Sentences with phrase «classroom door shuts»

No matter how invested a district (or even a principal) is, when the classroom door shuts, the teachers will do what they believe is best for themselves and their students.

Central to his argument has been that despite all the reforms and fads, once the classroom door shuts, teachers have the domain to ignore all of the reform efforts and fall back on what they know and believe is best.

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It's a lot to ask of a child, to have him walk out of the classroom, shut the door behind him, and deny himself the wonderful enjoyment of practicing his wind sprints up and down the corridors of the school.

And all of this is before you even get to the fundamental fact that, when 3.5 million classroom doors swing shut on a Tuesday morning, those teachers are pretty much free to teach (or not teach) whatever they like, regardless of thunderous commands, incentives, pleadings, and resources from district, state, or Uncle Sam.

The routine for most teachers at the time was: Go in your classroom and shut your door.

Four principals tiptoe out of the 1st grade classroom at La Pluma Elementary School, easing the door shut behind them.

Teachers walked into the classroom and shut the door.

... to my colleagues sitting here at this table, who have never been in a classroom with the door shut with 30 students — if you think that you, yourself can change a child because you say that another entity can come in and do it, you are sadly mistaken.

When MoMA PS1 shut the doors to James Turrell's Meeting (1986), a large installation work in a former classroom on the third floor of the Queens institution, in 2013, it meant visitors could no longer experience the artist's first - ever public skyspace — the name he... Read More

If he can't cope he can leave the classroom as the door's not shut and it's not the end of the world if he has a wobble — because there's always a way back.