Sentences with phrase «challenge teacher union leaders»

From the very beginning, TURN's purpose has been to challenge teacher union leaders to take steps to promote teachers as professionals, advance a broad based new unionism, and link professionalism and new unionism to ways for improving student learning.

Not exact matches

Ministers claim a «black hole» exists in teachers» pensions; union leaders challenge them to come up with the specific proof.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

The Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) has developed a pair of training sessions that can help all educators — administrators, union leaders, teachers, support staff, board members — learn how to navigate difficult conversations and move those challenging discussions to a productive level.

After an electrifying keynote by parent leader Rosazlia Grillier that left attendees standing in ovation, Jesse Sharkey of the Chicago Teachers Union facilitated a panel discussion during the Chicago Story plenary on current challenges facing the public school system and the difficulty for community voices to be heard.

The idea was unusual, maybe even unwise: Bring together people and organizations sometimes at odds with each other — the teachers union, the School Board, reporters, business leaders — and wrangle them into consensus and cooperation on challenges facing Madison public schools.

According to SAISD district and union leaders participating in APA's interviews, there was a key turning point which led the district to move down the path of developing a new peer assistance review program — co-organized and jointly operated by district and teacher union leaders — in an attempt to address existing teacher retention challenges.

In a speech in September, Tony Evers, the state superintendent of public instruction, challenged school and union leaders across the state to come up with effective systems for improving teacher effectiveness.

NEA's Priority Schools Campaign has brought together more than 300 teachers, education support professionals, union leaders, district administrators, community members and parents, representing 36 Priority Schools from 17 states, in New Orleans for a three day forum to share lessons learned, challenges and strategies for success in school transformation efforts.

Another 300 teachers joined the TLI in 2014.55 All participating teachers learn skills associated with three kinds of leadership: instructional leadership, or how teacher leaders can improve the systems that support teachers and students within schools and districts; policy leadership, or how teacher leaders can influence policymakers at local, state, and national levels; and association leadership, or how teacher leaders can advance the goals of their local and national unions.56 When they return to their districts, these teacher leaders work to address leadership challenges that they identified through their training.

The document revealed that teacher union honchos in the Golden State are expecting that pending litigation may very well put an end to mandatory union dues, and they're exhorting local labor leaders to rise to the challenge.