Sentences with phrase «which challenges educators»

On Friday, March 13th, Facing History and Ourselves and Project Zero hosted the third annual Day of Learning, a symposium which challenges educators and students to delve into key social justice questions behind the presence of oppression in our world.

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As a result, fewer undergraduate nursing students experience caring for women who choose physiologic birth, which presents a challenge for nurse educators and implications for preparing students to provide appropriate care for all childbearing women after the students graduate.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

I'm a certified nutrition coach, speaker, educator and chef with a long history of my own hormonal challenges which resulted from a highly stressful life in advertising — starting from Graves» and Hashimoto's Disease (autoimmune conditions causing thyroid failure) to adrenal fatigue and estrogen dominance.

My name is Magdalena Wszelaki, I'm a certified nutrition coach, speaker, educator and chef with a long history of my own hormonal challenges which resulted from a highly stressful life in advertising — starting from Graves» and Hashimoto's Disease (autoimmune conditions causing thyroid failure) to adrenal fatigue and estrogen dominance.

ISEEN sees itself as «an international learning laboratory and networking opportunity through which independent school experiential educators and administrators can share their program challenges and successes, learn of and from model programs, and explore the developing role of experiential practices within our educational communities.»

She has been working with young people for the past ten years and founded The Educators» Lab, which supports teacher driven solutions to educational challenges.

We are also excited about our innovative teacher career ladder and professional development systems in which we recruit talented educators, provide them with opportunities to develop their craft, and retain them through formal recognition of their expertise, generous compensation, and a manageable yet challenging workload.

The team will be entering their plan in XQ: The Super School Project — the initiative spearheaded by Laurene Powell Jobs challenging educators and innovators to pitch plans for redesigning the American high school and which will award a $ 50 million prize over the next five years to five selected schools.

On top of the daily challenges of education, which include standards - based reform, pressing state and federal mandates, and high stakes accountability, the Meridian educators were facing a year of unfamiliarity in leadership considering a newly - hired superintendent and an administration that is approximately one - third new.

One might take the challenges faced by the consortia - designed assessments as evidence of the impossibility of creating meaningful standards for which educators and students can be held accountable.

And it will help if all the rest of us — even the curmudgeonly crew at Fordham — pause to thank today's hardworking educators for selfless, challenging, and not very well compensated work on which our kids» future and our country's prospects depend so heavily.

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

Reports of dismal standardized test scores headline those struggles, which have become the impetus for policymakers bent on reforming education in a city whose educators face many challenges.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to reconsider one of its important precedents on qualified immunity, which protects public officials such as educators and police officers from liability when their challenged actions did not violate clearly established law.

Educators and students recognize that this is neither engaging nor particularly effective; the best kinds of courses and programs involve both synchronous and asynchronous elements, which both elevate the level of engagement, and present new challenges.

For many middle and high school educators, bringing music into the classroom means lugging that old boom box out of storage and allowing kids to listen to some school - appropriate music, which can be quite challenging to find, while working on an art project.

Determining which concepts will be permanently left by the wayside is a challenge for many educators.

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.»

The challenge for teacher educators is to prepare beginning teachers to be able to shift away from «that which parades as inclusive schooling yet is clearly reluctant schooling» (p. 385) toward a differentiated model of instruction that continually seeks to leverage technologies, including digital technologies within various contexts and environments to enable students to learn to the best of their abilities.

As teacher educators, we can work alongside teachers as they navigate these challenges and determine which digital technology tools and resources are best aligned to disciplinary skills and support students» curriculum - based learning needs.

According to the Barbara Bush Foundation, which has established a competition challenging teams of developers, educators, engineers, and innovators to create mobile literacy learning applications for adult learners, 36 million U.S. adults lack basic English literacy.

Determining which concepts will be permanently left by the wayside is a challenge for most educators.

I challenge educators to go beyond the blended instructional methods of flipping the classroom or creating a station rotation model in which students are often given class assignments online to truly understanding learner profiles and personalizing the learning experience

An ongoing challenge for educators is figuring out which students with reading difficulties have a true learning disability and which ones can develop effective reading skills as a result of different reading instruction.

