Sentences with phrase «top teacher award»

The work she has done and patience she has shown to help students overcome speech issues are what landed her WISN 12's Top Teacher award for March.

The work she has done and patience she has shown to help students overcome speech issues are what landed her WISN 12's Top Teacher award.

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He received a recent teaching award as one of five of the top university teachers in Ontario.

The Cherokee County School District has won top Georgia PTA Awards for school nurses, teachers and school PTAs!

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

The teacher evaluation requirement originated in 2010 after New York was awarded a grant of nearly $ 700 million under the federal Race to the Top program.

The governor also touted the state's new teacher evaluation system, which he championed, as it was a requirement of New York's $ 750 million Race To The Top federal grant award.

Top teachers in New York have long been eligible for their share of awards and plaudits, including Teacher of the Year honors and a national certification that brings higher pay.

A total of 12 individuals and teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly $ 1 million.

My hopes are to encourage you to start a Teacher of Promise Award (TOP Award) program at your school or in your district just as I did.

So the Teacher of Promise award, or TOP award, has the purpose of honoring those first or second year teachers for putting in tremendous effort to impacting the students» lives, connect with staff members and for unwavering dedication to the best profession.

Commenting on the announcement, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «We welcome the announcement today on awarding the top grades for new GCSEs.

Mr Woo, the 2018 Australia's Local Hero in the Australian of the Year Awards, was recently named one of the top 10 teachers in the world in the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize.

• Hope Street Group, a consulting firm that was instrumental in formulating Race to the Top, sponsors a Teaching Fellows program that awards $ 5,000 stipends for teachers who are involved in implementing reforms, such as rigorous teacher evaluations, in their respective states.

On Top of the News City Ends Teacher Performance Bonuses New York Daily News 07/18/11 Behind the Headline Does Whole - School Performance Pay Improve Student Learning Education Next Spring 2011 New York City has officially ended a three - year, $ 56 million program that awarded bonuses to teachers based on schoolwide performance.

According to founder Heather Chirtea, by the end of 2008, users will have access to a shared book - review library, an online address book, and a rating system for lesson plans — and the site will give monthly grant awards to teachers with the top - rated plans.

Esquith has received many tremendous honors including the 1992 National Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, Disney's and Parents Magazine's top national teaching honors, Oprah Winfrey's Use Your Life Award, the 2003 National Medal of Arts, and recognition as an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) from Queen Elizabeth.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

Sarah Mathews and Charlie Klein — fellow recipients of the Commonwealth Bank award — made the top 50 shortlist in the Global Teacher Prize.

The vote followed the school board's decision last month to change the award for top - rated teachers from a...

It was awarded top marks by my teacher (an examiner) so is a perfect essay for students to use a springboard for their own work.

Race to the Top (RTTT) grants had been awarded after considering whether states would adopt high academic standards, implement prescribed strategies in low ‐ performing schools, and use student test scores to determine the effectiveness of teachers.

The Arizona Charter Schools Association is pleased to honor exemplary educators with our 2016 Charter Awards, which annually recognizes the top charter teacher, leader, business manager and school in Arizona.

While teaching in Chicagoland, Dean was named one of the top ten teachers for the prestigious Golden Apple Foundation award and continues to serve this organization today.

The 4 - year contracts are to be awarded next year to the top 25 percent of teachers in the state.

The New American Hero Award is an organization - wide honor recognizing Charter Schools USA's (CSUSA) top teacher and is one of CSUSA's highest honors.

The award — regarded as the nation's top honor for mathematics and science (including computer science) teachers — recognizes teachers who develop and implement high - quality instructional programs that improve student learning.

The Arizona Charter Schools Association is pleased to honor these exemplary educators with our 2015 Charter Awards, which annually recognizes the top charter teacher, leader, business manager and school in Arizona.

Andrew has received special recognition as a Hubble Top Star Educator, 2011 Michigan Online Teacher of the Year, and a finalist for the National Online Teacher of the Year award.

Top teachers in New York have long been eligible for their share of awards and plaudits, including Teacher of the Year honors and a national certification that brings higher pay.

