Sentences with phrase «voice of educators in»

Throughout the reauthorization process, NEA's focus has been threefold: decouple standardized testing from high - stakes decisions, create an «opportunity dashboard» to help close opportunity gaps in needy schools and elevate the voices of educators in the policymaking process.

And we amplify the voices of the educators in our community — they are the experts.

I started a teacher voice blog to promote the voices of educators in my community, naming it Bluff City Education after one of Memphis» nicknames.

Amplify the voices of educators in efforts to influence policy and practice.

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A great deal of what we need to do as Catholic educators, in other words, is to redress the balance not by overturning English curricula as currently instituted but by refusing to allow the Catholic voice to be expunged altogether.

Each of the voices in this conversation brings a breadth of experience, research, and knowledge — and BOND is a tremendous opportunity to bring it all together: research on infant / early child development, attachment, sociology, public health, education, the experience of medical professionals, pediatric support professionals, educators, volunteer, and manufacturers, and of course, our collective minds and skills as a service community working to strengthen human bonding and family health.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

Mulgrew said that he has gone on the record in opposition to the current system of mayoral control, which shuts out the voices of parents, educators and community members.

New York's political world is remembering Maurice «Mickey» Carroll, the voice of the Quinnipiac University Poll since 1995, and a longtime journalist and educator, who died today in his family home in Convent Station, NJ, after a short illness.

That's why we launched the Voice of Organized Independent Childcare Educators (VOICE) statewide in 2003, under the umbrella of CSEA,» said Darcel Leone a Suffolk County child care provider.

«What's striking in these numbers is that a few dozen Wall Street financiers and billionaire hedge fund managers are able to far outspend more than 600,000 educators who believe in the promise of public education and voluntarily give a few bucks out of each paycheck to ensure they have a voice,» said Carl Korn, NYSUT's spokesman.

«We are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing NY standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» said Karen Magee, President of NYSUT.

Members of Connecticut's largest teachers» union will be rallying in support overhauling the state's education system and urging lawmakers to include voices from educators in the debate over Governor Dannel P. Malloy's education proposals.

Also, each paperback is authored by one or two educators who speak (and blog, tweet, etc.) with a credible voice in the world of connected education.

As recently as three years ago, some of the biggest voices in the connected educator spaces (those educators on the major social networks and blogs) said that we couldn't have authentic conversations online.

To help schools harness the power of youth voice and make e-safety learning fun and effective, Childnet is inviting schools to join its youth leadership programme to train young people to be peer educators in their school community.

In their work, educators sustain the curiosity of young people, also supporting their development of empathy, learning agency and voice as they develop the competencies of lifelong learning.

Although many of these methods point to real qualitative areas for growth, we also know they simply can't replace the voice and direct guidance of the educator in the classroom.

In order to elevate educator voices in global education debates, we need to help students embrace this new style of communication — one that is coherent, succinct, and most importantly, attuned to our flagging attention spanIn order to elevate educator voices in global education debates, we need to help students embrace this new style of communication — one that is coherent, succinct, and most importantly, attuned to our flagging attention spanin global education debates, we need to help students embrace this new style of communication — one that is coherent, succinct, and most importantly, attuned to our flagging attention spans.

Richard Colvin has written for Education Next about Leading Educators and other organizations that try to increase the voice of teachers in policymaking.

As a result, as educators, «we have a somewhat quiet crisis of content,» Perkins writes, «quiet not for utter lack of voices but because other concerns in education tend to muffle them.»

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and comEducators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and comeducators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and comeducators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

As students are claiming their rightful place in today's ongoing dialogues on gun control and school safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurrence.

It's an invigorating week for many educators, who go through a wide range of acting exercises — from throaty vocal warm - ups to improvising characters in a royal court during Shakespeare's Twelfth Night — in order to discover how gesture and voice enhance a stage persona.

L&T is a full - time, one - year graduate program that prepares teachers and educators of all stripes to have a stronger voice in the design and impact of their organizations.

The report expressed the AFT's apprehensions about the design, content, and potential for punitive use of assessments and vowed to ensure that educators continue to have a «significant voice» in implementation of the standards.

Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

One most important target is good quality education, in which educators and community members are also learners, children, adolescents, youths have their voices heard, and all of them can act as change agents, as active citizens.

This week, educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

In my book The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation, I offer a reframing of data that encourages educators to treat human experience, and particularly student voice, as sources of data, which I divide into three levels.

Expanding collective bargaining for teachers to more states and to more education issues will give educators greater voice, and in so doing, indirectly strengthen the voice of students.

In this case study, educators at Queensland's Bribie Island State School share details of a distributive leadership model that not only builds teacher leadership capacity but also increases community voice.

Using PBL, educators can encourage students to have a voice and choice in what and how they learn so they can take ownership of their learning.

This book examines the emergence of «student voice» at one high school in the San Francisco Bay area where educators went straight to the source and asked the students to help.

Richard Colvin wrote about teacher voice organizations in «Taking Back Teaching: Educators organize to influence policy and their profession,» which appears in the Spring 2013 issue of Education Next.

Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more strategically to retain experienced teachers and make a difference in the lives of students.

We also invited white educators, because it is rare for them to be in a space full of Black male educators and they need to hear our voices.

With the goal of creating 20,000 new seats in innovative schools of choice by 2024, we believe that sharing the voices of families in Idaho's many communities can help our schools, educators, and policy leaders increase access to great learning opportunities in the communities with the greatest need for better school options.

Joanna is committed to public education and collaborates with organizations such as Hope Street Group and the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) to include educator voice in policy discussions.

These young educators are building networks of support, growing their skillset, and raising their voices as leaders in their profession and their union.

Join us as we celebrate the educators who have advocated fiercely to increase teachers voices in the policy - making process of the education system.

We Connect: CO ASCD connects your voice with the entire community of P - 20 educators in Colorado and around the world.

If you are teacher, school support staff, administrator, or someone who supports educators having a voice in the policy decisions that impact their classrooms, sign our Declaration of Teachers» Principles and Beliefs.

Jenisha «Jay» Fair, Physical Education Teacher CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, NEVADA «I am involved because I want to use my voice — as a young educator — to advocate for my students [and] raise awareness about the importance of social justice in every classroom at every school,» says Jenisha «Jay» Fair of her involvement with the union.

Critically, if we legislate this issue in haste, the voice of educators will be left out of this decision.

He said, «The charters are specifically looking for educators who have not had the experience of being in a union, which means that, by and large, they're looking for teachers who may find it more challenging to raise their voice about curriculum or school conditions.»

CO ASCD's efforts to support teacher voice in education decision making include hosting online conversations with policymakers (see Education Issues in Focus at www.coascd.org), conducting policy summits, inviting policymakers and educators to write policy - related blogs or articles for our newsletter, connecting with other organizations in the state that promote education advocacy (for example, Commissioner Anthes» Teacher Cabinet http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdecomm/teachercabinet), providing information about policy priorities in Colorado (for example, State Board of Education priorities (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/sbe2017legpriorities), and participating in ASCD education advocacy activities.

August 13, 2014 (Minneapolis)-- Educators 4 Excellence - MN, a teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in policy discussions, called for four key changes to Minnesota's decade - long implementation of Quality Compensation (Q Comp).

Yet, as conversations across America intensified about how to ensure that we have great teachers in every classroom, the diverse voices of educators were being left out of those conversations.

Missing from both platforms is the voice of Black people who choose charter schools, students who are well served by them, educators who work in them, or staff working in education philanthropies that support them.