Sentences with phrase «public educators at»

But I believe just as strongly that K - 12 infighting, as exemplified in the Op - Ed by Superintendent Wilson, distracts from our larger classroom mission and unnecessarily divides public educators at the exact time when unity is essential.

The NEA is the largest professional employee organization in the United States, representing public educators at all levels.

Not exact matches

She has previously worked as a public health educator and crisis counselor at Washington, DC nonprofits, and as an ESL teacher for primary school & university students, as well as working adults.

As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

This issue was tackled head - on by Paige Patterson and Al Mohler, two Southern Baptist educators, in a public debate at this year's convention.

Takana, a rabbinic forum established in 2003 to clamp down on s - exual misconduct by Orthodox educators, went public February 15 with allegations that Mordechai «Moti» Elon had taken advantage of his influence over male students and performed «acts at odds with sacred and moral values.»

Victoria Temple interviews the educators at Cairn Hill, on their support of Public Waldorf education via after school and pre-school programs in the greater Boston Area.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

By guiding, informing, and coordinating alternative options for parents, educators, health and human service professionals, faith - based counselors, legislators, and the public at - large, CRC is able to help reduce divorce and strengthen families through custody reform; parental mediation and training; conciliation and access; parental financial and educational support systems; legislative revision and court briefs.

Home educators, private / public school educators, Sunday School teachers and educators at heart........

At the May 17 Delegate Assembly, UFT President Michael Mulgrew broached the topic of mayoral control — an issue of major import to New York City educators and all who are concerned with the state of the city's public schools.

Most recently, he was a vice president at Educators for Excellence, a progressive non-profit group focused on public school teachers and school policy.

The database below shows the gross pay for roughly 250,000 educators at public schools in New York state during the 2015 - 16 school year, as reported by the New York State Teachers Retirement System.

At 8:30 a.m., educators representing 11 state - supported schools serving deaf, blind and severely physically disabled students will kick off their lobby day, where they'll ask lawmakers to treat the students equally and increase state funding by 4.8 percent — the same percentage increase Cuomo has recommended for public school districts in his proposed 2015 - 16 executive budget, 3rd Floor Terrace, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

At 1:30 p.m., parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for Quality Education call on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to fund «real» Foundation Aid for public schools and not «need - neutral» aid, lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

And central New York has been hit at a higher rate than the rest of the state in the past week, said Karyn Johnson, a public health educator at the Onondaga County Health Department.

Buffalo, New York — With the start of the new academic year only weeks away in Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown and Buffalo Public School students joined educators, scientists and business leaders at the Math, Science & Technology Preparatory School to officially kick - off the new Buffalo Schools STEM Experience — Science Week All Year Long.

Join Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones at the New Possibilities for Public Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tePublic Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tepublic schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against teachers

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Angela Morgan, a teacher at PS 50 in Queens, said she felt state lawmakers were receptive to the point of view of public school educators this year.

Yelyzaveta Kalinichenko, a special education teacher at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and 13 fellow educators from District 3 squeezed into the office of state Sen. Liz Krueger to appeal for more state funding for New York City public schools.

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

STPF Director Jennifer Pearl, 2002 - 03 Executive Branch Fellow, brings an inquisitive and data - driven mentality to the position, bolstered by 12 years of experience at the National Science Foundation, training as a mathematician and her upbringing in a family of public school educators.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communities.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Development of online citizen science products such as Google Mercury, Mercury Mappers, Geo Hunters; production and publication of printed and e-book versions of plain language book «Exploring the Inner Solar System»; production of podcasts featuring MESSENGER; evaluation and dissemination of MESSENGER educational products via AAAS's SciLinks site for educators; public programs at AAAS featuring MESSENGER.

She has been sharing yoga and mindfulness practices with children, teens and adults in studio, childcare, preschool, public school, and homeschool settings, as well as teaching athletes, coaches and educators at area universities and school districts, for over 17 years.

