Sentences with phrase «promising practices of education»
The goal of this module is to provide participants with an introduction to some strategies, tools, and promising practices of Education for Sustainability.
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In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homes.
Liberty ES also won a second Promising Practice Award for the creation of and implementation of the Student Leadership Team, a voice for students in developing a character education foundation at Liberty ES.
The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.
Two ICT initiatives are filling technology headlines these days, promising to revolutionize computing, business practice, education and most areas of knowledge one can think of.
One of the first was Education Next's own Rick Hess, who wrote in Education Week, «These paper promises are, at best, an unreliable guide to what happens in practice.
The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.
In a review of his book Teach Like a Champion for Education Next, I noted Lemov's approach promised to change the conversation about classroom practice from «teacher quality» to «quality teaching.»
Because many schools need help navigating in the sea of programs designed to promote these capacities — including youth development, character education, SEL, bullying and conflict resolution programs — the first phase of the work is devoted to developing a clear and cogent catalog of practices that have promise in 1) promoting caring school cultures, 2) developing specific emotional and ethical capacities in students such as self - regulation, and 3) responding to challenges such as sexual harassment and bullying.
What struck us most is that pockets of excellence and promising practices rarely translate across schools and even less across education systems.
Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.
In addition to highlighting promising practices in the United States and abroad, the report includes recommendations for making the assessment of such skills a more prominent part of the U.S. education system.
Agency by Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is investigating the «promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning experiences.»
Diaspora Involvement in Educational Development in Conflict - Affected Settings: Transnational innovations in provision of high quality education for marginalized children The study aims examines promising transnational educational practices and partnerships between Diasporas, Ministries of Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict education for marginalized children The study aims examines promising transnational educational practices and partnerships between Diasporas, Ministries of Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict education for children in conflict settings.
Character Education Partnership has collected examples of promising anti-bullying practices from various schools in «Promising Practices to Combat Bullying»; a searchable database includes more anti-bullying ideas that have been successful at otherpromising anti-bullying practices from various schools in «Promising Practices to Combat Bullying»; a searchable database includes more anti-bullying ideas that have been successful at otherPromising Practices to Combat Bullying»; a searchable database includes more anti-bullying ideas that have been successful at other schools.
In a series aimed at closing the gap between research and practice, Usable Knowledge has partnered with Digital Promise on a project that collects questions from educators across the country and poses them to experts at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Funded by: Spencer Foundation Amount: $ 350,000 Dates: 1/1/16 — 12/31/19 Summary: This project expands the present research study by adding an ethnographic investigation of learning processes at the most promising no excuses and progressive schools with the goal of amplifying the value and effects of scholarship and practice of civic education in urban secondary schools across the United States.
* With thanks to Rick Hess, for his Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling
This policy report provides policymakers with a review of published research on ECE workforce education and credentials as well as research on the current status of ECE wages, recruitment and retention challenges, and promising practices.
In this webinar, presenters explored the challenges and opportunities of accountability for alternative education, along with promising practices from states and districts who have developed accountability measures and systems that are inclusive of all students in all types of educational settings.
Many of the ideas that initially attracted me to charter schools — community empowerment, authentic education for youth left behind, piloting promising practices to share with traditional schools — have often been drowned out by larger political forces.
Early Childhood Teacher Education Policies: Research Review and State Trends reviews key findings from a recent policy report by the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes which reviews published research on early childhood (ECE) workforce education and credentials as well as on the current status of ECE wages, recruitment and retention challenges, and promising pEducation Policies: Research Review and State Trends reviews key findings from a recent policy report by the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes which reviews published research on early childhood (ECE) workforce education and credentials as well as on the current status of ECE wages, recruitment and retention challenges, and promising peducation and credentials as well as on the current status of ECE wages, recruitment and retention challenges, and promising practices.
In a series of columns in ASCD Express, the cofounder of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit for education reform, shares promising practices in principal leadership for improving some of the nation's most challenged urban schools.
This webinar was designed to inform LEAs (school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools) and partner organizations (institutions of higher education and nonprofits) about the latest research and promising practices in recruiting and retaining excellent educators, particularly in high - need fields and locations.
The Council of Chief State School Officers, the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program and America's Promise Alliance released a new report «showing promising practices in states to ensure educational equity for all students.»
April, 2014 — Program Day Four For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their...
These initiatives are essential for the replication of our schools to serve more students, promote education reform, and share promising practices with the broader education community.
For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their school - year spring break on a whirlwind tour of four public schools in Detroit that are budding laboratories in personalized learning.
