Sentences with phrase «public educators included»

For the majority of left - wing types (most public educators included) it is an elitist notion from the start.

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(PISA's willingness to accept only this limited sample is typical of the gullibility and compliance of many foreign NGOs, especially in education, when dealing with China; I have seen numerous foreign educators fall victim to obvious Potemkinism, including believing that Beijing No. 4 High School — the rough equivalent of Eton — was a «typical Chinese public school.»)
Including senior executives, marketing and public relations professionals, journalists, educators, sommeliers, exporters and distributors, on and off premise managers, HR professionals, sales executives, ancillary services, bartenders and more.
Our membership includes an extensive range of influential professionals across the alcohol beverage industry including: senior executives, marketing and public relations professionals, journalists, educators, sommeliers, exporters and distributors, on and off premise managers, HR professionals, sales executives, ancillary services, bartenders and more.
The benchmark event will bring together the alcohol beverage industry's top professionals and influencers, including executive management, directors of sales and marketing, on - and off - premise wine and spirits buyers, distributors, wine educators, winemakers, sommeliers, mixologists, importers / exporters, winery owners, public relations, media, viticulturists, hospitality operations, and more.
Of interest today, these compromises included questions of assessment and accountability, an ongoing challenge for all Waldorf educators and a particular question for those in the sphere of public education.
The task force itself is a model of collaboration and includes leaders from health related fields including family medicine, midwifery, health administration, obstetrics, public health, pediatrics, and ethics as well as consumers and childbirth educators.
In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.
In addition to clinicians, consumers, health professional educators, insurers, lawyers, ethicists, administrators, and policy makers, the participants included researchers with expertise in epidemiology, public health, sociology, medical anthropology, legal, health policy and clinical research.
Program sponsors include UUP Oneonta, SUNY Oneonta Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology, Hartwick College Education Department, Oneonta Area for Public Education, Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Teachers Association, UUP Cobleskill, Tri-County Women's Coalition, SUNY Oneonta History Department, Sidney Teacher Association, SUNY Oneonta Political Science Department, SUNY Oneonta Department of Africana & Latino Studies, Sherburne - Earlville Teachers Association, SUNY Oneonta Sociology Department, Sidney Teachers Association, Cobleskill - Richmondville Teachers» Association, Norwich Educators Organization, Morris Teachers Association, and Bainbridge - Guilford Teachers Association.
It will include the state secretaries of education, public safety, and health and human services, along with educators, police and emergency management officials.
Additional trustees of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Board include: Alan J. Bedenko, partner, Feldman Kieffer, LLP and a writer; Katie Burd, trustee, Kenmore Village; Frank Gist, retired Buffalo firefighter and owner of Greater Buffalo Bail Bonds Agency; Teresa Glanowski, product manager, Independent Health; Phyllis A. Horton, retired educator; Elaine M. Panty, retired City of Buffalo Water Authority; and Wayne D. Wisbaum, partner, Kavinoky Cook, LLP.
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.
Through a variety of fields, Dr. Pizzorno has continually strengthened natural medicine's place in the healthcare world, as a writer, promoter, researcher and educator; from authoring or co-authoring ten books, including Textbook of Natural Medicine and Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine as well as acting as founding editor of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal; to founding SaluGenecists, Inc. a promoter of personalized integrative guidance for the public; to traveling the world as a lecturer and consultant as an expert in the field.
Now as a nutrition educator and researcher, she is passionate about increasing the public's knowledge about all aspects of nutrition — including what is being done to our food supply, and its link to chronic conditions.
Dr. Shaver also spends her time as an active volunteer, working with the American Red Cross, and the Peace Corps, including four years served in the Central African Republic as a public health educator.
We talked summer «lunch and learn» networking opportunities that would continue to include private and public educators.
These include educators, health care and public health officials, families, and other child - care providers, policy makers, youth organizations, and industry, among others.
Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.
The Excellence Commission included educators, but could in no way be termed a creature of the teaching profession or public school establishment.
Some of the obstacles to including classes in the arts as essential rather than «enrichment» studies, they noted, are the imprecision of the language usually used to discuss the arts; incorrect assumptions by educators, students, and the public about the arts and learning; and a lack of precedents — except in higher education — for...
Sunday's program offered some more leisurely activities, including a public art walk with an alumna who works in Boston's cultural affairs office; a calligraphy workshop with a Chinese language and culture teacher from Boston Latin School; and a storytelling and drawing workshop with a museum educator from New York.
This motley crew includes civil rights activists, free market economists, career public - school educators, and voucher proponents.
