She has spent the better part of her career as an educator designing, launching, and growing new schools — including, very many years ago, a small, innovative secondary school in the South Bronx, where she served as a founding teacher, assistant principal, and, ultimately, principal; and more recently, in her role as Senior Director at Springpoint, as an advisor to partners and design teams across the country who were charged with developing and launching new
secondary school concepts.
Not exact matches
A new National Academies» report on science in U.S. elementary and
secondary schools elevates the importance of teaching engineering
concepts in the classroom.
Educators are increasingly embracing the
concept of team, however, in most
secondary schools teams are driven by common subject matter and not common students.
This year, Demo Day is on Thursday 19 March and we want to inspire
secondary school teachers and technicians to explore new
concepts, provoke discussions and generate excitement through running science demonstrations.
It is this simple
concept which is implemented throughout Guiseley
Secondary School, in Leeds.
According to the goals outlined by the district's multi-million dollar
Secondary Schools Reform plan, the academies will offer more personalized instruction to students and will give students more chances to apply academic
concepts to the real world.
For one, education
schools and elementary and
secondary schools have not done enough to promote the science of learning to educators — or the public — and a number of teacher education
schools continue to push the idea of learning styles and other inaccurate
concepts about learning.9
How do you help students in
Secondary School understand the
concepts of probability to enable them solve problems associated with probability using metacognitive strategies?
ASCD endorses the
concept of professional development centers: public elementary and
secondary schools at which professional training and development is a major focus.
Why hasn't the
concept of
secondary reading — also known as «reading and writing across the curriculum» and «content - area reading and writing» — become better rooted in our
schools?
The objectives of the capstone technology course are that the preservice teachers will learn to employ computer - based technologies for analyzing mathematical content from
secondary school curricula; that they will design, present, and assess the effectiveness of technology - enhanced mathematical learning activities; and that they will analyze mathematical content from
secondary school curricula to interrelate topics, construct critical
concepts, discover why relationships exist, discover why certain algorithms work, and apply useful topics to address real - life problems.