This is the last of a series of articles outlining major findings of IDRA's research of exemplary and promising practices in bilingual education programs.
IDRA's study resulted in a set of criteria for identifying promising and exemplary practices in bilingual education.
CEA celebrates the work of innovative researchers from across the country — their contributions, their promise, and their commitment to breaking new ground and revisiting commonly held assumptions in education policy, practice or theory in Canada.
Through the direct exposure to the most promising practices in personalized learning, the Education Innovation Fellowship provides cohorts of teacher leaders the opportunity to advance the field through their own leadership and through instructional innovation.
The book includes the following papers: (1) «The Middle School: Mimicking the Success Routes of the Information Age» (Thomas O. Erb) which reviews the historical issues surrounding gifted education and middle - level education; (2) «Middle Schools and Their Impact on Talent Development» (Mary Ruth Coleman and James J. Gallagher) which describes two studies, one which compared attitudes of middle school and gifted educators and the other which looked at current best practices; (3) «Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise?»
Oregon's Education Innovation Officer writes about the necessity to improve the state's graduation rate and a few of the promising practices that could help Oregon...
In the new ASCD book Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling, Hess proposes that we create a more welcoming environment for entrepreneurship in eEducation Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling, Hess proposes that we create a more welcoming environment for entrepreneurship in educationeducation.
Asia Society's Center for Global Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eEducation partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eeducation into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eEducation Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in eeducation system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educationeducation.
Roderick's focus at the Ministry was on coordinating communications, creating the staff newsletter, overseeing and developing the website «Inspire: The Journal of Literacy and Numeracy for Ontario,» and developing promising practices communiques to system leaders in education.
The U.S. National Educational Technology Plan (U.S. Department of Education, 2005) described the mismatch between educational technology leaders» visions and educators» practices in simpler and more evaluative terms: «Yet, we have not realized the promise of technology in educEducation, 2005) described the mismatch between educational technology leaders» visions and educators» practices in simpler and more evaluative terms: «Yet, we have not realized the promise of technology in educationeducation....
As Scott D. Pearson of the U.S. Department of Education's charter school program noted in 2010, while «one of the promises of charter schools was they were going to be a source of innovation and be a benefit not only for the children attending charter schools, but [for] all public schools,... [in practice],... the collaboration is not as widespread as we would hope.»
As the Linked Learning high school reform initiative expands across California, the results of a two - year study by the Education Trust — West identifies promising practices in Linked Learning schools and districts.
Agency by Design is an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning, based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The report, «States Leading for Equity: Promising Practices Advancing the Equity Commitments, «provides a brief overview of practices and policies states are currently engaging in to provide a stronger education for students.
Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D., is Director of the Program for Social and Emotional Learning and Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University Praise for Educating Minds and Hearts «The Series on Social Emotional Learning from Teachers College Press promises to be the definitive source for the field, defining sound practice in education for emotional intelligencEducation at Teachers College, Columbia University Praise for Educating Minds and Hearts «The Series on Social Emotional Learning from Teachers College Press promises to be the definitive source for the field, defining sound practice in education for emotional intelligenceducation for emotional intelligence.»
October 7, 2013 Social - Emotional Learning the Focus of New NASBE Resource — The National Association of School Boards of Education From Practice to Policy was conceived as a new resource to help state board members and the education community at large better understand promising practices in school reform and see how these practices can be advanced througEducation From Practice to Policy was conceived as a new resource to help state board members and the education community at large better understand promising practices in school reform and see how these practices can be advanced througeducation community at large better understand promising practices in school reform and see how these practices can be advanced through policy.
May, 2014 — Program Day Five Since January, the 19 D.C. public and public charter school teachers of the Education Innovation Fellowship (EIF) have explored the expansive field of blended and personalized learning in search of promising practices to implement in their classrooms.
For example, North Carolina State University's College of Education prepares promising candidates to serve as principals in high - need areas (through the Northeast Leadership Academy (NELA)-RRB-, and supports beginning teachers in high - need areas through practice - oriented workshops delivered by excellent veteran teachers.
This section will be updated and expanded regularly as local unions, researchers, and other allies and partners in the education community contribute examples of promising practices in school districts and teacher unions.
Agency by Design Oakland is the Bay Area - based component of the Agency by Design research project — an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Since the inception of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDE) has promoted program quality and continuous improvement by applying promising practices described in the emerging body of research on expanded learning programs and other research on teaching and learning.
Edward P. Clapp is a senior research manager and a member of the core research team working on the Agency by Design (AbD) initiative — an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning — at Project Zero, an educational research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).