Sentences with phrase «conversations with teachers»

Make sure you tell your teenager about your conversations with teachers and your reasons.

However if you are parent, you may only experience difficult conversations with teachers a few times in your children's educational careers.

I collected data by documenting conversations with teachers, individual teacher presentations during our co-inquiry meetings, and inquiry - based discussions.

Support can come from conversations with teachers or other staff, or from making connections with other families.

Programs that create community help families understand learning objectives (and how families can extend learning at home) and foster meaningful conversations with teachers and administrators.

Fusco said she has been having daily conversations with teachers from the school where the tragedy took place.

Conversations with teachers and kids as well as small - business owners, all proud Cambodians, are highly inspirational,» he said.

She also shares strategies that start conversations with teachers about using new media tools and resources in rigorous and meaningful ways to build subject area knowledge while developing 21st century skills.

The principal was ultimately going to conduct the conversations with the teachers one - on - one, but she invited her leadership team to help her plan and to give them some experience with the planning process so they could replicate it with other grade level teachers.

Many principals tell us that they go into classrooms but often don't know what to look for or how to have necessary conversations with teachers.

Visits to schools around the state and conversations with teachers and students make it clear that many teachers have found creative ways to teach Mississippi students about the Civil Rights Movement, and its legacy, in their state.

After dozens of conversations with teachers and leaders our team developed a rubric to help teachers set and track their progress against their own goals for blended learning.

During our conversations with teachers, we made a point of checking in and redirecting them to resources that would be helpful foundational pieces for their work with VR.

I often have one - on - one conversations with teachers, not only to convey my expectations but to understand what is working well for them and what can be improved.

AIR will conduct and support coaching training to lead substantive coaching conversations with teachers relative to pedagogy, beliefs, and assumptions regarding teaching and learning and to identify next steps and action plans for instruction that will be collaboratively developed.

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching, The Differentiation Workbook, and The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers, as well as the how - to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

We can run reports and have meaningful conversations with teachers.

«Now there is a much deeper, richer understanding of each student's work, and ultimately parents can be more empowered to have meaningful conversations with teachers.»

I put on my Sherlock Holmes hat and went out to a few schools to have some informal conversations with teachers about their thoughts on our (fairly) new observation protocols.

In conversations with teachers in Texas, Ohio, New York, and Iowa during the last week, I've discovered that a few things about the state of public teachers pensions.

From her first conversations with teachers, she intentionally focused on creating deep understanding of the needs of her students and some of the first steps that they would take together to address these needs.

Several of his questions can be used to facilitate conversations with teachers as they examine changes underway in your school:

Mr Skidmore said his conversations with teachers had reflected an appetite for teaching citizenship through a focus on British history, the development of democracy and «our hard - won freedoms».

«When we look at the budget conversations that are just forming up now for our school district, we have escalating costs in maintaining our facilities, we'll be going into negotiation conversations with our teachers and we want to treat them well for the costs they experience living up here or commuting up here to service our children.»

«I have had several conversations with teachers about their teaching so that instruction is at a very high cognitive level in the native language and they can then transfer that knowledge to English.

Ways to model the elements of formative assessment in conversations with teachers about their professional learning;

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching (2009), the REVERE Award — winning Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom (2013), You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers (2014), and The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers (2008), as well as the how - to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

With children returning to classrooms in a few weeks, Roemer said school leaders should be ready to have conversations with teachers and students about what has taken place.

«I can have conversations with teachers based on data,» she says.

Additionally, ILDs learned how to help principals have conversations with teachers when their ratings change as a result of a principal's better understanding of how to assess instruction.

Created by principals for principals, Pivot with 5D + enables administrators to collect and code evidence from observations, conversations with teachers, student work, and artifacts in order to complete mid - and end - of - year formative and summative evaluations in a totally mobile and paperless environment.

AP: This process has enabled me to have hundreds of conversations with teachers around the state, to get some real insights into the conditions that are faced by our students and teachers on a daily basis, in very grounded, concrete ways.

In conversations with teachers and staff, data team members and school leaders should use these terms consistently to check for understanding and encourage others to do the same.

In recent conversations with teachers, parents and students, their constant message has been that funding isn't the answer to all the issues in Education.

We have found that through the support of PLCs, carefully constructed staff convenings, and one - on - one conversations with teachers, instructional leaders can support teachers in reflecting on formative student data and crafting goals for their teaching and student learning.

When students are able to talk with one another and participate in informal conversations with their teachers, it is easy to assume that they have mastered the English language.

The more engaged our students become in conversations with teachers about their learning, the greater the likelihood that they will experience success.

From a systemic perspective the Student Learning Wall is important for consistent conversations with teachers about best practices for PBL and in traditional units.

Drawing on a close reading of public polling research and empirical research on factors related to school quality, and engaging in conversations with teachers, students, families, principals, and district administrators, we have identified five categories — the first three being essential inputs and the last two being key outcomes — and over 30 unique measures to capture the nuances of schools:

Although we found that VAM scores didn't affect teachers» sense of self - efficacy at the Wright School, our conversations with teachers at other schools have made clear that low VAM ratings can be demoralizing, especially when teachers already feel vulnerable.

During the course of a year, Kozai took principals through guided walkthroughs where everyone observed instruction and Kozai then modeled debriefing conversations with teachers.

But now I feel like I can speak pretty intelligently about what good math instruction looks like and I'm more confident in having these conversations with teachers.

Conversations with teachers during planning can also help build a shared vision for what quality instruction looks like.

Findings from these studies indicated that teacher leaders engaged in «formal» (such as conference presentations or leading workshops) and «informal» (such as casual conversations with teachers) dissemination activities.

«Turn the lemons of all this testing we have to do into lemonade so we can have open and honest conversations with teachers.

Students self - assess their current mastery and have rich conversations with teachers.

From our conversations with teachers, we concluded that the biggest barriers to this work could be overcome by intentionally designing a schedule that addressed roadblocks.

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.

What are the questions that leaders are posing in their formal and informal conversations with teachers?

A Harkin staffer told The Huffington Post that the changes resulted from conversations with teachers, teachers» unions, and HELP committee members.