Sentences with phrase «current lead teacher»

Using the current lead teacher and accomplished teacher categories but linked with an appropriate pay level progression would be a good start.

Ruth Ocon - Neri, one of the current lead teachers at MSLA, became familiar with the schools as a parent.

Not exact matches

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

The current effort to permanently undermine New York's teacher evaluation system takes us backwards, masks inequity, and will lead to more and unnecessary testing.

In response to a question from a delegate about the Chicago Teachers Union strike, which led to a successful contract, and the UFT's current, long - running contract battle, Mulgrew contrasted the circumstances faced by educators in Chicago and New York City.

The current secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, has spoken recently of her commitment to the «self - improving, school - led system», characterised by bottom - up innovations coming from «networks of schools and teachers collaborating with one another to drive up standards».

Current programs include COSEE Coastal Trends director and lead PI, Learning Science through Research, a program for middle and high school students which features science conducted at HPL, and the Chesapeake Teacher Research Fellowship program, a 7 week summer research experience for secondary school teachers.

Led by Dr. Alan R. Berkowitz, Head of Education, ELI works to connect students and teachers with current ecological information, including new research being generated by Cary Institute scientists.

This insight has led to her current project — working with the Ministry of Education to establish the first - ever national teacher certification program under the auspices of Université Quisqueya.

Given the current test score fetishization, sophisticated tracking technologies like those employed by OHSU presages the day when every micro teacher and learner signal that can be captured will be quantified and standardized, leading to teaching as a paint - by - numbers activity.

Early in the 20th century, opposition to overt discrimination and demand for greater teacher skills led to the current single - salary schedule, which pays the same salary to teachers with the same qualifications regardless of grade level taught, gender, or race.

What's ironic about all current attention to teacher shortages is that teacher shortages are the exact thing that will lead to the next boomlet in teacher prep.

As they did in the 2008 report, Allegreto and Mishel rely on the weekly wages reported by public school teachers in the Current Population Survey, leading to confusion about whether the wage data refer to annual salary divided by 52 weeks or by some smaller number of weeks that reflects teachers» shorter work year.

If the current principal lacks the digital acumen to lead such a school, the research, not surprisingly, suggests that even if the school has a deputy and teachers with the means, the school will struggle to grow.

Paul Tritter Current City: Boston Current job: Director of professional learning, Boston Teachers Union Career highlight: Leading a unique labor - management collaboration that brings the voices of teachers to an effort to improve professional lTeachers Union Career highlight: Leading a unique labor - management collaboration that brings the voices of teachers to an effort to improve professional lteachers to an effort to improve professional learning.

The current curriculum leads teachers into teaching the curriculum and then adding technology on top of that.

We find that middle and high school teachers who use blended learning and lead teaching teams can earn 20 to 67 percent more, within current budgets, and without class - size increases.

The study, led by Jerome Johnston of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, found that high school students at «exemplary» Channel One schools — defined as schools where teachers make good use of the 12 - minute daily show's content — scored 5 percent better on current - events tests than students at control high schools, where the program was not used.

Inviting parents — and sometimes students — to participate in a book discussion group with teachers has led to better relationships between teachers and parents and a deeper understanding of current education and child - rearing issues.

Teachers, Parents, Kids Bond Over Books Inviting parents to participate in a book discussion group with teachers has led to better relationships between teachers and parents and a deeper understanding of current education and child - rearingTeachers, Parents, Kids Bond Over Books Inviting parents to participate in a book discussion group with teachers has led to better relationships between teachers and parents and a deeper understanding of current education and child - rearingteachers has led to better relationships between teachers and parents and a deeper understanding of current education and child - rearingteachers and parents and a deeper understanding of current education and child - rearing issues.

As Leather said, «The current SIS infrastructure does not support student - or teacher - rich task work leading to successive formative assessments, nor does it connect to summative scoring in a competency - based environment.

For example, the school's current learning management system (LMS), Canvas by Instructure, bubbled up from one lead teacher's successful pilot of the product last fall.

It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher quality and expanding school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.

How do we prepare teachers to go beyond the current educational standards, assessments, and practices to consider how education needs to be updated to prepare students for the lives they will lead in the 21st century?

