Sentences with phrase «centered around teacher»

You know this when their debates about education reform are centered around teacher rights, and not student rights.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the discussion center around a teacher shortage.

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The allegations center around Greg Pittman, a history teacher who got into a lengthy Twitter debate with junior Kyle Kashuv earlier this week.

The allegations center around Greg Pittman, a history teacher who got into a lengthy Twitter debate with junior Kyle Kashuv earlier...

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

Sunbridge graduates enjoy teaching and administrative careers at Waldorf schools and early childhood centers, teacher education institutes, and affiliated organizations across the U.S. and around the world.

This three - day training lays the foundation for the Parents as Teachers approach to home visitation within an early childhood system and centers around three main areas:

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

In Waterlivet, New York, a teachers describe students as more engaged and building upon skills learned from an approached centered around the Common Core.

But after one hour - long talk describing some of his work in human - centered computing, such as flying drones with brainwaves, their teachers report a turn - around in their perceptions, Gilbert said.

Many community education centers around the world are looking for volunteer teachers to expand course offerings.

As a yoga teacher, some of my favorite questions to receive from students center around the philosophy of yoga, the spirit practice, which is the...

The film centers around a rich Beverly Hills teen named Cher (Alicia Silverstone) who sets up two lonely teachers in order to raise her grades.

The story concerns some women living in a prison reformatory and centers around a vengeful teacher who works there.

A comedy centered around a multi-dimensional African - American woman who is smart, funny, vulnerable, sensual, wise, proud, charming, flawed, resilient, well - educated, an inspiring teacher and a loving friend feels almost like the cinematic equivalent of a unicorn.

Some of his previous works include «About Elly,» which centers around the disappearance of a teacher.

Hitting movie theaters this weekend: Bad Teacher — Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake A Better Life — Demián Bichir, José Julián, Eddie «Piolin» Sotelo Cars 2 — Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine Movie of the Week Bad Teacher The Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake The Plot: A comedy centered around a foul - mouthed, junior high teacher (Diaz) who, after being dumped by her sugar -LTeacher — Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake A Better Life — Demián Bichir, José Julián, Eddie «Piolin» Sotelo Cars 2 — Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine Movie of the Week Bad Teacher The Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake The Plot: A comedy centered around a foul - mouthed, junior high teacher (Diaz) who, after being dumped by her sugar -LTeacher The Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake The Plot: A comedy centered around a foul - mouthed, junior high teacher (Diaz) who, after being dumped by her sugar -Lteacher (Diaz) who, after being dumped by her sugar -LSB-...]

After nearly ten years as a classroom teacher, a tutor, and a mathematics coach in the Boston area, my work now centers around intervention and teacher support and development.

This trend has presented particular problems for some elementary school teachers, whose pedagogy has typically centered around literacy.

The process offers an opportunity for intensive, clinical conversations among teachers that center around their classroom practice and ways that they are improving student learning.

«The teachers» forensic science project centers around a crime scene — nothing gory or in bad taste, but something that will use many of the science skills and techniques the students have acquired,» says Onsager.

Possible Futures, Possible Selves, its new program for middle school students, provides open - source curricular modules for middle school teachers to download and use centered around skills for success and looking toward the future.

On media - center couches and at conference - room tables, downing Cokes and sipping coffee together, teachers around the country are cracking open books to get better at what they do — and, often, relishing the experience.

Their webinars boast of «real teachers teaching teachers,» and seem to mostly center around EdTech resources and best practices, including year - round sessions from education superstars like Bill Nye.

The 11 new funding streams would be centered around such themes as increasing teacher and leader effectiveness, improving curriculum standards, and bolstering readiness for college.

For freshmen, it may be centered around time management or communicating with their teachers.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

When center time comes to a close, the children gather around the teacher for a review of what they've done.»

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

The 11 new funding streams would be centered around such themes as increasing teacher and leader effectiveness, improving curriculum...

Partnering teachers meet once a week to plan sessions centered around what younger students need to learn to do independently.

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

For instance, in a classroom with only an interactive whiteboard and one computer, learning will still remain teacher centered and integration will revolve around teacher needs, which are not necessarily student needs.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

He is a founding member and senior fellow of the Collaboratory — a digital home for progressive conversations around the changing nature of teaching and learning — and has served as teacher in residence at the Center for Teaching Quality.

The goal is to connect early career teacher leaders to union leadership, centered specifically around professional unionism and social justice unionism.

The event will be centered around testimonials from students, parents, and teachers who benefit from an array of education options — including students and graduates from traditional public schools, public magnet schools, public charter schools, private schools, online academies, and homeschooling.

The Platte County (Missouri) Health Department was on the cutting edge in this arena when they requested an HKC led workshop for child care facility directors and lead teachers centered around

With several awards in STEM education, much of Mr. Reynolds» work has centered around the use of standards - based curricula and constructivist pedagogy to improve student and teacher outcomes.

Her work centers around acknowledging problems and finding innovative ways to navigate them so as to allow teachers and students dive into these classroom edventures.

For more information on best practices around family engagement that puts teachers and families at the center of your efforts, as well as some tips for how to think about this in an LCFF / LCAP context, see the chapter I co-authored, Why Family Engagement Matters, on the California Community Schools Network website.

Family Engagement University, a program of Metro Nashville Public Schools» Department of Family and Community Partnerships, and Building Bridges, a program of Oasis Center, worked to elevate the need for policies that advance teacher quality through trainings and preparation around diversity, identity, privilege, and equity for all students.

Perhaps more importantly, the HI FIVES professional development and project as a whole centered around fostering teacher creation of SEGs for implementation in their classrooms, which both afforded opportunity for TPACK improvement and encouraged teachers to embed their current content and pedagogical knowledge within the games they would later implement in their classroom.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

Interdisciplinary planning begins with an opportunity for arts and non-arts classroom teachers across content areas to meet regularly to create a plan for instruction that centers around a theme, concept, issue, problem or topic and allows each discipline to bring their curricular goals to the planning process.

Won't Back Down, a movie due to open nationally on September 28th, centers around two determined mothers, one a bartender and the other a teacher, who team up and try to transform their failing public school in Pittsburgh.

Contract negotiations in Chicago have centered on issues like healthcare benefits and length of the school day, but a major sticking point remains around teacher evaluation and compensation.

Our technology integration centered around engaging teachers in prolonged collaborative experiences with digital educative curricula.

The event is centered around testimonials from students, parents, and teachers who benefit from an array of education options — including students and graduates from traditional public schools, public magnet schools, public charter schools, private schools, online academies, and homeschooling.

So but it's all been centered around giving teachers practical strategies, practical means to helping our English learners in the classroom.