Sentences with phrase «quality educators who»

«Teachers like Sydney, Chris, Megan, and Athanasia exemplify high - quality educators who have chosen to dedicate their lives to enhancing the growth of students.

But a lot of families are missing out on a lot of high - quality educators who are just not going to put themselves in that position to move here with no assurance they'll be licensed.»

We will promote leadership that uses child - driven, data - informed decision - making, and develop the high quality educators who are key to student achievement.

Instead of supporting «parent trigger,» which replaces one school for another and turns the public school into a non-unionized charter school, let's assure that children get experienced, high - quality educators who won't leave after 2 - 3 years.

Not exact matches

All Our Kin does intensive community outreach to recruit these informal providers to enroll in the group's Family Child Care Network, where they receive, free of charge, regular professional - development training, plus biweekly visits from master educators who model high - quality childcare techniques for the providers and offer them long - term mentorship and guidance.

The quality improvement team included surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse practitioner, infection control specialist, quality coordinators, pharmacists, educators, nurse leaders, and staff nurses who championed the changes with their peers.

As educators and experts assess the quality of student mental - health services in light of the deadly shootings last month at Virginia Tech, the gunman's immigrant background is focusing attention on what those who work with immigrants say is a lack of services tailored to such groups.

St Paul — Witnesses who testified here last week at the first of five regional hearings on «Excellence in Teacher Education,» said an improved relationship between schools of education and elementary - and secondary - school educators in the «trenches» will be necessary if the quality of prospective teachers and the instruction they receive is to be raised.

It supports educators, young people and community members who are willing to improve the quality of their lives and the quality of their local realities.

This award recognizes leaders who exemplify the qualities modeled by the late Dr. Effie Hall Jones, a veteran educator and AASA associate executive director.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

The instructors have been extremely high quality; the assignments and class work tough, but geared toward the educator who has a life other than taking classes.

But educators know little about the quality of the courses, who is enrolling in them, or how students are doing.

Internet4Classrooms Internet4Classrooms is a Web portal free to any educator who wants to find high - quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction.

In fact, «distinguished» educators are those who formulate high quality questions and get their students to formulate many of their own questions.

Who We Are DQC strives to ensure that everyone with a stake in education — especially families and educators — can access and use quality student data to raise achievement for all students.

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Elizabeth is a consultant who seeks to better prepare, support, and empower educators in their work to provide quality education to all students.

CASEL offers a comprehensive collection of high - quality social and emotional learning (SEL) tools and resources to inform and support educators, researchers, policymakers, and parents who are leading this work in the field.

«He is, from initial study design to the bringing of interventions to scale, an exemplar for any scholar who sets out to do high - quality experimental work in education, and to do it in partnership with educators.»

In 2012, Jewell - Sherman received the Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the American Association of School Administrators, which recognizes leaders who exemplify the qualities modeled by the late Dr. Effie Hall Jones, a veteran educator and AASA associate executive director.

Even educators who do nt teach career planning — or arent interested in a career change — will appreciate the page on high - quality decision - making.

The foundation's Education Program works to ensure that all students — especially children of color and those who grow up in poverty — arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed and have high - quality educators.

Marlene has been associated with Californians Together for the last five years as a representative of the Campaign for Quality Early Education, a statewide coalition of educators who advocate for the needs of young Dual Language Learners.

As noted in the Empowered Educators study of teacher quality, teachers in Finland are seen as professionals who receive a top - notch education.

In particular, Moore, who was the only teacher to testify before the Senate panel today, stressed the importance of investing in the «continuum that includes teacher induction, professional growth and teacher leadership» as a way to better prepare and retain high - quality educators.

These examples are also beacons of hope for educators who are sometimes frustrated by the quality of education we see in many of our schools.

«My foray into the charter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive director.

Yet blaming charter schools for financial woes in the school district is unfair, and it drives a poisonous wedge between administrators, educators and the broader community, who should be working together to provide kids with access to high - quality education.

We need to trust that teachers are the educators who best know our students and empower them to create school cultures, curriculum, instruction, and assessment that fully engage students in high quality, equitable, authentic, and relevant educational experiences.

The highly qualified teacher data allows educators and the public to find out the percent of teachers in each state who have received waivers of state teacher quality regulations.

For educators unfamiliar with it, the mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.

Robinson, who plans to retire later this year, has led AACTE in advocating and building capacity for high - quality educator preparation programs across the nation to serve diverse learners.

This is in stark opposition to the original goals of the small schools movement, which was to democratize schools and empower innovative educators who wanted to focus on quality teaching.

The U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands - on experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Washington State ASCD, in its ongoing search for quality leadership, will seek out, highlight, and celebrate the accomplishments of a young educator who achieves excellence in instructional leadership in teaching and learning.

The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Hall of Fame honors outstanding educators, alumni and community leaders who through their lives have either deeply impacted WCPSS or, as an alumnus, dramatically added to the quality of life in our city, state or nation.

There is currently a heated national debate over the means by which educator quality can be enhanced, highlighted by the conflict between those who espouse «professionalization» and those who favor «deregulation».

Visit the ASCD Web site (www.ascd.org) and search for «networks» for information about professional educators who have formed groups around topics like «Assessment for Learning,» «Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Instruction,» and «Quality Education.»

I was reminded this week that our goal at TCSA, to improve student achievement by advocating for and strengthening a diverse set of high quality charter schools, is shared nationwide by educators and policymakers who believe that charter schools are the best public school option for students.

Students have made enormous progress in recent years, thanks to the hard work of educators, families and the students themselves, but we have so much farther to go, and making high - quality preschool available to all families who want it must be part of that,» Duncan said.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

The Bilingual Revolution tells the story of successes and setbacks through vignettes of parents and educators who founded dual language program in their schools, created free, high - quality bilingual programs, and inspired others to do the same.

These changes and many more will be familiar to the readers of this blog and to those of you who have delved into Empowered Educators, the landmark study of teacher quality done by Linda Darling - Hammond and her colleagues.

Example: To ensure consistent instructional quality among its educators, Navigator Schools created a teacher pipeline that recruits small - group instructors, who transition into teachers - in - training, and eventually teachers.

As part of this vision, the NTC scales high quality teacher induction services to a national audience and works closely with educators and policymakers nationwide to serve low - income students, minority students, and English language learners, who are otherwise often taught by inexperienced teachers.

Quality educator preparation programs begin with setting high admissions standards and selecting the best students in the university for those who would become licensed educators to teach and serve Wyoming's K - 12 students and schools.

Because of only a few educators who did not have those qualities, I lost sight of myself, of my value in the fabric of public education.

We support the charitable mission of our partner, the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, a 501 (c)(3) organization that brings together students, parents, educators, and administrators who all share a common goal: to improve the quality of public education by promoting and strengthening charter public schools throughout the State of Illinois.

While serving as the Regional Liaison to the 56 active charter schools in the Inland Empire, Holguin facilitates the training of teams of educators who are committed to launching high quality charter schools.