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Technology Integration, Projects Mark Top Administrators Work Two administrators named the 2009 Outstanding Young Educators by ASCD are successfully using data, technology, project - based learning, and parent involvement to help transform their schools and inspire their students and teachers.

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By the early 1970s, Horváth was one of Sweden's most promising young business educators.
One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.
The real issue is not the threat such projects pose to the authority of the home and school, but the fact that young people come to high school so dismally uninformed religiously by home and church that responsible educators feel obliged to take up the task.
But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.
Our goal is to partner with parents and educators of young children to reveal how science is part of our daily lives by using everyday encounters as opportunities to excite, teach, and encourage a connection to the natural world.
This proposal would provide the resources to help states implement those important reforms and support the expansion of access to quality child care programs staffed by early educators that can provide developmentally appropriate services that promote the healthy development and school readiness of young children
We offer hope to educators by providing critical professional development and work toward the creation of a system of quality early care and education for our youngest citizens.
Footage of educators, policy makers, and young people at the center of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.
A further understanding of cognitive development in young students, Orosco said, both by researchers and educators working with English - language learners, could ultimately lead to better reading instruction for all students, improved measurement processes and fewer students unnecessarily being placed in special education classes.
A young organization founded in 2003, Georgia CORE is a novel collaboration of clinicians, scientists, educators, research professionals and those affected by cancer.
I am an educator who loves helping young minds realize their potential and dreams by going to college.
That desire — to create a safe space for civil discussion — is a common concern for educators in a period dominated by social media echo chambers, protests over policing, and growing distrust of government among both young people and adults.
Research strongly suggests that early numeracy development can be supported by interactions between young children, and family members and early childhood educators.
Tomorrow's Engineers Week is an annual campaign supported by government, educators and employers across the UK that shines a spotlight on engineering careers in a way that young people may have never considered before; such as: Who creates moisturiser?
But by allowing young people to explore these ideas, educators can foster empathy and encourage (and empower) students to see themselves as problem - solvers who have an active role to play in creating a classroom culture that includes and supports every one of their peers.
Almost all of these are skill and drill games aimed at young children to improve their literacy and numeracy at home, but very few of these games are designed by educators for use in schools.
Preliminary results from a survey in the greater New York metropolitan area suggest that young people's views of educators» responsiveness to their needs differ significantly by students» race and ethnicity.
The second interactive investigates the Abrahamic scriptures by posing a range of questions to a panel of «experts»: faith leaders, educators, young people, theologians and an atheist philosopher.
Many of the mostly young educators who were lured by the promise that they could create something entirely new have felt stymied.
25 - 28 — Physical education: «International Conference on the Young Child: Moving To Learn,» conference, sponsored by the Council on Physical Education for Children and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, for early - childhood educators, physical - education specialists, child - care providers, school administrators, therapists, and teacher - educators, to be held in Washington.
Guided by the new IQ tests (which did as much as any single thing to convince American educators that tracking was not only possible but preferable) and the rise of guidance and counseling programs (which could match young people with the curriculum track best suited to their «scientifically» determined individual profiles), America entered an era of democratic dumbing down: the equal opportunity to choose (or be chosen for) failing programs.
The three - year initiative, supported by a $ 1 million gift from the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation, will help engage employers with educators to build career pathways that prepare young people with the skills and credentials necessary to fill the projected millions of middle - skill jobs over the next decade.
In addition to being visible in the policy briefs and arguments of the antibureaucratic Right, the ideas of Illich and Goodman are being rediscovered on the Left by a younger generation of educators and education scholars.
Wherever you are coming from, wherever they are coming from, you must meet in the middle and make magic happen, because you are an educator — driven by the belief that you can make a difference in the life of a young person.
Districts filled 1,688 open positions by either recalling teachers who had been served layoff notices earlier in the year or by hiring younger educators who commanded smaller salaries.
As I grew wiser, I realized it isn't that they fail to care — sometimes, when one is a young educator, it's easy to get fixated on assigning an «F» — but rather, that they are no more engaged by schools than their children are.
