Sentences with phrase «best young educators»

While listening to one of the best young educators Sara Boucher (@MsGeekyTeach) as she shared a story about how one restaurant in Philadelphia that was giving to the homeless, I caught her enthusiasm.

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«We trust highly trained educators to use their professional judgment to make decisions in the best interests of children, particularly given that this policy applies to children as young as five years of age,» Kenney said in a press conference on November 2.

Chrissy Larson, an outdoor educator and preschool teacher, has seen her young students blossom as they follow raccoon tracks in the mud, and learn to recognize the trees that provide good rain shelter.

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 great strength coach is a great educator and will send better young men and women out into the world to do great works.

Nutrition educator & author extraordinaire, she's also a rebel with a cause who enjoys playing in the rain, a good bottle of Caol Ila scotch, curling up with a page - turning book, sunbathing on her hammock, and watching her three children grow into young adults.

The best educators can do is teach young people to be critical of everything they read and to take the time to cross-check what they find.

Educators are always thinking on how best to engage the young people we work with; perhaps one way to capture their attention is right under our noses.

Educators have a duty to break down preconceptions and provide young people with a better picture of what the world of STEM really looks like and how they could play a very active and rewarding part in it.

While some experts, educators, and writers dispute the existence of an alleged «boy crisis,» calling it a myth at best, other experts and indicators tell a different tale, one that includes compelling statistics pointing to a downward, multiyear trend in young male achievement.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Educators acknowledged their responsibility in creating a supportive environment in the classroom and to address the wellbeing of the young people in their care but do not always know the best way to deliver that support.

I have produced this document to aid teachers at all stages of their career, a refresher for those established, well qualified educators to the new young generation of teachers looking for a selection of «how - to's» when beginning a career as dynamic as ours!

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.

As veteran educators retire and good young teachers drop out, incentive pay may be the answer to making the center hold.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

We asked Carrie James, a sociologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who explores connections between young people's digital, moral, and civic lives, to share perspectives on the Carter / Roy case, as well as takeaways for parents and educators.

His research has helped scholars, policymakers, and educators better understand how legal and educational institutions shape young immigrants» educational trajectories, as well as their coming of age experiences.

School leaders and educators are using data from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) to identify the needs of young students so that they can better prepare them for future learning.

It is designed specifically for younger students and is based upon 18 months working with children learning to code, as well as input from a number of influential computing educators, including Mark Dorling, co-author of the KS1 - 3 CAS Computing Progression Pathways, and Peter Kemp, advisor for the new KS4 curriculum.

As educators, we all want to give our young people the best start in life.

And there is good reason for parents and early childhood educators to work with young children to help them develop these abilities.

«Through our new BAFTA Creative Careers Showcase and Careers Quiz we want to show educators and young people that if you find the right career fit, have the benefit of quality information and mentors, and know how to access training and networking opportunities, there's a good chance of securing a job doing something you really love.»

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.

Self - regulatory skills are needed by everyone who works with young children, and early childhood educators have stressful jobs under the best of conditions.

From this initial work emerged the hypothesis that fostering young people's sensitivity to the designed dimensions of the world may be a powerful way to increase their sense of agency, as well as the realization that the development of agency and community are two of the core outcomes that many maker - centered educators seek to help their students develop.

I've mentored young people throughout my career, as well as supported educators to establish partnerships with mentoring programs for their students.

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.

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.

Diarese George is a young, intelligent, well - dressed native of Clarksville, TN who is generous with his story: He turned the «inequities that followed him from kindergarten through college» into a job — recruiting and retaining educators of color.

Manning looks forward to sharing her belief that educators must build real human relationships inside and outside school walls to better meet the needs of students and create compassion and empathy for young people.

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.

But there are thousands of brave educators pioneering 21st - century learning who have found ways that captivate and prepare young people better than what most schools do now.

As a career educator and the executive director of ASCD, an education association of 170,000 educators worldwide, I have yet to meet a master teacher who would claim to have been born with the appropriate skills to successfully «inspire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms.»

«As an educator, counselor and an aunt of a nine - year - old child who has experienced severe trauma in his young life, it's a sad and disappointing day when our legislators continue to believe that our children's health and well - being are not a priority in our country,» said Rosalinda Midence, a counselor at Charlestown High and E4E - Boston member.

Educators had little idea it was so successful until 2000, when the first results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15 - year - olds in more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world.

Educators know that students learn better when their teacher considers carefully how young people learn best.

«Through their good work in teaching our young people statewide, Arkansas's educators shape the prosperity of our state.

However, educational technology is an incredibly young field, and everyone — educators, developers, and students alike — is still learning how best to use these tools.

Facing History and Ourselves often partners with the wonderful educational organization Teaching Tolerance to share resources and best practices that help educators, young people, and communities have safe conversations about tolerance, identity, and difficult moments in history.

This is very devastating for them, as well as Educators, having to handle grief on that magnitude at such a young age.

When we resolve to provide educators and administrators with the resources they need to educate the whole person, and we commit to providing all young people with knowledge, skills, confidence, empathy, and compassion, we will be making the highest and best investment in our shared national and global future.

These videos show the evolution of that work, as well as its effect on both educators and young people.

Creating Learning Environments in the Early Grades that Support Teacher and Student Success profiles three expanded - time elementary schools to demonstrate how a longer school day provides educators enhanced capacity to meet the needs of young learners and foster a well - rounded education.

Touching innumerable lives in direct and indirect ways, educators uniquely recognize that our future rests on the shoulders of young people and that investing in their education, health, and overall well - being benefits society as a whole, both now and into the future.

Inspired by the potential of high - achieving diverse charter schools to dramatically enhance young people's lives, a community coalition of parents, educators and philanthropists, including successful film and television producer Mark Gordon and long - time educator Kriste Dragon — an early parent leader and board member of Larchmont Charter School, an integrated school that consistently ranks among the best schools academically in L.A. — came together to create CWC in Hollywood.

«One of our strongest educators [using blended learning] is an AP Calculus teacher, while some of the social studies teachers and some teachers for our youngest grades, whose curriculum I thought would have lent itself very well to tech - integration, required much more support,» Mrs. Vannatter says.

The final section makes recommendations on how to better prepare future educators of young Hispanic children.

«Because middle school educators emphasize the negative impact of homogeneous grouping on at - risk learners, heterogeneity has become a hallmark descriptor of «good» middle schools (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989).