Sentences with phrase «decade as a high school teacher»

Prior to entering doctoral studies, Nick worked for a decade as a high school teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, where he taught U.S. history, world history, and sociology.

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As a public high school teacher of nearly a decade, I found myself making notes on how to better plan and prepare for my own classes by how you introduced, taught, transitioned, and recapped your well - organized lesson each night.

«Council Member Rodriguez has worked tirelessly for the Northern Manhattan over the past three decades as a fighter for social justice and a founding teacher of Gregorio Luperon High School.

As part of the first major overhaul of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education's system in nearly a decade, schools might commit to working toward a higher level of performance on NCATE's six standards.

Two years later, she transitioned to KIPP NYC, where she worked in the high - performing charter network as a teacher and school leader for a decade.

It's a move that seemed unlikely when she began her career as a teacher at Sweet Home High School four decades ago.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

Kenzo Shibata taught high - school English in Chicago's public - school system for nearly a decade and pioneered digital labor organizing as part of the 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike.

As 1991 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and 1996 New Hampshire Media Educator of the Year, Kim has been actively involved in local, state, and national education reform efforts for over two decades, including Souhegan High School, Monadnock Community Connections School, Five Freedoms Project, and most recently, the Q.E.D. Foundation.

In addition to his experience in the higher education setting, Dr. Fowler served as a coach, teacher, athletic director, technology coordinator, and school administrator for more than a decade in the PreK - 12 educational setting in both the private and public school sectors in Ohio.

Four decades of research by such familiar names as Boyer, DiMartino, DuFour, Fullan, Goodlad, Guskey, Marzano, Reeves, Schmoker, Sizer, Wiggins, and others tells us a lot about how high school students learn, about good teaching, about effective leadership, about positive school cultures, and about the working conditions under which teachers are the most productive.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

Prior to consulting, Theron spent a decade as a high school social studies teacher and Assistant Principal.

I started my teaching career in Merced during the «Summer of Love» and served more than four decades as a California educator — a teacher, a principal, a district superintendent and the founder of an organization of high - quality charter schools.

As a middle school and high school art teacher, I've met hundreds of parents at open houses, and I am often struck by how many of them fondly remember their own art classes, even decades after graduating from high school.

Alma Thomas did not achieve her mature painting style until the 1960s, after she retired after more than three decades as a junior high school art teacher.