Sentences with phrase «as school working conditions»

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However, the School Teachers Review Body (STRB) which advises the government on teacher pay and conditions, said the education secretary's proposals were unnecessary as teachers already work well beyond their set hours.

«The task of schools in closing the attainment gap is made even harder when teacher supply is in crisis as a result of attacks on teachers» pay, working conditions and professionalism.

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After grad school he went on to professional baseball where he worked for 3 years as a strength and conditioning coach.

But, to the extent that other characteristics of schools where disadvantaged students are found — such as safety and disciplinary problems, more bureaucratic rules, poor leadership, greater student turnover, or a greater distance to work — are important elements, improving these working conditions could mitigate the turnover problem we have identified.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Actually, Coleman was deep into his work on games when he got the call to pursue the wide - ranging examination of school conditions and achievement that would eventually become «Equality of Educational Opportunity,» or EEO, more popularly known as the Coleman Report.

The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an academy chain sponsor will provide its academies with additional services, such as hiring executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).

They keep working on a theory, taking into account, but not accepting as excuse, the conditions in which the students and the schools come to you.

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

This is troubling, as the demands of leading such schools, including the need to attract and retain high - quality teachers despite less desirable working conditions, may amplify the importance of having an effective leader.

Structure volunteer programs within the school, such as opportunities for students to help out in life skills classes, read or tutor young children, assist in the computer lab, aid students in the library, provide support to students who are recovering from an injury or dealing with a medical condition, or gather work for students who miss school.

Other courses (not constrained by THEA) give students skills they can use to find work right out of high school in high - wage, high - skill careers, such as nursing, electronic and computer maintenance, or heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Staff commitment is especially critical in the tough economic conditions that schools are facing today as teachers continue to work in a continually stressful environment, sometimes on low pay.

implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that shall be designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of students in the turnaround school;

Notwithstanding the requirements of this subdivision, participation in professional development outside the regular school day or regularly scheduled working days of the school year shall be volitional for teachers, unless otherwise agreed upon as a term or condition of employment pursuant to collective bargaining under article 14 of the Civil Service Law.

Editor's Note: The question put was as follows: In order to seek to persuade the Secretary of State for Education to protect pay and working conditions in all state funded schools and increase presently inadequate funding levels to improve and protect pay and working conditions through national collective bargaining are you prepared to take discontinuous strike action?

He has published on topics such as teacher coaching, teacher layoffs, teacher - parent communication, teacher professional growth, school working conditions, and extended learning time.

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

Although some interpret these turnover patterns as evidence of teachers» discontent with their students, recent large - scale quantitative studies provide evidence that teachers choose to leave schools with poor work environments and that these conditions are most common in schools that minority and low - income students typically attend.

In light of this background, we focus here on teachers «school and classroom working conditions, exploring the degree to which variations in the rapidity of principal turnover may influence school culture, as well as curriculum and classroom instruction.

The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.

However, low - income parents often face barriers to monitoring their children's school progress or participate in important meetings due to conditions associated with low - wage work such as erratic work schedules and long or inflexible work hours.

District and school leaders discuss how they are helping prepare assistant principals to become effective principals, and how principal supervisors are moving away from a focus on administrative compliance to an emphasis on better supporting principals on the job, as they work to create the conditions for good teaching to flourish.

Especially in urban and rural school districts, low salaries and poor working conditions often contribute to the difficulties of recruiting and keeping teachers, as can the challenges of the work itself.

Suzi has an informed grasp of the conditions women face in the workforce today gained from working with thousands of women from across Australia over the last five years in her role as Head of School, Women & Leadership Australia.

Others have charged that poor teacher working conditions, such as low salaries and test - driven school cultures, are nudging existing and potential educators toward other professions, especially with the economy improving.

In addition to monetary incentives, states and districts should offer good working conditions, new equipment, lower class sizes, preferential hiring and staffing as a way to recruit highly effective principals to high - need schools

Ken Futernick, Director of the WestEd School Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievSchool Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievschool and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievement.

As working and learning conditions deteriorate, our union leadership has neither put up an effective resistance nor been a force for change for better schools.

We provide networking opportunities and applied development support as Residency alumni and Academy fellows progress in their careers, working with colleagues and communities to create the conditions in our urban public schools that allow all students to thrive.

On the Path to Equity cautions that policies to improve teaching effectiveness are complex and depend on individual teachers» abilities as well as the working conditions within schools.

For too long, «tough on crime» policies have deliberately targeted our black, brown, and working class communities — ICE is tearing apart families, our youth are being criminalized in school and treated as adults by our overzealous criminal justice system, and the legal system's reliance on cash bail continues to overcrowd our prisons, keeping the House of Correction facility open despite its notoriety for its decrepit conditions.

Of course, some disparity in perceptions between school leaders and teachers is to be expected, as would be the case with most business or other organizational surveys regarding working conditions.

They will discuss key conditions and practices for creating a culture in which parents and educators work as partners to support student success and school improvement.

Among the factors that positively affect teachers, working conditions are indicated as a strong incentive for teacher retention, and school climate is associated with helping teachers manage their workload and increasing the likelihood of their staying in the profession.

They discuss key conditions and practices for creating a culture in which parents and educators work as partners to support student success and school improvement.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Many of Marzano's factors relate to working conditions, including collegiality and professionalism as well as a safe and orderly school environment.

It is possible that this is a delayed result from Act 10 as school districts began to use their new rights to change working conditions without bargaining.

Working conditions, such as school facilities, support from administrators, and class size, are important factors that teachers take into consideration when deciding where to work.

This study uses data from North Carolina to examine the extent to which survey based perceptions of working conditions are predictive of policy - relevant outcomes, independent of other school characteristics such as the demographic mix of the school's students.

Given this, the fact that during the 90s the gap in achievement measured by NAEP increased only slightly in math and increased in reading but began to narrow again BEFORE NCLB should be celebrated as an achievement of hard working schools facing deteriorating conditions within their communities.

In Colorado, the regional partners attend to district policy revisions as part of the strategy, working to create the enabling conditions for school redesigns to flourish, and learning how the system can create new incentive structures.

Working conditions emerge as highly predictive of teachers» stated intentions to remain in or leave their schools, with leadership emerging as the most salient dimension.

Four decades of research by such familiar names as Boyer, DiMartino, DuFour, Fullan, Goodlad, Guskey, Marzano, Reeves, Schmoker, Sizer, Wiggins, and others tells us a lot about how high school students learn, about good teaching, about effective leadership, about positive school cultures, and about the working conditions under which teachers are the most productive.

But if we focus on academics alone, we fail to understand that young people develop, as we previously discussed, across multiple domains, and we fail to see that it is the responsibility of the school, family, and community, working in concert, to fulfill the necessary conditions for learning (for more on these conditions, see the «Conditions for Learning» box on tconditions for learning (for more on these conditions, see the «Conditions for Learning» box on tconditions, see the «Conditions for Learning» box on tConditions for Learning» box on the right).

[17] In contrast, teachers with community knowledge and connections are more likely to raise student achievement, as well as to participate in long - term efforts at school - community partnerships and teacher professionalization, including mentoring and collaboratively improving working conditions.

I was happy to read on page 25 of the Green Paper that a number of the things that have worked in schools such as Wallington and those in the King Edward VI group will be conditions when existing grammar schools expand or new grammar schools open.

Principals in our sample spoke about the effects of strong unions, focused primarily on teachers «working conditions, as obstacles to creating collaborative cultures and engaging teachers in school - and district - wide decision making.