Sentences with phrase «focused professional development opportunities»

Content - focused professional development opportunities can help teachers create these powerful learning opportunities on a daily basis.

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Solution: Focus first on compensation and benefits, and then shift over to the overall work environment — the work culture, team building, learning opportunities, professional development, less micro management, etc..

Professional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents This course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming first grade school year in five days filled with discussions, presentations, practical activities, and the arts.

This Meeting offers Fellows opportunities to present their research, learn more about the research supported by the Office of Science and the scientific user facilities, and participate in seminars focused on professional development for careers in the sciences.

With a focus on people development, every H&M employee has the opportunity for professional and personal growth.

On the professional learning front, GTANSW held its annual conference this year at the Sydney Olympic site and offered delegates the opportunity to go on fieldwork trips relating to urban planning issues - exploring the changing use of the site from its sporting focus in the year 2000, to business development and future residential use.

Torney - Purta recommends putting a focus back into civics with an opportunity for discussion in the middle school curriculum, enhancing professional development for teachers, recognizing the differences within immigrants, and using ethnic identity as a source of motivation.

With a focus on lifelong professional development and career management, our staff educate you about the sector and its roles; help you navigate the job search process; offer opportunities that allow you to engage with employers; and provide tools and information on licensure requirements.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

The Digital Operations internship offers an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic, not - for - profit organization and gain focused and professional experience in the field of digital operations and web development.

High quality, focused, and structured professional development opportunities for all teachers will be necessary to address this critical issue.

Provide principals and teachers with professional development opportunities focused on how to optimize each student's learning based on the results of instructionally supportive assessments.

Opportunity to focus: Dedicated day for training with time to focus on professional development and learning

Here's our continuum of professional development which not only outlines the wealth of opportunities, but also has a clear focus on aspiring leadership:

The flexibility provided by ESSA presented an opportunity for states to invest in pipeline - spanning changes that address several components of the teaching profession.48 While most states focused primarily on one or two aspects of the pipeline to improve in their ESSA plans or addressed challenges and solutions in broad terms, other states presented a more holistic theory of change with targeted strategies that address the entire pipeline — from the intentional recruitment of diverse teachers and more clinical teacher preparation experiences, to data - driven professional development and career advancement frameworks.

Professional Development School Partnerships: An Instrument for Teacher Leadership: Qualitative study of professional development school partnership between a state university and a K — 5 inner - city school in the southeastern U.S., focusing on professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/Professional Development School Partnerships: An Instrument for Teacher Leadership: Qualitative study of professional development school partnership between a state university and a K — 5 inner - city school in the southeastern U.S., focusing on professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EDevelopment School Partnerships: An Instrument for Teacher Leadership: Qualitative study of professional development school partnership between a state university and a K — 5 inner - city school in the southeastern U.S., focusing on professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/professional development school partnership between a state university and a K — 5 inner - city school in the southeastern U.S., focusing on professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/Edevelopment school partnership between a state university and a K — 5 inner - city school in the southeastern U.S., focusing on professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/professional development opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/Edevelopment opportunities, co-teaching, and collective teacher efficacy, and school culture elements that supported teacher leadership http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ974371.pdf

The report concludes that retaining more teachers in London should be a «key objective for policymakers and system leaders» and recommends a focus on lowering the cost of living, increasing teacher pay, increasing training subsidies and salaried training routes, introducing more flexible working and better support and professional development opportunities.

To counteract the effects of staff churn, and to help boost retention rates and improve teacher agency, VCS is now hyper - focused on providing ongoing Professional Development (PD) opportunities for new and existing staff — and they're using DreamBox PD resources, such as MyFlexPD, ™ to help get everyone up to speed fast.

TGR EDU: Create is focused on changing the way STEM is taught in our classrooms by providing professional development opportunities in STEM education through innovative lesson design.

To support directors» efforts, we are pleased to offer the Superintendent Leadership Institute (SLI), a variety of professional development opportunities throughout the year — including workshops, conferences, and other collaboration - focused training.

AIR's Cortney Rowland has written a new report examining the opportunities provided by ESSA for states to focus on principal professional development.

Overview The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) facilitated a series of 10 field trips around the country to provide state policymakers with an intensive professional development opportunity focused on policies and interventions that support high school redesign.

At the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schools.

«Leaders in education need to have a strong focus on providing suitable opportunities for the professional development of staff at all levels in order to nurture confident and creative teaching and learning.»

