Over the past 15 years, public education in the United States has been profoundly shaped by the work of a generation
of young educators and reformers who launched their careers in the early 1990s: people like Wendy Kopp, Dave Levin, Mike Feinberg, Michelle Rhee, Chris Barbic, Rick Hess, and my own colleagues Kim Smith and Andrew Rotherham.
Only last year, more than half
of the young educators reported they are intended to quit in the next couple of years, according to the NUT teachers union.
Washington State ASCD, in its ongoing search for quality leadership, will seek out, highlight, and celebrate the accomplishments
of a young educator who achieves excellence in instructional leadership in teaching and learning.
Not exact matches
By the early 1970s, Horváth was one
of Sweden's most promising
young business
educators.
«We trust highly trained
educators to use their professional judgment to make decisions in the best interests
of children, particularly given that this policy applies to children as
young as five years
of age,» Kenney said in a press conference on November 2.
The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and
educators give hourly tours
of their 53 patients, including one
young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.
The Catholic church's admonitions to
young women to preserve their virginity at all costs consisted chiefly, at least in the past,
of dramatic warnings, what one might call «spiritual terrorism,» in that all Catholic girls should be willing to die to preserve their virginity, because Catholic
educators told them so and because the alternative was unthinkable.
Once parents are relieved
of any understandable fears about having to teach their
young children how to have sex, it will be easier to convince them
of the importance
of exercising their God - given role as
educators in chastity.
What then should a parent,
educator or society in general say to a
young person caught in a mixed stew
of sexual inclinations?
Child - care interest groups and their unthinking feminist allies use the rhetoric
of «choice» and «quality» and their status as professional
educators and guardians
of young children to disguise as dispassionate advice what is in fact a political horse trade.
One was the work
of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid
of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis
of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns
of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry
of a religious
educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition
of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its
young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature
of the culture encountered in the local church.
A
young, growing organization, the Association for Media
Educators in Religion, has been established to study this influence on the one hand and to encourage appropriate use
of the media on the other.
The real issue is not the threat such projects pose to the authority
of the home and school, but the fact that
young people come to high school so dismally uninformed religiously by home and church that responsible
educators feel obliged to take up the task.
During the development
of Julia's character, the team at Sesame Workshop consulted with autism organizations,
educators, and families on how to not only accurately portray a child with autism, but also how to explain the condition to
young children.
But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition
of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by
younger and
younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits
of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and
educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.
As a parent or
educator, try to think
of what you did as a child for fun and what some
of your favorite toys were and share this joy with your own
young children!
Our goal is to partner with parents and
educators of young children to reveal how science is part
of our daily lives by using everyday encounters as opportunities to excite, teach, and encourage a connection to the natural world.
This proposal would provide the resources to help states implement those important reforms and support the expansion
of access to quality child care programs staffed by early
educators that can provide developmentally appropriate services that promote the healthy development and school readiness
of young children
She is a homeschooling and attachment parenting mother
of three with nearly two decades
of experience working with
young children and parents, has a master's degree in family therapy, is a featured parenting expert and media advocate on television and radio, published author
of parenting books, articles, and curricula, and a certified parent
educator with her company Sage Parenting.
Jodie Rodriguez is a mom
of two
young boys and an early childhood / elementary
educator with over 18 years
of experience.
He travels extensively across America and around the world teaching health professionals,
educators and parents how to successfully meet the needs
of young children... and help them be happy!
We offer hope to
educators by providing critical professional development and work toward the creation
of a system
of quality early care and education for our
youngest citizens.
Footage
of educators, policy makers, and
young people at the center
of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum
of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.
As the nation's leading organization dedicated to educating parents, companies, children,
educators and policymakers about Internet issues, FOSI is eager to tackle online safety with Snap Inc., parent company
of Snapchat, which is particularly popular among
young people.
Principal MacDonald is a true example
of an
educator who is devoted to the success
of our
young people and I want to thank her for everything she has done for our community.
She earned the recognition based what the President said is her ``... 12 years
of dedication and commitment to the education
of our nation's children through her work at the
Young Educators Foundation and establishment
of the National Spelling Bee and
Young Debaters Competition in the nation
of Ghana»
They are already among the poorest - paid employees in the state; is this really how we should treat the
educators of our
youngest residents?
Educators might be able to do the same sort
of thing for these
young children at risk
of higher social costs, she said.
But our research suggests that a majority
of parents and
educators aren't discussing with
young people basic issues related to consent.
Holt was among more than 50 speakers representing the full span
of scientific and engineering disciplines, along with physicians,
educators, academics, entrepreneurs, musicians, communicators, poets and aspiring
young scientists who addressed the wet but enthusiastic thousands who poured onto the National Mall and later marched to the U.S. Capitol.
The researchers hope that
educators can use the findings to develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum that take advantage
of young children's ability to learn through observation using less - than - perfect causal relationships.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health
educators instead
of more formally educated nurses to counsel
young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communities.
A further understanding
of cognitive development in
young students, Orosco said, both by researchers and
educators working with English - language learners, could ultimately lead to better reading instruction for all students, improved measurement processes and fewer students unnecessarily being placed in special education classes.
There's a population
of men who tan and engage in other risky behaviors and are very unlike the
young women that health
educators assume are at risk
of tanning bed health impacts, says Pagoto.
«In the coming months, we look forward to sharing our assessments and working with
educators to create materials that will help
young people navigate the sea
of disinformation they encounter online.»
More than 350 dignitaries, policymakers, scientists and
educators will be in the audience, as the meeting focuses on science for sustainable development — and the role
of TWAS Fellows,
Young Affiliates and partners in that drive.
A
young organization founded in 2003, Georgia CORE is a novel collaboration
of clinicians, scientists,
educators, research professionals and those affected by cancer.
«I wish I could have told my
younger self not to worry so much about how my body looked, because it held me back from being present in my body during sex,» says Sarah Tomchesson, sex
educator and head
of business operations at The Pleasure Chest.
Meg works with
educators, parents and children believing it is important for children to start life habits
of nutrition, stress reduction, movement and mindfulness at a
young age.
Nutrition
educator & author extraordinaire, she's also a rebel with a cause who enjoys playing in the rain, a good bottle
of Caol Ila scotch, curling up with a page - turning book, sunbathing on her hammock, and watching her three children grow into
young adults.
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educators, parents, and
young children in the development
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Daveed Diggs (right) and poet,
educator and playwright Chinaka Hodge answer questions from
young people at the Jewish Community Center
of San Francisco.
As
educators, we believe that we have a responsibility to use our classrooms to help
young people grapple with and address the messiness
of the world around them.
It's important for
young people to understand human evolution, supply and demand, and countless other concepts, but to make a meaningful and lasting impression, I encourage
educators to make the relevance
of what they teach glaringly obvious.
But Dr. Shannon Vincent, principal
of Trent Lott Middle School in Pascagoula, Mississippi, believes she is falling short as an
educator if she does not engage
young people in community service.
While listening to one
of the best
young educators Sara Boucher (@MsGeekyTeach) as she shared a story about how one restaurant in Philadelphia that was giving to the homeless, I caught her enthusiasm.
This is not merely a journalistic pursuit, however, as Salopek and his partners at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education have created Out
of Eden Learn, an initiative to introduce
educators and
young learners to Salopek's walk, facilitate crosscultural inquiry, and — hopefully — help bridge the divides between cultures.