Advocacy for the “science of reading” and foundational learning in literacy and numeracy Persistent concerns including inadequate education funding, inequities in educational performance and opportunities, and the challenges of innovation in assessment and instruction. A Capture of Moments, Danna Ramirez,...
It’s working. Students are gabbing, reasoning, and proudly displaying their work like they’re auctioning off masterpieces. Math class has become more of a lively arena of self-advocacy and problem-solving prowess. Sure, it’s not all rainbows. We’ve had our fair share of hits and miss...
Open Video Alliance http://openvideoalliance.org/ Open Video Allicance The Open Video Alliance is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the idea that the power of moving image should belong to everyone; Advocacy group. Multiple languages UStream http://www.ustream.tv/ UStr...
“Open policy advocacy efforts are generally tied to specific institutions or bodies of government, and as a result are decentralized and disconnected from similar initiatives. Moreover, there is little emphasis on sharing knowledge between these entities, despite their common goals. Institutions and ...
Judith McDaniel: "The nature of online education is that it removes me, the instructor, from the center of the learning process and allows the students to learn from me and from one another" ("Creating Community: Part 3 – Hard Conversations in an Online Classroom – Heart of Darkness")....
Tracy Learning Center in Tracy, CA, is where I worked to help establish advocacy. My benefactor died. Nysmith School in Herndon, VA, and a few other schools and projects do what I love. NCLB took the steam out of STEM, the science out of the classroom, and the focus away from what...
of awards given last year: 10 Additional Information: The programme does not support work involving partisan political and policy advocacy or policy making for any government or private organization www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/fellowships/jennings-rando lph-peace-scholar-dissertation-fellowship-...
40.2 Miles from Chantilly The Youth First Partnership organizes an event to foster collaboration among youth-serving agencies, featuring inspiring speaker Steve Pemberton. The mission is to strengthen the community by sharing resources... ConferenceEducation & Training ...
(2018). Challenging fundraising, challenging inequity: Contextual constraints on advocacy groups’ policy influence. Critical Studies in Education, 59(1), 54–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1176062 Article Google Scholar Wylie, C. (2020). What does it mean to be a principal? A ...
Might this style of critique and advocacy tend to generate the posture of defence of the present and rejection of the new? Do we agents of change need to be more humble, more tentative, less certain that we have the keys to a better future? Would we create more support for our work if...