Sentences with phrase «teachers grant more»

Teachers grant more validity to classroom assessment results, classroom observations, homework completion and quality, and students» class participation and behavior than administrators do (Guskey, 2007).

Not exact matches

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

Granted, it takes more time for some of us... I shook so badly the first time on stage, my 12th grade teacher kindly helped me continue a bit further... and then, walked me off carefully.

The federal government has assisted the movement through a grant of the National Institute of Health for more than $ 20,000, to educate public school teachers in TM.

In addition, teachers whose students» test scores are consistently low; those who have failed to secure their teaching certificates on time; those who haven't had a permanent position for six months or more; those who've faced department probes leading to substantiated allegations of misconduct; and those granted an extension regarding tenure could also be dismissed.

It would cut more than $ 2 billion in grants for teacher training and class - size reduction and would reduce after - school grants from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1 billion.

In its review of the contract, Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group of teachers that often was aligned with the Bloomberg administration's goals, gave the contract a barely passing grade and said it «overlooked several critical issues,» such as class sizes and a tenure - granting process that the group believes ought to be more closely linked to teacher performance.

The de Blasio administration's tactic of granting tenure to more teachers changes a course set by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who reduced the portion of eligible teachers getting tenure to a low of 53 % during the 2012 - 13 school year.

Several New York state universities are being given grants to preserve historical records and make them more accessible to students, teachers and others.

In other areas, such as a proposal to change seniority rules for school teachers or allocate $ 500 million next year in competitive school aid grants, a column titled «Compromise (if any)» is left blank, suggesting more distance between the three leaders at the time the memo was prepared.

His grant - funded project, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA), helped more than 100 ELA and social studies teachers in Oakland bring action civics inside their classrooms from 2011 through 2015.

Granted, there are mechanisms in place to evaluate teacher performance, but many of these value - added measures feel more like punch lists than professional reviews.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

Now in its 23rd year, the ASG NEiTA acknowledges the great work teachers do in their communities, both in Australia and New Zealand and has recognised more than 30,000 teachers and distributed more than $ 940,000 in professional development grants.

Rebele and co-author Adam Grant, a Wharton professor who also authored a 2013 book, Give and Take, say while helpful people are generally more successful, teachers have to find «effective, or self - protective ways of giving.»

The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.

Teachers in reach roles can earn anywhere from about $ 4,500 to $ 23,000 more next year for helping more students and leading peers — all within budget, so the money won't disappear when a grant ends.

The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has made more than $ 1 million in three - year grants to scholarship funds, teacher - development programs, and other activities at inner - city Catholic schools.

Grant me one wish to change the schools, and I would not ask for more or better content, for smaller classes or longer school years, for sager teachers or saner parents, or even for more money.

This grant allows us to undertake rigorous research to learn more about how teachers can best support their peers» instructional improvement.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

The Department for Education (DfE) responded to the figures by saying it had granted teachers more powers to «tackle poor behaviour and discipline», by scrapping «no touch» rules to allow teachers to remove disruptive pupils from the classroom and ensuring a school's decision on exclusions can not be overruled.

When time came to resubmit a proposal for a $ 200,000 state grant, which they had received each of the past six years, they came up with a plan to infuse more developmental activities into the kindergarten program, provide more professional development for teachers, and buy instructional materials.

Not only has President Barack Obama announced a $ 250 million public - private initiative to recruit and train more STEM teachers, but also the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund grants competition is giving bonus points for applications that stress STEM instruction.

President Bush has signed legislation that authorizes more spending for college student aid, makes more students eligible for grants and loans, and creates financial - aid, teacher - training, and early - intervention programs.

«Teachers at the school can apply for grants,» principal Tony Pallija told Education World, «and, this year, Hoover Vacuum matched the district's contribution of more than $ 200,000 to create a state - of - the - art TV studio that just opened.»

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

After receiving the grant, we interviewed and surveyed more than 100 computer teachers who had students with special needs in their classes.

Pell Grants for Kids would provide more federal dollars for schools while also encouraging more local control - I mean more control by parents and teachers - over how that money is spent.

Congress acted again in 2007 to provide more loan forgiveness, creating the TEACH Grant program for teachers and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF), which benefits teachers and other public employees.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

While the Teacher Intern Program is not a degree - granting program, HTH does offer master's degrees through its Graduate School of Education (more on that below).

Spencer: For the 2004 - 2005 academic year, the SHOPA Kids In Need Foundation awarded more than $ 77,000 to 180 teachers from a field of more than 1,800 grant applications.

One teacher said: «In a world of great political upheaval in which previous conventions have been swept away and nothing can be taken for granted, it is all the more vital that young people have a voice and know how to use it.

Be sure to check out other content on the subject, including «Five - Minute Film Festival: Travel for Teachers» and «No - Cost Teacher Travel» for more grant - writing tips and funding sources.

And Louisiana describes how 16 rural districts will receive funding via the U.S. Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund grant to offer more competitive compensation structures.

They have already hired more than 1,200 teachers as a result of the waiver allowing them to use the federal grant.

The report shows how to turn the great majority of federal funding distributed to states and districts — Title I and Title II grants — into investments likely to pay off in educational and economic benefits, by reinventing such formula grants as targeted tools that extend excellent teachers» reach in financially sustainable ways, and more effectively direct funds to the students who need them most.

Structure competitive grants to induce districts and states to shift to transformative school designs that reach more students with excellent teachers and the teams they lead.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

In addition to grant writing, teachers gained access to more technology through rethinking the tools they already had available to them.

More specifically, using Title II, Part A funds, Tennessee will provide Diversity Innovation Planning Grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the purpose of developing and implementing recruitment plans that intentionally work to diversify the teacher pipelines.

States» applications to secure one of the federal grants will be scored on the basis of more than 30 selection criteria, involving such education improvement priorities as school turnaround, teacher and principal effectiveness, and encouragement of high - quality charter schools.

In addition, we've supplied more than $ 1.5 million in Teacher Innovation Grants to create innovative best practices.

Grant proposal includes a clearly defined strategy to improve teacher satisfaction and retention at the school site that results in more great teaching and student learning.

Despite ample research indicating that teachers matter more to student achievement than any other in - school factor, 32 both the Trump - DeVos budget and the House appropriations bill proposed eliminating the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grant program, often referred to as Title II grants after the section of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that authorizes the funding.

Prior to Aveson, Kate was a teacher, district administrator and an educational consultant through the Comprehensive School Reform Grant program... Read more...

In granting waivers from NCLB's requirements, the Obama administration further pushed a federal agenda that included Common Core standards and more reliable teacher evaluations.

All three agreed that public education is underfunded, more transparency is needed in school funding, more investment is needed in early education, and teachers need at least three years of experience before granted tenure.