Sentences with phrase «working with district leaders»

He's very approachable, especially for teachers, which is not always the case when you're working with district leaders if you're a teacher,» Grisso says.

We are lucky to be working with district leaders across the country to learn the best ways to improve instructional leadership across schools.

She has served as a facilitator of school planning, working with district leaders, principals, teachers, and parents to make data - based decisions.

He served as the first Research Director for the Minority Students Achievement Network (a national consortium of school districts working to address the racial disparities in students» outcomes), working with district leaders to study patterns of racial inequality in their schools and enact practices to reduce such inequalities.

Our guests will discuss how to work with district leaders and classroom educators on ed - tech initiatives, what it takes to balance innovation with technological realities, and how to evaluate the impact of ed - tech programs.

Now that a judge has ruled that teachers» performance evaluations in the Los Angeles Unified School District are inadequate and violate state law, the teachers union will finally have to work with district leaders on devising a reasonable method for using student achievement to measure teachers» work.

We work with district leaders, principals, and leadership teams to customize plans that include workshops, coaching, and consulting.

NYCLA's work with district leaders is highly regarded by our clients.

«We work with district leaders, but it is a process that must involve education professionals on all levels if it is going to work.»

With partnerships ranging from Early Childhood Education to Special Education to the English Language Learner Department, we work with district leaders in designing and implementing professional learning plans for their teams.

During 2016 — 2017, engage2learn worked with district leaders, curriculum staff, and principals to establish the Arlington ISD Active Learning Cycle, a common context for learning across the district.

The Accountability Department provides data and tools and works with district leaders, school teams, students, and families to use these data in planning.

Not exact matches

Elia, in approving Bierwirth's recommendations and action plan, emphasized that district leaders and school board trustees must work with the special adviser in making changes.

«I've worked with Carlina Rivera on countless local issues over the years as a community activist, Democratic District Leader and most recently, in government,» said State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh.

Francesca Carlow is a scrupulously honest person who has lived in our district, raised her family, built a business and been a well known community leader for 30 years, a person who, while not a professional career politician, made the decision to get involved in public service with no goal other than to make long island and New York State a better place to live work and play.

He knows his district intimately, has experience in the Greene County Legislature as the Minority Leader and he's worked with first responders in every community as a flight paramedic.

Ironically, the former City Councilman will now work with Albany, and the former state party District Leader will now serve inside City Hall.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

While he's on the mend, Senator Libous will continue to work with Senate Majority Leader Skelos, Senate staff and voters in his district by phone and email.

«We believe the future is working in teams,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew as he gathered with teacher leaders in Brooklyn's District 16.

As a district leader, I work with elected officials, businesses, civic groups, and non-profit organizations to make our neighborhoods livable.

After the loss, he stayed on with Nadler, working as his district coordinator while also volunteering as leader of the Mitchell - Lama Residents Coalition, which sought to preserve affordable housing right around the time Mitchell - Lama properties began aging out of the program.

«Our Council Member needs to be a strong leader who can fight passionately for residents to help create more jobs, a leader who will work tirelessly to improve the quality of life for his / her neighbors, a leader with a proven record of getting things done and with a vision for moving the district forward,» said Assemblyman and Bronx County Democratic Committee Chair Marcos A. Crespo.

«I'm proud of my strong record of working with leaders across our district and around the country — Republicans, Democrats and Independents — to deliver real results that help grow our economy, support and protect our veterans and servicemen and women, and improve access to vital services across the North Country,» said Stefanik.

Stefanik said she was proud of her strong record of working with district and national leaders, including Republicans, Democrats and independents, to «deliver real results that help grow our economy, support and protect our veterans and servicemen and women, and improve access to vital services across the North Country.»

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

Can you provide any concrete examples of the «major initiatives» Rajkumar has «led,» or how she has used her district leader position to «consistently advocate for us downtown,» or what exactly she worked on with Nadler so closely?

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

Although District Leaders have no legislative authority or budget, they are often successful in advocating for both legislation and funding related to community needs by working closely with neighborhood elected officials.

The proposed amendment establishes a redistricting commission every 10 years beginning in 2020, with two members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders and two members selected by the eight legislative appointees; prohibits legislators and other elected officials from serving as commissioners; establishes principles to be used in creating districts; requires the commission to hold public hearings on proposed redistricting plans; subjects the commission's redistricting plan to legislative enactment; provides that the legislature may only amend the redistricting plan according to the established principles if the commission's plan is rejected twice by the legislature; provides for expedited court review of a challenged redistricting plan; and provides for funding and bipartisan staff to work for the commission.

I look forward to working with local leaders to craft a new role description for Senate District 20 that ensures Hamilton County is boldly represented and effectively positioned for success.»

Other district leaders work with their elected officials on many, many issues.

Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make schools — and especially school districts — work well, given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected school boards.

Build Union and Management Partnerships: District leaders — assistant superintendents and senior level directors — meet once a month with union leadership for a three - hour block to establish a productive working relationship and agreed - upon norms of operation.

This work will be shared with school and district leaders, our school board, and all stakeholders both in and out of district.

Over the course of the 2015 — 2016 school year, in collaboration with district and family leaders, educators, and community partners, we developed a framework with four dimensions, to be integrated with the work of instruction, not positioned as a separate initiative.

Indeed, it's consistent with much recent work on collective bargaining (including the 2008 study The Leadership Limbo that I authored with Coby Loup), which points out that contracts are frequently less constricting than reputed — but that state and federal requirements, along with timidity and a lack of imagination on the part of district leaders, have contributed to a culture of management passivity.

Barbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.

He also is working with Mayor Ras Baraka, who ran for election on a platform opposing Cerf's predecessor, to end state control in Newark — a goal leaders and families in the district have hoped to achieve for decades.

«SDP offers districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to working closely with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to help education leaders make policy decisions that are likely to have significant impact on raising student achievement.»

All ten are veteran, accomplished scholars who have each authored a number of (frequently influential) books, accumulated bodies of heavily cited scholarly work, and are often seen in the public square and working with state and district leaders.

EdTechTeacher hosts a series of summer workshops on the campus of Harvard University for teachers and school leaders and works with schools and districts throughout the year in the Teaching for the 21st Century program.

In her work with the district's senior leaders, Ngounou used the data she gathered to create new processes and work plans, often focusing on collaboration and communication.

In a NAPCS survey of charter school leaders, nearly two - thirds said working with the district was a problem.

For the last 10 years, she has worked with teachers and leaders in over 75 school districts to improve teacher and student learning.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

She has participated in dozens of school visits with Starr and other district leaders, and worked with teams dedicated to redesigning MCPS's middle schools and engaging the community in the life of the district.

Senior Lecturer Kay Merseth, faculty leader of LEV, explains that there can be many advantages to attending institutes as a team of practitioners, including working together on district challenges, planning strategies to address problems, and making plans to carry out actions at home — all with colleagues who can hold them accountable.

ExEl works with state and district superintendents, along with business leaders, legislators, unions, and parents, to improve struggling schools.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.