Sentences with phrase «expanding teacher access»

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Mr. Rodriguez, a long - time teacher at the mostly Spanish - speaking Gregorio Luperon High School, is a proponent of building more schools and expanding pre-Kindergarten access.

Senator Flanagan is a committed champion for expanding school choice and access to great teachers, and we look forward to working with him on behalf of students and parents across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

This technology will help students to learn at their own pace, expand access to advanced courses and interactive curriculum, and enhance communication between parents and teachers.

Continually looking for ways to expand the access to yoga in prisons, Kath has developed and implemented a pioneering Yoga Alliance registered 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training for women prisoners, in collaboration with The Yoga Center of Columbia, MD..

What committed Advanced Placement (AP) teacher wouldn't expand access to as many students as possible?

House Democrats gathered on Capitol Hill last week to outline their «Strengthen Our Schools» agenda, with an emphasis on teacher - quality measures, expanded access to preschool, and far higher spending on some federal programs.

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

Echoing the views of the UK's early adopters and technology experts, Schleicher commented that technology's potential to dramatically expand access to knowledge should not be ignored, citing training and teacher engagement as being the key to maximising its benefits.

This book is compiled by Education Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affordability.

There is an emerging opportunity to boost student achievement and improve working for teachers here in the U.S. — and a huge opportunity to expand access to quality learning to every young person on earth.

Among its recommendations: expand early education, improve teacher quality, support school innovation, make math and science national priorities, address the dropout crisis, and improve college access and affordability.

In that time, he won praise for uniting education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening more than 100 new schools, expanding after - school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public - private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Rethinking Class Size to Expand Access to Best Teachers and Raise Pay In this presentation given at the 39th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Suzanne Simburg shared the findings of an Edunomics Lab study exploring cost neutral options to raise teacher pay and provide more...

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Brownback proposed several initiatives, including affordable internet access for all students, expanded scholarships for college students who agree to stay and teach in Kansas and relaxing teacher certification standards to make it easier for college graduates in other fields to transition to the classroom.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.

«Technology can expand access and opportunity — from students being able to learn from an expert geologist on the other side of the country through online learning platforms, to teachers being able to get real — time results on students» learning progress.

Giving Every Student Access to Excellent Teachers: Center for American Progress and Public Impact explain potential federal government role in expanding every student's access to excellent teaching, attracting and retaining top teachers, and providing on - the - job development and higher pay http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BetterLearning-reportAccess to Excellent Teachers: Center for American Progress and Public Impact explain potential federal government role in expanding every student's access to excellent teaching, attracting and retaining top teachers, and providing on - the - job development and higher pay http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BetterLearning-repoTeachers: Center for American Progress and Public Impact explain potential federal government role in expanding every student's access to excellent teaching, attracting and retaining top teachers, and providing on - the - job development and higher pay http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BetterLearning-reportaccess to excellent teaching, attracting and retaining top teachers, and providing on - the - job development and higher pay http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BetterLearning-repoteachers, and providing on - the - job development and higher pay http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BetterLearning-report-1.pdf

The report recommended that: policy makers ensure curriculum and assessments are aligned at state, district and local levels; districts survey teachers on test prep activities and keep those that are highly rated, while dropping those that aren't; districts expand access to technology so students can develop skills before taking tests and teachers can support them; and districts only use interim tests aimed at predicting performance on end - of - the - year tests, if teachers believe they are high - quality.

A Montessori parent, teacher, and school founder, she has worked in public charter schools and is committed to expanding access to free, high - quality Montessori education for the children who need it the most.

With the recent launch of four new lesson plans, in addition to a professional development training video and an archived webinar focusing on project - based learning and 21st century skills, TGR EDU: Explore is rapidly expanding its library of transformative content for teachers, students and families in the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and college - access.

New York School Talk is eighteen months old and eager to expand our network of writers — parents, teachers, students, education leaders — who share our conviction that all New York City's children, regardless of income and ethnicity, must have access to high - quality schools.

Increasing class sizes is one way, but we have many other options, Public Impact's co-director, Bryan C. Hassel, said at Thursday's «Expanding Access to Great Teachers» discussion at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute — watch it below.

Students can access and develop their root skills in order to expand their knowledge without teachers having to devote whole class periods to studying language.

