Sentences with phrase «school literacy leaders»

While NCTE's online Investigations are great professional learning experiences for individual teachers, school literacy leaders are finding these to be a great resource for professional learning efforts they lead in their school as well.

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Schools all over the U.S. offer classes on topics such as wood work and auto mechanics, but not investing, so the question becomes how to educate future leaders on the importance of financial literacy.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

«She's a strong leader — both here on campus as the director of the Language and Literacy Program and in the field through her ongoing collaborations with Boston and Cambridge Public Schools.

But a school devoted to literacy ought to envision more than just sustained, quiet, independent reading, suggests Snow, who leads an intensive mini-course this month at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn toschool devoted to literacy ought to envision more than just sustained, quiet, independent reading, suggests Snow, who leads an intensive mini-course this month at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn toSchool of Education on what education leaders need to know about how kids learn to read.

Hannah Young, PE Subject Leader at Morley Victoria Primary School near Leeds, says: «SPIRALPE ™ lesson plans are practical and well thought out and provide lots of opportunities for children to repeat and progress tasks to develop their physical literacy.

The training develops subject leaders» literacy pedagogy and equips literacy leaders with tools for the audit, evaluation, monitoring and implementation of literacy strategies in their school.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Each school site has recruited a cohort of 12 to 20 Student Technology Leaders, who are trained by Gen YES on technology literacy.

From her early passion for literacy as a middle school Humanities teacher to her current work in developing leaders, common themes in City's work are collaboration, evidence - based discussion, asking the right questions, thinking and acting strategically, and learning through doing.

School leaders recognize the need for literacy instruction to become a schoolwide priority — in all courses, not just English and the humanities.

Here are some steps educators, parents, community leaders, librarians, and others can take to bring media literacy to homes and schools.

Community music leaders guest - taught our band classes, a plant scientist showed me how to prune trees, and my literacy class read stories to the nearby elementary school.

Our Annual Literacy Review for Primary supports literacy leaders to review their school's current literacy provision and develop an action plan for moving Literacy Review for Primary supports literacy leaders to review their school's current literacy provision and develop an action plan for moving literacy leaders to review their school's current literacy provision and develop an action plan for moving literacy provision and develop an action plan for moving forward.

The Literacy Guide for Schools 2016/17 aims to support teachers and leaders of literacy to bridge the gap between research and practice by drawing together key updates across all areas of the English curLiteracy Guide for Schools 2016/17 aims to support teachers and leaders of literacy to bridge the gap between research and practice by drawing together key updates across all areas of the English curliteracy to bridge the gap between research and practice by drawing together key updates across all areas of the English curriculum.

This class offered a realistic case study of a school in the midst of literacy reform and walked through the thought process any leader could use to determine what to do next to support that school's progress.

I am a teacher and literacy program leader at a small, rural school in Ontario, Canada, with 14 years of teaching experience both in the classroom and on e-learning platforms.

This bundle is a great investment for school leaders and literacy co-ordinators to support teachers in teaching classic poetry eel across the school.

Its goal is to establish adolescent literacy initiatives with measurable goals, and it funds curriculum materials, instructional tools, and intensive high - quality professional development for teachers, literacy coaches, and school leaders.

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

Morton's view is shared by leaders in many other states, where thousands of Reading First elementary schools have reported unprecedented progress closing the «literacy gap» among the poor.

They come here looking for research - based practices to enhance their instruction and help them serve as literacy leaders in their schools.

School - based curriculum and pedagogy initiatives led by teacher leaders include Read It, Speak It, Write It (Early Years Literacy), Growth Mindset Project, Vocab and Spelling Project, Oral Language Project, and a Reading Program.

Included in Education Week's lineup of print editions are three high - profile annual reports — Quality Counts, Technology Counts, and Leaders To Learn From — and a mix of popular reports on such subjects as literacy instruction, personalized learning, student assessment, school principals, and teacher professional development.

S. (2007) Transformation and emotional literacy: The role of school leaders in developing a caring community Leading and Managing 13 (1) 16 - 30

They will explore the «why» of literacy planning, identify expected outcomes, and review commonalities all school leaders should consider when planning literacy professional development.

