Sentences with phrase «teachers policy director»

National Association of Head Teachers policy director in Wales Rob Williams said the results came with the biggest policy changes in education in a generation already under way.

The report, written by former Obama administration official and current CAP Executive Vice President Carmel Martin, CAP's teacher policy director Lisette Partelow and CAP's vice president of education policy Catherine Brown, points out different ways to make teaching a more desirable profession.

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Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Baby Milk Action's Policy Director, Patti Rundall OBE, will explain the basics of the policies that will help you protect child health — whether you are a health worker, parent, teacher or policy makPolicy Director, Patti Rundall OBE, will explain the basics of the policies that will help you protect child health — whether you are a health worker, parent, teacher or policy makpolicy maker....

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative Albany - area think tank, said teacher pension costs as now structured «are unsustainable in the long term, in addition to being paid for on the taxpayers» dime.»

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

This also changed the roles of the various players who define education policy in the schools: «Whereas school superintendents and the directors of teachers» colleges had once decided what was to be taught in schools, the curriculum was now being influenced by scientists and as well by teachers to an ever greater extent,» Criblez points out.

Elizabeth Ross, managing director of state policy for the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), refers to New Mexico as a «strong positive outlier» on the teacher - evaluationTeacher Quality (NCTQ), refers to New Mexico as a «strong positive outlier» on the teacher - evaluationteacher - evaluation front.

«The momentum for change in assessment policy and practice is growing across Australia and in other parts of the world,» Elizabeth Hartnell - Young, Director of the ACER Institute, tells Teacher.

Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute John Hattie has warned that some of the UK government's key education policies, such as performance related pay for teachers and increased academy conversion, are a «distraction» that will only have a «minimal» impact on student's learning.

«Bob's 35 - year track record in school reform, coupled with his work as a teacher, public policy advisor and foundation director will serve him well for this assignment.»

Fordham Institute Executive Vice President Mike Petrilli served as moderator, and he was joined by panelists Sandi Jacobs, Vice President and Managing Director for State Policy, National Council on Teacher Quality; Alice Johnson Cain, Vice President for Policy, Teach Plus; Chet Linton, CEO and President, School Improvement Network; and Rob Well, Director of Field Programs, Educational Issues Department, American Federation of Teachers.

Joan Baratz - Snowden, the vice president for education policy and reform, has become the deputy director of the educational - issues department at the American Federation of Teachers.

«It was a very complicated process, but it was a tremendous opportunity to get involved in complex policy issues,» says Wood, who now serves as executive director of the National Academy for Excellent Teaching at Columbia's Teachers College.

Fewer than 40 of the district's 194 schools volunteered to participate in the program, in which teachers and other staff members, parents, and community members form school - community councils to provide oversight for school policy in consultation with the school principal, according to Rodney Davis, director of information services.

Discussants include Kimberly Worthy, DC State Teacher of the Year 2009 and teacher at Howard University Middle School; Jason Kamras, DC State Teacher of the Year 2005, National Teacher of the Year 2005, and Chief of Human Capital, DC Public Schools; and Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy StudieTeacher of the Year 2009 and teacher at Howard University Middle School; Jason Kamras, DC State Teacher of the Year 2005, National Teacher of the Year 2005, and Chief of Human Capital, DC Public Schools; and Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studieteacher at Howard University Middle School; Jason Kamras, DC State Teacher of the Year 2005, National Teacher of the Year 2005, and Chief of Human Capital, DC Public Schools; and Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy StudieTeacher of the Year 2005, National Teacher of the Year 2005, and Chief of Human Capital, DC Public Schools; and Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy StudieTeacher of the Year 2005, and Chief of Human Capital, DC Public Schools; and Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, AEI.

Cohorts consist of 25 students from diverse professional backgrounds — including entrepreneurs, nonprofit directors, principals, teachers, and policy researchers — who progress through the program together.

HDP alumni are in a range of roles including kindergarten teachers, doctoral students in clinical psychology, public television producers, admissions directors, school - based child advocates, and education policy analysts.

In an interview with Tes, Leora Cruddas, ASCL's policy director, said: «We welcome the letter from the secretary of state and the opportunity for deep and meaningful discussions over pay and conditions, workload and teacher qualifications.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

The traditional U.S. teachers» pay system dates back to 1921, when it was introduced in school systems in Des Moines, Iowa, and Denver, Colorado, according to Allan Odden, director of theConsortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»

«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.

Neil Carberry, CBI Director for People and Skills policy, said: «The drop in England's overall performance will be a concern to businesses as well as to thousands of school teachers across the country who are doing a very challenging job.

Emily Cohen is district policy director at the National Council on Teacher Quality, of which Kate Walsh is president.

As Sandi Jacobs, managing director of state policy for the National Council on Teacher Quality, said, «There wasn't enough concern about how these things [the Common Core and teacher evaluation] were running down the path together until the tests became an issue.Teacher Quality, said, «There wasn't enough concern about how these things [the Common Core and teacher evaluation] were running down the path together until the tests became an issue.teacher evaluation] were running down the path together until the tests became an issue.»

