Sentences with phrase «great conversations about education»

Join us for great conversations about education and technology.

A long - time family friend is a science teacher at BAMS, and weve had some great conversations about education during my time working with the Learning First Alliance (LFA).

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In addition to our debates about general education, The Great Civilized Conversation has something important to say about the Chinese tradition and the modern world.

Similarly, No Child Left Behind's left - leaning supporters like the Education Trust, Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, and Council of the Great City Schools, which are all concerned about the achievement gap, do not enter the Winerip conversation either.

Morgan has written a letter to members of the Teacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualifications).

As an American abroad and working in the field of political - education reform in Central and Eastern Europe, I have been following the conversations about U.S. civics education — or, more precisely, education for democracy — with great interest over the past year.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

Not only have we «changed the conversation» about the teaching profession, as William Lowe Boyd and Jillian Reese note («Great Expectations,» features, Spring 2006), but we are building market demand in American education by insisting on excellence that is tied to student learning.

NOLA PARENTS PERSPECTIVE: A Conversation About New Orleans Public Education 10 Years Post-Katrina presented by the Louisiana Black Alliance for Educational Options, Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN), Stand for Children Louisiana, and the Urban League of Greater New Orleans — Video: https://youtu.be/ZVeReHEtWok

This is a critical moment for the city to stand up and support people like Dr. Perry who are unafraid to speak truth to power and have tough conversations about the urgent need to improve Buffalo schools so that every child can get a great education.

From this realization, we were able to have a meaningful conversation about the intertwined nature of walkability, socioeconomic status, and race in the United States — concepts of great importance to schools and education at large.

«What we call education is a conversation about the great things in the human world and the great things in the physical world and for that to work you have to have a conversation not just among students but with the teachers themselves,» said Moore, who added that he wanted «intellectually ambitious people» on his faculty.

In our conversations with our school partners about areas of need in curriculum resourcing, greater understanding and reinforcement of phonics teaching was identified as a strong requirement» explains Lewis Bronze MBE, Director of Content at Discovery Education UK.

We hope that every person who joins the Cause will invite some of their Facebook «friends» to also join — which could potentially inspire some great conversations and public education about TNR and the NYCFCI.