Sentences with phrase «traditional public educators»

• Traditional public educators adamantly resist vouchers, which are publicly or privately funded scholarships to families for their children to attend private schools.

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American Botanical Council Provide education using science - based and traditional information to promote responsible use of herbal medicine — serving the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry and media.

Our traditional Sunday morning Rudi Talks offered A Report on Current Public Waldorf Research by three educators in the field.

Rarely do districts look outside the traditional population of state - certified public - school educators.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

As the grandson of not one but two grandmothers who worked as educators in the traditional public school system, I was also once a part of the anti-charter cacophony.

For many parents, educators, and policy - makers in the United States, charter schools - innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must «compete» for students in order to retain their charters - have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools.

As educators try to improve performance of students at traditional public schools, charter schools are springing up as a popular, if patchy, fix.

K12 is a company of educators with the nation's largest network of K - 12 online school teachers, providing instruction, academic services, and learning solutions to public schools and districts, traditional classrooms, blended school programs, and directly to families.

Opportunities such as the TFA conference are too rare — Educators and experts from the traditional public school sector and from the charter school community focusing on common special education challenges and shared solutions.

The use of OER encourages collaboration among educators and is often more cost effective than traditional textbooks,» said Brad C. Smith, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Utah.

But many educators in traditional public schools think that charter schools — though they, too, are publicly funded — are allowed to operate as private schools do, are not accountable to the public and are draining resources from the traditional public system.

At the same time, this may help explain why so many educators across the country take a dim view of charter schools, most of which enroll low - income students of color who have been underserved by the traditional public school system.

Jamie is an educator with 13 years of elementary school teaching experience in diverse environments, including traditional public schools, independent schools, and charters schools; Amana Academy and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School.

Most charters are more segregatedthan traditional public schools, are non-union, and when charter educators do mount union campaigns, they almost always face tremendous opposition.

Gangopadhyay says the absence of a traditional public pension program and lower salaries in New Orleans make attracting veteran teachers tough; the hiring pool is often limited to less experienced educators, he says.

Educators from traditional K - 12 district public schools or public charter schools in those cities, along with leaders of innovative non-profit organizations, will then be invited to submit proposals on how to redesign new or existing schools to personalize learning for every student by tailoring individual instruction through the use of technology, better preparing them for success in the 21st century.

Personalized Learning Approach Proven Effective in Advancing Foundational Reading Skills for Students of All Abilities in Grades Pre-K — 5 BOSTON — Feb. 10, 2014 — As educators strive to strike the right balance between technology and traditional teacher - led instructional methods, KIPP Delta Elementary Literacy Academy in Arkansas and E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., are joining thousands of schools nationwide who have turned to Lexia Reading Core5 ™ to help students accelerate the development of critical foundational literacy skills and help empower higher levels of teacher effectiveness.

House Bill 2186 to ensure all educators within the public school system (traditional and charter) are evaluated using the same standards

A committed educator who can not adhere to the strict schedule of traditional public school should not have to leave the profession.

A number of educators in DC, in both the charter and traditional public school sectors, have grasped the importance of building knowledge, especially for students who are disadvantaged.

Because I was a public school educator, the assumption was that the only model of education I'd ever support was that of a traditional public school.

The Educators 4 Excellence group was formed by Evan Stone and Sydney Morris, who were frustrated by a lack of control over district policy decisions while teaching in a traditional public school in New York City.

State legislation in recent years has pushed for more charter schools and alternatives to the traditional public school model, but state educators and others say they have not seen enough high - qualified groups applying for charter schools to fill the demand.

Gates outlined his new investment in broad terms, saying that 60 percent would go to traditional public schools — an announcement that elicited applause in the audience of big city school superintendents — and that he wants to let schools and educators drive the process.

She remembers the lack of attention her son received in his traditional public school and the frustration she felt as administrators and educators told her she was overreacting to her son's behavioral and academic struggles.»

Kaelin's professionalism, care for her students, and focus on kindness and compassion is a shining example that educators at Rocklin Academy Gateway, charter public schools, and traditional public schools across the state can look to for guidance.

STITCHED INTO MEMORY is a free public art exhibition celebrating the contemporary African Diaspora communities of Boston that features traditional West African textiles designed and created by Boston artist / educator, Stephen Hamilton, in collaboration with nine Boston teenagers.

She has two decades of experience as a counselor and educator for teens, families, couples, and adults in public and private, traditional and alternative, educational and clinical settings.