Sentences with phrase «turnaround work at»

She is leading AIR's turnaround work at Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois, providing guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of the improvement plan and facilitating technical assistance and professional development sessions.

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In my case, I worked at Apple through the big turnaround on projects like Mac OS X, iMac and more.

Joly and his management team still have plenty of work to do, but the turnaround at Best Buy is one of the most impressive in the history of retail.

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.

At a minimum, the next time they address investors, they need to do a better job of explaining why their turnaround plan will work.

Throughout the turnaround, Banducci has been at pains to keep investor expectations in check, but his aggressive push on price and services has worked faster than most would have thought.

Keselowski credited the team's turnaround over the past 10 weeks to «hard work and focus» and said his team is is performing at a high level.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) said a complete financial turnaround for the country's economy will not be coming any time soon, but she is working to bring jobs that would help Queens residents and individuals facing a state unemployment rate of at least 8 percent.

She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

Oddly, no one remarks on the turnaround in Stephanie's attitude, going from sarcasm to little miss sunshine incarnate even though, as the exposition reminds us, the demons at work make their victims irritable before they do away with them.

«My former principal (from the second school I taught at) reached out to me last summer and asked me to come out to Los Angeles to work with her in what is one of the largest turnaround organizations in the country.

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.

We've worked one - on - one with hundreds of students over the last decade, and while they always start from «my teacher hates me» or «I'm just bad at this subject,» a change in their own behaviors and beliefs consistently leads to a turnaround in grades.

Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.

Today she works as department math chair at John Dibert Community School — a turnaround charter belonging to the FirstLine Schools network — in New Orleans, where she says her education, particularly her participation in a pilot program called Instructional Leadership (IL) at HGSE has significantly influenced and shaped her daily duties.

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.»

«As a result of the turnaround plan, each school gets to run itself,» says Ms. Constantino, who has worked at Leahy for 36 years.

«We are working in a different world than just two years ago,» says Debbra Lang, the managing director of high school turnarounds at the Academy for Urban School Leadership.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

«These schools require truly comprehensive services, from instructional to operational support,» said Jennifer Shea, a senior program manager at the School Turnaround Group, part of the Boston - based Mass Insight Education, which is working with six states on turnarounds.

It is important to note that while this report is focused on state - level policies and system - level reforms, much of the most crucial work of school turnaround happens at the local level.

Previously, he served as an Education Pioneers Graduate School Fellow, where he worked as the Facilities Turnaround Manager at UP Education Network, a school turnaround organization.

Lee J. Rutledge, Senior Associate, National School Reform, provides technical assistance at district and state levels related to CTAC's teacher effectiveness and school turnaround work.

Prior to OVNV, Mary worked at Parent Revolution, where she organized a successful in - district turnaround campaign at Lennox Middle School.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

For four years, Gerdts worked in the pre-K program at a turnaround school in Rockaway and found it to be the most rewarding work she had ever done.

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.

Next, we highlight the remarkable school turnaround work happening at University Prep - Steele Street.

It only took Houston high school math teacher Gary Rubenstein a few minutes on the internet to bust the latest Chicago Public School myth — the «triumph» of a «dramatic turnaround» specialist principal now working her magic at Marshall High School, as described by a recent Tribune article.

The district has also showed progress in the turnaround work with their Year 0 turnaround cohort producing real momentum at previously low - performing schools by prioritizing family voice and new academic designs.

Third, the very few and limited national turnaround charter operators or networks with a track record of success are not interested in «turnaround» work as defined in HB 5105 because their model relies on years of slowly establishing schools one grade level at a time.

At turnaround schools, leaders hosted regular meetings with families and asked them what they wanted their school to be, how they wanted to be involved and worked with them to design a plan.

For the turnaround artists in education, the solutions are, well, difficult: You either have to accept that you will be working at the school or district for a short time and go for drastic change quickly; after all, the long knives will eventually come.

How, if at all, do states work differently with rural versus urban districts on school turnaround, and is this differentiation important?

While the Indiana Department of Education's been careful to leave its options open for how to handle schools labeled as failing — it's still entirely possible some of these schools may actually be shut down — Bennett's been hinting at bringing in «turnaround school operators» to work with these underperforming schools for months.

The language meant that collective bargaining SHALL NOT APPLY to teachers working at turnaround schools.

Inspiration Trust chief executive Dame Rachel de Souza said: «It's great to have this recognition for our students and staff, and it demonstrates their amazing hard work in starting Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form from scratch to be one of the best sixth forms in the country, and the remarkable turnaround at Hethersett Academy, now East Anglia's top school for pupil progress to GCSE.

Prior to that she worked at UP Education Network developing programming and instructional coaches for six turnaround schools in Massachusetts.

But the ghost of Christmas present showed up at the DPS School Board meeting where the 4 to 3 vote to dismantle both of these schools and three others under the mantle of reform and turnaround passed at 1:30 a.m.. Each of the two staffs and students from Montbello HS and Oakland Elementary School made presentations to the school board about the progress that was already happening and asked for more time to prove they could make it work.

In districts across the country we are working with parents to ensure successful turnaround programs are used at the lowest performing schools, and we are championing quality school models at all types of public schools.

School Improvement Grants 1003g and 1003a; school turnaround and transformation; effective leadership; effective instruction; using data to drive interventions; equitable and high quality programs for all learners; working in convergence at the SEA and the LEAs; sustainable practices; effective use of federal and state funds

Ongoing evaluations of a related program — the School Improvement Grants (SIG)-- could provide a preview of the outcomes likely to result from an evaluation of the turnaround principles at work in «priority» schools.

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.

Prior to school leadership, he was a curriculum writer at Mastery and worked in the founding office of Scholar Academies turnaround team as their Manager of Academics.

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The Calico Jack crew work like clockwork to ensure the efficient turnaround between dives with safety and attentiveness at the core.

But the moves have come at a cost, and EA's turnaround remains a work in progress.

Sam Payne, partner and head of insolvency at Harrison Clark Rickerbys, looks here at the issues facing businesses when problems mount up — the signs of a business in trouble, how well turnarounds work in practice and when management needs to act.

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