When teachers pool their knowledge and talents through shared professional learning and experience, they are «smarter» than any single person on the team.
Not exact matches
But there are
teachers who aren't afraid to say «I love you» to their students and friends who say «good job»
when you mess up on your part and parents who love the best they can and principals who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public
pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.
As opposed to the end - of - the - year faculty retreat
when we tend to table everything on the agenda until the back - to - school faculty retreat and spend the day gazing at the beauty of the sun on
Teacher Elizabeth's
pool and promising that by next year's b - t - s faculty retreat we will be courageous enough to wear a bathing suit.
But having more money in the
pool also improves the food that can be served, and while I believe some parents at these schools complain, I've also heard anecdotally that
when every child and
teacher is sitting down to the same meal, it can have benefits like a more cohesive environment, opportunities for informal nutrition education, and a greater likelihood that kids will try new foods.
They didn't know the
pool, didn't know the
teacher, didn't know where I was going to be and they were pretty sure they were going to be «way too hungry»
when the class is over.
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why my son refused to jump into the
pool and let me catch him
when he would happily do it with his swim
teacher; one day she explained to me that every time he prepared to jump, I looked like I was about to have a heart attack.)
When Mayor de Blasio first announced his plans to close the ATR
pool, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina pledged to do so without resorting to forced placement — a policy that allows the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to place a
teacher from the ATR
pool at a school whether or not the principal wants to hire that
teacher.
Buffalo Public Schools are changing the way the district hires
teachers, planning to do it much earlier
when the talent
pool is larger.
Cuomo's team claims it's all Bloomberg's fault, that the mayor has been disingenuously crusading for the end of «last in, first out»
when what he really wants is the freedom to can the hundreds of
teachers already rated «unsatisfactory» and the thousands drifting between schools in the reserve
pool, and that Bloomberg is attempting an end run around collective bargaining.
That's what all the water exercise
teachers at our local
pool do
when pregnant.
«So it is really hard for high schools to compete in the same talent
pool for the same people
when they try to recruit
teachers to teach a computer science program.»
When you look at all of the problems our schools have and you look at our
pool of good, committed
teachers, which is really being depleted, rapidly depleted.
Knowing
when to power down allows
teachers to dial up all kinds of meta - cognitive tasks like reflection, analysis and critical thinking, the deep end of the learning
pool.
An analysis by Paul Peterson and Daniel Nadler found that states that encourage alternative licensure have greater diversity in their
teacher pools, for example (see «What Happens
When States Have Genuine Alternative Certification?»
It's been obvious for years that comparability can be achieved over five to seven years by taking advantage of retirements:
when senior
teachers retire, the school they leave gets enough to hire a new
teacher and the difference goes into an equalization
pool for the worst - staffed and lowest - funded schools.
However, NYCDOE reneged on that promise last month
when it was announced that principals will have until mid-October to fill vacancies at their schools, after which the district will place
teachers from the ATR
pool into any remaining openings.
The Department's attempts to fire
teachers in the ATR
pool when Joel Klein was chancellor fell short, as did efforts to end the last - in - first - out policy that governs which
teachers principals can ask to leave schools.
When she earns her master's degree this June, Knight will enter a
pool of new
teachers who will have little trouble finding jobs.
These will be mailed to you
when you are selected as a substitute
teacher for the ICSN substitute
pool.
When she earns her master's degree this month at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Knight will enter a
pool of new
teachers who will have little trouble finding jobs in Southern California.
-- $ 6 million settlement on behalf of the parents of 13 - year - old boy who drowned in an apartment complex swimming
pool (2016); — $ 528,000 jury verdict in Philadelphia for a worker injured
when he fell through scaffolding (2015); — $ 700,000 arbitration award for a school
teacher who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury in a car accident (2016); — $ 1 million policy limit settlement for a man injured in an automobile accident.