Sentences with phrase «real educators in»

He could have placed real educators in the Department of Education instead of those from outside corporations with no understanding of children and their needs.

Not exact matches

«The real magic is in giving great educators freedom and license into how school works.»

He says an absence of focused educators in this subject is the real crux of the problem.

My Rotman Executive MBA class was a diverse group of forward - thinking, hard - working individuals from surprising backgrounds: in a team of doctors, lawyers, general managers, senior executives, financial whizzes and real estate directors, we also had musicians, artists and educators.

«Losses only become real when you take your money out,» points out Saundra Davis, MSFP, a financial educator in California.

We, a small group of theological educators, went to a Demolition Derby — a real one, with cars, and then trucks, smashing into each others in a muddy arena, and more than a thousand people watching from the grandstands.

While we wait for our government to go through it's usual «slow to respond / proceed cautiously / let's hear both sides for a few years before we spend anything on this issue», my stalwart position remains that, in the meantime, we need to do everything we can as parents, educators, private companies, friends and neighbors to simply offer our kids real, wholesome food over the junk.

How Children Succeed is really a book for innovative educators and parents interested in «big ideas» and real change.

In the Creative Child Magazine's Awards Program, products are submitted and evaluated and reviewed by real moms, educators and early education professionals.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

«Make no mistake, educators are taxpayers, too, and support real, meaningful tax relief,» union President Richard Iannuzzi said in a statement.

We are going to help good educators stay and grow in this profession, and usher real reform that will lift up kids across the whole system.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

This capability will also allow researchers to share what they learn in real - time with scientific colleagues, policymakers, educators, students, and the public.

Laura Thomas is a coach and educator helping people transform their relationship with sweet food in a practical way so they live more empowered, happier and healthier in the sugary real...

Our contributors for this book are leaders in their field, including Melissa Hartwig, Chris Kresser, and Robb Wolf, incredible food bloggers and educators like The Toasted Pine Nut, Real Food Dietitians, Rachel Mansfield, and athletes like Tony Horton and Laird Hamilton.

Interview with Lily Nichols, a real food - focused registered dietitian and diabetes educator, chatting about the ins and outs of balancing a ketogenic diet while pregnant.

If educators are open to the idea that this so - called something «just in your mind» is indeed real, they are well on their way to successfully helping and understanding such a student.

After the object exercise, the students watch short video clips of educators (all with Ed School connections) being interviewed in real life.

Caldis, who is taking a year off teaching at school to teach pre-service educators at Macquarie University, says connecting learning to the real world and getting students out of the classroom to carry out their own investigations increases engagement and interest in the subject.

The Anti-Defamation League has some helpful real - life examples in a 20 - minute online course for educators.

The tool allows educators to get immediate insight into their student understanding in real - time, as they can create quizzes in seconds and also share them with other teachers.

Author of Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World and co-author of Reinventing Project - Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real - World Projects in the Digital Age, I'm inspired by educators who push the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

Greg Whitby speaks to one educator about his school's programs which use real life tasks to get girls in Years 9 and 10 engaged in engineering and science.

Worried that this is threatening the quality of education in the classroom, Hess uses stories from educators that demonstrate how these barriers can be broken in order to cultivate powerful learning environments and drive real improvement.

Although many of these methods point to real qualitative areas for growth, we also know they simply can't replace the voice and direct guidance of the educator in the classroom.

«Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.»

The structure of the single - point rubric allows us as educators to work toward returning grades and teacher feedback to their proper roles: supporting and fostering real learning in our students.

Real improvement requires another set of eyes in the classroom, as well as the ideas, intuition, and insights of an expert educator.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

In October of last year, former UN Assistant Secretary - General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs Thomas Gass noted, «Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.&raquIn October of last year, former UN Assistant Secretary - General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs Thomas Gass noted, «Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.&raquin making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.»

In the real world, that means districts have to either practice stricter discipline than educators deem necessary in their low - poverty schools, and / or more lax discipline than educators deem necessary in their high poverty schoolIn the real world, that means districts have to either practice stricter discipline than educators deem necessary in their low - poverty schools, and / or more lax discipline than educators deem necessary in their high poverty schoolin their low - poverty schools, and / or more lax discipline than educators deem necessary in their high poverty schoolin their high poverty schools.

TeachingChannel doesn't follow the «webinar» format, but it does a great job of creating video - based PD sessions that get the camera in the classroom, allowing you to watch strategies in action with real students and real educators.

For the majority of educators, the answer to all of these questions is sadly, yes, and therein lays the real issue in education.

I continue to believe, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, that poverty, though a real challenge, has been used as a convenient excuse by too many educators; an excuse not to improve, not to seek changes in school organization and instructional techniques, not to raise expectations.

For me the real litmus tests for progressive educators is not how much technology they use or how many Twitter followers they have, but the extent to which they believe in independent learning, and then how much they practice what they preach.

Never in the history of education has the learner ever had the opportunity to be so well supported nor has there ever been the opportunity for educators see where and how to improve education resources in real time and be able to immediately act to make course improvements.

If tests like these succeed, they could not only provide better information about children's readiness for real life but also give educators incentive to do what they want to do anyway: teach kids in engaging ways to be well - rounded people and lifelong learners, not drill the life out of school with dry test preparation.

The ability to use classroom data that is readily accessible in real time, actionable for both the teacher and learner, and enables informed adjustments to the learning task is what educators are asking for to close gaps and raise achievement.

This route to exploring their story in which they feature as the key player makes it real to teenagers and together educator and pupils can enter a dialogue and an exploration of how to keep safe rather than handing down some rigid rules in a top down model.

I wholly agree with the premise that high school needs to be rethought, and that the work is best done by educators and entrepreneurs in real schools and communities, not by politicos, bureaucrats, well - fed consultants, or us self - impressed think tank types.

If these new tests could detect whether schools and educators were changing their practices in the ways desired by Common Core and if rewards and punishments could be imposed on schools and educators for their compliance with the new standards, then perhaps the empty words of standards could be transformed into a real change in the education system.

Many educators feel that this method, combined with teacher narrative, better reflects student progress because it makes allowances for individual differences in learning rate and style, emphasizes real learning over test scores, and minimizes subjective considerations.

The resources draw on the Foundation's 14 years of experience, helping educators use real - life learning in the garden and kitchen to change children's food habits.

The real commonality of connected educators is their use of technology to collaborate in the pursuit of lifelong learning.

#sschat A weekly Twitter chat for social studies educators to discuss various topics in real time.

As educators, strive to make real connections between your students and others in the community, so that they can design real solutions to real - world problems.

While the fact the IRS responded to a band of educators on the south side of Chicago still shocks me — the real victory was this — in Chicago alone, the number of high school seniors successfully applying for federal aide has risen 65 % to 87 %.

I find it intriguing that we have not fully realised the affordance that technology offers in relation to real - time (just in - time) formative assessment practices that research tells us makes a significant impact on student learning (Wiliam, Black, Hattie) I have a pre-school age child whose school uses a «reporting / communication» tool where daily updates are captured by the educators including work samples, outcomes linked, photos of my child engaged in learning tasks etc..

Finding readily available real - world resources in or near a school should be a priority for educators who want to create strong global - education programs, especially if they don't have cutting - edge technology or deep pockets.