Sentences with phrase «citywide teacher»

Through our Citywide Teacher Engagement Survey, our Teacher Advisory Group learned a lot about the needs of Oakland teachers.

Our Teacher Advisory Group, citywide teacher survey, and retention grants put Oakland teachers in the driver's seat to identify gaps and implement solutions, because research shows that engaging educators at the school level can increase teacher retention [2] and even lead to ideas for broader system - wide fixes.

Our Annual Citywide Teacher Survey is another way we strive to support teachers.

To understand what affects our teachers» engagement and satisfaction, Educate78's Teacher Advisory Group is leading a citywide teacher retention survey.

We offer a special shout out to those who are actively engaged in making our city a great place to teach — through our Teacher Advisory Group and Citywide teacher retention survey.

For example, Denver Public Schools helps analyze citywide teacher pipeline data for both traditional schools and charter schools in the city.

Principal Teri Stokes shared that her school's PTA nominates a teacher to represent the school — Weatherly Heights Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama — in the citywide Teacher of the Year program.

The result was a citywide teachers» strike in 2012 that shuttered classes and inconvenienced parents for over a week, even as Chicago public schools continue to struggle.

Not exact matches

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

At 7:50 a.m., as part of today's citywide «Protect Our Schools» demonstrations, Manhattan Councilman Ben Kallos, families and teachers participate in rallies to express opposition to state government proposals concerning standardized testing and teacher evaluations, P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson, 419 E. 66th St., Manhattan.

Renegade NYC public school teachers have been sending emails to parents the past week encouraging them to boycott the state English and math Common Core exams being administered citywide starting tomorrow.

April 19 — May 8 — Presidents, Treasurers, and Recording Secretaries of Parent Associations and Parent - Teacher Associations vote for the new Community and Citywide Education Council Members for the 2015 - 2017 term.

Today, StudentsFirstNY launched a citywide TV and social media campaign to urge city officials and teachers union leaders to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system before the January 17 deadline.

StudentsFirstNY launched a citywide campaign to urge local leaders to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

Two - thirds of students are still not receiving an arts education that meets state guidelines, according to a recent audit by State Comptroller diNapoli, and half of our teachers citywide told us in a recent UFT survey that their schools did not have the curriculum and materials they need to teach lessons aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards.

Gloria Corsino, the president of the Citywide Education Council for District 75, said Cuomo's proposals would discourage people from becoming teachers.

Alford also asked the council to fund Teacher's Choice this year and to support the citywide BRAVE anti-bullying hotline.

Jaye Bea Smalley, a longtime disabilities advocate who serves as co-president of the Citywide Council on Special Education, will join the Upper West Side's Community Board 7; the Rev. Keith Fennessy, a fifth - generation New Yorker and pastor of St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea, will join Community Board 4; and Sabrina Francis, an opera singer and music teacher at Round the Clock Daycare, will join Harlem's Community Board 9.

Jonathan FickiesGloria Corsino, the president of the Citywide Education Council for District 75, said Cuomo's proposals would discourage people from becoming teachers.

ChangetheStakes.org, a citywide grassroots organization, is one of the groups helping to promote an important discussion on high stakes testing, the Common Core curriculum and teacher evaluations this Wednesday at Lehman College in the Bronx.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

A citywide teaching shortage had caused the Board of Education to relax the hiring rules, enabling Stuyvesant's principal to hire unlicensed teachers like Simion.

As the leaders of the United Teachers of Los Angeles laid the groundwork for a possible strike, a citywide coalition last week released a draft plan for restructuring the troubled school district.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

The network aims to help a small cadre of teachers help each other successfully integrate select PL components in their own classrooms with the goal of amplifying those teachers» learning schoolwide and, ultimately, citywide.

I encouraged the staff to share their successes, publicly praised good teaching, and successfully advocated for a record - breaking number of citywide Golden Apple awards for Mather teachers.

