Sentences with phrase «with real educators»

For teachers, by teachers, Teacher Voice podcast sits down with real educators to discuss the policies and issues that are affecting their classrooms, profession, and most importantly their students.

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If administrators and senior faculty set their assignments with real seriousness and adopt them into the company of educators with great care, that invitation can function as a genuine call to profession.

We, a small group of theological educators, went to a Demolition Derby — a real one, with cars, and then trucks, smashing into each others in a muddy arena, and more than a thousand people watching from the grandstands.

One year ago this month, I travelled to Oak Brook, Illinois to attend the annual McDonald's shareholder meeting along with five other moms: Sally Kuzemchak of Real Mom Nutrition; Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids; Leah Segedie, founder of the Mamavation community; Migdalia Rivera, associate campaign director at MomsRising.org; and Rosa Perea, a Chicago - area health educator.

Additionally, each kit contains detailed information on the use and care of cloth diapers, a helpful class outline for educators, full color brochures branded with participating Sponsor logos, and washing guidelines from our sister organization, the Real Diaper Association.

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.

That's a risky proposition for many educators, but with a little real - time encouragement and trial and error, teachers usually see that their students are capable of more than they may have imagined.

This capability will also allow researchers to share what they learn in real - time with scientific colleagues, policymakers, educators, students, and the public.

At The Wrinkled Brain Project, we combine real scientists with seasoned educators to improve science education and interpretation for the 21st century.

Laura Thomas is a coach and educator helping people transform their relationship with sweet food in a practical way so they live more empowered, happier and healthier in the sugary real...

Interview with Lily Nichols, a real food - focused registered dietitian and diabetes educator, chatting about the ins and outs of balancing a ketogenic diet while pregnant.

We needed to come up with an assessment idea that was accurate and authentic, and it had to provide meaningful data to real world public school educators.

This incident left me with lingering questions about how educators can become real allies to our parents, particularly across racial and class differences.

Ultimately, say educators and ecologists, it is this connection with real life that helps drive the need for ecological retrofits.

After the object exercise, the students watch short video clips of educators (all with Ed School connections) being interviewed in real life.

The tool allows educators to get immediate insight into their student understanding in real - time, as they can create quizzes in seconds and also share them with other teachers.

Capture & Create 81 % of educators believe that e-learning is becoming more popular, so combining the e-learning environment with the real world environment is a growing trend moving forward into 2017 *.

«Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.»

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

In October of last year, former UN Assistant Secretary - General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs Thomas Gass noted, «Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.»

Well, schools are real places where educators work with individual kids.

TeachingChannel doesn't follow the «webinar» format, but it does a great job of creating video - based PD sessions that get the camera in the classroom, allowing you to watch strategies in action with real students and real educators.

At the University of Southern California, with its 37 - year tradition of creating joint projects for its graduate students and the local community, a number of educators within the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences are seeking new ways to combine their cutting - edge research with real - world practice.

Here is the real question that kids will be asking us, as educators: Are you with us, or against us?

If tests like these succeed, they could not only provide better information about children's readiness for real life but also give educators incentive to do what they want to do anyway: teach kids in engaging ways to be well - rounded people and lifelong learners, not drill the life out of school with dry test preparation.

But I think they need to do a far better job of thinking and talking about the real - world impact of their elegant stylings, or they're going to build an exquisitely engineered project that is at cross-purposes with the practical concerns of an array of policymakers, parents, and educators.

I wholly agree with the premise that high school needs to be rethought, and that the work is best done by educators and entrepreneurs in real schools and communities, not by politicos, bureaucrats, well - fed consultants, or us self - impressed think tank types.

If these new tests could detect whether schools and educators were changing their practices in the ways desired by Common Core and if rewards and punishments could be imposed on schools and educators for their compliance with the new standards, then perhaps the empty words of standards could be transformed into a real change in the education system.

Many educators feel that this method, combined with teacher narrative, better reflects student progress because it makes allowances for individual differences in learning rate and style, emphasizes real learning over test scores, and minimizes subjective considerations.

Already under the gun because of high - stakes testing, as well as time and budget constraints, some educators flinch at the thought of creating such ambitious real - world projects or coordinating new partnerships with people outside the school.

A trip to Space Camp is helping one educator design a curriculum that is based on real experiences, with the aim to engage STEM students.

In a growing number of schools, educators are echoing Papert's assertion that engaging students by starting with the concrete and solving hands - on, real - world problems is a great motivator.

The introduction of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom has since resulted in an era in which the use of technology was literally moved to the front and centre of the learning environment, with many teachers and educators grasping the opportunity to enhance teaching by effectively using it as an interactive, real - time projection device resulting in higher levels of student participation and concentration.

High Tech High educators shore up this real - world connection with personalization, paying attention to individual students» needs and empowering them to match their projects to their passions.

When combining digital curriculum that provides formative assessment data with everyday instructional practices, educators are equipped to address math learning gaps in real - time.

Step 6, educator brainstorms with student, or teacher asks class to brainstorm together or in groups, where the concept is found in real - life or used in real - life.

There is also the Connected Educators Series website where readers can connect with all of the authors of the series, find more resources, and find real support for putting flipped leadership into practice.

At Hood River Middle School, in Hood River, Oregon, educators work with community partners to make student learning relevant, engaging, and applicable to the real world.

Educators who loved the ideas presented in Disrupting Class now have a field guide to making it work in a real - world school, with expert advice for making the transition smoother for students, parents, and teachers alike.

There is also the Connected Educators Series website where readers can connect with all of the authors of the series, find more resources, and find real support for putting Edcamps into practice.

Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real - life educators and instructional champions.

This commentary is part of a series produced for the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education by educators across the country who want to illustrate the impact of poverty on their classrooms, schools and communities and propose education policies with real promise to weaken the poverty - education link.

And the real threat of dismissal has pushed struggling teachers to leave voluntarily or to seek to improve, often with help from the master educators assigned to them.

The only answer that makes sense to us is for a state to make sure that its math and reading standards are clear, coherent, and rigorous; that its tests line up with those standards; that its schools and educators are held to account for getting better results in terms of real student learning; and that research is done to examine the effectiveness of various curricular products.

Each episode in the series will take on these questions in authentic, live conversations with educators, policymakers, and students at every level, all navigating these issues in the real world.

In particular, parents and educators were concerned with how to ensure real - world relevance in New Hampshire's curriculum and assessment.

Educators with high hopes of preventing teen pregnancy have assigned their students computerized baby dolls, programmed to cry, coo, and make life complicated, just like a real baby.

Through video demonstrations, real - life scenarios and a study of related research, participants will gain a deep understanding of how to successfully communicate with and coach fellow educators.

Performance Matters accelerates student success by combining powerful student and educator growth solutions with real - time analytics.

Together these solutions, leveraged with a real - time analytics engine, provide specific, actionable insights that boost student performance and build educator capacity.