Assignment 1

7. In capitalism, most businesses have a profit motive. Describe at least one reason that businesses with a profit motive may be helpful for society and at least one reason that they may be harmful for society. Then, explain whether you think profit motive is a good thing or a bad thing for society. (4-7 sentences. 2.0 points)

Educating, empowering, and engaging students to be successful in a global, dynamic world is an overarching theme in the 21st century. However, our curricular standards are not keeping pace with the expansion of technology. School improvement is a topic of collegial conversations across the board and yet

Looking back from when I began my career, I can say I came a long way learning the concepts of understanding the expectations that arose from all my positions. In my first job just after graduating, I was appointed as a Business Accountant of a multinational company. Since then, I was caught in the myth that people who were in leadership positions or high ranking were leaders. Being in a junior position, I could have the least effect on any new ideas as my voice seems to have landed in deaf ears. I have seen how those businesses were not in line with their Missions and Values only to find later that many of the staff had left the company.

I am a member of the Better Seeking Team at my elementary school. This committee is a leadership team responsible for driving decisions and changes in a positive direction. The National Institute for Urban School Improvement describes the school leadership team as “a school-based group of individuals who work to provide a strong organizational process for school renewal and improvements.” (2005, p. 2) As a member of this team, we recently attended the 2015 Model Schools Conference presented by the International Center for Leadership in Education. Bill Daggett, the founder and chairman of the ICLE, says its focus “has been devoted to observing, studying, and supporting the transformation of the nation’s most rapidly improving schools. The key to improving student performance is a tireless focus on providing rigorous and relevant instruction, and that every level of the education organization must be tightly aligned and carefully coordinated around that singular goal.” (n.d.) My professional goal for the coming school year is to implement the major aspects from one of the presentations our team deemed most significant at the conference, the Rigor/Relevance Framework for teaching in a twenty-first-century classroom.

Identifies skills, theories of change, program designs, partnerships, and ways of building schools where students achieve.

addition, the policy indirectly supports the families of the elderly. It does so by offering services to caregivers that prevent or shorten costly nursing home placements, relieving financial strain, and providing educational programs to give a better understanding of aging. However, due to insufficient funding OAA services have restricted access and cannot reach all the elderly in need. Statistical demographics reveal that 27% of seniors that are receiving services are below the poverty line, recipients are more likely to be female (71% vs 57%), twice as likely to be rural, more likely to live alone, have less income, less educated, and less healthy than the average senior (Herrera 2013).

1) What are Alex’s rights, if any, in this situation? Outline the steps Alex would go

Strategies that are in place are teachers and administration walk-through with feedback for growth. The school also provides support for teachers whose performance was

|implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders. (ISLLC 2008: 1: ELCC 1) |

BA 578 Assignment-Sol- due by Midnight (11:59pm) Monday, Sept 15th, 2014(Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4): Total 75 points

The educators working at these schools are motivated to keep their academic performance high in order to

1.       Identify three quotes from the dialogue that show how Bryce progressed in ethically identifying his emotions.

What is an Effective School? Research shows that the most effective schools are more alike than they are different and they encompass fundamental characteristics so common among successful schools that they have come to be known as the Correlates of Effective Schools (Effective Schools, 2012). The Effective Schools Correlates are composed of: (1) A Clear and Focused Mission, (2) Strong Instructional Leadership, (3) Positive Home-School Relations, (4) Safe and Orderly Environment, (5) Climates of High Expectations for Student Success, (6) Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress, (7) Opportunity to Learn and Time on Task (Lezotte, 1991). An effective school is one in which all the students learn the specified curriculum regardless of factors in their backgrounds which ordinarily have been identified as those which prevent such learning (Lezotte, Learning for All, 1997). All schools can be effective if they follow these correlates no matter their economic condition.

The legal codes in this section support student performance by setting up policies and procedures for districts to use with the site-based committees at the campus level in order to guide the establishment of a campus improvement plan that outlines the performance goals for all student populations, and to design strategies to enhance each student’s learning and success. The committees must consider the AEIS, how goals will be met, resources needed to carry out the plan, as well as the staff needed to ensure success. A timeline must also be developed, as well as a plan to measure students’ progress toward specific goals.

After the NEASC presentations, we reviewed the guidelines for your School Improvement Plans. You are going to take what you know about your school, combine it with what you know about the NEASC Curriculum Standard and Indicators, and develop a 3-5 year plan that will move your school to an exemplary rating. Your audience for this plan is your principal and faculty. At the end of EDL 605, I want you to have a professional plan that you share with