Lisa Bennett: Educators can do a great deal to help turn obesity statistics around by teaching young people about the connections between food and their own health, as well as the health of the environment.
This year, Raspberry Pi offered the opportunity to participate in physical computing and STEAM workshops — jointly led by Raspberry Pi Certified Educators, Picademy Teacher Trainers, community members, Code Club staff and volunteers, as well as the young Creative Technologists — giving you the opportunity to get hands - on with computer science.
KQED Education provides educators and young people multimedia content, experiential activities, and professional tools to create learning environments of the 21st century by promoting civic engagement, creative expression, and problem solving using digital media.
Self - regulatory skills are needed by everyone who works with young children, and early childhood educators have stressful jobs under the best of conditions.
Now, with the advent of the Common Core, a set of rigorous reading and math standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade that has been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, educators say the pressure to prepare young children is growing more intense.
MiddleWeb is all about the middle grades, with great 4 - 8 resources, book reviews, and guest posts by educators who support the success of young adolescents.
As senior - level administrators are both the stewards of the pension system and the recipients of the highest net benefits, the authors conclude, «There is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators» and suggest that districts could be recruiting young teachers more effectively by putting money in upfront salaries rather than in end - of - career pension benefits.
We propose the active participation of the school library media program toward the development of STEM identities among young people by having school librarians (1) provide advisory information on the science - infused books and programs that young people can read — the school librarian as the information specialist; (2) collaborate with STEM teachers and provide intellectual and physical access that further enrichs the STEM learning — the school librarian as the instructional partner; and (3) act as technology allies to help educators and students experiment with new media tools and online communities.»
By charting data on previous students, educators can chart learning for younger students without this accumulation of data and growth.
Business leaders, understanding this, are increasingly partnering with educators and one another to curtail the flow of talent away from STEM - related careers by investing in our nation's youngest learners.
ASCD members can access an article featuring young people who have been bullied sharing how educators and peers can help, titled «What Students Say About Bullying» by Stan Davis and Charisse Nixon, as well as a research synthesis titled «Bullying — and the Power of Peers,» which explores who bullies, why they bully, and what educators and children can do to prevent it.
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Education in the United States is diverse in all aspects of operation, except in the expectation held by professional educators that all young people should receive a quality education that effectively prepares them for active and rewarding lives as individuals, parents, workers, and citizens.
Martin noted that one of the NEA's strategies for addressing teacher shortages is its partnership with Educators Rising, a national organization that cultivates highly skilled educators by guiding young people on a path to becoming accomplished teachers, starting in higEducators Rising, a national organization that cultivates highly skilled educators by guiding young people on a path to becoming accomplished teachers, starting in higeducators by guiding young people on a path to becoming accomplished teachers, starting in high school.
Whether and how those policies become reality for young children and their families will require leadership and an intentional and intensive effort by state and district agencies and educators.
Educators Rising believes that an essential part of closing the gap between the supply and demand of the teaching profession is by engaging bright young people in test - driving teaching before they reach college.
Kira Orange Jones, TFA's Executive Director, thanked the Foundation for its gift and described the impact of the work done by the young educators gathered in the den.
Over the past 15 years, public education in the United States has been profoundly shaped by the work of a generation of young educators and reformers who launched their careers in the early 1990s: people like Wendy Kopp, Dave Levin, Mike Feinberg, Michelle Rhee, Chris Barbic, Rick Hess, and my own colleagues Kim Smith and Andrew Rotherham.
This book demonstrates that by meaningfully involving students, educators can acknowledge the authority students have, and give credence to the contributions young people can make to school improvement.
As an educator, I am saddened especially by all the young lives that have been lost throughout the years.
These dedicated educators have experienced a deep dive into the Agency by Design framework, outlined in the book, Maker - Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape Their Worlds.
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This article encourages educators to leverage the visibility of young Parkland activists to talk about the power of youth activism past and present — including activism overlooked by the media.
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