Sentences with phrase «us teachers represented»

Ms. Magee and the 600,000 public school teachers she represents lost out in their battle with Mr. Cuomo over the new test - based evaluations outlined in this year's budget agreement.

And UFT officials and staffers were well compensated — with many making substantially more than the teachers they represent.

«The teachers we represent believe the time to fix it is this year,» said Jolene DiBrango, executive vice president of the statewide organization, who spoke to reporters during a break in the Regents meeting.

Thirty - one students and teachers representing each of the Thirty Meter Telescope International...

Meanwhile, while black students comprise around 13 percent of all school - aged children, black teachers represent only around 8 percent of all young teachers, and while Hispanic students comprise around 24 percent of all school - aged children, Hispanic teachers represent only around 9 percent of all young teachers.

Although most scholars agree that teachers represent the single most important school contributor to a student's academic progress, consensus breaks down as soon as the question turns to how best to design compensation systems to enhance teacher quality.

As noted above, in both the comparisons of TFA teachers with all teachers and of TFA teachers with only new teachers, TFA teachers represented a small proportion of the total number of teachers.

Head teachers representing more than 5,000 schools across England are supporting a protest letter to the chancellor over «inadequate» funding.

In fact, for the first time since the rise of the teachers unions in the 1980s, the percentage of US teachers represented by them has fallen below 50 percent.

The protest, ahead of next week's Budget, has been organised by regional groups of head teachers representing schools with 3.5 million pupils in 30 local authorities from Cornwall to Cumbria.

Another way to think of it is this: 3.7 million teachers represents nearly 2.8 % of the civilian labor force and 8 % of all college graduates in the labor force in 2010.

More specifically, while 80 percent of traditional public school teachers are white, white teachers represent 71 percent of the teaching workforce in charter schools.

Just two years ago Black male teachers represented 3.7 percent of teachers in Maryland public schools.

For a profession that has been so «de-professionalized» over the past decade, however, hiring under - credentialed teachers represents a very slippery slope.

«One of the committee members, Robin Potash, a teacher representing UTLA, said it was important for the district to include charter schools in the list of options and to do it faster than their present timeline.»

Each year, all New Mexico school districts and State Charter schools are invited to nominate an outstanding teacher to become New Mexico's Teacher of the Year; this teacher represents New Mexico in the National Teacher of the Year competition.

Each year, all New Mexico school districts are invited to nominate an outstanding teacher to become New Mexico's Teacher of the Year; this teacher represents New Mexico in the National Teacher of the Year competition.

Word on the street is that Pelto is getting money funneled to him from unions, to attack the teachers they represent.

As the leader of the innovation team (a group of eight teachers representing different grade levels), Koenig shares student - tested projects at faculty meetings to encourage teachers to use the makerspace.

Administrators and teachers represent their school district and should do so at all times in a professional manner.

As a part of the Learning Studios program, teachers representing different STEM disciplines bridge content across their classes to emphasize existing, and often...

To begin transforming classroom practices, we formed the first «digital cohort» with teachers representing each of Pelham's three schools.

Fallon seems to think the teachers she represents are just in it for the money, not for the love of teaching.

Description: This resolution seeks authorization to amend Contract No. 0344 / F18 with Carnegie from $ 6,326,174.00, approved by Resolution B - 16 on October 19, 2017, to an amount not to exceed $ 9,486,174.00, to provide ongoing support to teachers representing 70 + schools, during the 2018 - 2019 school year, who will participate in the 2018 Summer Math Institute.

The American Federation of Teachers represents 1 million teachers, school staff, higher education faculty and other public employees.

The requirement of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that every student have a «highly qualified» teacher represents a potentially positive step toward increasing student learning despite the shortcomings of the current definition of «highly qualified» and the difficulty of fulfilling the requirement in hard - to - staff school districts (Emerick, Hirsch, & Berry, 2004).

SAISD's decision to ask principals to divide their staff into «good» and «bad» teachers represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of our work.

The study also evidenced that teachers representing racial and ethnic minority background might be more likely than others to not only receive lower relatively scores but also be more likely identified for possible dismissal as a result of their relatively lower evaluation scores.

The Peoria Federation of Teachers represents more than 1000 teachers, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, School Social Workers, and School Psychologists working in the Peoria Public Schools.

«The only thing these grades tell us is where our poor children go to school and where our rich children go to school,» said Lynn Shoemaker, a 23 - year veteran public school teacher representing the advocacy group Public Schools First NC at a press conference held by Senate Democrats after the launch of the A-F school grades.

Seventy principals, assistant principals, counselors, and teachers representing 13 schools attended by Moslem, Christian, and Druze Arab students participated in a 2 - day conference in April sponsored by CHAI / Hakol Chai, entitled «Expanding the Circle of Compassion.»

Labour relations: The commission scolaire in Laval sought to terminate a teacher represented by the syndicat (union).

High school teachers represent some of the nation's top communicators.

We've selected the secondary school level as an illustration because of the relatively large population of teachers represented by this area.

Early childhood teachers represent important socializers of children's emotions providing professional practices, such as communication about children's emotions, influencing children's development.

Not exact matches

More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.

For instance, Confucius Institute teachers report training from the Hanban in how to handle questions about Taiwan and Tibet; they are supposed to change the subject or, failing that, represent both as undisputed territories of China.

David Robinson, in his capacity as trade and education consultant for Education International, a global union federation claiming to represent 30 million teachers and other education workers, met with WTO negotiators during the ministerial to discuss potential impacts on public education.

«The bankruptcy proceeding doesn't affect our claim,» said Katie Mesner - Hage, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, nine families who had a relative killed and a teacher who was shot and survived.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

Like my own teacher, she represented a movement toward acknowledging the boyishness of boys or the girlishness of girls; but being a step removed from the actual mother, she could be firmer and more systematic.

So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

Dismissing tradition as representing only the worldliness of the church reflects unbelief in the Spirit's work since Pentecost as the church's teacher; embracing the dogma of faultless tradition reflects a lapse into ecclesiastical perfectionism.

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

There are some teachers teaching such things who have risen to prominence and there is even a magazine called «Restoration» (I think) representing this movement.

The teacher should be regarded with honor and shown deference by his students, not because of any personal superiority or privilege, but as a mark of devotion to the matters of worth that he in his official capacity represents.

For the Gospel of Matthew «corrected» the Gospel of Mark, in the process of editing and revising it, by incorporating the teaching of Jesus, and by representing him as the Revealer of the Kingdom, the expounder of the New Law — the Messiah, indeed, but a Messiah who appeared first of all as the Teacher of Israel.

There were others who had to be refuted as false teachers for saying that the resurrection had already taken place.21 The New Testament Apocalypse represented still another kind of development, though one more in keeping with the earlier Jewish eschatology.

I wrote to all the systematics teachers I could find in North America (219) using memberships of theological societies and catalog listings, I received 140 replies, representing 92 institutions.