Well - intentioned school leaders want to ensure that poor, minority children get what they need to improve their reading scores and have been told that helping such students requires direct and explicit teaching of literacy skills.

District leaders across the country are recognizing that religious literacy not only counters anti-Muslim bias — it makes schools safer for everyone.

After teaching in the Chicago public schools, Hancock worked as a teacher, teacher leader, curriculum specialist, literacy specialist, middle school assistant principal, and elementary school principal in Rochester, N.Y..

Provide meaningful, job - embedded, and on - going professional development programs for school leaders and teachers on literacy education.

She also provides direct support to teachers, coaches and school and district leaders in secondary literacy instruction and coaching.

Targeted for: District and Site Administrators, ELD and Literacy Coaches, ELD and Content Teacher Leaders, Elementary school level teams planning and implementing integrated thematic units with ELD

We provide coaching for district and school leaders on how to improve literacy programs in low - performing, high - poverty schools.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said financial literacy is already studied as part of citizenship, PSHE and maths.

LDC has given me more confidence as a teacher - leader in our school and a vocabulary to coach and guide our literacy and curriculum goals.»

All the leaders — including central office personnel, the superintendent, and school principals — took their turn at demonstrating the new literacy strategies in classrooms.

From 1997 to 2001, Island was the 4th grade team leader for Martin L. King Experimental Laboratory School in Evanston, IL, where she took on the roles of Language Arts district representative, School Literacy Committee member, Teachers as Readers Committee member, a Sisterhood Project mentor and coordinator of Battle of the Books inter-school competition.

Because of the overuse of suspensions, teachers and school leaders are not dealing with the acting out in which children struggling with literacy tend to engage because of their fear of admitting that they can't read.

Rick Stiggins is the founder and retired president of the Assessment Training Institute (ATI), a professional development company created and designed to provide teachers, school leaders, policy makers, and communities with the assessment literacy they need to face the assessment challenges that pervade American education today.

On the personal knowledge development level, Hillman says principal training in interactive read - alouds, writing practices, guided reading, and similar skills, which are offered by the Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their literacy instruction in their schools.

District 180 would employ three Education Recovery Directors, who would be responsible for managing teams of one Education Recovery Leader (a mentor to the principal) and two Education Recovery Specialists (one each in mathematics and literacy) for each persistently low - performing school.

The challenge, say organizations such as the Literacy Collaborative at The Ohio State University, lies in equipping school leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to provide informed support and instructional feedback to teachers.

With a committed school board investing energy and money into a sweeping literacy imitative, district leaders and CEL went to work getting the whole system smarter about powerful, equitable reading and writing instruction.

She is also a writing instructor to writers ages 6 - 18 and professional development program leader for in - school teachers at Writopia Lab, a national literacy nonprofit.

Dr. Wisniewski is a former research and consulting director at McREL International, and frequently works with teachers and school and district leaders on multitiered systems of support, professional learning, literacy, culturally responsive instruction, and social emotional learning to enhance leadership, teaching, and student equity outcomes.

From 1997 to 2001, Island Childress was also the 4th grade team leader for Martin L. King Experimental Laboratory School in Evanston, IL, where she took on the roles of Language Arts District Representative, School Literacy Committee member, Teachers as Readers Committee member, and Sisterhood Project mentor.

Suggested individual or study team activity: Identify specific unsound or unwise assessment policies that seem to reflect a lack of assessment literacy in the policymakers who set them (legislators, school board members, school leaders, faculty, etc.).

This book explores the importance of effective classroom assessment to student achievement and the role of school leaders to model and spark positive change through building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more.

First, despite findings from existing and emerging research for educational effectiveness in terms of instructional effectiveness and its impact on teaching and learning, there is a disturbing level of ignorance among school leaders and teachers at all levels of educational provision related to what works and why — especially as they relate to the teaching of literacy and numeracy.

State education agencies (SEAs) need to be aware that good assessment literacy among teachers and school leaders may provide the most leverage to influence the complex endeavor of school improvement.