Sentences with phrase «educators talk about each year»

Behavior issues are typically high on the list of school problems educators talk about each year, but often not as high on the list of professional development topics school administrators stake out for the staff.

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Now on leave from teaching, Kamras recently talked with Education World about how he hopes to spend the next year talking about the need to remedy the disparities among public education systems and honoring his fellow educators.

Perrotti makes the comparison that, years ago, when we first started talking about different configurations of families or students, educators often worried about how to talk to young kids «about sex» when those kinds of discussions in schools didn't happen until at least fifth grade.

I kept having that feeling of — I know what he's talking about, I've lived it for years as an urban educator — but I've never seen anyone make such a clear argument for the fact that schools need to focus on developing students» social and emotional skills.

Pollock's three years of ethnographic research on race labeling at Columbus — a high school whose name has been changed to protect the community's privacy — led her to discover six core dilemmas of American race talk and to explore how educators and policymakers might engage in constructive conversations about race.

For civics educators, talking about the election may require a different approach than they've taken in previous years.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

As an educator working with young children, do you talk with your counterparts in the early childhood sector or early years of primary school about student transition?

Educators from all districts talked about the need for (and utilization of) diagnostic and formative assessments of student progress throughout the school year, in addition to state achievement - test data.

If your Parent Teacher Home Visits program has been running strong for at least two years, let's talk about certifying your experienced educators and families to become your local training team.

AACTE has partnered with Education Talk Radio for more than a year to broadcast interviews about the success and innovation in educator preparation.

As much as we educators don't want to talk about «teaching to the test», if we are authentically ensuring that students are being given every opportunity to be knowledgeable about what are the essential learnings, they should be well prepared for end of the year assessments.

In this interview, Jhoanna talks with E4E - Chicago Senior Outreach Director Adam Marshand about the upcoming Third Annual Policy Selection Dinner on Wednesday, Nov. 2 and how educators can share their voice and choice for policy recommendations this school year.

I've been doing those segments for about two years now, and greatly enjoy the opportunity to talk with educators and education leaders about what is actually working in our classrooms.

They also talk about a «school quality review» conducted by «expert educators» to determine whether schools are actually providing high - quality education for all children, something similar to the school inspection process that Education Sector (now part of the American Institutes for Research) was touting as an alternative to AYP a few years ago.

Over the last two years, I have talked with thousands of educators about the standards, and I have realized that one of the biggest risks we currently face is full - speed implementation without an understanding of the changes that the standards require.

A few years ago, while I was talking with principals in Connecticut about research on school culture — the «secret sauce» of school improvement — one principal posed a question that revealed why many educators dislike, or at least disregard, research: Where should leaders start in trying to improve a school culture?

«I sometimes hear educators talk about students who are 16 or 17 years old who have never thought about what a transcript is or about taking the ACT — and by that point, it's a harder lift to do everything they need to do to get ready for college.

«Educators for years have talked with excitement about the possibilities for using tablet devices in education, to really change the game.

His human assistant, Megan Kelly, has been a ski patroller for nine years at Fernie and is one of our snow safety educators, talking to schools about our snow safety programs.

Many educators and leaders in our industry have been telling us for years not to talk politics, not to talk religion, not to talk about anything at all that might be possibly divisive.