Sentences with phrase «working in districts around»

To get a sense of what is working in districts around the country, we asked educators to share the technology tools that they are using to help implement CCSS and prepare students for the upcoming assessments.

The data that resulted from the work in districts around the state provided evidence of progress and supported the need for the partnerships between districts and Illinois CSI to continue.

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Wolfinger said the decision to close came around the same time as a local state of emergency was declared in Brevard, and that the district continues to work with Emergency Management to monitor the hurricane's path.

It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.

Many school districts have since worked with their suppliers to lower the sugar content in flavored milk, and many of these milks now contain around 130 calories and 22 grams of total sugar per serving (12 grams of which are naturally occurring).

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

But in the intervening four years, in which I educated myself about the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), started this blog, continued to work closely with my district, and also met school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food program.

I do not understand how USDA can make regulations around our programs when most of the people writing the regulations have never worked in or set foot in a School District.

She has centered her candidacy around education policy after working in school systems for 40 years, most recently as superintendent of the suburban LaFayette School District.

Most recently, he has worked to distribute fliers in small businesses around his district informing trafficked women that they can call 311 if they need help escaping that life.

I look forward to partnering with Senator Gillibrand and President Obama in Washington on behalf of working families all across the 20th District, where I will fight to create jobs, provide middle class tax relief, and offer new ways to meet our most pressing challenges, so we can turn our economy around.»

Even just writing this post and thinking about when I was pulling this look for running around in the Gas Lamp district, I remember thinking how this pairing would work well with any color, literally, anything.

Not only did we grab some amazing pictures around Lynchburg's historic district, but we also got the chance to learn more about the work that Victoria has done with her job and volunteer work in the community.

These days, date ideas generally revolve around work, with cocktail bars on nearly every corner in the business district.

The reason of online dating so well works for people, which live in the district of London it walks around some of problems, with on - line acquaintances.

«Our work is embedded in the belief that we must work with districts around the country and across the globe to help all children reach their potential.

Since 2010, though, the district has contracted with the Capital Area Online Learning Association (CAOLA), a regional organization that works with districts in and around the state's capital to improve and support online offerings for K — 12 students.

Teachers in Salem, Mass., returned to work last week after a two - week walkout, and several districts around the country neared settlements in contract disputes.

When they're not working with schools and districts around the country, Nancy Gutierrez and Liliana Polo - McKenna sit next to each other in the offices of the NYC Leadership Academy.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomeIn their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomein Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

You will learn so much from just talking with colleagues about what projects and lessons they are using with their students.I teach at a summer program for gifted and advanced students, where I work with other teachers of gifted in the school district, and I always pick up new ideas and methods from hanging around them.

He is also the founder of the Roses in Concrete Community School, a community responsive lab school in East Oakland (www.rosesinconcrete.org), and the Community Responsive Education Group (CRE), working with schools and districts around the world to develop and support effective classroom and school cultures.

The Art Around the Corner Multiple - Visit Program brings fourth and fifth graders in selected District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) Title I elementary schools to the National Gallery up to ten times over two years to experience original works of art and make personal and interdisciplinary connections with them.

NISL works with districts to maximize efficient delivery, scheduling around testing periods, leveraging summer training schedules, even starting later in the day or scheduling weekend sessions if requested.

During the recent 2012 - 2013 APPR Conference held in Albany, 200 educators heard a panel representing school districts from around New York State share reflections on their experience in developing a working APPR agreement for teachers and principals.

The executive leadership training programs will provide an opportunity for participating state and district teams to work more collaboratively in such areas as leading change and team development, leadership for instructional improvement, methods to accelerate leader performance, addressing stakeholder engagement around critical state and local issues, and sustaining improvements in school and student achievement.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

Although CEL has worked in partnership with school districts around the nation, until this fall the Center had never begun a partnership with a salmon bake, campfire, and singing in the middle of the desert.

In addition, I work with teachers, leaders, and districts around the country to build the capacity needed to have rich conversations about learning space design.

Snyder, the Education Department's SIG chief, said that districts have brought in outside providers to help with the «challenging work» of turning around schools.

Utilizing his twenty plus years of working closely with students as a building leader, Dr. Dillon can work with student groups to build mission, vision, and common language around the needed changes in a school or district.

School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has visited over 3,000 classrooms to document best practices in action.

«There was a lot of progress around keeping equity an item of focus and there's been a lot of work to make sure the district is making gains in this area,» Sabella said.

Lastly, I would work with the Charter schools to create a bold new platform for turning around these schools in our districts not meeting expectations.

Below is a three - step process that our team has seen work well for integrating video observation in schools and districts around the country.

We've done similar work in other districts around the country, creating custom folders with the aligned content in each teacher's online account, making it easy to find relevant content for a given standard or concept.

The HUSD began its partnership with Attendance Works to better understand the dynamics around chronic absenteeism and to take advantage of the organization's ability to disaggregate data in meaningful ways the district had previously not been able to generate.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

In Leading Change in Your School, distinguished author and researcher Douglas B. Reeves offers lessons learned through his work with educators in thousands of schools around the world and presents real - life examples of leaders who have met the challenge of change head - on — with impressive results for their schools and districtIn Leading Change in Your School, distinguished author and researcher Douglas B. Reeves offers lessons learned through his work with educators in thousands of schools around the world and presents real - life examples of leaders who have met the challenge of change head - on — with impressive results for their schools and districtin Your School, distinguished author and researcher Douglas B. Reeves offers lessons learned through his work with educators in thousands of schools around the world and presents real - life examples of leaders who have met the challenge of change head - on — with impressive results for their schools and districtin thousands of schools around the world and presents real - life examples of leaders who have met the challenge of change head - on — with impressive results for their schools and districts.

I also worked with lots of schools around Philadelphia on a math / science partnership that was funded by the National Science Foundation, and work in Vermont and on the west coast in Seattle in a couple of districts out there.

While this work is complex and varies depending on the students and host communities, the schools and districts that are most successful in helping newcomer students become self - sufficient, successful learners have a few things in common: Strong school leaders, a commitment to knowing and understanding newcomer students and their families, using data effectively, and wrap - around community supports all make a significant difference.

When the district board and the superintendent fired Ballona High School principal Harriet Alonzo, it must have stunned anyone who had witnessed how her leadership had turned the school around.1 In just three years, from 2003 to 2006, with coaching from UCLA's School Management Program, Alonzo fashioned a leadership team of teachers who worked with her to transform Ballona High School from an academic failure to a smashing success.

William Sanders, a former University of Tennessee researcher now at the SAS Institute Inc., has spent nearly three decades working on a complex statistical formula that's been adopted in districts serving a total of 12 million students around the country.

School districts around the country are being accused of funneling kids from schools to juvenile jails at an alarming clip, but Connecticut has worked hard in recent years to reverse course.

«There are pockets in classrooms around the district starting to do that work.

The district is working to turn fortunes around in some of those schools, under a reform program called Commitment Schools.

«These numbers show that the work of the department, districts, teachers, parents, and students around the state is paying off by keeping more students in school and learning,» said Torlakson.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.

How do you build a district that is more aligned with things that we know work in schools around finding great educators and giving them economies and putting resources down in the building level and not a top down bureaucracy that mandates excellence, but an organization that bottom ups and tries to release excellence.

Since then, DataWORKS has steadily expanded, working with over 750 schools and districts, in 25 states, in 10 countries, and on five continents around the world.