Sentences with phrase «so schools and educators»

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Gesing and Demers started their careers as educators, so working with The Monarch School has special resonance for them.

So it is a case of agreeing to disagree and of seeking to reduce conflict by allowing educators to create distinctive schools and allowing parents to choose among those schools without financial penalty.

Educators who believe deeply in the mission of faith - based schooling should become consistent in translating it into every detail of school life, and doing so without apology.

The real issue is not the threat such projects pose to the authority of the home and school, but the fact that young people come to high school so dismally uninformed religiously by home and church that responsible educators feel obliged to take up the task.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

Many home educators belong to sports teams or play in orchestras, and are generally far more relaxed about these things than their schooled contemporaries because they have so much more time available — and less need to compete.

We educators can only do so much and we exhaust our emotional and financial stores each new school year.

The programme is so much in demand from schools that we have a higher number of requests for booking educational visits than we can currently accommodate and so advise educators to book their visit several months in advance to secure a place.

While the SAMs who are not educators have to learn how schools do business, both Poore and McCarthy said their SAMs fit in so easily that they even felt comfortable having them handle most of the student discipline referrals.

«We are so lucky to have one of the world's best teachers right here in the NSW public schools system and now we would like to see Eddie's magic rubbing off on our educators across the State,» Ms Berejiklian said.

Teens often struggle with the jargon and advanced terminology they encounter as they move into middle and high school, so educators have designed curricula and interventions that explicitly teach these complex words.

Leaders and educators could partner up to exchange their expertise and skills, so that children feel cared for in school and capable of achieving academic success outside of it.

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

So Kettle Moraine educators met before the beginning of the 2014 15 school year to review the previous year's test data and students» answers to school climate questions posed by the test.

I teach at Hsinchu International School, in Taiwan, so I thought that maybe I should write about what it means to be an international educator and then move on to a technology topic.

Parents and educators are so concerned about the levels of school absenteeism they have called for a whole of community campaign to ensure children attend class on every day of term.

Even so, parents» opinions affect their choices among schools as well as, likely, the political pressure they may exert on educators and policymakers.

So the film is about the struggles of educators to create a successful inner city school that changes lives, but it's also about the people in the community and about the human condition.

For schools and educators, how do we merge school programs and curriculum with student interest, passion, advocacy, and engagement when so much of their learning is happening beyond the walls of the school?

So the findings are very significant, and I mention that because these have yet to really drive policy across the United States and this is another example where good educators and then, in this case, good business people working together have really discovered a new element of a high school experience.

So when these top - flight schools decide that advanced honors courses in physics and chemistry are to be given the same weight in calculating a student's official grade point average (GPA) as any other course, including cooking, check - book balancing, and make - up algebra, it becomes ever so clear — once again — that the country's progressive educators have successfully pushed back the forces of school reforSo when these top - flight schools decide that advanced honors courses in physics and chemistry are to be given the same weight in calculating a student's official grade point average (GPA) as any other course, including cooking, check - book balancing, and make - up algebra, it becomes ever so clear — once again — that the country's progressive educators have successfully pushed back the forces of school reforso clear — once again — that the country's progressive educators have successfully pushed back the forces of school reform.

By so organizing and conceptualizing high schools, we underemphasize the need to provide secondary - school educators with incentives that are more like the incentives of their closer relative, college.

What the educators in those schools want to know are what are the right strategies and tactics to use so that blended learning boosts each student's fortunes?

Curriculum isn't what it ought to be partly because, as Merrow argues, our fixation on reading and math achievement has squeezed it, but also because it's been decentralized to individual districts and schools and because (as Hirsch has explained so often and well) the belief structure of most educators resists well - sequenced, knowledge - centric curricula.

As educators, it is our challenge to see that all students have opportunities to stimulate their developing executive function networks so when they leave school they have the critical skillsets to choose the career and life paths that will give them the most satisfaction.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Most everyone, from those who believe that teachers should earn more, so that the profession attracts the best and the brightest, to those who believe that union contracts are bankrupting American schools, while also leading to poorer educational outcomes, agrees that there is something wrong with the way our educators are paid.

