Sentences with phrase «city teachers take»

The certification pathway that New York City teachers took to their classrooms seemed to have little relationship to how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000 teachers with six years of test results.

Not exact matches

The city's Palmer Park Preparatory Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take over administrative duties.

Mr. Bucher spent 12 years as a class teacher at the City of Lakes Waldorf School in Minneapolis where he took a class through grades 1 - 8.

The measure is opposed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose lobbying efforts today have already been setback after the GOP - led Senate announced it would take up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's teacher evaluation disclosure bill, a measure his office also opposes.

NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

Her journey has taken her from the Julliard School in New York to the Royal College of Music in London and back to Rochester where, in 1975, she embarked on a thirty one year career as a music teacher with the Rochester City School District.

Quinn tells WBFO News he believes the powerful New York State United Teachers Union has taken over the city school board, influencing the majority members.

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

Buffalo Public School principals and teachers are going to be notified they have to take classroom attendance, once the memo completes its path through the City Hall bureaucracy.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

A large coalition of early childhood education advocates and elected officials took to the City Hall steps on Wednesday to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio — again — to fund pay parity between teachers at all pre-Kindergarten and day care centers in New York City.

City Honors teachers are being asked to take on more duties such as study hall and lunch monitoring.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg took aim on Wednesday at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to speed up a teacher - evaluation system, a day after the city was surprised by the governor's plan.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

The principals union took legal action and won back the right to their placards — but the city decided to give the permits to teachers, as well, according to the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators.

In the remaining nine months of 2014, pro-charter groups focused more on strengthening accountability measures for teachers and pushing the state and city to take immediate action to fix failing schools.

Billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg took a hard line, refusing to ink a deal with the Teachers (UFT) after the Wall Street meltdown, and eventually left 350,000 city employees in 152 unions working under expired agreements.

Indeed, some of the most important decisions that affect city parents, students and teachers are taken in the State Senate and Assembly in Albany.

It takes more than just a shiny apple to satisfy the city's teachers union, which is spending member dues at a furious pace.

«DFS has decided to take a new approach to pension fund oversight,» Lawsky wrote in letters to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, the trustees of the Teachers Retirement System, and New York City Comptroller John Liu, who runs the city's fuCity Comptroller John Liu, who runs the city's fucity's funds.

Beyond probationary periods, certification requirements and evaluations, education reform leaders are looking to take on larger long - term sticking points between their groups and New York's city and state teachers» union, including merit pay.

The city's new Parks Commissioner, Veronica White, is best known for her controversial anti-poverty experiments, including trying to pay poor people to attend parent - teacher conferences and take their kids to the dentist.

Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration on Monday for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation may have taken a major hit Monday when the new state education commissioner backed a receivership plan for five failing city schools.

MANHATTAN — The city's teachers union has taken to the airwaves once again with a new ad blasting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education record as the two sides remain locked in a stalemate over teacher evaluations.

Buffalo School Board Member Theresa Harris - Tigg has a different take on what's going wrong, based on her student teachers from SUNY Buffalo State in city schools.

The union is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 years.

With the city facing a multibillion dollar shortfall — and the Bloomberg administration demanding further cuts, the United Federation of Teachers went on the offense today, with a study it says shows that fiscal constraints already have taken a toll on the city's more than 1.1 million students.

The drama has even led to proxy fights between the police unions and United Federation of Teachers — which took the first major contract with the city, setting a precedent for all other unions that uniformed unions have rejected because it contains some years without raises.

ALBANY - The head of the city teachers union is taking aim at Gov. Cuomo's upcoming trip to Cuba, saying if the governor has time to visit the tiny Caribbean country next month he should be able to visit a classroom in New York.

On Jan. 15 the UFT was informed by the mediator appointed by the state's Public Employment Relations Board that the city and the Department of Education have refused to take part in mediation designed to help us reach an agreement on a new model for teacher evaluations.

Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

My intention is to launch a non-profit so that I can take yoga to at - risk youth in inner city schools and their teachers.

Since then I have been taking classes in another city near Seattle and have found a teacher who consistently asks each of her students to work the poses to find the alignment or stretch that we benefit from and not make it look pretty.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14 - year - old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents» relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

4:00 pm — TCM — Blackboard Jungle Glenn Ford is the teacher who takes on rowdy inner - city kids in one of the earlier «heroic teacher» films.

The public release of value - added scores for 18,000 New York City teachers last week should not be taken as a model for how to run the human resource departments of the schools.

As hundreds of teachers gather in - person at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBC News is also inviting teachers from across the country to join the conversation virtually by registering to take part in the conversation at EducationNation.com.

With this logic in mind, we examined the effect of the New York City school - wide merit pay program at schools with different numbers of teachers with test - taking students.

Few sessions through the web and the teachers will be required to come to the nearest city with a decent internet connection to take the sessions.

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

State Test Scores Flat, City's Rise After Another Year of Tougher Exams WNYC, August 8, 2011» «Teachers have been telling us that they've been taking shortcuts in surveys for more than 20 years,» said Dan Koretz, a Harvard education professor who's been studying state exams.»

Ted Nellen, an English teacher at Murry Bergtraum High School of Business Careers in New York City, takes the last approach.

Himself whip - smart and politically savvy, Brill made instant news when he took on the city's teachers union in a 2009 New Yorker story about the city's notorious «rubber rooms,» where bad teachers went to soak up full salaries while doing nothing.

«If you really follow the Data Wise model,» City says, «the principal begins to allow teachers to take leadership roles in helping to frame what the instructional challenges are and how the school is going to address them.

She taught middle school humanities in several New York City public schools for 11 years and took on various leadership positions serving as a director of middle school curriculum and instruction, curriculum developer, project advisor, and teacher mentor.

The grant enabled six New York City elementary and middle schools to take advantage of WIDE's online and onsite professional development courses for teachers and school leaders.

Farina is notoriously in the thrall of Lucy Calkins of Teachers» College, a literacy guru whose approach to reading failed a generation of city kids and was wisely dumped by the New York City Department of Education before Farina took over and resurrectedcity kids and was wisely dumped by the New York City Department of Education before Farina took over and resurrectedCity Department of Education before Farina took over and resurrected it.