Sentences with phrase «school and educator practice»

In short, school and educator practice with respect to character skills is running far ahead of knowledge.

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Indeed, nearly half of the nation's public school educators are practicing Christians and 95 percent of Protestant pastors believe Christians should get involved in helping public schools (Barna).

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

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Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses.

Through evidence - based articles, the JPE advances the knowledge of aspiring and seasoned educators in any setting - independent or private practice, community, hospital, nursing or midwifery school - and informs educators and other health care professionals on research that will improve their practice and their efforts to support natural, safe, and healthy birth.

Flatley said educators have worked with police, parents and students to develop and practice drills to protect children if a shooting occurs at a Long Island school.

Beverly Usher of Rochester pointed to a «doughnuts for dads» and «muffins for moms» initiative at an elementary school there, which brings parents into the school for conversation about best practices for families and educators.

She is a full - time Albany City School District educator, teaching theater at ASH and advanced theater at Albany High School — partnering the two through the Theatre Mentoring Program, in which high school students lead the elementary students in acting and storytelling pracSchool District educator, teaching theater at ASH and advanced theater at Albany High School — partnering the two through the Theatre Mentoring Program, in which high school students lead the elementary students in acting and storytelling pracSchool — partnering the two through the Theatre Mentoring Program, in which high school students lead the elementary students in acting and storytelling pracschool students lead the elementary students in acting and storytelling practices.

Join teen yoga educator Stephanie Chee Barea for this 7 - week class series that allows high school students (grades 9 - 12) to learn and practice the tools of yoga in community with one another.

She has been sharing yoga and mindfulness practices with children, teens and adults in studio, childcare, preschool, public school, and homeschool settings, as well as teaching athletes, coaches and educators at area universities and school districts, for over 17 years.

This webinar guide helps educators to implement global learning in schools by providing examples of how schools across the United States are utilizing innovative approaches and proven practices in global education.

That the scientific method can be both illuminating and wrong, even when practiced by a distinguished researcher, is a cautionary tale for educators, school leaders, and policymakers.

Home - schooling families of the 1980s and 1990s fell somewhere along a continuum of pedagogical practice bounded on the left with «unschooling,» a word coined by educator John Holt to describe the liberation of children from adult - imposed constraints on their learning.

How about this: school districts use professional development days to allow educators to come together and share their best practices.

«The Review panellists are ideal advisers on the best evidence - based practices for our students that will help guide how our schools and educators focus resources in classrooms.

Here, Selena Woodward from Flinders University speaks to the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) about how connecting with fellow educators via social media platforms has helped her develop relationships that she never expected, and influenced her own professional practice.

A new toolkit from Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research provides resources to help educators leverage video observations in school communities to improve teacher practice and student learning.

He was a public school educator for 22 years and is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a unique professional - development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the past three years.

The community of educators that has developed around Bett is testament to the fact that teachers, business managers and school leaders have long recognised the need to come together, discuss and discover best practices and the best products.

In November, an initial workshop held at the Ross School in East Hampton, NY — the first slated research school — focused on establishing a core group of scientists and educators capable of integrating research and practice and who are committed to working together on the development of the research school School in East Hampton, NY — the first slated research school — focused on establishing a core group of scientists and educators capable of integrating research and practice and who are committed to working together on the development of the research school school — focused on establishing a core group of scientists and educators capable of integrating research and practice and who are committed to working together on the development of the research school school model.

These forces have combined to create a need for all public school educators to understand and be able to implement inclusive educational practices.

-LSB-...] discipline has become the subject of one of the most polarizing and entrenched debates in education: Opponents of the Obama guidance argue that it has handicapped schools from ensuring schools are safe and productive learning environments; proponents assert the rules promote equity and prevent educators from resorting to punitive discipline practices that are ineffective at best and pernicious at worst.

Developed by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the First Amendment Center, the First Amendment Schools Project is designed to move First Amendment's ideas out of textbook discussions and into practice in classrooms and school hallways, while deepening educators» understanding of the First Amendment.

Among other things, great school systems decentralize pedagogical methods to schools and teachers, and put in place incentives for frontline educators to share innovative practices across schools.

