Sentences with phrase «between schools and teachers»

The traits of the GERM are: competition (both between schools and teachers); test based accountability; performance related rewards; and attacks on teacher unions.

Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt called on Mr Gove to take some responsibility for the lack of progress and said the results showed that collaboration between schools and teachers was more effective than market forces.

The idea behind value - added modeling is to level the playing field by using statistical procedures that allow direct comparisons between schools and teachers — even when those schools are working with quite different populations of students.

The data show an increase in teacher turnover, which includes both teachers who move between schools and teachers who leave the profession altogether.

Eric studies the economics of education, with a particular interest in employer - employee interactions between schools and teachers — hiring and firing decisions, job design, training, performance evaluation.

The third approach is also VAM - based, but fully levels the playing field between schools and teachers by eliminating any association between school - and teacher - level measures of test - score growth and student characteristics.

The third approach we consider is also based on value - added but is carried out in two steps instead of one in order to force comparisons between schools and teachers serving students with similar characteristics.

We excluded instances of conflicts between schools and teachers (such as teacher dismissal cases) and between schools and nonstudent outsiders (such as drug - and weapon - free - zone cases that did not involve students), as well as student rights cases focused exclusively on free speech issues (that is, those not combined with the school's use of suspension, expulsion, corporal punishment, and transfer).

He studies the economics of education, with a particular interest in employer - employee interactions between schools and teachers — hiring and firing decisions, job design, training, and performance evaluation.

Discussing School Direct, the government's new approach to initial teacher training, Taylor talked about developing relationships between schools and teacher training providers and school - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), encouraging schools to get more involved and take control of their own recruitment.

Not exact matches

Think back to elementary school when your teacher was explaining the difference between a rectangle and a square.

Last May — three decades after completing her BA, and with teacher's college, sommelier training and a creative writing program in between — Hogarth went back to school again.

He was always a bit of a thrill - seeker: he rode a snowmobile to school every day and purchased his first assault rifle from a history teacher between classes.

And when that same Cruz shot up the school on Valentine's Day, a «pusillanimous» Peterson «cowered in a safe location between two concrete walls» as it «rained bullets upon the teachers and students,» according to the complaiAnd when that same Cruz shot up the school on Valentine's Day, a «pusillanimous» Peterson «cowered in a safe location between two concrete walls» as it «rained bullets upon the teachers and students,» according to the complaiand students,» according to the complaint.

«There are a number of funerals, and we don't want students and teachers to have to choose between going to a funeral and going to school,» Runcie said.

My mom is a catholic school teacher and can tell the difference between sin and a medical condition to bad the church and people like mr. romney can't.

Allowing public remedial teachers to go onto the premise of parochial schools, it said, was an «excessive entanglement between church and state.»

In the case of Francis Finnegan filed Wednesday, Finnegan claimed the Rev. John Kline, who was assigned to St. Francis Xavier Parish and was a longtime teacher at Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia, sexually abused him while on vacation with the family sometime between 1968 and 1969.

Apparently their Sunday school teachers never explained the connection between ivory tusks and penises.

Vocational advisement, if it is to be of real educational value, should consist not in one or a few interviews on entering or leaving school, but in a continuing dialogue between the student and his parents and teachers in all fields as well as with professional guidance officers.

The differences, therefore, which produced first a rift and then an irreconcilable opposition between Jesus and the dominant school of Jewish teachers in his time were not in the end (though they might appear at first sight to be) a matter of divergent interpretations of this or that point in the Law.

The leadership structure in most congregations operates as if a three - way division of labor between parents, Sunday School teachers, and pastors still exists and is adequate to the spiritual formation of children and youth.

I pray for courage to be in each school — the students, their parents, their teachers — who still stands in the crossfire between extremists and education even now today.

In the movie Children of a Lesser God there is a stormy love affair between Sarah, deaf and mute, and James, a teacher at a school for the deaf.

Between her childhood immersion in hymns and an art teacher in high school, she received her musical education.

The judge's decision comes after a 12 - year court battle, known as the Theodore case, between Good Spirit School Decision (GSSD) and Christ the Teacher Roman Catholic Separate School Division (CTRCSD) / the government of Saskatchewan.

Because of the strength of the shared values of the teachers and the close working relationship between teachers and parents, these schools are usually free of the more negative aspects of the youth culture.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

The point of contact which expresses the common bond between teacher and student also provides the foundation upon which the school is established.

Teachers all across the country are soon going to be packing in their lunches between lunchroom duty and recess as school starts for the new year.

Between getting them back into the groove of school schedules and all that goes with that (earlier bedtimes, homework, etc.) and pulling together everything that their teachers needed, I felt ready to turn back the clock and do summer vacation all over again.

In New York City, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schools.

Nearly 250 teachers, administrators, board members and parents representing public Waldorf schools spanning the east coast to the west coast and everywhere in between participated in this revitalizing weekend.

Mom of 2, former elementary school teacher, television industry survivor - I'm devoted to helping moms find balance between raising kids and pursuing their own goals.

On behalf of our dedicated preschool teachers, we're excited to bring this new feature that will encourage stronger ties between home and school.

Negotiations between the board and the Chicago Teachers Union resumed Thursday afternoon, but a school board spokesman called the session «probably the least productive «so far.

«The impact on our children, our school, and on the relationship between teachers and students — BIC has done so much for my kids,» she shared.

In case you're still debating whether to speak up for healthier school food, check out this email exchange between a concerned mother and a teacher at her first grader's school.

One morning a week, the program provides gentle support for new parents in their role as their child's first teacher, and a gentle transition between home and school life for the young child.

The class teacher presents the main academic subjects, coordinates with the special subject teachers, and provides the link between home and school, thereby carefully nurturing each child's potential.

Other concerns expressed by parents suggested the need for better hot lunches, longer lunch periods, air conditioning and improved communication between parents and schools or teachers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that between 4 to 6 percent of children in the United States have one or more food allergies and that approximately 90 percent of schools have one or more students with a food allergy.4 The CDC developed voluntary guidelines to help staff, teachers and students create a healthy school environment for children with food allergies.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

In spite of the common curriculum, courses vary between schools and between teachers.

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

I realize, of course, that there have always been sharp disparities between schools in affluent areas and poor areas — reflected in the quality of teachers, the availability of materials, the curricula, facilities and more.

Tommi is a middle school block teacher at Whidbey Island Waldorf School, where she taught as a grades teacher between 1997 andschool block teacher at Whidbey Island Waldorf School, where she taught as a grades teacher between 1997 andSchool, where she taught as a grades teacher between 1997 and 2007.

Email communications between teachers and their classes is part of the Old Town School educational experience.

Between keeping your calendar up to date with all the school events, fielding emails from the school and teacher, and the mad rush to get out the door in the morning, you may feel like you want to...