Sentences with phrase «teachers across the country how»

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A couple of months ago I shared about how Staples and Katy Perry are working to support teachers across the country.

My Healthy School Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental toxins.

Across the country, teachers are grappling with how their roles have expanded, from educator and counselor to bodyguard and protector.

In an effort to make retrieval practice a common strategy in classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning.

True Empathy Huffington Post, November 26, 2013 «Across the country, empathy is now being heralded as a key part of the answer, and many parents and teachers are being told how to develop it in children.

The problem of how to attract and hang on to talented new teachers has dogged school districts across the country.

She and 15 others chosen for the honor organized more than 200 roundtable discussions attended by more than 3,000 teachers across the country, seeking their views on an Obama administration proposal to change how teachers are recruited, prepared, licensed, supported, promoted, and compensated.

Educators across the country are faced with ethical dilemmas every day and, as one teacher shares in her first year teaching at a large urban school, they don't always know how to respond.

«How could we support teachers across the country from one office in Brookline?»

The survey was conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research for the Trust as part of their Teachers Voice Omnibus survey to highlight how budget cuts are affecting schools across the country.

Why Schools Matter also fails to discuss — mostly because it was not included in the TIMSS surveys — how teachers» knowledge and skills differed across countries and what effect that might have on achievement.

Joel Rose: Teach to One: Math is a math program adopted by leading middle and high schools across the country that enables teachers to personalize what, when, where, and how their students learn each day.

Discover how K - 12 students and teachers from across the country are using virtual technology to create enhancements to their learning experiences and new success in their lives.

We are able to pull information from other teachers across the country to see how things have worked for them.

Public school systems across the country have been re-thinking how they describe instructional excellence and let teachers know when they've achieved it,» said Tom Kane, Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and leader of the MET project.

Teachers at O'Keeffe — and across the country — are still figuring out how to teach the standards.

This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.

With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, WestEd is exploring how teachers make decisions about which instructional materials to use in their classrooms to inform efforts aimed at improving the quality and consistency of instructional materials across the country.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

And, since we haven't yet figured out how to clone our best teachers, a few schools around the country are trying something like it: Stretching them across multiple classrooms.

At a time when teacher shortages are being reported in states across the country, this finding could impact how school districts plan to retain their teachers.

Teachers and administrators from across the country will gather for four days to re-imagine assessment and accountability, learn how to use performance assessments to drive deeper learning for all students, and develop materials and strategies they can implement in their schools and districts.

An electronic survey was distributed to alumni across the country to gather a broad base of teachers» perspectives on the relevance and practice of arts integration in the classroom, and how they understand the impact this practice has on their students.

Clegg is expected to add: «We're asking teachers across the country to take a long hard look at how they spend their working day and what pointless processes and paperwork they think should be cut or scrapped altogether.»

Vergara, like it or not, pointed out a critical issue here in the state of California (and most likely across the country), how do we get our best teachers in front of our neediest students.

To learn more about teacher union bullying across the country, please read Heartland Institute researcher Joy Pullman's Bullying Teachers: How Teachers Unions Secretly Push Teachers and Competitors Around.

This kind of informational learning can be found in collaborative teacher teams in schools across the country as well: an ELA teacher team discusses incorporating a new book into the curriculum or a grade team learns how to use a new software program to input grades.

While some educators are very savvy about assessment and how best to use the results in their districts, schools, and classrooms, a lot of administrators and teachers across the country aren't so knowledgeable about it.

Watch these stories from real maths teachers and school leaders from across the country, talking about how Mathletics has made a significant impact in their schools.

Across the country, the debate over how best to evaluate teachers has emerged as the most polarizing education issue in recent memory.

«To suggest that education reform should be driven by how teachers get fired misses the reality of what's really happening across the country.»

As a new academic year begins, teachers across the country are looking at how to transform teaching and learning in their school or college over the year ahead.

Independent of the California ruling, teacher union leaders across the country have left no doubt how they feel about the role of parent as teacher.

As teachers across the country demand higher pay, here's how much salaries have stalled — and why it matters for kids is from Chalkbeat.

MABE and the National School Boards Association (NSBA) agree that ESSA provides a historic opportunity for school boards across the country to help shape how this law will impact their schools, teachers and students.

It bought together union leaders, teachers and ministers from high performing countries to talk about how do you elevate and enhance the teaching profession across the world?

Based on years of on - the - ground experience in states, districts, and schools across the country, Insight ADVANCE has developed a suite of products that connects self - reflection, coaching and peer collaboration, observation, and evaluation in one place to permanently impact how all educators involved in teacher growth are supported.

The strike has attracted national attention because school systems across the country are grappling with how best to evaluate their teachers, with many moving toward systems that link teacher performance to student test scores.

Across the country, dozens of states and school districts have proposed or instituted changes in the way they evaluate teachers to take into account how much their students improve on standardized tests.

Beyond that, the strike is based on union discontent with sensible policy changes — including the teacher evaluation system required by Illinois law — that are increasingly popular across the country and are unlikely to be rolled back, no matter how long the union stays out.

Her story opens a rare window into the revolution in how teachers across the country are increasingly appraised — a mix of human observation and remorseless algorithm that is supposed to yield an authentic assessment of effectiveness.

Slonaker also oversees PPLM parent education workshops that teach parents how to communicate with their children about sex and relationships, and PPLM's professional training programs designed for teachers, nurses, and social workers across the country.

The Missing Piece: A National Teacher Survey on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Empower Children and Transform Schools reveals that teachers across the country understand that SEL is critical to education and want quality SEL for their students.