The challenge, which called upon educator teams across the country to create plans that detailed innovative uses for federal funding for professional learning and student outcomes under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), named the Hope Street Group State Teacher Fellow team of Trey Ferguson (NC), Cassie Reding (KY), Carly Baldwin (KY), Natalie Coleman (TN) and Debbie Hickerson (TN) as finalists.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

Educators say the state was slow to roll out rules for the system, which gives schools their first significant authority over spending since the late 1970s, when the state took over education funding after a taxpayer revolt and lawsuits challenging funding disparities.

Allison Zmuda's focus is to help every educator create a competent classroom — a learning environment where all participants believe it is possible for them to be successful — in which what teachers and students are expected to know and be able to do is challenging, feasible, and worthy of the attempt.

Each state determines the context in which they will involve educators in the testing of practices that address the specific curricular challenges the state decides to address.

These are contexts in which wise educators have long employed more challenging texts.

«It is our goal to give students across America a clear voice, which in turn helps educators and school leaders better understand and act on some of the biggest challenges facing their schools,» says YouthTruth Executive Director Jen Vorse Wilka.

The challenge is for coaches and teachers to make time for these reflective conversations, which can help them move beyond mere «eye tests» to identify effective teacher practice and focus on the intent of instruction — student learning — and become better educators and listeners for their students.

Ben Boyce comes from a long line of educators, which surely fuels his passion to educate the public on the most challenging issues facing San Diego and our state.

He understands that educators face unprecedented challenges and knows which strategies will best serve learning communities.

UDL can help educators anticipate challenges and map out multiple pathways of learning, which in turn helps their diverse group of students achieve a common set of learning goals and standards6.

Veteran educator Jeffrey Benson is the author of the forthcoming ASCD book, Hanging In: Strategies for Teaching the Students Who Challenge Us Most (Jan 2014), which is available for pre-order though the ASCD Online Store.

The Friedrichs case challenges the constitutionality of California's agency shop law, which forces public school educators to pay dues to a teachers union whether they want to or not.

Districts across the country are encouraging their educators to assess and test less which means designing effective and meaningful assessments to support instruction is all the more important and all the more challenging.

Setting measurable and appropriately challenging school goals helps educators achieve purposeful results — especially when the staff reaches consensus on which goals to set.

To challenge the labeling of students from minority groups as disabled, assessment must focus on (a) the extent to which children's language and culture are incorporated into the school program, (b) the extent to which educators collaborate with parents in a shared enterprise, and (c) the extent to which children are encouraged to use both their first and second languages actively in the classroom to amplify their experiences in interaction with other children and adults.

«There were also many changes to laws that prescribe educator evaluations and collective bargaining which means diminished rights for educators along with stiffer challenges - all part of the outcome to the 2011 Legislative Session.»

As a parent, carer or educator you are not expected to have the knowledge of a trained mental health clinician, however it can be helpful to understand the difference between normal displays of emotion and challenging behaviours and more unhelpful feelings and behaviours which may be representative of a mental health difficulty.

And also with some of those situations that really were very difficult, educators were able to come to peace with those challenges they had in the service, and work with them in a calm and supportive way because they had the mental health framework from which to support their thinking and practice.

This highly interactive session introduces early educators to a systematic method for examining challenging behavior in group environments and provides an introduction to the book Children with Challenging Behavior: Strategies for Reflective Thinking, which can be used as an ongoinchallenging behavior in group environments and provides an introduction to the book Children with Challenging Behavior: Strategies for Reflective Thinking, which can be used as an ongoinChallenging Behavior: Strategies for Reflective Thinking, which can be used as an ongoing resource.

Rosalind personally initiated International Child - Centered Divorce Month which is commemorated every January to remind parents, educators, divorce professionals and the media about the challenges faced every day by children of divorce.

Developed specifically for use with children with persistent or severe behavior problems, this book introduces educators to the systematic Positive Strategies method, which helps teachers understand why behaviors persist, prevent problem behavior, and replace challenging behaviors with better alternatives.

Australia's population is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse in the world, which presents a range of challenges and opportunities for early childhood educators who care for diverse groups of young children and their families.