Sentences with phrase «turnaround efforts at»

We specialize in supporting school turnaround efforts at both the district and school levels and can help clients implement school portfolio strategy based on practical experience.

Teachers unions have resisted turnaround efforts at many schools.

In closing, as we enter the fourth quarter, we'll continue to push forward the turnaround efforts at Gap and Banana and work to maintain the solid year - to - date performance at Old Navy.

It's this career philosophy that has fueled her turnaround effort at Yahoo since she joined the company as CEO last year, at age 37, after more than a decade at Google.

Friction between the principals charged with improving the schools and teachers is also threatening the turnaround effort at some schools.

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The company's turnaround efforts were largely successful and at one point in 2012, the company was worth over a billion dollars.

At least two top - 10 Yahoo Inc shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts that they are making a direct plea to AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong to explore a merger and run the combined company.

McDonald's also noted that its continued efforts at turnaround revolve around four main pillars: menu innovation, store renovations, digital ordering and delivery in order to achieve sustained growth and attract more customers.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- At least two top - 10 Yahoo Inc YHOO.O shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts that they are making a direct plea to AOL Inc AOL.N CEO Tim Armstrong to explore a merger and run the combined company.

Despite playing a very second - choice lineup in Portland last fall during a tight turnaround, the Red Bulls still pressed the Timbers hard, had more than their share of the ball, and outshot Caleb Porter's side in a valiant, but ultimately losing effort at Providence Park.

Despite months of turnaround efforts, New York City's subway system slid to a new low point in January, with just 58.1 percent of all weekday trains arriving at stations on time, according to a new report.

Giuliani remains deeply popular among New York Republicans for his handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City as well as efforts at managing the city in the 1990s that included an economic turnaround.

Already a teacher at Sanders - Clyde Creative Arts School in Charleston, S.C. — a turnaround school that is a part of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, an effort modeled after the work of the Harlem Children's Zone — Hobson felt that she could do more.

I was alarmed at how much we were spending on SIG and the awful track record of previous turnaround efforts, and I was sure that districts would pick weak interventions and that kids were going to continue languishing in these schools while we went about this misguided adventure.

At the same time, they're wrong to imagine that changing policies regarding teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, or school choice will deliver as hoped, absent efforts to help school officials to think differently and then provide the support they need to tackle rules, regulations, and contracts in new ways.

A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.

A review published in January 2003 by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of more than 100 books, articles, and briefs on turnaround efforts concluded, «There is, at present, no strong evidence that any particular intervention type works most of the time or in most places.»

After decades of academic decline, and on the heels of a failed attempt to transform the school by bringing in better curricula, the turnaround could well be viewed as a last - ditch effort at reinvention.

Positive School Climate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LSB-...]

The good news is that there are examples of successful turnaround efforts, where key ingredients include great leaders and school systems ready to respond with best practices at the center of their work.

At the time, Cleveland had an initiative to recruit leaders for a school turnaround effort, and that's where I landed.

In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts were received by students and staff.

In her past and present roles she has been successful at developing strategic school - wide plans related to school improvement, assessment transformation, expansion of curriculum and turnaround school efforts.

At issue is roughly $ 1.3 million in federal School Improvement Grants, money earmarked for turnaround efforts that the schools received last year.

The Christie administration under state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf doesn't shy from it, listing it as a possible option in turnaround efforts now underway at more than 70 schools statewide.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

Contrast Grim's statements with the frustrations of the Indianapolis Public Schools leaders, who moved to authorize a lawsuit against the state over its intervention plans Thursday: While the district wants to fight the outright takeover of four other district schools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround efforts.

After several unsuccessful turnaround efforts and years of chronic low performance at Cameron Middle School, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) decided to try something different to dramatically improve student outcomes: gradually convert operation of the school from the district to a charter management organization.

Some districts are more rigorous in their charter applications and other districts like Denver are very open, so the growth in Denver, especially in looking at the turnaround and transformation are strongly suggested that they turn into charter schools rather than in other districts that we looked at in Pueblo and in Center and in Sheridan where they're really putting all their efforts into making the traditional school successful rather than turning it into another model..

Teachers pledge to remain at Milner for the minimum three years of the turnaround effort, although Principal Doreen Crawford, who joined Milner this school year after a 15 - year career with Jumoke, is stepping down in late June.

In an interview with the Public School Forum, Hall explained that the Innovative School District is essentially an effort to build a brand new local school district aimed at turning around low - performing schools — and, he said, lawmakers understood that there's a start - up cost to that kind of work when they developed an initial budget for the turnaround model.

Ronan gave her significant political cover when the city teachers» union pushed back on pieces of the turnaround effort, including staffing changes at four of the targeted schools that replaced nearly everyone — even, in some cases, secretarial workers and custodians.

The Innovative School District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experiment.

«We encourage investors to balance the near - term turnaround efforts with the fact that rivals still have several competitive countermeasures at their disposal (more aggressive pricing and, in Amazon's case, enhancements to Prime memberships),» wrote R. J. Hottovy.