A former preschool teacher and school board member, Murray went on to address areas of the law that are not effective for many of our nation's students, suggesting greater efforts to close the achievement gap, especially among students in underserved communities; to reduce redundant and unnecessary testing; focus on preparing students for college and their career; ensure accountability; and also expand access to preschool programs.

Finally, and most importantly, the state must improve ELs» educational opportunities in school by expanding access to core content, bilingual instruction, and well - prepared teachers.

A Wiltshire academy that started a «grammar stream», giving a small group of children access to specialist teachers and lectures at a nearby private school, will continue the project for at least another year and may expand the model.

Ultimately, the goals are to attract high - quality teachers, allow principals more control over school budgets, promote faster growth for our best schools and expand access for all students to attend an excellent school.

Other possible solutions for improving access to courses have been offered by rural school advocates, like Robert Mahaffey, executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust, who proposes expanding courses in rural schools that invest more in their staff, as well as offering teachers more pathways towards credentials and certification

«Labour will expand opportunity for every child, not just a privileged few, by delivering a qualified teacher in every classroom and making sure that children have access to a broad and balanced curriculum, equipping them for a successful future.»

Education Week reported: «Over the objections of teachers» unions and many Democrats, Louisiana's Republican governor and GOP - controlled legislature have crafted one of the most exhaustive education overhauls of any state in the country, through measures that will dramatically expand families» access to public money to cover the costs of both private school tuition and individual courses offered by a menu of providers.»

We urge you to set a much higher bar, asking, «How can our tools help excellent teachers expand their impact, while maintaining their stellar outcomes, so that all students have access to this standard of excellence?»

Some of the options other than academies that are available to fund are teacher residency programs, induction programs, improving equitable access to a diverse teaching staff and effective teachers, integrating technology into the curriculum and instruction, and — yes — even establishing, expanding, or improving alternative routes to certification.

From equal funding across schools, fair distribution of quality teachers and legitimate access to a variety of meaningful experiences that foster growth and opportunity, equity is key in closing achievement gaps and expanding opportunities.

myON expands the classroom for teachers and students by providing access to more than 7,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia supports, real - time assessments and close reading tools.

By coupling priority hiring for high - needs schools with sustained financial incentives for teachers to assume positions in more challenging schools, high - needs districts can attain expanded access to diverse, high - achieving teacher candidates.

But in the end, only 12 of Louisiana's 69 district superintendents signed up, killing what backers called a onetime opportunity to expand students» and teachers» access to a wide range of educational opportunities.

ClassFlow today announced new partnerships with leading digital content developers to provide teachers with expanded access to the latest innovative, immersive, and interactive educational content.

According to a press release issued at the time, «The reorganization addresses Governor Dannel P. Malloy's six principles on education reform, including: (1) Enhancing families» access to high - quality early childhood; (2) Turning around Connecticut's lowest - performing schools and districts; (3) Expanding the availability of high - quality school models; (4) Removing red tape and other barriers to success; (5) Ensuring that our schools are home to the very best teachers and principals; and (6) Delivering more resources, targeted to districts with the greatest need - provided that they embrace key reforms that position our students for success.»

The federal government should restructure current Title V block grant funds instead as matching grants to states to expand access to high - quality PK programs and aligned PK teacher and curricular standards with elementary grades.

Although school districts control major operations on affiliated charters including employment decisions, the school gains access to the charter categorical block grant, which expands spending flexibility and can be used to reduce teacher layoffs in a given year.

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The funding could be accessed by repurposing a small percentage of Title II funds, which can already be used for residencies; by expanding the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program and dedicating a specific percentage of these funds solely to such supported entry programs; or by allocating new dollars through the appropriations process.

Expanding access to supported entry programs should be a high priority for education policy so that teachers can meet their students» needs as early in their careers as possible.

These reforms are improving teacher and principal evaluation and support, as well as turning around low - performing schools and expanding access to high - quality schools.

Join fellow teachers for an evening of free access to exhibitions, hands - on art workshops and panel discussions across the New RA's expanded campus.

Survey of over 800 practitioners shows the vast majority of early education teachers are confident technology users; expanding broadband quality and access to devices seen as opportunities