Academia has a set of standards that you move up based on the number of articles that you get published in the highest ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience of other academics that doesn't include the general public, community educators, and the people on the ground at local schools.»
The first paragraph alone in the NEA's statement included «privatizing public education and attacking educators,» «ultra-rich cronies,» and «deep - pocketed corporate special interests.»
Secondly, the online publication of these materials makes them accessible to a wide audience, including the communities of origin, educators and researchers, as well as the general public, who may not have been aware of the existence of such a vast range of written materials in Australian Indigenous languages.
S4S has so far worked with more than half a million children, educators and parents in different settings — including public and private schools, Indigenous boarding schools and centres for children with HIV.
Included: McLeod reflects on the challenges reservation educators must overcome and how those challenges are often similar to those of other rural public schools.
State education leaders in many places know this and have specifically included direction for following up evaluation with professional learning in their public descriptions of educator evaluation.
Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.
The California Department of Education and other organizations have created several resources to help educators and the public understand and navigate the new California School Dashboard, which includes data that will be used for school and district accountability purposes beginning next fall.
Given the public conversation about bias and injustice — especially recently — several prominent national education organizations including the NEA, AERA, NCTE and AFT have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»
Together, PASA, the Providence Public School District, partner schools, and the community of program partners have developed shared goals, a collaborative practice of community educators within the school day, and joint accountability through a PASA / District shared learning model that includes teacher and community educators co-teaching, a data - sharing agreement, and the creation of an expanded learning model that offers high school credits for high quality out - of - school experiences.
The latter might include investing in the system's people, building accountability systems, rigorously allocating how educators spend their time and how schools spend their financial resources, updating organizational structures — and figuring out how to explain all these changes to the public.
Little did I know that six years later I would leave as an educator who strongly believes that our public schools are more than capable of meeting the needs of all learners — from prekindergarten through college — and that together we (including all of you) can help make that happen.
And when the district recently made public the average teacher salary increases under the new pact — ranging from 2.5 percent to 4 percent per year — it didn't include what can be lucrative raises given to educators who earn master's degrees and other graduate credits.
Charter school educators can receive a public school employee discount of 25 % for the event, which includes some great speakers and more than 90 workshops.
StudentsNotSuspects is a broad, L.A. - based coalition advocating for the dignity and opportunity of all students and is comprised of students, youth leaders, parents, educators, and organizations including the ACLU of Southern California, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Public Counsel, Students Deserve, United Teachers Los Angeles, and Youth Justice Coalition.
Today they boast 1.5 million members and include PK - 12th grade school educators, higher education faculty and professional staff, nurses and other health care related employees, state public employees, educational paraprofessionals and other school support members, and retirees.
Joanna is committed to public education and collaborates with organizations such as Hope Street Group and the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) to include educator voice in policy discussions.
In Nevada, educators lose out by being included in a state pension system that includes other non-education public employees.
The Local Wellness Committee will represent all school levels (elementary and secondary schools) and include (to the extent possible), but not be limited to: parents and caregivers; students; representatives of the school nutrition program (e.g., school nutrition director); physical education teachers; health education teachers; school health professionals (e.g., health education teachers, school health services staff (e.g., nurses, physicians, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel who provide school health services), and mental health and social services staff (e.g., school counselors, psychologists, social workers, or psychiatrists); school administrators (e.g., superintendent, principal, vice principal); school board members; health professionals (e.g., dietitians, doctors, nurses, dentists); and the general public.
Other groups such as Educators4Excellence, Teach for America and Achievement First have more distinct niches including operating public charters and training educators to advocate for change at the state level.»
Over a span of ten years, the Great Public Schools Fund will support innovative projects and ideas proposed by educators, including peer assistance and review programs, teacher mentoring, school safety, technology, and, of course, Common Core implementation.
The nonprofit KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas both within the KIPP network and with partners including other public schools, non-profit organizations, and institutions of higher learning.
The issue includes information about standards implementation, the development of standards - aligned tests, special populations of students and the Common Core, and public and educator opinion of the standards.
«We encourage educators, families, and the public to use the included suggestions as first steps toward improving their community's approach to whole child education.»
They boast 3.2 million members and include public school educators, support members, faculty & staff members at the university level, retired educators, administrators, and college students becoming teachers.
The analyst will work under the direction of the Vice President of Education Policy and the Managing Director of K - 12 Education Policy on a variety of education policy issues, such as the educator pipeline; school improvement; and education innovation, including public charter schools.
«While CCSA's endorsed candidate Antonio Villaraigosa literally declared a «holy jihad» against teachers, Gavin Newsom has been a career - long supporter of public educators and public education — including reputable, innovative, nonprofit public charter schools.
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