Sentences with phrase «whole school reform»

Now, however, these issues along with a complex of others are recognized as a need for whole school reform.

She has worked as an educational consultant and curriculum developer for a national whole school reform model, ESOL Coordinator and 3rd grade teacher.

The impact of state policies and actions on local implementation efforts: A study of whole school reform in New Jersey.

Diplomas Now, the program that combines Talent Development whole school reform with enhanced student supports and early warning systems, recently won a $ 30 million federal Investing in Innovation (i3) validation award (plus a $ 6 million matching grant from the PepsiCo Foundation) to expand the model to 60 middle and high schools in 10 districts over the next five years.

He is the co-author with Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Gregg Vanourek of Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education; co-author with Peter Frumkin and Nell Edgington of The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs; co-editor with Frederick M. Hess of Customized Schooling: Beyond Whole School Reform as well as many articles on K — 12 education policy and reform.

And the NEA condemned the bill's models for federally mandated «turnaround plans» for underperforming schools, saying that only one model «involves whole school reform.»

He is a leader and a co-founder of Diplomas Now, an evidence based school transformation model for high needs middle and high schools which combines whole school reform with enhance student supports guided by an early warning system and winner of a federal Investing in Innovation (I3) validation grant which is currently being implemented in forty schools across twelve school districts.

«We had something called whole school reform,» says Williams, who from 2000 to 2005 chaired the organization that defends Abbott's mandates.

EW: How does the current emphasis on standards and accountability affect efforts of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented to encourage whole school reform?

High - poverty school districts and schools benefit from increased federal investment by taking advantage of «economies of scale» to combine resources for school - wide services and whole school reforms targeted at economically and academically needy groups of students.

Title I was created to help these schools better serve their students by providing school - wide services and whole school reforms tied to raising student achievement, such hiring additional teachers and classroom aides; improving curriculum; enhancing parent involvement; or extending learning time for students who need extra help.

He is the Co-Director of the Talent Development Middle and High School Project, which is currently working with more than 100 high - poverty secondary schools to develop, implement and evaluate comprehensive whole school reforms.

In its draft guidance for the program, the department proposed expanding the school turnaround options for districts with underperforming schools to include three new strategies — a state - developed intervention, evidence - based whole school reform, and an early learning intervention — in addition to the four existing strategies in the SIG program.

A study of New Jersey's Whole School Reform found that individual cognitive limitations were a primary cause of resistance to change (Gold, 2002).

It alienates students from the process of whole school reform, and ultimately serves to extinguish any level of interest students may have in the first place.

As Michael Fullan points out in his article entitled, «Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole School Reform,» real reform takes place when schools have the time and resources to focus on student learning, instruction, and assessment.

The NEA also condemned the bill's models for federally mandated «turnaround plans» for underperforming schools, saying that only one model «involves whole school reform.»

He is a leader and a co-founder of Diplomas Now, an evidence based school transformation model for high - needs middle and high schools that combines whole school reform with enhanced student supports guided by an early warning system.

Facilities financing stands out as one illustration, but the same holds true for many curriculum and «whole school reform» providers.

The education marketplace is crowded with competing «whole school reform» models, such as Success for All, Accelerated Schools, and Core Knowledge, all promising remarkable gains in student achievement, especially among disadvantaged students.

They anticipate the way in which trials on «whole school reform» programs, among other schoolwide or districtwide interventions, might be run.

Consider the widespread adoption of «whole school reform» models such as «Success for All,» «Accelerated Schools,» and «Expeditionary Learning.»

A privately funded, nonprofit organization devoted to supporting the design and dissemination of «whole school reform» models.

Early this year, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered that schools in the state's 28 neediest districts undertake «whole school reform.»

Finally, we worked out that you also needed the middle leadership as part of a whole school reform and so by the time we reached Phase 5 it was a whole school reform.

Several promising «whole school reform» models, such as «Modern Red Schoolhouse» and «Atlas Schools,» both the products of intense R&D efforts, have been placed on the market, but thus far their record in boosting student achievement has been pretty mixed.

In the summer of 1991, in response to President George H.W. Bush's major education initiative, CEOs from a number of major corporations established the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC, later shortened to New American Schools, or NAS), a privately funded, nonprofit organization devoted to supporting the design and dissemination of «whole school reform» models.

In collaboration with site and district leaders, they will be ready to lead the development of a whole school reform built around institutionalization of the new practices as a deeper learning school.

In this role, she works across AFT departments to help examine and develop policy for and to support implementation of AFT's community schools area of work around whole school reform and provides support and training to state and local affiliates around the community school strategy and extended learning time.

That whole school reform thing?

* Adapted from report from The Center for Collaborative Education The Role of External Facilitators in Whole School Reform, Jay Feldman and Rosann Tong

States would have the following options to improve their priority schools: transformation (replace the principal); turnaround (replace the principal and at least 35 percent of the staff) whole school reform (partner with external provider to implement evidence - based program); restart (convert school to charter or magnet); school closure; or apply for approval to use alternate, evidence - based strategies.

She has been a Comprehensive School Reform consultant to schools that have received grant funding to implement PLCs as their Whole School Reform model, and her customized PLC coaching academies have empowered school and district leadership teams across the nation.

Title I funding allows buildings to create schoolwide programs and whole school reforms to provide additional supports that are critical to meeting the needs of high numbers of poor students.

MicroSociety is a whole school reform model in which teachers, students, parents, and community partners...

To support 21st Century learning, CCAP developed a whole school reform model, inspired by principles and values of connected learning, that involved inquiry - based instruction and integration of digital media arts and technology throughout the school.

The U. S. Department of Education, under NCLB, distinguished the Positive Action program as one of four programs in the nation «Approved» for the Whole School Reform model.

In collaboration with site and district leaders, they will be ready to lead the development of a whole school reform built around institutionalization of the new practices.