Sentences with phrase «said education consultant»

Previously, a district went to Superior Court to fire a tenured teacher, said education consultant John Mockler, who developed the original legislation with Stull.

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

«Their intent has been to terminate all of the end - of - course exams, which to me is very bad public policy,» says education consultant John Mockler.

Not exact matches

Broadly, there tend to be more men in high - paying fields like technology, and more women in lower - paid ones such as education, creating much of the imbalance, said management consultant Steve Tobak, managing partner for Invisor Consulting in California.

«The first point of interaction is shaped by the color, and color is the most memorable sense,» says Leslie Harrington, a color consultant and the executive director of The Color Association, which does color forecasting, education, and advising for brands.

«The major drivers for the growth of Indian online supplemental education space will be engaging course material, inventive pedagogy and (attempts by ed - tech firms to) reach out to the distant locations of the country which have minimal supplemental education infrastructure,» Mukesh Kumar, associate consultant, RedSeer Consulting, said in a statement.

Attractions include quality of education, quality of life and the stability of Canadian society, consultant says.

«Assemble the basic things you use everyday, like lotion and facial cleanser, and also make room for items like maxi pads, sitz bath, and a peri-bottle, which you'll need to use while you're healing,» says Bonnie Henson, R.N., B.S., who is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a man - ager of prenatal education and lactation support services at MemorialCare Center for Women at Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, CA.

Mark Friedman, a consultant leading the search for District 25, said this is a natural trajectory for education executives.

Although some may find it fun to brag about their league - topping institution, in truth, it is hard to define «best» in terms of universities, says Johnny Rich, higher education consultant and director of Push, an independent online guide to UK universities.

«He's the coolest cat, literally speaking,» said Coelho, a Salt Lake City after - school education consultant who cosplays under the name Kiki Furia.

What did academics, education consultants and speech pathologists say?

As Tony Thornley, education consultant, former headteacher and HMI, states, «If you can say: «So what?»

Greg says Peer Support Australia offers schools the support they need with dedicated wellbeing education consultants placed across Australia who provide direct support.

John Bangs, senior consultant at Education International, said: «Basically, the OECD is ringing alarm bells that declining teachers» pay is going to undermine educational quality.

«We need to let go of the idea that heroic individuals will change schools,» says Richard DuFour, an education consultant who specializes in creating professional learning communities in schools.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

These companies offer a model for the rest of us — for organizations and schools seeking to grow, for leaders wanting to make a cultural change, and even for individual employees who may feel stuck, say Lisa Laskow Lahey and Robert Kegan, who wrote An Everyone Culture with fellow Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Matthew L. Miller and Deborah Helsing and with organizational consultant Andy Fleming.

AS the FE and wider skills landscape shifts, effective self - assessment and the improvement plan that shakes out from this, is a key Ofsted expectation, says Louise Doyle, a further education consultant and director of quality assurance experts Mesma.

Dave Johnson, Consultants Framework Manager at Fusion21, said: «This OJEU compliant framework provides access to a wealth of consultancy knowledge and expertise and will save Fusion21 members — including social landlords, local authorities, NHS trusts, education institutions and blue light organisations — time, resources and cost efficiencies.

«It basically seems like there was a warm - body policy,» said Alexander Russo, an education consultant and author of the blog This Week in Eeducation consultant and author of the blog This Week in EducationEducation.

«There is not $ 1 billion worth of good consultants; there aren't enough good consultants in the country,» said Van Schoales, chief executive of the education advocacy nonprofit A + Denver.

That's not the case elsewhere, said Craig Jerald, a Washington, D.C. - based education consultant who has studied how accreditation in the U.S. compares to England's K — 12 inspection program.

In Colorado, as in many other states, the state education department held a consultant fair, where it was apparent «there were vendors coming out of the woodwork» without experience in school turnaround but who knew «there was a lot of money to be made,» said Patrick Chapman, director of federal programs for the state education department.

Thanks to data from the Professional Growth Effectiveness System and the TELL Survey, districts will have more information than ever before on how many effective teachers they have and where they are working, said Christine Boatwright, administration education program consultant in the office of Next Generation Learners.

The TSC said Dame Reena Keeble, an education consultant and retired primary head, will head the primary review.

In Minnesota, more than a dozen education department staffers are working with consultants from the McKinsey & Co. global consulting firm to prepare the state's application, using about $ 250,000 in Gates Foundation money, spokesman Bill Walsh said.

