Identify resources to help support
professional development efforts for mental health consultants
Professional development efforts for the initiative are coordinated by the Healthy Families Training Institute at the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida.
Not exact matches
There will also be a parallel call
for benefits,
professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such
efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast
for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.
He first co-founded Brazen Careerist, a career - management site
for high - achieving young
professionals and ambitious college students, where he led the company's community
development efforts.
The conference will unite industry experts, leading scientists, neurologists and international business leaders with current and former
professional athletes in
effort to create consensus on the path forward
for scientific research and commercial
development.
Saratoga Partnership Expands
Professional Team, Strengthens Economic
Development Efforts for Saratoga County
Members interested in this area of work aim to identify, compile and develop resources and create opportunities
for exchange in order to establish a stronger foundation
for productive, collaborative human rights
efforts, and contribute to the
professional development of science, engineering and health teachers and human rights educators.
The Program is committed to promoting high standards
for the practice of science and engineering; advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; engaging scientists, engineers and their
professional associations in human rights
efforts; monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical, legal, and human rights issues related to science and technology; furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights; and initiating activities to address the impact of
developments at the intersection of science, technology, and law.
This is a fellowship program designed
for genetics
professionals with an advanced degree who are early in their careers and interested in the
development and implementation of national genomics literacy
efforts, informal science education, science education policy, program
development, or science education research.
Beyond institutions, redirecting training
efforts will require a concerted
effort on the part of postdocs, faculty, disciplinary societies, and funding agencies to provide information on the variety of jobs that trained scientists are qualified
for and
professional development programs to help Ph.D. s gain entry into these fields.
The proceeds of the 5K Hot Trot are directed to providing scholarships,
professional education resources,
efforts addressing technologist certification and training standards, recognition in the workplace of technologist competencies, leadership
development programs, and
professional forums
for presentations and discussion of timely topics along with networking.
The responsibilities will include leading
efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating
professional development workshops
for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our Science Education Laboratory.
As part of that
effort, Kathy Alexander, the director of outreach and education
for the region's district attorney's office, taught a five - week
professional development seminar
for teachers about violence in the schools.
At HGSE, students» praise Nonie's teaching and mentorship, and she has been a strong institutional citizen, most recently spearheading an
effort to formalize
professional development for our many doctoral teaching fellows.»
Effective
professional development is often seen as vital to school success and teacher satisfaction, but it has also been criticized
for its cost, often vaguely determined goals, and
for the lack of data on resulting teacher and school improvement that characterizes many
efforts.
In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform
effort that includes clear expectations
for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and
professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.
At least two well - recognized Bay Area management organizations have recently decided against further expansion
for the time being, and are instead starting consulting
efforts or creating structured
professional -
development workshops and materials
for district - run schools.
More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such
efforts as
professional development for teachers and measuring student success.
Oklahoma also has 27 categorical programs that provide money
for such
efforts as reading initiatives,
professional development, textbooks, employee health benefits, and teacher retirement.
Some of these might be categorized as
efforts to build the capacity of the current system by simply paying
for professional development sessions on particular topics; others might be thought of as attempts to change the system by developing new approaches to hiring, compensating, and evaluating teachers.
If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement
efforts (
for example, because of limited time or
professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.
That's why
professional development for educators is critical, she says, along with school - based and district - encouraged
efforts to recognize and respond — with creativity and flexibility — to the diversity of experiences that military - and veteran - connected families bring to schools.
23 - 27 —
Professional development: «Total Quality Transformation: Train - the - Trainer,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy
for School Executives,
for staff members and others involved in leading total quality
efforts at the school, district, or state level, to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contintental Hotel in San Francisco, Calif..
Elmore's
efforts to change this began during his work in a New York City school district, where
professional development for principals included spending time every day inside classrooms to re-familiarize themselves with the teaching environment.
Addressing these aims will be critical
for informing the scale - up and refinement of
professional development efforts in the United States.
Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content
for school classrooms, has announced that it has partnered with Mission Grove Primary School in Walthamstow, London on a new
professional development effort that will support teachers as they prepare today's students to meet tomorrow's challenges.
Designed to support both school improvement
efforts and
professional development, each chapter includes discussion questions that make this resource perfect
for staff meetings or book study groups.
From a policy standpoint, the adoption of SEL standards, funding
for teacher
professional development, and the incorporation of school climate into measures of accountability are all potential levers (among many) to support empowerment
efforts.
Best Behavior is a
professional development program designed
for administrators and teachers to support their
efforts in creating and maintaining a positive and supportive school culture that facilitates academic achievement and the healthy social
development of students in a safe environment that is conducive to learning.
