She was named a National
Dream Team Teacher in 2014 and 2015.
Not exact matches
Field also created «
dream teams,» where
teachers help one another.
Tisch had already assembled her
dream team: herself, Steiner, Klein, King, and Michael Mulgrew, head of New York City's powerful
teachers union, the United Federation of T
teachers union, the United Federation of
TeachersTeachers.
LearnZillion uses «
Dream Team»
teachers every year to create CCSS - aligned video lessons available to
teachers everywhere.
For Glendy Cordero, an Oakland parent and a founding member of the school's design
team, sitting down with
teachers and having them listen to her
dreams for her two children enabled her to hope for something better than the unsafe and chaotic environment that characterized daily life at Calvin Simmons.
One of our California
teachers got tapped for the state commission on implementing the Common Core because she was on the
Dream Team.
As Ruth Arseneault, an English
teacher in Canada, says, «It is like carrying around your
dream team of colleagues, those people that you seek out to ask them to share their ideas.»
The resources on their site were built by a talented group of hundreds of practicing
teachers (a.k.a. the LearnZillion
Dream Team) for
teachers everywhere.
Instead of parent -
teacher conferences, students lead quarterly stepback meetings with their
Dream Teams — support networks we expect to last for decades.
In 2015 over 1,000
teachers participated on
Dream Teams across the country.
A
Dream Team is a way of creating a «village» around student achievement; it includes parents, caregivers, siblings, community members (such as a pastor or a coach),
teachers, and peers to capitalize on focusing loving and supportive individuals in students» lives to help them articulate their aspirations and convert their
dreams into goals.
By hosting a successful Cold Stone fundraiser on March 1, creating a
team that has collected an amazing $ 3,195 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Great Strides Walk in Boca on May 1, and now hosting a «student versus
teacher» basketball game to raise money for cystic fibrosis research, Stoneman Douglas students are working hard to keep Lalinde's
dream alive.
«Ontario's Early Learning — Kindergarten Program: A Transformative Early Childhood Education Initiative» describes the large - scale government implementation of an initiative that most US educators only
dream of: a publicly funded, two - year, mixed - age, full - day program for 4 - and 5 - year - olds, with an emphasis on play - and inquiry - based learning, before - and after - school programming, and a
team approach to professional learning for
teachers and principals.