March 5 (New York)-- Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization, welcomed the news that Richard A. Carranza, current superintendent of Houston Independent School District and former San Francisco superintendent, has been named Chancellor of New York City Public Schools.

«The topic of principal evaluations has largely been ignored in the current debate over evaluations, but teachers want to see principals lead by example and that is why we need an evaluation system that not only will help principals improve, but also increase accountability and ensure that teachers are fully supported.

From your perspective, what has led to the current level of computer technology integration into your teacher education curriculum?

Current discussions on transforming teacher education include creating leadership opportunities for teachers to lead innovation (CTQ Teacher Ed 3.0) and grow their roles and responsibilities without leaving the classroom (Project REteacher education include creating leadership opportunities for teachers to lead innovation (CTQ Teacher Ed 3.0) and grow their roles and responsibilities without leaving the classroom (Project RETeacher Ed 3.0) and grow their roles and responsibilities without leaving the classroom (Project RESPECT).

Praise and agreement can not lead to teachers reforming their teaching practices; it can only confirm and entrench teachers» current practices.

Alex Caputo - Pearl, the presumptive next president of UTLA, said today that current president Warren Fletcher made the right decision by expressing a willingness to step aside in the race to lead the second largest teachers union in the nation.

And it's even more difficult when the Mayor, the City Council, the current Schools Chancellor and the city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a lie.

They mention nowhere, however, the mediating set of influences interfering with such a claim, that likely lead to this claim entirely or at least in part — that many teachers across the nation have been forced, by prior federal and current state mandates (e.g., in New Mexico), to «embrace the new standards.»

Howard Nelson, a lead researcher at the American Federation of Teachers, said the new study is based on the most current and comprehensive national data available.

Eligible applicants are current or experienced teachers, administrators, or instructional leaders with at least five years experience who wish to establish community - led charter schools that serve Native American students.

The climate created by the current regime leads inevitably to unrelenting demands on school leaders which lead in turn to unreasonable demands on teachers, whether in terms of planning, marking, reporting, attending meetings, or other newer demands such as emails.

Proving it, we have Meg Jackson, former high school history teacher and current Ogment Lead Trainer, Johanna Wetmore, co-founder of EvoText and Ogment

As an active member, I, along with a diverse group of 17 current NYC teachers, joined a teacher - led Policy Team to propose improvements to teacher preparation programs.

Although predictions of teacher shortages have been heard for years, several factors may have led to a tough current job market for school employers.

We have just released our latest calculations in the Opportunity Culture series, which indicate that middle and high school teachers who use blended learning and lead teaching teams can earn 20 to 67 percent more, within current budgets, and without class - size increases.

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

In his current role as «chief of human capital,» he leads DCPS» efforts to have highly effective teachers and leaders in every school building.

Teachers say most current coaching programs do not meet their needs or lead to improved student learning outcomes.

To provide an environment in which future teachers can come to see the appropriate and exemplary use of technology in education, we will restructure our current three - credit hour required technology in education course into three one - credit - hour sections to be taken over the three - semesters leading up to the student teaching experience.

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

2015 Session The funding priority was to increase funds for the Network for Quality Teaching and Learning and prioritize funding for the expansion of the School District Collaboaration Fund (state - funded CLASS process); the Oregon Beginning Teacher and Principal Mentoring Program; completion and evaluation of the TeachOregon teacher preparation pilots; and funding for the new Leading for Learning initiative for new and current administTeacher and Principal Mentoring Program; completion and evaluation of the TeachOregon teacher preparation pilots; and funding for the new Leading for Learning initiative for new and current administteacher preparation pilots; and funding for the new Leading for Learning initiative for new and current administrators.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

Since future teachers can not directly affect students» current achievement, a finding that future teacher assignments are associated with those outcomes («the future predicts the past») suggests a violation of the model assumptions that could lead to confounding.

Major Forum: Toward a More Practice - Based Preparation of Elementary Mathematics Teachers A panel of leading experts discussed the current knowledge base on teaching and learning in elementary mathematics and implications for how preparation programs must change to align with the knowledge base.

There are many other policy ideas on how to pay effective teachers more and raise revenues but the nut will be who can lead a coalition across the current political divides to pay teachers the salaries they deserve.

If the alternative practices are sufficiently compatible with teachers» current beliefs and practices, then the result might be that teachers adapt their practice in ways that lead to improvement.