Sentences with phrase «of local curricula»

All 17,000 + ZooWhiz educational activities are correlated one - to - one with the finest grained elements of your local curricula.

Through information and outreach, our goal is to generate policy that prohibits any state authority from adopting education programs, standards, or assessments that are national in nature, that infringe upon local district authority, or which may be used to coerce the development of local curricula or instruction.

Educators should engage in a careful review of their local curricula to ensure there are ample opportunities for complex and strategic thinking.

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

These decisions rest at the local level as one part of the local curriculum and instructional resources development process.

What we have seen is not the flowering of local curriculum leading to responsiveness to students, but a wholesale regimented responsiveness to the state.

Adjustment of local curriculum to include necessary content from both the 2008 and 2015 standards and curriculum frameworks; and

Not exact matches

Over the years, our company has had a relationship with local colleges and universities, where we've provided them with funds at times, but we've also given them the time of some of our people, to meet with their educators and define curricula.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

Therefore, rather than focusing on the «cognitive and characterological» development of the student, the curriculum of a seminary shoul concentrate on the cognitive and characterological development of the local church.

In many ways the problem was and still is how to provide close representative connections between local churches and national policies: education curriculum, youth work, national ministries, and international ministries, etc, without the insights of the local churches being filtered through states and regions in a typical connectional system.

Upon completion of the curriculum, the associate sits for a panel certification interview to validate knowledge and gain exposure to local leadership.

Julie Chiaverini is a Lecturer in the School of Education at University of California at Irvine, as well as an Independent Literacy Curriculum & Instruction Consultant at local elementary schools in Orange County.

«The tastings part of the curriculum has been extremely popular and effective,» Cuneen said, «and local farm expeditions where children have had the opportunity to eat broccoli and other vegetables off the plant have been absolutely transformative.

Most public schools, and some private schools and local resources, participate in the National campaign but homeschools do not often consider Red Ribbon Week as part of their homeschool curriculum or activities.

Personally, I don't see the point in romanticizing our local schools if they aren't doing what they should, which is teaching the majority of kids the majority of the curriculum to an acceptable standard.

By completing the training, Head Counselors will be able to show competencies in curriculum development, informal education instruction, written and oral communication, group management, and science content knowledge of our local habitats.

By completing the training, the AD will be able to show competencies in operational management, curriculum development, informal education instruction, written and oral communication, and environmental science content knowledge of our local habitats.

In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

Mark has been involved in a variety of local community service activities including; the NSSED Governing Board, NSSED APS Board, Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Board, LBES principal search committee, the District 65 21st Century Learners curriculum committee, Soccer and Little League coaching, and scouting and swim team events.

Community Involvement Mark has been involved in a variety of local community service activities including; the NSSED Governing Board, NSSED APS Board, Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Board, LBES principal search committee, the District 65 21st Century Learners curriculum committee, Soccer and Little League coaching, and scouting and swim team events.

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

Some of these are offered by local universities and offer excellent opportunities to do fun experiments, get creative, and take part in advanced problem - solving that isn't part of the normal school curriculum.

The task force recommended a revamp of the common core system, more stakeholder input, a reduction in standardized testing, and increased local control over standards and curriculum.

«According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request carried out in March 2011 by the NUT and National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) almost a third (29.3 per cent) of Local Authorities in England are not holding back the EMAG grant to meet the specific educational needs of minority ethnic pupils.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also sung the praises of the initiative, which sees schools run independently of local authorities and exempt from teaching the national curriculum.

Currently, local authority maintained schools are only required to provide the sex education elements of the national curriculum (anatomy, reproduction, puberty etc), and some information on STIs and HIV / AIDS.

«Michael Gove has suggested that he wishes teachers to be «free from stifling bureaucracy» and yet at the same time plans to put in place a curriculum that will force all schools to teach the same subjects regardless of the needs individual learners, employers and their local communities.

On Tuesday, several state and local education officials - including State Regents Commissioner Meryl Tisch and United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew - testified on the Common Core curriculum and teacher evaluation implementation.

About 60 percent of the new funds will be used to develop new curriculums and networks of schools that work together to identify local problems and solutions.

The Regents also plan to work with local school districts to cut down on unnecessary tests and develop a different curriculum for mentally disabled children, instead of holding them to the standards of non-disabled students.

«I look forward to continuing my efforts to save our children's education from the mismanaged roll - out of the Common Core curriculum, advocate for women's equality and make smart investments to create good local jobs in Dutchess and Putnam counties.»

A current focus is matching local curricula to the needs of local employers.

«The broad adoption of POLST in California's nursing homes is possible due to a combination of state - level efforts — such as passing legislation and developing a standardized POLST form and curriculum — and the grassroots efforts of local POLST coalitions who educate providers and consumers in cities and counties throughout the state,» said Judy Thomas, study co-author and CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, the organization that runs the POLST program in California.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

Each reporter was to follow a common format covering the science content in his or her national curriculum, the local and national politics of how it is delivered, the recommendations of how it is to be taught, the kind of informal education provided by museums and science centres, the training and status of science teachers and equality of opportunity for all pupils — including race, immigrant group and handicap.

He said the researchers hope to expand scientific curricula at all levels of education, helping train the Malagasy scientists of the future and build scientific capacity in the country, all the while creating an appreciation among the local population of the need to understand and preserve lemurs and other species for the future.

As such, the curriculum of a foreign university may be tailored to meet local job market demands.

So the team will retain this effective model of undergraduates teaching over 1300 local school students each year, but plans to update the curriculum to help students better see how plant genetics is pertinent to their world.

Kemi Jona, an associate professor at Northwestern University and a member of the VOISE Academy High School design team, explains that online curriculum provides «a ticket to entry for students, getting them ready for the really exciting stuff: the projects, the collaborations, and the local connections that a teacher can bring.»

After meeting with officials from the University of Helsinki, we came to understand that a great deal of autonomy regarding curriculum, instruction and assessment resides at the local level.

At the moment, only local authority - maintained schools have to teach sex education as part of the national curriculum, but from September 2019, this requirement will be extended to academies.

Fortunately, the national curriculum programmes of study provide us with numerous opportunities for learning in our school grounds, local community and further afield during educational visits and residentials.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

We have a long tradition of local control in this country, which tends to make curriculum a third rail.

The programme supports teachers in learning about the heritage of the area they teach in, so they can embed it into the curriculum, and make local links with the national story of England.

These include: commissioning an independent evaluation of how CfE is being implemented «on the ground»; improving the quality of information available on the aspects of CfE that matter, not those that are most «readily measurable»; simplifying and clarifying core guidance on the CfE; giving local authorities a more central role in implementing the curriculum; and creating «stimulating and challenging learning environments» in secondary schools in areas of deprivation.

The curriculum should cover grades K — 12 and leave plenty of room for state, local, and building - and classroom - level variation and augmentation.

«Our Local Authority computing and online safety team provides regular sessions for all computing leaders keeping them updated on all aspects of the computing curriculum.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.