Sentences with phrase «large numbers of educators»

Language can be a major challenge when you are supporting large numbers of educators across multiple communities.

Even though Raleigh is in Wake County, which would make it close geographically for teachers to attend the march, Wake school officials say they're not seeing large numbers of educators who are requesting the day off.

She felt daunted, however, by the challenge of providing high - quality professional development to large numbers of educators spread across the farthest reaches of the 1,946 square - mile county.

Not exact matches

Most likely for the same reason that urban educators from an earlier generation made excuses: successfully educating large numbers of low - income kids is very, very hard.»

Educators opened a large number of schools, and collectively parents took the lead in deciding which would grow and which would close.

Rosenbrock says the annual conference has been a cornerstone of the regional facility and its PD programs as it brings together a large number of teachers from a wide area, building the foundation for plenty of collaboration and the creation of networks within schools, providing a «canvas» for educators who are keen to share in their areas of passion.

The trick would be to find (and keep) the large number of mission - aligned educators who would make the commitment to YES Prep.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

The PZ Reach Scholarship aims to support educators working in underserved settings — for example, Title I public schools, areas with high rates of identity - based violence, or communities with large numbers of families impacted by immigration and / or displacement — to attend Project Zero Classroom.

Now that states are expected to be accountable for students learning, and many have instituted a statewide assessment of writing competence, both educators and parents are concerned about the large number of children whose writing skills are below standard.

Because large numbers of students throughout the country take the same test, they give educators a common yardstick or «standard» of measure.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

Connecticut experts with decades of educational experience working with Connecticut educators were replaced by five out - of - state consultants with virtually no experience working with the biggest issues facing poorer school districts; poverty, language barriers and the large number of students who need special education services.

What we found without doubt is that large numbers of students, particularly in the early grades, were being placed in special education because of the failure of the school to properly teach them how to read, and from there they were essentially «warehoused», avoiding corrective intervention along with educator accountability for what is really a literacy issue and an instructional issue.

Organizers can only speculate, but the feeling is that it's easier to pull off these events in larger cities with a higher number of local independent school educators from which to draw.

Written for educators, administrators, and policymakers, this booklet provides a research - based overview on the large number of Long Term English Learner students, who despite having been enrolled in United States schools for more then six years, are not progressing towards English proficiency but are continuing to struggle without the English skills needed.

Drake has studied the belief systems of educators in a California district with a large number of immigrant students.

The Comprehensive Assessment portion of the Edutopia website connects educators to a large number of Edutopia resources, including articles, discussions,... Read More»

Readers» Favorite's book reviews and book awards have been accepted into this database, which provides our authors with exposure to thousands of library professionals, educators and students, as well as a large number of publishers and book - sellers.

Readers» Favorite's book reviews and book awards have been accepted into this database, which provides our authors with exposure to thousands of library professionals, educators and students as well as a large number of publishers and book sellers.

It also led to the formal training of a large group of judicial educators, among them a number who have gone on to national and international education programs: judges such as Katherine McLeod, Miriam Bloomenfeld and Joseph Bovard, to name but three.

There are additional classes before and after to get yourself certified as a marriage educator in a large number of proven marriage education programs.

A pattern that troubles agency educators is the large number of buyer's representatives working without contracts.