Sentences with phrase «educational challenges as»

Must be teaching in a rural school district or those that are economically impacted and underserved; this can also extend to schools that face greater educational challenges as well.

Our worst discipline problems usually present our biggest educational challenges as well.

Not exact matches

In a video for educational organization coalition ReadyWA, she says: «Teaching has really changed me as a person and taught me how to embrace risks and challenges within my own life.»

We work with a network of teachers who use our framework and guidelines to ensure a consistent and hiqh quality educational experience that can deliver the needed knowledge in your business or corporation to understand the threats and opportunities as well as challenges and paths to grasping this complex and hard - to - grasp technology and theory we call Blockchain.

Taube Philanthropies» executive director, Shana Penn, said, «Taube Philanthropies is committed to being there for people and communities in need, whether those needs be long - term cultural and educational challenges, or critical emergency relief such as that which faces us in Houston.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful churcAs the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful churcas well as the corruptions of a politically powerful churcas the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Since its start as a stress - reduction program in 2003, the Challenge Success team has felt it «had to speak out against an increasingly fast - paced world that was interfering with sound educational practices and harming kids physically and mentally,» the introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared» reads.

As homeschooling children reaches high school age, parents usually face some new educational challenges.

Our local team of community experts will help meet the needs of parents as they tackle many challenging parenting issues... sleep, breastfeeding, maternity education and preparation, child and environmental safety, food and nutrition, parenting, and educational and special needs advocacy.

As their fine motor skills and logical thinking starts to develop even more, they really need educational toys that are going to challenge them to learn and grow.

Includes the pros and cons of «mainstreaming» children into regular educational settings, as well as advice from parents about how to to handle the emotional, bureaucratic, and other challenges of raising a child with special needs.

More than 120 hand - crafted wreaths made by Chicagoland school children decked the halls of Shedd Aquarium this holiday season as part of an educational program called the Wreath - Cycled Classroom Challenge, hosted by the aquarium's Auxiliary Board.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

Mayer discussed the implications of this research for policymakers, claiming that there is a place for small games that focus on well - specified learning objectives, become more challenging as students learn, and fit within existing educational programs to supplement, complement, and / or extend traditional instruction rather than replace it.

As the world is changing rapidly, so should the past reasoning behind the present educational systems be challenged?

As with many notions that challenge the educational status quo, this one can be traced to Paul Hill, the protean researcher at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).

Furthermore, schools of white segregation — as well as those that concentrate students of color — do not provide the educational opportunities for students to learn to challenge stereotypes and live and work in a diverse society.

I think that you're right to identify these challenges as key to driving successful educational change but I think that crucially, we first need to consider the underlying purpose and philosophy of our educational systems and their relationship to wider societal change.

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

ISEEN sees itself as «an international learning laboratory and networking opportunity through which independent school experiential educators and administrators can share their program challenges and successes, learn of and from model programs, and explore the developing role of experiential practices within our educational communities.»

One of WIDE World's challenges in offering online professional development courses, as with any educational program, is determining whether learners are actually putting course ideas into action.

You can further the educational component by initiating schoolwide challenges, such as «No - Waste Lunch Day,» during which students and staff attempt to throw as little as possible into the trash at the end of the lunch period.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

As such, it personalizes and makes more understandable the educational challenges we face.

New York — Practicing educators praised the College Board, at its annual meeting here last week, for providing a sensible approach to educational reform, and they challenged the organization to continue pressing for a high - school curriculum that develops students» competencies as well as their knowledge of specific subjects.

I believe that we must confront these complex challenges, as part of a robust response to the educational challenges our neediest students face.

Charters there have faced regulatory challenges in recent years, particularly in Detroit, leading some to paint her as the sheriff of an educational Wild West.

Keeping in mind the challenge of finding unbiased research on the educational impact of one - to - one computing, as well as the difficulty of isolating one variable (such as technology) in such a complex and hard - to - quantify concept as student achievement, what does the research show?

