Sentences with phrase «year of opportunity culture»

And so, in its second year of Opportunity Culture implementation in four schools, Project L.I.F.T. saw a strong uptick in both the quantity — more than 800 applications for 27 spots — and quality of applicants for teaching roles at schools that previously saw many positions go unfilled.

After recruiting for the first year of Opportunity Culture roles, Harris had no vacancies in math — a first since she arrived at Ranson.

Team teachers report positive experiences from the support they receive from their multi-classroom leaders — support that should be extended to all aspiring teachers in the U.S. Opportunity Culture schools with principals who lead strong, schoolwide teams of multi-classroom leaders in core subjects have shown the largest, fastest gains schoolwide in the first years of the Opportunity Culture initiative.

Not exact matches

While he loved the culture at Zappos.com, the online shoe store where he'd spent more than three years as senior director of brand marketing, he wanted to look for new opportunities at a large company in New York or a startup in San Francisco.

In her twenty - plus years as an entrepreneur, Kim has had the opportunity to speak in front of thousands of people in the business, nonprofit and academic worlds about how to create a vibrant and rewarding work culture that enhances the company's bottom line as well as her coworker's and customer's lives.

«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

Daymon associates have the opportunity to be owners after one year of employment and create a culture of decision ownership.

Over the years, she has fallen in love with the people of Towne Park, our culture, and the opportunities for growth.

At Indaba this year, over 1747 buyers from countries all over the world experienced the authentic spirit and soul of the continent of Africa, capitalized on the opportunity to immerse in the culture and traditions of no less than 22 exhibiting African countries.

«Lunar New Year is an especially important opportunity to help our children learn about different cultures and understand that the people of the world share a common desire for health, happiness and prosperity.»

My 2 - year (2002 - 2004) postdoctoral fellowship in science education provides me the opportunity to gain experience with all aspects of the Learning Center's programs, introducing me to the culture and challenges of public education, both in Utah and across the nation.

The promise of great science, new people, different cultures, more funding opportunities, and more coins in the pocket are just some of the reasons why many Canadian postdocs are leaving their homeland each year.

The growth of Europe and the E.U.'s commitment to R&D will lead to many more opportunities for scientists in the next 15 years, but only those who have the language skills and personal attributes to work effectively in different cultures.

The study details the steps these schools took and the challenges they faced as they prepared to kick off their Opportunity Culture schools at the beginning of the 2013 — 14 school year.

Four of those feeder schools collectively became the first Opportunity Culture site, and for the past year, each school's design team worked diligently to discern which of the more than 20 Opportunity Culture school models would work best at their school.

If three - fourths of North Carolina's classrooms were to implement Opportunity Culture models over one generation of students — about 16 years of implementation — we projected, using conservative assumptions, that:

When we first started drafting Opportunity Culture school models two years ago, a group of elite Teach Plus Policy Fellows advised us.

In the 34 schools that implemented an Opportunity Culture last year, teacher - leaders earned an average of $ 10,000 — and as much as $ 23,000 — more for these advanced roles, giving them a clear stake in successfully developing other teachers.

Students from around the world have the opportunity to share their thoughts and drawings to weave a Web of Peace on the Internet, marking the International Year for the Culture of Peace.

• Of the three schools that implemented Opportunity Culture models schoolwide in the first year:

«Over the course of the year, students were offered various opportunities to use the Understanding Map, (developed by the Harvard Project Zero Cultures of Thinking Project and available to download on Ron Ritchhart's resource page) in their building and consolidating of materials, or as a tool of reflection.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

Farrelly said he plans for the «opportunity culture» strategy to be rolled out in three yearly phases across the district beginning next year: first, on the north side feeder pattern area; secondly, in the Tarboro and Princeville feeder pattern; and thirdly, on the south side of the district.

As the year began, the school's other MCLs and I realized the power of being an Opportunity Culture school: both giving and receiving professional development every day.

Charlotte was not the only district to see strong recruitment: Pilot schools in Nashville also received about 30 applications for every open Opportunity Culture position in the first year of recruiting.

This year's Grand Prize - winning districts are providing opportunities for their most vulnerable students, cultivating a culture of kindness, respect, and achievement districtwide, and removing barriers to achievement for students with disadvantages, with the support of their school leaders.

-- Alison Harris Welcher, who was principal of an Opportunity Culture middle school last year, when its students made extremely high growth, now director of school leadership for the Project L.I.F.T. school zone.

A second North Carolina district has joined its neighbor in implementing an Opportunity Culture: Three elementary schools and seven high schools in Cabarrus County, N.C., will pilot Opportunity Culture models in 2014 — 15 — affecting approximately 1,000 students in the first year of implementation alone.

In the 2015 — 16 school year, 59 percent of the Opportunity Culture schools in North Carolina exceeded student growth expectations, compared to 28 percent of schools in North Carolina that exceeded expectations overall, according to school performance data from the N.C Department of Public Instruction.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

Eighteen years into the field of education, Melissa Stormont is now the Program Manager for Success by Design, the Opportunity Culture distributed leadership model, in CMS.

This year's grand prize winning districts are providing opportunities for their most vulnerable students, cultivating a culture of kindness, respect and achievement districtwide, and removing barriers to achievement for students with disadvantages, with all the support of their school leaders.

In the Charlotte - Mecklenburg School District of Charlotte, North Carolina, other Opportunity Culture models have been in place for two years.

«Perhaps the biggest trend in travel preferences over the past couple of years has been the desire for authentic, hands - on experiences that bring encounters with local culture and opportunities for personal growth...» - Maria Lenhart - Meetings Today Magazine

Today, visitors can see this sacred site, an opportunity to glimpse the inner sanctum of a culture that vanished more than 1,000 years ago.

It was an honour to be so involved with the fair this year - from judging the Stand Prize which so moved me — kurimanzutto from Mexico and Tillmans in The Nineties both brought tears to my eyes — to having the opportunity to moderate two events; Frieze extends its generosity through its conversations outside of the pure limits of the art market and into the wider world of art and culture: viva Frieze 2016!

This two - year course offers ambitious artists the opportunity to participate in a unique postgraduate degree programme, centred on the vibrant and dynamic studio culture of the BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art at BALTIC 39, Newcastle.

It was an honour to be so involved with the fair this year — from judging the Stand Prize which so moved me — kurimanzutto from Mexico and Tillmans in The Nineties both brought tears to my eyes to having the opportunity to moderate two events; Frieze extends its generosity through its conversations outside of the pure limits of the art market and into the wider world of art and culture: viva Frieze 2016!

Each year, the country's great and profiting job opportunities and transparent working culture attract thousands of visitors keen on working there.

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I'm seeking an executive or senior level management opportunity within a dynamic organization - where my diverse skills and years of «hands on» experience are in serious need - and offers a great environment and corporate culture for me to practice my IT Service Delivery and Enterprise Architecture crafts.

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I do not think of myself as a Francophile, I do think of myself as someone who, over the last few years, has had the opportunity to study France and her culture - one who has seen and learned some of the differences between French and Americans.

«I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to learn about the families and their culture and to bring the principles and practices of the Early Years Learning Framework to them.

It's an opportunity to explore themes of family, culture, and community and to celebrate all of the past year's milestones.

The 1997 report followed a two - year inquiry by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission documenting horrific stories about the reach and impacts of government policies taking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies and children from their families, country and cultures (see example below).