Sentences with phrase «literacy leaders in»

They come here looking for research - based practices to enhance their instruction and help them serve as literacy leaders in their schools.

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Our network of sanctuaries and nature centers provide many ways to connect people of all ages with nature — offering engaging and joyful experiences in a variety of ecosystems, increasing environmental literacy, and building conservation leaders.

Literacy Initiative entitled «Leaders Are Readers» program in Buffalo in 2004.

Currently Chelsea is developing a yoga and literacy curriculum for Atlanta area youth organizations, as well as providing trainings for yoga practitioners, educators, community leaders, activists, and students interested in expanding their awareness on issues concerning marginalized youth, individuals, and communities.

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....

Two years ago, when Arizona launched its statewide literacy initiative Read On Arizona, state leaders looked for guidance in a series of policy and practice memos developed by Professor Nonie Lesaux.The one - page memos, released in 2012 as part of Lesaux's Lead for Literacy initiativeliteracy initiative Read On Arizona, state leaders looked for guidance in a series of policy and practice memos developed by Professor Nonie Lesaux.The one - page memos, released in 2012 as part of Lesaux's Lead for Literacy initiativeLiteracy initiative, are...

«She's a strong leader — both here on campus as the director of the Language and Literacy Program and in the field through her ongoing collaborations with Boston and Cambridge Public Schools.

The training develops subject leaders» literacy pedagogy and equips literacy leaders with tools for the audit, evaluation, monitoring and implementation of literacy strategies in their school.

Two years ago, when Arizona launched its statewide literacy initiative Read On Arizona, state leaders looked for guidance in a series of policy and practice memos developed by Professor Nonie Lesaux.

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 instructioIn 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 instructioin 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.

You will contribute in so many ways — as researchers, teachers, principals, superintendents, literacy specialists, community organizers, higher education administrators, art specialists, policy analysts, leaders of education organizations, and leaders in government.

From her early passion for literacy as a middle school Humanities teacher to her current work in developing leaders, common themes in City's work are collaboration, evidence - based discussion, asking the right questions, thinking and acting strategically, and learning through doing.

School leaders recognize the need for literacy instruction to become a schoolwide priority — in all courses, not just English and the humanities.

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.

This resource is a culmination of many years experience in Year 6, literacy leader and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary Lliteracy leader and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary Litleader and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary LitLeader in Education for Primary LiteracyLiteracy.

This class offered a realistic case study of a school in the midst of literacy reform and walked through the thought process any leader could use to determine what to do next to support that school's progress.

It is a culmination of years of experience as a Year 6 teacher, Literacy Leader and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary Literacy with many years of staff training.

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.

This bundle is a great investment for school leaders and literacy co-ordinators to support teachers in teaching classic poetry eel across the school.

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.

«Nonie has risen as a leader for early education and literacy reforms in the commonwealth and brings a unique skill set to the table that will strengthen programs and enrich education for young children.»

Morton's view is shared by leaders in many other states, where thousands of Reading First elementary schools have reported unprecedented progress closing the «literacy gap» among the poor.

College Literacy Leader Janis Copping recalls how a group of staff, not just English teachers, visited Queensland in 2005/6 to see how Christensen's approach was working.

The Learning on Country program, launched in 2013, involves community leaders and Indigenous rangers that teach students about customary knowledge, culture and literacy and numeracy.

Included in Education Week's lineup of print editions are three high - profile annual reports — Quality Counts, Technology Counts, and Leaders To Learn From — and a mix of popular reports on such subjects as literacy instruction, personalized learning, student assessment, school principals, and teacher professional development.

S. (2007) Transformation and emotional literacy: The role of school leaders in developing a caring community Leading and Managing 13 (1) 16 - 30

Join literacy leaders Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as they will explore practical tips for how to build variety in the classroom text base, and how to lift learning with different texts for different purposes.

After teaching in the Chicago public schools, Hancock worked as a teacher, teacher leader, curriculum specialist, literacy specialist, middle school assistant principal, and elementary school principal in Rochester, N.Y..

The PBS Digital Innovator All - Star program expands on this influential work, deepening these educators» roles as leaders in integrating technology and digital media into the classroom — supporting students» learning through increasingly important media literacy skills.

This concentration provides opportunities to work with faculty members who are leaders in literacy, language, and culture.

You will contribute in so many ways — as researchers, teachers, principals, superintendents, literacy specialists, higher education administrators, art specialists, policy analysts, leaders of education nonprofits, and leaders in government.

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She also provides direct support to teachers, coaches and school and district leaders in secondary literacy instruction and coaching.

Through surveys and interviews, researchers found that teacher leaders in the graduate literacy program conveyed their learning to colleagues through a variety of activities, which colleagues found useful.

Our evidence - based Success Now approach guides leaders in making strong, sustainable literacy decisions.

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.

The Task Force includes a diverse group of active leaders and educators in K12 education who all believe that increasing assessment literacy among teachers is an urgent and important priority.

We provide coaching for district and school leaders on how to improve literacy programs in low - performing, high - poverty schools.

We offer guidance and expertise to help literacy leaders conduct structured reading and writing observations, train staff members in effective intervention strategies and grouping, create multi-tiered systems of support, and use data to engage in self - inquiry and improvement.

The individuals or groups identified as providing leadership included a mix of principals, assistant principals, teachers in formal leadership roles (e.g., grade or subject team leaders) and teachers with specialist positions (e.g., literacy specialists, technology specialists, counselors).

LDC has given me more confidence as a teacher - leader in our school and a vocabulary to coach and guide our literacy and curriculum goals.»

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

From 1997 to 2001, Island was the 4th grade team leader for Martin L. King Experimental Laboratory School in Evanston, IL, where she took on the roles of Language Arts district representative, School Literacy Committee member, Teachers as Readers Committee member, a Sisterhood Project mentor and coordinator of Battle of the Books inter-school competition.

Because of the overuse of suspensions, teachers and school leaders are not dealing with the acting out in which children struggling with literacy tend to engage because of their fear of admitting that they can't read.

This webinar provided participants an opportunity to identify the opportunities of SRCLP program to increase language and literacy skills of young children and improve practice of educators; share evidence - based research to improve reading comprehension of children preschool to third grade; and discuss considerations for state leaders in designing policy and professional learning to increase effectiveness of early language and literacy instruction, particularly for dual language learners, and children with special needs.

On the personal knowledge development level, Hillman says principal training in interactive read - alouds, writing practices, guided reading, and similar skills, which are offered by the Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their literacy instruction in their schools.

District 180 would employ three Education Recovery Directors, who would be responsible for managing teams of one Education Recovery Leader (a mentor to the principal) and two Education Recovery Specialists (one each in mathematics and literacy) for each persistently low - performing school.

In the September faculty meeting, leaders facilitated grade - level team learning sessions in which teachers practiced reading and interpreting the literacy assessments their students would takIn the September faculty meeting, leaders facilitated grade - level team learning sessions in which teachers practiced reading and interpreting the literacy assessments their students would takin which teachers practiced reading and interpreting the literacy assessments their students would take.