Sentences with phrase «area school district teachers»

The Herb Kohl Educational Foundation has announced its 2018 award winners, including two Sparta Area School District teachers.

In eight Bay Area school districts teachers make on average at least $ 94,000 a year, according to CALmatters.

Not exact matches

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

In his current role as neuropsychological consultant to several large school districts in the Boston area, he is on the ground, in schools and working with kids and their teachers several days each week.

Of the 60 Michigan school districts with the highest average teacher pay in 2017 - 18, 46 are in southeast Michigan and eight are in the metro Grand Rapids area.

A state grant is helping Hamburg Central School District construct a new area for teacher training, student learning and community education and collaboration.

Ivan Lafayette, the former legislator who served the Jackson Heights and Woodside area for more than three decades, has endorsed school teacher and activist Daniel Dromm over incumbent City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D - Jackson Heights) in the race for the 25th District seat.

Riani, a retired teacher from the Syracuse area, gives a portion of her free time teaching students in the Plattsburgh City School District, primarily Momot Elementary.

The change will help school districts find qualified teachers in certificate areas that have been difficult to fill.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

By ensuring that teachers have 21st century knowledge, providing science and math curriculum in elementary school, having school districts identify gaps in availability of high quality math and science courses, and providing those courses to all students, we will be able to improve the outcomes of our students in the critical areas of math, science, technology and engineering.

In a random selection of videos, Mrs. Burk — «the rapping math teacher» — models a lesson for students on perimeter and area, Dr. Altman demonstrates magnetic fields, a Utah school district presents a PowerPoint show on incorporating technology in the classroom, and a group of teachers give a detailed lesson on how to run a literature circle.

«In 1996, District 108 in Pekin, Illinois, received a $ 5 million Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, because of the district's vision and groundwork in the area of technology,» teacher and school webmaster Madeleine Decker told EducatioDistrict 108 in Pekin, Illinois, received a $ 5 million Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, because of the district's vision and groundwork in the area of technology,» teacher and school webmaster Madeleine Decker told Educatiodistrict's vision and groundwork in the area of technology,» teacher and school webmaster Madeleine Decker told Education World.

Our district pays well for substitute teachers compared to other area schools.

The schools attracted more than 80 bids in total, about half coming from within the district, including area superintendents, teacher confederations only sometimes involving union activists, and the mayor's own partnership school organization.

Brenda Frazier, a K - 12 psychologist in the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) Area School District who attended the conference, said she has heard concerns from teachers about making adjustments for explosive children.

There is some evidence to suggest that school districts are choosing to retain teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, with 13.3 percent of teachers that received layoff notices falling into such a category compared to 15.1 percent of teachers who did not receive a notice.

To reach this goal, researchers encourage school districts to provide ongoing professional training for teachers to help them define writing and reading goals for their specific subject areas.

We use the Common Core of Data to identify teachers in urban areas, the grade level of each teacher's school, and the per - pupil expenditure on instruction by each teacher's district.

This «move up» enables students to meet with their new teachers, get to know the new facilities they will be attending, and ask questions, said DeGenova, who is assistant principal at Slippery Rock (Pennsylvania) Area High School and as well as a part - time elementary principal at the district's Har - Mer Elementary School.

Of these teachers, 13 (21 percent) have come from schools in high socioeconomic areas in Madison or nearby districts, and they are among the best teachers from the area.

Finally, we find evidence that school districts behave strategically by retaining teachers who have endorsements in multiple areas and therefore provide flexibility in terms of the classes they can teach.

The case, North East Independent School District v. Findeisen (Case No. 84 - 1607), stemmed from the August 1981 resignation of a tenured San Antonio - area teacher.

It then gives thoughtful insights on how online learning can help districts and schools address students» needs better in areas where teachers are scarce.

«Districts can be so hard to change,» said Dan Challener, president of the Public Education Foundation, an independent, nonprofit, community - based organization that provides training, research, and resources to teachers, principals, and schools in the Hamilton County area of Tennessee.

Despite a recent wave of reform, the vast majority of school districts nationwide continue to pay teachers based on salary schedules that fail to differentiate among teachers based on their subject - area expertise.