Goddard and colleagues say further studies are needed on collaborative practices but that their study provides preliminary support
for efforts to improve student achievement by promoting teacher collaboration around curriculum, instruction and
professional development.
For - profit management firms would expand their R&D
efforts in an attempt to integrate all the elements that contribute to student achievement — curriculum, instruction, assessment,
professional development, technology.
It functions, in some ways, like a consulting firm
for the city's Catholic schools, providing
professional development for teachers and principals; bolstering fundraising, marketing, and public relations
efforts; and strengthening management.
Participants heard from, and discussed with, high - level education policy leaders in an
effort to develop an understanding of the policy conditions, such as capacity building,
professional development, funding, Common Core - aligned curriculum, instruction, and assessments, etc., that will allow support
for innovative approaches, such as those featured in the site visits to schools, to expand.
Only a few have made sustained
efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding
for a state - wide teacher
professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).
Previously she was Co-Director of SRI International's Center
for Education Policy where she led research studies on the preparation and induction of new teachers, teacher
professional development and teacher leadership, and systems reform
efforts.
Our collaboration
efforts with local districts to support academic success by providing job training
for students,
professional development, special education, technology services and support, administrative services, leadership training, and more in a cooperative and cost - effective manner.
All three studies described school reform
efforts that utilized teacher leaders in addition to other strategies, such as the use of a new curriculum (Balfanz et al., 2006),
professional development workshops
for teachers and changes in the structure of the school day (Ruby, 2006), or a training program
for school administrators (Weaver & Dick, 2009).
Chief in these
efforts is the Smart Arkansas suite, a series of programs that deal with elementary, middle and high school reform,
professional development, and that combine
for a more strategic and systemic way to support low - performing students.
Our goal at Reading Matters is to help you save time and
effort by offering you a single source
for the most appropriate selections in published
professional development materials and children's books.
Spearheaded by NBCT's Regional Coordinators, Jennifer Wolfe and Erin Gilrein, and supported by the Oceanside
Professional Development Center; Director, Betsy Weinman.This event involved a collaborative
effort among the United States Department of Education, National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards, Adelphi University, and Oceanside Schools and its Teacher Center, OPDC.
These
efforts will include targeted school
development, improvement and replication
efforts, as well as continued
professional development for existing schools.
Administrators can further support teachers»
effort to close the gap by providing common preparation time
for teacher teams or subject - area specialists, ensuring that
professional development is aligned with the goal of improving student success, and providing time at staff meetings
for a focused look at results of recent assessments (perhaps by subject area as a starting point).
The institute will unite a group of national leaders at colleges and universities across the United States to spotlight and explore innovative
efforts for addressing racial / ethnic teacher diversity across five key areas: recruitment and retention, teacher preparation, mentorship, induction and
professional development, and advocacy.
November 29, 2017 — In an
effort to bring financial education into more classrooms and promote fiscal responsibility among high school students, Discover Financial Services, a recognized leader in the financial education space, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and
professional development for K - 12 classrooms, today announced their collaboration to launch Pathway to Financial Success in Schools.
Silver Spring, Maryland (November 29, 2017)-- In an
effort to bring financial education into more classrooms and promote fiscal responsibility among high school students, Discover Financial Services, a recognized leader in the financial education space, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and
professional development for K - 12 classrooms, today announced their collaboration to launch Pathway to Financial Success in Schools, a standards - aligned suite of materials to provide students, educators, and their families with tools and expertise to make intelligent financial decisions and achieve their personal goals.
Describe the ways in which the district evaluates major
professional development efforts to document the effectiveness of the programs and the efficacy of the use of the funds
for professional development.
Administrators in the district's Center
for Teaching and Learning sought a scalable
professional development solution that would support efforts to better align professional development to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and meet key goals of the school system's Strategi
professional development solution that would support
efforts to better align
professional development to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and meet key goals of the school system's Strategi
professional development to the North Carolina
Professional Teaching Standards and meet key goals of the school system's Strategi
Professional Teaching Standards and meet key goals of the school system's Strategic Plan 2014.
To increase institutional efficiency and strengthen service to students, groups of community colleges should pool resources and develop shared systems
for managing student data, institutional research,
professional development, and other
efforts that support student learning.
In an
effort to bring financial education into additional classrooms and promote fiscal responsibility among high school students, we worked with Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and
professional development for K - 12 classrooms, to launch Pathway to Financial Success in Schools, a standards - aligned suite of curriculum materials to provide students, educators, and their families with tools and expertise to make intelligent financial decisions and achieve their personal goals.
We make every
effort to implement
professional development for areas we know are upcoming and critical.