Sentences with phrase «as white teachers»

Black and Hispanic teachers are about twice as likely as white teachers to have been certified through an alternative program, according to national data.»

As White teachers who did not grow up in the city of Chicago, we understand that we do not share the same lived experiences as many of our students.

It led to the state legislature's passage four years later of the Teacher Pay Equalization Act, which mandated that black teachers in the state were entitled to the same pay as white teachers.

«As dedicated and passionate as my white teachers were, there was always that last layer that they never understood, which comes with life experiences and cultural background.

But at age 26, as a white teacher learning to become an ally and advocate for students of color, I lacked the language to argue my position.

In the book The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy chronicled his experiences as a white teacher assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina where most of the people were poor and black.

As a white teacher educator who has taken on the «daunting» (Sleeter, 2008) work of antiracist education with preservice teachers, the work of critical family history is beginning to play a key role in my classroom.

Not exact matches

You may just know chalk as the white, powdery writing utensil your elementary school teachers used at the front of the class.

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

In the final season of Breaking Bad, Walter White, the chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, has made more money than he can spend without breaking his cover as a mild - mannered cancer survivor.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

The media (both white and black) portrayed him as a teacher of hate and a promoter of violence.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

I never knew there was actually a movement back in the day that tried to press the claim that Jesus was white... as a teacher of history I really enjoy learning new things like this.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education prograAs White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education prograas he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

By Joanne White Over 50,000 students Australia wide use the new (and free) Australian Organic Schools resources, and as a teacher — and someone who can now call herself a successful gardener — I highly recommend them to anyone who has always wanted to try gardening.

A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.

Constant «megaphone» use can lead to your audience tuning out your tweets — it becomes white noise or what I liked to refer to as «the teacher» from Peanuts, «WahWah.»

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

«Albany's budget cuts threaten teacher layoffs,» the voice says, as the screen displays black - and - white photos of frustrated - looking teachers.

According to reports, gunmen invaded the school, formerly known as Turkish International School, Friday night in a white Hilux and took the students and the teachers away.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House on Sunday pledged to help states pay for firearms training for teachers and reiterated its call to improve the background check system as part of a new plan to prevent school shootings.

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The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

The study found that teachers are more likely to see academic challenges as disabilities when white boys exhibit them than when boys of color exhibit the same difficulties.

Here, a referral suggests that the teacher perceives the student as having social, emotional, or behavioral skills that are problematic enough to warrant outside help, reaffirming earlier research showing that teachers perceive misbehavior by black boys as more aggressive and problematic than misbehavior by white boys.

Conversely, teachers are more likely to perceive behavioral challenges as disabilities among boys of color than when white boys have the same behavioral difficulties.

«However, in our study, we were surprised to find that minority teachers are not just viewed more highly than White teachers by minority students, but in many cases by White students as well.»

These systems had a hand in undermining my ability to convey while «under a white gaze» all the skill, knowledge and intuitive nuance that I am capable of demonstrating as a teacher.

«What does it mean to be a black woman teaching yoga and to be in the seat as a teacher, and how is that capacity different for white women versus women of color teaching in yoga studios?

i definitely had some fun - clothes - loving teachers growing up, and as long as it's a professional silhouette and you put a white coat over it, you can get away with a lot as a physician.

April names Cameron White as the teacher in charge of.

Viewers who have been paying close attention (though why they would is a mystery) won't be terribly surprised by this development, since the Colleens earlier received an extended lecture from their history teacher (Vanessa Paradis) on the area's latent Nazi population — as illustrated through black - and - white mock - archival footage of the villainous Adrien Arcand (Haley Joel Osment) trying to start his own Third Reich by blaming unemployment on «the fault of the Canadian Jew» and proposing the launch of «Le Solution Finale.»

The childhood scenes are set in a Christian school that is depicted in the standard way as heavy on the discipline and little on the education, with the exception of a moment of inspiration by history teacher Garrett Walden (Jaleel White, «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer») and a few segments showing principal Michael Akers (Thomas Lennon, «We're the Millers»), and basketball coach Murray (Tony Hale, «Brave New Jersey»).

Jaleel White scores as the beloved third - grade teacher, a guy given to breaking out the old banjo as he gives his class a challenge of his own — track him down and figure out what he'll be doing this summer, based on his clues.

Silvia Broome is a U.N. translator who was born in America, educated in Europe, but raised by her white parent farmers in a fictitious south African country called Matobo, ruled by Dr. Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), a liberator who became a tyrant when in power and in his old age is referred to by his followers as The Teacher.

So while his co-dwellers hurry off to their jobs, Patty (Sarah Silverman) at city hall and Ned (Mike White) as a substitute teacher, Dewey hangs out at home in his housecoat and socks carefully considering his future options.

The movie is about the process of learning, and the teacher, the movie suggests, is Cecil (based on Eugene Allen, whose story in an article by Will Haygood serves as the basis for the screenplay), a White House butler who serves for seven Presidents over the course of 29 years.

It talks about Harvey Milk and the Communist Manifesto and the Civil Rights Movement and the CIA installation of Pinochet and the madness of a majority that still believes there were weapons of mass destruction in an Iraq... and it does so as backdrop to the disintegration of privileged white boy Dan (Gosling), a teacher at a rough inner - city school nursing a crack habit.

Perhaps inevitably, the viewpoint most favored is that of Cobie Smulders «science teacher, a white woman in a predominantly black school — so it's a mark of just how good relative newcomer Gail Bean is as her most promising senior - year student that the resulting story feels much more evenly balanced.

Michael Haneke appears to take an almost maniacal pleasure in tanning humanity's collective hide, whether for our hapless shirking of class responsibility (Hidden), our innately fascistic behavioural impulses (The White Ribbon), our inability to temper base emotional urges (The Piano Teacher), or simply because, as a species, we're doomed to oblivion (The Castle, Funny Games).

Others, like Thelma Ritter and an ornery Jack Gilford provide a sort of hard - nosed comfort in their eventual stand against their assailants — while the white privileged comforts of Jan Sterling and Mike Kellin as a high - school teacher and his unsatisfied wife channel something more troubling.

«The White Ribbon,» which will be released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics, marks a notable departure for writer - director Haneke from his string of highly charged, intense contemporary - set films such as «Caché» and «The Piano Teacher.»

Rarely in education issues as complex as teacher evaluation do courts issue bright - line, black - or - white rulings; rather, as Ruszkowski put it, «we are continuing to implement this year over year knowing that the courts will have to work it out.»

Taking issue with the AFT's involvement in opt - out, Stewart wrote, «Why waste an opportunity to exploit the energy of white moms and the teachers that serve them who now see the obsession with closing racial disparities in schools as stealing joy from children of relative privilege?»

Due to the interest from teachers, the stories have been turned into videos which can be shown on the class room white board and used as a teaching aid or watched on a laptop or tablet.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

Mathematics is one of those quite black and white content parts of the curriculum that you can have good knowledge as a teacher of.

Be sure to delve into the archives, as a lot of ground is covered in the dozens of episodes: how to respond to rude students, hacking project - based learning, 10 things white teachers should know when talking about race, and more.