Sentences with phrase «as former middle school teachers»

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

Carr has extensive experience working with administrators and teacher leaders in grades preK — 12 in highly interactive and engaging ways; though as a former middle school teacher, she has a special affinity for work at that level.

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A former Saginaw High School drama teacher hopes to reopen it under the name Downtown Cowtown at the Isis as a performing arts auditorium in the middle of new hotels at the gateway to the redeveloping Stockyards.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

Wire Side Chat: Reporter Reflects on Year as a Teacher «I've come to think that only a radical change can address the deep - seated problems in our poor, inner city schools,» says Christina Asquith, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter who spent a year teaching in a Philadelphia middle school.

«As a former teacher, I don't necessarily have an issue with the contents of the standards themselves, at least for middle and high school,» he says.

Former Newark middle school math teacher Debra Joseph - Charles says the Rutgers training taught her to see her role as that of a guide.

My former middle school students often return to tell me how much they loved the novels we read as a class and how no other teacher since has awakened in them a similar passion for reading.

A former middle and high school math teacher, Star's research has explored the development of flexibility in mathematical problem solving, with flexibility defined as knowledge of multiple strategies for solving mathematics problems and the ability to adaptively choose among known strategies on a particular problem.

As a former high school teacher and principal, Todd became a convert to the middle level movement at an AMLE annual conference.

Rushed APPR plans reviewed by law school students and supervised by a young, former Teach For America grad now Fellow, led to disastrous results such as those of Syracuse, where 40 % of the teachers were rated below effective and no elementary or middle school teacher was found to be highly effective.

As a former teacher at Westlake Middle School, I support G1 because I saw first hand how an art or music class could be the bright spot in a struggling student's tough day.

While the district withdrew as a defendant in the case before the trial started, she was called by the defense in an effort to impeach the testimony of a plaintiffs» witness, Nicholas Melvoin, a former LA Unified teacher at Markham Middle School in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eSchool in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eschool eroded.

She is a former middle school math teacher (Cy - Fair and Alief ISDs) and has served as owner and CEO of a company that fulfills marketing solutions for local businesses in and around the Houston area for the past 8 years.

Great article that my principal had us ESL teachers just read - thank you for your no nonsense outspokenness, and no, Mr Shanahan, ESL will not pull during teacher direct instruction in the content areas until small groups break out - only 30 minutes then - but it's a packed schedule to do it - 8 groups a day 5 days a week to pull for listening / reading and speaking / writing per WIDA some of your comments appreciated much as a former elementary homeschooler and advocate of of ED Hirsch and his cultural literacy - which I've preached since I returned my kids to public schooling in middle school 17 years ago....

Linda has over 45 years of experience in education as a former teacher, assistant principal, director of an alternative middle school in East Harlem, and faculty member of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College in New York City.

Former Gary Community School Corp. teacher and spokeswoman Sarita Stevens has been appointed as principal at the middle and high sSchool Corp. teacher and spokeswoman Sarita Stevens has been appointed as principal at the middle and high schoolschool.

Melvoin, an attorney and former middle - school teacher, campaigned last year for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; Gonez, a seventh - grade science teacher, worked for two years as an education policy adviser for the Obama administration.

A former middle school and high school language arts teacher, Dr. Kist has also served as a language arts and social studies curriculum coordinator, and as a consultant and trainer for school districts across the United States, specializing in technology integration and curriculum mapping.

Several of our former PUC Community Charter Middle School students who are now college graduates have now returned as PUC teachers.

It's been eye - opening to me, as a parent of a two daughters and a former high school history / geography teacher, how much things change between the elementary grades and the middle and high school grades — there were so many opportunities to come in and help out if my schedule allowed (which it often didn't) and to interact with the teachers when my girls were in grade school, but this was completely cutoff by the time they entered 7th grade.

As a former eighth grade English teacher, he saw first - hand that many gifted students who hadn't been reclassified as proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping ouAs a former eighth grade English teacher, he saw first - hand that many gifted students who hadn't been reclassified as proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping ouas proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping out.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

Linda has over 45 years of experience in education as a former teacher, assistant principal, director of an alternative middle school in East Harlem, and faculty member of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College in New York City.

As a former middle school, high school and university Spanish teacher, I developed an appreciation of the stressors which students face and the emotional and psychological effects which often develop.