Sentences with phrase «told education matters»

With 11 years as principal of one of South Australia's best performing schools, Brighton Secondary School, and more than 40 years of experience in secondary schools in Queensland and South Australia, O'Neill told Education Matters the award win is more a testament to the leaders she works with.

Bronwyn Johnstone, Principal of Capalaba State College in Queensland, told Education Matters that the article reinforces the fact that schools must reflect broader society, and that a healthy balance of genders of teachers has been shown to benefit students.

«That's a critical difference for us in terms of the agreed process, that it doesn't unfairly over-emphasise a particular data source, that it embraces a wide range of data sources, and teachers and principals cooperatively have developed an approach that will see those real - time issues built - in to whatever process is undertaken,» Bates told Education Matters magazine.

«What we wanted with the CIS [evaluation] was to really have a look at how we could measure whether we were developing global citizens and the degree to which the program in the school curriculum, and generally, was helping our students become international and intercultural,» Reddan told Education Matters magazine.

«You need to think about the beginning teacher from the pre-service teacher through to their first few years in the profession,» Cherednichenko told Education Matters.

Professional Development Manager at Cool Australia, Kirsty Costa, told Education Matters that state government investment in school sustainability initiatives has a significant impact on what is happening «on the ground» and that the Victorian Government's 10 - year investment in the ResourceSmart Schools program has seen over 1000 primary and secondary schools implement whole - school sustainability initiatives.

Although the perceived benefits of this funding model may indicate the education outcomes of schools can be lifted, Jo Anderson, Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the University of New England, has told Education Matters that the issue is more complex.

However, ACARA CEO Robert Randall told Education Matters many schools are very well placed to interpret assessment data — whether it is NAPLAN or school - based assessment data.

Dr Rice told Education Matters that the NAPLAN report can't identify what is happening at a school level, or the reasons behind the general lack of improvement in achievement.

Dr Bronwyn Hinz, Policy Fellow at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University, told Education Matters that some schools and parents have overemphasised the importance of the NAPLAN tests, which she says is not a high - stakes test.

Australian Parents Council Executive Director, Ian Dalton, told Education Matters parents were pleased with the move to online NAPLAN testing as it will provide the capacity for students to be tested according to their level of ability and faster availability of results means that remedial programs can be put into place more quickly.

Stephen Dinham, National President of the Australian College of Educators and Chair of Teacher Education and Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Melbourne, told Education Matters that there are two main reasons why the demands on the average primary school teacher had become untenable.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

Not exact matches

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

On one page, Gordis lauds Begin's father for telling his daughter to write on the Sabbath because getting an education, in his opinion, was a matter of life and death and justified violating the sanctity of the day.

However, this shows you how much brainwashing occurs throughout education where the people running schools and teaching in them are told that none of that matters and all that matters i

«What people are saying is focus on the things which really matter like the economy, welfare, education, crime and the NHS... and not get distracted by too many other issues,» he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.

When he broached the income inequality discussion, he framed it not as a matter of the very rich versus the very poor, but the zeroed in on the need to reform public education in the state, casting the teachers unions (generally supported by Democrats) as the villains in this telling.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

«Service learning is learning experientially through structured integration of service and subject matter that is part of a planned curriculum,» Moon told Education World.

At the end of the day, however, it doesn't tell us all that much about whether «size matters» in American secondary education.

With more members in more workplaces than any other union in the education sector, the National Education Union uses your experiences to influence government and employers on the issues that you tell us mateducation sector, the National Education Union uses your experiences to influence government and employers on the issues that you tell us matEducation Union uses your experiences to influence government and employers on the issues that you tell us matter most.

«We tend to bring people into this education space at all different levels, but we don't tell them that it's hard, we don't tell them that people are not going to like you, they are not going to respect you and that it doesn't matter what you wear, or how you present yourself at meetings, they are not going to listen to you.»

Making teachers a priority tells our kids that education matters and that Tennessee is going to do what it takes to attract and keep the best teachers right here.

You can tell the Illinois State Board of Education what matters to you on the issues above and more — go here to submit your comments by Friday, October 7, 2016.

The U.S. Department of Education's Teaching Matters newsletter tells readers that the E4E Teacher Policy Team paper «Principals Matter» provides insights on...

«I'm staying in education no matter what,» he told LA School Report before receiving his award Monday night.

«It goes against what we fundamentally believe in, which is that education and experience count and matter, regardless of who tells you it doesn't,» she said.

We'll explore communication and public relations techniques that will enable you to «tell your story» of how your board is making a difference, how your district is improving student achievement, and why public education matters in your community.

But no matter what the outcome, this represents a very important step in the growing debate over education policy in California,» Dan Schnur, director of the USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times Poll, told reporters.

In a letter seen by Schools Week in September, schools minister Lord Nash said that any final decisions about the outsourcing would be for Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to decide, despite the fact Dominic Herrington, the former director of the DfE's academies group and now South East England and South London Regional Schools Commissioner, had told MPs in February that it was a matter for the board of trustees, not the DfE.

The education secretary told the Conservative Party Conference that the policy would aim to give children «the best start in life, no matter what their background», and would focus initially on intervention in Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough, and West Somerset, before expanding to four more areas in the «coming months».

Other tidbits of information in the article, such as «17 % said they have no idea of the proper age to spay / neuter» and «42 % of people who recently got a pet did no prior research, formal or informal» tell me that the crux of the matter is still education or rather, the lack thereof.

What this tells me is that the crux of the matter is still owner education, or rather the lack thereof.

This all came about due to a very good friend of mine telling me that no matter what my background was in IT it was impossible for someone to make a video game by themselves and Certain Family Members telling me that it was also impossible due to the lack of a formal education in Game Design..

At the same time, we liked the alternative title, «Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th - Century American Art», because it broadens the discussion, expanding it from matters of connoisseurship, patronage, and class to larger stories relating to egalitarianism and education, social transformation and conflict, and idealism and reality.

But no matter where you stand on the education spectrum, the fact that you are reading this article tells me that you may be an excellent candidate for divorce mediation.