Sentences with phrase «leading learning at your school»

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I learned to lead as a dean and as school president at the University of Toronto.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

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In recent months, British Columbians were shocked to learn that lead had been discovered in the water at several B.C. schools.

Delta Educational Vineyard Takes Shape Students at Clarksburg's Delta High School and Clarksburg Middle School now have the opportunity to get hands - on experience growing grapes as they learn about viticulture and employment opportunities in the region's leading agricultural industry...

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

Unfortunately, mass schooling by nature is designed to lead to a conformity of learning, and towards all children reaching some sort of average, which will be frustrating (at best) to those who are particularly gifted.

Many British home educators, who start by using structure a bit like a school day, find themselves veering more and more to autonomous child - led learning, exploring new topics together, and following the child's own need to learn at their own rate.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

The review, led by head teacher Keith Ajegbo, will also look at how Islam is taught in schools, to ensure students are not learning from a curriculum that it is «not too constrained».

It was learnt that Essien was shot on Wednesday at about 11.48 am on the school premises by armed men, led by a leader of a wanted criminal gang in the area.

Mayor Luke Bronin said Friday night he was surprised to learn that his nominee for the city school board, Harold Sparrow, once led a Boston - area black clergymens» group at a time when the organization was an outspoken opponent of gay marriage.

«It is of vital importance that we learn more about the most effective ways of resolving the health problems, and this project emphasizes the necessity of engaging the school as well as family and schoolteachers,» says lead researcher Professor Poul Erik Petersen, from the School of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of Copenschool as well as family and schoolteachers,» says lead researcher Professor Poul Erik Petersen, from the School of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of CopenSchool of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of Copenhagen.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

To learn more about exactly how LOX deficiency can lead to an aneurysm, Wagenseil and collaborators at Washington University School of Medicine examined tissue taken from mice born without LOX, and compared it to tissue taken from healthy mice.

But researchers at the School of Medicine and elsewhere have learned one way the virus dodges the body's antiviral defenses, providing important insight that could lead to new therapies.

Current programs include COSEE Coastal Trends director and lead PI, Learning Science through Research, a program for middle and high school students which features science conducted at HPL, and the Chesapeake Teacher Research Fellowship program, a 7 week summer research experience for secondary school teachers.

Byrne, who heads the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, leads a research team studying snails devoted to discovering the neurobiology of learning and memory.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

Actually, it Doesn't, Harvard Study Finds Boston Globe, 12/11/13» «We don't teach our children Shakespeare and Dante and Tolstoy because it makes them do better in American history class or at learning the periodic table of the elements,» said Samuel Mehr, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Education who led the work.

Encouraging students to reach out to each other to solve problems and share knowledge builds collaborative skills and leads to deeper learning at The College Preparatory School.

Whether they lead schools, develop new programs, become superintendents, or lead national reform, they will all count on what they learned at HGSE and the people they met there to succeed.

Jacalyn Moss is lead teacher at the Alternative Learning Institute, a public school that operates in Orleans Parish Prison.

Hernandez, who leads next generation learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund, predicts that the best new apps will push the boundaries of early childhood development and learning science in at least four areas: executive function, creativity, number sense, and phonemic awareness.

With a vision established, it is our job as principal to lead the entire learning community to nurture that shared vision of the school by seeing to it that the vision is at the forefront of all that happens on campus.

Now he speaks at conferences and works with teachers in schools, leading professional development around ideas such as the Flipped Learning Classroom, Blended Learning and the effective use of ICT tools.

But a school devoted to literacy ought to envision more than just sustained, quiet, independent reading, suggests Snow, who leads an intensive mini-course this month at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn toschool devoted to literacy ought to envision more than just sustained, quiet, independent reading, suggests Snow, who leads an intensive mini-course this month at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn toSchool of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn to read.

To better visualize what these meetings might look like in various grade levels, watch these video highlights from Expeditionary Learning featuring a student - led kindergarten meeting at Delaware Ridge Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas, and a student - led middle school meeting and student - led high school meeting at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in New YorkSchool in Kansas City, Kansas, and a student - led middle school meeting and student - led high school meeting at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in New Yorkschool meeting and student - led high school meeting at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in New Yorkschool meeting at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in New YorkSchool (WHEELS) in New York City.

Bec Spink is a Digital Learning Leading Teacher at Aitken Creek Primary School in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

Following these methods will help to tackle the negative view of studying at home - promoting homework as both instructional and engaging; a crucial part of a student's learning, leading to better outcomes for students and schools.

Data Wise Leadership Institute: Australia Melbourne, Australia January 21 - 25, 2019 During this intensive week at the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership in Melbourne, Australia, your school will work with a dedicated facilitator and peers from diverse settings who are similarly committed to learning how to lead collaborative inquiry.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Author Bio: Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, CalLearning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Callearning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, CalifSchool of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool in Novato, California.

Riley hopes the research findings catalogued in «The Science of Learning» can lead to a broader discussion at education schools and in the field at large about the role of cognition and how it plays out in classrooms.

To that end, our keynote address, presented by Caroline Hill, who leads school creation and transformation at CityBridge Education and is founder of the DC Equity Lab, and Michelle Molitor, founder and CEO of Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education (FREE), focused on how we might reframe the conversation about personalized learning to bring equity to the forefront of school and classroom redesign.

«I began student - led conferences to involve the students in their learning and to give them ownership of it,» said Sherri Clifford, a second grade teacher at Hagemann Elementary School in St. Louis, Missouri.

The first, Vision 2021: Transformation in Leading, Learning, and Community, offers a future look at schools and educational trends.

Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

The report's lead author, Dr Sharon Jones, commented: «Our study found that children in Northern Ireland enjoy learning languages; at primary school, they are curious, confident and successful.

Leading academics from the University of Winchester have also authored chapters — Professor David Birks, Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport with Stella McKnight, Director of Employer Partnerships at Winchester Business School; and Professor Bill Lucas, Director of the Centre for Real - World Learning.

But to look at some of the possible solutions to these challenges, in terms of teaching and leading, in the report you say: «During my discussions with leaders of small schools, it became very apparent there is significant potential to free up more of a teaching principal's time for teaching and supporting learning by reducing their administration load.»

By juxtaposing counts of the most frequently required readings with the absence or near - absence of others, we were able to provide a first portrait of what future teachers are — and are not — learning at leading schools of education.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.

Teachers at pilot schools using these models have responded enthusiastically to new opportunities to lead teams and learn, as team members, from outstanding peers.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

Haynsworth led a team that observed teaching and learning in the school for a week and then wrote a consensus report that analyzed how well teaching practices at the school, and district practices as a whole, supported learning.

Teachers at Mount Desert Elementary School in Northeast Harbor, Maine, use proven Responsive Classroom techniques — such as relationship - building morning meetings and engaging student - led activities — to get students focused and ready to learn.