Sentences with phrase «from teacher development programs»

The new report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, reviewed 35 scientifically rigorous studies conducted over the past 30 years which showed significant gains in student achievement resulting from teacher development programs.

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The Alliance publishes a periodic Happenings eNews offers updates from Alliance Board President Liz Beaven, reports on developments in thePublic Waldorf school movement, share information from Alliance schools and teacher training programs.

In this intensive professional development program, created by Chicago Children's Museum, K - 1 teacher cohorts explore innovative strategies for infusing play into their math instruction — to keep the love of math alive from early education and beyond!

From prenatal yoga teacher trainings, hypnobirthing, teachers mentorships, & studio program development, Om Births offers a range of expert services to support holistic, healthy & calm births.

Birthing from Within Advanced Mentor Retreat with Virginia Bobro, 2017 Doula Trainings International Doula Training with Jackie Davey, 2017 Creating a Culture of Breastfeeding in the NICU with BreastfeedLA, 2017 Diversity, Determinants, and Disparities in Maternal Mental Health, 2017 Hypnobirthing for Birth Professionals with Ellie Shea, 2017 (certified 2017) Working with Diverse Populations in Maternal and Child Health with Shafia Monroe, 2017 Changing the Paradigm: Social and Historical Trauma, 2017 Seeking Safety with Treatment Innovations, 2017 Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss with Amy Wright Glenn, 2017 Working with Childhood Trauma with Echo Parenting, 2017 Breastfeeding Full Circle with Dr. Jack Newman, 2016 Art of Sacred Postpartum and Mother Roasting with Sara Harkness, 2016 (certified 2017) Birth Story Medicine Part I with Pam England, 2016 Supporting Perinatal Mental Health as a Doula with Sonia Nikore, 2016 Prenatal and Postpartum Nutrition with Elizabeth Kotek, 2016 Sacred Blood Mysteries Online Class with Sacred Living, 2016 Birthing from Within Introductory Workshop with Virginia Bobro, 2016 Supporting Breastfeeding as a Doula with Kate Zachary, 2016 Homebirth Caesarean Workshop with Courtney Jarecki, 2016 Return to Zero Training for Supporting Fetal and Infant Loss with Kiley Hanish and Ivy Margulies, 2016 Acupressure for Pregnancy, Labor, Birth and Postpartum with Abigail Morgan, 2016 Becoming Dad Workshop with Darren Mattock, 2015 Diversity Roundtable for Birth Workers with Debra Langford, 2015 Babywearing for Doulas with Laura Brown, 2015 Co-leader, BabywearingLA, 2014 - 2016 DASC Director of Hospitality, 2014 - 2015 Co-leader, Silver Lake meeting of the International Caesarean Awareness Network, 2013 CAPPA Lactation Educator Training with Christy Jo Hendricks, 2013 (certified 2015, recertified 2018) Acupressure for Labor and Birth with Abigail Morgan, 2013 Essential Oils for Doulas with BluJay Hawk, 2013 Babywearing for Birthworkers with Laura Brown, 2013 Rebozo Techniques with Angela Leon, 2013 Massage Techniques for Doulas with Jenna Denning, 2013 Breeches, Twins and VBACs with Stuart Fischbein, 2013 DASC co-Director of Development, 2012 - 2013 Co-founded Two Doulas Birth, 2012 Spinning Babies Training with Gail Tully, 2012 Featured as the Doula Expert in LA Parent Magazine, 2012 Advanced Doula Training with Penny Simkin, 2012 CAPPA Postpartum Doula Training with Darla Burns, 2012 (certified 2014, recertified 2017) Yoga Instructor, Yogavidala, Los Angeles, CA, 2011 - 2012 Billings Ovulation Method Teacher Training, 2011 CAPPA Labor Doula Training with Angie Whatley, 2010 (certified 2011, recertified 2014, recertified 2017) CAPPA Childbirth Educator Training with Angie Whatley, 2010 (certified 2011, recertified 2014, recertified 2017) Neonatal Resuscitation Program Workshop with Karen Strange, 2010 (certified 2010) Herbs and Homeopathics in the Care of Women and Infants, 2010 The Farm Midwifery Center Midwife Assistant Workshop with Ina May Gaskin, 2009 Birthing from Within Introductory Workshop with Pam England, 2009 Iyengar Yoga Introductory I Assessment passed, 2010 Yoga Instructor, Eastern Sun Yoga, Memphis, TN 2008 - 2011 Yoga Instructor, Evergreen Yoga Center, Memphis, TN, 2009 - 2011 Eastern Sun Yoga Iyengar Teacher Training with Lou Hoyt, 2008 - 2011 Audubon Yoga Iyengar Teacher Training with Karin O'Bannon, 2010 - 2011

Two professional development programs for pre-kindergarten teachers have improved their interactions with children, according to a new report for Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL).

