Sentences with phrase «by teachers and principals»

Several times a year, he and a professional trainer give five - hour seminars to middle school students who were chosen by teachers and principals for their leadership potential.

In controversial areas such as reading, where it is tempting to require that things be done a particular way, policymakers should provide to be determined by teachers and principals in consultation with families.

The problems most often mentioned by teachers and principals in the largest districts were those that originated outside their schools: scarce resources and changes imposed by an out - of - touch bureaucracy.

Fifteen percent of the evaluation will be based on other Student Growth Objectives, or SGOs, established by teachers and their principals.

According to one lawmaker, the new teacher contracts have not been well - received by teachers and principals in his district — regardless of political affiliation.

Then we provide a synopsis of results from our research about leadership practices perceived by teachers and principals to be instructionally helpful.

How do the practices identified as helpful by teachers and principals compare with our current formulation of core leadership practices?

Others, like art and music teachers, are subject to job reviews split between classroom observations and student learning targets — academic goals agreed to in advance by teachers and principals.

The instructional program is designed almost entirely by the teachers and principals.

In the 2013 - 2014 school year, with 200 teachers (in 50 schools) in the treatment group and an equal number in a control group participating, we examine whether digital video technology can improve teaching practice and student outcomes in treatment classrooms; whether it is preferred by both teachers and principals to in - person observations; and whether it presents a cost - effective, scalable alternative to in - person observations.

Here we take a closer look at the report, including the benefits and challenges raised by teachers and principals.

There, she concludes — as do I — that policy - driven efforts to suppress forceful discipline by teachers and principals result in more disruptive youngsters remaining in more disrupted classrooms where they distract, upset, and diminish the effectiveness of teachers, interfere with classmates» learning, and drive more families with well - behaved children to flee to whatever better options they can afford.

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

This should be mutually decided by the teacher and the principal.

Not exact matches

Failure to act as direct teacher and dean or principal of a school of discipleship by its pastoral leader probably accounts more than any other single factor for a congregation's inability to mature in its ministry.

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Jack was Fischer's principal chess teacher, and Fischer spent hours at the Collinses» Brooklyn home, playing endless games of chess with Jack and eating food prepared by Ethel.

Each month students are selected by teachers and rewarded for «random acts of kindness» with a special breakfast («Breakfast of Champions») with school principal Deb Powell.

Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.

The new hotdog, called ProPlus and manufactured by Protein Technologies International, a division of Ralston Purina Co., was selected by the Chicago school lunch council, a comittee comprising teachers, managers, principals, parents and students, Phillips says.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

IEPs are created collaboratively by parents, teachers, the principal, and any other professionals who meet the child at school — Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT), Educational Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, etc..

If you do find out that your child does not want to go to school because he is being bullied, let his teacher and principal know what is going on, and work side by side with them to make sure the bullying stops.

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Principal Amy Graham and PE teachers, Michael L'Esperance and Josh Philpot, will be recognized by the Cherokee County School Board and Superintendent of Schools at the School Board's August meeting.

The support for school breakfast programs in Montana is growing by leaps and bounds — from local teachers and principals all the way to the state Office of Public Instruction.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

By creating one system, it also simplifies administrative processes, allowing schools, principals, and teachers to focus on teaching.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today detailed an agreement to guarantee every school district has a permanent teacher and principal evaluation system in place by June 1st.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher RTeacher Reserve.

More than 10,000 city school employees, from custodians to principals, and about half of them teachers, were assaulted or threatened by students last school year, The Post has learned.

The proposals would also strengthen the role of School Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of principals.

State aid increases continue to be linked to compliance with the teacher and principal evaluation process; districts will be ineligible for school aid if they have not fully implemented the teacher evaluation process for the 2013 - 14 year by September 1, 2013.

The regulation approved by a Regents committee would postpone until at least the 2019 - 20 school year any use of standardized state English and math scores in penalizing students, teachers or principals.

Scores for fourth - through eighth - grade math and English teachers and their principals are expected to be finalized by mid-August and could be released through a Freedom of Information request under the current law.

Those who attain certification under this more rigorous process are more likely to find a job, principals have a better pool of candidates to choose from, and students will be taught by better teachers.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Thursday the city's DOE stood by and did nothing while Pan American International High School Principal Minerva Zanca compared one of the school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.»

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

Leadership in both houses of the state Legislature support a two - year moratorium on using Common Core - aligned test scores to evaluate teachers and principals or to make decisions about student placement or promotion, a plan supported by teachers» unions.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

In 2006, Dromm was chosen as «Outstanding Teacher of the Year» by his school's principal and in 2009, he was chosen as «Educator of the Year» by the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside.

The bill as introduced by the governor would allow parents and legal guardians to view teacher and principal evaluations.

«I am introducing my bill, the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Disclosure Act, for consideration by the Senate and the Assembly,» Cuomo said in a statement sent after midnight.

But de Blasio's decision to further reduce suspensions by outlawing them completely for kids in kindergarten through second grade drew criticism from the presidents of both the city teachers union and the principals union.

King's new plan includes student surveys in teacher evaluations and principal empowerment by minimizing bureaucratic hurdles.

«Aside from that, both principal and subject teachers should be enjoined to ensure that they give the desired guidance to the students on the proper use of Opon Imo in the sense that whoever for any reason among the beneficiaries (students) misapply its uses, it will attract N50, 000 fine and this is backup by legislation of the Osun State House of Assembly.

Etter was reportedly scolded and told by the principal to «stick to the curriculum» according to the teachers union.