Teachers at SMCPS can better focus their teaching strategies and content, making every instructional moment count now that the district can disaggregate data from the student level all the way up to the district - wide level, The data pulled from Unify also enables the district to customize professional development and resources on opportunities that will have the greatest impact on teaching.

Thus, professional development programs focusing on technology integration should provide teachers opportunities to reflect on their teaching and share their experiences both with professional development leaders and their peers.

Focused professional development for staff and learning opportunities integrated throughout the school day for students allow the whole school to change.

It is crucial that we focus on BOTH pre-service training AND ongoing, job - embedded professional development opportunities for teachers to support them with better serving our students and communities.

Through well - planned and focused professional development that provides teachers with opportunities to collaborate on their understanding and the ability to apply the instructional shifts necessary within Common Core, teachers learn from and with each other.

«How to manage the change process in the schools, evaluate teachers» use of the new standards during instruction, align the school's instructional focus, make key decisions on the best types of professional development to support teachers, and develop extended learning opportunities to sufficiently address CCSS implementation.»

Drew Furedi, formerly the executive director of Los Angeles Unified's talent management division and now its executive director of human capital initiatives, said the piloted changes focus on evaluation as «a growth and development tool rather than a punitive tool,» which will tie results to «aligned, targeted, professional development opportunities for teachers.»

Each of them passes the test of being easy to understand and implement, especially with sustained focus and opportunities for teachers to practice and refi ne them in professional development and in team - based professional learning communities.

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) facilitated a series of 10 field trips around the country to provide state policymakers with an intensive professional development opportunity focused on policies and interventions that support high school redesign.

This approach comes with both challenges and opportunities: DPS will be able to focus more attention and central resources on its lowest - performing schools, improving its ability to provide contextualized supports, while still enabling turnaround leaders to choose the educational programming, curriculum, and professional development best suited to the school.

Brian Campbell is a curriculum developer at the University of California, Berkeley where he focuses on creating instructional materials and professional development opportunities for science in elementary schools.

PASBO's focus is on educating its members through professional development opportunities as well as keeping them informed on the latest legislative issues affecting school business through workshops, the annual conference, specialty conferences and publications.

MPS educators will have ongoing professional development focused on the key components of the plan through district sessions and job - embedded, school - based opportunities.

Our primary focus is the development of technology - based systems and professional learning opportunities that promote and enhance educator effectiveness.

By offering teachers focused, purposeful, and embedded professional development opportunities, you show them you are interested in their growth.»

Mathematical modeling, engaging with practitioner - focused journals and websites, developer - constructed materials, classroom implementation, and reflection and discussion provided participants with the opportunities for professional development resulting in increased MKT.

His daily work involves developing partnerships with school districts across the nation focused on providing curriculum resources and facilitating professional development opportunities.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Principals noted a compelling need for more adequate preparation and professional development in specific leadership areas, such as how to manage the change process in the schools, evaluate teachers» use of the new standards during instruction, align the school's instructional focus, make key decisions on the best types of professional development to support teachers, and develop extended learning opportunities to sufficiently address CCSS implementation.

In a statement, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath promised to improve «foundational reading and math skills» by focusing on districts that need additional support and giving math and reading teachers more opportunities for professional development.

These professional development opportunities have focused on promoting partnership building and program sustainability, among other research - based strategies that support quality afterschool programs statewide.

This report focuses on how a statewide reform initiative, when envisioned as a professional development opportunity, affected teachers» capacities to become change - agents in their classrooms and districts, and how individual district contexts shaped the development of those capacities.

Age appropriate and inquiry / project - based learning methods; dual enrollment classes; focused tutoring to less prepared students; increased learning opportunities; relevant professional development opportunities; faculty leadership opportunities; community outreach; small school environment; surveys each year (parent, student, faculty); striving for academic excellence; Charter Counts character education program implemented; teaching critical thinking skills.

Facilitate and provide quality teacher leadership and professional development opportunities that are focused on building leadership and school capacity that improve student learning and teacher retention.

As the largest tech - focused professional development event in the Canadian publishing industry, it provides hundreds of book industry professionals with the opportunity to learn, debate, network, and glimpse the future of our industry.

• Exclusive focus on specialty and emergency medicine; no primary care • Competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and an exceptional track record of clinician loyalty • Flexible schedules that allow focus on both professional development and quality of life • Individual clinician mentorship and support for training programs through Blue Pearl University and Blue Pearl Science • Strong focus on a positive hospital environment • Leadership and other advancement opportunities