K-12 Executive Summary

As part of the community’s growth, large technology firms moved into the community and while they were willing to assist local schools, they also expected high school graduates to be skilled technology workers (MacDonald, 2006). To meet this need, the school board adopted a goal of providing a technology resource teacher in every school within the next three years. In addition, the school board had a five-year plan to increase and support instruction and instructional leadership in schools and improve student assessment scores on state exams in mathematics. In two years they planned to reduce language

For the purpose of this assignment I sat in on a school board meeting for Central Dauphin School District. This board meeting was held on April 10th, 2017. This district holds school board meetings two times per month. Every meeting has an agenda that they follow along with a guided script. There were nine different sections for this meeting. The order is as follows, call to order, roll call, flag salute, additions, deletions, or modifications to the agenda, review and approval of meeting minutes, information and proposals, unfinished business, new business and adjournment.

On Monday,October 14, 2013 at 7:00 P.M., I attended the Bradford Area School District school board meeting at Floyd C. Fretz Middle School in the large group instruction room. This meeting was important for the teachers, students, and the schools in the district. It provided information that correlated to the material in class and a perspective on what situations as a future teacher I may experience.

Today, we have advantaged schools and disadvantaged schools. Due to so many biases in the educational sector today, some schools are well equipped with the right resources and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Usually, these learning institutions are located in the rich neighborhoods or are privately owned by individuals. The opposite is the case for schools that are located outside this neighborhood. They are branded as poor schools, and they are left with poor infrastructure with less resources and sub-standard education because there are not enough teachers. Technology in these kinds of schools is too obsolete for students to benefit from it. The future of education depends on the responses or support from the government. The government needs to step in and improve the current state of our schools and equip them to increase the quality of education. Government needs to step up the need for teachers and encourage teachers in order to solve the problem of attrition rate in the public schools. The future of education in the United States of America is bright, but this entire problem, especially the attrition rate, will become a stumbling block to the growth of education. The budget allocated to the department of education should be increased enough for the school district to be able to counter the problem of attritional rate between teachers. The government should ensure all technology and infrastructures are up to date. The teacher-to-student ratio has to be brought down to a very reasonable figure by employing more teachers and building new classes. Technology is rapidly increasing and changing so e –learning should be incorporated into school curriculum to ensure future education is secured in the area of online studies. E-learning should be introduced into school curriculum in such a way that students will be able

The goal of the Learners 2 Success Center is to start a book source initiative to help the students that are attending at Saint Petersburg College.

This research plan is important as we are seeing an increased interest in the program, but before we can enroll additional students, we need to see if this program is making a difference in the completion rate. Moreover, the research will assist in deciding if it is beneficial to budget for additional user licenses if more students would be participating. This evaluate of the high school online learning software (APEX) will determine the effectiveness of the online program and in increasing high school graduation rates in this school district.

Our needs assessment was primarily accomplished through our meeting with Nurse Munsey, who gave us a general overview of the main nutrition concerns of the children at Crownover Middle School. A number of questions for Nurse Munsey that were directed at collecting information that we felt would be pertinent to the age group. No survey was sent out to the teachers. Instead, Nurse Munsey sent an email before our meeting to see what teachers would be interested in having us present. The following is a summary of what was found.

1) Review the teacher checklists used to determine educational effects of hearing loss, along with common functional outcomes measures. Readings include:

Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and you are wondering how to get organized for the upcoming school year. This can be a stressful time for you and your children as school means getting down to business and focusing on back to school organiztion for needed school supplies, back to school clothes, a morning routine and after school process.

When examining the District handbook, it is clear that West Chicago highly values student achievement and seeks to create lifelong learners. The handbook is reviewed every year and the district values and asks for the input of students and parents in order to increase investment. Throughout its history “Providing a foundation for excellence in learning” has been the district’s vision. This, coupled with its mission statement: “To impart the knowledge and skills that will empower all students to pursue their maximum potential to confidently contribute to and benefit from our society locally and globally,” inform their policies and attitude towards all students, especially English Language Learners. In a Frequently Asked Questions portion, the District answers the question of whether students will fall behind due to learning an extra language by explaining that dual language is a form of enriched education and that learning two languages has many cognitive benefits as evidenced by research that has shown how students who participate in Dual Language programs outperform their peers on standardized tests.

The teachers in our county use Raz-Kids for students in K-12. I like this program because the e-text reader can model fluent reading for the student and it can also highlight the words while students follow along. This feature can draw attention to sight words and help build word recognition. When students listen to a book they can focus on the meaning of what is on the page instead of struggling to decode the words.

I write to inform you of my decision to resign from the position Additional Assistant, at Oakleigh Elementary School, effective, October 2, 2017, to pursue other career opportunities within the Baltimore County Public Schools System.

The rise in K-12 students with at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant contrasts with the total number of unauthorized immigrants, which has remained stable since 2009. Before 2009, the trends had been similar, with both groups rising in number from 1995 to 2007 (the year the recession began), then declining to a lower level in

It is no secret that technology plays a critical role in our society. In fact, it has become one of the most used items in the world, starting from personal computers and ending in smartphones, thus it was only a matter of time when educational institutions would start to utilize these gadgets in order to improve the overall state of current education. According to a U.S Department of Education (UDE, n.d) report, all 48 states, including the District of Columbia are now offering online education. Additionally, the report states that these schools operate on all kinds of scales, including state scale, district scale and charter scale, thus it would safe to assume that the whole state of current education in the United States is large and the whole approach is clearly technology based. However, despite the

April Chamberlain (2014), education guru on education productivity stated that, “Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school. Period.” For this analysis, SIATech High School, will be used as evidence that there is an educational return on investment using innovation, sustainability efforts, and Six Sigma processes when seeking and saving funding for the budget restricted atmosphere of education. Also, while aligning the importance of providing a quality service and education to students through innovative learning and teaching techniques that will help save on costs that will be invested back into the classroom. Return on investment in education is not only measured monetarily. Education leaders do not typically pursue an economic return on spending, however metrics like student learning and graduation rates are imperative data points that need to be collected in order to determine and apply for funding and grants to increase funding (Frank & Hovey, 2014).