Sentences with phrase «at urban teachers»

Prior to joining MCPS, she was the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation and a Strategic Data Project fellow at Urban Teachers, a residency - based teacher preparation program.

Prior to her current role, Cara conducted research and evaluation at Urban Teachers as a Strategic Data Fellow through the Center for Education Policy Research.

Cara Jackson is the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation at the Urban Teacher Center.

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A former inner - city high school teacher, Farrington left the classroom after 15 years to get a Ph.D. in urban - education policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

This year's Conference features keynote speaker Linda Williams, Ed.D., who served as a class teacher at the Detroit Waldorf School from 1987 - 1992, after which she taught grades 1 - 3 at the public Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee.

Wright State University recently analyzed three large, at - risk schools in urban, rural and suburban locations, and found a 39 percent reduction in verbal and physical aggression in eight months when teachers implemented monthly character themes and taught specific character skills.

SUNY Buffalo State and the Buffalo Public School District announced the launch the Urban Teacher Academy to be located at McKinley High School Monday at a news conference.

Visit the blog of Centre for Mobilities & Urban Studies (C - MUS) where most teachers at the MSc programme in Mobilities & Urban Studies are affiliated.

Joe Macchia, a science teacher at the Urban Science Academy in Bronx, NY, uses BTI teaching kits and educational resources to engage his students in hands - on science.

Jen completed her adult yoga teacher training at Willow Street Yoga in Takoma Park, MD and her prenatal training with Janet Caulfield of Urban Yoga.

Wayne Urban, professor of education and an expert on teacher unions, notes that NEA president Robert Chase gave a pivotal address on behalf of new unionism at the National Press Club in 1997, calling for «the transformation of his organization away from the adversarial stance institutionalized in collective bargaining toward one that was more professional.»

The program was developed by the Urban Land Institute (ULI), based in Washington, DC, and the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley, with input from high school government and economics teachers.

«Reducing stress and establishing a positive emotional climate in the classroom is arguably the most essential component of teaching,» writes Mariale Hardiman, a former teacher and administrator and current assistant dean of the Urban Schools Partnership at Johns Hopkins University's School of Education.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

In a first of its kind new global study of urban refugee education, researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University have revealed a gap between policy and practice.

Working closely with existing programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, such as the Urban Superintendents Program and the Teacher Education Program, the Center will draw on the intellectual resources of other professional schools and faculties at Harvard University.

She is a former New York City public school teacher and holds a PhD in Urban Education from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

All of these things allow for a sense of identification and belonging with others at Urban Prep, fostering a strong community among students and teachers.

Teachers will gravitate to hard - to - staff urban campuses if they have a strong leader, Peltier - Glaze told an audience at the recent Association of School Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

Teachers at the top of the pay scale in large urban schools earned an average of $ 51,955 annually last year, a 5.4 percent increase over the year before, according to a report by the American Federation of Teachers.

Advocating at school meetings several days per week at one of the largest urban school districts in the country, invariably I see tremendously frustrated teachers, mind - numbing paperwork and by definition dissatisfied parents.

Between 44 percent and 50 percent of teachers do not remain at urban campuses, according to Peltier - Glaze.

For Dickstein, this kind of research is the perfect complement to two years at the Ed School spent researching teacher training in urban settings.

Educators across the country are faced with ethical dilemmas every day and, as one teacher shares in her first year teaching at a large urban school, they don't always know how to respond.

Alexis Daniels started as a Parachute teacher last year at the McKay K — 8 School in East Boston, where she lives and where she founded an urban community farm.

In a 2011 report for the Providence, Rhode Island, school board, researchers at Brown University's Urban Education and Policy program found that the district's 1,321 teachers took off an average of 21 days each per school year.

The data from this survey enable us to look at teachers» pay in both urban and rural areas.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

The Harvard study found that the highest percentage of absences at that northern, urban district were on Fridays, when 6.6 percent of teachers took off, providing themselves a three - day weekend.

Armed with data looking at some 20,000 high school students in urban, rural, and suburban communities, he first examined a survey question asking teachers to identify students in their class that they perceived as having disabilities.

Shannon Darcey, a middle - school English language development teacher at Urban Promise Academy in Oakland, California, tackles this at the beginning of the year by asking her students to create a video tour of their school, narrated in English.

I am an Instructional Coach / Reading Specialist at a large, urban high school and I am a different teacher today.

Here he was, a health and social studies teacher, off to his first day of class at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Urban and Public Affairs, known for producing some of the country's top public - policy leaders and managers.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Tteachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of TeachersTeachers.

A sharp divide among Democrats was in full view at the party's national convention in Denver, where urban mayors and educators, gathered at a forum sponsored by Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), challenged the dominant role of teachers unions in shaping policy.

A research team led by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban dTeachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban dteachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban district.

Considering his position as a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Mr. Haberman's solution to the nation's chronic shortage of qualified urban teachers is rather...

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

In Houston, as in so many urban districts, the accounting system pretends that every teacher earns the average salary of teachers in the district rather than accounting for the actual costs of the salaries at a particular school.

Drawing on research with teachers, principals and superintendents in three urban districts, the Rennie Center's brief recommends that policymakers at both the state and district levels provide teachers with more time and support for the integration of data into their instructional planning.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

At the Urban Institute, we've shown that there are huge representation gaps for teachers of color and that the supply of teachers of color is greatly constrained by the number of college graduates of color.

He also served in various roles at Urban Prep's Englewood Campus including: Manager of the Pride Program (dedicated to the students» socio - emotional well - being), U.S. History Teacher and Basketball Coach.

Research papers at the Urban Academy go through multiple revisions before students and teachers alike consider them complete.

The typical research paper at the Urban Academy, for example, will go through multiple revisions before the student and his or her teacher consider it complete.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

HTH — with its emphasis on integrating academic and technical education through project - based learning — attracts a number of people like Duffy with «deep content knowledge who had very successful academic careers and wanted to work in an urban school at a time of profound teacher shortage,» says founding principal Larry Rosenstock.

For example, at Chicago's Academy for Urban School Leadership, two interns are assigned to team - teach with a master teacher, and graduate - level teacher - education coursework is integrated with their daily teaching so they can immediately apply their new knowledge and skills.

The Teacher Education Program at HGSE is an 11 - month immersion experience in the guiding principles and hands - on practices of effective teaching in urban contexts.