Sentences with phrase «city talking to teachers»

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With such images, Paul shows he is talking about the teacher who travels away from his home and place of employment to go serve and teach in other cities and towns.

Talks over the evaluations broke down in the city last month when Department of Education officials refused to consider the UFT's insistence that teachers who receive poor ratings be allowed to appeal them to an independent arbitrator.

Just as Mayor Bill de Blasio is to meet with federal prosecutors to talk possible pay - to - play with the city's teachers union, that same union fulsomely endorses the mayor for a second term.

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Just as Mayor Bill de Blasio is to meet with federal prosecutors to talk possible pay - to - play with the city's teachers union, that same union fulsomely endorses the mayor for...

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew sits down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about the city's public school teachers not having paid familTeachers President Michael Mulgrew sits down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about the city's public school teachers not having paid familteachers not having paid family leave.

Five Stafford Middle school students and their teachers were on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus on Thursday to talk about their successful effort last year to get the city school board to change Columbus Day on school calendars to Indigenous People's Day.

The UFT on Jan. 13 asked the state's Public Employment Relations Board to order mediation to bring negotiations on a teacher evaluation system for 33 restart and transformation schools back on track, after the city walked out of the talks during the Christmas break week.

In coordinated actions in districts across the city, members asked their Council representatives to make averting teacher layoffs their top priority in budget talks.

In coordinated actions in districts across the city, members asked their Council representatives to make averting teacher layoffs their top priority in budget talks and urged them also to restore the child care funding that the mayor wants to cut.

In response to pressure from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Department of Education has resumed talks with the UFT on the issue of teacher evaluations in 33 restart and transformation schools, nearly a month after the city walked away from the negotiating table.

It talks about Harvey Milk and the Communist Manifesto and the Civil Rights Movement and the CIA installation of Pinochet and the madness of a majority that still believes there were weapons of mass destruction in an Iraq... and it does so as backdrop to the disintegration of privileged white boy Dan (Gosling), a teacher at a rough inner - city school nursing a crack habit.

«An approach to discipline that is respectful of human rights and maintains student dignity leads to a school that is inherently safe,» says former teacher Sally Lee, coauthor of «Teachers Talk» and executive director of the New York City organization Teachers Unite.

From tales of his 30 years teaching in New York City schools to the public's indifference toward teachers, Pulitzer Prize - winning author and former teacher Frank McCourt's lighthearted and humorous talk yesterday to students in the Teacher Education Program, one of 13 master's programs at the Ed School, left an imprteacher Frank McCourt's lighthearted and humorous talk yesterday to students in the Teacher Education Program, one of 13 master's programs at the Ed School, left an imprTeacher Education Program, one of 13 master's programs at the Ed School, left an impression.

But we've also had to consider what newcomers might want from an English language class, which could be as something as simple as talking to them about things they know and care about, say educators like Darren Chase, an ELL teacher with New Design High School in New York City.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

«We talked in broader terms of education funding and the need for attracting teachers and what to do about inner city schools, as well as the proper role of federal government.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

«One of the things I noticed in talking with teachers and students [that are using River City in their classrooms] is this idea that some students have written themselves off as not being able to do science and succeed in schools,» he says.

Included: Teachers, students, and administrators talk about effective ways to help city children achieve success.

More Than Reading Scores and Stereotypes: The Voices of City Teachers and Students During an Education World visit to three New York City schools, the children offered insights about their lives in and out of school, and the adults talked about their struggle and dedication to help these children overcome challenges.

It expects to have Chicagoans on its side because, after all, these are teachers we're talking about, dedicated professionals who spend their energy in classrooms across the city, educating children.

This time, «Renewal» schools are meeting to decide what performance benchmarks they want to hit in the coming years, others are planning field trips across the city, and — at Chancellor Carmen Fariña's urging — many others will check out a TED Talk about the importance of connections between teachers and students.

New York School Talk is eighteen months old and eager to expand our network of writers — parents, teachers, students, education leaders — who share our conviction that all New York City's children, regardless of income and ethnicity, must have access to high - quality schools.

Successful talks would have led to the district keeping $ 250 million in funds for New York City teachers and students.

When the city cut off talks with the United Federation of Teachers in December, it also cut off talks with the principals union, to President Ernest Logan's chagrin.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

Contract talks between the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union were expected to resume on Monday after thousands of Chicago's teachers walked off of the job overnight in what has become a national test pitting a Democrat - controlled city against unionized formerTeachers Union were expected to resume on Monday after thousands of Chicago's teachers walked off of the job overnight in what has become a national test pitting a Democrat - controlled city against unionized formerteachers walked off of the job overnight in what has become a national test pitting a Democrat - controlled city against unionized former allies.

«Plaintiff attorney in the landmark Vergara case in Twin Cities to talk about teacher tenure,» Star Tribune, November 14, 2014

5th Grade Parents are invited to a parent meeting where the teachers will talk about a class trip to New York City.

We used to have professional learning communities in Baltimore City for literacy called Reading Right where grade level teachers would get together once a month and they would talk about what's coming up in the curriculum and what are your best practices and how are you doing it?

Kristin talks about her work with schools in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, where she's helping them to build strategic plans to support ELLs at all levels, from central office staff and administration to teachers in the classroom.

Duncan said cities are «scared» to talk about evaluating and celebrating effective teachers.

I can put together a panel of some children's - book authors and some teachers to talk about preparing kids for going back to school in the big city.