In some cases, schools have promised to hire instructional coaches and other support staff, only to find a dearth of qualified applicants, said Caitlin Scott, a consultant for the Center on Education Policy, a research organization in Washington that has closely studied SIG implementation in Idaho, Maryland and Michigan.

It doesn't just transfer automatically,» said Espinosa, the Department of Education consultant.

«Way too much energy is placed on bilingual and monolingual education, rather than what are we going to do to have the very best program implemented, whatever type of program,» said Norm Gold, a former consultant for the California Department of Eeducation, rather than what are we going to do to have the very best program implemented, whatever type of program,» said Norm Gold, a former consultant for the California Department of EducationEducation.

«NAEP is not built for causal inferencing,» Tom Loveless, an independent education consultant formerly with the Brookings Institution, said in a pre-release web conference last week.

Instead, the 52 - year - old education consultant says she hated being chained to the computer screen and found the entire MOOC experience mechanistic, dreary and ineffectual.

Selina Merrell, education consultant in the Rankin County School District and for the county's juvenile - detention center, says positive behavior intervention and support, or PBIS, starts with the right behavior from adults.

There will be a greater emphasis on informational texts, rather than literature; texts will be more complex; and literacy will be emphasized in all classes, even physical education, said Tamara Maxwell, an English Language Arts consultant for the Department of Public Instruction.

«It is good news that chronic absence data is included in the ESSA reauthorization for Title I schools because it moves us closer to the day when all districts will be using chronic absence data and acting on it,» said David Kopperud, an education programs consultant with the California Department of Education who helps oversee statewide attendanceducation programs consultant with the California Department of Education who helps oversee statewide attendancEducation who helps oversee statewide attendance issues.

«When they began this journey, they began it as a faith walk,» says John Branam, an education consultant, who spent 2-1/2 years working with the district as a partner with The Learning Accelerator, a Silicon Valley - based nonprofit.

However, Sandra Teacher, an education consultant at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said it was important that sex and relationships education is «age and religion appropriate».

Tom Sherrington, a former headteacher and education consultant, said that both floor and coasting standards are «essentially a ludicrous concept» because they are tied to a «de-facto competitive grade system» that always gives a proportion of pupils» low grades.

«Our initial focus will be working with proven educational leaders to develop charter public schools that offer strong instructional programs for students,» said Susan Mas, education advocate and independent consultant working with the partnership.

However David Didau, an education consultant and co-author of «what every teacher needs to know about psychology», said the re-grant is a «shameful waste of public money».

Jonathan Crossley - Holland, education consultant and former director for children's services at Sheffield City Council, said the increasing costs were evidence that the RSCs have become a middle tier of oversight for schools.

«In general, Wisconsin has been pretty resistant to change,» Madison - based education consultant Sarah Archibald said.

«Imagine if Chris Christie endorsed Obama's healthcare plan,» said Andrew Rotherham, a well - known education blogger and policy consultant out of Washington, D.C. «Would he have been picked for the keynote?

Mr Griffiths, former head of Cardiff High School and now an education consultant, said: «We have come to the conclusion that the often heard quote «I'm just no good at maths» is a myth.

«At one time, the district looked at charters as the enemy,» said Bob Wedl, the consultant provided by Education Evolving who also has served as a former state education commEducation Evolving who also has served as a former state education commeducation commissioner.

The theme this year is «Inspiring Wonder,» which is a perfect description for what we have in store for attendees,» said Tonya Gerharter, WDE Education Consultant.

Karen L. Mapp, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a consultant on family engagement to the federal Department of Education, said that besides training parents to be more active in schools, it was equally important to train school staff members how to communicate with parents, especially across racial and socioeconomic divides.

«My concern is that if you're still relying on lecture as your primary mode of getting content across,... you haven't done anything to shift the type of learning that's occurring,» said Andrew Miller, an educational consultant who works with the Alexandria, Va. - based professional - development group ASCD and the Novato, Calif. - based Buck Institute of Education, which works to promote project - based learning in classrooms.

John Fowler, an education policy consultant, said there was «no plan.

Keep the data focused on just a few data sets that offer information on how to contribute to employee performance, school or district outcomes, and most importantly, student achievement,» said Tony Davis, Ph.D., project consultant for McREL International and 28 - year veteran education who held roles as a teacher, assistant principal, principal and K - 12 human resources administrator.