Sentences with phrase «national leading educators»

Facilitate sessions at various local programming events and national Leading Educators programming events.

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A leading wine educator, international wine judge, wine writer, and sommelier, Robin Kelley O'Connor joined Italian Wine Merchants (IWM) in 2012, a national purveyor of top Italian and Burgundy wines.

Dr. Siegel's unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy - makers, and clergy.

Thirty leading scientists and science educators including Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor Michael Reiss, and five national organisations have signed up to a new statement calling for the extension of teaching of evolution in school science and firmer statutory guidance against the promotion of creationism.

In September, the BHA came together with thirty leading scientists and science educators including Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor Michael Reiss, and five national organisations to launch «Teach evolution, not creationism!»

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr., Oneida County Department of Social Services Commissioner Lucille Soldato and Sandra Soroka, Executive Director of The Neighborhood Center are excited to announce that The Neighborhood Center has joined the National Circles ™ Campaign to be the Lead Organization to help create community and individual social capacity through multi-layered, long - term relationships, linking those currently in poverty, middle class Allies, employers, educators, service providers, and community leaders.

Oregon Tilth is a leading national nonprofit certifier, educator, and advocate for organic agriculture and products since 1974.

Detroit — A tax - rollback plan in Michigan would cripple the state's education system and short - circuit efforts to meet national calls for excellence in education, a group of leading educators is warning in a series of press conferences throughout the state this month.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

As students are claiming their rightful place in today's ongoing dialogues on gun control and school safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurrence.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

Belonging to a deliberately small group of academic educators, each with a strong practitioner history, members of Sustainability Frontiers have agreed to collaborate in different combinations as they undertake local, national and international projects, consultancies and initiatives at the leading edge of sustainability education, often in partnership with other organizations.

Senior Lecturer, and future chair of the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (USL) at The Principals» Center, Deborah Jewell - Sherman notes the job is much too big for any individual educator to handle alone and that learning how to lead change alongside fellow school leaders can make a real difference.

Leading Trans Equality in Education: A Toolkit for Change has been developed by the National Education Union's Trans Educators» network, and was shared with members at the National Education Union's LGBT + annual conference in Leeds.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?

The 2015 report from the National Academies Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation essentially endorsed that trend, recommending that states and other organizations build a system that requires and enables all lead educators in early childhood settings to hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree with specialized knowledge and competencies in early childhood education.

Democracy Prep is a national network of more than 20 high - performing public charter schools led by 1,000 + world - class educators with the motto: Work Hard.

These leadership development systems identify highly capable educators and develop them to lead high - performance school organizations centered on teacher professionalism and collaboration, which in turn drives the state, provincial or national agenda for school improvement.

Prior to this role, Shaull also served as the Executive Director for Teacher and Leader Effectiveness where, along with a talented team of educators and national experts, she led the initial implementation of a comprehensive teacher evaluation system to accurately track teacher performance.

On November 14, 2016, the National STEM Video Game Challenge celebrated its fifth year with an awards ceremony and reception in Washington, DC at National Geographic for all 24 student winners and their families, as well as leading educators, game designers, and policy makers from across the country.

Using national and state - level data on public school managers, we find marked gender disparities in the career paths that lead educators from the classroom to the superintendent post.

It is the first opinion piece in a series highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called The Empowered Educators.

«Today, the White House Summit validates the hard work of school board members, students, parents and educators in Rochester City and Hillsborough County, and other districts that have played a leading role in using technology to strengthen the high school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (NSBA).

Since joining The Mind Trust in 2016, White has led The Mind Trust's partnership with the Relay Graduate School of Education's National Principals Academy Fellowship and has developed several groundbreaking initiatives that provide educators across Indianapolis with expert instructional, operational, and executive leadership support.

Partners collaborate, share, and examine cutting - edge practices in the national shift toward clinically rich teacher preparation with leading other teacher educators from programs across the country.

WASHINGTON — As students and teachers across the country head back to school, the U.S. Department of Education and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards today unveiled «Commit to Lead,» a new online community that makes it easy for educators to share ideas for teacher leadership and collaborate to bring them to fruition.

Both the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council recommend that states align qualifications for educators of children from birth to age eight, with all lead teachers having a bachelor's degree and specialization in early childhood.LaRue Allen and Bridget B. Kelly, eds.

Educators for Excellence's National Board of Directors brings diverse professional expertise and experience to their critical role of providing governance and strategic advice for how we can support positive teacher - led change at the school, district, state, and federal levels.

It is part of a series of opinion pieces highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called The Empowered Educators.

