Sentences with phrase «numbers of educators who»

Even though Raleigh is in Wake County, which would make it close geographically for teachers to attend the march, Wake school officials say they're not seeing large numbers of educators who are requesting the day off.
Acquiring numbers of educators who share concerns and interests is essential.
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.
This excluded a great number of educators who could not be replaced if absent from the classroom.
-LSB-...] Sheninger is one of a growing number of educators who don't just tolerate social networking in school — he encourages it, often for educational purposes.
Push - back, skeptics and accusations of she and her running mate being two - party «spoilers» notwithstanding, Ebony Murphy, who's running under the Democracy Party, seems up to the task of helping enact change in Connecticut and is part of a growing number of educators who refuse to remain silent about the achievement gap, corporate entities» disdain for teachers and the charter school problem.
Colorado has a growing number of educators who have either a Master's degree in Gifted Education or a Gifted Education Endorsement.
Compare the differences in the number of educators who agree with ConnCAN's first question versus their second question.

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Gurney is among a growing number of financial educators, investment advisers, brokers and wealth advisers who use lessons gleaned from psychology, cognitive theory and even neuroscience to find better ways to help their clients.
The Institute was created initially in response to a growing number of educators and helping professionals who wanted in - depth training in this approach.
If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.
«What's striking in these numbers is that a few dozen Wall Street financiers and billionaire hedge fund managers are able to far outspend more than 600,000 educators who believe in the promise of public education and voluntarily give a few bucks out of each paycheck to ensure they have a voice,» said Carl Korn, NYSUT's spokesman.
In the theatres This year's show welcomes a number of education visionaries who will be speaking across four different theatres about some of the most challenging topics educators are currently facing.
For example, the idea that the success of LEAs will be determined based on: «the number and percentage of participating students by subgroup who have daily access to effective and highly effective teachers» is problematic in the way that it potentially limits the innovative staffing models possible to serve students if educator is defined as one being co-located with the student.
«We conducted a review of best practices and consolidated them to the fewest number of things educators can do to have the greatest impact,» explained Dr. George Sugai, who is the co-director of the national Center on PBIS.
Rosenbrock says the annual conference has been a cornerstone of the regional facility and its PD programs as it brings together a large number of teachers from a wide area, building the foundation for plenty of collaboration and the creation of networks within schools, providing a «canvas» for educators who are keen to share in their areas of passion.
The trick would be to find (and keep) the large number of mission - aligned educators who would make the commitment to YES Prep.
Finally, I would create a panel of wise people who care about education, an equal number of educators and non-classroom-based researchers who would convene biweekly to discuss, plan, and advise.»
April Hendrix, a high school special education teacher for Savannah - Chatham County Public Schools, is one of a growing number of educators and guidance counselors who refer students to AWOL.
In response to the growing number of children who have asthma, a private group has joined forces with federal officials to teach educators about the causes of and treatments for the chronic disease.
But there are also a growing number of Stephanie Brants out there, educators and parents who believe that students are stressed and missing out on valuable family time.
THINK Literacy has been enthusiastically received by a number of leading educators from across the country who previewed the curriculum:
When one considers the total number of American educators compared to the total attendance at these conferences and then factor out the people who repeatedly attend each year, it is easy to see that most educators do not get to these national conferences.
At The Hechinger Report, we've written about educators who are overwhelmed — and, at times, underwhelmed — by the number of options for education technology programs and products.
Middle School Matters provides educators with proven, research - based strategies to increase the number of middle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary success.
The demand for bilingual educators is outpacing that of other teachers due to the continuously increasing number of students who are English language learners.
All of today's educators must have adequate technology knowledge and skills to serve the increasing number of students with disabilities who participate in inclusive general education classrooms (Wagner, Newman, Cameto, & Levine, 2006).
Connecticut experts with decades of educational experience working with Connecticut educators were replaced by five out - of - state consultants with virtually no experience working with the biggest issues facing poorer school districts; poverty, language barriers and the large number of students who need special education services.
Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.
