The fellows complete a two - day training session introducing them to some of the big -
picture challenges in education, plus five full - day workshops with their cohort to focus on such topics as education technology or human capital in education.
Not exact matches
Unveiling the review,
education secretary Damian Hinds (
pictured below) said on Friday that some youngsters - especially those from
challenging backgrounds - face «inconsistencies»
in their experience of
education.
He uses those lessons daily
in his work with Big
Picture Learning, a Providence, R.I. - based nonprofit that advocates an individualized approach to
education, including a «Who Am I» project that
challenges students to write a 50 - page autobiography.
These candid, fruitful conversations gave us a «big
picture» sense of the
challenges Texans are facing
in our state's
education system and will shape every action Texas Aspires takes to improve student outcomes
in the upcoming legislative session.
Head Geoff Barton (
pictured left) will
challenge Chris Kirk (
pictured right), an
education consultant, for the top job
in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), a move described as «unprecedented» by former general secretary Brian Lightman.
«But charter schools haven't been
challenged in this way, because people don't have a
picture of how big a part of urban
education they are.»