Sentences with phrase «for educational administrators»

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By participating in this course, the attendees became Rookie Rugby Course Leader certified, and can now be advocates for the organization and run their own educational courses for coaches, administrators, parents, and anyone wanting to coach and teach Rookie Rugby.
By advocating for successful governmental policies, setting standards for professionals in the education industry, and providing professional development seminars, it helps teachers, administrators, parents, related students and other educational support staff to best support and educate the special needs children with whom they work.
The 17th Annual NAYS Youth Sports Congress is a four - day comprehensive educational experience designed specifically for youth sports administrators!
The Congress is a four - day comprehensive educational experience designed specifically for youth sports administrators.
LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, New England's largest conservation organization and a leader in nature - based education for more than 60 years, this month debuts a new, easy - to - use online program catalog for teachers, science coordinators, administrators, and others looking for educational enrichment programs and field trips.
Mass Audubon debuts a new, easy - to - use online program catalog for teachers, science coordinators, administrators, and others looking for educational enrichment programs and field trips.
As a former teacher, technology specialist, and trained school administrator for a large DC Metro area school system, I love sharing technology and educational resources for today's families here but have had regular columns in online publications, including Parents.com and Babble.
However, we must come together as an educational community — administrators, teachers, parents — and resolve this issue for the benefit of our children.»
Niskayuna Central School District's faculty and administrators work together to develop and provide an educational program that is both challenging and meaningful for students.
Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.
He has organized several projects on research integrity and scientific misconduct, including more than a dozen workshops for university administrators, bench scientists, post-docs and graduate students and the production of a series of case studies on video for educational use.
In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.
28 - July 1 — Dropout prevention: Summer Leadership institute, sponsored by the National Dropout Prevention Center / Network, and the College of Health, Education, and Human Development at Clemson University, for teachers, administrators, counselors, educational policymakers, researchers, and business leaders concerned about at - risk youth, at the Madren Conference Center at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. Contact: John Peters, NDPC / N, 205 Martin St., Clemson, SC 29634; (864) 656-2599; fax: (864) 656-0136; e-mail: [email protected].
Making, especially to educators and administrators unfamiliar with it, can seem to lack the academic rigor needed for a full - fledged place in an educational ecosystem.
Eligible schools were notified in November of 2007, leaving relatively little time for teachers and administrators to alter their educational plans before accountability exams were administered in January for reading and March for math.
Previously, I worked in educational settings for over 35 years as a teacher and administrator.
The Institute at Michigan State University was founded by the Michigan Legislature in 1978 to research the benefits and detriments of participation in youth sports; to produce educational materials for parents, coaches, officials, and administrators; and to provide educational programs for coaches, officials, administrators, and parents.
29 - 30 — Women: Women in Educational Leadership, sponsored by the department of educational administration at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, for administrators, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in...
For example, past Specialized Studies candidates have included physicians interested in understanding the education of medical students, a career military officer interested in translating classroom practices into training, social entrepreneurs leading innovative educational ventures in the U.S. and abroad, teachers and administrators interested in implementing cutting edge reform in unique settings, as well as so many others who have benefited from designing their own courses of study.
She was previously the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development at the International School of Bangkok for 11 years and has worked as an educational consultant training teachers and administrators in the US and internationally in school improvement, learning focused curriculum, and teacher leadership.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a ruling in a special - education case that school groups fear will result in more parents challenging the decisions of administrators over educational plans for children with disabilities.
Despite its prevalence and salience for a child's educational progress, teachers and administrators typically have little formal or confirmed information about child maltreatment — either for an individual child or at the school level.
«Conclusive evidence has shown the benefits of class sizes of 1:15, especially in the primary grades,» says Charles M. Achilles, a professor of educational administration at Eastern Michigan University, in Small Classes, Big Possibilities, an article he penned for The School Administrator: «Since the early, 1980s, a large - scale project in Indiana, a major experiment in Tennessee, numerous smaller studies and evaluations of projects that use low adult - to - student ratios have found that youngsters in small classes (1:15 or so) as compared to youngsters in larger classes
In closing, I support the authors call to action for teachers, administrators and educational leaders to make a shift to SRL in teaching practice.
