattered for their performance on test day, perhaps helping to explain why districts had moved up their start dates in the years leading up to the policy change.

In support of those plans, the district will employ support teams to monitor progress as well as a full - time interventions coordinator to help students and families with access to school and community resources.

District officials and some civil rights advocates hailed the ruling, saying that while the plan has largely integrated the schools, more time is needed to help boost academic achievement among African - American and...

Bryan and his team have spent much time in the trenches of education leadership, including helping urban districts to expand their principal pipelines, evaluate leader effectiveness, and equip change agents to turn around schools.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

When I was a junior in high school, our teacher's union declared an order for all the teachers in the district: they were to «work to rule,» which meant that they would not spend any time beyond the 40 hours indicated in their contract helping students or grading assignments.

We said we needed time to use the tools we already have,» explains Jim Carleton, who helped develop the project for the Simcoe County District School Board, in Ontario, where he is a technology - resource teacher.

School Districts often need the help of professional programme managers to make sure delivery happens on time and to budget.

In New York City, as in many other school districts, parent groups are allowed to raise money to help pay for part - time teachers and for some school supplies.

Under Clinton's plan, states and school districts would have to show how they will help students meet promotion standards on time by:

spThanks to a multiyear initiative to use technology to help surmount the challenges often faced by the state's small, rural schools, Advanced Placement courses were offered for the first time this spring — via the Internet — in 26 districts

Hear how Discovery Education Social Studies Techbook made teaching and learning an unforgettable experience and: • Saved teachers time in planning lessons • Helped teachers differentiate instruction • Strengthened students» literacy and critical thinking skills The Rock Hill School District will share its vision, plan, and lessons learned as it successfully increased student engagement and achievement in the digital Social Studies classroom.

«Today's investments will help these districts and school networks — and in time, all districts — develop better systems to identify and reward great teachers, make sure the highest - need students have access to the most effective teachers every year, and give all teachers the support they need to improve.»

At the same time, in order to help all students graduate high school ready for success in college and a career, states and districts need more than an enforcer — they need a partner.

Teacher Brent Vasicek of the Chippewa Valley school district in Michigan has his students conduct student - led conferences digitally and helps them prepare PowerPoint presentations in advance so they're ready to go when the time comes (source).

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.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act has helped prompt some school districts to develop, for the first time, a well - articulated curriculum for English - language learners — and even to work together in tackling what can be a daunting task for local educators.

Districts must clarify new roles and help schools change schedules so that teachers have time with their teams to plan, review student work, reflect on progress, and make changes.

Over time, as it becomes clearer which programs consistently graduate high - performing principals, this new approach would create a robust marketplace that rewards institutional excellence and helps school districts make smart hiring decisions.

Redefine the responsibilities of the SEAs for managing federal categorical programs in such a way as to allow SEAs to devote more time and energy to helping schools and districts improve teaching and learning.

The data presented analyzes and compares the 2013 - 14 school discipline data for every district in the state that helped uncover promising practices and examples of effective educational accountability while at the same time highlighting the numerous areas for improvement and the deeper systemic issues that still need to be addressed.

This fall 20 schools in the District will have more instructional time than surrounding areas to help with this effort.

The training programs help participating intermediate school districts (ISDs), districts, and schools set up effective systems and supports that are also sustainable over time.

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.

To help students improve in English Language Arts, the school district wants to use real - time, formative assessments of performance tasks students could see on a standardized test.

On January 4, 2017, the New Paltz Central School District School Board reviewed the results of an online district - wide survey to help decide whether to delay the 8 a.m. high school start time and 7:55 a.m. middle school startSchool District School Board reviewed the results of an online district - wide survey to help decide whether to delay the 8 a.m. high school start time and 7:55 a.m. middle school staDistrict School Board reviewed the results of an online district - wide survey to help decide whether to delay the 8 a.m. high school start time and 7:55 a.m. middle school startSchool Board reviewed the results of an online district - wide survey to help decide whether to delay the 8 a.m. high school start time and 7:55 a.m. middle school stadistrict - wide survey to help decide whether to delay the 8 a.m. high school start time and 7:55 a.m. middle school startschool start time and 7:55 a.m. middle school startschool start time.

WASHINGTON — A later start to the school day could help teenagers get the most from their classroom time and local districts should consider delaying the first bell, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

In 2016, nine urban school districts and their out - of - school time partners were awarded grants to help the partners collaborate on creating a plan to support the development of children's social and emotional skills by improving adult practices and climate during the school day and afterschool.

When I was at the Department helping to craft this grant, we took the necessary time and energy to meet with districts who wanted and needed federal support to pursue diversity strategies in their schools as part of their effort to close the achievement gap and uplift ALL students.

Interested in learning how VocabularySpellingCity can help your school and district improve student engagement and achievement by giving teachers more time to teach?

At nearly 85,000 students, APS is one of the largest districts in the U.S. and surely a tough job, but I can't help but think of last year when tough times called for... cutting middle school sports.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

$ 200 million in one - time funding for College Readiness Block grants to school districts and charter schools serving high school students to provide additional services to help students transition to higher education.

During the past two years, the Gates Foundation has helped districts, states, and education organizations involved in piloting and scaling the two collaboratives to create extra time for teachers to engage in this work outside of school budgets and the regular school day.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Stronger charter school laws can help meet rural students» needs by allowing communities to innovate in ways that traditional districts can not because of regulatory constraints on hiring, spending, allocation of time, and class offerings.