Sentences with phrase «of classrooms across the country»

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

Data shows that the vast majority of classrooms across the country are still led by qualified educators but, with the challenges facing the teaching profession, can it hold?

Education reform is in the air and taking root in thousands of classrooms across the country.

Not exact matches

This past Friday, students across the country walked out of their classroom to protest gun violence and while students were participating, walking out at Flour Bluff High School three seniors there decided to take another position.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Whether they are highlighting expanded universal breakfast - in - the - classroom, farm - to - schools, or chefs - to - schools, we are excited to see our message of healthy school food spreading across the country!

Although school was out for students and teachers, we continued to work with school nutrition directors, managers, and their staffs across the country, preparing for the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, and beyond.

In doing so it makes itself out of touch with the reality of a vibrant part of what is going on in many RE classrooms across the country.»

Think of board games like Monopoly, card games that teach math or vocabulary, and video games, which are popping up in classrooms across the country.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

Lockport native Chris Sacca, a Silicon Valley venture investor and owner of Lowercase Capital with ties to Buffalo, was among some 60 celebrities, business leaders, athletes and philanthropists from across the country — including Stephen Colbert — who joined forces for #BestSchoolDay to fund classroom projects through DonorsChoose.org.

«Given the research and demographic shifts, it's essential to carefully measure the quality of classroom experiences for dual - language learners and to optimize their learning in our state and across the country.»

In addition to research support and housing at Schoodic Institute, the Fellows will receive science communication training, and will contribute to development of resources to bring park science to classrooms across the country.

In an effort to make retrieval practice a common strategy in classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning.

«We're trying to transfer the knowledge of the relatively few autism experts available into classrooms and homes across the country.

The Community of Practice provides professional development opportunities for middle and high school teachers across the country to learn more about current heliophysics research and incorporate it into their classroom.

Virtual classrooms provide us with an opportunity to answer questions live and provide real dialog around today's biggest dating challenges.Thoughtfully Curated Events and Workshops: We believe in the power of connectivity, and host opportunities to connect across the country.

As part of an extensive education outreach campaign to heighten awareness of Thurgood Marshall in classrooms and homeschools across the country, BazanED, a leader in motion picture education, is working with officials ranging from city council members to congressional representatives and mayors to organize the initiative.

Such events were a topic of intense discussion and debate in homes and classrooms across the country.

The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and classrooms across the country.

From what I've seen in classrooms across the country, today's educators make going beyond the call of duty their everyday call of duty.

Using social media allows teachers and students to reach beyond the walls of the classroom and make connections across the country and the globe.

Outdoor Classroom Day will be celebrated across the world in as many as 52 countries on May 18th 2017, with the aim of getting over half a million children learning and playing outside of their classroom.

Although many parents and politicians argue passionately against mobile classrooms — the majority of which never move — teachers across the country seem much less perturbed by their use, and in many cases, actually prefer them.

The American Institute of CPAs has developed a curriculum package for grades 4 - 6, and volunteers from state CPA societies are available to teach it in classrooms across the country.

Many school classrooms across the country today were designed before the invention of computers and possibly, for some, prior to the invention of electricity.

Across the country, students, teachers, principals, and staff members are helping each other make sense of the mix of raw emotions happening in communities, schools, and classrooms in the wake of the 2016 election.

In the late 1980s, Whittle had earned a reputation for blending the sacred — education — with the profane — business — when he launched Channel One, a TV program produced by and for teens that delivered 10 minutes of news with 2 minutes of commercials to classrooms across the country.

If the new tests assess knowledge in ways that demand mastery of sequenced domain knowledge, sophisticated vocabulary, rich content, and cross-disciplinary learning, educators across the country would have a much greater incentive to bring challenging content into their classrooms and thus realize the implicit promise of the new standards.

The National Education Association reports that, as of 2004, nearly every general education classroom across the country includes students with physical and / or learning disabilities.

Since joining the department, he has drawn on his wealth of experience in the classroom and at the forefront of academy trusts to nurture innovative approaches that have helped raised standards across the country.

Youve just provided a voice - to - voice learning experience that will expand the walls of your classroom and open up possibilities for your students to become global partners with students across the country or across the world.

Bottom Line: With Mac products popping up in classrooms across the country, this site is a must - see for getting the most out of them.

He continued: «At a time when classroom teachers across the country have been denied even a one per cent pay uplift and parents are increasingly being asked by schools to make financial contributions for basic services, the excessive salaries of some academy chiefs can not be justified.

Schools across the country are using modular classrooms to meet a wide range of educational needs.

Proponents of the technology can point to real success stories: Here are some of the more promising uses of VR and other immersive technologies already underway in K — 12 classrooms across the country.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

In 2011, with the blessing of then - Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Mayor Bloomberg, I left to start New Classrooms as a national, non-profit organization to further develop the idea and make it available to schools across the country.

Jaimie Cloud, founder and president of the Cloud Institute, sees no reason why sustainability education can't continue to thrive in classrooms across the country.

Aspiring teachers across the country are set to benefit from a number of changes designed to allow them to begin training, and make a difference in the classroom, more quickly.

The STEM in Schools event, run by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, forms part of National Science Week and will see classrooms across the country come alive with science as students participate in a virtual classroom discussion with STEM professionals working in the international space industry.

The projects — models of high - quality student work in subjects across the disciplines, from classrooms across the country — were the focal point of a workshop for arts - inspired educators, part of a three - day professional development summit earlier this month called Arts and Passion - Driven Learning.

This is the case in classrooms across the country, but especially so in urban settings, where many students need literacy instruction that addresses their difficulties while still nurturing their love of reading.

With the plethora of resources available to teachers and students, creating customized learning paths is an increasing reality happening today in classrooms across the country.

Among 657 Playworks partner schools across the country surveyed in Spring 2017, 95 percent of school staff reported an improvement in overall school climate; 97 percent witnessed an increase in the number of students engaged in healthy play during recess; and teachers reported an average of 19 recovered learning hours in the classroom.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

This year, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) is partnering with Panorama Education to offer the Student Perception Survey, a research - based, confidential student survey used across the country to provide teachers with students» feedback about their classroom experiences.

We produce an array of anti-bias resources that we distribute, free of charge, to educators across the country — award - winning classroom documentaries, lesson plans and curricula, Teaching Tolerance magazine, and more.

Maiers has a proven and impressive track record of motivating and helping educators across the country transform their classrooms to meet the needs of today's students.

With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, WestEd is exploring how teachers make decisions about which instructional materials to use in their classrooms to inform efforts aimed at improving the quality and consistency of instructional materials across the country.