The finalists for the annual top teaching award are Sydney Chaffee, a 9th grade humanities teacher in Dorchester, Mass.; Chris Gleason, a music teacher in Sun Prairie, Wis.; Athanasia Kyriakakos, an art teacher in Baltimore; and Megan Gross, a special education teacher in San Diego.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

But the four top teachers who are in the running for the National Teacher of the Year award have a unique opportunity to have their voices heard by the new administration — and they hope to do so at the White House this spring.

For example, Race to the Top, a federal competition that awarded money to states with the best plans to overhaul their education systems, prompted many states to adopt new data systems that will use student test scores to grade schools and teachers.

A grand total of three teachers and two public education advocates attended the NC Department of Public Instruction's public hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tenure.

Preeminent education policy experts, school board members and administrators, civil rights advocates, award - winning teachers, and top legal scholars filed amici curiae, or «friend of the court» briefs urging the Court of Appeal to uphold the basic protections on which teachers and students depend.

Within this same timeframe, Ms. Birdon and school team were awarded by Louisiana Department of Education for implementing a top preforming Teacher Advancement Program at the school level.

It rewards teachers at the top of the pay - scale, recognising those who exceed performance objectives through a three - per - cent non-consolidated pay award — in short, a bonus.

Teachers are particularly unhappy with «Race to the Top,» the presidential initiative that awards grants to states that embrace education overhauls such as linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and opening more charter schools.

I think Minnesota can be grateful not to have been awarded any Race to the Top funds, should avoid seeking any in future, and should be grateful most of all for principals and teachers like Lester and Bass.

Similarly, transforming teacher evaluation was a consistent priority for the United States Department of Education through the award of grants such as Race to the Top, the Teacher Incentive Fund, and School Improvement teacher evaluation was a consistent priority for the United States Department of Education through the award of grants such as Race to the Top, the Teacher Incentive Fund, and School Improvement Teacher Incentive Fund, and School Improvement Grants.

The Obama administration awarded states more points for plans to improve teacher evaluation in their Race to the Top applications than for nearly any other policy area.

CWU alumni have won five Washington State Teacher of the Year awards since 2005 and CWU is ranked eighth regionally (Washington, Oregon, and California) as a top teacher preparation institution, according to the National Council on Teacher QTeacher of the Year awards since 2005 and CWU is ranked eighth regionally (Washington, Oregon, and California) as a top teacher preparation institution, according to the National Council on Teacher Qteacher preparation institution, according to the National Council on Teacher QTeacher Quality.

Each year, Charter Schools USA recognizes its top teachers with a «New American Hero» award.

It is the country's top producer of math and science teachers, and won the 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning from the United States Distance Learning Association several times.

The association sponsors a national awards program, that recognizes top magnet schools in the United States as well as individual award programs including Magnet's Principal of the Year Award, Teacher of the Year and MSA Superintendent of the Year Aaward programs including Magnet's Principal of the Year Award, Teacher of the Year and MSA Superintendent of the Year AAward, Teacher of the Year and MSA Superintendent of the Year AwardAward.

The Standing Ovation committee has recently announced this year's winners and Flamboyan Foundation is thrilled to congratulate Burville Elementary School, C.W. Harris Elementary School, teacher Constance Thayer, and Principal Kim Jackson for being named in the top eight recipients of the 2015 Standing Ovation awards.

This global recognition compliments Dr. Carter's previous awards, including the first National Superintendent of the Year from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA)(1988); Annual Leadership for Learning Award from the AASA (1990); Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University (1991); and being named in the top 100 Executive Educators by Executive Educator (1984, 1990, and 1993).

He is a member of the Athletic Trainers» Association of Florida Hall of Fame, the National Teachers Hall of Fame, and has received numerous awards for his teaching including being named a Disney American Teacher Honoree, USA Today All - Star Teacher, Toyota International Teacher Ambassador to the Galapagos Islands, Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Ambassador (Japan), 2010 Florida Education Association Teacher of Excellence, 2011 Pearson Global Fellow (China), and most recently Dr. Underwood was named a 2018 NEA Foundation Global Fellow (South Africa) and a 2018 Top 50 Finalist in the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching, including the NYU university - wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the nation's top business school teachers by BusinessWeek in 1994.