Sentences with phrase «young educators»

Here's a glimpse at 30 young educators who — early into their professions — are already creating change.

Many younger educators, who attended school when student testing took hold, feel more comfortable than veteran teachers using data to alter their teaching methods and to judge their performance.

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has commended the Country Director of Young Educators Foundation, Eugenia Tachie - Menson, who is the...

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has commended the Country Director of Young Educators Foundation, Eugenia Tachie - Menson, who is the brain and force behind The Spelling Bee Ghana, for her immense contribution to education of children in Ghana.

Given the powerful incentives that are in place, there is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators, like those found in nearly all other professional employment settings.

Technology Integration, Projects Mark Top Administrators Work Two administrators named the 2009 Outstanding Young Educators by ASCD are successfully using data, technology, project - based learning, and parent involvement to help transform their schools and inspire their students and teachers.

From pitching for and chasing sponsorships to managing suppliers from production to media to pushing for visas and others for those who would travel, it's a very tall list for her and her team at Young Educators Foundation.

While listening to one of the best young educators Sara Boucher (@MsGeekyTeach) as she shared a story about how one restaurant in Philadelphia that was giving to the homeless, I caught her enthusiasm.

Matt McClure, an educator advocate and member of ASCD's Legislative Committee, was named one of ASCD's 2012 Outstanding Young Educators during last week's Annual Conference.

FYRE empowers and engages young educators to get involved in the union with the ultimate goal of ensuring teacher rights to lead to student success.

I am a TFA alumni but I also work closely with young educators from both alternative and traditional certification programs.

It's great to see so many young educators seeking opportunities in administration five years into the game and flexing their educational entrepreneurial muscles, but the reality is that we desperately need master teachers to stay directly connected to our students, and to offer practical coaching to newbies.

Now, the founder of the Gap Inc. is helping a handful of enterprising young educators pursue a similarly ambitious dream.

Many of the mostly young educators who were lured by the promise that they could create something entirely new have felt stymied.

Districts filled 1,688 open positions by either recalling teachers who had been served layoff notices earlier in the year or by hiring younger educators who commanded smaller salaries.

Young educators intending to be classroom heroes discover that they lack the skills and energy and patience.

Edward Mobley, an upper elementary, behavioral specialist and special education teacher, adds, «I'm involved because it's a way to communicate with other young educators and millennials and also [a way] to give back to the teachers just coming into the profession.

Teacher educators and veteran social studies teachers should, therefore, not be surprised if young teachers do not immediately take to Twitter or other social media for PD, but there is likely still merit in introducing young educators to professional social media use (e.g., Krutka, 2014).

E4E is an organization that seeks to recruit young educators entering the school system here in New York City.

The program prepares younger educators from across the state for leadership positions and strengthens PASCD's voice for influencing policy and practice.

Those who work at the post-secondary level have a unique opportunity of placing research around fair and equitable assessments into the hands and minds of those faculty members who are responsible for releasing young educators into K - 12 classrooms.

I should add that some schools in Shelby County have found a way to make it work and retain young educators beyond their first few years.

We can extend or eliminate contracts with organizations like Teach for America, but that won't fix the underlying fact that many young educators simply don't feel that the school culture where the work is one where they can be successful.

Until district leaders devote attention to improving school cultures to make them attractive and professional work environments that attract young educators, we will continue to see an exodus of young teaching talent to other systems, schools or professions.

As 70 % of Australia and New Zealand'd school principals reach retirement age over the next five years, great opportunities abound for our brightest and best young educators to assume formal leadership positions and mould the future of our school systems.

Over the past 15 years, public education in the United States has been profoundly shaped by the work of a generation of young educators and reformers who launched their careers in the early 1990s: people like Wendy Kopp, Dave Levin, Mike Feinberg, Michelle Rhee, Chris Barbic, Rick Hess, and my own colleagues Kim Smith and Andrew Rotherham.

Team Leaders (TLs): Talented, young educators who support and train mentors while working as liaisions between the school, students» families, and the after - school program.

Like many young educators, Wysocki struggled at first.

Madam Eugenia Tachie - Menson, Country Director of the Young Educators Foundation, the organization that organizes the National Spelling Bee competition, also took the kids through series of exercises that will improve their vocabulary and grammar.

She earned the recognition based what the President said is her ``... 12 years of dedication and commitment to the education of our nation's children through her work at the Young Educators Foundation and establishment of the National Spelling Bee and Young Debaters Competition in the nation of Ghana»

As I grew wiser, I realized it isn't that they fail to care — sometimes, when one is a young educator, it's easy to get fixated on assigning an «F» — but rather, that they are no more engaged by schools than their children are.

Only last year, more than half of the young educators reported they are intended to quit in the next couple of years, according to the NUT teachers union.

While Ms. Marshbank is a young educator, she is ambitious in her mission to improve the secondary education community.

These young educators are building networks of support, growing their skillset, and raising their voices as leaders in their profession and their union.

Jenisha «Jay» Fair, Physical Education Teacher CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, NEVADA «I am involved because I want to use my voice — as a young educator — to advocate for my students [and] raise awareness about the importance of social justice in every classroom at every school,» says Jenisha «Jay» Fair of her involvement with the union.

Young educators are encouraged to become master teachers, subject specialists and / or school administrators

These are young educators that could have been part of the LAUSD family.

Kira Orange Jones, TFA's Executive Director, thanked the Foundation for its gift and described the impact of the work done by the young educators gathered in the den.

Washington State ASCD, in its ongoing search for quality leadership, will seek out, highlight, and celebrate the accomplishments of a young educator who achieves excellence in instructional leadership in teaching and learning.

The teachers say lagging salaries and potential cuts to the retirement system will make it impossible for younger educators to remain in the profession for an entire career.

The challenges facing these young educators are unparalleled.

However, my experiences as grade chair leader in the late 90's and 2000's, is for younger educators to «not have time» for that «non-instructive stuff» or «my own time will not be sacrificed» to get that lesson plan, report, or paper work in on time.

It is important for young educators to learn fair and equitable assessment practices early on during their post-secondary education so they will not have to «unlearn» less desirable assessment practices after they have started their careers in the field.

And I believe strongly that my decision is one that almost every young educator in Shelby County faces at some point in their first two years.

At the end of two years, many young educators, TFA or otherwise, feel a strong sense of commitment to their children and a desire to continue in education.