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Recently teachers in my district were a little upset that Title I funds will be used to hire noncredentialed artists for an afterschool arts program.

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In the piece, writer and advocate Stacy Malkan explains how California's West Contra Costa Unified School District recently finished up a «Conscious Kitchen» pilot program that brought fresh, local and organically grown breakfasts and lunches to 1,200 students and teachers at two of its schools.

District enrollment is stable, said Superintendent Theresa Dunkin, at an estimated 2,000 students in Wheeling and Buffalo Grove with 200 teachers who recently settled a new contract.

The district also recently created the Urban Fellowship Program as a way of attracting prospective minority teachers to work in the district, Persampieri said.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Union leaders with the Buffalo Teachers Federation recently announced they've agreed on an arbitrator in its dispute over City Honors with the Buffalo Public School District.

Alicea has worked in the district for thirty three years, starting out as a kindergarten teacher's assistant and moving up to most recently the district's chief operations officer.

The New York State board of Regents, after a lengthy closed door session, chose MaryEllen Elia, a former western New York school teacher who was most recently the superintendent of a large school district in Florida.

Requests for STEM volunteers to assist teachers in classrooms around Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia were recently published by The Washington Post.

In addition, Russell Quaglia, president and founder of the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, and Lisa Lande, executive director of the Teacher Voice and Aspirations International Center, have recently proposed three steps that school and district leaders can take to ensure teacher voice is represented in decision - makinIn addition, Russell Quaglia, president and founder of the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, and Lisa Lande, executive director of the Teacher Voice and Aspirations International Center, have recently proposed three steps that school and district leaders can take to ensure teacher voice is represented in decision - Teacher Voice and Aspirations International Center, have recently proposed three steps that school and district leaders can take to ensure teacher voice is represented in decision - teacher voice is represented in decision - makinin decision - making:

As the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently reported, «In 22 school districts whose Q Comp practices were analyzed by the Star Tribune in 2009, more than 99 percent of teachers in the program received merit raises during the preceding school yeaIn 22 school districts whose Q Comp practices were analyzed by the Star Tribune in 2009, more than 99 percent of teachers in the program received merit raises during the preceding school yeain 2009, more than 99 percent of teachers in the program received merit raises during the preceding school yeain the program received merit raises during the preceding school year.

The case has been closely watched, in part because similar legal disputes have arisen recently in at least two other school districts, including one in Dover, Pa., where a group of teachers has objected...

A teacher in our local school district recently posted a question on one of our discussion boards: «I'm having a difficult time coming up with ideas on how to give my students more responsibility and freedom in my classroom.

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

Recently, Glazerman et al. reported that even after being offered a $ 20,000 bonus to move to a high - need school in their district, only 3.5 percent of middle school teachers in the top quintile of effectiveness and 7 percent of similarly ranked elementary teachers were willing to transfer.

Once a fourth - grade teacher, I recently began my work as an elementary assistant principal in another district.

Two related reports, in conjunction with the district's superintendent, were recently released, one focused on teachers and human capital, the other on graduation rates and college readiness.

Many district leaders who have recently adopted the idea say that it gives them an advantage in competing for teachers, who understandably like the idea of the same pay for 20 percent fewer days at work.

More recently, The Third Circuit, in a case from Pennsylvania, affirmed a school board's motion for summary judgment in response to a teacher's claim that officials violated her free speech rights for terminating her employment over comments she posted on her blog (Munroe v. Central Bucks School District, 2015).

Teacher shortages have been in the news recently, as many school districts started the school year with vacancies, particularly in the science, mathematics, and special education fields.

She has served in a number of different capacities, including teacher, director, district manager, and most recently, director of education and curriculum.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of EdDistrict of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Not the worst teachers in the district, but the most recently hired.

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) recently looked at professional development in large school districts and a charter school network and concluded that «We found no evidence that any particular kind or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers improve.»

The Indianapolis school board and teachers union recently became the first in the country to include Opportunity Culture roles in their new contract, offering pay supplements of up to $ 18,300 — 35 percent of the district's average salary.

In some settings district leaders reported a shift: initially, an emphasis on developing principals «expertise in data use; next, an emphasis on training selected teachers in each school as resident experts; and, more recently, an emphasis on encouraging and supporting data use by classroom teachers, working in teamIn some settings district leaders reported a shift: initially, an emphasis on developing principals «expertise in data use; next, an emphasis on training selected teachers in each school as resident experts; and, more recently, an emphasis on encouraging and supporting data use by classroom teachers, working in teamin data use; next, an emphasis on training selected teachers in each school as resident experts; and, more recently, an emphasis on encouraging and supporting data use by classroom teachers, working in teamin each school as resident experts; and, more recently, an emphasis on encouraging and supporting data use by classroom teachers, working in teamin teams.

