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

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

Not exact matches

Girls, young women, subject matter experts from the justice, law enforcement, and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, along with educators, parents, program workers from across the country participated in consultations to identity gaps, challenges, promising practices, and recommendations for strategies to end cyberviolence.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

So why can't we let them practice being fathers, pediatricians, educators, or any other occupation that has to do with children, from a young age?

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 FoundatFrom 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 Foundatfrom 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.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communities.

«I wish I could have told my younger self not to worry so much about how my body looked, because it held me back from being present in my body during sex,» says Sarah Tomchesson, sex educator and head of business operations at The Pleasure Chest.

Daveed Diggs (right) and poet, educator and playwright Chinaka Hodge answer questions from young people at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Most importantly he just got back from North Carolina where he was trained as a Young Life educator and is now setting up Young Life chapters in the inner - city schools all over Memphis to do devotionals and mentorships with inner city kids.

- and we received more than 100 paper submissions from educators representing every state and territory, and all school sectors,» Hartnell - Young explains.

Preliminary results from a survey in the greater New York metropolitan area suggest that young people's views of educators» responsiveness to their needs differ significantly by students» race and ethnicity.

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and comEducators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and comeducators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and comeducators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

As educators, we have a special opportunity to help our young people develop healthy relationships and identities, and to help build a generation that can live free from relationship and sexual violence and enjoy true equality.»

How can educators and parents protect vulnerable young people from risky behavior and interactions on social media?

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

The three - year initiative, supported by a $ 1 million gift from the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation, will help engage employers with educators to build career pathways that prepare young people with the skills and credentials necessary to fill the projected millions of middle - skill jobs over the next decade.

Wherever you are coming from, wherever they are coming from, you must meet in the middle and make magic happen, because you are an educator — driven by the belief that you can make a difference in the life of a young person.

School leaders and educators are using data from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) to identify the needs of young students so that they can better prepare them for future learning.

It is designed specifically for younger students and is based upon 18 months working with children learning to code, as well as input from a number of influential computing educators, including Mark Dorling, co-author of the KS1 - 3 CAS Computing Progression Pathways, and Peter Kemp, advisor for the new KS4 curriculum.

Open to schools, colleges, youth leaders and home educators the Festival uses the magic of film — from exclusive preview screenings of new blockbusters to popular classics — to engage young minds in a broad range of topics.

Adrienne Katz, author of a new book entitled Cyberbullying and e-safety: what educators need to know, presents the findings of The Cybersurvey, an online questionnaire which gathered responses from 9000 young people.

But from the Center for Ecoliteracy's perspective, education seems to offer a much more productive and promising path to change, because there's so much educators can do to change young people's knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in relation to food.

From this initial work emerged the hypothesis that fostering young people's sensitivity to the designed dimensions of the world may be a powerful way to increase their sense of agency, as well as the realization that the development of agency and community are two of the core outcomes that many maker - centered educators seek to help their students develop.

Most young American children spend anywhere from 90 minutes to two and a half hours a day in something educators call «the literacy block,» an extended period that might include reading aloud, small - group «guided reading,» independent writing, and other activities aimed at increasing children's verbal skills.

Resources in this collection have emerged from a growing partnership between the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Writing Project (NWP) designed to bolster connected learning opportunities within the national parks and reach more young visitors and educators.

I have often joked that I feel a bit like Harry Potter in that sometime during the early part of my career here, my advisor, Dean McCartney said to me «You're an educator, Kristen,» (just as Hagrid said to Harry, «You're a wizard, Harry») and from that time forward I have been learning how to improve the educational experiences of young children.

Diarese George is a young, intelligent, well - dressed native of Clarksville, TN who is generous with his story: He turned the «inequities that followed him from kindergarten through college» into a job — recruiting and retaining educators of color.

Lastly... I'd like to share with you an email recently received from Andrea Salcedo Williams regarding the use of MDIAS My Young Child in early child educator in Guadalajara, Mexico

Many of them do not have access to proper mental and emotional care, and many educators I've talked to believe that a many of our children and young adults still suffer with trauma stemming from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Business leaders, understanding this, are increasingly partnering with educators and one another to curtail the flow of talent away from STEM - related careers by investing in our nation's youngest learners.

Ms. Lutz is currently a board member of the Ella Flagg Young Chicago Area Association for Women Administrators; Corresponding Secretary for Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for key women educators; and member of the Lambda State IL Delta Kappa Gamma Legislation Committee; member of Phi Delta Kappa — Concordia University chapter; past membership chair and recipient of the Community Service Award in 2010 from the Council of Educators ineducators; and member of the Lambda State IL Delta Kappa Gamma Legislation Committee; member of Phi Delta Kappa — Concordia University chapter; past membership chair and recipient of the Community Service Award in 2010 from the Council of Educators inEducators in Polonia.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) The nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.

Educators had little idea it was so successful until 2000, when the first results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15 - year - olds in more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.

As a young Black male educator about 90 minutes from Philadelphia, I remember hearing rumblings over the years about a group of Black male teachers that were... Continue reading David Edwards at Stay Woke →

«We heard from both educators and ed tech developers about the lack of high - quality tools to support academic and social development for young students.

An emerging leader in the field, Sherry was recruited to serve on the Board of the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators from 2007 — 2010, where she advanced middle school beliefs and provided resources to educators, parents and communities designed to meet the unique needs of young adolescents in Educators from 2007 — 2010, where she advanced middle school beliefs and provided resources to educators, parents and communities designed to meet the unique needs of young adolescents in educators, parents and communities designed to meet the unique needs of young adolescents in Michigan.

Colorín Colorado's rich library of video content includes classroom videos from schools around the country, professional development webcasts, and interviews with educators, administrators, researchers, and authors of children's and young adult literature.

As educators sharing together in this online space, we were able to admit and, perhaps, remind ourselves that the teacher's own discomfort with a particular topic often veers him or her away from it, when the lesson could be helpful to a young student.

Our 10 Million Kids initiative has brought the film BULLY to young people and educators around the country along with a curriculum and training from our partner, Facing History and Ourselves.

Using new findings from neuroscience, educators can support young developing brains to become reading brains.

Let there be no question, then: educators, parents, and other adults are desperately needed to offer guidance, to act as models (we hope), to pose challenges that promote moral growth, and to help children understand the effects of their actions on other people, thereby tapping and nurturing a concern for others that is present in children from a very young age.

Early childhood experts have questioned the competition's emphasis on assessment, fearing it could lead to high - stakes testing of young children, make unfair employment decisions for early educators based on test results, and detract from the importance of play and exploratory learning.

If pre-service early childhood educators can broaden their views on how knowledge is represented, the study suggests, they will be more effective at eliciting deep learning from young children.

Compiling underrepresented inquiry stories from practicing teachers and administrators in early childhood (0 - 5) classrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, this book highlights the power of the community in supporting professional development for early childhood educators and the education of young children.

The two - day teacher workshop brought together educators from the Los Angeles Unified School District and local charter schools, experts, and first - person voices to gain a better understanding of how listening to and learning about other people's stories is so important when teaching young people.

Educators of young children require certain unique skills that differ from those required for children in higher (and more - often tested) grades.