Sentences with phrase «classroom leaders now»

District, site, and classroom leaders now have a tool to gauge where they are and how to improve.

Not exact matches

We're now seeing Uber using a combination of classroom and online, virtual learning (with local office facilitators) to engage 6,000 leaders of an 18,000 - employee firm to accelerate a cultural shift.

Discovery Education, which provides digital content to half of U.S. classrooms, is now helping school leaders integrate innovative technology practices in their schools through a program called Digital Leader Corps.

These are the kinds of problems — murky, time - sensitive, and without clear roadmaps — that educators, school leaders, and parents know well, says Professor Meira Levinson, a former teacher who now studies ethical dilemmas in the classroom.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classroom.

Of course now, as an adult with over 14 years of experience in the education field as a teacher and school leader, Camacho Lewis knows that the problem her teacher had is not unusual; not every educator can artfully and caringly address difficult social problems, especially matters of race and class, in the classroom.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

And, for older children, we are working a lot with data from the Tripod Project [now based at Tripod Education Partners, Inc.], which I founded more than a decade ago to help school leaders understand what students of different racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds experience at the classroom level.

Another major EPE publication, Teacher Magazine, drew plaudits during its long run in print (1989 to 2007) and now reaches a highly engaged audience of classroom teachers and teacher leaders through the Education Week Teacher channel of edweek.org.

Valentina Gonzalez has been a classroom instructor, an ESL coach, and now a district - level leader for ELL professional development.

Using Opportunity Culture models, districts are extending great teachers» reach to more students now, without bigger classes, Bryan noted — and in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, for example, teacher - leaders make $ 23,000 more than the salary schedule with these models, which give all teachers opportunities for career advancement without having to leave the classroom.

With a sympathetic president as a partner, national union leaders could have spent the last five years telling their members the truth: The nation's classrooms are changing fast, now at 50 percent poor and minority students, and our schools are simply not good enough for too many students.

Building on a parent's interests and skills, teachers and school leaders are now able to match individual parents to needs and opportunities in their classroom and school.

I've been doing those segments for about two years now, and greatly enjoy the opportunity to talk with educators and education leaders about what is actually working in our classrooms.

Taggart's Driving School in cooperation with AAA Auto Club South, along with the nationally recognized leader in on - line education, the American Safety Council, now offer a 30 - hour «virtual classroom,» licensed by the State of Georgia Department of Driver Services, meeting the requirements under Joshua's Law for the theoretical portion (30 hours of classroom) of a driver's education program.