Sentences with phrase «teachers and school administrators tell»

Teachers and school administrators tell us that many city school students do not have pleasure reading books at home.

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«They thought it was important to be at school the next day, to mourn those who had been lost and to show that terror would not stop us, would not change us,» the mayor told reporters outside Stuyvesant Thursday morning after he and Fariña met with students, teachers, guidance counselors and administrators.

Adrien Brody is currently shooting Detachment in New York (Queens and Long Island), a film that chronicles the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students as told through the eye of a substitute teacher.

Everyday on the news we hear the negatives of schools in our area, but I'm here to tell you that I met a ton of teachers and administrators that care about what they do and how they do it.

It's hard to tell School Director Mark DiBella and his fellow administrators from the teachers at YES Prep North Central.

«As the technology integrator at our K - 5 elementary school, I am in charge of teaching teachers and administrators, if necessary, to use computers,» Linda George of the Dondero School told Education school, I am in charge of teaching teachers and administrators, if necessary, to use computers,» Linda George of the Dondero School told Education School told Education World.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

«A school administrator,» he wrote, «can not watch teachers teach (except through classroom visits that momentarily may change the teacher's behavior) and can not tell how much students have learned (except by standardized tests that do not clearly differentiate between what the teacher has imparted and what the student has acquired otherwise).»

«What I want to do is to reduce taxes for people and to invest in the education of their children and their own training and skills so we can go forward and grow this economy,» Mr. Clinton told students, teachers, and administrators at a new school that is the first named after him.

For school administrators, coping with teachers» leaving for war will continue to be a problem as long as the Iraq conflict requires U.S. troops — and there's no telling how long that will be.

Bergey, who teaches fifth grade at Twentynine Palms Elementary School, in Twentynine Palms, California, told Education World that teachers and administrators at her school decided to focus on student writing during the comingSchool, in Twentynine Palms, California, told Education World that teachers and administrators at her school decided to focus on student writing during the comingschool decided to focus on student writing during the coming year.

A former Costano teacher told the paper that a school administrator had encouraged him to cheat on the exams, and a subsequent examination of the students» actual answer sheets revealed an unusually high number of erasure marks where answers had been changed from wrong to right.

Called Book Banter, administrators at Central Elementary School in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confeSchool in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confeschool told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confeSchool Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

In her book Ghetto Schooling, Jean Anyon, former chairperson of the education department at Rutgers University — Newark, describes administrators at a typical school in 1992 and 1993 as buck - passing incompetents and teachers as tough and resentful of outsiders (especially white ones) looking to tell them how to do their jobs.

, Jean Anyon, former chairperson of the education department at Rutgers University — Newark, describes administrators at a typical school in 1992 and 1993 as buck - passing incompetents and teachers as tough and resentful of outsiders (especially white ones) looking to tell them how to do their jobs.

Students, parent, other teachers and staff, administrators, school board members and even our superintendent have come back to tell me this educational opportunity created more learning than anything else I have done in my 17 years of teaching.

The change leaders — both teachers and administrators — whose stories Reeves tells come from varied districts, but they share a passion for creating schools that work for all students.

School administrators and teachers tell students that the path to success is paved with good grades.

Ken Futernick, Director of the WestEd School Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievSchool Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievschool and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievement.

District officials leading the effort told the committee that preparing students for the state tests, known as the Next Generation Science Standards, will require 90 teachers and administrators to be trained for a Science Leadership Team, and 1,000 teachers (at least one for every school) to serve as a lead science teacher.

While poverty and language barriers continue to be the greatest factors influencing educational outcomes, the education reformers from the Governor's Office and the Commissioner's Office, on down, continue to tell us that if we just close schools, dump the administrators and teachers and open them back up under new names and new management, all will be well.

I have been asking students, teachers, administrators, parents and others lately — When you have just a couple of sentences to say something about your school or your district — what do you tell people?

Yet school districts, school administrators, teachers and parents are going to be told that they should use the 2015 SBAC results to identify students with problems.

If you had a child in the Madison, Connecticut public schools you'd have a superintendent, school administrators and Board of Education that was committed to telling the truth about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing System and dedicated to putting children, parents, teachers and their public schools above the Corporate Education Reform Industry's ongoing attempt to undermine public education in the United States.

But a panel of three teachers and a school district administrator told the Assembly Education Committee at a hearing in Sacramento earlier this month that they couldn't get a clear picture of students» progress because the reports they received on how students did on the interim assessments lacked enough detail to be useful.

Just like the SBAC website itself, school administrators and teachers only know what they have been told by the test company promoting its product.

Malloy failed to tell the public that Connecticut already has one of the longest teacher probation periods in the nation (4 years) and the major teacher evaluation reforms that became law in 2010 will finally require school administrators to do their job and remove teachers who are not up to the job.