Sentences with phrase «york city classrooms»

Reward effective and highly effective teachers with bonuses to keep them in New York City classrooms, with larger bonuses for great teachers in struggling schools.

Make sure great teachers stay in New York City classrooms and build a sustainable career by creating career ladders with additional opportunities for leadership.

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

Starting this week, developers from a dozen high tech startups are entering New York City classrooms to help teachers brainstorm solutions to educational challenges.

That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

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Taseea was a classroom teacher for 6 years in New York City.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

The number of New York City kids eating free breakfasts in public school classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.

-- $ 600 million — including $ 177 million for New York City — of the Governor's $ 1.4 billion in devastating school aid cuts is restored, providing direct classroom support and property tax relief to working families throughout New York State.

Suspensions of children in kindergarten through second grade have dropped in New York City public schools after City Hall's push to keep the littlest learners in their classrooms.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has expanded universal pre-K, providing a full - day tuition - free classroom spot to every 4 - year - old in the cCity, Mayor Bill de Blasio has expanded universal pre-K, providing a full - day tuition - free classroom spot to every 4 - year - old in the citycity.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job on Monday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

There is not one parent in New York City who would willingly accept one of these ATRs into their child's classroom.

A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job yesterday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, de Blasio.

Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would revoke the city's offer of free classrooms in public schools for three charter schoCity Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would revoke the city's offer of free classrooms in public schools for three charter schocity's offer of free classrooms in public schools for three charter schools.

Some New York City teachers who got in trouble for insubordination or sleeping on the job who are part of the Absent Teacher Reserve could be permanently back in classrooms, as the Education Department places them in jobs this month.

Overcrowding in New York City schools is reaching its limit, with 80 percent of classrooms exceeding the state capacity.

Four - out - of - five New York City voters (80 %) support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores, with 56 % supporting such a system strongly.

ALBANY, NY — Senate Co-Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (D - Queens) celebrated passage of legislation that would protect existing school playground space in New York City from the long term displacement caused by ongoing construction or temporary classrooms.

The formerly weed - choked vacant lot will be a classroom for a new venture called Farm School NYC: The New York City School of Urban Agriculture.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «While we all recognize the state's fiscal condition, the children in New York City's classrooms should not have to bear the brunt of these cuts.»

«We look forward to working with officials in Albany and New York City to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael MulgCity to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgcity's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

Some of the groundswell was spurred by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign promise to expand universal pre-K in the nation's largest school system and offer a full - day classroom spot to every 4 - year - old in the cCity Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign promise to expand universal pre-K in the nation's largest school system and offer a full - day classroom spot to every 4 - year - old in the citycity.

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

ALBANY - The head of the city teachers union is taking aim at Gov. Cuomo's upcoming trip to Cuba, saying if the governor has time to visit the tiny Caribbean country next month he should be able to visit a classroom in New York.

Nevertheless, De Blasio's spokesman Eric Phillips, said: «There's time left to get this deal done for the 1.1 million New York City kids relying on our state government to protect the progress we've made in our classrooms.

The cause of the tough budget climate is not New York City's average teacher pension of $ 42,000, after 25 or 30 years in the classroom.

The centerpiece of classroom mischief will come into its own this weekend when amateur aviation engineers test the mettle of their paper planes at the non-for-profit Public Art Fund's New Millennium Paper Airplane Contest in New York City.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

Following the world premiere screening April 29, director Jonathan Kalafer, PS22 chorus teacher Gregg Breinberg, executive director of the Office of the Arts and Special Projects at the New York City Department of Education Paul King, and more will talk about how new media arts in the classroom can benefit students» learning.

A New York City community school district, in collaboration with a local college, has opened an alternative school in East Harlem for junior - high - school students that combines community - service work with regular classroom instruction.

Just as he did for 26 years as a teacher and administrator, staff development specialist Dennis Loftus still makes time to connect with students in classrooms, in hallways, and in cafeterias in the Syracuse City School District, in Syracuse, New York.

The certification pathway that New York City teachers took to their classrooms seemed to have little relationship to how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000 teachers with six years of test results.

In August 2007, a few months after Moss returned from New York City, her students began transforming their storm - damaged classroom — a huge 40 - foot - by -80-foot room with 15 - foot - high walls painted an institutional blue.

We watch what could be the beginning of a revolution brewing in schools from rural Kentucky and Seattle to El Paso, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, and New York City — schools that are shaping a new vision for our classrooms.

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

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.

If basic literacy is in fact necessary for a teacher to be effective in the classroom, the victims of this policy will be the students; in New York City, minority students will be its primary victims, as most students taught by minority teachers are of the same background.

Arana is part of the founding team of school designers that opened the Institute's flagship project, Quest to Learn, a New York City public school which focuses on integrating games and game like learning into middle and high school classrooms, where she served as Co-Director of School for 4 years.

The graph below comes from apaper by Josh McGee and Marcus Winters and shows the percentage of New York City teachers who stay in the classroom over the years and their corresponding pension wealth.

As I wrote in our study of data use in New York City, we need to move beyond either / or dichotomies that pit classroom information against district or statewide data:

She taught in the New York City public school system and, while growing up, I would always hear her speak very fondly of her experiences in the classroom.

Aside from grumblings from the New York City teachers required to work under her system, there has been remarkably little open debate about the basic premises behind Calkins's approach, or even feedback on how the programs are faring in the classroom.

Yet observations I have conducted in more than 300 classrooms in California, Minnesota, New York City, and Massachusetts over the past 15 years indicate that local school systems have commonly used bilingual education as a generic term referring to all three types of language - instruction programs.

When she arrived in New York City as an immigrant from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at age six, she found solace in the classroom and in the kitchen.