Sentences with phrase «literacy leaders at»

These memos were therefore created to give easy - to - digest, actionable guidance to literacy leaders at every level — from business and community members working on the effort, to practitioners providing direct support to children — and help reach real impact for children across the country.»

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Lesaux's 2010 report, Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, formed the basis for a third - grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy pLiteracy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy pliteracy planning.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

But a school devoted to literacy ought to envision more than just sustained, quiet, independent reading, suggests Snow, who leads an intensive mini-course this month at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn to read.

Hannah Young, PE Subject Leader at Morley Victoria Primary School near Leeds, says: «SPIRALPE ™ lesson plans are practical and well thought out and provide lots of opportunities for children to repeat and progress tasks to develop their physical literacy.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

It should move leaders in education to rethink the way we look at college admission and rethink the way we present the things we say we value: civic engagement, historical knowledge, mathematical literacy, honoring the arts, access to science.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

I am a teacher and literacy program leader at a small, rural school in Ontario, Canada, with 14 years of teaching experience both in the classroom and on e-learning platforms.

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

Drawing on data from two national pilot programs — Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) and Leading Aligned Numeracy Development (LAND)-- this book looks at effective strategies for implementing system improvement and presents approaches for capitalising on successes, and overcoming the shortcomings of initiative - based reforms.

Tony Dreise, a former Principal Research Fellow and Hub Leader for Indigenous Education at ACER, says the resources embeds financial literacy within community and cultural contexts.

She has served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Maine, was a Cohort 1 Fellow in the National Academy for Science and Mathematics Education Leadership, was a science literacy leader for the AAAS / Project 2061 Professional Development Program, and serves on several national advisory boards.

All the leaders — including central office personnel, the superintendent, and school principals — took their turn at demonstrating the new literacy strategies in classrooms.

The challenge, say organizations such as the Literacy Collaborative at The Ohio State University, lies in equipping school leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to provide informed support and instructional feedback to teachers.

She is also a writing instructor to writers ages 6 - 18 and professional development program leader for in - school teachers at Writopia Lab, a national literacy nonprofit.

Dr. Wisniewski is a former research and consulting director at McREL International, and frequently works with teachers and school and district leaders on multitiered systems of support, professional learning, literacy, culturally responsive instruction, and social emotional learning to enhance leadership, teaching, and student equity outcomes.

First, despite findings from existing and emerging research for educational effectiveness in terms of instructional effectiveness and its impact on teaching and learning, there is a disturbing level of ignorance among school leaders and teachers at all levels of educational provision related to what works and why — especially as they relate to the teaching of literacy and numeracy.

DOUGLAS FISHER, PhD is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

NANCY FREY, PhD is a professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee (at right), led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

NANCY FREY is a professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

DOUGLAS FISHER is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

According to the 2014 NBCT Survey, more than half of NBCTs are teacher leaders at the school, district, state, and national levels, leading Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation, STEM initiatives and programs, peer review and observations, data literacy, personalized learning, technology integration, and professional development.

At a time when Arizona is facing challenges that include improving literacy, the high school graduation rate, the recruitment and retention of effective teachers and leaders, and ensuring equitable funding for its schools, these are critical questions.

It is imperative that elementary school leaders understand the importance of expert literacy instruction at the earliest grades if we are to catch our most vulnerable learners BEFORE they fall!

Through a grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Education Alliance at Brown University developed the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) program to assist educators with delivering more effective instruction in the content areas and closing persistent achievement gaps among their students.

Because over 80 percent of their third and fourth graders were struggling readers, Principal Erskine Glover and other leaders at Quitman knew they needed to focus on early literacy skills, reading comprehension, and citing textual evidence.

-- On November 3rd and 4th, Center for Inspired Teaching partnered with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to teach teachers and district leaders at the Maryland Environmental Literacy Partnership's fall workshop.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

Roderick's focus at the Ministry was on coordinating communications, creating the staff newsletter, overseeing and developing the website «Inspire: The Journal of Literacy and Numeracy for Ontario,» and developing promising practices communiques to system leaders in education.

Daniela is a graduate of New Leaders Emerging Leaders and Aspiring Principals Program and completed the Literacy Specialist Master's of Arts program at Teachers College Columbia University.

Nancy Frey, PhD, is a professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

After teaching, Marian served as an instructional leader for four years, having worked as an Instructional Coach and Family Engagement Coordinator at Community Academy Public Charter School and an Instructional Coach of Literacy at Stuart Hobson Middle School.

Lois Hagie has shared her expertise with language arts literacy in several workshops at FEA / NJPSA having extensive training by many of the respected literacy leaders such as Lucy Calkins, Leah Mermelstein, Susan Zimmermann, Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, and Carl Anderson.

Think about how adept you are as an instructional leader at identifying the components of balanced literacy instruction and the gradual release of responsibility in a classroom.

Douglas Fisher, PhD, is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

Douglas Fisher is a professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

Nancy Frey is a professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

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In January, we kicked off our series of Tequila Herradura - supported workshops in Chicago, with our amazing Financial Literacy Workshop leader Amy Smith of Headlong Dance hosting two workshops in one weekend, first at 3Arts and then at the Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC).

On October 24 2015, Senegalese NGO CONAF — the National Committee for Literacy and Training — convened civil society representatives, public health practitioners, village chiefs, civil registry officials, and religious leaders at the launch ceremony for its program to improve women and children's access to civil registry in the region of Diourbel.

Worked with teachers to assist with programs and developed staff material for literacy leaders within the department at each site.

The AFN is intended to present the views of the various First Nations through their leaders in areas such as: Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, Economic Development, Education, Languages and Literacy, Health, Housing, Social Development, Justice, Taxation, Land Claims, Environment, and a whole array of issues that are of common concern to Aboriginal Canadians which arise at any given time.

Thought leaders and colleagues from a long list of organizations have encouraged us, nudged us and been our «media mentors», including: Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College; American Library Association (ALA); Association of Children's Museums (ACM); Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC); Catherine Cook School; Center for Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital; Center for Media and Human Development at Northwestern University; Chicago Children's Museum; Chicago Public Library; Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative; Children's Technology Review; Columbia College Chicago; CPB / PBS Ready to Learn; Early Childhood Australia Digital Policy Group and Live Wires; Early Childhood Futures, Learning Sciences Institute Australia, Australian Catholic University; Early Childhood Investigations; Early Childhood STEM Working Group; HITN Early Learning Collaborative; Illinois Computing Educators (ICE); Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Kohl Children's Museum; Language Castle; Little eLit; National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); New America; New Zealand Tertiary College; Technology and Young Children Interest Forum of NAEYC; and Waterford Institute, Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC)