Sentences with phrase «educator training initiatives»

For information on GLSEN's research, educational resources, public policy advocacy, student organizing programs and educator training initiatives, visit www.glsen.org.

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Funding has been obtained from NSF to support a stable cohort of such students whose duties involve the training of a new generation of graduate researchers to work in the museum; the presentation of information on ongoing research to museum educators and interested parents; the tracking of participation by children and families in such research initiatives.

Every educator has attended at least one training session that lasted too long, learned a new district - wide initiative that quickly flopped, or faced a staff trainer who was confusing or antagonistic.

State - level training initiatives and university graduate programs are focusing attention on college advising in an effort to better equip these educators to help disadvantaged students pursue postsecondary options.

Thus gap - closers approach the challenge not as educators but as social engineers, determined to see schools fix the problems that job - training initiatives, urban redevelopment, income supports, and a slew of other well - intentioned government welfare programs have failed to address.

Since 2006, the Wallace Foundation has supported a separate initiative, called the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL), to provide training on campus and in the field for teams of school - district leaders and the leaders of their state education departments (two states each year).

For more information on GLSEN's policy advocacy, student leadership initiatives, public education, research and educator training programs, please visit glsen.org.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Northwest Comprehensive Center (NWCC) provides high - impact training and technical assistance to SEA staff in planning, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining initiatives in priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator effectiveness, school improvement, and rigorous, college - and career - ready standards implementation.

Another resource, Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO; http://www.facinghistory.org/), is an initiative to train American educators to engage students in conversations about the Holocaust and forms of «intergroup conflict» such as racism and prejudice in order to foster «perspective taking, critical thinking, and moral decision making and to help students develop into humane and responsible citizens» (Schultz, Barr, & Selman, 2001, p. 5).

Supporting initiatives, like those led by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, will equip educators with the training they need to deliver high - quality learning opportunities for all students,» said La June Montgomery Tabron, WKKF president and CEO.

Beginning in 2014, Leading Educators partnered with AUSL Chicago to deliver trainings for school and teacher leaders working together to drive new initiatives within their schools.

Wolach leveraged his experience as a member of the first year of the Eskolta Fellows program — a series of training sessions we developed for school - and district - based educators interested in leading school - improvement initiatives — to implement action research and improvement science techniques to improve student outcomes.

Too often, new initiatives fail at schools because the professional development needed to support educators comes to a halt when training ends.

REA has evaluated four of Youth Radio «s NSF - funded initiatives to provide training in science journalism and technology development to underserved young people, and to create digital media toolkits for educators.

Our 10 Million Kids initiative has brought the film BULLY to young people and educators around the country along with a curriculum and training from our partner, Facing History and Ourselves.

The Harvard Teacher Fellows program, a teacher training initiative centered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, prepares aspiring educators to teach in under - resourced urban schools.

The federal government has highlighted the need for better educator training — something that was encouraged through the ConnectED initiative.

The California Department of Education is offering a free training session in San Diego County for educators to learn strategies for using the new Charter Schools Best Practices Project, a new initiative to strengthen charter schools across the state by providing teachers and administrators access to hundreds of online resources to aid their work.

Educators are busy with many new initiatives, they get swept away on the TRAIN OF DOING and there is little time for professional learning.

The California Department of Education is offering a free training session in Los Angeles County for educators to learn strategies for using the new Charter Schools Best Practices Project, a new initiative to strengthen charter schools across the state by providing teachers and administrators access to hundreds of online resources to aid their work.

With expanded state funding through the Colorado Empowered Learning initiative, iLearn Collaborative provides needed and affordable training to educators and offers complimentary advisory services for up to 25 Colorado school districts every year.

Preventing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidance for School Personnel (PDF - 475 KB) Colorado State Department of Education, Prevention Initiatives Unit (2002) Helps educators and other school personnel develop appropriate policy and training programs to identify, respond to, and prevent child abuse and neglect.