Sentences with phrase «more work for educators»

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Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.

Vanessa Anton has worked with families as a doula, a childbirth educator, and as a parenting educator for more 15 years.

The most common homework problems that parents complain about are unreasonable amounts of work (most educators believe that more than 20 minutes every night is too much for a first grader), assignments that are too easy or too hard, or too much homework on some days, not enough on others.

The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood education, school food, and disaster readiness by doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and policy - makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.

For more than 14 years she has worked as a recreation and skill development leader, an early childhood educator and a teaching assistant, working in elementary schools and with special needs children between 4 and 11 years of age.

He has worked as an educator in the Southern Tier for more than twenty years, including more than a decade in higher education, serving on the faculty as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hartwick College and as a lecturer in Environmental Studies at Binghamton University.

In her work at the UFT, Janella has championed equity for students and a more meaningful voice for educators.

Research educator Tim Riedel works with a student in the University of Texas at Austin's Freshman Research Initiative on developing a diagnostic tool for malaria, Zika virus and more.

Jane has worked as a science, outdoor, and health educator for over 25 years, and more recently a researcher.

After almost a year of work undertaken by the Readiness Project — a statewide initiative (chaired by HGSE Professor Thomas Payzant) involving more than 200 educators, business leaders, and community leaders to develop a strategic blueprint for the next phase of education reform that was — the plan incorporates vast changes from K - 12 to higher education.

Feb. 13, 2014, 1 p.m. ET: Blending Math Instruction for Elementary Grades The idea of blended learning — combining digital curricula and tools with face - to - face instruction — for elementary grades is becoming more popular and educators are finding that it works particularly well in mathematics.

Other principals find that working with a retired educator is more comfortable and allows for give and take on educational as well as managerial issues.

EDUTOPIA: In terms of creating more mirrors, you've been working to get many more black educators into the profession in the Philadelphia community via the fellowship Black Male Educators for Socialeducators into the profession in the Philadelphia community via the fellowship Black Male Educators for SocialEducators for Social Justice.

While the single - point rubric may require that we as educators give a little more of our time to reflect on each student's unique work when grading, it also creates space for our students to grow as scholars and individuals who take ownership of their learning.

Pinto's story could be repeated by others, though often the problems introverts face are more subtle — when educators reward extroverts for being outspoken leaders, promote social interaction, and make groupwork the norm even though some students thrive when they are working alone.

Childcare Apprenticeships currently available are: The Children and Young People's Workforce apprenticeship programme Level 2 and 3 NVQ, Level 2 being open to school leavers age 16 and over who have a passion for working with children and wish to become Assistant Early Years Educators and Level 3 leaning more towards more experienced staff who aim to progress to a more responsible position as Qualified Early Years Educators and Room Managers.

I worked as a sexuality educator on San Francisco Sex Information switchboard for more than 5 years, and have done significant volunteer work focusing on rape prevention and HIV / AIDS prevention.

For this reason we will work and seek more efficient methods to achieve a true philanthropic formation in the future educators that allow future education to be at the service of mankind and its development.

For dozens of educators attending the Project Zero Classroom (PZC) last week from New Mexico and Indiana, it was a chance to add more tools to their education toolkit and to work as a team on creating a vision for the future of their schooFor dozens of educators attending the Project Zero Classroom (PZC) last week from New Mexico and Indiana, it was a chance to add more tools to their education toolkit and to work as a team on creating a vision for the future of their schoofor the future of their schools.

For more information on the America Goes Back to School initiative, including a free activity kit that gives concrete ideas, resources, and examples of how parents, families, community groups, employers, and educators are working to help children learn, call 1 -800-USA-LEARN (1-800-872-5327) or visit the U.S. Department of Education's homepage.

Most principals and teachers say they believe creating school environments that allow educators to work together more would have a «major impact» on improving the chances for student success, according to a new national survey by MetLife Inc..

Mark has spent more than 15 years as an educator, co-founding New Orleans» Langston Hughes Academy charter school and working with Teach for America, Atlanta Public Schools, Jobs for the Future, and the Alabama State Department of Education.

In her book, Teaching for Understanding with Technology (Jossey Bass, 2005), Stone Wiske features the work of educators who use technology to make learning difficult topics more engaging and generative for students.

The academy's president, Professor Dame Ann Dowling, rightly stated that this is a critical time for Britain's engineering sector and educators and businesses must work more closely together than ever before if we are to close the skills gap.

For example, such shifting certainly initially means more work and pressure on educators, who already feel overburdened.

As more and more districts of all sizes started collecting data to evaluate what programs and interventions were working for their students and which weren't, it became clear to the team at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) that this information was helpful only if educators had a way to interpret it — and in a timely way.

As the market for game - based learning tools spreads, African video game developers should also tap into this industry by working hand to hand with educators to design more educational games adapted for African students.

S4S has so far worked with more than half a million children, educators and parents in different settings — including public and private schools, Indigenous boarding schools and centres for children with HIV.

The idea of blended learning — combining digital curricula and tools with face - to - face instruction — for elementary grades is becoming more popular, and educators are finding it works particularly well in mathematics.

More sites for teaching about... elections More Great Sites for Teaching About... page highlights Web sites to help educators work timely themes into their lessons.

In his role leading the worldwide execution of Microsoft's vision for education, Salcito works to help empower educators and inspire students to achieve more.

Windows devices designed for learning facilitate personalized learning opportunities for students and enable educators to work more efficiently.

The Core Knowledge Foundation has partnered with the Civics Renewal Network (CRN), an alliance of more than thirty nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations working to provide free online resources to educators for classroom instruction in civics.

In «Partnership Is a Two - Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.»

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

Ama Nyamekye, the executive director of Educators 4 Excellence Los Angeles, an organization that advocates for teachers to take a more active role in shaping education policies, wrote an op - ed in last week's Huffington Post LA calling for a more «courageous» LAUSD School Board: «Our school board needs to get to work tackling a tall order of...

I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators across the nation to find more ways to work together, and with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own school but transform public education system for your city or state as a whole.

Most of them grew up in Danhill; almost all educators working in the district office have been in the district for 25 years or more.

«We are excited to announce that Center for Inspired Teaching and LDC will now be working together to bring transformative teacher professional development to even more educators.

If we could get back to the basics — great schools — and empowering families to make the decisions that best suit their child's education, we might see more success stories for students, which is at the heart of why educators like McKeon signed up for this work in the first place.

Rich with updated findings and new evidence gathered over the last decade, the second edition of Classroom Instruction That Works builds on the classic text that more than 1 million educators have turned to for support in strengthening their practice.

Now more than ever, it's important to be validated for the hard work that educators are doing often under very difficult conditions.

The strategies and information presented can also be useful for schools, teacher educators, and policymakers by helping to create more appropriate policies and practices that work for all students

Providing teachers with tools for ensuring task validity along with expert task reviews and engaging educators in cross-district sessions on scoring student work are two ways of addressing technical quality within a more student - centered accountability system.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

I am looking forward to partnering with ACSA for many years, as we work together to make our public education system more supportive of our educators, more equitable, and one that truly gives all children the education they deserve.»

«We're seeing across the country really great work happening in schools to move away from exclusionary discipline towards more positive behavior interventions,» said Evan Stone, co-CEO and co-founder of Educators for Excellence.

Moreover, we've worked closely with several of our state affiliates to convene symposia for educators of all types to learn more about the common core.

In all four of the districts where we worked, we observed that parents» strongly felt concerns served as both a model and an incentive for educators to be more open to systemic changes.

«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.