Sentences with phrase «driven teaching initiatives»

Seek Education Instructional Director role that will allow for technology - driven teaching initiatives while expertly moving students into the 21st Century in education, technology, comprehension, and retention of scholastic studies.

Seek Educator role that will allow for technology - driven teaching initiatives while expertly moving students into the 21st Century in education, technology, comprehension, and retention of scholastic studies.

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Many of the new initiatives are based on the educational ideas that created the problems in our schools, such as the drive to teach «thinking skills» in a knowledge vacuum.

For green conscious schools who invest a lot of time and effort into teaching students to use less electricity, walk to school instead of driving, and take shorter showers (all great initiatives), this information may come as a surprise.

So, while the debate may ensue about the time required and benefits of standardized assessment driven by accountability initiatives, the classroom formative assessment — when applied as intended — can have powerful effects on teaching and learning.

Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve outcomes for students: third grade reading requirements, literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.

Winners of the Innovation Award will join the high - impact Innovation Unit, supported by Bloomberg and an on - going initiative run by Teach First to support entrepreneurs driving solutions for educational inequality.

We believe deeply in keeping teachers» voices at the center of the educational conversation in Oakland so that the teaching profession is highly respected, teachers» voices are heard, and teachers are driving the educational initiatives in Oakland.

Improving the retention of minority teachers recruited into teaching, by addressing the factors that drive them out, could prevent the loss of recruitment resources invested and lessen the need for more recruitment initiatives.»

New York Law professor and program organizer Elizabeth Chambliss says several factors helped spark the initiative: deep cuts in associate hiring, recession - driven changes to the broader legal market and the Carnegie Foundation's highly critical 2007 report on how law schools are failing to teach students practical skills.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

One of the best examples in this regard is the celebrated Code to Inspire initiative which is a non-profit project «committed to educating female students in Afghanistan and improving their technical literacy by teaching them how to code so that they can find future employment as a freelancer and become entrepreneurs driving innovation.»