The data was gathered and analyzed by a team led by Michigan Technological University and the STEM Education Center at the University of Minnesota asked for feedback from nearly 40 teachers in a three - week professional development program about STEM education.

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

From 2007 - 2010, GENA, funded by the Math - Science Partnership Program at the National Science Foundation (EHR # 0634296), supported the development of 70 geneticist - teacher partnerships throughout the United States and Canada.

Parents as Teachers National Center, a St. Louis - based organization that offers parent - education and early - childhood - development programs, recently received an $ 82,500 grant from the Bush Foundation and a $ 50,000 grant from the General Mills Foundation.

Kate Copping - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Using Data to Develop Collaborative Practice and Improve Student Learning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Australia

Shawnee High School teachers, from left, Pamela Dixon, Kristyn Williams, Charles Wade, and Tiffany Clements let go of yarn that they tossed to one another during a professional development program held last month in Louisville, Ky..

Just as professional learning is becoming more mobile, how teachers are choosing to learn represents a recognisable shift away from the traditional staff development day or training program.

The Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) project is a professional - development program that uses video - based analysis of practice to improve teacher and student learning at the upper elementary level.

Research on professional development for teachers has shifted in the last decade from delivering and evaluating professional - development programs to focusing more on authentic teacher learning and the conditions that support it (Webster - Wright, 2009).

Nationally recognized programs that train teachers, mentor new educators, and provide professional development are all vulnerable as administrators look for ways to slash $ 10 million permanently from the 1999 - 2000 budget, said Jan Leslie, a spokeswoman for the district.

Teacher education programs are so focused on content knowledge that they often fail to provide adequate preparation on child and adolescent development, concludes a report scheduled to come out this week from two leading organizations in those respective fields.

Support from CZI allows us to draw upon the work we have already done,» said Jones, «including a content analysis of 25 leading evidence - based SEL programs, to develop a set of kernels that are grounded in research and practice, and to work directly with teachers to pilot the kernels and learn from them with the larger goal of generating effective and responsive practices that support children's healthy development and well - being.»

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

Several remedies to overcome recruitment and retention obstacles are listed in the NEA publication, including the development of a new program that would recruit teachers from existing school support personnel, said Sigun Eubanks, NEA's teacher recruitment specialist and one of the contributors to the report.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

Our school has signed up to an inter-school collaboration program of the European Union through which a team of teachers from different countries have to collaborate for the development of the curriculum of a subject.

MB: From the narratives of experience we developed an Effective Teaching Profile and we used [that] in a professional development program with teachers.

Teachers and curriculum designers are encouraged first to establish their program frameworks using the social studies standards as a guide, and then to use the standards from history, geography, civics, economics, and others to guide the development of grade level strands and courses.

Professional development programs are especially valuable for teachers in schools with students from cultural and linguistic traditions different from their own.

The ESSA would also establish a new program known as Presidential Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, which would provide professional development to improve the teaching of history and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the country.

Where microcredentials pertain to teachers rather than students, I think the concept is an outstanding way to do a number of things in the area of professional development: 1) recognize professional learning milestones to inspire continuous improvement; 2) move away from a one - size - fits - all (and oft debunked) approach to salary schedules, which typically depend exclusively on time served and postsecondary attainment; 3) move towards recognition of skill development on an a la carte basis rather than solely as part of an advanced degree program; and 4) generate more personalized and self - paced professional learning opportunities.

He joins HTF from Math For America where he mentored new math teachers and directed the development and expansion of a professional development program for more than 700 K - 12 «master teachers» of math and science in New York City.

Then, over the course of the year, PEFNET plans to begin mobilizing consultants to help the funds move away from such narrowly framed programs as teacher mini-grants and one - day staff - development workshops to more sophisticated efforts that...

