Sentences with phrase «help their students grow despite»

Teachers are great messengers; their mission is to grow well seeds in order to harvest better crops; so they have to help their students grow despite their pitfalls

Not exact matches

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

Despite the fact that there's often so many things stacked against kids growing up in the inner - city, there's one young eco-hero that's defying the odds and making an incredible difference while helping to shed a bit of light on how successful students can be at affecting change in their own neighborhoods.