Sentences with phrase «focus for educators»

Thanks for a great focus for educators for the year!

The focus for educator resources is on the integration of modern technology across curriculum and grade levels.

This piqued my interest because the answer would inform where education and training needs to be focused for educators.

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In fact, it's taxing the nation's future entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists, who are increasingly focused on societal benefits but can't afford to pay for their education out of pocket.

Thomas says educators should focus on a campaign for a November ballot measure that would raise education funding from an income tax increase on wealthy residents.

Our politicians in Washington have exchanged vision for whatever the polling tells them, CEO's have exchanged integrity for a bump in the stock price, educators are more focused on their careers than their students.

As a postpartum educator, her current focus lies in preparing expecting parents for the first weeks with their newborns.

Several Mass Audubon sanctuaries partner with the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) to bring STEM - focused professional development to educators.

Mass Audubon and the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) are partnering to bring STEM - focused summertime professional development to educators on Cape Cod, the North Shore, and in Boston's western suburbs.

Most recently, he was a vice president at Educators for Excellence, a progressive non-profit group focused on public school teachers and school policy.

We often report on the struggles of Common Core Learning Standards in the classroom, but in this Focus on Education report WBFO»S Eileen Buckley takes us inside JFK Middle School in Cheektowaga to hear about how educators and students are embracing it successfully and how future teachers are gearing up for the challenge.

This conference is for educators by educators, with a focus on fostering discussion, questioning, reflective leadership and design - thinking within our schools.»

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

Although this study focused solely on television advertisements and singled out data from the top 10 networks, the results are useful for nutrition educators and practitioners.

The first science mystery we've been focusing on for this version is one that's very near and dear to our astrophysicist - turned - educator Brendan Mullan: «why do we seem so alone in the Universe?»

More than 350 dignitaries, policymakers, scientists and educators will be in the audience, as the meeting focuses on science for sustainable development — and the role of TWAS Fellows, Young Affiliates and partners in that drive.

NOAA, the NCAnet Education Affinity Group, and members of the CLEAN Network have developed a series of guides for educators that focus on the regional chapters of the Assessment Report, helping to unpack the key messages of each region and point to related, high - quality online resources.

Support for speakers at international meetings: ASHG supports the exchange of genetics education expertise across borders by offsetting some of the travel costs for prominent geneticists / genetics educators who are invited to serve as faculty or speakers at international workshops or meetings (including efforts that focus on developing countries and integrating genetics / genomics into clinical care).

The focus of the site is to create a space that is a one - stop for educators, parents, librarians research scholars and students of children's literature and children's publishing to get an overview of Indian children's literature and to find good children's books through reviews.

But scholars and educators would do well to revisit Coleman's earlier focus on student culture and motivations if we're to understand, in his words, «why and for whom educational institutions fail.»

Children's Book Week celebrates reading for enjoyment in schools and encourages educators to make time to read for fun and not just focus on literacy testing.

In the UK, our focus for the 2016/2017 school year is helping educators in schools and other programmes make the most effective use of micro: bits.

Nancy Willard Nancy E. Willard, M.S., J.D. is a former educator and attorney who focuses on youth online risk issues for more than a decade.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

Kohn, who has written hundreds of articles on education, parenting, and related topics including for The New York Times and the Atlantic, believes the new focus on rewarding students enables politicians and educators to avoid true educational reform.

«The Review panellists are ideal advisers on the best evidence - based practices for our students that will help guide how our schools and educators focus resources in classrooms.

The focus on testing also has an interesting side effect: it makes it hard for wise educators to take advantage of the teachable moment in their concern to stick with the stuff that will appear on the test.

Queensland Education Leadership Institute (QELI) and Growth Coaching International (GCI) have announced a new partnership to promote coaching - focused professional development programs for educators in Queensland.

After years of intense focus by American policy leaders and educators on college readiness, a growing chorus is calling for schools to better prepare students for futures that might not include four - year degrees.

I'm a registered psychologist who has focused on wellbeing in workplaces and have worked with many educators for a considerable period of time.

The central focus of professional development and training for teachers and principals should be the educator (teacher or principal) who as a person lives and works within an educational, social and political context in differing ways and engages in curriculum decision making and leadership in unique ways that must be respected and celebrated — there is no sense in a «one - size fits all» approach to training and development;

However, as one program has shown, putting in place strategies focusing on Indigenous teacher retention by supporting pre-service educators can have immense benefits for students.

School leaders summit Exclusively focused for those with a leadership role in a school, the School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share ideas.

Mindfulness — a set of skills that helps us be more present, calm, and focused — can be a catalyst for social and emotional development and professional growth for educators.

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

GCI Executive Director John Campbell said GCI is delighted to be extending its partnership with QELI to enable easier access for Queensland educators to the GCI coaching - focused professional learning programs.

Human judgment is very much part of its evaluation system, which itself is part of a larger effort focused on sound hiring practices and significant feedback and supports for educators.

The course offers training in data - collection technology for science and math educators and focuses on the integration of computers and tools such as Texas Instruments calculators and Palm - powered handhelds.

For at least a generation, as American public education has stagnated, the conventional wisdom about leadership has focused on an old idea: certify educators to fix the problem.

For third - to - fifth grade educators who teach a fairytale unit or a book - of - the - month focus, here are some activities where theater can enliven literature.

Doing so would require suspending some of our ideological predispositions and focusing on building bridges between those capable of providing scientific insight into how children learn and the educators responsible for imparting that learning.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

SREB's plan might focus on the South, but it offers food - for - thought for all middle - school educators.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability systFor example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability systfor reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student outcomes.

But my reason for writing this blog is not to lament over the teacher retention problem but rather focus on what we, as educators, can do to recruit more creative, intelligent, qualified individuals into the field.

Authors Pamela Macklin and Vic Zbar focus on implementation, and have designed tools, activities and proformas for educators to adapt for use in their own school settings.

In this new world of many options, we'll need new entities and roles for both educators and youth - focused organizations to help students / families navigate.