Sentences with phrase «create educational change»

The time to create educational change is now, it isn't an option.

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An initiative of international charity and educational partner, Free The Children, and supported by RBC and Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., the We Create Change Tour will run from April 11 - June 17, 2014...

2014.04.02 Double amputee Spencer West embarks on coast to coast road trip to celebrate Canadian students opening the doors to education around the world An initiative of international charity and educational partner, Free The Children, and supported by RBC and Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., the We Create Change Tour will run from April 11 - June 17, 2014...

Rob Klim is the Ethical Issues Officer at the UEA Students» Union, which leads campaigns to create positive change and allows students to shape their educational experience.

Coalition, a group of several local organizing factions, with plans to hold a forum and to create an educational fund for Clark's kids, and try to «support transformational change.»

St Paul has also been able to change its school food bidding process to favor regionally and locally sourced produce, resulting in about 40 % of its produce now coming from local farms, and it created educational materials for the lunch room to introduce kids to the local farmers growing their food.

Unfortunately, not all schools are created equal and I think that those who find themselves dissatisfied with their local school should feel free to either try to change it (which we tried and failed as other parents did not seem concerned, nor was the principal open to change or our volunteer help to find other suitable educational alternatives to watching Pixar movies) or look elsewhere.

In an effort to protect one of our most precious gifts we go to parenting lengths of changing our lifestyles, creating a more educational environment, and usually child - proofing our home.

Jané works incredibly hard and puts a lot of resources into creating this awareness and changing habits with its educational programmes (Jané Educa) and its continuous studies regarding child mobility.

Leaked documents from the free - market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.

Working sessions during the conference will include articulating key concepts and competencies and how they are best assessed; student — centered learning including how students learn and appropriate pedagogy; the role of scientific research in the curriculum; implementing and evaluating educational innovations; expanding the toolkit of approaches to teaching for both current and future faculty; and changing institutional cultures to overcome barriers and create incentives for innovation.

She is one of the leading research administration presenters, creating and conducting educational offerings, as well as presenting up to date information on changes within our profession.

The course you create should be device and system agnostic, because the digital environment changes constantly and educational trends such as flipped classroom or BYOD are becoming more and more prominent.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

«I'm hoping that through conversations with some of these young artists I will gain a better understanding of the role of the arts in creating educational spaces for wider social change.»

Composed of four online modules, the CAEL certificate is designed to help current and aspiring system - level leaders develop a robust understanding of the complexities within educational systems, while honing the leadership skills to create transformational change.

I suggested that to create positive change in our field, we would have to push back against the currents of inequality and the ideologies of individualism that underlie so many educational institutions today.

While Fasna agrees with the general direction of the policy, that creating autonomous schools is the best way to raise educational standards, it believes that the speed at which the government is planning these changes could be cause for alarm.

Consequently, we believe that Global Citizenship Education has the ability to act as seeds of social change (locally and globally), to create a cognitive conflict between the various educational actors and build a significant learning as an entrepreneurial fruits sustained in practice, as for example in the performance and participation of citizens in solving social problems.

Such policies also create incentives for schools that do accept voucher students to change their educational programs to match what the state tests.

Helping to create positive change in educational policies and programs, and finding solutions for refugee and immigrant youth is a career goal for Trujillo.

Hear the story of how 200 + schools and districts have overcome the inertia of traditional instruction and created an imperative for a dramatic shift in educational practices to better prepare students for a more complex, constantly changing future.

A small number of states have used levers intended to create modest system change.265 For example, Indiana adopted a 5 point educational quality indicator system in 2001, and merged its independent Teacher Professional Standards Board into the Department of Education in 2005.

As opposed to hoping educational change trickles down from national or regional policies and external pre-packaged reforms, tutorial networks create change from the grassroots level.

Margaret Kilgo, well - known TX strategist and educator, develops and presents seminars and workshops for districts» teachers and administrators to be better able to excel in today's changing educational arena; topics include: creating curricula to meet state standards, making district / site decisions that are data - driven, and designing district assessments that align with state assessments.

When The Mind Trust, a local nonprofit incubator of educational leadership and innovation, released its «Creating Opportunity Schools» report in December 2011, it outlined in great detail its core position that IPS «is broken» with catastrophic results for students» and would take radical restructuring to achieve needed and lasting change.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

The evolution of this school is both a proactive response to ever - changing legislation as well as an effort to lead out locally and nationally in a way that allows us to design, create, and control this unique educational space.

Operating with the philosophy that the unit of change was the school, small schools emerged as a preventive strategy that empowered the principal and teachers to create an educational program to serve their students.

With an increased focus on connecting educational leadership to student learning, creating cultures of improvement, and other big picture concepts, the standards can be seen, in part, as a force for helping principals remind us as a nation that the moral purpose of educational change is to improve society and the lives of its citizens, especially those most in need.

Change.School is a powerful 8 - week online experience for educational leaders who are serious about designing and creating relevant, sustainable change in their schools and districts.

Welcome to Change.School, a powerful 8 - week experience for educational leaders who are serious about designing and creating relevant, sustainable change in their schools and districts.

Just consider efforts need to change from an educational system where students primarily consume information to one where students are creating and innovating.

Topics to be explored include how organizational culture influences such things as making staffing decisions, using data driven professional development, understanding the barriers to organizational reform, managing and changing culture, understanding governance structures for public and private schools and other organizations, and creating principles of equity, diversity, inclusivity, accountability as well as researching future educational visions.

Impatient with the slow pace of educational change, US entrepreneurs from computing companies such as Google and IBM have even created their own alternative start - up schools instead.

Austin, TX — Over seventy delegates from six communities around the Central Texas region composed of students, teachers, administrators, higher education, community and business leaders are convening next week to create a historic plan for closing achievement gaps that will feed into a 21st century blueprint to bring about educational change in Central Texas.

As a partial solution, Duncan proposed creating new roles for teachers that let them continue to work with children in the classroom «while being an integral part of educational improvements» locally and nationally, with «regular opportunities to give feedback» to the administrators who are changing policy.

Claire has developed innovative programs and practices for diverse populations of new learners of English in various New York City public schools and as Executive Director of Internationals Network, works to create appropriate educational opportunities for new and changing immigrant populations.

Created to drive educational change at scale, OnRamps has served over 20,000 students on more than 170 secondary campuses.

School choice is creating generational changes across Louisiana, and I'm extremely proud of the reforms we made to offer greater opportunities and educational options for our children.»

Our organization creates life - changing educational experiences for students and, through this work, transforms a city.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

For more than 100 years, we have been preparing educational leaders to be change agents, providing them with the skills, knowledge and determination to create environments in which all students can learn.

All of MSA's directors have not only been catalysts for change in their own communities, they are leading a national dialogue and creating strategies for magnet schools by improving educational environments now that lead us into the future.

Created to drive educational change at scale, OnRamps has...

Charter schools were created to provide public education choices for families, encourage competition to fuel innovation and change, improve educational outcomes for students, and promote academic and operational accountability for public schools.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Increases the capacity of colleagues to identify and use multiple assessment tools aligned to state and local standards; b) Collaborates with colleagues in the design, implementation, scoring, and interpretation of student data to improve educational practice and student learning; c) Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection in order to engage colleagues in challenging conversations about student learning data that lead to solutions to identified issues; and d) Works with colleagues to use assessment and data findings to promote changes in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning.

An awesome educational resource, BAD RAP also re-homes dogs and works tirelessly to create lasting, positive change for pit bulls in the community.

The Institute will continue to use our strong convening power to create high - level, cross-sector events that will identify new models and methods for using parks as important educational tools on climate change.