Sentences with phrase «american teacher fellows»

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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America's graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), Certified Nutritionist (C.N.) by the Washington State Department of Health, a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT).

Michael McShane is research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and coeditor with Frederick Hess of Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling (Teachers College Press, 2013).

• Martin R. West, Harvard Graduate School of Education • Michael J. Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution • Celine Coggins, Teach Plus • Mary Cathryn Ricker, American Federation of Teachers

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

«The way Congress works, nobody wanted to add to the existing programs» for teacher loan forgiveness, says Jason Delisle, a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Each year, teams of teachers and librarians are selected as American Memory Fellows to explore the digital resources of the Library of Congress and provide curriculum resources.

This year's notable speakers included: American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten; special assistant Chris Rinkus in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R - NC); National PTA president Jim Accomando; The Century Foundation Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg; and Thomas B. Fordham Institute president Michael Petrilli.

• Karim Kai Ani, Founder, Mathalicious • Justin Cohen, President, School Turnaround Group, MassInsight • Rafael Corrales, Co-Founder, LearnBoost • Roxanna Elden, Teacher and Author, See Me After Class • Bill Ferguson, Maryland State Senator • Alex Grodd, Founder, Better Lesson • Kirabo Jackson, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University • Andrew Kelly, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute • Neerav Kingsland, Chief Strategy Officer, New Schools New Orleans • Hailly Korman, Associate, Morrison and Foerster • Jennifer Medbery, Founder, Drop the Chalk • Ana Menezes, Partner, The New Teacher Project • Mickey Muldoon, Manager of External Affairs, School of One • Evan Stone and Sydney Morris, Co-Founders, Educators for Excellence • Stephanie Wilson, Chief of Staff, Aspire Public Schools

On December 9th, we will be treated to the «National Day of Action,» a day cooked up by the American Federation of Teachers and supported by the National Education Association and various fellow travelers.

«The arguments have been made,» American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten said as she mingled with fellow union members in Cincinnati last weekend and talked up the importance of the election.

Dr. Hill - Clarke is President of the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (IACTE); is a Lead Faculty Fellow with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Leadership Academy; and serves on the Indiana Blue Ribbon Commission on the Recruitment and Retention of Excellent Educators, the Indiana AdvancED Steering Council, the Superintendent's Cabinet for Vigo County Schools, and the Vigo County Education Foundation Board of Directors.

She is also a research fellow with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

She is past President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, past Vice President of Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association, and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

Thomas Toch — education policy expert and research fellow at Georgetown University, and founding director of the Center on the Future of American Education — just released, as part of the Center, a report titled: Grading the Graders: A Report on Teacher Evaluation Reform in Public Education.

She also recently served on the SC Standards Committee, working alongside fellow social studies teachers from across the state to rewrite the American Government standards.

He is a member of the Athletic Trainers» Association of Florida Hall of Fame, the National Teachers Hall of Fame, and has received numerous awards for his teaching including being named a Disney American Teacher Honoree, USA Today All - Star Teacher, Toyota International Teacher Ambassador to the Galapagos Islands, Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Ambassador (Japan), 2010 Florida Education Association Teacher of Excellence, 2011 Pearson Global Fellow (China), and most recently Dr. Underwood was named a 2018 NEA Foundation Global Fellow (South Africa) and a 2018 Top 50 Finalist in the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.

In the 1940s, American teachers were among the highest paid individuals, earning more than half of their fellow college graduates.

The authors assert that the world of American parenting changed forever after the events at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999, when two students went on a shooting rampage that killed 12 of their fellow schoolmates and a teacher and then killed themselves.

2015 Board of Governors, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts, The American Academy, Berlin, Germany The Joyce Foundation Award, Chicago, IL 2014 Columbia University's Office of the Provost's Junior Faculty Grant, New York, NY New York City's Art Teachers Association's Artist - of - the - Year, New York, NY Georgia Tech Ferst Center of the Arts Africa, Atlanta 2014 STEAM Residency, Atlanta, GA JWT's Differenter Committee's Innovators of Change Award, New York, NY 2013 Verbier 3 - D Sculpture Park & Residency, Verbier, Switzerland Residency at Georgia Institute of Technology for Africa, Atlanta, GA BET ICON MANN 28 Men of Change Award

APPOINTMENT The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts announces first Winston & Carolyn Lowe Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Fine Arts, Kelli Morgan, a curator, author, lecturer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Afro - American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

In 1959, at the instigation of Bloore and fellow teachers A. F. MCKAY and Roy KIYOOKA, the American abstract painter Barnett Newman was invited to lead an Emma Lake Workshop.

Lawson may well have been encouraged to come to Colorado Springs by two New York artist - colleagues: Robert Reid, a fellow National Academician and member of The Ten American Painters («The Ten») who taught figure painting at the Broadmoor Academy from 1920 to 1927, and Randall Davey, who taught there from 1925 to 1930 and who preceded Lawson as a teacher at the Kansas City Art Institute.

And there was no easier way to get my fellow students — generally from European nations — and, particularly, my Turkish teacher riled up than to say how much gas costs in the United States, and add, «And Americans think that's really expensive.