Results from this study can serve to guide the curriculum of teacher education programs as well as the development of resources such as the website, Teacher's Guide to the Holteacher education programs as well as the development of resources such as the website, Teacher's Guide to the HolTeacher's Guide to the Holocaust.

In the long term, Governor Gray Davis will be recognized not for lifting school funding from less than $ 5,000 to more than $ 7,000 per child; not for boosting charter schools from 150 to 432; and not for the massive teacher development and curriculum programs.

Students at these schools will benefit from funds eannartred for an extra counselor position, an additional administrator, extra professional development time, a mentor program for teachers at the schools, and other crucial supports.

Imagine selected me for their Grow Your Own Leaders program, which allows teachers to gain leadership experience through professional development, observing and shadowing administration from different campuses, and then taking that knowledge back to our own schools to create and lead a task force.

Many authors report promising practices: clinical training that shifts away from teaching about teaching and toward teaching how to teach; mentoring programs that help teachers become more self - directed and resourceful (p. 60, online); professional development that is innovative and self - propelled — and is making rock stars of outstanding new beginners.

Rocketship claims to have a robust teacher training and development program, but unfortunately that training comes from inexperienced educators, which I think highly questions the value of such training.

Part of the state's plan to improve Priority and Focus Schools (schools that have consistently low test scores) include removing ineffective principals or giving them mentors from better performing schools, implementing anti-bullying programs or other programs to improve school culture, improving recruiting and hiring techniques for teachers and providing more teacher development.

Advice from experienced practitioners offers guidance to those involved in teacher leaders» efforts to improve teachers» classroom practice through professional development programs.

Since 2008, she has designed the AF History Program from the ground up, developing and executing the program vision, course of study, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and leader professional development across the public charter network's 25 (and growing) sProgram from the ground up, developing and executing the program vision, course of study, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and leader professional development across the public charter network's 25 (and growing) sprogram vision, course of study, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and leader professional development across the public charter network's 25 (and growing) schools.

In - service teachers submitted one lesson and a field - test report of another lesson from the database to complete the professional development program.

Prior to this appointment, she served as the Senior Director of Teacher Development for five years in an effort to build new teacher development programming to support teachers from YES Prep and in other charter and traditional neTeacher Development for five years in an effort to build new teacher development programming to support teachers from YES Prep and in other charter and traditionaDevelopment for five years in an effort to build new teacher development programming to support teachers from YES Prep and in other charter and traditional neteacher development programming to support teachers from YES Prep and in other charter and traditionadevelopment programming to support teachers from YES Prep and in other charter and traditional networks.

The higher frequency of elementary teachers who field - tested primary source based lesson plans is reflective of the proportions of elementary versus secondary teachers participating in the professional development program rather than the number of elementary teachers seeking primary source based lesson plans from the database.

Bay Area teacher development programs also benefit from the expertise of local universities such as Stanford and financing from deep - pocketed local foundations and technology companies.

To better meet these students» needs, schools should promote bilingualism and biliteracy development in grades K - 12, offer professional development to teachers on how to integrate explicit language and literacy instruction aimed at the long - term English language learners in their classrooms, develop specialized programs that differ from those targeting newly arrived students, and offer native language arts programs that focus on developing native language literacy.

But the Obama Administration still could have required waiver states to divert federal Title II funding used for teacher professional development from shoddy programs that do little to improve teacher performance into better - quality regimens.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, we created and field - tested a professional development program to help middle school math and special education teachers provide the instruction students with disabilities need.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

The Arts Integration Institute is a professional development program for teams composed of classroom and arts teachers from Wake County elementary schools.

In 2014, two local school teachers, Sandra Zupetz and Patricia Paddock, applied for and were accepted into the Arizona Charter School Association's Fellowship, a program that incorporated research and charter development, visitations of highly performing charter schools around the country, and guidance and mentoring via successful school leaders from across the Valley.

Top - performing nations like Finland and Singapore have built their success on teacher development and leadership — specifically by intentionally creating policies and programs so that classroom practitioners can learn from each other and spread their expertise in teaching (Darling - Hammond, 2014).

The grants are from the federal Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program, which supports efforts by colleges and universities to provide high - quality professional development programs for teachers with the goal of improving instruction and closing achievement gaps in mathematics and science.