ISEEN sees itself as «an international learning laboratory and networking opportunity through which independent school experiential educators and administrators can share their program challenges and successes, learn of and from model programs, and explore the developing role of experiential practices within our educational communities.»

Each of these programs address a particular problem of practice — using data, observing and analyzing teaching and learning in the classroom, engaging families meaningfully — and provides proven tools, protocols, and approaches for educators to practice and implement together for school and system - wide improvement efforts.

The Center's three - pronged approach will include sponsoring research; developing strategies and practices; and assisting teachers and other educators as they address gender issues in their schools and communities.

Those who are already skeptical about using tests to judge schools and educators will find a lot to like, while those in favor of the practice will be challenged by the evidence presented that test - based accountability can lead schools to engage in unproductive practices.

By Rinaldi's account, as successful as these educators are at building great teaching practice and reshaping the schools as a community learning centers, they are just getting started.

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 schools.

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student outcomes.

Though educators and the public will never agree on precisely what «citizen competence» demands of schooling, the best strategies for teaching reading, or the most appropriate curriculum for cultivating critical thinking or a sense of justice, most will agree that schools that teach or practice racism, deny boys and girls equal opportunities, or neglect mathematics do not merit public support.

Over the last five years, RIMA has marshaled local and national philanthropy; recruited school operators and educators into Rhode Island; provided staff support for facilities identification, finance, and development; formed and advocated for improved education policies at both the state and local levels; and served as a «help center» for questions about state laws, regulations, practices, and culture.

To build the agenda we used our Blended Learning Universe to recruit innovative school leaders and educators to share their tactics and practices at the cutting edge of school innovation.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

New York — Practicing educators praised the College Board, at its annual meeting here last week, for providing a sensible approach to educational reform, and they challenged the organization to continue pressing for a high - school curriculum that develops students» competencies as well as their knowledge of specific subjects.

The goal was to establish a program that reflected the diversity of the field itself, bringing artists, teaching artists, researchers, administrators, classroom teachers, and out - of - school educators together for a year of study on the foundational issues that inform all aspects of arts education theory and practice.

Levinson hopes to give educators tools for making just decisions in their own practice, and also to push political theorists to develop theories of justice that are robust enough to address complex school - based dilemmas.

In November, an initial workshop held at the Ross School in East Hampton, NY â $» the first slated research school â $» focused on establishing a core group of scientists and educators capable of integrating research and practice and who are committed to working together on the development of the research school School in East Hampton, NY â $» the first slated research school â $» focused on establishing a core group of scientists and educators capable of integrating research and practice and who are committed to working together on the development of the research school school â $» focused on establishing a core group of scientists and educators capable of integrating research and practice and who are committed to working together on the development of the research school school model.

Over the past twenty years, Mapp's research and practice focus has been on the cultivation of partnerships among families, community members and educators that support student achievement and school improvement.

Some of the best and most effective practices to motivate difficult students and improve their behavior at school are met with skepticism and even dismay from more than a handful of educators.

In his new book Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne aims to shift our focus from kids and educators to the principles, policies, and practices that make their schools poSchools, David Osborne aims to shift our focus from kids and educators to the principles, policies, and practices that make their schools poschools possible.

As an educator, you know well how you must to be able to maintain the mental skillfulness and agility to process many variables in everyday teaching practice, such as students» prior knowledge, the primary purpose and goal of a lesson, sequence of learning activities, time constraints, interruptions throughout the school day, and on and on.

We salute the many schools — too many to list — for initiating and encouraging projects and sustainable practices, along with the enthusiasm and passion of the waste and sustainability educators, which can only bring about positive outcomes in the long run.

Drawing on his personal interactions with Community District # 2 in New York City, Elmore promotes the idea that school reform can not be imposed through artificial constructs developed by outside policymakers, but must begin from the inside with a commitment by educators to develop the knowledge, structures, and practices at the heart of instruction.

Schools and educators have their own ideas about the proper goals of education and little can be done to force them to change their practice.

But we should not be using tests aligned with a set of standards to coerce schools and educators to change their practice.

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.

Also, in recent decades schools have moved away from disciplinary practices that rely on the judgment, discretion, and action of professional educators and have turned instead to reliance on school security guards, uniformed police, technical surveillance, security apparatus, and zero - tolerance policies.