Sentences with phrase «turnaround schools held»

«It could be a longer school day, a longer year, or summer time,» Riley said at a panel discussion on turnaround schools held at the Ed School last December.

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Denver holds pivotal elections for three school board seats in November, and the Far Northeast Denver turnaround plan is sure to be a major issue.

In Colorado, as in many other states, the state education department held a consultant fair, where it was apparent «there were vendors coming out of the woodwork» without experience in school turnaround but who knew «there was a lot of money to be made,» said Patrick Chapman, director of federal programs for the state education department.

Steps include: making a commitment to dramatic change, choosing turnarounds for the right schools, developing a pipeline of turnaround leaders, providing leaders extra flexibility, holding schools accountable, prioritizing teacher hiring for turnaround schools, and proactively engaging the community.

Duncan met with students and teachers during classroom visits, held roundtable discussions with administrators and educators to discuss school turnaround efforts, and participated in town hall meetings.

One thing holding up King's decision might be an arbitration process that the city and United Federation of Teachers have entered into to resolve a dispute about labor rules at the 24 proposed turnaround schools.

In her 24 years of educational leadership, Aaronda Beauford has held an array of positions, from principal supervisor and turnaround principal to district human resources supervisor and charter school CEO.

Jon Terry, who leads the Coalition, held a follow - up meeting with Jason Snyder (Director of the OST), in which he advocated that schools working with the OST be encouraged to report data on school climate in their turnaround efforts.

New Dorp, once the black sheep of the borough, is being held up as a model of successful school turnaround.

Last month, the General Assembly's Education Committee held a day - long session on school turnarounds.

So we have a lot of mixed messages in this state as far as schools that are identified as turnaround or transformation; we have a new accountability system that will label districts more rigorously than they've ever been labeled before so that puts added pressure and then with Senate Bill 191 that's going to hold teachers and principals to a higher degree of accountability around effectiveness and at the same time cutting the education funding to a drastic extent.

The application repeatedly holds up the Recovery School District as a model for the rest of Louisiana, calling it the «backbone of the state's plan to turnaround low - achieving schools,» and recommending that it oversee most schools in New Orleans through 2014.

In addition, we held the first of our annual summer leadership retreats, an opportunity extended to all of the faculty to spend four days developing a clear, shared vision of the school's turnaround plan, unpacking the implications for each of us as teacher leaders, and collaborating to strengthen the leadership skills we would need to make it happen.

Several LA - area education journalists and academics presented and moderated at the 2013 Education Writers Association national conference held last week at Stanford University, where hot topics included early childhood, teacher evaluation, and school turnarounds.

In another suggestion for a productive mid-life turnaround for education, Jack details how to overturn San Antonio Independent School District vs Rodriguez, the Supreme Court ruling that held that a right to an education was not protected in our Constitution.