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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"policy advocacy"”.
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Attendance Matters! A Policy Advocacy Document
… student attendance, but identifying a single policy, program, incentive, and/or intervention to positively impact absenteeism is difficult. Student absenteeism has and will continue to be a national problem. Many factors play a role in student attendance, to a certain degree, some are …
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Policy Advocacy: Standards for Professional Learning
<p>This paper advocates for a district level policy the Standards for Professional Learning as a way of defining what high quality professional learning should look like. The Standards for Professional Learning represent a compilation of decades of research on what characterizes effective …
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ACADEMIC ACCELERATION: A POLICY ADVOCACY DOCUMENT
<p>The purpose of this advocacy document, written in 2013, is to illustrate the need for a change in policy for gifted students in a suburban school district. The recommended policy change would allow academic acceleration in the form of whole-grade acceleration and/or subject-area acceleration for …
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Kindergarten for Equity: A Policy Advocacy Statement
… academic and social emotional capacity. This policy advocacy document supports a statewide mandate for children to attend kindergarten at age five throughout the state of Illinois. With little need for increased resources to accommodate the mandate, the social, moral and ethical benefits of …
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Differentiating the Principal Evaluation: Policy Advocacy Document
… student achievement (Mitgang, 2013). This policy advocates for Chicago Public School (CPS) District 299 to implement a policy that differentiates Principal Evaluation. Implementing this policy could create a more equitable evaluation system to support, hire, and retain effective leadership …
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Policy Advocacy for Letting Schools Be Schools
… district are rated on the School Quality Rating Policy, which utilizes the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress assessment to determine student growth from the spring of one year to the spring of the next. This heavy focus on reading and math has caused schools to …
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Advocating for Full-Day Kindergarten: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p> This proposed policy advocates for Northwest Suburban School District A to adopt a full-day kindergarten model in all seven of its elementary schools which would potentially impact over 600 kindergarten students on a yearly basis. The adoption of a full-day kindergarten model has been popular …
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Policy Advocacy: Transgender Students in a Public School Setting
<p>The purpose of this policy advocacy paper is to encourage the State of Illinois to implement a statewide policy on how school districts can best support students undergoing a gender transition. It has been proven that students in the LGBTQ community are subject to more harassment and bullying …
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Promoting Student Voice In Schools: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>This policy advocacy document investigates the role of student voice in school governance and projects the impacts of developed policy and practices on an early childhood through 8<sup>th</sup> grade school in an elementary district in Hillsborough, Illinois. The goal of this study is to show …
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Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity
… as a strategic attempt to influence policy. Policy actors are seen as independent agents competing to achieve policy outcomes that closely resemble their preferences. This understanding of policymaking has acquired a taken-for-granted nature and is therefore seldom questioned. The …
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The Use of Collaboration in Nongovernmental Organization Public Policy Advocacy
… organizations in their pursuit of public policy advocacy, and more specifically the role of NGOs as advocates in the public policy process. A qualitative design using a case study approach was used to examine the collaborative strategies and techniques used by the 12 statewide education …
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Enrichment, Accelerated Placement, and Gifted Programming: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>The purpose of this policy advocacy document is to encourage the Enterprise School District to develop a policy for gifted, advanced programs, and enrichment services offered in the school district. Currently, the state of Illinois does not fund gifted education, making this policy advocacy …
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The Illinois State Seal of Biliteracy: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>This report advocates for my district's participation in the Illinois State Seal of Biliteracy Program, which became law in August, 2013. This program places value on developing bilingual or multilingual citizens. Through the demonstration of proficiency in English and one or more foreign …
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A Support Framework for Virtual Learners: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>The goals of my three-year doctoral program are imbedded in my professional and personal desire to offer students the best possible options for learning. Professionally, I endeavored to improve and advance the quality of online education in my school district. Personally, my goal was to learn …
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The Language of Cultural Policy Advocacy: Leadership, Message, and Rhetorical Style
… at the federal level, to advocate for favorable policy incomes, usually in the form of continued or increased public arts funding. Engaging in advocacy as part of a larger policymaking process requires actors inside and outside of government to employ various methods of persuasion. My …
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Standards-Based Grading in a Middle School: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>The purpose of this advocacy document is to highlight the need for a pilot program to reform the grading, assessment, and reporting practices of a suburban middle school. In advocating for such a change, the transition from a traditional system of grading to a standards-based system is strongly …
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Personalized Professional Learning for Elementary Bilingual Educators: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>This policy advocacy document advocates a policy to strengthen an existing elementary bilingual program through personalized professional development. Twin goals of the proposed policy are to (1) increase student achievement and (2) increase bilingual teacher retention. District 32’s bilingual …
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Closing the Achievement Gap in Elementary Schools: A Policy Advocacy Dissertation
<p>My paper details a policy recommendation for elementary schools in a large school district in Florida. Its aim is to provide equal educational opportunities and equity for all students. I developed it in part based on an educational, economic, social, political, and moral-ethical analysis. My …
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Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
… care program as an example of social movement advocacy for policy change, this thesis examines how social actors have understood the need for better federal social policy related to child care in Canada. I develop a policy and advocacy history to preface a theorization of child care advocacy …
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Policy Advocacy: Adoption the 4 C’s Rubrics into Illinois Vision 20/20
<p>The focus of this policy advocacy is to add evaluation language to the Illinois Vision 20/20 policy specific to 21st Century Learning. The Illinois Vision 20/20 policy pillar of 21st Century Learning already identifies that students in Illinois develop skills of critical thinking, creativity, …
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