Sentences with phrase «as a public school teacher of»

As a public school teacher of 18 years, I have been dismayed by the reduction of recess time and by the pushing down of inappropriate curriculum into kindergarten and first grade.

CAROL ANN TOMLINSON career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher of a differentiated classroom.

His first career was as a public school teacher of English and math, and he taught in both Vermont and Hawaii before shifting focus to veterinary medicine.

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An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

Founder Charles Best combines his own experiences as a public school teacher in the Bronx with data and analytics savvy that's straight out of Silicon Valley.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Bill, you said, «Colin, Colin, as a teacher, albeit a public school teacher of an unconstiitutional class.»

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

The 2007 Associated Press investigation identifies 2570 public school teachers who, from 2001 through 2005, had their teaching licenses «taken away, denied, surrendered voluntarily, or restricted» as a result of sexual misconduct with minors» an average of 514 per year.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

Ought public money to go to a church to pay for the services of its nuns as public - school teachers?

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

according to the supreme court, can a public school teacher from the bible as an example of literature?

As a teacher of Global History and U.S. Government to public high school students, religion is an explicit part of my curriculum.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Marianne is a highly experienced, trained Waldorf teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience in public and private Waldorf schools as well as experience as a Spanish - bilingual teacher in New York.

Permit teachers of physical education and school health professionals as well as paretns, students, and representatives of the school food authority, the school board, school administrators, and the public to participate in the development of wellness policies.

Stay tuned to Beyond Breakfast for Part Two of our interview with Burke County Public Schools» Nutrition Director and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics president - elect Donna Martin, to find out how teachers reacted to breakfast - in - the - classroom as the program was expanded district - wide, and some student - favorite school breakfast menu items.

My suggestion — as a parent of public school children and as a former public and private school teacher — is that we individuals who are «outside» school culture (i.e. not administrators or teachers) become invested in whatever ways we can.

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CTeacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Cteacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

As a public high school teacher of nearly a decade, I found myself making notes on how to better plan and prepare for my own classes by how you introduced, taught, transitioned, and recapped your well - organized lesson each night.

Barilla, who works as a first grade teacher at Pittsburgh Public Schools, believes her work hours will change — no more late nights of lesson planning at school.

She worked for years as a preschool teacher in the public school system until she had her 3rd child, and now she is a stay at home mother who keeps busy with her four children, exploring all of the nooks and crannies of their surroundings.

A proponent of charter schools, Cuomo is in a protracted battle with teachers unions over the direction of public education — as well as spending — in the state.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

After Governor Cuomo's recent description of schools as the «last public monopoly,» Hawkins said that this is just the latest episode in Cuomo's ongoing attacks on public education and teachers.

(Hudson, NY) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said that Cuomo's recent description of schools as the «last public monopoly» is just the latest episode in his ongoing attacks on public education and teachers.

Barbara Byrd - Bennett, the current CEO of the Chicago public schools, spent decades as a teacher and a principal in the New York City school system, working in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

For lawmakers to truly curb government spending across New York State they need to get public school teacher and administrator salaries, as well as the five - and six - figure payouts many of them receive upon retiring, back into the realm of what's normal for middle - income earners.

Rev. Margaret Coleman of Yonkers, is employed with Yonkers Public Schools as a Special Education Teacher, and is a member of the local Yonkers Women's Advisory Board.

But the measure remains opposed by the teachers union, who see it as a way of creating a back - door voucher program and not funding public schooling at appropriate levels.

I officially joined Director General Jacob Kor at the Headquarters of GES as a staff of the Public Relations Unit on August 3, this year having served as a professional teacher, school counsellor and journalist for some years.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, who was featured Saturday as a speaker at the United Federation of Teachers annual Spring Conference in Midtown, told the Daily News it only makes sense for the mayor to continue calling the shots for public schools.

Mulgrew welcomed the Council's support in two statewide initiatives: lobbying Albany to increase state aid in light of the $ 2 billion the state owes New York City public schools as a result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court settlement, and supporting full funding for Teacher Centers.

As a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growtAs a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growtas one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growth.

The proposals prompted hours of debate, and many Democrats — feeling resistance from New York State United Teachers and other groups representing public schools — held their noses as they voted yes.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

She said the need for the landmark engagement was crucial considering the fact that schools have resumed and there was need for key stakeholders such as principals, school administrators, Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), public and private school guidance counsellors, evaluators and others, to become conversant with and abreast of the provisions of the policy.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

As receivership plans for 15 - of Buffalo's most struggling public schools could mean changes to the school day, the teachers union is planning to fight the new rule.

The Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete of the Week Program provides coaches, teachers, administrators and school counselors in public schools in the five boroughs of New York City with the opportunity to nominate a high school senior who otherwise meets the eligibility criteria to be named as a Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete.

«The issue of ensuring quality and competent teachers in public schools is something crucial and doable, but it requires courage, sincerity and honesty as guiding principles.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, however, bluntly blasted DeVos as having a strictly business philosophy rather than an educational one, noting that her whole career has been about removing funding from public schools.