Sentences with phrase «of schools and educators»

A negative experience in their own education has resulted in a mistrust of schools and educators.

Drummond - Forrester is attuned to the changing landscape of education and works collaboratively with the Open Circle programming team to provide curricula, professional development, and implementation support that keeps the wellbeing of students at the center while meeting the needs of schools and educators.

Convening and working with networks of schools and educators has been integral to CCE's work from the start, with projects ranging from the 20 + year old Boston Pilot School Network (now the Boston Autonomous Schools Network) to newer networks such as the Rhode Island Scaling Up Proficiency Based Graduation Network.

For example, she heavily used standardized test scores for the evaluation of schools and educators, even though assessment experts said it was a bad idea.

She had a clear, attractive message and stuck to it: We need to unleash the creativity and innovation of our schools and educators, and stop trying to make one size fit all.

Rising racial tensions this year throughout America, El - Amin says, «reinforce the significance of schools and educators being able to prepare students of color to survive, thrive, and deconstruct a racist society.

Because the toolbox and similar approaches do not frontally address the capacity of the schools and educators to deliver an appropriate education.

He also tries to debunk some well - known examples of schools and educators that succeed with disadvantaged minority youngsters.

«We see a solid base of schools and educators committed to using those important tools for improving their students and the communities in which they live.»

It is reasonable, then, to wonder whether we need to abandon high - stakes testing altogether or whether better tests and smarter measurement of school and educator performance might help address the failings that Koretz describes.

Not exact matches

(PISA's willingness to accept only this limited sample is typical of the gullibility and compliance of many foreign NGOs, especially in education, when dealing with China; I have seen numerous foreign educators fall victim to obvious Potemkinism, including believing that Beijing No. 4 High School — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.&rSchool — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.&rschool.»)

Conversely, 36 % of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood educators, and secondary school teachers — all of which fall within a less than 1 % chance of automation.

The MDR division of Dun & Bradstreet works to help companies engage with the best educators for their brands through online communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET, and School Leaders Now.

Part of the problem is educators» adherence to traditional thinking, and schools» reliance on pedants rather than innovators to deliver entrepreneurship education, Blank says.

He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

Classical pianist Ivan Davis, a music educator at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music for 42 years, won international awards and played alongside luminaries like Vladimir Horowitz, Leonard Bernstein and Van Cliburn during his career.

Lawmakers also decided to set aside $ 400 million in new spending on school security and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educschool security and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educSchool in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educators.

During his career as an educator, he was a teacher with the Roman Catholic School Board in St. John's, a Supervising Vice-Principal with the Port - au - Port Roman Catholic School Board and a Supervising Principal of the Placentia - St.

Its world - class educators work in partnership with engineers and designers to build and test an education technology platform within AltSchool's network of lab schools.

As an educator, Wendy is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, where she leads programs for business families and their advisors in the Business Families Centre.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Sangeet is the co-chair of the MIT Platform Strategy Summit at the MIT Media Labs, an Entrepreneur - in - residence at INSEAD Business School, and an executive educator with Harvard Business School Publishing.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school of human virtues.

Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts of how poor kids get cheated by the tightwad public schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society of the United States.

Bad school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker and educator of the year for 2009.

Catholic University of America in Washington was the site of a meeting with hundreds of educators, and, echoing the language of John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990), Benedict underscored that Catholic schools are «integral to the mission of the Church,» and «the primary mission of the Church is evangelization.»

And to win the support of educators who do not share the neoconservative commitment to educational reform rooted largely, if not exclusively, in Western traditions, he argues that in pluralistic America, if schools do their job there can indeed be one cultural vocabulary.

Combativeness may appear in a gunman, swaggering, contentious and violent, or in an educator who has declared war on the ignorance of a Chinese province, and against all obstacles is building schools with which to win his fight.

Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the WorOf course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Worof other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Worof the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Worof the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Worof Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.

For Protestants, a church school with teachers, subject matter, curriculum resources, age - graded classes, supplies, equipment, classrooms and, if possible, a professional church educator has been the norm; for Roman Catholics, parochial schools or some other form of catechetics.

Every parent has a right and a duty to ensure that their primary role as educators of their children is not sub-contracted out to schools.

Again, the questions raised by Roman Catholic educators about their own schools and methods often run parallel to those of Protestants and their reflections are helpful to the latter.

Here, under «Home, School and Parish», a spirit of «collaboration» is mentioned and the «Church» teaching that parents are the «first teachers» (not «primary educators») is explained as «underlin (ing) the role and responsibility of parents within the home as the place where faith is formed and nurtured.»

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

Indeed, nearly half of the nation's public school educators are practicing Christians and 95 percent of Protestant pastors believe Christians should get involved in helping public schools (Barna).

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

So it is a case of agreeing to disagree and of seeking to reduce conflict by allowing educators to create distinctive schools and allowing parents to choose among those schools without financial penalty.

Clearly Catholic educators would not wish to remove the Gothic, the detective story (which W. H. Auden claimed was part of a Protestant tradition) or the novel from their school curricula, not least because redemption is a central Catholic concept and even the novel can be redeemed.

And for that to happen the Catholic school needs to take on board Benedict XVI's reminder to Catholic educators in the USA in 2008 that there is much more to Catholic education than the nature of the curriculum: «Catholic identity,» he said, «is not dependent upon statistics.

Various explanations are offered in the article to explain the resistance of Jewish educators to teaching more courses on Christianity in religious schools» the hostility born of victimization, fear of opening Jewish children to proselytizing, and «monism» in Jewish thinking.

Obviously, parents remain important educators, and some are able to transmit their values in ways that supplement or even oppose those of the schools.

Educators who believe deeply in the mission of faith - based schooling should become consistent in translating it into every detail of school life, and doing so without apology.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

As my research indicates, where the leadership of the diocese is theologically orthodox, there are more vocations that could fill the role of educators in these schools, the altars of the Churches, and a wide array of needs, both practical and spiritual, of the Church, at large.

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.

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