Sentences with phrase «challenge for education leaders»

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Best - in - class education on emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and influence with diplomacy is part of the curriculum to ensure our leaders are prepared for today and tomorrow's industry challenges.

3) Establish an annual White House Online Safety Summit bringing together leaders in government, industry, NGOs, education and scientists to address the concerns and challenges, particularly for children and young people online, as well as to highlight best practices and the many positive benefits of our digital lives.

He advocated stronger ties between government and circular education management, saying,» I challenge all leaders of circular education authorities in the region to formulate a policy for circular education to attract government's attention.»

Adopted by nearly every state and largely commended by educators, the standards were designed collaboratively by education leaders and teachers to prepare students for the challenges of the modern workplace.

After meeting with economic development, business and space leaders Friday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine called the Space Coast «our Silicon Valley» but said the challenge for the state will be investing in the education system to support it.

A larger challenge for policymakers and education leaders is to rethink the specialist model as the panacea for augmenting instruction for English language learners in today's linguistically diverse schools, many with large concentrations of Hispanic students.

«Professor Geoff Masters, a leader in the field, called for «a shift in how assessment is conceptualised and undertaken in school education» in his 2013 publication, Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, principles and challenges.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

Beyond that, exposure to different cultures will keep TFA «open to new ways of doing things,» which can be a challenge for young companies, Jon Schnur, a co-founder of two education nonprofits, America Achieves and New Leaders for New Schools, told me.

This includes developing courses that challenge students with real higher education leadership cases derived from sitting presidents, provosts, and deans; creating opportunities for students to interact with the most noted senior leaders in higher education; developing course structures that allow HGSE students to interact with higher education students at other universities around the nation, in order to compare ideas; and developing opportunities for our students to visit different colleges and universities, exposing them to places and viewpoints otherwise not accessible by simply sitting in the classroom.

In today's world, teachers and education leaders have the thankless job of not only educating students and instilling knowledge and skills inside their young minds, but also of preparing them for all the challenges that are waiting for them out there, in the real world.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

Our faculty does a terrific job providing the insight necessary for these leaders to understand the challenges they face and to make sense of the complexities of higher education.

In a challenging period for the education built environment industry, the sixth Building Schools Exhibition and Conference (BSEC) at London's ExCeL proved successful and a major destination for education and industry leaders, attracting delegations and decision makers from across the globe, with 49 per cent at director level and above.

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By partnering with education and policy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the Uniteeducation and policy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the UniteEducation Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the Uniteeducation research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the Uniteeducation policy researchers across Harvard and around the United States.

Rick Hess raises the bar by challenging leaders to aim for specific education reforms, and he eliminates the most common excuses for mediocre systems by proving that most barriers can and have been overcome already.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

The FRS publication, A Guidebook for Success: Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning in Rural Schools, helps education leaders capitalize on existing assets while addressing their community's challenges.

The Future Ready Schools ® (FRS) publication, A Guidebook for Success: Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning in Rural Schools, helps education leaders capitalize on existing assets while addressing their community's challenges.

But while it is easy to recognize quality education, the challenge for early education leaders and policymakers often lies in prescribing quality education.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

Dr Meenakshi Parameshwaran, a researcher for LKMco and Education Datalab, writing for Schools Week today, said the figures show recruiting a top quality workforce is still a major challenge for school leaders.

Looking at the challenges effective teachers and leaders face every day, what would it really take to help them ensure every student in NC has the opportunities guaranteed to them in our state constitution of equal opportunity for a sound basic education?

In a major blow to the Department for Education's workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «workload challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support workload or pupil behaviour — even though these were flagged as key issues to keep teachers in the profession.

In April, the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this cEducation (CRPE) and the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this cEducation in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this ceducation directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this challenge.

Ensuring a high - quality education for all students is the civil rights challenge of our times, and in my view, the raison d'être for every educational leader.

Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Education — Greg and Pam Miller, Challenge Charter School School of the Year — Mission Montessori Transformational Leader of the Year — Arlahee Ruiz, NFL YET College Prep Academy Business Leader of the Year — Melissa Holdaway, Arizona Charter Academy Teacher of the Year — Katelyn Toci, Imagine Camelback

In a series of columns in ASCD Express, the cofounder of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit for education reform, shares promising practices in principal leadership for improving some of the nation's most challenged urban schools.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Idaho lawmakers, policymakers, school leaders, and education stakeholders joined Bluum for a special dinner presentation about the improvements and ongoing challenges in education over the last quarter - century and what the future holds for students in Idaho and the nation.

Idaho lawmakers, policymakers, school leaders, and education stakeholders joined Bluum for a special dinner presentation about the improvements and ongoing challenges...

His experiences as a former classroom teacher, leader for state and non-profit organizations, and thought partner for districts, states, education organizations in the US and abroad, including the US Department of Education and Queen Rania's Teacher Academy, provide him with unique expertise in solving the challenges of underperformingeducation organizations in the US and abroad, including the US Department of Education and Queen Rania's Teacher Academy, provide him with unique expertise in solving the challenges of underperformingEducation and Queen Rania's Teacher Academy, provide him with unique expertise in solving the challenges of underperforming schools.

His experiences as a former classroom teacher, leader for state and non-profit organizations, and thought partner for districts, states, several countries, and the United States Department of Education and Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA) provide him with unique expertise in solving the challenges of underperforming schools.

Restoring Opportunities: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education ought to be required reading for the White House and leaders of the «My Brother's Keepers» project.

Center for Education on Social Responsibility CESR helps students become outstanding business leaders of tomorrow by preparing them to meet the ethical challenges posed by a highly competitive, globally - connected business world.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

The district's talented teachers and staff have remained focused on providing the best education possible, and district leaders have worked to find a path through these challenges while laying the foundation for improved student performance and greater educational equity.

For the teachers and education leaders attending this meeting, the challenge is to take on a some of those same qualities, to advance the goals Thorpe articulated so well.

Future challenges include ensuring that the state maintains the necessary capacity for the regular feedback and support that education quality and feedback specialists provide preparation program leaders with, especially as additional programs enter the state.

We have a major challenge ahead of us to reverse these policy mistakes and I hope that this can be a «wake up» call for the need to rebuild the leadership consensus that once made Texas the national leader in education reform.

Head Geoff Barton (pictured left) will challenge Chris Kirk (pictured right), an education consultant, for the top job in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), a move described as «unprecedented» by former general secretary Brian Lightman.

We envision ourselves as leaders in civic education for the next generation of community changemakers who are prepared to tackle the global challenges of their time.

As importantly, the tool and related resources are designed to connect education leaders, policymakers, and community members to evidence - based policies and practices for addressing their particular challenges in recruiting and retaining teachers.

«To continue to move education forward, it is essential for leaders to connect with the expertise of colleagues who face similar challenges,» said ASCD Executive Director and CEO Gene R. Carter.

The school leaders emphasized that the proposed $ 93 million cut to the Geographic Cost of Education Index — the component of the state's funding formula that gives more money to school districts where the cost of educating students is higher — would disproportionaly impact their students, and thwart their efforts to close the achievement gap for their poorest and academically challenged students.

In light of the many challenges that charter schools face, Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes charter parents to hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

Asia Society's Center for Global Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eEducation partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eeducation into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eEducation Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eeducation system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educationeducation.