Tag: challenges

Chicago Public Schools
1/1/06 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU
Chicago Public Schools plans to be the premier urban school district in the country by providing all their students and their families with high quality instruction, outstanding academic programs, and comprehensive student development supports to prepare them for the challenges of the world of tomorrow.
Improving Education: The Promise of Inclusive Schooling
1/1/01 - Dianne L. Ferguson, Audrey Desjarlais, Gwen Meyer, Equity Alliance at ASU
The purpose of education is to ensure that every student gains access to knowledge, skills, and information that will prepare them to contribute to America’s communities and workplaces. This central purpose is made more challenging as schools must accommodate students with ever more diverse backgrounds, abilities, and interests. For students with disabilities, achieving this common purpose means thinking again about the consequences of special and general education as separate systems, and...
Keeping the Faith and Climbing One Mountain at a Time: Reflections of Two Mothers on Their Children's Educational Journeys
1/1/04 - Marquita Grenot-Scheyer , Hilda Sramek , Evelyne Milorin, Equity Alliance at ASU
In this OnPoint we share the accounts of two mothers who have faced many challenges posed by schools and other human services agencies. Despite these challenges, discouragements, and setbacks, these two families, like many others of their “generation,” have endured, met the challenges, and developed a remarkable resiliency.
On Time and How to Get More Of It
1/1/05 - Gwen Meyer, Equity Alliance at ASU
Today’s schools are striving to meet the challenges of systemic reform and school improvement. It is a big and complicated job. Achieving real, lasting change requires that everyone in schools stops, thinks, and works together to make the kinds of changes that need to occur.
Preparing Teachers for the Future
1/1/05 - Diane L. Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU
As American schools seek to accommodate an increasing range of students, teachers are challenged as never before. When students with disabilities, linguistic differences or other unique abilities join general education classrooms, even willing teachers fear their lack of training and preparation to deal with such differences make their role as primary teacher inappropriate and inadequate.
Toolkit for Inclusive School Improvement (Part 1)
1/1/05 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,
Systemic school change is a complex and difficult task. The challenge is great, but educators throughout our nation and other nations are actively engaging the opportunity to transform education and how we go about the work of teaching and learning in our schools. This toolkit is developed by NIUSI to assess networks of schools engaging their faculty, staff, families, students, and community members in ongoing renewal and systemic change. The toolkit is organized around three areas...
How Leaders Invest Staffing Resources for Learning Improvement
1/1/09 - Margaret L. Piecki, Michael S. Knapp, Tino Castaneda, Tom Halverson, Robin LaSorta, Chad Lochmiller
"Urban districts and their leaders face a set of common challenges with respect to staffing high-needs schools: how to maximize the quality and longevity of high-quality teaching staff; how to deploy and support novice teachers; how to manage and minimize teacher mobility and attribution; and how to align the diversity of teaching staff with the diversity of the student body. This report is part of a series by researchers from the University of Washington’s Center for the Study of Teaching...
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
1/1/09 - Bridgeland, J., Diulio, J., & Balfanz, R.
This report has documented a mix of hopeful views and challenging statistics concerning how, and how well, those on the front lines of America's schools -- teachers and principals -- understand the nation's high school dropout crisis. Teachers and administrators in public high schools recognize there is a dropout problem, know they are confronted with daunting challenges in classrooms and in schools, and express strong support for reforms to address high dropout rates. Yet, less than...
21st Century skills, education & competitiveness: A resource and policy guide
1/1/08 - Partnership for 21st Century Skills,
This guide summarizes the challenges and opportunities that, if left unaddressed, will curtail our competitiveness and diminish our standing in the world.
A collective responsibility, a collective work: Supporting the path to positive life outcomes for youth in economically distressed communities
1/1/08 - Tsoi-A-Fatt, R.
This paper presents a picture of risk and challenge for youth in distressed communities and outlines how these communities can band together to create a continuum of supportive activities to bolster youth’s success in school and life.
A framework for developing and sustaining a Part C finance system
1/1/07 - Greer, M., Taylor, A., Mackey Andrews, S.D., The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
This paper summarizes the fiscal challenges that this legislation presents and proposes a framework for analyzing, adjusting, and maintaining a flexible and self-regulating finance system to support Part C early intervention services for infants and toddlers and their families. The framework design features four phases of work to help agencies understand the issues and make informed decisions for on-going development and support of a Part C finance system.
Academic language across grade levels and content areas
1/1/08 - Southeast Comprehensive Center,
Robin Scarcella, PhD, director of the ESL program, University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, discusses the challenges associated with academic language as well as ways to ensure that all students learn academic language.
Accounting for resource use at the school-level and below: The missing link in education administration and policy making
1/1/09 - Dwight Denison, Leanna Stiefel, William Hartman, Michele Moser Deegan
"In this paper, we analyze the challenges involved in establishing a system to track costs at the school, grade, and subject level that will fit the needs of both internal and external users. To begin, we review the literature on cost accounting that is relevant to micro-level costs and the research that analyzes sub-district level resources. Next, we describe general challenges that arise in reporting at the level of the school and below and we then discuss school-level reporting in...
Addressing Promises and Challenges of Response to Intervention Models for ELLs
1/1/08 - Artiles, Alfredo J.
This presentation outlines trends in ELL placement in special education, gives an overview of RTI issues with ELLs, and provides ideas for future directions.
Being an evidence-based practitioner: What does it take to be an evidence-based practitioner?
Strain, P. , Dunlap, G.
This fact sheet describes what evidence-based practitioners do, notes some of the challenges that affect the implementation of evidence-based practices, and offers advice for addressing those challenges.
Beyond the golden rule: a parent's guide to preventing and responding to prejudice
1/1/10 - Dana Williams
"Whether you are the parent of a 3-year-old who is curious about why a friend’s skin is brown, the parent of a 9-year-old who has been called a slur because of his religion, or the parent of a 15-year-old who snubs those outside of her social clique at school, this book is designed to help you teach your children to honor the differences in themselves and in others — and to reject prejudice and intolerance. Three age-specific sections feature everyday parents sharing personal stories...