Sentences with phrase «local educators said»

The statistics regarding children living in poverty have improved little nearly three decades later, but local educators said they are working to meet those challenges with a variety of interventions to help students and their families.

Everyone agrees that early education is important to getting a child's future off to a good start, and choosing private education for your child comes with a few extra «pros,» local educators says.

Local educators say the state's new push for community schools could be a mechanism for getting more resources into schools with greater needs.

After piloting the instructional model at one school some years ago, local educators say they witnessed the results themselves.

Local educators say they chose the D.C. observation method — essentially a list of standards that teachers must demonstrate during a classroom observation, such as promoting critical thinking among students or managing classroom behavior — after looking closely at three different options.

Not exact matches

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

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«It is very disturbing that there are so few people in the room,» said Catherine Brown, who identified herself as a local educator.

At sites in India, China, the United States, and Brazil, Novozymes employees work with local educators to determine the best programs for their community, says Arlan Peters, head of sustainability, Novozymes North America.

Ultimately, Honey says she hopes her research will provide insight for educators and hopefully show them how important it is to incorporate local culture into the classroom.

But if the science of best educator practice is combined with a national infrastructure of standards and testing, then local actors can not adjudicate among competing claims about what science says.

Growing violence in the three southern provinces that border Malaysia, some of it apparently aimed at educators, has prompted more than 3,500 teachers to make transfer requests, which officials have said they will honor for all those who are not local residents, according to press accounts.

«We appreciate the generosity of many Harvard Clubs in enabling educators in their local communities to learn with our faculty through our professional education programs,» said Keith Collar, associate dean for planning and outreach at HGSE's Research, Innovation, and Outreach.

After 34 years as an educator and as president of his local AFSA affiliate, Atkinson said he sought the top office to advocate for education nationally.

Rooty Hill High School in New South Wales:»... it demonstrates what can happen when educators recognise student diversity and local opportunity and start exactly where their own students are at,» the report says.

«We appreciate the generosity of many Harvard Clubs in enabling educators in their local communities to learn with our faculty through our professional education programs,» said Keith Collar, associate dean for planning and outreach at HGSE's Research,...

Parents, educators, students, community activists, taxpayers and local elected officials have found effective ways to say «Enough is enough!»

«Educators must make their voices heard at all levels — at the local, district, state, and federal levels — to promote equal access to educational opportunities for all students,» said Deb Delisle, ASCD Executive Director and CEO.

Tanner Jesso, Fifth - Grade Teacher ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FLORIDA «I quickly became active within my teacher's union because of its purpose as a crucial vehicle for education rights,» says Tanner Jesso, a third - year teacher and member of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, where he was recently named chair of Florida's Young Remarkable Educators (FYRE), a branch the local Association.

New mandated evaluations are rolling out this fall for New York teachers and a local teachers union official says educators are likely nervous.

Jim Spady said Saturday that charters are a way to give educators the freedom to create a school of their dreams, and parents the freedom to choose a school model that's different from what their local school district offers.

Proponents say charter schools allow local educators to escape the smothering bureaucracy that entangles other public schools and to find creative solutions that help struggling students.

«Local philanthropists, educators, judges, clergy and others around the country are starting local residential schools rather than just despair of the conditions so many youth live in, and fail in,» said Heidi Goldsmith, founder and executive director of the Washington - based Coalition for Residential EducaLocal philanthropists, educators, judges, clergy and others around the country are starting local residential schools rather than just despair of the conditions so many youth live in, and fail in,» said Heidi Goldsmith, founder and executive director of the Washington - based Coalition for Residential Educalocal residential schools rather than just despair of the conditions so many youth live in, and fail in,» said Heidi Goldsmith, founder and executive director of the Washington - based Coalition for Residential Education.

The difference is so dramatic, she says, that new teachers who go through this local pipeline are mistaken for veteran educators.

«I'm thrilled that our educators were finally able to make the right choice for their school,» said Mr. McClure, a local leader.

ESSA «was supposed to unleash a wave of innovation by getting Uncle Sam off the backs of state and local educators and restoring local control,» says Education Post Executive Director Peter Cunningham in US News & World Report.

«The progress, while incremental, indicates that local leaders and educators are leading the way to raising standards and achievement and driving innovation over the next few years,» Duncan said in a statement.

Education advocates, though, say they have noted the concerns about teacher background checks and, for the most part, they believe educators» right to protest will continue unabated, particularly if hiring decisions are left to local school boards and administrators, rather than state officials.

Nearly half of voters, 49 percent, said the main responsibility for ensuring student success should rest with local educators; 28 percent said local school districts; and 23 percent said the state legislature.

«With no local deal in sight, the time has come for our leaders in Albany to step in and implement a real and meaningful evaluation system that will give teachers the critical feedback and support they need to help their students grow,» said Jonathan Schleifer, Executive Director of Educators for Excellence - New York.

«The progress, while incremental, indicates that local leaders and educators are leading the way to raising standards and achievement and driving innovation over the next few years,» Duncan said.

Some Senators have suggested local districts are misusing their classroom funding, although GOP lawmakers have not provided any examples of actual wrongdoing by districts, which say they've long used flexibility over K - 3 class sizes to retain arts, music and P.E. educators.

«Our members are really worried the dollars won't be determined at the local level,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director for Educators for Excellence.

«In the local associations that chose recertification elections, we saw a tremendous support for the role of the union in supporting educators so they can better help their students,» said WEAC President Ron Martin, a middle school social studies teacher.

«In the local associations that chose recertification elections, educators continue to show tremendous support for the union,» said WEAC President Ron Martin, a middle school social studies teacher.

Critics of the Common Core, which the state adopted in 2010, say it waters down Massachusetts's historically strong standards, and strips autonomy from local educators.

Dan Lawson, author of the letter and director of Tullahoma City Schools, stopped short of calling the document a vote of no confidence but said many of Huffman's moves are «counterproductive and hurtful» to the educators on the ground in local schools.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

Nikki Woodward, an early - childhood educator from Gaithersburg, Maryland, said local members have been organizing «phone parties» to call colleagues and urge them to vote.

«There are several wonderful charter schools that are created organically by homegrown local people, who are excellent educators, who wanted to come together to start a charter school in one specific neighborhood in one city in America,» she said.

California has again scored among the worst in the U.S. for reading and math skills, but local and state educators say elements of the test known as the Nation's Report Card call into question the accuracy of the ranking.

A proposal to reform Kentucky's pension system would reduce benefits for current and future retirees, and the local teachers» union says the plan would incentivize qualified educators to leave the state.

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While the task force results may be eye - opening to the general public, they come as no surprise to local educators, who say they have known for years that the topics covered by New Jersey's High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), the standardized test used in grades 11 and 12 to measure achievement and required for graduation, is not a measure of college readiness.

Her ballot counters the narrative that Bennett's challenger, Democrat Glenda Ritz, has crafted as local teachers unions have mobilized to support her — educators also plan to go to the polls for Bennett, Laughner says.

David Laws, in his book «Coalition», said Gove loathed careers officers (along with local authorities and sex educators among others).

More than 16,000 educators, parents and policymakers have signed an online petition at Change.org in the past two weeks, urging the national parent - teachers group to adopt a set of homework guidelines that they say local schools can implement to realign homework policy and practice with research on student learning, health, and engagement.

While those programs focus on k - 12 education, both LearnLaunchX and Socratic Labs say they are focused on learners of all kinds and both argue that their local networks of educators, school districts, institutions and corporations will give their startups an edge.