There are a number of good ideas being floated, recently and prominently in a January 2013 address to The Pope Center in North Carolina by Dr. Sandra Stotsky, who believes that the weighting of education reform focus should be shifted from student standards to a priority on educator standards, beginning with much higher standards for admission to preparation programs and limiting schools of education to the graduate level.
In response to concerns regarding an increasing number of teaching positions filled by educators without teaching credentials and educators who were teaching outside of their area of expertise, leaders from the San Mateo County Office of Education (SMCOE) engaged with local universities, community colleges, and district superintendents to pursue solutions.
Bethel believes that Makiguchi's education «proposals are not greatly different than those of Dewey or from a number of today's educators who are making similar proposals.
«We must be concerned not only with increasing the overall number of students who plan to become educators but also with attracting more of the best and brightest students to the field.»
ConnCAN is able to claim that four out of five educators agree with that statement but even with the persuasive positive language (and no negative elements included) the number who «strongly agree» with the statement is only 41 percent while another 41 percent «somewhat support the statement.»
Grant awards reflect each proposal's budget, the number of teachers and students who will benefit from the funding, and the incentives educators may receive.
It is simply beyond comprehension that a number of school administrators, who wish to be called educators, would take steps that literally jeopardize the ability for their students to get into the college of their choice — all in the name of making students college and career ready.
A number of educators in DC, in both the charter and traditional public school sectors, have grasped the importance of building knowledge, especially for students who are disadvantaged.
Written for educators, administrators, and policymakers, this booklet provides a research - based overview on the large number of Long Term English Learner students, who despite having been enrolled in United States schools for more then six years, are not progressing towards English proficiency but are continuing to struggle without the English skills needed.
Now West Chester may be joining a growing number of districts around the country in eliminating class rank in its high schools — a high - stakes strategy that educators hold could help some of their students get into the nation's elite colleges, since those schools often overlook candidates who aren't in the rarefied percentiles.
«Eisner's eloquence in writing and speech gave heart to and bolstered many educators who felt that the humanities, qualitative approaches to evaluation and artistic criticism had been hijacked by those who wanted only numbers as a sign of effectiveness.»
External pressures to quickly increase the number of individuals who can read at grade level have forced many educators to continue simply focusing their efforts, as a path of least resistance, on how to code and decode words (Chera & Wood, 2003; Reinking, 2005).
While it's true that Duncan faced few hecklers on the road, a growing group of teachers — who may not represent the majority of American educators, but seem louder — coalesced online and rallied in modest numbers in Washington, D.C. to rail against Duncan's policies in a July «Save Our Schools» march.
To facilitate those relationships, the panel suggested increasing the numbers of school counselors and mental health professionals who serve students; freeing those professionals from other administrative responsibilities so that they can focus on the core functions of their jobs; placing more school resource officers in schools; and training educators to create healthy school climates, use positive behavioral intervention and supports, and promote students» social and emotional skills.
Fortunately there are a growing number of educators and community leaders who see this as a time of enormous opportunity to build a system designed to meet the needs of individual learners.
Me, I'm a retired educator / IT type person who has formatted more than 940 books (look at my current number of books formatted over on the right side of this page).
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And now that these lawyers have emptied those deep Roman Catholic pockets, Tillers writes, «we can expect to see — and I think we are seeing — an increasing number of sex abuse lawsuits against Protestant clergy and churches, Jewish clergy and organizations, other religious organizations and their clergy... and — eventually — educators (regardless of religious persuasion) and those who employ educators
It also led to the formal training of a large group of judicial educators, among them a number who have gone on to national and international education programs: judges such as Katherine McLeod, Miriam Bloomenfeld and Joseph Bovard, to name but three.
The new law calls for an annual review of concussion awareness resources available to coaches and educators; a strict removal - from - sport and return - to - sport procedure to ensure athletes who have suffered a blow to the head have the time to heal and recover; and a code of conduct for athletes to minimize the number of concussions that occur in youth sports.
He is a noted coparenting educator in the North Texas area, and has developed a number of parent - education programs for families who are raising children in two homes.
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