Sentences with phrase «school educators focusing»

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ATA is focused on developing strategic relationships with educators, administrators, and board members to ensure that most underserved schools in the district are identified and ultimately, helped.

We started with parents and going forward, we will be focusing on educators — teachers / leadership teams at schools / staff / counselors and anybody associated with education.

Most recently, he was a vice president at Educators for Excellence, a progressive non-profit group focused on public school teachers and school policy.

We often report on the struggles of Common Core Learning Standards in the classroom, but in this Focus on Education report WBFO»S Eileen Buckley takes us inside JFK Middle School in Cheektowaga to hear about how educators and students are embracing it successfully and how future teachers are gearing up for the challenge.

This conference is for educators by educators, with a focus on fostering discussion, questioning, reflective leadership and design - thinking within our schools.»

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

The researchers found educators connecting within and between schools to focus on central goals as they shifted from monolingual to bilingual instruction.

They have traveled and trained over 6,000 others around the world, and also expanded their offerings to include the Yoga 4 Classrooms program focused on empowering educators and schools to integrate yoga and mindfulness into the class day.

The building architect Bruce Jilk ultimately came up with in consultation with educators, parents, and community members focuses on giving the school a family feeling.

Currently, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, where he recently obtained a Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design Program, Schneider focuses on how emerging technologies can help educators design better learning environments.

Children's Book Week celebrates reading for enjoyment in schools and encourages educators to make time to read for fun and not just focus on literacy testing.

Successful blended learning educators and schools are focusing on engagement as they work towards student achievement.

In the UK, our focus for the 2016/2017 school year is helping educators in schools and other programmes make the most effective use of micro: bits.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

«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.

By focusing tightly on instructional strategies and PD, educators at Cochrane Collegiate Academy saved their school from closure.

After years of intense focus by American policy leaders and educators on college readiness, a growing chorus is calling for schools to better prepare students for futures that might not include four - year degrees.

School leaders summit Exclusively focused for those with a leadership role in a school, the School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share School leaders summit Exclusively focused for those with a leadership role in a school, the School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share school, the School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share ideas.

Building on the success of youth - focused, anti-tobacco campaigns that expose industry tactics, educators can also boost school efforts to prevent underage drinking by having high - school students use the site to research the «tricks» of the alcohol industry.

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.

Over 120 people attended the conference, which was held to bring together community organizers, parent leaders, education researchers, and educators to focus on community organizing and school reform in low - income communities.

The government has assembled a panel of education and policy experts to recommend how schools and educators can better focus resources in classrooms.

Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project - based learning, social - emotional learning, youth development, and 21st - century school design.

After a two - year school - privatization battle that has divided this community and captured the attention of the nation's educators, the focus in Wilkinsburg last week was finally on the children.

Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project - based learning, social - emotional learning, youth development, and 21st - century school design.

The only film that I remember capturing kids and educators in the inner city as effectively was season four of the great TV series The Wire, which focused on a middle school.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

SREB's plan might focus on the South, but it offers food - for - thought for all middle - school educators.

Sam Chaltain is a former educator and writer who has spent his career focused on issues including the First Amendment, democratic schooling, and social and emotional learning.

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.

Such thinking is why elementary - and secondary - school reform focuses almost exclusively on resources (per pupil spending), time (class size), knowledge (professional development), or experience (teacher retention) and relatively little on incentives to make educators perform better.

Others have suggested leaving a government - operated school system intact, but putting different people — mayors, [3] appointed boards, or state officials [4]-- in charge and using performance standards to focus the attention of educators on student learning, not distracting rules.

Authors Pamela Macklin and Vic Zbar focus on implementation, and have designed tools, activities and proformas for educators to adapt for use in their own school settings.

Yes, our paper is just one more piece of evidence that you need to focus on individual educators to move the needle in schools.

This was due to the hard work of the educators in those schools and the Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership (OFIP), a ministry support for schools that assists teachers and administrators in planning, implementing, monitoring and refining a school improvement plan.

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New Orleans launched a PL - focused teacher network founded by two educators and supported by New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO), a regional partner.

During his two years at HGSE, Waddy has focused his efforts exclusively on middle school students — an age often described as «tough» by educators.

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.

The current wave of innovation in charter schools differs from earlier reforms by focusing on governance, with charter schools freeing educators from oversight by elec ted school boards.

I kept having that feeling of — I know what he's talking about, I've lived it for years as an urban educator — but I've never seen anyone make such a clear argument for the fact that schools need to focus on developing students» social and emotional skills.

However challenging the new curriculum is for educators, the focus needs to be on how best to implement it for the benefit of students and schools.

According to educators at the conference, more minority students are turning away from existing private schools in favor of African - American academies and other schools that focus...

Another sign that we are making a difference: A group of educators from a school in Sofia that focuses on math and science recently wrote a proposal for teacher training, and, after securing funding from the federal Ministry of Education and the local government, they invited our lab to provide the instruction — the first time the teachers themselves hired us to do the training.

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.

Using resources and tools like the ones below, educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School focus on honing critical thinking skills across all subjects.

The reform movement has not focused enough on making schools bias free for all students, and it must do so if it is to succeed, a coalition of educators and activists says in a report to be released this week.

Still, as faculty chair of HISL, Peterkin knew that the weeklong institute — a Program in Professional Education focused on helping school district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators nschool district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators nSchool District educators needed.

If it wasn't for his experience as a high school math educator, newly appointed Assistant Professor Luke Miratrix might never have focused on statistics.

The central office is a «service provider» that seeks to free schools and educators from operational burdens and allow them to maximize the time and resources that are focused on student learning.