Sentences with phrase «help high school educators»

The guide provides instructional materials that help high school educators to explore the intersection of various forms of oppression and the complexity of bias incidents at the center of the Leo Frank case in four topic areas:

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Working with input from educators, parent groups, and school administrators, the Governor will launch a weekly interactive webcast series called «Albany at Work» aimed at helping high school students learn about and keep updated on the workings of New York State government.

In October, Drakes and Donovan will be among a group of teachers giving a presentation on their experiences using the Toward High School Biology unit and helping to lead a workshop to introduce the new unit to attendees of the 2017 Area Conference of the NSTA, the world's largest organization of science educators.

Turnaround for Children is working to help educators build those social - emotional skills into curricula from elementary school through high school, said CEO Pamela Cantor.

It is reasonable, then, to wonder whether we need to abandon high - stakes testing altogether or whether better tests and smarter measurement of school and educator performance might help address the failings that Koretz describes.

98, an eighth - grade counselor at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School in Massachusetts (Jacob's district), says that in the past few years, her district has put a lot of effort into helping educators at all levels — elementary through high school — get the training theySchool in Massachusetts (Jacob's district), says that in the past few years, her district has put a lot of effort into helping educators at all levels — elementary through high school — get the training theyschool — get the training they need.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

Race: A Teacher's Guide A substantive teaching tool to help middle and high school educators understand and address race and human variation, from the Race Project.

The XQ Super School Project is not an effort to look at the failures of education reform, said Ali, but to help motivate students, educators, and thinkers to reimagine what American high school couSchool Project is not an effort to look at the failures of education reform, said Ali, but to help motivate students, educators, and thinkers to reimagine what American high school couschool could be.

As educators grapple with how best to combat plagiarism in the Internet age, several high school students are suing a company that many districts and schools have hired to help them reduce such cheating.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

It limited the amount of influence educators and their unions had over high - level decisions; it also may have helped some school boards better engage with their staff members.

«Educators across the country have struggled to identify a rich, engaging, and rigorous curriculum that will help them support students in meeting dramatically higher expectations,» said John E. Deasy, former superintendent of Los Angeles public schools.

Activities that create a mutual understanding of curriculum requirements at both levels and of the young adolescent learner will help educators at both levels to develop a high school transition program to meet the particular needs of their students.

Resources for Responding to Violence and Tragedy: in response to the recent shooting at Margery Stoneman Douglas high school, Scholastic has compiled tips to help educators handle discussions about school violence and trauma.

This book examines the emergence of «student voice» at one high school in the San Francisco Bay area where educators went straight to the source and asked the students to help.

Beginning this month, Massachusetts students in grades 3 - 11 are embarking on a two - year «test drive» of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a new computer - based assessment system that will help educators better gauge whether a student is ready for life after high school.

This case is designed to help teachers, school and district leaders, parents, teacher educators, and middle and high school students have nuanced conversations about the challenges posed by divisive political rhetoric for school classrooms and communities.

«As educators, we must work to continuously improve our programs and strategies to help all of our students graduate from high school ready for college and career.»

Rochester School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas is hoping that three high - performing educators will help the city school district raise graduation School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas is hoping that three high - performing educators will help the city school district raise graduation school district raise graduation rates.

Since 1998, we have published many books and videos with the same two goals in mind: (1) to persuade educators that the most promising strategy for meeting the challenge of helping all students learn at high levels is to develop their capacity to function as a professional learning community and (2) to offer specific strategies and structures to help them transform their own schools and districts into PLCs.

It just makes sense that a school committed to helping all students learn at high levels would focus on learning rather than teaching, would have educators work collaboratively, would ensure students had access to the same curriculum, would assess each student's learning on a timely basis using consistent standards for proficiency, and would create systematic interventions and extensions that provide students with additional time and support for learning.

Among other improvements, the law should help school districts offer practical training through apprenticeships, expand dual and concurrent enrollment opportunities, hire and retain skilled CTE educators, and equip classrooms to deliver high - quality CTE programs.

The purpose of the TIF program is to support the use of performance - based compensation, and other human capital strategies that enhance and sustain performance - based compensation, in order to increase students» access to effective educators in high - need schools, and to expand the array of promising approaches that can help these educators and other personnel succeed.

Jonathan Baize, an English teacher at Central High School in Louisville, Ky., says having common standards has helped educators collaborate.

At A + Educators, our mission is to help build stronger K - 12 schools by offering the highest quality and most effective education support services available today.

According to new findings released by YouthTruth, a national nonprofit that harnesses students» perceptions to help educators identify needs and accelerate improvements, 32 percent of high school students do not feel positively about their teachers» content knowledge of the subject matter being taught.

