Sentences with phrase «classroom across the country»

Be A Learning Hero allows parents to navigate the changes happening in classrooms across the country so they can help their children be successful in school.

Education reform is in the air and taking root in thousands of classrooms across the country.

In many classrooms across the country, neither students nor teachers feel very smart.

In the past year, leading technology companies have made big strides in bringing tablet computers into classrooms across the country.

Many school classrooms across the country today were designed before the invention of computers and possibly, for some, prior to the invention of electricity.

We also teamed up with other classrooms across the country to do the same.

After all, 80 % of new teachers who entered classrooms across the country last year graduated from traditional teacher training programs.

I wanted to donate new books to needy classrooms across the country, but how to find a sustainable source of revenue to support it?

They want to make sure they understand how to deal with this difficult issue threatening classrooms across the country.

The fact is that right now in too many classrooms across our country there is very little relationship between the established standards and what is actually taught.

Every year my colleagues and I collectively spend thousands of hours in schools and classrooms across the country helping teachers and leaders improve the quality of instruction.

As students return to school this year, many will be in one of the more than 100,000 classrooms across the country staffed by an instructor not fully qualified to teach.

What I know is that in classrooms across the country where I see educators flipping the way they think about and use assessments, teachers are connecting planning and assessment and instruction.

We work with teachers and combine our knowledge to create lesson plans to be used in classrooms across the country.

As it expands to reach more elementary school classrooms across the country, the program will rely on direct financial support from the pet industry.

Students will be able to interact not only with each in their virtual classroom, but also with other classrooms across the country.

In many classrooms across the country, students are assigned laptops or tablets, which they use to carry out in - class research, lessons, and projects.

Based on the works by best - selling ASCD authors, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, the FIT Teaching approach is transforming classrooms across the country through proven, research - based methods that positively influence student achievement.

My experience with online content started back in 1989 when I worked for a service called Learning Link, connecting classrooms across the country and around the globe.

We would not be where we are today — transforming classrooms across the country, paving the way for students to become life - long learners, and engaging parents meaningfully in their children's learning — without the help of our donors and supporters.

The STEM in Schools event, run by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, forms part of National Science Week and will see classrooms across the country come alive with science as students participate in a virtual classroom discussion with STEM professionals working in the international space industry.

Hundreds of thousands of students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country on March 14 as part of the National School Walkout.

In doing so it makes itself out of touch with the reality of a vibrant part of what is going on in many RE classrooms across the country.»

The National Education Association reports that, as of 2004, nearly every general education classroom across the country includes students with physical and / or learning disabilities.

And I know that there are others out there in schools, starving in classrooms across the country because their way in the world is through the tip of a pencil, through visual thinking, and they are not being taught how to nurture or develop what I call the «drawing mind.»

And it's no wonder: The white, powdery sticks, made from gypsum or calcium sulfate, have been used in classrooms across the country since the 1800s, when class sizes grew and teachers found it easier to teach using big slate blackboards at the front of the room rather than having students writing on individual tablets at their desks.

The projects — models of high - quality student work in subjects across the disciplines, from classrooms across the country — were the focal point of a workshop for arts - inspired educators, part of a three - day professional development summit earlier this month called Arts and Passion - Driven Learning.

Teaching has many goals, but for years, didactic lectures dominated classrooms across the country.

Only one in 10 elementary classrooms across the country emphasizes the development of cognitive skills; other researchers have advocated for explicit instruction of metacognitive, cognitive, and other strategies to facilitate the process of learning as a way to engage and motivate middle and high school students.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education said separate schools for children of color were unacceptable, the same deep - seated inequalities that drove parents to the courtroom in 1954 haunt classrooms across the country.

In its design and goals, the fellowship clearly differs from Teach for America, the 25 - year - old highly selective program that recruits college seniors on elite campuses such as Harvard, gives them five weeks of training and places them in two - year teaching jobs in some of the most challenging classrooms across the country.

Let me remind you that we currently do not even arm teachers with the basic tools and resources required to properly teach in the insanely over-crowded classrooms across the country.

Move This World (MTW) helps students and educators in classrooms across the country understand, express and manage their emotions healthily in order to create safe and supportive environments where effective teaching and learning can occur.

New York, NY — January 13, 2014 — The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), a new, independent nonprofit organization created with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been awarded a three - year, $ 12M grant by the Foundation to utilize the LDC framework and technology tools to help educators implement the Common Core State Standards in primary and secondary classrooms across the country.

Revealing examples based on the authors» experiences in classrooms across the country show what evaluation, supervision, and reflection look like when they're not done well — and what they could look like if done more effectively.

With the introduction of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in science classrooms across the country, many administrators are asking, What does quality NGSS - aligned science instruction look like?

To help address this gap, the Head Start CARES demonstration evaluated the implementation and impacts of three interventions that included classroom - based social - emotional strategies, along with professional development (teacher training and coaching) and related supports for scaling up the program, in Head Start classrooms across the country.

There are 23.5 million Black and Brown students sitting in K — 12 classrooms across the country who can not afford for us not to.

The National WWII Museum offers the following interactive, fast - paced «Virtual Field Trips» that are videoconferenced LIVE into classrooms across the country.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

Extend the impact of the Discover Your Happy Virtual Field Trip by connecting your students with classrooms across the country through a live online conversation.

Like most things in life, there are positives and negatives and I, for one, believe that the potential for the CCSS to connect classrooms across this country is a great positive.

It simply seemed a natural idea to expand on his success and bring his idea to other classrooms across the country.

In the interim, TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) is placing computer scientists in high school classrooms across the country.

In fact, in many classrooms across the country, the only time children are exposed to lessons about lifeskills are during «push - in» experiences and occur as a «reward» or happen once a month (Durden, 2008; Darling - Hammond, 2012; Gatto, 2009).