Sentences with phrase «ed schools»

There is not a high bar for ed schools,» Rodríguez said.

Career and tech ed schools focus on infusing traditional school subjects with career skills.

Professor Kurt Fischer, director of the Ed Schools Mind, Brain, and Education program, and doctoral student Chrstina Hinton recently spoke to the Swedish Parliament about connecting brain science with education.

In a separate Education Next essay written by NCTQ director Kate Walsh, she says ed schools view their mission as being to help «form» teacher thinking rather than to «train» them in techniques useful for classroom management and lesson preparation.

There remains more practical value in his «taxonomy» of forty - nine teaching techniques than in four years of most ed schools.

Scores are up because of (name your favorite fad: better texts, smaller classes, or teachers with MA degrees) or are down because of (name your favorite bogeyman: oppressive administrators, recalcitrant teacher unions, or inept ed schools).

Joel Klein wasn't the first one to notice that ed schools weren't doing a fine job training principals, and that the process needed a serious update.

Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America's Teachers by Rita Kramer Free Press, 228 pages, $ 22.95 In her lively new study based upon fourteen schools of education across the country, Rita Kramer skewers two quite distinct forms of folly.

It was started in 2007 by Madeline Levine (private psychologist, SUNY Buffalo»70 and»72 and Alliant International University - San Francisco Bay PhD» 80), Jim Lobdell (private education consultant), and Denise Clark Pope (lecturer at the Stanford Ed School).

In 1969, Jack Hood and Nor - Ed School Supplies in North Bay, Ontario were purchased by Harlequin Enterprises «the romance book company» and merged under the name Scholar's Choice.

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An Ed School student and alum come together to make an exciting and interactive contemporary art exhibit for children.

A recent book written by several from the Ed School, including Professor Bob Kegan and Lecturers Lisa Lahey, Ed.M.»

Future Ed School students, whether their programmatic experience is focused squarely or less directly on early education, will now be enrolled in a higher education institution that, in very concrete as well as symbolic ways, is organizing around the notion that the years before formal schooling are crucial.

The result is that «Kathy leaves behind a much more vibrant and energized HGSE than she inherited,» says Marcelo Suárez - Orozco, a former professor at the Ed School and the current dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Hear from a panel of Ed School professors and policymakers.

Upon learning that she had been honored with the Intellectual Contribution / Faculty Tribute Award for R&P, she answered some questions about her time at the Ed School and beyond.

Kathy has led the Ed School with extraordinary energy and effectiveness since 2005.

Across the country, Ed School alumni are involved in that process.

«And not just Ed School, but all Ed...

Thanks to the HGSE Fund, the Ed School is able to offer more financial aid, and, as a result, I hope that will enable talented people to choose to be educators regardless of their financial status.

«Expanded time certainly isn't the only thing these charter schools are doing, but I don't think any of them could conceive of going forward without more time,» says Chris Gabrieli, cofounder of Mass2020, the nonprofit overseeing the pilot program in Massachusetts, who spoke at the Ed School in December.

Equally important, as the Ed School expands and strengthens its commitment to the field of early education, the many students who come to Appian Way to participate in, and benefit from, this commitment will become part of a strong network of professionals across the early education sector who are contributing to today's ambitious early education agenda.

Is there any professor that significantly shaped your experience at the Ed School?

«It could be a longer school day, a longer year, or summer time,» Riley said at a panel discussion on turnaround schools held at the Ed School last December.

During her year at the Ed School, she began developing a plan to build Internet training centers, partnering with a Harvard Kennedy School graduate who was working in the Senegalese Ministry of Education.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

Unlike some parts of Harvard, the Ed School was reaching out to recruit minority students.

A former middle school teacher, Francois came to the Ed School to explore school sites that support urban students of color well.

All of us here today - relatives, friends, and members of the Ed School community, your community - applaud you, the class of 2008.

That kind of personal connection, that sense that the Ed School is an «us,» not just a «me» and a «you,» is what McCartney's executive assistant, Beth Berg, found with her.

In less expert hands, the language of standards merely reinforces the content - agnostic, skills - driven vision of schooling drummed into teachers in ed school.

Upon learning that she had been honored with the Intellectual Contribution / Faculty Tribute Award for AIE, Delforge answered some of our questions about her time at the Ed School and beyond.

«These videos show you that Ed School people go on to be rock stars,» says Mark Robertson, Ed.M.»

12, head of their senior school, came back to India after graduating from the Ed School and talked about what he had learned.

On a recent Saturday in May, 36 students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and their families came to the Ed School to be recognized for their participation in BPS» 10 Boys Initiative, a program aimed at «providing boys of color with the encouragement and support they need to achieve personal and academic success.»

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

04, learned at the Ed School in the Learning and Teaching Program has been a guiding principle for her ever since.

He found motivation in both emotions, however, and pushed through, knowing how much his being at the Ed School meant to his family, especially his «Grandy» and «Pappy.»

After all, the Ed School uniquely collaborated and embraced educational media, Whitney says, citing late Professor Gerald Lesser's work on Sesame Street and the collaborative media work of current faculty such as Associate Professor Tina Grotzer and Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt.

When Pendoley enrolled at the Ed School as a Special Studies master's student in the fall of 2002, the term «gap year» was just entering the American vocabulary (mostly thanks to Prince William's high - profile, post-Eton stint teaching in Chile), but the phenomenon had been around under other names for decades.

He really believes that the Ed school needs to be connecting with the field in lots of ways, because that's how we're really going to make a difference.

She says she has felt this sense of community at the Ed School, fostered by McCartney, many times during her three years here, starting when she and the other

Those decades of gap - year growth were far from Pendoley's mind when he graduated from the Ed School and began working in public schools in and around Boston.

Vidur Chopra, Ed.D. candidate at the Ed School, shares his observations on how education occurs in refugee camps from his experience living in an Ethiopian refugee camp.

What brought you to the Ed School?

Here, she shares more about her experience at the Ed School and why she chose to stand on her head.

While an Ed School student, Paez was able to craft his mission about social change in public schools.

And, after 13 years at the Ed School, eight as dean, there will be lots of memories.

On July 20, as a prelude to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) annual meeting, 75 chiefs and deputies from throughout the country will be heading to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a day of seminars, workshops, and reflective exercises led by Ed School faculty.