A new, more - intensive teacher - evaluation program, developed and piloted largely without rancor during the previous year, was implemented citywide.

But she's already hired Calkins to lead citywide training for DOE literacy teachers.

Following the 2012 enactment of a landmark bullying prevention law, Washington, D.C., has taken a more comprehensive approach to youth bullying than many other cities — an approach that sees prevention as not solely the responsibility of teachers or parents, but as a citywide mandate with shared responsibilities.

Parent - teacher conference dates are citywide however, some schools may hold their conferences on alternative dates.

Klein also gave schools A through F letter grades based on student performance, ended the teachers» union's practices of letting teachers pick schools based on their seniority, and established a citywide curriculum.

Next Saturday join parents, community memebrs, and teachers for the Citywide Local School Council Summit.

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

More than 200 teachers from 17 district schools spent Tuesday at a training run by Uncommon Schools, which has 21 charters citywide.

More than 20 percent of teachers at the 94 struggling schools that are part of the city's ambitious «School Renewal» program received the two lowest ratings on the state - mandated evaluation system last year, compared to less than 10 percent of teachers citywide who received those ratings — «developing» or «ineffective.»

June 14, 2017 (Chicago)- Educators for Excellence - Chicago (E4E - Chicago), a teacher - led organization, released its policy paper, «Sounding the Alarm: Building the Climate and Culture our Students Need,» at an event that brought together over 150 Chicago educators and representatives from health care, criminal justice, education and city and state government to explore how Chicagoans can better support students struggling with issues such as citywide violence, food instability and homelessness.

I'd love to see these programs expanded citywide, so that all students — and teachers — can see the difference they make.»

Our research study on a citywide initiative to increase teacher leadership opportunities offers an example of Eskolta's research work focused on understanding how district policy rollout affects educators and can be improved.

Teachers at any level who receive a rating of «highly effective,» putting them in the top tier of teachers citywide, could become «master teachers,» who mentor newer teachers in exchange for exTeachers at any level who receive a rating of «highly effective,» putting them in the top tier of teachers citywide, could become «master teachers,» who mentor newer teachers in exchange for exteachers citywide, could become «master teachers,» who mentor newer teachers in exchange for exteachers,» who mentor newer teachers in exchange for exteachers in exchange for extra pay.

Join parents, teachers, students, public school workers, clergy, activists and others in the three day citywide march across the city.

Prior to serving on the school board he held a leadership position for eight years with the local, state, and district parent teacher association to include President of the Petersburg Citywide Council of PTAs with oversight for 10 local units.

Boston Globe: Citywide teaching collaborative brings public, charter, Catholic school teachers together https://t.co/sOGokRY6Xk

By 2016 — 17, there were 1,236 teacher leaders across 482 schools, many involved in several key citywide initiatives.

Now, remarkably, Morris Academy students are more likely than their peers citywide to say they feel safe in school and believe that their teachers care about them.

Citywide elections would be no better, as teachers unions have a proven track record of dominating such elections.

For the second year in a row, New York City ExpandED Schools outperformed citywide in rankings by parents, teachers and students of their schools» safety, communication, engagement and academic expectations.

Through the Inspired Teacher Certification Program to train aspiring teachers, partnerships for standards - aligned, inquiry - based trainings for inservice teachers, and the citywide Real World History course, Inspired Teaching is building a better school experience for students.

Recent initiatives include: 1) implementing a citywide special education strategy to support teachers and leaders in providing high - quality services to students with disabilities 2) supporting the expansion of personalized instruction and innovative integration of technology in the classroom and 3) building a sustainable pipeline of high - quality teachers by supporting innovative pathways into the profession.

This survey informs citywide and site - level discussions about teacher retention and how to keep the excellent talent here in Oakland.

Our citywide sample score of 3.87 (on a scale of 1 - 5) places Oakland teachers in the 36th percentile of all organizations in Gallup's database, an increase of 2 percentile points from last year.