Sentences with phrase «as white educators»

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President Barack Obama stands with educators and students in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 23, 2011 as he speaks about details to give states waivers from requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

The White House recognized the event with a message of support and appreciation to parents and educators, as well as the events organizers.

Amnesty Int» l Human Rights Education EdChange Education for Liberation Network Equity Alliance at ASU The Freire Project Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network Institute for Critical Animal Studies Institute for Humane Education International Assn. for Intercultural Education The Matrix Center National Assn. for Multicultural Education New York Collective of Radical Educators Radical Math Rethinking Schools Online SoJust: Document History of Social Justice Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) Teachers 4 Social Justice (San Francisco) Teaching Economics as if People Mattered Teaching for Change Teaching Tolerance White Privilege Conference

As educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programAs educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programas preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programs.

Museum educators work closely with teachers around themes and texts to create connections that may be unexpected, such as the connection between Light / Dark / Black / White at The Addison Gallery of American Art with The Odyssey (Homer).

He went on to serve as a Senior Vice President at Voyager Expanded Learning Systems; did a tour in Baghdad Iraq at the request of the White House and Department of Defense, serving as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Education to assist with the rebuilding of the Iraqi school system in 2003; was Superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District; and, perhaps most significantly, served seven years as Chief Executive Officer of AVID, a global nonprofit that helps prepare students for postsecondary education and is one of the leading providers of professional development for educators in the US.

Inspired by the idea that the field of ELA, as a whole, would benefit from an updated portrait of English teacher preparation, a group of English educators decided to investigate, broadly, just how the discipline of ELA has changed since Smagorinsky and Whiting's (1995) study.

Black educators can not best serve their communities by doubling as shields for white organizations and institutionalized racism.

Written for teacher educators, higher education administrators, policy makers, and others concerned with issues of race, the book is comprised of four parts that each represent a distinct perspective on the struggle for racial justice: contributors reflect on their experiences working as educators of Color to transform the culture of predominately White institutions, navigating the challenges of whiteness within teacher education, building transformational bridges within classrooms, and training current and inservice teachers through concrete models of racial justice.

As parent and Connecticut journalist Sarah Darer Littman recently explained, «Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.&raquAs parent and Connecticut journalist Sarah Darer Littman recently explained, «Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.&raquas «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.»

Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers» sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers: White pre-service teachers typically enrolled in most teacher education programs, a group of new teachers attempting to integrate social justice into their teaching, and experienced educators who see their teaching and activism as inextricably linked.

Through a Freirian approach to virtual field experiences that emphasized personalization, dialogue, and praxis, many preservice teachers developed the ability to function effectively as multicultural, competent, critically aware educators while enrolled in a teacher education program located in a predominantly white, rural area.

As the list grew on the white board, so too did my confidence that collaboration of educators could enhance the education of our students — and that our collective action to assert the power of authentic assessment could serve as a beacon to educators around the country looking to reclaim classrooms from a Testocracy intent on grafting a business model onto education that reduces the intellectual process of teaching and learning a single scorAs the list grew on the white board, so too did my confidence that collaboration of educators could enhance the education of our students — and that our collective action to assert the power of authentic assessment could serve as a beacon to educators around the country looking to reclaim classrooms from a Testocracy intent on grafting a business model onto education that reduces the intellectual process of teaching and learning a single scoras a beacon to educators around the country looking to reclaim classrooms from a Testocracy intent on grafting a business model onto education that reduces the intellectual process of teaching and learning a single score.

As a white teacher educator who has taken on the «daunting» (Sleeter, 2008) work of antiracist education with preservice teachers, the work of critical family history is beginning to play a key role in my classroom.

Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.»

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

At boisterous meetings in Lafayette, Calcasieu and Jefferson parishes, irate parents — most of them white — began to complain about elementary school math homework culled from a Common Core website designed by educators in New York state, often referred to as Eureka Math.

The exhibition charts «the development of White's practice, from his emergence as a force in the Chicago art world through his mature career as an artist, activist, and educator in New York and Los Angeles.»

As part of the multisite project A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA presents an exhibition curated by artist and educator Vincent Ramos at the museum's satellite gallery within Charles White Elementary School.