Sentences with phrase «meaning educators and school leaders»

More and more, well - meaning educators and school leaders are talking about student voice and student choice, and implying that simply listening to student voice and giving students choices will lead to student empowerment.

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Educators, health professionals, youth leaders, and students define what a healthy school means to them in the video below.

Called XQ: The Super School Project, the campaign is meant to inspire teams of educators and students, as well as leaders from other sectors, to come up with new plans for high schools.

A leader and active member in many student groups while at the Ed School, including FIERCE (Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education) and the HGSE Rural Educators Alliance, Barraza, as noted by a peer who nominated her for the Intellectual Contribution Award, «never shied away from difficult conversations with peers and professors and she modeled what it means to stand up for what one believes in.»

In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

The agenda for the day was school budgets, but after the long, surprising evening watching election results come in, these educators know that some time needs to be spent on what the election means for teachers, leaders and students.

«Teacher leaders — educators who take on leadership responsibilities meant to improve practice in their schools and beyond — are an important force in reforming K - 12 education.»