Sentences with phrase «about school and teacher»

After 15 years of mandated testing under the No Child Left Behind Law, what do standardized test scores actually tell us about school and teacher quality?

Teach Plus is another teacher leadership organization that's working to change the mindset about school and teacher leadership.

That distinction is so important in a field that produces statistics which are used — and often misused — in sound bites and headlines about school and teacher quality.

The OECD said that there was «much to be positive about», including: levels of reading and science above international averages; a high level of social inclusion; a drop in teenage smoking and alcohol consumption; and a large majority (nine in ten) of students who feel positive about their school and teachers.

Even allowing for the technological lag time between the corporate and academic worlds, the day is rapidly approaching when the same statement will be made about schools and teachers; when limited school sites or non-existent teacher sites will be seen as clear signs of educational incompetence.

The study, from the leading provider of formative assessments to UK schools, looked at children's feelings about school and teachers as well as their attitudes to themselves as learners — their confidence, work ethic and how prepared they felt themselves to be, for instance.

It's hard to understand why districts don't spend more time asking parents how they feel about their schools and teachers and what programs and services they want and need.

There was a lot of other silliness about schools and teachers on the show that went unchallenged.

I can not say enough good things about this school and the teachers there.

I'm in the Academy program and I love everything about this school and the teachers.

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After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

«We had a case of a teacher that the school board suspected and had complaints about,» Caruso recalls.

Atticus is speaking specifically about Scout's young, inexperienced teacher, who on the first day of school, found herself flustered by the habits and manners of the children of Maycomb, Alabama.

Forget about business school: With the unlimited resources available today, it's possible to learn anything — and experience is truly the best teacher.

He's hit the nail on the head, about making our kids safe in school, arming teachers who are qualified and having law enforcement on the premises.»

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

Teachers (about 13,000 of them), plus administrators, nurses, janitors, school bus drivers, band directors, guidance counselors, psychologists, secretaries, business managers, basketball coaches, and more — many, many more.

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During a press conference, sophomore Lydia Hester from Madison East High School asked state lawmakers, «How do you expect students to be successful when kids have to worry about themselves, their friends, and their teachers being shot?»

Mr. Trump used the event to pitch his own ideas about how to prevent such debacles in the future, polling the group about whether they supported allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, an idea he said could have halted the carnage in Parkland.

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

Ashley, a former middle school teacher, was introduced to Pure Barre by her friends who were always raving about how fun class was and how incredible the results were.

He said there are only four or five days during the school year when the training can be done and his instructors are able to do about 10 schools on a single teacher planning day.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution is to let teachers carry guns.

About 8 in 10 Republicans say they prefer metal detectors (41 percent) and armed teachers (38 percent) to stricter gun laws (9 percent) when it comes to preventing gun violence in schools.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

About 250 people joined Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, survivors, and teachers for the «I Stand With MSD» Walk for Solidarity on Saturday, March 10.

Sunday school teachers and youth workers didn't treat him differently, they didn't make him feel bad about living with mental illness; they just came along to support him.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....

I can remember in college and graduate school reading Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Beckett, and Camus while bemoaning with everyone else, including the teacher, the loss of a shared vision about the purpose of human life.

Why Middle - School Girls Talk Like Babies — And What Teachers Can Do About It by Jessica Lahey for The Atlantic

My Christian high school / church had several teachers from BJU, and we learned similar things about race.

And indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their taAnd indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their taand only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their task.

The Protestant image of the minister as teacher has evolved from the formal instructor of creed and catechism, through a softer mothering Sunday school teacher stage, to an «instructing about instructing» image with minister and laity informally interacting.

Every citizen, every parent, every teacher and administrator must make decisions about what shall be taught in homes, schools, churches, industry, and community.

And only about one in three know that a public school teacher is allowed to teach a comparative religion class - although nine out of 10 know that teacher isn't allowed by the Supreme Court to lead a class in prayer.

He believes that a teacher should provide an accepting climate in which feelings about the teacher and the school can be expressed.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

OR How about the teachers schedule their exams around religious holidays and the students are then allowed to skip attending school during their identified religion?

It's less about religion and more about the fact that teachers and students would either take off or skip school in order to celebrate with their families.

I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.

You can ask high school teachers or youth workers about this if you like, but you really need look no further than your own teen years, when your interests and attention seemed to spiral out in a million directions that could be mistaken for having no direction at all.

We are not at all prejudging anything about chronology, that is, about establishing the dates of the teachers and writings of the Mahayana schools — their roots are in the earliest times; rather we are trying to give the psychological and objective points of departure in which the speculations of the later schools were grounded and out of which they are therefore to be understood.

In addition, we can educate congregations, Sunday school teachers and other youth personnel about sexual abuse.

Generalizing about the region, Filatoy and Lunkin write of a rare phenomenon in the Orthodox Church: its «cooperation with the intelligentsia, university teachers, writers, artists and museum staff and widespread involvement of teachers in the work of Sunday schools.

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

It's a cartoon show about a magical teacher named Ms. Frizzle who takes her class on a Magic School Bus to strange and wonderful places.

When teachers examine themselves and their schools for the sake of discovering how to overcome difficulties or how to improve their work they are quickly led to ask far - reaching questions about the nature and the purposes of education.