Sentences with phrase «beginning teachers across districts»

Because this study was conducted with beginning teachers across districts and had no jurisdiction over requirements for other teachers in the schools, those two adaptations did not seem to be viable options.

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All the teachers at her son's school — and ultimately across the district — began visiting their students at home, strengthening the parent - teacher relationship and helping parents become more active participants in the children's learning.

It began in November 2016 as a pilot across 10 districts, and has since rolled out nationally across England with over 1,400 schools participating following positive feedback from teachers and pupils.

When our district began refining its instructional vision in 2012, we turned to Powerful Learning Practices and Sheryl Nussbaum - Beach as a necessary first step to help lead and facilitate the planning and goal - setting, and to work with us as we designed and implemented Professional Learning Collaboratives (PD training) that were needed to connect our teachers and administrators across the curriculum and grade levels.

To infuse research - based practices into more classrooms, 150 teachers and leaders in Small Learning Community schools in the district began taking courses this fall through WIDE World, capitalizing on the advantages of networked technologies to access HGSE research across distance.

As these reforms began to take shape, teachers in states and districts across the country have encountered growing demands.

The relationship between Ingham Independent School District and Wharton Center Institute for Arts & Creativity began in 2010 and has been serving K - 12 area teachers from all across the district eveDistrict and Wharton Center Institute for Arts & Creativity began in 2010 and has been serving K - 12 area teachers from all across the district evedistrict ever since.

«As the new school year begins, newspapers across the country are reporting on school districts» search for minority teachers, especially African American teachers — evidence that we, as a society, continue to navigate around the color line,» Bristol wrote in a guest column on the Albert Shanker Institute blog.

I began my career as a high school social studies teacher and, over the years, have worked in multiple educational organizations, including universities, a state department of education, a regional educational laboratory, and as consultant to the USDOE, national professional organizations, multiple SDEs, regional agencies, and school districts across the country.

In Jefferson, for instance, some principals and teachers had begun developing these types of goals on their own only to have the district impose uniform targets across the entire parish for the sake of consistency.

In that context, teachers from across the state and in my home district of Covington Independent divvied up the standards work, specialized in one content area and began designing curriculum.

LONG BEACH, Ca — July 11, 2017 — A new report released by Californians Together shows that many school districts across the state are currently facing a growing bilingual teacher shortage, and that in the near term, there is a pool of at least 7,000 bilingual teachers who are well positioned to begin to address this shortage, and need to be supported with professional development.

Faced with shrinking education budgets, school districts across the country have laid off scores of teachers, leading to reduced services and escalating class sizes for students as the 2011 — 12 school year begins.

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

As the Chicago Teachers Union begins the second week of their strike, some political leaders and media commentators are quick to blame teachers for resisting a system for evaluating teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already Teachers Union begins the second week of their strike, some political leaders and media commentators are quick to blame teachers for resisting a system for evaluating teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already teachers for resisting a system for evaluating teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already adopted.

States and districts across the country have begun expanding the list of mandated reporters — those who can be penalized under the law for knowingly failing to report the abuse or neglect of a child — to include teachers and other employees of school campuses.