Sentences with phrase «by educators because»

The legislation has been criticized by educators because it prioritized these two subjects at the expense of other important goals.

Chalk is also preferred by some educators because they believe writing with chalk slows down the pace, allowing students to better follow the lesson and more easily take notes.

Keith Miller may not be taken seriously by some educators because of his evangelical directness.

Not exact matches

In the area of story and imagination, religious educators have perhaps been more attentive than general educators because of the consciousness that religious traditions are carried largely by story.

Because they are written by educators, they inevitably give us a model of theological education whereby an agenda is presupposed, advocated and imposed on future congregations.

Educators were not up in arms about it for the first two years because it was almost fully offset by Federal ARRA and JOBS money.

The proposal aims to provide a «safety net» to educators whose ratings were affected by the rough transition to the Common Core standards in New York and who could be fired because of it.

So I have a nice balance of both, and I think that's very, very important because early in my career I was frustrated by some of the stuff that I learned because it seemed so impractical, and I think some of that came from the providers, the educators, the doctors, the researchers, what have you, that never had any interface with patients.

An Internet training program for educators that was adopted by 50 states and has been used by more than 180,000 teachers has been struggling for survival because of the financial free fall of its primary benefactor, WorldCom Inc..

This is one of the most exciting times for educators because there are so many ways to grow by leveraging the power of technology.

Because HIV infection continues to be regarded by so many as a morally - derived illness, healthcare chaplains can act as advocates, educators and non-judging presences for individual patients, their families, their healthcare providers and their communities.

The development of philosophical dispositions must be fostered within both students and educators, because deep thinking is supported by deep teaching.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

In short, educators who adopt blended learning need to consider carefully what they are hiring it to do, because by and large, they will get what they ask for.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

«I've been so impressed by their willingness to take a leap of faith and their high level of professionalism,» Peterkin said, noting that the Meridian educators stood out because of their willingness to look deeply at not only their strengths but also at their weaknesses.

The case, Perry Education Association v. Perry Local Educators Association, is being closely watched by national teachers» organizations because similar privileges are included in teachers» contracts nationwide, according to Robert H. Chanin, general counsel for the National Education Association.

And because the University of California action was perceived by many religious educators as a possible precedent for action elsewhere, Calvary was joined in its suit by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), an umbrella group for four thousand Christian education institutions.

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.

This worry continues to grow because governing boards and educators can face liability for injuries students suffer at school whether by the intentional or unintentional actions of peers or staff members in increasingly litigious societies, writes Charles J. Russo and Allan G. Osborne, Jr..

By practicing preventative law, educators and their governing boards should be able to limit, if not eliminate, liability because courts recognise that teachers and administrators can not be liable for all incidents in which students are injured, particularly if accidents occur spontaneously.

Our research showed that this is important to nearly every educator and policymaker, because jobs which require creative problem - solving are less likely to be impacted by automation, and more likely to pay high salaries.

Because they're designed by committed educators like you, you can harness resources that are up to your own high standards.

The media, politicians and educators often assume that because today's generation is more technologically plugged in, they want their entire education experience to be mediated by technology, said Jonathan Stein, student regent on the University of California Board of Regents.

By contrast, in the United States, the volunteer teams of educators sent by regional agencies to review schools might go easy on them because they know their own school could receive a similar appraisal in the future, said Michigan State's JacobseBy contrast, in the United States, the volunteer teams of educators sent by regional agencies to review schools might go easy on them because they know their own school could receive a similar appraisal in the future, said Michigan State's Jacobseby regional agencies to review schools might go easy on them because they know their own school could receive a similar appraisal in the future, said Michigan State's Jacobsen.

She said national data show turnaround efforts are often unsuccessful, perhaps because so much depends on efforts by a broad group of educators and students.

True / false questions are favored by educators first and foremost because they take little time to construct, but also due to the fact that tests comprising of such questions are very easy to grade.

About 100 of 176 Catholic dioceses have adopted the standards because it is increasingly difficult to buy classroom materials and send teachers to professional development programs that are not influenced by the Common Core, Catholic educators said.

Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

The delay in approval was because of state legislation that required educator evaluations to be tied to student performance by the 2016 — 17 school year, one year more than was permitted by the waivers.

This move toward a single set of standards has been embraced by a bipartisan crowd of politicians and educators largely because of what the Common Core standards are replacing: a mess.

I wouldn't say this surprised me because of the dedication and willingness of our team, but I'm always amazed by the commitment that educators have to making changes that help their students get the most out of school.

As stated before, perhaps surprisingly, these levels of knowledge were indicated in Bloom's original work — factual, conceptual, and procedural — but these were never fully understood or used by teachers because most of what educators were given in training consisted of a simple chart with the listing of levels and related accompanying verbs.

Corey Mitchell writes in Education Week about a seven - month ethnographic study conducted by Lehigh University Assistant Professor Sara Kangas, which found that some educators do not «prioritize language services for ELLs because they had low expectations for the students.»

Findings are noteworthy because they suggest that by viewing a play that explores poverty in a realistic way and participating in accompanying workshops and activities, educators can understand and engage in discussions about poverty with their students.

I call them this because in this approach educators and advocates give students a carrot by listening to their voices, and then these same adults turn around and blatantly use student voice and student engagement to forward their political agendas without concern for what students are genuinely seeking.

There is currently a concerted effort by several charter leaders to recruit teachers with local roots, particularly black educators, in large part because those teachers are more likely to stick around for the long haul.

After years of tinkering with the state's education policy, including withdrawing from the national Common Core standards, the decisions by the GOP - majority Legislature now pose a political liability, because parents and educators have become increasingly weary of high - stakes testing.

Democratic strategist Sachin Chheda said Evers, who worked as deputy state superintendent before taking the department's top position, has an advantage because even in years when Republicans have done well, voters have been hesitant to elect candidates who were not endorsed by other educators, such as the teachers union.

As the Los Angeles teachers union continues to try to organize educators at the city's largest charter school network, teachers at one of the few independent charter schools that joined the union voted to leave it after less than two years because union officials were pushing their own agenda, according to interviews and documents reviewed by LA School Report.

Because accountability policies set the goals to which educators, students, and schools aspire, and the standards by which they are deemed to have succeeded or failed, they drive all other aspects of the system.

President Obama honored Peeples and the State Teachers of the Year during a recent celebration at the White House, where Peeples remarked on the commitments of great educators by stating, «So many teachers... stay after school to listen to our students, go to their games or concerts, or just create a safe space where they can draw because we are stable and dependable adults.»

For example, Sarah Judd, a lawyer with the Vermont Forum on Sprawl who developed the Healthy Kids, Healthy Neighborhoods Program, benefits by understanding what's important in the education world — it's good for the community to understand what schools are dealing with, what the responsibilities of an educator are, and how teachers are expected to «raise 25 kids» to be responsible adults — often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.»

This is because so much of our content is written by educators themselves — professionals at all levels who care deeply about the success of all learners and are eager to share their knowledge with colleagues throughout the world.

The federal lawsuit, which is also backed by the National Education Association and the Florida Education Association, says that some teachers» rights are being violated because they are being assessed based on students that sometimes aren't even in their classroom — a byproduct, critics say, of the law's requirement that test scores account for a part of educators» pay even if there are no state exams in that grade or subject area.

Our growth over the past decade has been propelled by educators and parents who are themselves opening their own charters in both urban and rural areas because they believe charters will provide their children with better educational outcomes.

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

In 2008, Jennifer M. Bay - Williams, then president of the Association for Mathematics Teacher Educators, noted that NTLC participation had been worthwhile for that association because «strong leadership and collaboration is important for support of technology in a world challenged by funding constraints, new standards for accountability, and a shortage of technology - using teachers» (CITE Journal, Vol.

A topic that speaks to many educators» hearts because they see it as the reason they entered the profession, education for the whole child can be misunderstood by school critics as anti-accountability, anti-testing, and even, it seems, anti-reading.

«When we fall in love we're intrigued by differences,» says Ruth Hayden, a financial educator and counsellor in St. Paul, Minn. «We fall in love because of those differences.