Sentences with phrase «york city teachers»

In this year - long professional development program, New York City teachers and Whitney educators learn from one another and exchange ideas about art and teaching.

For November's Frank Stella Family Day, artist McKendree Key created a giant marble run in collaboration with New York City teachers, students, and families.

Audrey Flack is the recipient of the 1974 Award of Merit from the Butler Institute of American Art and the 1985 Artist of the Year Award from the New York City Teachers Association.

Collaborating with the Whitney's Education department and New York City teachers and students, Key designed and built a giant marble run in the Whitney's third - floor theater that translated the aesthetic of Stella's paintings into a physical experience.

But other New York City teachers — a spokesperson for the city education department was unable to say exactly how many — were rated based on only one year of data.

The group of New York City teachers delivered high marks to the new provisions around professional development (A) and teacher evaluation (B +) but flunked the deal for failing to improve the due process system (D) and reduce the complexity of the contract itself (D +).

The New York City teachers contract sets aside time every Monday for professional development; E4E - New York teacher Chris Fazio shares what his school is doing...

E4E - New York Teacher Policy Team member Chris Fazio discusses the release of «A Passing Grade,» which evaluates the proposed New York City teachers» contract...

The New York City teachers union, the UFT, created the charter school intending to demonstrate that running a school under the city's collective bargaining agreement was not an impediment to success.

A 2008 study of New York City teachers found a strong correlation between a teacher's assessment of an administration and the likelihood that a teacher would leave.

In mid-April, Mulgrew agreed with Klein to streamline the teacher - discipline process in a way that, by the end of the year, will close New York's so - called rubber rooms, the infamous «reassignment centers» where the New York City teachers charged with the most extreme incompetence or misconduct (currently 600 out of 80,000) are sent to do nothing while they await tenure - protected arbitration hearings.

During her reign as head of the New York City teachers union, just 88 out of 80,000 teachers lost their jobs for poor performance over a three year period.

In January, talks between the Bloomberg administration and the New York City teachers» union fell apart, costing the city about $ 250 million in state aid.

Unlike the current system, which features large financial incentives for teachers to retire precisely at a pre-determined age (New York City teachers who begin at age 25 currently hit peak pension wealth at age 63), the new system would offer teachers a smooth wealth accrual that would allow them to time their retirement decisions as they saw fit.

LINK: Forever After: New York City Teachers on 9/11 - Chapter 9

Linda is the coauthor of Waging Peace in Our Schools (Beacon Press, 1996), editor of Schools with Spirit: Nurturing the Inner Lives of Children and Teachers (Beacon Press, 2001), chapter contributor to Forever After: New York City Teachers on 9/11 (Teacher College Press, 2006), and author of Building Emotional Intelligence (Sounds True, 2008, 2014).

Pre-Retroactive Pay Raises: How New York City teachers» salaries have grown since their union contract expired in 2009, E.J. McMahon, Issue Brief No. 26, January 2014.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- New York City teachers have been accused of everything from incompetence to patronizing prostitutes.

New York City teachers earn $ 48,445 their first year, and in the Baltimore City Public School System, these teachers make $ 47,950.

«I'm telling you, the whole city is out of compliance,» Evelyn DeJesus, a vice president at the United Federation of Teachers, said in a publication put out by the New York City teachers» union this year.

Figure 2: Percent of All New York City Teachers Who Failed the LAST Exam on First Taking by Poverty Quartile of School's Students, 2000 - 2005

The New York City teachers» union has long called the process used by the city's Education Department for reviewing and dismissing struggling teachers partisan and unfair.

Today, the Wall Street Journal notes that more and more New York City teachers are joining a group called Educators 4 Excellence.

Figure 1: Percentage of New York City Teachers With Less than 3 Years of Experience, By Poverty Grouping of School's Students, 2000

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York state Education Department has imposed an evaluation system for New York City teachers after the city and the teachers» union failed to agree on a way to measure teacher effectiveness.

«A New Way to Pay: Reimagining Teacher Compensation,» penned by 16 New York City teachers on E4E's Pay Structure Policy team, suggests that a different compensation structure can elevate the teaching profession.

New York City teachers recently balked at a proposal to include student test data in the evaluations.

Educators for Excellence (E4E) is a group of more than 3,500 New York City teachers that is to trying to change laws and policies by going straight to policymakers.

A group of New York City teachers associated with the teacher - advocacy organization Educators 4 Excellence released a report this week laying out ideas for smoothing the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in their state, including giving teachers the option — supported by added compensation — of returning to school a week early at the end of the summer for specialized professional development.

E4E's leaders say they don't want to create a parallel organization to the unions; their goal is to «generate an elevated profession of teachers who want to be accountable,» according to Sydney Morris, one of two New York City teachers who founded the group last year.

New York City teachers discussed preparations for new teacher evaluations with Chancellor Dennis Walcott in September 2011.

Nine out of 10 New York City teachers received one of the top two rankings in the first year of a new evaluation system that was hailed as a better way of assessing how they perform, according to figures released on Tuesday.

His words echo the ideas of many New York City teachers: releasing data reports to publicly shame low performers can cause nothing but further damage to an already fragile system.

From The New York Times: A record number of allegations of wrongdoing against New York City teachers and other school workers were received last year by the city office that investigates misconduct.

Reporting from New York — The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do serious harm.

New York City teachers would be granted retroactive raises under a nine - year tentative contract said to be close to finalization.

The measure includes several appeals processes for New York City teachers with low ratings.

Governor Cuomo's top education advisor answered questions from a panel of teacher moderators and 100 New York City teachers at E4E's event, where 82 percent of...

Jonathan shows that yesterday's failure to reach a deal will stall progress for New York City teachers and students.

Successful talks would have led to the district keeping $ 250 million in funds for New York City teachers and students.

New York City teachers call on de Blasio administration to fund and implement school climate measures proposed by mayoral task force

New York City teachers have approved a nine - year labor contract, their union announced on Tuesday, a deal that raises pay by 18 percent but leaves questions about the future of their health benefits.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

In December 2011, we sent out an open online survey to New York City teachers about our initial ideas and received more than 200 responses.

The graph below comes from a paper 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.

New York City teachers» union boss Michael Mulgrew is feeling victorious in what he calls the «war with reformers.»

This Saturday, thousands of New York City teachers will be in Washington, D.C., with the parents, community groups and clergy with whom we work so closely, our friends in the civil rights movement, elected leaders from the City Council and state Legislature and tens of thousands of others from across the nation for a historic march for jobs and justice on the eve of the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King Jr..

Before a meeting last week of the New York City teachers» union, the United Federation of Teachers, members of New Action, a caucus within the union, handed out a pamphlet that encouraged teachers to «stand in solidarity with parents who want to opt their children out of this needless overtesting.»

Real Clear Education — New York City teachers» union boss Michael Mulgrew is feeling victorious in what he calls the «war with reformers.»

Although the 2012 — 13 school year was the first time VAMs had been used in formal evaluations, they weren't new to New York City teachers.