Current thinking about the school library as a learning commons, exemplified by Ontario's Together for Learning (Ontario Library Association 2010) and new national standards, Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada (Canadian Library Association 2014) is inspiring educators about realizing new potential for leveraging instructional leadership from the library learning commons.

Supporting initiatives, like those led by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, will equip educators with the training they need to deliver high - quality learning opportunities for all students,» said La June Montgomery Tabron, WKKF president and CEO.

After seven years in the classroom and then two years leading teachers in the field as a master educator with District of Columbia Public Schools, Angela spent six years with the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE), cultivating NAATE's strategic partnerships, developing content, and leading learning sessions for teachers and aspiring school leaders.

(10/16/2014) Leading Educators, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving teachers» leadership skills critical for enhancing educator retention and boosting student results, announced today that Stuart Kaplan, President of Knightsbridge USA, has joined the organization's board.

Leading Educators is a national nonprofit organization founded in New Orleans that seeks to improve student achievement by leveraging the positive impact of experienced teachers who take on leadership positions in their schools.

In addition to being a key - team member for many of CTAC's partnerships, Mr. Eglinton served as CTAC's co-project director for the TIF - supported Leadership for Educators» Advanced Performance Initiative (LEAP) with the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, directed CTAC's National Urban Reform Network, led site research and evaluations teams in Christina (DE) Denver (CO) and Newark (NJ) and trained district leadership teams, community collaboratives, corporate leadership groups and policymaking bodies at local, state and nationalNational Urban Reform Network, led site research and evaluations teams in Christina (DE) Denver (CO) and Newark (NJ) and trained district leadership teams, community collaboratives, corporate leadership groups and policymaking bodies at local, state and nationalnational levels.

The Common Core is a set of state - led course objectives created by educators under the auspices of the National Governors Association.

Educators in the Marysville priority schools have also participated in Washington Education Association and NEA - led professional development focused on cultural competency and effective data use, in addition to traveling to national forums organized by PSC to share and learn from other school districts engaged in school reform.

In March I had the good fortune to join the seventh annual Green Schools National Conference in Atlanta, the leading gathering of environmental educators focused on school sustainability.

Developed through a deep collaboration of the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Agile Mind, and leading educators throughout the country, Intensified Algebra I is funded with support from the National Science Foundation, the Searle Funds of the Chicago Community Trust, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Following the lead set by NCTAF 20 years ago in What Matters Most and supported by a key grant from the National Education Association, Educators Rising embarked on an ambitious effort this year to write standards for aspiring teachers.

• Educator Quality — We should aggressively expand alternatives to educator preparation and certification, lead the movement to national standardized certification, significantly expand new teacher mentoring, aggressively recruit non-traditional leadership for school administration, and introduce performance - based compensation for all educators based on value - added evaluation.

According to a report from the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), three performance measures used for evaluating teachers and principals provided some information to distinguish educator performance and led to increased feedback.

Weingarten noted that educators have additional forces lining up to support them, lauding the creation of a new group, Democrats for Public Education, led by Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Donna Brazile, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, «who want to stand up for our students, for our educators and for public education.»

Dr. Wood - Garnett is an accomplished educator with extensive experience in leading complex P — 20 education reform initiatives at the local, state, and national levels.

Clemson, S.C. (April 20, 2016) The National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC / N) is pleased to announce that K12, Inc., a technology - based education company and leading provider of proprietary curriculum and online school programs for students in pre-K through high school, is now sponsoring Solutions to the Dropout Crisis, a television format webcast that delivers practical strategies for graduation rate improvement to educators across the nation.

IFI workshops and seminars are tailored to a variety of participants: professional developers, administrators, lead teachers, national education reform leaders, out - of - school educators, and the museum and university communities.

The «Summer Learning - palooza» will be a conference - style event with sessions featuring San Angelo's lead educators and MSMI's national experts in reading (Deborah Reed, University of Iowa), writing (Tanya Santangelo, Arcadia University), and mathematics (Sarah Powell, The University of Texas at Austin).

Deans for Impact: Deans for Impact is a national organization composed of leaders of colleges of education and other programs who are committed to improving student - learning outcomes by transforming the field of educator preparation and ensuring their preparation programs graduate candidates who are ready to teach and lead in ways that measurably improve student learning.

The four organizations, which lead the GradNation campaign to raise the national high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020, credit bipartisan action by President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, as well as the diligent work of educators and communities at the state and local levels, for the nation's record high graduation rate of 83.2 percent in 2015, up from 71 percent in 2001.