Furthermore, to alleviate intense teacher shortages in areas such as mathematics, science, technology, and special education, school districts should supplement the salaries of qualified teachers who possess expertise in these subjects.

Under an agreement reached last fall between the Robbinsdale Federation of Teachers and the Robbinsdale Area Schools, teachers who begin work in the suburban Minneapolis district after July 1 will be eligible to earn up to $ 15,000 in additional pay by submitting a «performance portfolio» to a six - person review coTeachers and the Robbinsdale Area Schools, teachers who begin work in the suburban Minneapolis district after July 1 will be eligible to earn up to $ 15,000 in additional pay by submitting a «performance portfolio» to a six - person review coteachers who begin work in the suburban Minneapolis district after July 1 will be eligible to earn up to $ 15,000 in additional pay by submitting a «performance portfolio» to a six - person review committee.

Some districts in Texas and schools in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Minneapolis also offer high - needs area teachers «bumps» on the salary scale.

Lavin: Menlo Park School District parent survey and the benevolence of retired California teachers San Mateo County Times, February 25, 2013 «Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD), in conjunction with SurveyMonkey, the world's largest survey company, became the first in the Bay Area to launch the innovative Harvard Graduate School of Education Pre K - 12 Parent Survey.»

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We will work with 3rd through 8th grade mathematics teachers in the Appleton Area School District to implement and evaluate the coaching model.

As a result, many districts end up filling high school chemistry, biology, physics, and math slots with teachers who've taken few courses in those areas themselves.

In the section How to Get an A in Writing, Professor Pen displays the district's writing rubric and thoroughly discusses the five areas of writing that Morongo Unified School District teachers consider as they determine studentdistrict's writing rubric and thoroughly discusses the five areas of writing that Morongo Unified School District teachers consider as they determine studentDistrict teachers consider as they determine student grades.

The school must post such information in clearly visible locations so that it is readily accessible for students and employees by: (1) posting such information on the district and / or school's website (s), if such a website exists; (2) posting such information in highly - visible areas of school buildings; (3) making such information available at the district and school building - level administrative offices, where applicable; (4) providing such information to parents and persons in parental relation at least once per school year in a manner as determined by the school, including, but not limited to, through electronic communication and / or sending such information home with students; and (5) providing each teacher and administrator in the school with such information.

The university is working with the Los Angeles district and others in the area to identify bilingual instructional assistants who may want to become teachers and is also trying to get the word out to bilingual high school students interested in teaching, Sarmiento said.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quality.

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At a time of growing national recognition of the need for a policy shift to more successful approaches to school reform, this collection of mini-briefs identifies affirmative, research - based approaches to reform in areas including school choice, portfolio district reform, and teacher deprofessionalization.

Currently, Ms. Anderson serves as faculty with the St. Mary's of Minnesota Master of Arts in Education Wisconsin program and is a guest teacher with the Eau Claire Area School District.

EW: As schools struggle to recruit and retain effective teachers — particularly schools in low - income areas — what would an Obama administration do to help districts hire and retain high - quality teachers?

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.

School districts from coast to coast are launching ambitious initiatives to attract and retain teachers, especially teachers who belong to minority groups and teachers certified in critical - need areas or those willing to teach in urban or rural schools.

But like other areas of Virginia, the two school districts that occupy this impoverished stretch of shoreland also need special education teachers.

«Temporary staffing services for substitute teachers,» Max Longhurst an education specialist at the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University noted, «may not be necessary in all areas, particularly in smaller school districts, but they do provide another option for larger systems struggling to provide quality education in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.»

Bailey Danielson, Fourth - Grade Teacher PROVO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, UTAH Bailey Danielson says, «I realized... the amount of students I could reach could greatly increase by becoming involved in my local,» which is why, as vice president of the Provo Education Association, she works to introduce the student program to universities in her area and travels to Salt Lake City to help legislators create education - friendly policies.

Tension also surfaced when school or district leaders called for data - informed decisions to be made in areas where those decisions had traditionally been made by teachers on the basis of their individual and collective expertise.