Sentences with phrase «as local educators»

The Public School Choice Initiative will allow competition among teams of internal and external stakeholders, such as local educators, administrators, community members and organizations, charter school operators, non-profit organizations, and labor partners.

Across the country, the number of community schools continues to grow, as local educators, community leaders, and others look for equitable, efficient, and effective ways to provide the broad range of supports and services that allow young people to become truly well - prepared to enter college or a career.

«It is very disturbing that there are so few people in the room,» said Catherine Brown, who identified herself as a local educator.

Not exact matches

Workplace literacy and essential skills (WLES) strategies can range from as simple as a company supporting an employee's voluntary skills upgrading at a local literacy centre to more sophisticated efforts, such as a custom - made WLES program delivered in - house by staff educators.

For example, if you were to open a school catering to students in a provincial area in the Middle East, but then fail to hire any local talent either as educators or administration, your school would fail to represent the community it serves.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

There is no agreement among denominational authorities, local officials, seminaries, professors, prominent laymen, ministers or educators as to what it is or should be.

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.

Here I am, still wholesaling tea, but I've taken my restaurant & youth teaching experiences into a local high school as their culinary arts «vocational» educator.

Her contributions to the field of babywearing education include founding an independent babywearing group and working with the educational development of new educators, establishing a Babywearing International Chapter where she worked to become a Master Babywearing Educator, the President of the Chapter as well as the Education Coordinator for her local chapter, and on a National level has held such titles as BWI Board of Directors; Treasurer, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee member and BWI Accreditation Coordinator.

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

Become familiar with local breastfeeding resources (eg, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children clinics, lactation educators and consultants, lay support groups, and breast pump rental stations) so that patients can be referred appropriately.111 When specialized breastfeeding services are used, pediatricians need to clarify for patients their essential role as the infant's primary medical care taker.

Become familiar with local breastfeeding resources (eg, WIC clinics, breastfeeding medical and nursing specialists, lactation educators and consultants, lay support groups, and breast - pump rental stations) so that patients can be referred appropriately.215 When specialized breastfeeding services are used, the essential role of the pediatrician as the infant's primary health care professional within the framework of the medical home needs to be clarified for parents.

A childbirth educator is also a resource for referrals to local support networks and professionals, such as an IBCLC.

The vacancy at Henninger will be filled by Brian Kavanagh, a local educator who most recently served as executive director of education and personnel for the Oswego City School District.

Some veteran educators, as they reviewed figures on Wednesday, recalled the adage that all politics is local.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Speaking on behalf of the participants, the Electoral Officer in charge of Moro Local Government, Mr. Abdulganiyu Bello admonished them to be good ambassadors of the Commission and promised to support them in carrying out their responsibilities as Voter Educators.

National and local governments can create healthy environments through taxations and laws, but businesses and other organisations have important contributions to make to health as employers, designers, educators, service providers, and manufacturers.

Shortly after taking office, Bush proposed the Math and Science Partnership (MSP) as a 5 - year, $ 1 billion initiative to strengthen student achievement by linking up university scientists and local educators.

NACSO began trying to tackle the epidemic in Caprivi in 2004, recruiting members of the local committees that manage its conservancies to serve as «peer educators».

As part of the workshop, Dave took the educators on a field trip to conduct a mini ecological study using DNA barcoding to identify plants, animals, and fungi from the local habitat.

Faculty includes both educators experienced with delivering the Cancer Genetics Management program as well as local expert clinicians who will be trained on facilitating the curriculum.

A mother of four, Mrs. Kurmanalieva Jyparkul works as an educator at the local school.

This Congress will bring together approximately 200 stakeholders in global education, in particular international organisations, governments, parliamentarians, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations, as well as educators from Europe and beyond, using the principle of «quadrilogue» and a holistic approach to global education.

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

Audiences generally include community members, local educators, and a wide range of professionals and parents with a keen interest in improving education, as well as HGSE faculty, staff, and students.

Over the last five years, RIMA has marshaled local and national philanthropy; recruited school operators and educators into Rhode Island; provided staff support for facilities identification, finance, and development; formed and advocated for improved education policies at both the state and local levels; and served as a «help center» for questions about state laws, regulations, practices, and culture.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

After 34 years as an educator and as president of his local AFSA affiliate, Atkinson said he sought the top office to advocate for education nationally.

The National School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.»

Eight states (Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah) have laws at the state or local level (often referred to as «no promo homo») that expressly forbid educators from discussing lgbtq issues in class in a positive light, or even at all.

Also, Internet allows the creation of teachers and students networks at local, national and international levels, uniting schools driven by principles of horizontal interactions between learners who are also educators and educators who are also learners, such as the Rede Mundial de Escolas Democráticas (Global Network of Democratic Schoolshttp: / / www.democraticeducation.org /).

Belonging to a deliberately small group of academic educators, each with a strong practitioner history, members of Sustainability Frontiers have agreed to collaborate in different combinations as they undertake local, national and international projects, consultancies and initiatives at the leading edge of sustainability education, often in partnership with other organizations.

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As a result, local educators get deluged with new proposals.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

The retention of deductibility has been a top priority for educators, who claim that its elimination would lead to massive cuts in education spending, especially in states such as New York that have high state and local tax rates.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

It's not as if local officials, educators, and parents are unaware of the existence of informational texts or just waiting to be told by national elites about when they should start teaching Algebra.

For it rests on an assumption of guilt on the part of educators, local officials, and state leaders, as well as overconfidence in the reformers own technocratic ability to interpret patterns in data and identify solutions.

While not all administrators are former educators and only serve an administrative position for a few years, many have come into the profession as a former principal or teacher or other administrative pathway, often with years within the same state and local system.

As waiting lists at charter schools continue to grow nationally, the educators shared stories of how local politicians expressed interest in their children or family members having an opportunity to attend their schools.

Yes, parents, communities, and local educators will make mistakes in raising children as well as educating them.

In some cases, state policy initiatives are not taken seriously by local agencies.293 Even under current state accountability requirements, some local educators do not view the state as a powerful force for changing basic practices.

driven by local educator needs, including implementation support for NYS and federal education initiatives such as: APPR, CCSS and Data - driven instruction.

Tanner Jesso, Fifth - Grade Teacher ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FLORIDA «I quickly became active within my teacher's union because of its purpose as a crucial vehicle for education rights,» says Tanner Jesso, a third - year teacher and member of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, where he was recently named chair of Florida's Young Remarkable Educators (FYRE), a branch the local Association.

In many cases, the community school serves as a neighborhood hub, bringing together educators, families, business leaders, elected officials, and many other local partners to ensure that students have real opportunities to succeed in school and in life.