Sentences with phrase «professional development efforts in»

Harshman's involvement in a number of global competency professional development efforts in the Midwest in places like Ohio and Illinois not only keep him busy, but, «energized by the creativity and interest to teach students about their interdependency with and responsibility to people they may never meet and places they may never go.»

Announced by the TEA earlier in May, the pilot is the first step in transitioning to a competency - based learning model and will serve to inform future professional development efforts in Texas.

However, we'd tried professional development efforts in a fragmented way in the past, with scant success.

Addressing these aims will be critical for informing the scale - up and refinement of professional development efforts in the United States.

In other words, it provides administrators with information on maintaining or improving the condition of these school - based factors and aligning them to support the teacher and a professional development effort in increasing teaching effectiveness and student success.

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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.

Businesses should also invest in their professional development as this can add to their current skills and save human resources the effort of getting another hire.

Efforts, however, are being made to correct it by encouraging the development of a kind of ministry which will overcome some of the common defects, by improving the caliber of professional education available to Negroes and by enrolling an increasing number of Negroes in interracial seminaries.29

Hinckley, Minn. — As part of its continuing effort to promote professional development and career advancement among emerging leaders, Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures, in support of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is pleased to announce the National Leadership Development Conference on June 21 — 23, 2016 at Grand Casino Hinckley in Hinckdevelopment and career advancement among emerging leaders, Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures, in support of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is pleased to announce the National Leadership Development Conference on June 21 — 23, 2016 at Grand Casino Hinckley in HinckDevelopment Conference on June 21 — 23, 2016 at Grand Casino Hinckley in Hinckley, Minn..

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.

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.

Postdoc Parents Next Wave's Postdoc Network has examined the ways in which becoming parents particularly affects postdoc professional development — and what institutions and postdocs themselves can do to ease the effort to balance competing responsibilities.

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.

We coordinate efforts with others within the University, the Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Medicine and the School of Nursing to optimize the development and meaningful engagement of healthcare professionals in effective learning and improvement experiences.

As part of our efforts, we have produced collaborative professional development workshops on a variety of topics with our peer groups in Arizona, California, Oregon, Ohio, New Jersey and North Carolina.

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.

The HFC and WCCCD faculty taking part in the IRACDA effort will also have an opportunity to participate in professional development activities at U-M, such as those offered through CRLT.

Although FilmTwo fellows are selected with a project in development, the program is designed to support an artist at a specific stage of career development, with primary focus placed on creative and strategic efforts toward professional advancement.

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.

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.

This article serves as a brief summary of the best practices that training and development professionals can use to resolve these challenges in their effort to deliver impactful learning solutions.

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional - learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster - Wright, 2009; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

This is despite the fact that school districts invest considerable resources in professional development in an effort to improve teacher performance.

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

She was speaking at the event — the largest yet professional development event of AIE alumni — of the effort to found such a graduate program in a culture that sometimes regards the arts as frivolous.

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.

Now comes the most important part in the process: how much of this feedback will be used to reform family engagement efforts, and most importantly training, professional development and university coursework in the area of engaging families?

Second, à la the Shanker manifesto, efforts should be made [by the federal government] to develop all manner of tools, materials, lesson plans, professional development, curricula, and more that [the federal government determines] will help teachers implement the standards in their classrooms — and to help students master them [as determined by the federal government].

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.

Florida's test - based promotion policy is part of a broader effort to improve early reading instruction, which has included state - funded reading coaches, evidence - based professional development, and mandatory blocks of time dedicated to reading in all elementary schools.

Yet increasing numbers of professional - development efforts in the out - of - school realm resemble those used to improve the quality of classroom teachers.

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.

The surging interest in project based - learning has inspired considerable professional development efforts and work by specialized consultants.

Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): The TXCC provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

In many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schoolIn many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schoolin schools.

Proposed changes to improve teaching practices, including implementation of content - rich curriculum and effective use of assessment data, and proposed changes to professional development are central to our effort to ensure every child in Head Start receives high quality early learning experiences that will build the skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.

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.

Southeast Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Southeast Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the state education agencies of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

Solution Tree's on - site professional development in school improvement and school culture will help guide you through the shift to a thriving school and ensure your efforts are meaningful and sustainable over time.

Texas Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Texas Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

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.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

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.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

We framed these items generically, in an effort to tap the respondents «belief that professional development and support were being provided by the district.

In particular, principals in more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvemenIn particular, principals in more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvemenin more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvemenin their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvemenin the work of improvement.