Sentences with phrase «in educator quality»

The coalition further notes that investments in SLRSP «can amplify other investments in educator quality and lead to improved outcomes for educators, students, and families,» and that «a relatively small federal investment can have a huge influence on locally - driven efforts to get well - prepared, well - supported principals in our highest - need schools.»

Nevertheless, creating more robust teacher and principal evaluation systems will not, in isolation, lead to significant improvements in educator quality.

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I am sorry to vent and in no way taking away from what abused women go through, but looking back, in the name of keeping peace and wanting to do a good job as an educator, I realize now, I have been bullied, mistreated and yes, even abused by the higher ups, while the level of educational quality and my joy of teaching have been robbed by all the PC guidelines that now rule education.

That is why pastors and Christian educators rarely see that the quality of relationships in the life of a congregation is a part of Christian nurture.

Child - care interest groups and their unthinking feminist allies use the rhetoric of «choice» and «quality» and their status as professional educators and guardians of young children to disguise as dispassionate advice what is in fact a political horse trade.

Not putting people like Betsy DeVos in charge of education, or underfunding schools, or overpriced post-secondary education, or lack of quality pay for educators... definitely the video games.

Because noncognitive qualities like grit, curiosity, self - control, optimism, and conscientiousness are often described, with some accuracy, as skills, educators eager to develop these qualities in their students quite naturally tend to treat them like the skills that we already know how to teach: reading, calculating, analyzing, and so on.

All Our Kin does intensive community outreach to recruit these informal providers to enroll in the group's Family Child Care Network, where they receive, free of charge, regular professional - development training, plus biweekly visits from master educators who model high - quality childcare techniques for the providers and offer them long - term mentorship and guidance.

The Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), founded in 1996 in order to deepen and enhance the quality of Waldorf education, engages in sustained dialogue with the wider educational - cultural community and supports research to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adolescents.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

In recent years, the idea that educators should be teaching kids qualities like grit and self - control has caught on.

The suit claims that the new standards, which allow SUNY - authorized charters to certify their own teachers, will water down the quality of educators in charters.

«I believe in the New York City school system and the thousands of dedicated, hardworking administrators, educators and support staff that commit themselves to providing our city's youth with a quality education,» said Treyger.

We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.

«In addition, we posted an online survey to which 2,400 parents, educators, community members and other stakeholders responded to share feedback on school quality indicators, teacher preparation, school improvement, and accountability system design.»

An organization named Achieve, which represented states involved in creating the standards, has produced a resource for evaluating curriculum materials» alignment with the NGSS, called the Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products (EQuIP) Rubric.

AAAS Science Assessment Website — Science educators have easy access to more than 700 high - quality multiple choice items for testing middle and high school students» understanding of 16 important topics in earth, life, and physical science and the nature of science.

The report also says that in order to provide high - quality care, a highly qualified workforce is essential, meaning educators and staff must be well - compensated, have affordable opportunities to access higher education, and receive appropriate ongoing support and professional development.

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About Blog Kinderland is the largest Singapore - owned private preschool educator, provider of quality infant, bilingual kindergarten and preschool education with over 60 centres in Singapore.

Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals — from organizing their thoughts Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education brought together leading educators to engage with the latest thinking in building and sustaining high - quality prekindergarten.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

Worried that this is threatening the quality of education in the classroom, Hess uses stories from educators that demonstrate how these barriers can be broken in order to cultivate powerful learning environments and drive real improvement.

NCTQ is rating the quality of individual teacher - preparation programs using a set of measurable, objective standards that reflect what public school educators view as important attributes in new teachers.

A study delves into the relationship between an educator's math knowledge and the quality of their teaching in actual elementary school classrooms

In districts of every stripe and demographic make - up, educators are dedicating themselves to providing their students with a high quality 21st century education, and using new technologies to make it happen.

As important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standards.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

As educators and experts assess the quality of student mental - health services in light of the deadly shootings last month at Virginia Tech, the gunman's immigrant background is focusing attention on what those who work with immigrants say is a lack of services tailored to such groups.

Data quality and usefulness are often questionable, leaving many state data systems function as de facto data morgues — used more often in autopsies of failed programs than to help educators and policymakers improve existing ones.

St Paul — Witnesses who testified here last week at the first of five regional hearings on «Excellence in Teacher Education,» said an improved relationship between schools of education and elementary - and secondary - school educators in the «trenches» will be necessary if the quality of prospective teachers and the instruction they receive is to be raised.

With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become content curators, as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

In our work with public school educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the quality of execution.

While research on the model remains in its early stages, the theory provides hope that perhaps educators and schools can help young people develop the qualities that will lead to responsible, productive leadership.

If enough educators — and noneducators — realize that there are serious flaws in the way we evaluate our schools, and that those flaws erode educational quality, there's a chance we can stop this absurdity.

According to educators at the Critical Issues in Urban Special Education institute, recent research shows that early intervention and high - quality preschool programs can improve special education students» outcomes later on.

She added: «We pre-qualify all employers that we work with to ensure our Modern Apprentices will receive top quality vocational training to become highly competent, qualified childcare practitioners, and we know Carla and her team will continue to produce some of the finest young early years educators in the industry.»

One most important target is good quality education, in which educators and community members are also learners, children, adolescents, youths have their voices heard, and all of them can act as change agents, as active citizens.

«These are qualities educators often finding lacking in their graduates,» Mowschenson says.

The League's December 1988 report, «Chartered Schools = Choices for Educators + Quality for All Students,» became the basis for the bill that Reichgott introduced in January 1989.

However, over the past 20 years more educators have wondered whether such pay packages can attract, motivate, and retain high - quality teachers in a highly competitive professional world (see Forum).

A team - oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part of education, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality.

Most of the information comes from theNYC School Survey administered annually to parents, teachers, and students, or else from a school's «quality review» — ostensibly an extensive school visit in which an experienced educator observes classrooms, interviews school leaders, and evaluates how well the enterprise supports student achievement.

In addition, Race to the Top helped fund a new generation of high - quality, online assessments designed by states and educators to evaluate students» progress toward college and career readiness.

The company's philosophy is to ensure quality education and learning is the heartbeat of your business but removes the added cost of having in - house educators.

* Though many parents seem content to cram knowledge and higher test scores into their kids as rapidly as possible, educators and policymakers in the «gifted» world are paying more attention to nurturing qualities like «creativity» and «independent research» in high - ability youngsters.

Their success stories offer lessons for both policymakers interested in expanding access to quality early learning, and for charter - school educators seeking to serve preschoolers.