Even as the state - and federal - led accountability movement presents new challenges to local control, the political, economic, and educational arguments for local control are also likely to continue to enjoy support.

Join us as we examine what it would take to develop the systems, the institutions, and the teachers we need to achieve educational equity and prepare all students for the challenges of the future.

As a result, we should see schools change exponentially over the next 20 years, to meet the challenges driving these educational changes today.

But the educational challenges I had encountered as a teacher stayed with me.

To us, this initiative means NBU and its active - learning programs no longer exist solely as an external force challenging the educational system: There is a demand for reform within the school system, and we believe it will grow.

As Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute details in the report, publicly funded educational choice programs have a mixed record in court, but STC laws have a perfect record of withstanding constitutional challenges.

This article explores the benefits of educational technology in a learning environment and the challenges learning providers might face as we enter 2016.

In addition to legal challenges, opponents of special education vouchers are beginning to advance political and educational arguments against the idea as new programs are being considered in states such as Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and the existing Ohio program is poised to expand.

As the founder and president of the Efficacy Institute, a Waltham, Massachusetts - based nonprofit educational training and consulting company, Howard basks in the challenge of changing minds.

Diversity Challenged, edited by noted researcher Gary Orfield, forecasts that affirmative action's legal and political future may turn on a single question — whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.

As there are no text book answer for many of the educational and social challenges faced by teachers today, Greenfield's focus on the subjective provides scope for classroom teachers to share in the leadership of solution finding through collective inquiry.

«He has a keen interest in how diverse modes of academic research can benefit education practice and policy,» Faust added, «and how the concrete challenges facing educational leaders and policymakers, as well as teachers and students, can helpfully inform the scholarship and teaching we do here.

The plans aim to tackle those inequalities and ensure Britain is a country that «truly works for everyone» by looking at the experience and outcomes for children who face the most challenges in mainstream school - including those at greatest risk of exclusion - such as those with special educational needs (SEN), children with autism or children in need of help and protection, including those in care.

As part of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, an interfaculty initiative that brings together accomplished leaders interested in complex social challenges such as education, health, environment, and poverty, the conference will consider how social entrepreneurs can help fill leadership gaps to support educational institutions that promote children and youth to develop the skills and dispositions necessary to get along and live.As part of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, an interfaculty initiative that brings together accomplished leaders interested in complex social challenges such as education, health, environment, and poverty, the conference will consider how social entrepreneurs can help fill leadership gaps to support educational institutions that promote children and youth to develop the skills and dispositions necessary to get along and live.as education, health, environment, and poverty, the conference will consider how social entrepreneurs can help fill leadership gaps to support educational institutions that promote children and youth to develop the skills and dispositions necessary to get along and live...

As we consider the challenge of building teams it is necessary to examine the classical traditions of educational leadership, as it is these perspectives that have laid the foundation for our thinking todaAs we consider the challenge of building teams it is necessary to examine the classical traditions of educational leadership, as it is these perspectives that have laid the foundation for our thinking todaas it is these perspectives that have laid the foundation for our thinking today.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

The challenges are high as educational publishers» ultimate users are counted in millions, and access to media - extensive materials is practically concurrent.

-- Paul Saffo, Futurist In 1996, President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union address challenged the nation to ensure — as a matter of educational equity and opportunity — that every classroom be connected to the Internet and equipped with computers, good software, and -LSB-...]

(a) In grades kindergarten through five, the program shall be designed by a certified school counselor in coordination with the teaching staff, and any appropriate pupil personnel service providers, for the purpose of preparing students to participate effectively in their current and future educational programs, to provide information related to college and careers, and to assist students who may exhibit challenges to academic success, including but not limited to attendance or behavioral concerns, and where appropriate make a referral to a properly licensed professional and / or certified pupil personnel service provider, as appropriate, for more targeted supports.

School districts with high levels of socioeconomic diversity face significant challenges as they try to satisfy diverse educational preferences.