Sentences with phrase «through urban teachers»

Kathleen Kennedy is an adjunct clinical faculty member at Lesley University through Urban Teachers in Washington, DC.

Through the Urban Teacher Center, Eric earned a teaching license in elementary education, special education, middle school math, and two master's degrees in education.

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The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

The researchers focused on data from 1,680 teachers in 200 urban schools, along with their more than 50,000 students in grades six through nine.

New efforts aim to head off teacher biases by running preservice students through simulations or embedding them in urban neighborhoods.

Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person) teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give students access to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.

I was sold by HGSE's focus on urban education, the support they provide preservice teachers through mentoring, and its renowned faculty in the field of education and school reform.

Arguing «there is just no doubt that one of the central problems in improving urban schools — arguably the central problem — is the problem of teacher resistance,» he critiques the progressive expectation that teachers can eventually be coaxed along through evidence on two key counts: first, it presumes that reformers and teachers share the same aims and metrics, and second, it presumes that reformers can marshal the evidence to convince the holdouts.

For Sale: Houses Half Price for Teachers Teachers can purchase homes for 50 percent off the list price through a Housing for Urban Development (HUD) program called Teacher Next Door.

Serving in that role through 2005 exposed Bersin to the interaction among administrators, teachers, and students as well as to the theory, policy, and practice of urban public education.

Research papers at the Urban Academy go through multiple revisions before students and teachers alike consider them complete.

The typical research paper at the Urban Academy, for example, will go through multiple revisions before the student and his or her teacher consider it complete.

HTH — with its emphasis on integrating academic and technical education through project - based learning — attracts a number of people like Duffy with «deep content knowledge who had very successful academic careers and wanted to work in an urban school at a time of profound teacher shortage,» says founding principal Larry Rosenstock.

These students are drawn to TEP for its focus on urban public education and its commitment to creating a more just and equitable society through better teachers and better schools.

The urban areas primarily targeted by choice - based reforms are suffering through a prolonged teacher shortage.

And it offers financial rewards to urban school districts that improve performance through initiatives like merit pay for teachers.

Most recently she was invited by Gardner - Webb faculty to become involved with the Urban Educators Leadership Collaborative (UELC) through Teachers College at Columbia University, NY.

Prior to her current role, Cara conducted research and evaluation at Urban Teachers as a Strategic Data Fellow through the Center for Education Policy Research.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

He remembers Rhee saying that, through the years in urban districts, teachers» ratings have increased as student achievement has declined.

We recruit talented college graduates and career changers that have the WILL and DESIRE to transform urban education through teaching; and provide them with the tailored preparation and training new teachers need to make an immediate impact within urban schools and urban classrooms.

Through ongoing coaching, participating in professional learning communities that deepen and expand their instructional tool kits, and in the completion of their Master's in Urban Education through Park University, the Resident Graduates will leave the three - year commitment as highly effective teachers that are making transformative gains for their stThrough ongoing coaching, participating in professional learning communities that deepen and expand their instructional tool kits, and in the completion of their Master's in Urban Education through Park University, the Resident Graduates will leave the three - year commitment as highly effective teachers that are making transformative gains for their stthrough Park University, the Resident Graduates will leave the three - year commitment as highly effective teachers that are making transformative gains for their students.

Through 2013, Talia was a Program Officer in Urban Education and the Senior Manager of STEM Teacher Initiatives at Carnegie Corporation of New York.

AUSL got its start in 2001 by creating an innovative urban teacher residency program (the Chicago Teacher Residency) and were learning that real, sustainable and transformative change would come only through whole - school improteacher residency program (the Chicago Teacher Residency) and were learning that real, sustainable and transformative change would come only through whole - school improTeacher Residency) and were learning that real, sustainable and transformative change would come only through whole - school improvement.

He went on to earn a masters degree in urban education from Loyola Marymount University and completed coursework through the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE).

In addition, Weiner noted that in his experience, the urban public schools he has worked with through the program have had passionate teachers and administrators with a strong sense of purpose.

A new federal program could be funded through the Department of Education and administered by AmeriCorps, which already provides grants to residency programs run by nonprofit organizations, such as the Memphis Teacher Residency and Urban Teachers.

One of the most prominent of these programs is the Relay Graduate School of Education — a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First — that trains its aspiring teachers through «teacher - in - residence» programs, mostly at urban charter schools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other charters.

Urban education through teacher residency programs adapts the medical residency model to teacher preparation.

Through a rigorous and purposeful year - long apprenticeship program patterned after a medical residency model, Dallas Teacher Residency is a district - based teacher education program that pairs master's level education content with a rigorous full - year classroom apprenticeship with trained mentor teachers in urban clasTeacher Residency is a district - based teacher education program that pairs master's level education content with a rigorous full - year classroom apprenticeship with trained mentor teachers in urban clasteacher education program that pairs master's level education content with a rigorous full - year classroom apprenticeship with trained mentor teachers in urban classrooms.

Despite the high interest in urban education and educational equality among Yale students, most «Yalies» (i.e. Yale students) who enter the classroom end up doing so through alternative teaching programs, favoring these programs over employment options in district schools with traditional recruitment tactics and teacher preparation programs.

Each year, Teach For America places more than 5,000 pre-K — 12th grade teachers in high - need rural and urban schools across the United States through a network of 53 regional centers.

As a teacher in a low - income urban school district, if I refinance / consolidate my loans through sofiu, would I lose the ability to get loan forgiveness for working in the public sector?