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

ALBANY, N.Y. Jan. 25, 2014 - New York State United Teachers» Board of Directors approved a resolution Saturday that declared «no confidence» in the policies of State Education Commissioner John King Jr., therefore calling for his removal by the Board of Regents.

The forum was moderated by Chester E. Finn, Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and panelists include Sandi Jacobs, vice president and managing director of state policy, National Council on Teacher Quality; Josh B. McGee, vice president of public accountability, Laura and John Arnold Foundation; Charles Zogby, secretary of the budget, Pennsylvania; and Leo Casey, executive director, Albert Shanker Institute.

Paul Reville, director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy at MassINC, a nonpartisan think tank in Boston, reviewed many of the written responses from those who failed and bemoaned the high number of the commonwealth's teachers «who were college graduates and yet couldn't string a sentence together.»

We need more visionary thinking than the current narrow focus on educator effectiveness, without overlooking the importance of profession ready teachers and principals,» said coalition co-chair Joseph Bishop, who is the executive director of Opportunity Action and policy director for the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign.

Ama Nyamekye, the executive director of Educators 4 Excellence Los Angeles, an organization that advocates for teachers to take a more active role in shaping education policies, wrote an op - ed in last week's Huffington Post LA calling for a more «courageous» LAUSD School Board: «Our school board needs to get to work tackling a tall order of...

Featured panelists: Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director, Learning Forward Casey Olsen, High School Language Arts Teacher, National Writing Project Daniel Weisberg, CEO, TNTP Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers Moderated By: John Merrow, President, Learning Matters; Education Correspondent for PBS NewsHour Panel: How can policy advance research - based best practices?

In addition to serving on the NBPTS Board of Directors from 2008 - 2011, Brookins has served on several professional boards shaping education policy and practice, including the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), Achieve, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Content Technical Working Group, the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Teachers as Professionals, and InBloom.

Members of that original group included the late Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Sy Fliefel, director of alternative education for NYC's Community School District 4, Ted Kolderie, Center for Policy Design and Education Evolving, Elaine Salinas, current President & CPO MIGIZI Communications, Joe Nathan, Director Center for School Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of director of alternative education for NYC's Community School District 4, Ted Kolderie, Center for Policy Design and Education Evolving, Elaine Salinas, current President & CPO MIGIZI Communications, Joe Nathan, Director Center for School Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of Director Center for School Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of Passage.

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher pPolicy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher ppolicy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policypolicy.

Leora Cruddas, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, welcomed moves to increase the supply of language teachers and offered to work with the government to improve the situation.

On Friday at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz announced movement on long - overdue teacher preparation regulations.

CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams shared responses from surveys of teachers in Connecticut, Oregon, and Washington that showed that an overwhelming majority reported problems with the SBAC accommodations available for special needs students and English language learners.

One of the nation's leading authorities on education policy as well as teachers and the teaching profession, Darling - Hammond has served on The Wallace Foundation's board of directors since 2009.

LEE member Acasia Wilson Feinberg is the executive director of [Educators 4 Excellence] in Chicago, where teachers are carrying out an advocacy campaign for more professional development policies.

Prior to her work at Achievement First, Christina taught special education for six years, first as a teacher in Harlem and later helping to build a special education program at Rise Academy in Newark, N.J. Throughout this time, she spent her summers working as a school director at Teach For America's Summer Institute, while also earning a master's degree in public policy at the University of Chicago, where she received a Harris Fellowship.

Prior to joining Committee for Children, Jordan was Deputy Policy Director at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education, Director of Legislative Analysis at StudentsFirst, Legislative Counsel to the California Judges Association, and a New York City public school teacher.

Michael Hansen, a senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, evaluates President Trump's recent proposal to arm public school teachers.

In the meantime, Washington Policy Center Education Director Liv Finne says that the one group that has benefited from the new education spending has been the public teachers unions.

Edgar also worked as the policy director for Californians for Justice where he partnered with organizations like California Teachers Association, Ed - Trust West, and the American Civil Liberties Union to make state Local Control Funding Formula regulations more inclusive of the community.

Mike Stryer is California senior executive director of Teach Plus - focused on elevating teacher leadership in policy and instructional practice.

But Kayla McGannon, the director of advocacy for Stand for Children Colorado, said that while backing candidates who supported SB 191 was a «big priority» for the group, it also favored incumbents or challengers who shared the organization's broader views of education policy, not just on teacher effectiveness.

A panel discussion of education policy stakeholders featuring Minnesota State Representative Carlos Mariani and Minnesota Children's Cabinet Executive Director Melvin Carter and breakout sessions on the strategies discussed in the action guide — including restorative justice, trauma - informed teaching, social - emotional learning and identity development — helped to equip teachers to address discipline disparities.