Sentences with phrase «pioneering teachers»

Second, it takes pioneering teachers, principals, and district leaders to embrace the shift toward holistic personalization.

I was privileged to spend a week in a mindfulness course for wellness practitioners taught by Jon Kabat Zin, one of the prominent pioneer teachers of mindfulness practices for westerners.

Cubbage was part of the first cohort of Opportunity Culture Fellows — pioneering teachers in Opportunity Culture schools who stepped up to share their views nationally, and who wrote this series, with accompanying videos, explaining what Opportunity Culture models look like in their schools and what they think about these highly accountable positions:

A similar kind of grassroots reform is taking root in Los Angeles Unified School District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School Choice.

Famed pioneer teacher Laura Ingalls Wilder was 15 when she began teaching.

The Forum also illustrates some of the tantalizing innovations now visible on this front, from Denver's pioneering teachers» pay system to the Milken Family Foundation's Teacher Advancement Plan.

«The tool is built for the pioneering teacher who has ideas but hasn't found a path forward,» Seldow says.

Instead of developing elaborate games for kids to play in the classroom, some pioneering teachers and researchers have found that having students design their own games is a great way to reinforce a lesson or connect it to other skills and ideas.

Congratulations to P.S. 9 and all our five finalists, all of whom are pioneering teacher - led school improvement.

Prior to the contractual change, pioneering teachers were quietly pushing our union and district to embrace local, teacher - led reform.

Matisse's pervasive postwar impact is represented by the work of Milton Avery, known as «the American Matisse,» and Hans Hofmann, a pioneering teacher of modernist pictorial composition who was instrumental in disseminating the French master's influence to his numerous students, including Lee Krasner.

She is a leader in the clinical application of mindfulness meditation to cancer care and is a pioneering teacher of Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness, the University of Massachusetts Medical School.