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Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

As home educators we are by definition non-conformist, since the majority of families send their children to school!

An educator since 1985, Tommi has worked as a class teacher, subject teacher, and block teacher for grades K - 8 and, prior to pursuing Waldorf Education, taught kindergarten and first grade in the public school system.

In her first visit to a P - TECH school since taking office in July, the Commissioner spoke to students and educators at Hamilton Fulton Montgomery BOCES, one of 26 P - TECH programs in New York.

That's a question the community continues to debate in the week since the city school district announced its next superintendent would be longtime Nevada educator Kaweeda Adams.

It has been more than a year since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and six educators.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

The ranks of six - figure educators in public schools has increased 55 percent since the 2008 - 09 budget year, according to a recent survey.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

In the months since his comment about Stewart - Cousins, Loeb has been excoriated by prominent black politicians and educators, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Bloomberg schools chancellor Dennis Walcott and many of the city's black elected officials.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

About Blog Jennifer Smith Jochen has been an educator since 2003 with experience in elementary, middle school and college.

In the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in Europe.

This California blond is clearly not your ordinary educator, which could be the best thing that has happened to the perennially failing Newark Public Schools (NPS) since — well, perhaps, ever.

Since President - elect Trump nominated Betsy DeVos — a philanthropist and school - choice advocate who has been sharply critical of public schools — to be secretary of education, educators have been speculating how the incoming administration will affect American schools.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

Since HGSE was the first school of education that Carle has ever addressed, he admitted to being in awe of speaking to a room full of educators.

«As a long - time IB educator and Project Zero practitioner, I couldn't be more thrilled at the inclusion of the Project Zero Classroom and the online courses in the official offerings of IB professional development,» said Jim Reese, director of Professional Development Collaborative at the Washington International School (an IB school since School (an IB school since school since 1977).

Since the Charlotte - Mecklenburg (North Carolina) Schools started three - minute walk - throughs, administrators have become more involved with curriculum, provided support for educators, and learned from students.

Since Perrotti started the Safe Schools Program in Massachusetts in the early 1990s, he's seen more interest in offering targeted training on transgender issues at both the university level in the programs that prepare teachers and other educators and at the school district level.

Not surprisingly, since many online educators work part - time for each school, their employment tends to come without benefits.

Since he launched the Institute in 1985, he and his staff have trained over 30,000 educators in more than 50 school districts across the country.

Since the tragedy at Columbine High School last spring, educators throughout the country have turned their attention to making schools more secure.

But many rural educators see consolidation as a disaster: Since schools are often the heart of small communities, there are devastating social implications when they are closed, including that parents and town leaders lose control and interest.

Local educators did not mourn the death of CAP, since many local schools had received negative publicity as a result of their low test scores.

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, which authorizes educators to supervise the content of official high - school newspapers, is the Court's most significant ruling in a free - speech case involving public - school students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearSchool District v. Kuhlmeier, which authorizes educators to supervise the content of official high - school newspapers, is the Court's most significant ruling in a free - speech case involving public - school students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearschool newspapers, is the Court's most significant ruling in a free - speech case involving public - school students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearschool students since it decided Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District almost 20 yearSchool District almost 20 years ago.

At Forest Lake Elementary School, in Columbia, South Carolina, achievement has soared since educators started using new technology to personalize the learning experience for each student.

Administrators Praise Three - Minute Walk - Throughs Since one North Carolina school district started using three - minute walk - throughs, principals have become more involved with curriculum, provided support for educators, and learned from students.

Since then, the surveys we used in 2003 - 2004 have been downloaded more than 150,000 times from WKCD.org — by teachers, teacher educators, education students in college and graduate school, and student groups.

Since 2006, the Wallace Foundation has supported a separate initiative, called the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL), to provide training on campus and in the field for teams of school - district leaders and the leaders of their state education departments (two states each year).

We designed value - added models to measure teacher and school effectiveness and have produced annual estimates of educators» contributions to achievement in grades 4 - 8 since the 2008 - 2009 school year.

In the time since, White has worked to unify the state's fragmented early childhood system, to modernize curriculum, to professionalize the preparation of educators, to provide pathways to prosperity for all high school graduates, and to provide families with expansive school options irrespective of their financial means.

The president of the Oklahoma Education Association, Alicia Priest, said on Thursday that despite thousands of people calling on lawmakers to increase school funding, educators have seen no significant legislative movement since last Friday.

And since we pay most public school teachers in rolls of coins and crumpled up slips of paper that say «IOU» on them, these dedicated educators need real, low cost options.

Since 1998, we have published many books and videos with the same two goals in mind: (1) to persuade educators that the most promising strategy for meeting the challenge of helping all students learn at high levels is to develop their capacity to function as a professional learning community and (2) to offer specific strategies and structures to help them transform their own schools and districts into PLCs.

Since joining The Mind Trust in 2016, White has led The Mind Trust's partnership with the Relay Graduate School of Education's National Principals Academy Fellowship and has developed several groundbreaking initiatives that provide educators across Indianapolis with expert instructional, operational, and executive leadership support.

Since pioneering educators raised student achievement by creating small schools in Spanish Harlem in the 1980's, smaller - is - better has become a national mantra of reform, with New York and other cities, like Baltimore, Boston, Sacramento and San Diego, dividing large schools into smaller, more personal learning communities.

Educators have been aware of the summer slide phenomenon since the academic school year was created.

Since the vast majority of school districts employ uniform salary schedules, it seems reasonable to expect that educators should not experience gender - or race - based salary disparities».

Since my first blog post generated a response from a high school teacher wondering about what the Forum will offer for educators at the secondary level, I thought I'd feature one of our PreForum workshops today: Optimizing the High School Experschool teacher wondering about what the Forum will offer for educators at the secondary level, I thought I'd feature one of our PreForum workshops today: Optimizing the High School ExperSchool Experience.

Since 2009, IFSEL has worked with more than 6,000 educators from 600 schools across the US and internationally.

Since joining the Center in July 2012, she has worked with several states to articulate coherent, defensible theories of action aligned to state goals and policy initiatives, and has developed user - friendly resources that support the evaluation and refinement of educator evaluation and school accountability systems.

Mr. McNulty is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and author of It's Not Us Against Them — Creating the Schools We Need An educator since 1973, he has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent, as well as Vermont's education commissioner.

Since 1995, the National Equity Project (formerly BayCES) has supported educators and other leaders in over 100 schools in dozens of districts.

Dr. Elliot was committed to increasing the high school and college graduation rate among students who lived in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, where she had served as an educator since 1986.

Since 1918, the Boston University School of Education has maintained a dual commitment to preparing highly qualified educators and advancing research and scholarship.

«Perhaps [this is] to keep [educators] from talking about how the legislature has shortchanged Arizona's school kids by hundreds of millions of dollars since the recession, and how the legislature is still making it nearly impossible for many districts to take care of even [schools»] most basic needs.»

A retired educator since 2015, Tuntstall served the Trenton Public School system as a teacher, assistant principal, assistant superintendent and principal.

Since everyone experienced schooling in their own way, and often in a traditional setting, educators» ideas are diverse and every teacher has their own «movies of the mind» as to how a student's educational experience should look like.

Since then, a steady stream of parents living within different school zones has lobbied along with educators to become charter schools focusing in areas like the fine arts, technology, math and science or international studies, said Gordon Higgins, a district spokesman with decades of education experience.