Sentences with phrase «power over teacher»

The bill, passed by lawmakers this spring, transfers power over the teacher training institutions from the state board of education to two state higher - education governing bodies.

Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.

But other, less - heralded attributes helped just as much, including provisions in the state's 1995 legislation that greatly expanded Vallas's power over teachers and schools; school construction and other appealing initiatives undertaken in part to soften the accountability focus; and characteristics in Vallas that aren't necessarily the trademark of the latest fashion, the big - city superintendent who rides in from another walk of life.

Bobb's legal right to abrogate the district's contract with the union may be the nation's most extreme example of an administrator's power over teachers.

Not exact matches

Teachers have a primary duty to serve their pupils and not to gratify themselves, whether by a sense of power over the lives of others, by the enjoyment of their students» affection and respect, or by the intrinsic stimulus of interesting studies.

They can not respect parents and teachers who either exercise arbitrary power over them or are guided primarily by their wants and wishes.

Lisa, the founder and owner, has been a yoga teacher for over 13 years, with over 5000 hours of teaching experience, and is certified in both power and vinyasa yoga.

First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).

Lawmakers from both parties in the Assembly and Senate have chafed in recent years over Gov. Andrew Cuomo exercising this power over policy in the spending plan, be it pushing through new criteria for teacher evaluations or an increase in the minimum wage the Legislature contends has little to do with the state's overall finances.

And for the money, which the Department of Justice believes topped $ 474,000 over the course of the bribery scheme to help influence the corporate goals of a Maryland - based power company, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a school teacher, worked between two and 15 hours per month.

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

They argue that another one of the defendants, Peter Galbraith Kelly of Competitive Power Ventures, paid off Percoco by hiring Percoco's wife as a teacher in exchange for $ 286,596 over three years.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

Simply Power Yoga has trained over 150 teachers and over 90 % of them are actively creating, teaching and leading classes / programs in the Cincinnati Area or other surrounding areas.

Learn more about Bryan Kest and Power Yoga as he travels around the globe to share over 35 + years of yoga experience, teaching yoga classes, yoga teacher trainings, retreats and workshops along the way.

As a teacher of yoga for over ten years and dedicated student for over 16, I have witnessed the transformational power of yoga on my students — and myself.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

Over and over, I've seen students like this initiate a power struggle to fulfill the script of a teacher - student power dynamic: «I hate school, I'm just going to drop out;» or «This is dumb, I'm not doing this;» or a string of words that I won't repeat hOver and over, I've seen students like this initiate a power struggle to fulfill the script of a teacher - student power dynamic: «I hate school, I'm just going to drop out;» or «This is dumb, I'm not doing this;» or a string of words that I won't repeat hover, I've seen students like this initiate a power struggle to fulfill the script of a teacher - student power dynamic: «I hate school, I'm just going to drop out;» or «This is dumb, I'm not doing this;» or a string of words that I won't repeat here.

Under the reforms, communities gain unprecedented power over local schools» curricula, significant portions of the school day go to arts instruction and community service, and teachers are required to incorporate hands - on, exploratory teaching techniques pioneered by researchers such as HGSE professors Eleanor Duckworth and Howard Gardner.

Students can grow frustrated by not feeling ownership over their learning, and can get trapped in a power struggle with teachers over choice and direction with learning.

Elite tenure, for the top 10 — 25 %, would confer status to the deserving, open doors to paid instructional career opportunities, and give power over future decisions to top teachers who would be motivated to maintain a high standard.

My conclusion is that the current impulse to curtail the influence of the teachers unions may return some powers to management that over the years have gravitated to the unions.

He pushed to award principals more discretion over budgets and the power to assemble strong teams of teachers, reforms largely thwarted by the UTLA.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Why would any self - respecting teacher be willing to give Chancellor Klein even more power over his or her professional life?

Included in the pack are checklists for: - Questioning - Differentiation - Utilising Resources (including support staff)- Engagement - Building Literacy Skills - Planning and Expectations - Building Learning Power - A blank template for you to design your own based upon your own focus Note: The checklists offer a range of desirable strategies that teachers should look to implement over time - it would be damaging to expect teachers to utilise each of these strategies in every lesson!

The answer, again, is that the teachers unions are opposed to performance - based evaluations (as are most districts), and they have used their power over the years to stand in the way of genuine reform.

The bureaucrats in a white - majority state were cast as having usurped administrative power over a district in which 9 out of 10 students were African American, as were many teachers, politicians, and contractors.

Generally, school autonomy seems to have a positive impact — but only when schools are given extensive decision - making powers over the purchase of supplies, the hiring and rewarding of teachers, and the choosing of instructional methods.

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

One held that problem policies like zero tolerance, general abuse of administrative power, class size, and concerns over having qualified teachers, etc., all need to be addressed — that, basically, the system needs to be reformed.

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

In my role at the Institute for Outdoor Learning I've seen a steady increase in interest in how to harness the power of outdoor learning amongst teachers, instructors, youth workers and coaches over the past few years.

Councils currently have control over recruitment of teaching staff and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) argues that handing this power over to head teachers will allow them boost performance.

I think schools would definitely improve if these types of teachers, who exist at most schools, were permitted to have more power over decisions at their school sites.

For decades, teachers unions have used their political power to exert enormous control over the country's education system.

The teachers, meanwhile, will have power over curriculum decisions that used to be left to the board.

Greater power over the curriculum and the choice of texts has been a long - standing goal of the California teachers unions, which have sought, unsuccessfully, to pass state legislation that would have placed the issue squarely into collective bargaining negotiations.

Teacher organizations, at the same time, asserted their right to bargain collectively and to strike, which brought them unprecedented power over schools and school systems.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

As you might expect, with this kind of power, the teachers unions usually have their grubby paws all over school board races.

When the teachers had little authority or power over instructional decision - making, or when administrators were controlled by district staff, an «assessment - as - test» mentality drove instruction.

From the sounds of it, Duncan has just handed teachers unions throughout the country virtual veto power over future Race to the Top grants.

Come to think of it, the only thing teachers have power over is classroom mark.

This process has been meaningful to parents for decades, but it's been increasingly pushed aside as school districts like CPS give standardized test scores more and more power over students, teachers and schools.

To give individual states the power over student / teacher PII.

The case also became a battle over the power of teacher unions to preserve protections that are not always available to other public employees.