The Ontario Ministry of Education and many school districts have recently made some significant strides in leveraging the role of the school library learning commons and teacher - librarians in implementing inquiry - based learning, character education and digital literacy, yet the funding and staffing disconnect continues.

Judy O'Neal serves as our Director of Advanced Academics and comes to us with over 30 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, campus administrator, district Gifted and Talented education facilitator, and most recently as an advanced academics specialist at the regional level.

To learn more about how Troy's teachers and students achieved such impressive growth, my colleagues, Terry Ryan and Marc Carignan, and I recently visited with students, teachers, and district leaders in Troy.

I just played with some numbers recently, and I think they go something like this: if every teacher in a district got better by two percentile points every year, that over a 10 year period of time, you can expect student achievement to rise, you know, rather dramatically.

As recently as the 2004 legislative session, the state made substantial additional progress in creating tools to help students, teachers and school districts succeed.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

More recently, in many districts teachers» salaries have been reduced as a result of unpaid furlough days, cuts in benefits, and other cost cutting moves.

Most recently superintendent of Norwalk - La Mirada school district, Perez has also served as a teacher and administrator in Florida and as chief academic officer for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg public schools in North Carolina.

Seven music teachers from the Syracuse City School District were recently recognized in the magazine Teaching Music for their initiative to save the strings program in the dDistrict were recently recognized in the magazine Teaching Music for their initiative to save the strings program in the districtdistrict.

La Cañada Unified teachers have a lot to look forward to in the coming school year, after recently approved negotiations with the district's bargaining team netted district employees an across - the - board raise and created a new incentives program for outstanding educators willing to take on extra work...

Justin has 9 years of teaching experience, most recently as a secondary math teacher in the Dodge City School District.

Recently, teachers in Armstrong School District in western Pennsylvania discovered how fundamentally a focus on formative assessment can transform students» sense of control over their learning — as well as fuel teacher learning.

Recently, teams of teachers in a Florida school district learned TERC's Using Data process of collaborative inquiry.

«This program will not only help you connect your classroom experience to the policies being made in Sacramento and in your local district, but it will empower you with the knowledge and skills to become a true teacher leader, representing your school and charter teachers across the state,» said Keith Dell «Aquila, who recently joined CCSA as Director, Teacher Engagement after 6 years teaching at PUC Schools in Los Ateacher leader, representing your school and charter teachers across the state,» said Keith Dell «Aquila, who recently joined CCSA as Director, Teacher Engagement after 6 years teaching at PUC Schools in Los ATeacher Engagement after 6 years teaching at PUC Schools in Los Angeles.

At Englewood's Harper High, where Michelle Obama recently visited in response to a public radio series about 29 current and former students being shot in a year's time, district data show administrators falling behind on teacher observations where Hancock is ahead of schedule.

, which is supporting the district's involvement with a recently launched STEM teacher - fellowship program in Michigan.

FARMINGTON — Two Davis School District teachers recently joined eight other teachers in the state receiving the Utah Education Association Excellence in Teaching Award.

Steele, who has nearly 30 years of experience as a teacher, high school principal and district administrator, recently joined ConnectEd to serve in this position.

An analysis by Georgetown University's Edunomics Lab recently suggested that, at least in theory, districts could save money and improve student learning by offering the most effective teachers higher salaries to take on slightly larger classes.

We sought input from teachers who are currently or have recently been involved in either formal or informal teacher leadership programs at state, district or school levels — and coincidentally, three of the four work in Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools, the largest district in Kentucky with more than 150 schools and representing both urban and suburban settings.

Throughout 2010, districts not only will gain access to the tools and training necessary to begin work in this area, but the recently passed legislation, the First to The Top Act, mandates the development and use of an annual multiple - measure teacher and principal effectiveness evaluation.

In Oklahoma, her equity center work has recently included teacher assistance for student engagement and achievement at a majority African American elementary school and technical assistance to a school district as it reviewed and redesigned its services district - wide for ELs.

Recently, NoVo awarded $ 1 million in grants to teachers and school districts to implement systems that promote social and emotional learning through the Social Emotional Learning Innovation Fund.

Joyce Senters recently joined CEC in 2014 and will be involved in the development and consultative training with districts in the areas of teacher effectiveness, mentoring of special education leadership and co-teaching.

The seven states to recently receive the waivers in exchange for instituting state - developed reforms that focus on college and career readiness, improvements in the lowest - performing schools, and teacher effectiveness are Arizona, the District of Columbia, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, and South Carolina.