Sentences with phrase «lead teachers around the country»

During the 2013 — 2014 school year, Facing History worked with lead teachers around the country to develop Facing History units that combined our content and pedagogy with performance tasks created using the Literacy Design Collaborative's online instructional design system.

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PowerSchool is the leading K - 12 education technology provider of solutions that improve the education experience for 100 million students, teachers, and parents in over 70 countries around the world.

Laurie is lead kindergarten teacher at The Denver Waldorf School and mentors Waldorf teachers around the country.

Attracting over 200 people, including members of the Waldorf Institute, Sunbridge College, and Sunbridge Institute communities; Waldorf teachers and other educators; and friends of Waldorf Education, our Weekend Conference offered a program of events presented by leading Waldorf and Waldorf - related educators, anthroposophists, artists, and innovators from around the country, all of whom hold deep connections to Sunbridge from across the decades.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

Jacoby Ballard, a yoga teacher who leads Queer and Trans Yoga classes and workshops around the country, explains that he doesn't see these identity - specific classes he teaches as an «end point.»

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

With education evolving leading the Teacher - Powered Schools Network around the country, the innovation research in the chartered sector is fulfilling the real mission of the chartering option.

He is currently leading work around the country to organize and mobilize teachers for systemic change through his role at Teach Plus.

The action plan incorporates proven best practices from thousands of leading teachers from around the country, and input from the independent Commission on Effective Teachers and Tteachers from around the country, and input from the independent Commission on Effective Teachers and TTeachers and Teaching.

Grace has led a teacher leadership group focusing on literature and qualitites of good writing and presented at institutes in New York and around the country on teaching reading and writing.

If the unions in this state were to follow the lead of Garfield High in Seattle and the numerous student, parent and teacher groups from around the country in refusing to administer the faulty tests and defy the powers that are shoving these ruinous policies down our throats, maybe we can turn this mess around.

Teachers unions are leading the charge, trying to assert themselves as state houses around the country consider, and sometimes pass, legislation that would upend longstanding tenure and collective bargaining practices.

One of the largest studies ever conducted to try to understand what makes good teaching, the Methods of Effective Teaching Study led by Harvard University researcher Thomas Kane, analyzed 7,500 lessons taught by 1,300 teachers from six school districts around the country and had experts score their effectiveness.