Sentences with phrase «growing number of educators»

BRONX — A small but growing number of educators believe they have found the key to helping struggling schools in low - income neighborhoods.

The Institute was created initially in response to a growing number of educators and helping professionals who wanted in - depth training in this approach.

They're all examples of ways that a growing number of educators — in school and out, at libraries, museums and other cultural institutions, at home and at community gatherings — are engaging in making things and leveraging the learning associated with that very human impulse to create.

A growing number of educators and parents are beginning to see the importance of some kind of values or «character» education.

My classroom is a laboratory testing out a question that interests a growing number of educators and policymakers: What should 21st - century civic education look like?

A growing number of educators are migrating between the traditional classroom and the virtual one.

Time and again, we see a growing number of educators willing to forgo the need to jump directly into teaching, educators who are more into getting to know the students.

April Hendrix, a high school special education teacher for Savannah - Chatham County Public Schools, is one of a growing number of educators and guidance counselors who refer students to AWOL.

Keren Caple, general manager of AITSL (the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership), says a growing number of educators are asking for advice in this area.

To a growing number of educators and policymakers, school reform without technology makes about as much sense as an Internet without computers.

Mobile devices have become an important part of the modern classroom, and an ever - growing number of educators are turning to Chromebooks in the classroom.

A growing number of our educators are younger and more liberal - minded.

-LSB-...] Sheninger is one of a growing number of educators who don't just tolerate social networking in school — he encourages it, often for educational purposes.

«We see a growing number of educators realize that their best professional learning occurs when they venture out of their local, geographically - conscribed circles of practice into more informal, online, global communities of role - alike peers.

Push - back, skeptics and accusations of she and her running mate being two - party «spoilers» notwithstanding, Ebony Murphy, who's running under the Democracy Party, seems up to the task of helping enact change in Connecticut and is part of a growing number of educators who refuse to remain silent about the achievement gap, corporate entities» disdain for teachers and the charter school problem.

Now, a growing number of educators are trying to bolster emotional competency not on college campuses, but where they believe it will have the greatest impact: in elementary schools.

A growing number of educators are complaining that states have done a poor job implementing the standards and are pushing core - aligned tests on students too early.

Lack of progress and growing opposition to high - stakes testing have led a growing number of educators and policy advocates to conclude that education policies and the strategies used to help underperforming schools and to promote student achievement must change.

While a growing number of educators recognize the validity of students» thoughts about schools, few see students actually being players in addressing those concerns.

That's the message from a growing number of educators who are not only advocating but actually making substantial changes in their classroom practices by eliminating grades and scores entirely.

Colorado has a growing number of educators who have either a Master's degree in Gifted Education or a Gifted Education Endorsement.

A growing number of educators regard such tests of reading as «fragile evidence» of children's reading accomplishments (Murphy, Shannon, Johnston, & Hansen, 1998).

A growing number of educators believe the answer might be inadequate curriculum standards.

Fortunately there are a growing number of educators and community leaders who see this as a time of enormous opportunity to build a system designed to meet the needs of individual learners.

«Project based learning is gaining traction around the world, and a growing number of educators are recognizing the need for new approaches to teaching and learning in the 21st century,» said Larmer.