Sentences with phrase «run by educators»

Charter schools are developed and run by educators, parents, community leaders and educational entrepreneurs.

Charter schools are public schools run by educators, members of the community, or other bodies, using innovative and specialized education programs.

If a school is run by educators that have a heart for the community they serve, it will accomplish great things.

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Again, the questions raised by Roman Catholic educators about their own schools and methods often run parallel to those of Protestants and their reflections are helpful to the latter.

A new Recycling Clinic, run by Recoup, will feature experts providing free, one - to - one recycling advice; and additionally, a 3D Print Feature will enable designers, engineers and educators to test and perfect their work with 3D modelling.

At the heart of BWI is our network of chapters run by Volunteer Babywearing Educators serving their local communities.

Ask about the childbirth educator's certification background and current status, ask how many couples in the class (fewer than 10 is the goal), ask how long the class runs time-wise, ask if the childbirth educator is employed by a hospital or practitioner's office and other pertinent questions.

Visual and performing arts programs for kids, teens, and adults run by professional artist - educators.

Meet new friends and have your questions answered at local get - togethers run by trained volunteer breastfeeding counsellors or educators.

Workshops are offered on a variety of birth and postpartum topics and can be run by childbirth educators, doulas, teachers or community members.

In response to a question from a delegate about the Chicago Teachers Union strike, which led to a successful contract, and the UFT's current, long - running contract battle, Mulgrew contrasted the circumstances faced by educators in Chicago and New York City.

A new face joined the Rosendale Town Board at its first meeting of 2016, on January 6: Stacy Lipari, a professional educator and currently director of the Creative Co-Op, took the seat formerly held by Bob Ryan, who did not run for reelection.

The program is taught by classroom teachers who train alongside educators from the Carnegie Institution and universities, as well as by «model teachers» who train with BioEYES staff for three years before running the program on their own.

«Competency - based education is a growing movement driven by educators and communities focused on ensuring that students have the knowledge they need to flourish in a global economy,» said Susan Patrick, chief executive officer of iNACOL, a nonprofit that runs the website CompetencyWorks.

On Twitter, there is a chat group with the hashtag #edchat, run by Tom Whitby (@tomwhitby), where one can ask questions on all things education and fellow educators respond.

Geake recommends the online mathematics club NRICH, run by a team of mathematics educators in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

In fact, after sitting through an all - day board training session conducted by a representative from our state school board association and listening to the admonition not to micromanage in what must have been ten different languages, I blurted, «This district has followed your micromanagement advice for years and has let the educators run the show.

Also run by the National Archives, DocsTeach is full of activities for educators.

It's run by BetterLesson, an organization that was started by a group of public school teachers from Boston and Atlanta who were frustrated that it was so hard to find and share great curriculum with other educators.

And even if by some political miracle the new PARCC test could be used to impose tough sanctions on schools and educators who failed to comply with Common Core, it's a really bad idea to try to run school systems with a test.

Tangent Training is founded, run and managed by educators.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

Now that the school year has begun, and our research into documentation and assessment practices is off and running, we're excited to welcome the 2016 - 2017 Agency by Design Oakland Fellowship cohort, a group of 28 educators from around the San Francisco Bay Area.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

is a blog by educator Jonathan Pelto who also happens to be running for governor in Connecticut!

But I do think that the vast majority of charter schools are run by dedicated educators who have integrity and who will abide by the law.»

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.

An immediate end to the current UFT support for mayoral control and its replacement by a democratic system of local governance run by communities, parents, and educators.

Calvert does not compete with educators by running virtual schools; we provide best - in - class resources to help them be successful in every way.

In 2009, Bay City Central High School sent 19 educators to a weeklong Summer Institute run by Great Expectations.

Cross-posted at Education Week In my last blog post, I discussed the deference and reverence once afforded educators by elected leaders regarding how to best run the American public education system and how all of that has come to an end.

WWC, a service run by the U.S. Department of Education, reviews education research to share the best research - backed strategies with educators.

To get there, we've set smart strategies for hiring and retaining black male teachers, starting with the transition of the Fellowship from a volunteer - run organization to one that is led by full - time educators and administrators.

The Center for Resilience would open a «trauma - informed» elementary school, founded by educator and consultant William Murphy and Elizabeth Marcell, who currently runs the New Orleans Therapeutic Day Program.

Yesterday, as the featured speaker at a luncheon organized by the Economic Club of Minnesota, Rhee kept an entire ballroom full of politicians, business moguls and educators wholly engaged, exhorting them to simultaneously become more political and cast off partisan orthodoxy when it comes to running schools.

These educators are driven by a passion that runs deep to be the change that our students and communities need.

Although a number of public education advocates, including myself, have been critical of Weingarten on some issues, I have tremendous respect for her and the role she has played in the effort to speak up for teachers on numerous occasions including this week's decision by Time Magazine to run with a cover bashing the nation's public school educators.

Charter schools are free public schools created by educators and communities, and run by a Board of Directors.

NSPRA's Communication Accountability Project — supported by the tireless work of NSPRA members everywhere — collects research and resources to help educators build, run and assess school - communication programs that work.

(Reuters)- 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.

> I AM AN EDUCATOR posted: «TakePart.com ran an article by Joseph > Williams this week titled, «Boycotters Might Be Winning the Battle Over > Standardized Testing.»

Charters should be nonprofit and run by successful educators.

That philosophy of quiet and order as a foundation for learning is a trademark of educators at Veterans Memorial and the other eight charter schools run by the Chicago - based United Neighborhood Organization, or UNO, a Latino advocacy group with a history of community organizing.

While early charter schools, established under a model introduced by Albert Shanker in the 1990s, were designed to give educators on the ground floor more administrative autonomy, modern charters are run (and, in part, funded) by increasingly diverse groups, from corporate behemoths, to hedge funds, to dynamic and independent taste - makers (Cohen 2015).

Educators for Excellence encourages teachers to participate in their unions by attending meetings, voting and running for leadership positions to ensure that their voices are heard.

The 2014 - 15 class of 34 future teacher - leaders that made such a strong contribution to this year's Final Four run includes, by position, elementary music teachers, string teachers, instrumental music teachers and choral music educators.

To celebrate Petfinder's Adopt the Internet Day, the Rabbit Advocate (a blog run by an HRS educator) hosted a contest for the best rabbit adoption story.

Before our coaches are hand - selected and intensely trained by Chopra Center master educators in our proprietary curriculum, they are already running thriving coaching practices, guiding people to new levels of clarity and results in all aspects of life.

With a curatorial focus this year on collaboration, BAS8 has provided Phillips with an opportunity to run community print workshops and create a publication based on the Irregular Bulletin, a newsletter produced in the late 50s / early 60s by radical educator and artist Corita Kent and her colleague, Sister Magdalene Mary.

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