Educators Rising is committed to creating quality opportunities for high school students to pursue careers in education and helping them develop their teaching craft.

The National Science Teachers Association offers advice and resources to help teachers engage their students in STEM subjects, and middle and high school educators talk about preparing students for college and future careers in the STEM fields.

Among several benefits of the Concurrent Courses initiative, the report notes, were the establishment of new college - high school partnerships and the expansion of existing ones - as well as a better understanding between educators at both levels of what was needed to help the students succeed.

My charge to families, Educators and community stakeholders is to help ensure that more of our students find success by walking across the stage, completing high school and being job ready.

Many of the teachers who serve as mentors share the view that being an educator is more than just helping students graduate from high school and get into college.

Whether you are a high school student with big ambitions for a career as a classroom teacher, a young professional looking to take your skills as a coach, counselor, or administrator to the next level, or even a lifelong educator interested in an advanced degree, our admissions team will help guide you toward the program that's right for you.

It includes plans to address the inequities by promoting teaching as a profession in high school clubs and vocational programs, while calling for better college teacher education programs to help prepare educators for low - income and high - minority schools.

White House to honor South LA educator Daphne Bradford Daphne Bradford, CEO and founder of the grassroots organization, Mother of Many (M.O.M), which helps prepare South L.A. high schools students for both their college and work career, will receive a «Champions for Change» award from the White House on Thursday, November 21, 2013.

In 2016, she was chosen by Educators Rising to help create a national curriculum to cultivate high school students from around the country to become highly qualified teachers.

He currently serves as a Co-PI for an i - 3 grant entitled, Using Data to Inform College Access Programming being implemented in low - income high priority schools in Pennsylvania and Kentucky; and manages the development of a longitudinal data solution that integrates data to help educators make informed decisions regarding student achievement and college access and success.

Our AEP Ethnic Studies PD will help develop teacher capacity for the implementation of Ethnic Studies in your school district through custom educator training experiences, as well as help your current Ethnic Studies program reach even higher academic outcomes for your students.

As a presenter and workshop attendee, I love to ask dedicated middle school educators about what creative measures they take with their schedules to help students learn and demonstrate learning at higher levels as well as help teachers continue to grow.

Throughout the reauthorization process, NEA's focus has been threefold: decouple standardized testing from high - stakes decisions, create an «opportunity dashboard» to help close opportunity gaps in needy schools and elevate the voices of educators in the policymaking process.

It isn't new at all: The Poor - Kids - Can't - Learn argument dates as far back as the Progressive Era of the last century, when another generation of educators declared that blacks and immigrants were also incapable of learning; it gave us the ability tracking and the comprehensive high school model that has helped foster the nation's education crisis.

Beyond that, these five resources help educators integrate SEL into teaching practice in elementary English Language ARts, high school English Language Arts, elementary Mathematics, middle school Social Studies, and general strategies that may be used across all subject areas to support the five SEL core competencies (self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.

«We support great neighborhood public schools and high - quality public charter schools, and we will help them disseminate best practices to other school leaders and educators.»

We believe that the powerful reporting and high - quality, next - generation items in Agile Assessment 5.0 will help educators develop college and career ready high school graduates.»

We do this by recruiting and developing talented, innovative educators, launching high quality schools with the conditions for success and engaging neighborhoods and communities to help lead education innovation.

This event is part of the annual Facing History Los Angeles Summit on School Culture, where hundreds of Facing History students, educators, and administrators from over 20 middle and high schools across Los Angeles come together to help shape school culture rooted in empathy and reSchool Culture, where hundreds of Facing History students, educators, and administrators from over 20 middle and high schools across Los Angeles come together to help shape school culture rooted in empathy and reschool culture rooted in empathy and respect.

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.

Their solution was to have higher education increase enrollment and place more of their students in the state school districts; and, to have the USOE help educators who left to have families return to the profession.

Personalized Learning Approach Proven Effective in Advancing Foundational Reading Skills for Students of All Abilities in Grades Pre-K — 5 BOSTON — Feb. 10, 2014 — As educators strive to strike the right balance between technology and traditional teacher - led instructional methods, KIPP Delta Elementary Literacy Academy in Arkansas and E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., are joining thousands of schools nationwide who have turned to Lexia Reading Core5 ™ to help students accelerate the development of critical foundational literacy skills and help empower higher levels of teacher effectiveness.

Aligned to the chapters of Learning by Doing, these videos address critical PLC topics, helping educators develop an action plan for school improvement to create a high - performing professional learning community.