Sentences with phrase «urban superintendents»

The challenge for urban superintendents is to improve a whole system of schools and not settle for just a few more good campuses.

A plan to increase rapidly the number of candidates ready and able to seek jobs as urban superintendents has attracted the support of five major foundations.

The federal law encourages such transfers, but does not require them, and most urban superintendents have found little enthusiasm for the idea among their suburban neighbors.

His career path — while not unique among urban superintendents — made him an outsider.

What's been called the «revolving door» of urban superintendents has created a lot of policy angst over whether they can be effective in that short a time period.

This important book, edited by the co-directors of the prestigious Harvard Urban Superintendents Program (USP), explores the ways in which superintendents can make a difference in the lives of each child, every day, by being knowledgeable about and driven by what happens in the classroom.

She is a board member of Greater Fort Wayne Inc. and served as the president of the Indiana Urban Superintendents Association in 2012 - 2013.

Since 1990, the Harvard Urban Superintendents Program (USP) has been recognized as the nation's premier program for providing innovative training for aspiring superintendents to lead urban school districts...

More to the point, his pathway to the superintendency was through the Broad Superintendents Academy, which is a 10 month boot camp for business executives interested in becoming urban superintendents.

Andres A. Alonso began his tenure as professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he received his doctorate as part of the former Urban Superintendents Program.

She is a 2005 graduate of the Broad Urban Superintendents Academy.

In 2014, the Council of Great City Schools found that the tenure of the average urban superintendent's lasts a shade over three years, which is often considered the bare minimum...

Jewell - Sherman, among the faculty of the Ed School's Doctor of Education Leadership Program, earned a reputation as one of the most successful urban superintendents in the country in her former position as head of the Richmond, Va., public schools.

Two HGSE doctoral students, Laura Kelley and Leslie Boozer, who were the driving forces behind the book, encouraged Peterkin to focus on the good work being done by urban superintendents across the country as a result of the program.

The center, to be housed in Old Mission, Mich., will provide up to 20 aspiring urban superintendents with extensive training as business managers, beginning in February.

In 2009, 43 percent of all large urban superintendent openings were filled by Broad Academy graduates (p58).

We have the nation's best urban superintendent.

Many urban superintendents now manage a decentralized system of «portfolio» schools, some privatized and some not.

Those comments elicited sharp rebuttals from some of the country's most well regarded urban superintendents.

A leading Democratic donor and philanthropist and the Republican governor of Michigan teamed up last week to announce the opening of a national center to prepare urban superintendents.

Rod Paige may have set a new world record for longest - lasting urban superintendent.

«The Urban Scholars Program, the doctoral Urban Superintendents Program, the Achievement Gap Initiative, and the many courses that analyze education issues through an urban lens demonstrate HGSE's commitment to this area, which was unique among the many programs I researched,» Mantil says.

«The cost of special education is staggering,» the judge wrote, citing two urban superintendents who testified to being forced to raid their general funds to pay unreimbursed costs.

«Urban superintendents know they're going to be judged by test scores so unless something bumps up scores, it takes a much lower priority for them.»

Since Arne Duncan's appointment, the ascendant views controlling the education reform narrative have been those of a handful of billionaires and an equally small number of high - profile urban superintendents.

Yet, in 2014, the Council of Great City Schools found that the average tenure of urban superintendents dropped to 3.2 years, down from 3.6 years in 2010.

For Jewell - Sherman, the designation is «an honor beyond words,» as Elmore was one of her mentors during her time at HGSE as a student in the former Urban Superintendents Program, and also part of her dissertation committee.

Wanting to know more about systems brought her to HGSE to study in the former Urban Superintendents Program (USP), the cohort model of which taught her the importance of teamwork.

In 2002, New Leaders for New Schools received 400 applications for 33 fellowship slots in its cohort of principals - in - training; the Broad Foundation's Urban Superintendents Academy had over 1,300 inquiries and more than 200 applications for 25 slots; and the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation's principal academy had 410 applicants for 20 slots.

At Choate Rosemary Hall, the search included ways to broaden access, increase diversity and, in concert with the Connecticut Association of Urban Superintendents, establish a full time office of public / private collaboration.

Besides her work in her own district, Dr. Hall also is chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Urban Superintendents Program, where she mentors students in the doctoral program.

In 2014, the Council of Great City Schools found that the tenure of the average urban superintendent's lasts a shade over three years, which is often considered the bare minimum amount of time needed for reforms to begin to take root.

As one of the nation's longest serving and successful urban superintendents, Jewell - Sherman will make important contributions to the learning of HGSE students in both degree and nondegree programs, through teaching courses and in professional education programs, and participating actively in the development of programs to educate leaders for education.

«Wallace's research and experience shows that a world - class public education system requires an effective principal in every school,» said J. Alvin Wilbanks, chief executive officer and superintendent, Gwinnett County Public Schools, and the nation's longest - serving urban superintendent.

Ailing Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, in written comments entered into the record, praised Duncan for having «championed pragmatic solutions to persistent problems» and for lasting longer in Chicago than most urban superintendents.

Andres decided his calling was to serve in a leadership role, so he enrolled in our Urban Superintendents Program.

92, Ed.D.» 95, applied to the Ed School to start her doctorate in the Urban Superintendents Program, she was reading a magazine for principals and saw a poster with a young child standing on a shore looking across the water into the distance.

The Urban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban districts.

Graham attracted future practitioners to the School with programs such as the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), Urban Superintendents Program, and the MidCareer Math and Sciences Program.

Before assuming the deanship, he was instrumental in the creation of the School of Education's Urban Superintendents Program and in the expansion of its Programs in Professional Education.

Today this rigorous course of study, designed for professionals who have worked innovatively and effectively in metropolitan school districts, offers a unique and thorough program that prepares these educators for the next stages of their careers and builds a nationwide network of urban superintendents.

The Urban Superintendents Program is a course of study for doctoral students interested in leading city public school systems.

Seventeen years ago, the Urban Superintendents Program was created at HGSE, in part, as a reinvestment in school leadership preparation and practice.

Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school systems.