Sentences with phrase «white educators in»

Many worry that middle - class white educators in particular lack the cultural understanding that could help them work more compassionately with poor black and brown students.

In one common scenario, a white educator in a suburban school stands in front of a classroom that has one or two or maybe a handful of students of color, surrounded by white students.

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In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than gradeIn their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than gradein fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Board of Health wants to recognize volunteers whose time and talents this past year made outstanding contributions to public health in Westchester, and encourages community leaders, educators, health prof

White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilWhite educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilwhite children.

Mavrogordato and Rachel White, a MSU doctoral candidate in education policy, observed eight Texas elementary schools while educators conducted annual meetings required to determine the status of English learners.

There are tremendous resources available to us from books to blog posts, videos to white papers that will support an educator to learn about, identify different models of, and seek to begin to utilize blended learning in their practice.

Assistant Professor Jocelyn Chadwick will visit the White House today to participate in the Salute to American Authors Series, which gathers scholars and educators around discussions of the country's great writers.

President Barack Obama stands with educators and students in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 23, 2011 as he speaks about details to give states waivers from requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

The results provided some bragging rights for states like Massachusetts and Connecticut, but in general educators found little new or especially alarming in this report, with the possible exception of the persistent disparity between white and African - American students.

Nearly every student in America has learned something since a jury virtually exonerated four white police officers accused of severely beating the black motorist Rodney G. King and rioters took to the streets in Los Angeles, educators said last week.

In autumn 2014, the White House Education Game Jam invited developers, educators, students, and academics to participate.

Bending to pressure from several parents» and educators» groups, Mayor Kevin H. White instructed his commissioner of consumer affairs and licensing, Joanne Prevost, to place an immediate moratorium on the licensing of such games while the city ponders a «comprehensive plan» to address the «unregulated proliferation of video games and pinball machines» in Boston.

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A 2013 white paper noted that the existing progress reports» overreliance on state tests meant that «some educators have felt pressure to engage in test prep, narrowing the curriculum,» and that «finding the right balance of multiple measures is critical.»

She asserts that white, liberal educators who value student - centered pedagogy and soft, conversant, negotiated power end up alienating and confusing children who are used to explicit instructions and assertive, strong authority figures, a parenting style more common in the black community.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

The current reality is that most education reporters have more in common, racially and otherwise, with educators (still mostly white, college - educated women), and with well - educated parents who are making decisions about their own children's education.

These steps, along with the dedication of educators and families, have produced great results,» White said in a statement.

During a White House ceremony honoring educators ahead of next week's National Teacher Appreciation Week, President Trump presented Mandy Manning, from Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, WA with...

In the time since, White has worked to unify the state's fragmented early childhood system, to modernize curriculum, to professionalize the preparation of educators, to provide pathways to prosperity for all high school graduates, and to provide families with expansive school options irrespective of their financial means.

#Armmewith is the Twitter campaign from educators in response to the White House suggesting teachers should carry guns.

«Meaning in the years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans students and educators achieved an effect that is almost half the size of the black - white gap in this country,» he added.

«If I am fortunate enough to be elected president, educators will have a partner in the White House, and you'll always have a seat at the table.»

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.

In Chicago Public Schools (CPS), black educators typically earn their master's degree 3.5 years later than white educators, and those black educators who climb the leadership ranks do so five years later than their white colleagues.

«Today, the White House Summit validates the hard work of school board members, students, parents and educators in Rochester City and Hillsborough County, and other districts that have played a leading role in using technology to strengthen the high school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (NSBA).

Since joining The Mind Trust in 2016, White has led The Mind Trust's partnership with the Relay Graduate School of Education's National Principals Academy Fellowship and has developed several groundbreaking initiatives that provide educators across Indianapolis with expert instructional, operational, and executive leadership support.

Mitchell suggests that while the pool of qualified and committed teachers of color is increasing, these same teachers are leaving the profession at higher rates than white teachers, drawing upon research findings that «many nonwhite educators feel voiceless and incapable of effecting change in their schools.»

We found that black educators are promoted and earn their master's degrees much later in their career than white educators.

In part 3, I will share how a number of white educators responded to the 1st article, both in their allyship and with their questionIn part 3, I will share how a number of white educators responded to the 1st article, both in their allyship and with their questionin their allyship and with their questions.

Especially with Donald Trump in the White House setting a toxic example for our children every day, educators, parents, and civic leaders have a responsibility to do the opposite.

He went on to serve as a Senior Vice President at Voyager Expanded Learning Systems; did a tour in Baghdad Iraq at the request of the White House and Department of Defense, serving as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Education to assist with the rebuilding of the Iraqi school system in 2003; was Superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District; and, perhaps most significantly, served seven years as Chief Executive Officer of AVID, a global nonprofit that helps prepare students for postsecondary education and is one of the leading providers of professional development for educators in the US.

NY: Teachers College Press.One of the books in the Multicultural Education Series, edited by James Banks, this slim volume is a deeply personal account of an educator's journey towards white identity development and interpersonal growth.

Eighty - three percent of educators in the United States are White and so the likelihood of a teacher teaching students who come from a different background than themselves is highly likely.

In fact, according to recent figures, white educators make up 82 percent of the teaching force, while black teachers make up only 7 percent (U.S. Department of Education, 2016).

While many people head to the United Kingdom to visit Big Ben, sneak a peek at Buckingham Palace, and savor afternoon tea and scones, Whiting, who teaches at an international school in Malaysia, was off to join 26 educators from around the world at Facing History and Ourselves» annual international seminar.

For educators in international schools, like Humanities teacher Ann Whiting, online courses provide an opportunity to discover new publications, teaching methods, and other educators.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

For educators like Whiting, an online course like Holocaust and Human Behavior provides an opportunity to discover new publications, texts, and teaching methods, and be in conversation with Facing History staff, a Holocaust survivor, and other educators from a variety of school settings.

He asks questions like can white teachers educate black boys, but in his lower school there is only one African American male educator that actually teaches in the classroom.

Mr. Reardon said that educators in these schools may subliminally — or consciously in some cases — track white students into gifted courses while assigning black and Hispanic students to less rigorous courses.

Until the 1960s, white educators and politicians could look at a class of white children in which a number of students were doing poorly and shrug.

For example, Michael Deshotels, a former executive director of the Louisiana Association of Educators who is now a paid lobbyist for the union, claimed in a recent blog post that the NAEP results prove White «has failed miserably at all his efforts and our children have suffered while he experimented with untested, unsound theories.»

Alumnus Eric Grunder (MEd» 94) is one of seven educators across the country to receive the 2012 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in a spring ceremony at the White House.

Educators have been struggling for decades to remedy the disparity in academic outcomes between black and white students.

«We have raised academic expectations in Louisiana in order to prepare more students for success in college and the workplace, and it is encouraging to see our students and educators embracing these expectations and achieving at levels competitive with other states,» said State Superintendent John White.

He also shared his concern that black, Latino, and low - income students still fall below their white and more affluent peers on measures of achievement, in large part due to inequitable access to resources, effective educators, and rigorous coursework.

Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers» sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers: White pre-service teachers typically enrolled in most teacher education programs, a group of new teachers attempting to integrate social justice into their teaching, and experienced educators who see their teaching and activism as inextricably linked.

Through a Freirian approach to virtual field experiences that emphasized personalization, dialogue, and praxis, many preservice teachers developed the ability to function effectively as multicultural, competent, critically aware educators while enrolled in a teacher education program located in a predominantly white, rural area.