Sentences with phrase «where leading educators»

«HGSE is known as a place where leading educators come to address the topics that matter most in education,» said Ryan.

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As an educator, Wendy is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, where she leads programs for business families and their advisors in the Business Families Centre.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

«If we are seeing this amount of variation in Texas, imagine what we would see in a state where the population is newer and educators have less experience serving immigrants and English learners,» said Madeline Mavrogordato, assistant professor of K - 12 educational administration and lead author.

As educators re-examine the purpose, relevance, and appeal of Back - to - School Night, Brenda Dyck describes a new model where students take the lead and adults step back and follow.

Start by asking yourself where racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are most present in the system in which you teach or lead other educators.

Adam returned to Summit in 2011 where, in his role as Chief Academic Officer, he leads Summit's Academics and R&D Team, which works tirelessly to ensure that students and educators across the nation have the tools and support they need to be empowered, self - directed learners.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

«So many people think that they can be only a consumer in relation to a computer, and not a producer,» says Karen Brennan, the guide's lead author and the developer of ScratchEd, an online community where Scratch educators can share resources and stories.

As an educator, my most powerful memories involve stories: interpersonal moments where I took the time to listen to someone and, in the process, transformed the relationship; and organizational moments, where I led my team to construct a new narrative about our work.

This is not only detrimental to student morale, but leads to a «data overload,» where educators have so much (often contradictory) data on each individual student that they don't know where to begin!

It's a familiar story: A child of educators aims for a different career from her parents only to realize that her path is leading her exactly where she thought it never would.

Voice of Experience: A New Spin On Back - to - School Night As educators re-examine the purpose, relevance, and appeal of Back - to - School Night, Brenda Dyck describes a new model where students take the lead and adults step back and follow.

Ellen Sherratt is deputy director of the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders where she led the support of 22 states» plans to ensure equitable access to excellent educators.

Prior to this role, Shaull also served as the Executive Director for Teacher and Leader Effectiveness where, along with a talented team of educators and national experts, she led the initial implementation of a comprehensive teacher evaluation system to accurately track teacher performance.

«My foray into the charter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive director.

However, we continue to think that teacher educators must teach the technology skills in the context of pedagogy and content, in methods courses and other courses where pedagogy and content are in the lead.

«We look forward to the opportunity to expand the base of support behind an approach where UTLA leads the fight for quality schools and respect for educators through powerful organizing and coalition - building,» Caputo - Pearl told LA School Report.

Leading Educators uses your contribution where it is needed most, helping us to reach more teacher leaders across the country.

The EduTECH Africa exhibition is where leading solution providers can showcase a wide range of technologies aimed at helping African educators make education more relevant in the 21st century.

This issue of Educational Leadership offers many hard - earned insights from leading educators and researchers about how effective teachers «meet students where they are.»

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

Following her public school career, Sheryl was the Director of Program Development for 6 + years at Committee for Children — a Seattle - based social enterprise — where she led the development of social and emotional learning programs that are acclaimed by research experts and used by educators in over 20 countries.

Dr. Saroja R. Warner, NBCT, is the Director of Educator Preparation Initiatives at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) where she directs initiatives that support state authorities to ensure educators enter the workforce ready to advance student learning, represent the demographic diversity of K12 students, and lead schools that support student achievement.

Read about the new groups formed by «teacherpreneurs» who are using social media to lead one another; the programs like PAR that empower educators to evaluate and support colleagues and improve practice; and the efforts in some areas where teachers manage whole schools.

The series examines work in an atmosphere partially dictated by numerous federal programs with different requirements, where educators have a strong say in leading their profession and student success is measured beyond test scores.

«The workshops integrate ASCD's expert - led on - site professional learning with best - selling books and bring best practices straight to schools, where any educator can access and benefit from the sessions.»

Basically, our strategy boils down to opening and growing awesome, educator - led schools in the places where they're needed the most.

Come along on our journey as we continue to support educators in creating sustainable and equitable learning environments where they can best learn, teach, and lead.

«Trainings like this, where NEA leads open discussions around the C.A.R.E themes, offer educators a forum to dig deep into the challenges in their schools.

Your resulting Path directs you to all the areas where your educators need bolstering, as well as supports you in leading by example.

She brought her passion for working with young children to become a national advocate and served as Executive Director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce where she led efforts to improve the quality of working conditions for educators in early learning settings.

We need right now a redirection for our schools, where Connecticut educators lead, decide, and create their own developmentally appropriate standards, meeting the diverse needs of the students.

In 2013, Carol became a founding Leading Educators fellow and served as a curriculum and instruction coach at Garrison Elementary School, where she also led their Teacher Leadership Initiative (TLI) program.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Doug & Maria DeVos Foundation, Leading Educators has recently expanded to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the first cohort of principals and teacher leaders began training in the summer of 2017.

Before joining the International Center, he was a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he worked with leading educators from around the country on improving our nation's high schools.

Confronted by the dominant attitude that demographics were destiny, a group of committed educators, led by Dacia Toll and Doug McCurry, set out on a mission to provide equal education access to all America's children and conceived of a school in which high expectations and strong student outcomes were the norm — where access to four - year college for low - income students and those of color was a right, not a privilege.

But when the school was closed by the Nazis, one of modernism's most influential educators relocated to North Carolina, where he became the head of Black Mountain College and lead its painting program from 1933 to 1949.

Led by Chinati educators during the academic year, 4Hers attend bi-monthly meetings in the Art Lab where they are exposed to the museum's collection and execute sustained studio projects in photography and visual art.

He has also led a notable career as an educator, teaching at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was professor and head of the Graduate Program in studio art from 2000 to 2006.

She initially joined Open Circle in 2013, where she led the organization's teacher development programming for four years, preparing educators to implement and integrate the Open Circle Curriculum in their classrooms.

Dr. Siegel's ability to make complicated concepts exciting as well as easy to understand has led him to be invited to address local, national and international organizations where he speaks to groups of educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy - makers, clergy and neuroscientists.

Kathy has worked at MOCSA (Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault) as a therapist and educator where she treated individual clients and led groups on a variety of topics involved with healing from Sexual Trauma.