Because both public and private schooling have been deeply embedded in society for the past three centuries, educational technology (by which I mean the various communication and information devices and processes that administrators and teachers use to make schooling efficient and effective) also has a rich history (e.g., textbooks, chalkboard, film, radio, computers).
For more than twenty years, my educational foundation has joined forces with teachers, parents, students, administrators, and business and community leaders to illuminate the most innovative learning strategies to be found in K - 12 classrooms across the country.
While some people certainly do tweet about what they're having for breakfast, teachers, administrators, and educational organizations use Twitter in a whole different way — making smart use of those 140 characters to share resources, wisdom, and inspiration.
He also is a former administrator in the Chicago Public Schools, and was the first director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national educational research center.
Proactive leadership develops a shared vision for educational technology among all education stakeholders, including teachers and support staff, school and district administrators, teacher educators, students, parents and the community.
The ISTE Standards for Administrators guide administrators in supporting digital age learning, creating technology - rich learning environments and leading the transformation of the educational landscape.
Too often, administrators, teachers, and students are stuck trying to navigate a sea of different sign - ons and systems for all the various educational software and systems in use across their schools.
It is no big stretch, within the educational context, for teachers and students to collaborate among themselves, and with parents and even administrators, when necessary.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
Each school district, each charter school and each board of cooperative educational services shall establish, and implement on an ongoing basis, a training program regarding the procedures set forth in article 23 - B of the Education Law for all current and new teachers, school nurses, school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, school administrators, other personnel required to hold a teaching or administrative certificate or license, and school board members.
James Spillane, an expert on school leadership and educational policy at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy, conducted a workshop on educational infrastructure design and delivered two keynote speeches for hundreds of principals and administrators during a recent spring trip to Hong Kong and Hangzhou.
She serves as the President of the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS), the nation's premier Latino - driven educational leadership organization for school administrators and superintendents.
The fundraising feature allows for teachers and their supporters, such as administrators and Parent - Teacher Associations, to establish their own fund drives for their educational needs.
«Darling - Hammond reveals the successful educational strategies around the world that are toppling the old educational guard, including a high degree of personalization that allows stronger, closer relationships among students, faculty, staff, and parents... Scholarly and factual, well - researched and packed with astounding examples of the current climate of American education, this text should prove highly informative for educators, educational administrators, and involved parents throughout the U.S.» — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A graduate student in a test preparation session for an administrator certification test asked whether he could use educational acronyms and abbreviations in his test responses.
«And the fast - changing landscape of educational technology only complicates the task for policymakers and administrators who seek to make «smart» decisions about how to proceed.»
And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
It is important for educators and administrators to learn more about available options so that they can integrate them into educational programs as well as counseling for students and potential students.
Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.
Why should I feel better about PARCC and Common Core just because a state bureaucrat or leader of a taxpayer funded school board or school administrator association tells me we have had state mandated standards and testing for a long time when the original set of standards and tests were broken and built from an economic view point, not an educational one.
«We are excited about [Sumpter's] appointment to the state board & wish him well in his efforts to enhance the educational experience for students, teachers, and administrators in Maryland.»
A professional journal for Seventh - day Adventist teachers from kindergarten through university level, as well as educational administrators at all levels.
Niskayuna Central School District's faculty and administrators work together to develop and provide an educational program that is both challenging and meaningful for students.
Dr. Ross is a frequent presenter in the field of educational technology at state and national conferences and has served as a consultant and trainer for teachers, administrators, and policymakers.
to develop strategies used by school staff — administrators, support staff and teachers — to improve educational, behavioral and health outcomes for all students, enumerating those factors at the school, classroom and community levels
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