Sentences with phrase «with educational agendas»

Established 90 years ago, the ADAA provides continuing education to dental assistants through home study courses, professional journals and local, state and national meetings with educational agendas.

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In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

In states with voucher or tuition tax credit or educational savings plan programs, schools that resist the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) agenda could be ruled ineligible.

Public contracts, such as the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme for young people continuing with education, are also expected to be on the agenda.

They reveal the extent to which the Government is pursuing an ideological educational agenda that has nothing to do with meeting the needs of local families and everything to do with promoting its own vanity projects and those of its corporate supporters.

«Pride Agenda Board leaders last week had constructive conversations with some former Executive Directors and others about the work that lies ahead for our community,» Norman C. Simon, chair of the Pride Agenda and co-chair of its affiliated educational Foundation, wrote in a December 23 email to Gay City News.

They took on meaningful struggles against entrenched political interests whose agendas conflicted with the educational needs of children.

Our committee created groups to work on stating a «Declaration of Learning» to blend informal and formal learning, pre-K through gray; advance a research agenda to study the outcomes of park - based experiences; develop digital tools for learners of all ages; and create new partnerships and funding sources with educational agencies, institutions, and foundations.

We will institute a two - year action research agenda amongst six or seven of the network schools with a view to developing scalable educational innovations.

In harmony with the new educational agenda 2030, the Ministers of Education and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean prepared an official statement in which they compromised to advance in quality education systems, reaffirming that education is a fundamental human right, the basis for ensuring the realization of other rights, and is essential for prosperity and peaceful, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth in the region.

Today, the challenge is to embrace increasing diversity with different [shades of] pedagogical practice, and that's really at the heart of the equity agenda... it's about personalising educational experiences, it's about realising that ordinary students have extraordinary talents.»

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

FRS Leadership Team of leading educational experts to create a research - based, two - day agenda that is action packed with personalized professional learning that models high - quality professional development practices lead by expert facilitators.

Improving educational opportunities for all will mean moving forward with the School's ambitious agenda to change the methods by which practitioners are trained, while simultaneously deepening understanding of the conditions necessary for learning.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

He says all the school chiefs involved in the dialogue are ones who have collaborated with teachers unions to move the educational reform agenda forward.

The 2018 Legislative Agenda calls on ASCD's 115,000 members, and all educational professionals to become more engaged with leaders at every level to better - inform policies that support a whole child education for every student.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) offers local leaders an opportunity to work with stakeholders to shape their state's educational equity policy agenda.

The 2018 Legislative Agenda calls on ASCD's 115,000 members, and all educational professionals, to become more engaged with leaders at every level to better inform policies that support a whole child education for every student.

Her alliance with Weingarten was significant: While Ravitch had never indulged in the strident anti-labor rhetoric common among educational conservatives, her reform views were far from the union agenda.

readers know Commissioner Pryor has been on an unrelenting campaign to remove, undermine and destroy the professional staff and professional capabilities of the Connecticut Department of Education and replace experienced and dedicated professionals with high - cost, out - of - state consultants and staff who have little to no educational experience except for their loyalty to the corporate education reform agenda.

In its recent policy brief, Inside and Out: Developing an Advocacy Strategy for NJ's PK3 Agenda, the Association for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) identifies steps that the state and key educational stakeholders must take to plan for Prekindergarten expansion and to connect that expansion with PreK - 3rd approaches in schools throughout the state.

Now that ESSA authorizes states to be the agenda setters for their respective educational systems, the public will benefit both from sympathizing with the challenges of SDE's work and from holding SDEs accountable to their results.

The power for setting educational reform agendas has shifted, beginning in the early 1980s, from the local to the state and federal levels and is still unfolding with the No Child Left Behind Act.

In addition to an electronic Show guide and a viewable floorplan, the app connects buyers with exhibitors via an automatic matching component; provides a searchable database of exhibitors, educational sessions and speakers; and lets users create an appointment agenda and receive Show organizer updates.

It is widely recognized that in addition to fostering children's academic development, schools play an important role in fulfilling a broader educational agenda that is concerned with enhancing students» social - emotional well - being, character, health and civic engagement [1].

With respect to the European agenda this year, I began with four days of training in Slovenia (Core Skills 3 & 4), followed by a two - day workshop in trauma (open to a diverse group of medical, educational, and counseling professionals and attended by individuals from various parts of Europe including, for example, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and SwedWith respect to the European agenda this year, I began with four days of training in Slovenia (Core Skills 3 & 4), followed by a two - day workshop in trauma (open to a diverse group of medical, educational, and counseling professionals and attended by individuals from various parts of Europe including, for example, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Swedwith four days of training in Slovenia (Core Skills 3 & 4), followed by a two - day workshop in trauma (open to a diverse group of medical, educational, and counseling professionals and attended by individuals from various parts of Europe including, for example, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Sweden).

This agenda has become increasingly significant in the context of an increased focus in the UK over the last two decades towards inclusive education, where schools are expected to educate all pupils within a mainstream setting and to «actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude pupils with special educational needs (Department for Education 2001, p. 5).»

The agenda blends a mixture of both business and regulatory topics to provide attendees with innovative strategies for remaining profitable and compliant through educational presentations, dynamic panel discussions and instructional breakout sessions.