Sentences with phrase «working with public school districts»

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Guidance Materials: The state Department of Public Instruction provides resources from its Moving Forward with School Wellness: Making Your District Policy Work for Healthy Children workshop.

Prior to her work with the State agency, Jessica worked as a program manager in one of Oregon's largest school districts, Portland Public Schools.

I work at a public school district in Minnesota, and we are required to provide an alternative (either lactose - reduced milk, milk fortified with lactase, or milk to which lactobacillus acidophilus has been added) for students with lactose intolerance.

The park district of Highland Park has worked with District 112 and 113 public schools to educate students, the community and visitors to its Lake Michigan natural resourcdistrict of Highland Park has worked with District 112 and 113 public schools to educate students, the community and visitors to its Lake Michigan natural resourcDistrict 112 and 113 public schools to educate students, the community and visitors to its Lake Michigan natural resource areas.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.

These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.

Richmond Public Schools is now working with the city to make this vision a reality, and the district continues to forge ahead with their emphasis on local, farm fresh options in the meantime.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

Buffalo Public Schools have added so many immigrants to the student population, the district now has 84 languages spoken in the hallways and 125 teachers have been added to work with these students.

Some Syracuse city councilors sat down Wednesday with public works, school district and parks department officials.

Dr. Cash comes to the Buffalo Public Schools at a pivotal time, when 25 schools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo TeachersSchools at a pivotal time, when 25 schools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo Teachersschools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Union.

Buffalo Public Schools have been working with the Erie County Health Department to test the water at several thousand faucets and drinking fountains across 58 schools in the district, said Elena Cala, the district's spokeswoman, on Schools have been working with the Erie County Health Department to test the water at several thousand faucets and drinking fountains across 58 schools in the district, said Elena Cala, the district's spokeswoman, on schools in the district, said Elena Cala, the district's spokeswoman, on Friday.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley spoke with the Assistant Superintendent of Special Education for the Buffalo Public School District to learn how the District is working to engage students in their academics.

The Syracuse school district says it's already working to improve discipline with the city's public schools as the state attorney general investigates its practices.

He has formed new partnerships with teachers in many school districts to engage with hundreds of high school students, working with teachers to develop nanotechnology - focused lesson plans, and inspired art students and teachers to produce a nanotechnology - inspired public art display.

Bank officials, along with Elmo from Sesame Street, celebrated the launch of the program yesterday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum — it's one of the 14 centers and has received a 2 - year, $ 384,000 grant to work with 20 preschool teachers, 20 aides, and 600 students from public schools in the District of Columbia.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more stuPublic Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more stupublic school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

It's a chapter of implementation, of 17 or so requests for proposals, of multiple sets of regulation, of working with our 694 public school districts — and charter school districts beyond that — as we implement, piece by piece, this reform work.

This is despite the fact that microlevel data is critical to improving day - to - day student performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public scPublic Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public sSchools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public scpublic schoolsschools.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&public school for their children.&school for their children.»

At last count, the Ready Freddy program was working with 10 public elementary schools in the Pittsburgh district.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

«I actually don't think the reasons schools work have anything to do with whether they're a charter public, a district public, a private, or a parochial school,» he says.

James Copeland, an architect with Mosely Architects in Richmond, Virginia, which works with school districts, said that while public - private partnerships may not be less expensive, as hoped, they have other benefits.

Recruiting from the ranks of district paraprofessionals and non-certified teachers provides public schools with a pool of potential teachers who already live and work in the district.

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 outcomes.

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

In furtherance of his work in educational leadership development, he is founder and president of the Partnership for Deliberate Excellence, LLC, through which he is working with school districts across the United States to improve the quality of public education.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

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.

Under then - district CEO Arne Duncan, Richmond led Chicago's Renaissance 2010 Initiative, working with charter, contract, and other public schools.

The maker movement has seen a large number of makerspaces in independent and charter schools, which is why it's noteworthy that 72 % of the fellows work in or with district - run public schools.

We ask our members to work with their local school board to make the resolution a meeting agenda item, and that the board and superintendent work together to adopt their district's «I Love Public Education» resolution this fall.

Even in the earliest days, Vander Ark said that the foundation would work with folks on both sides of the education - reform fence, helping existing public schools and districts whenever possible but also making sure they came under competitive pressure.

Carrell and Hoekstra worked with a confidential student - level data set that consists of observations of students in grades 3 through 5 from 22 public schools over the period 1995 — 2003 in a district of roughly 30,000 students.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

In the bubble of optimism that came with the dawn of former schools chief Al Davis» tenure, all seven of the city's universities and colleges joined with the Orleans Parish School Board to work with some of the district's most academically troubled public schools by training teachers and nurturing reform efforts.

Michael Sarbanes, the executive director of the office of engagement for the Baltimore public schools, is one of the district leaders who have worked closely with Brooks through the network.

Whittier is a free public school that works in partnership with the Camden School district to serve all the kids in ourschool that works in partnership with the Camden School district to serve all the kids in ourSchool district to serve all the kids in our zone.

New York State Resource and Computer Training Centers are the largest professional learning communities in New York State with more than 125 Teachers Centers located throughout the state, working with 675 public schools districts and nearly 1000 non-public and charter schools.

It is encouraging to see the Mayor acknowledge the important work that is being accomplished in public charter schools across NYC as well as promoting how this work can and should be shared with district schools.

OLN Chair John Lenssen is a facilitator, trainer, and consultant working primarily with school districts and public organizations on issues of cultural competency, diversity, conflict, civil rights, intercultural communication, leadership, and change.

Performance Matters and Fairfax County Public Schools have become true partners in the process, and the district has worked closely with the Performance Matters project team to ensure the system satisfies all state and local requirements.

We work with all kinds of public schools — from district - based schools to charter public schools — to help them establish high - quality learning environments that meet the needs of the students in their communities.

But in cities with multiple public school options, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families, whether they choose a charter or district public school?

«NEA will continue to work with Congress on a comprehensive bill that works for students and reflects the important federal role of ensuring equity while working with states and local school districts to support the public education system,» said Van Roekel.

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

Thanks to our LDC work during the 2010 - 2011 school year, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) contracted with Inspired Teaching from 2011 to 2015 to work with cohorts of teachers to create Common Core - aligned curricula for every unit of every social studies course grades 6 - 12.