Sentences with phrase «first teachers and coaches»

«Fathers are our first teachers and coaches... they're our mentors, our role models» the President told a gathering of local students, families and womens advocates.

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First, I want to talk about its author, my 9th grade English teacher and debate coach Robert Pacilio, the adult who was perhaps the most formative influence upon me outside of my parents and perhaps a couple Sunday school teachers.

First I want to thank the Brothers of the Christian Schools who hired me at the age of 24 to be a teacher and coach at this outstanding school.

An S.I. teacher had a friend who played lacrosse at Dartmouth, and that's how future U.S. congressman John Carney (D - Delaware) became the Wildcats» first coach.

As a therapist who has taught on the national level for over a decade to families and childcare organizations like Parents As Teachers, First Steps, Children's Hope International, and more about the value of attachment, I knew that truly gentle sleep support for parents was hard to come by and too often attached to a big price tag (from $ 50 to sometimes $ 350 for private coaching, site memberships, books / videos, etc).

Consider getting written statements from teachers, coaches, even your neighbors if they have first - hand knowledge of the relationship between you and your child, and the relationship between your child and your ex.

Kevin began his career as a high school history teacher and coach, first at Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I., from 1985 to 1987, and then at Concord Academy in Concord, Mass., from 1987 to 1995.

Project WORTHY is aimed to establish response teams made up of health professionals, law enforcement, first responders, parents, teachers, coaches, clergy, business leaders and youth to help those suffering from addiction and to educate communities about prevention, intervention and responses to addiction.

The world's first international study on homophobia in sport, «Out on the Fields,» has found widespread homophobia in UK sport, prompting calls for a zero tolerance approach towards discrimination and better training for coaches, teachers and officials.

You've probably heard gurus, teachers and even business coaches tell you that to achieve what you want, you first need to visualize yourself doing it.

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Intuitive Trauma Sensitive Hatha Yoga Teacher, Yoga For First Responders Teacher, Holistic Health Coach, Certified Holistic Nutrition Coach, Herbalist in Training, Featured Thought Leader Content Contributor www.TheWellnessUniverse.com, Author of the forthcoming book, «Soul Food: Transitioning to Compassionate Whole Food Choices That Heal Body, Mind and Spirit»

This year, as the first MCL at Ranson, I lead two pods of three teachers and one learning coach (or teaching assistant) each, and I am responsible for the learning outcomes of 800 6th and 7th graders.

His experiences as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school leader, district administrator and consultant have provided him with the foundation necessary to understand first - hand the needs of students and educators.

Prior to joining EdTechTeacher, Avra was first a classroom teacher and later the Instructional Technology Coordinator and coach for a K - 8 school district in Northern Illinois.

But teachers, administrators, and literacy coaches from around the country danced to a roving jazz band and joined in Mardi Gras - style revelry at the opening of the second annual national Reading First conference here late last month.

The first phase includes 256 teachers and administrators taking the course with 25 «coaches» or study group leaders, who act almost like teaching fellows.

TFA already provides a coach, called a manager of teacher leadership and development, to every corps member (TFA says 89 percent of its first - year corps members return for a second year, and 63 percent go into education as a career).

The district selected thirty - three veteran teachers to become full - time coaches to lead the initiative and launched an intensive training program that continued through the initiative's first three years.

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

Barbash's review of Reading First programs in four states and in the Bureau of Indian Education is important because it highlights critical factors essential to reading improvement: strong leadership, effective professional development for teachers and principals, data - driven differentiated instruction, specific coaching and guidance to ensure implementation fidelity, and continuous program evaluation.

Offering too much advice or the wrong kind of coaching upon that first meeting can cause anxiety and trepidation for the beginner teacher.

Before our first assembly, we primed our teachers by having them watch Carol Dweck's TED talk «The Power of Yet» and coached them to use that language in their classrooms.

The first is that some school leaders didn't have any guiding frameworks or rubrics that they could use to drive instruction and teacher coaching in their buildings.

«From founding a thriving STEM school to testifying before the U.S. Senate, training thousands of teachers across the country on the AFT's Thinking Mathematics program and coaching a national - qualifying FIRST Robotics team, she has done it all.

«Many things have changed in my teaching career, but one thing that's been consistent is the excitement a new FIRST LEGO League season and challenge brings,» said Ian Chow - Miller, teacher and FIRST LEGO League coach.

Sometimes this is a first step for teachers working with coaches — and student learning plays a critical role throughout coaching.

We have seen first - hand the power that coaching can have on teachers, and ultimately students.

To support the roll - out across the schools, Gwinnett tapped into local school technology coordinators (LSTCs), who are teachers with deep knowledge of instructional design who are embedded within the schools, to provide ongoing coaching and training through the first year of implementation.

Rebecca used to be a teacher at the school and is now in her first year as a full - time coach.

She provided professional development for first and second year teachers and instructional and management on - going coaching and support for teachers K - 12 in a variety of subjects.

During the first stage, most coaches observed and analyzed their assigned teachers» classrooms.

During her twenty years as an educator, she has been a first grade teacher, ELL teacher, literacy coach, and reading specialist.

For example, each school team, consisting of a principal, instructional coach, k - 1 classroom teachers and intervention specialists, has the opportunity to engage in professional learning experiences with an external literacy consultant for the first two years of implementation.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

From 1995 - 1998, John was a middle school teacher at the Nativity Mission School, which served low income Latino boys living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and then at the Boston Renaissance Charter School, where he also coached the school's first girls» basketball team.

This first phase was recently jump - started with a full day of professional development led by Pete Hall, a middle school principal from Spokane, Wash., and coauthor of Building Teachers» Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders.

The Peer Coaching program is helping to sustain the large investments made in educational technology and teacher training in the past three years and to assure our children receive a first - class 21st Century education.»

Maddie Fennell, NBCT, has been an elementary teacher in the Omaha Public Schools for 27 years, teaching in first, fourth and sixth grades and mentoring her peers as a literacy coach.

She also recently returned to her alma mater, Relay Graduate School of Education, as an Adjunct Professor, teaching and coaching first - year teachers.

Dr. Moody's experiences as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school leader, district administrator and consultant have provided him with the foundation necessary to understand first - hand the needs of students and educators.

Now Wednesdays are early release days, and teachers have six hours of professional development, coaching and feedback during the first three weeks of every month.

I have been fortunate in my career as a primary school teacher and now as an instructional coach to work with building administrators who put students first, and as a teacher leader I strive to be a true example of student - centered teaching and learning.

Before bringing the professional development to those different groups, we conducted a first - round pilot with a group of 12 very tolerant teachers and math coaches.

Specifically, I present how leaders — from the assistant superintendent and coaches to teachers — created new forms of reading instruction melding the principles and practices of Accountability First and Just Read.

The student becomes a first - hand inquirer and the teacher resembles a combination of coach, resource procurer, mentor, and guide.

The first part of this was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner - city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher - coaches that supports novice teachers.

Weekly home visits use a Primary Service Provider Model with a Coaching method to effectively help parents as their child's first and best teacher.

For instance, being the pilot year, CTs used a process of trial and error in order to develop and refine their coaching and training of first year teachers.