Sentences with phrase «school civics teacher»

Orestes («Oreo») is one of seven children — all named after infamous Greeks — born to a high school civics teacher with anger management issues and his homemaker wife, who seems to spend most of her time making quesadillas for her large family and trying to calm her husband down.

Dear Mr. Berry, Thank you for not being afraid to be a radical high school civics teacher in a small town.

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The «Costs and Outcomes» report was jointly sponsored by the Long Island Education Coalition, which represents school superintendents, teacher unions and other groups, and by the Long Island Association, the region's largest business and civic group.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

Elia says school officials and teachers should work with students to make it a learning experience about civic engagement and what it means to be an active citizen in American.

In this episode meet a would - be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

«The program believes that every teacher needs to be a civics teacher,» added Michael Wildasin, ASCD project director for the First Amendment Schools Project.

Torney - Purta recommends putting a focus back into civics with an opportunity for discussion in the middle school curriculum, enhancing professional development for teachers, recognizing the differences within immigrants, and using ethnic identity as a source of motivation.

That is but seven lessons — one for each day of a single week — of the many, many truths about American civic life that we look to our teachers and our schools (although not them alone) to help teach our daughters and sons.

The big difference in most religious schools is not that they indoctrinate, but that they raise topics such as moral, ethical, civic, and spiritual matters that teachers in public schools can not or dare not address.

Drawing on her experiences as a political theorist, an urban middle school teacher, and an education scholar, Levinson investigates the widening civic empowerment gap and offers ideas on how to close it.

While the standards focus on English Language Arts and mathematics, a recent briefing sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute and the American Federation of Teachers highlighted how the Common Core could reinvigorate the civic mission of schools.

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Given those challenges, pollsters / analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett have delivered an invaluable service in their new study «High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do,» released today (Full disclosure: The study was commissioned and published by my shop at AEI).

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

Initially, teachers were unsure how to integrate the First Amendment Schools» civic mission into the curriculum.

Teachers, administrators, civic leaders, and other professionals can use the materials to model similar after - school (or during - school) programs of their own.

They are based, in part, on a questionnaire that Education Week distributed to as many as 50 people in each state, including teachers and administrators, business and civic leaders, state education officials, and education school deans.

• First, efforts to develop a civics curriculum are snagged by a basic truth about America: beyond a narrow core of shared beliefs (honesty, tolerance, obeying the law), Americans hold strong but often divergent views about the values they want their children to acquire and about the role of teachers and schools in inculcating those values.

I recalled my early high school years and a teacher I had, Mr. Roth, who went above and beyond to educate my ninth - grade class on Civil Rights history and involve us in civic engagement, while specifically connecting us to current issues challenging civil rights and civil liberties.

The case is designed for teachers and school leaders, as well as for parents and for middle and high school students themselves, to encourage nuanced conversations about the many pedagogical, ethical, and civic issues at play.

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Pollsters / analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett have delivered an invaluable service in their new study «High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do.»

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Create an award for a teacher (other than a social studies teacher) who provides high school students with quality civic learning opportunities.

Yet in a 2010 survey, 70 % of high - school social - studies teachers reported that civics has been marginalized by the focus on reading and math assessments.

The ESSA would also establish a new program known as Presidential Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, which would provide professional development to improve the teaching of history and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the coCivics, which would provide professional development to improve the teaching of history and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the cocivics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the country.

Given the unique and unprecedented opportunity to involve Mayor Michael B. Hancock, a product of Denver Public Schools, this initiative leverages his relationships in the broader community by positioning business, civic and religious leaders to engage, incentivize, and mentor teachers and leaders of color to consider careers in Denver.

The consensus among business leaders, policymakers, teachers» unions, and civic groups of what constitutes a good school has converged with a view of schooling that many parents and taxpayers have held for decades.

