Sentences with phrase «educators out of the profession»

If we really want to improve teaching, we should look to develop such models of effective evaluation rather than pursuing problematic schemes that mis - measure teachers, create disincentives for teaching high - need students, offer no useful feedback on how to improve teaching practice and risk driving some of the best educators out of the profession.

One need to go no farther than a short drive down the turnpike to civil rights expert, Dr. Yohuru Williams of Fairfield University, who has demonstrated with thunderous authority, through the actual words and sayings of Dr. Martin Luther King, that the leader of the U.S. civil rights movement would have never stood beside those who seek to privatize and monetize public education, nor would he have supported the high stakes testing obsession that has crippled the promise of public education, dehumanized children, and driven countless educators out of the profession.

Not exact matches

«Each year on National Teacher Day we thank the nation's hard - working public school educators and take time out to reflect on the future of the teaching profession,» said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel.

Like Parsons, she points out both the importance of being «out» — and the risks that step entails for gay and lesbian educators who love their profession, and who are still not protected by antidiscrimination laws in most states.

Though there is never enough support for beginning teachers (or any educator), I'm hoping I can enlist the community of Edutopia.org visitors to engage in a discussion with new members of our profession and dish out some practical tips and a few morsels of advice, consolation, and encouragement.

As educators, we can begin creating a culture of authentic appreciation within the profession by encouraging and empowering one another as we commit to courageously living out our purpose of achieving our greatest selves through servant leadership in education.

Educators in Los Angeles from an Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) Teacher Policy Team considering career trajectories have developed a toolkit for «carving out career pathways to elevate our expectations and aspirations for the future of the teaching profession.»

Still showing outward public collaboration with the Gates Foundation, funder of ill - conceived high stakes testing and teacher evaluation policies, continued to prompt parents to opt their children out of standardized tests and by this time, the punitive practices imbued by these policies have sent invaluable educators leaving the profession or fighting for MORE.

National Education Association (NEA) President Dennis Van Roekel today laid out a new action agenda for the nation's largest organization of educators that will help transform the teaching profession and accelerate student learning.

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and

But for the last 5 years I've carved out a career as a professional legal educator dedicated to helping aspiring and practicing attorneys survive the practice of law and thrive in the profession.

The College of Early Childhood Educators regulates the early childhood education profession in the public interest by ensuring Ontario's early childhood educators meet requirements set out in the Early Childhood Educators AEducators regulates the early childhood education profession in the public interest by ensuring Ontario's early childhood educators meet requirements set out in the Early Childhood Educators Aeducators meet requirements set out in the Early Childhood Educators AEducators Act, 2007.

(a) qualified members of other professions, such as physicians, social workers, lawyers, pastoral counselors, professional counselors licensed under Title 37, chapter 23, marriage and family therapists licensed under Title 37, chapter 37, or educators, from doing work of a psychological nature consistent with their training if they do not hold themselves out to the public by a title or description incorporating the words «psychology», «psychologist», «psychological», or «psychologic»;

They received a whopping 1,113 comments, a number which includes many early childhood educators and advocates, including NAEYC Affiliates, all of who were mobilized and out in force to fight against the codification of a false dichotomy that separates «care» from «education,» reflecting an outdated understanding of the roles and expectations of the early childhood profession.