Schools don't yet have reliable measures for how to develop and assess so - called «noncognitive» skills like these, although a number of researchers and educators are working on approaches, reflecting a growing recognition of their importance not just on labor market outcomes but on educational attainment.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

This generation of students presents a unique challenge to educators: How can schools continue to engage and teach children who have access to so much knowledge at their fingertips?

«You know, the educators in the prior - to - school settings and then first years of school, they're working within very different curricular and learning framework structures so opportunities for collaboration of learning experiences might not be feasible.

These days, King Middle School receives so many requests from educators and policy makers to tour and learn about its program that the school has developed a visitors» workshop and charges a registratioSchool receives so many requests from educators and policy makers to tour and learn about its program that the school has developed a visitors» workshop and charges a registratioschool has developed a visitors» workshop and charges a registration fee.

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.

The absence of trust in American schools requires educators to police our youth daily, and do so in the name of respect.

The state's charter law must support new and high - performing operators; the state's school finance system must provide equitable, student - based funding; facilities must be made available to new and growing schools; educator certification rules must fit the needs of successful schools; and so on.

It's run by BetterLesson, an organization that was started by a group of public school teachers from Boston and Atlanta who were frustrated that it was so hard to find and share great curriculum with other educators.

Also, most children are using the internet as a tool to complete school projects and learn new things outside of the classroom, so it's challenging for parents and educators to have it both ways.

But is it within the competence (not to mention the legal authority) of the federal government to solve those problems, or will their efforts to do so simply make things worse for educators, school leaders, and policymakers in the places that really matter?

First, Turning Points 2000 presents a much more detailed picture of what's needed in middle grades schools to achieve excellence and equity, so educators should have a much clearer on - the - ground idea of what needs to occur.

And both educators and the public who have so often been critical of education in recent years should also resist «the temptation to place more responsibility for moral education on the schools than these institutions can reasonably be expected to carry,» said Samuel M. Craver, professor of educationAnd both educators and the public who have so often been critical of education in recent years should also resist «the temptation to place more responsibility for moral education on the schools than these institutions can reasonably be expected to carry,» said Samuel M. Craver, professor of educationand the public who have so often been critical of education in recent years should also resist «the temptation to place more responsibility for moral education on the schools than these institutions can reasonably be expected to carry,» said Samuel M. Craver, professor of education...

School choice allows educators to shape a school that reflects their vision and values, so long as parents think the result is good for their child (and, for charters, so long as authorizers are okay with the outcSchool choice allows educators to shape a school that reflects their vision and values, so long as parents think the result is good for their child (and, for charters, so long as authorizers are okay with the outcschool that reflects their vision and values, so long as parents think the result is good for their child (and, for charters, so long as authorizers are okay with the outcomes).

So why are NCLB and its «external standards» so troubling to educators like me who work today in and for public schools like ParkeSo why are NCLB and its «external standards» so troubling to educators like me who work today in and for public schools like Parkeso troubling to educators like me who work today in and for public schools like Parker?

Staying in touch with colleagues, and colleagues staying in touch with HoDs and HoYs, is so important to educators who seek to stay up to date and work together to make the school perform well.

And while 83 percent of educators felt that they should provide a safe environment for their LGBTQ students — by displaying visible symbols of support or disciplining students for using homophobic language, for example — only half had taken action to do so, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that helps K — 12 schools create safe environments for LGBTQ studenAnd while 83 percent of educators felt that they should provide a safe environment for their LGBTQ students — by displaying visible symbols of support or disciplining students for using homophobic language, for example — only half had taken action to do so, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that helps K — 12 schools create safe environments for LGBTQ studenand Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that helps K — 12 schools create safe environments for LGBTQ students.

SchoolWorld matches schools so educators and students can teach and learn from one another.»

I've gathered a collection of videos and resources about design thinking in schools so you can see how other educators are using it.

School leaders and educators are using data from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) to identify the needs of young students so that they can better prepare them for future learning.

Overcrowding can therefore be a real problem for educators and school planners, more so than the size of the school per se.

In order for a makerspace to thrive within a school, district, or community, educators must prepare curricula so that projects built within the space are standards - aligned and link directly to the work that students are doing in their classroom.

RULER emphasizes systematic professional development for educators (school leaders, teachers, support staff) and families so that emotions become central to learning, teaching, and parenting.