Scholars Put Civics in Same Category as Literacy, Math Education Week, October 28, 2011 «But it's not only teachers who need to recalibrate expectations about civics education, said Meira Levinson, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a coordinator of the resCivics in Same Category as Literacy, Math Education Week, October 28, 2011 «But it's not only teachers who need to recalibrate expectations about civics education, said Meira Levinson, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a coordinator of the rescivics education, said Meira Levinson, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a coordinator of the research.

The School Superintendents Association supports the National Day of Action to Stop Gun Violence in Our Schools, on April 20, 2018, which urges teachers, families, students, and school administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their scSchool Superintendents Association supports the National Day of Action to Stop Gun Violence in Our Schools, on April 20, 2018, which urges teachers, families, students, and school administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their sSchools, on April 20, 2018, which urges teachers, families, students, and school administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their scschool administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their schoolsschools.

A broad array of groups — including advocates for parents, students, teachers, administrators, and school boards, as well as business and civic organizations — agree: Michigan needs a more systematic way to support improvement of teaching and learning.

Rocky has been recognized personally for his professional and civic leadership, being awarded by organizations such as The United Way, Leadership Georgia, Retired Teachers of Georgia, and Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement.

We're a group of teachers, educators, parents, civic and business leaders working together to ensure that every student in New York State receives a first - rate education and graduates high school prepared for college and beyond.

Given this evolving context, it is more important now than ever to prepare social studies teachers to cultivate and support students» civic practices in school.

This is a lesson our teachers, school leaders, and school operators must embrace in order to help all children gain the proper civics and history education they need to be the leaders and citizens their communities need them to be, as well as to continue bending the arc of the nation's history towards progress.

This study finds that arts - based community teaching that occurs alongside traditional in - school practicum experiences encourages civic involvement, but also enriches arts - based academic curriculum provided in pre-service teacher training.

«Inequitable school funding means that my students, and many across Connecticut, are shortchanged when it comes to classroom resources and access to experienced teachers, which widens the achievement gap and perpetuates the cycle of poverty in our state,» said Margaret O'Connor, a tenth - grade civics teacher at Central High School in Bridgschool funding means that my students, and many across Connecticut, are shortchanged when it comes to classroom resources and access to experienced teachers, which widens the achievement gap and perpetuates the cycle of poverty in our state,» said Margaret O'Connor, a tenth - grade civics teacher at Central High School in BridgSchool in Bridgeport.

As a passionate high school history and civics teacher, Cullis is excited to give classroom teachers the voice they deserve in education policy.

For this effort to be a success, we need representation from the entire public education community including: parents, grandparents, teachers, school leaders, policymakers and civic leaders.

AACTE is among the 50 national education groups representing teachers, principals, superintendents, parents, and other civic organizations that have issued a joint statement in support of public education and are celebrating the critical roles for public schools in developing future generations of successful citizens.

Her research and teaching has been focused on urban school reform policy and practice, culturally relevant instruction, teacher student relationship - building practices, and civic education.

As Hudson's superintendent, he initiated innovations in civic education, social - emotional learning, service learning, mathematics and science education reform, high school restructuring, teacher evaluation, and computer technology.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectivSchool «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectivschool system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

Effective teachers contribute to the development of classrooms and schools that value diversity and civic - mindedness.

It advances the efficient implementation of decisions, maximizes the range of knowledge and experience that go into school administration, makes all key administrative decisions visible to all, holds everyone accountable for the effective management of the school, promotes harmonious administration, cultivates the civic goals of schooling, and may likely increase teacher retention.

This workshop is recommended for upper middle and high school social studies, civics, and humanities teachers.

The democratic and distributed leadership model advances the efficient implementation of decisions, maximizes the range of knowledge and experience that go into school administration, makes all key administrative decisions visible to all, holds everyone accountable for the effective management of the school, promotes harmonious administration, cultivates the civic goals of schooling, and may likely increase teacher retention.

COE 1965 graduate Delores Lastinger, a leading Northeast Florida civic leader, philanthropist and former high school teacher, is recognized as a 2012 University of Florida Distinguished Alumna.

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