Woody Harrelson, handed the supreme cliché role of cliché roles (as the wise teacher Mr. Bruner), is a hilariously mean foil for Nadine as an educator whose compassion has been chipped away at by years of experience in the public - school system.

Now, as I reflect on 18 years in the public school system and, with four children, 58 combined years of Open Houses at many different schools, I offer this advice for educators to reinvent your Parent Open House and share some of your ideas.

«Waldorf education is becoming contagious,» says Betty Staley, a veteran Waldorf educator who has trained public school teachers at Rudolf Steiner College.

Every once in awhile I visit a school that reminds me of what public education can be at its best, a place where I'd like to be, as a child or a teacher, a place that elicits the best in me as an educator.

She suggests schools take advantage of the expertise available from adult literacy and military educators who have developed programs for older, at - risk students in public schools who reach the secondary level without basic skills.

At the VOISE Academy, a Chicago Public Schools campus that opened in fall 2008 with a mission to teach underprivileged children through digital technology, here's what educators did:

Over the past 15 years, private corporations have made their mark on public schools in America, but whether this will be education reform's salvation remained an unanswered question for many educators at the Askwith Education forum on Wednesday, October 11.

During an emotional public safety forum in Broward County, Fla., shaken students and enraged parents and educators demanded fixes for what they consider lax security, district indifference, and failure to act to prevent the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Framing a discussion around her recent book, Schooling America, Warren Research Professor Patricia Albjerg Graham provided insight into what the American public has sought from its educational institutions, what educators have delivered, and what may come in the future on Wednesday, May 10, at this semester's final Askwith Forum, Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing public has sought from its educational institutions, what educators have delivered, and what may come in the future on Wednesday, May 10, at this semester's final Askwith Forum, Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs.

It has also been known for ICT procurement to be based on one of the following: educators wishing to keep up with certain trends in the general public's use of computing and communication devices; to actually be ahead of those trends and maintain a reputation for being at the leading edge, with all the attendant issues of being an early adopter; or even on the back of people seeing a new gadget being tested on a television programme.

As a educator and leader at The Preuss School UCSD — a public charter school serving low - income students in San...

«Last year at the annual meeting of the ASA, then - president Michael Buroway called for a «public sociology» — a discipline more engaged with solving social problems and linking with artists, activists, educators, and policymakers who strive to make social change,» said Luttrell.

For at least a generation, as American public education has stagnated, the conventional wisdom about leadership has focused on an old idea: certify educators to fix the problem.

Drawing on his experience in designing intervention programs, the author explains how educators can help at - risk teenagers despite limited resources and weak public support.

Washington — Educators and television - network officials differed sharply last week in their reactions to a bill introduced by Representative Timothy Wirth, Democrat of Colorado, that would require commercial and public television stations to broadcast at least one hour of educational programming for children during prime - time viewing hours.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers NAEP, the determination of proficiency in any given subject at a particular grade level «was the result of a comprehensive national process [which took into account]... what hundreds of educators, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public thought the assessment should test.

Over my 35 - year career as a public school teacher and educator at Expeditionary Learning, I have been obsessed with collecting student work of remarkable quality and value.

We (meaning all of us — educators, parents, businesspeople, politicians and others) often default to an economic argument in discussions of public education, no matter the particular initiative at hand.

In 8 of the past 10 years, we have also surveyed teachers on the subject and have seen some interesting differences between the thinking of these educators and the public at large.

Lately ~ he's been bouncing around the country talking to educators and the public at both K - 12 schools and institutions of higher education ~ all in an attempt to better...

This summer, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT)-- an education coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional Education.

Students in one of his HGSE courses, Understanding Today's Educational Testing, persuaded Koretz that a book was needed to help not only educators, but the public at large, to understand testing.

In what is probably its most visible form for educators, though, the term refers to the work of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the Tucson, Ariz. - based public - private initiative that has put the provision of all those skills at the center of its agenda.

Educators can then apply the value of the gift card to any classroom project at DonorsChoose or a project they create themselves, if they are eligible U.S. public - school teachers.