Sentences with phrase «excellent teachers and school»

My goal is to support the efforts of excellent teachers and school leaders who work to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Improve allocation of vital resources to support interventions that will attract and retain excellent teachers and school leaders in high - need schools, including 11 - month teacher contracts; extended contracts with incentives for proven turnaround principals; teacher scholarships; and opportunities for teachers to advance in their careers without leaving the classroom.

Schools can not hope to serve as agents in the dismantling of intergenerational poverty without excellent teachers and school leaders supported by adequate resources to do their work well.

The Every Student Succeeds Act allows states and districts to use Title II funds to provide leadership opportunities to excellent teachers and school leaders.58 States and school districts should overhaul the current conception of the teaching profession and use new roles to transform the way schools operate.

The U. S. Department of Education is announcing today the first grant competition under the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) program to provide funding for states, districts, and nonprofit organizations to support, train, and reward excellent teachers and school leaders.

Every child will learn if they have access to excellent teachers and schools.

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or the first time, more than 100,000 engineers are graduating from American schools every year, and we're on track to accomplish my goal of training 100,000 excellent new STEM teachers in a decade.

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

She proved to be an excellent teacher and would later work in schools in Orrell, Wigan, Sabden and Eccleshall.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cunningham, one of his high school teachers, remembers that he was an «excellent» student, and all through his life he loved such un-pigskin things as writing and anthropology.

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Whether you are a parent, teacher, administrator, or school foodservice professional, you can find excellent resources and support online.

«It's long past time for the teachers union and their elected allies to stop stifling the growth of these excellent public schools by disparaging their results and denying them access to public space.»

«Ms. Hysick's dedication to her students, her school and her community makes her an excellent ambassador as Teacher of the Year.»

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.

Commenting on the DfE announcement of a new # 2m fund to tackle homophobic bullying in schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is a great pity that on coming into office the Coalition Government not only withdrew all the excellent advice which had been produced by the previous Government on homophobic and other forms of prejudice related bullying, but also removed the requirement on schools to log incidences of bullying.

Bury Grammar School's excellent cadet force, with its selfless teacher officers, took us regularly to the Lakes, and the extraordinary landscape from Keswick to Kendal is forever etched in my mind.

The top of the tally featured three education groups: the pro-tax credit Invest in Education Coalition, labor union New York State United Teachers, and charter school advocates Families for Excellent Schools.

The organization, StudentsFirstNY, and another group with a similar focus called Families for Excellent Schools have formed a counterweight to teachers» unions, long among the top spenders in the state capital.

It was at school that I first got interested in biology — and of course, that was because of an excellent teacher.

The importance of excellent science education in schools has been stressed by science policy makers in recent years, and many European countries are trying to recruit teachers who are passionate about their subjects.

Upon graduation, Myers joined the Engineering School's faculty, where he developed a reputation as an excellent teacher and also as a promising researcher in aeroacoustics.

It is not just these factors that constitute an excellent yoga teacher training school; it is also the people, the culture and the sheer hospitability of these schools that places them a world apart from the rest.

But Hart, who was a high - school teacher herself for many years, offers moments of real insight, and Rabe is excellent in the central role.

All the schools had to design models that adhered to the five Reach Extension Principles, which call for reaching more students with excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great teachers.

That's what we learned by asking respondents to indicate the percentage of teachers in their local schools they would assign to each of four categories: excellent, good, satisfactory, and unsatisfactory.

Do provide your teachers with excellent professional development, including in - school time to prepare, learn in partnership with one another, and get support.

Nearly all the school teams chose to combine several models to reach more students with great teachers, add team collaboration time, and let excellent teachers lead and develop their peers.

Here we want to second his point and add another: schools — and nations — that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers.

An Opportunity Culture using new school models that extend excellent teachers» reach makes achieving this new vision possible, particularly when tailored to allow all teachers to succeed in teams — increasing the odds of widespread improvement in teaching and learning.

Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person) teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give students access to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.

Lucy Powell, the Shadow Education Secretary, said: «Nothing is more important for raising standards and improving social mobility than ensuring there are excellent teachers in every school.

«We have a lot of excellent assistant teachers at our schools already, and [the program] is about building their capacity, while also building on Indigenous leadership within our communities.»

One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

If industry would stop offering higher salaries and better working conditions than what schools do to the mathematically competent, we might attract and retain more excellent teachers of mathematics.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

We shared five Reach Extension Principles for the new school models they would craft or tailor to their needs; they call for reaching more students with excellent teachers in charge of their learning, for more pay, within budget, while boosting development opportunities for all teachers and clarifying authority / credit for great teachers.

This article was adapted from «Matching Students to Excellent Teachers: How a Massachusetts Charter School Innovates with Teacher Preparation» and «Matching Students to Excellent Tutors: How a Massachusetts Charter School Bridges Achievement Gaps,» Pioneer Institute, 2014.

We are seeking five major sites to tailor and implement these and similar school models that put excellent teachers in charge of more children's learning.

Even in our most struggling public schools, there are excellent teachers who are transforming the lives and futures of the students they are entrusted to educate.

Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel have written for Ed Next on how schools can extend the reach of excellent teachers so that more children will have the opportunity to learn from the best teachers we have.

Public Impact, with help from teachers and others, will soon begin releasing designs that clarify how to make these changes in schools, within budget, and pay excellent teachers more for the additional children they reach.

We asked respondents in the 2016 EdNext survey to indicate the percentage of teachers in their local schools they would assign to each of four categories: unsatisfactory, satisfactory, good, and excellent.

«Time and again ministers fixate on the name above the door rather than ensuring schools have the resources and teachers in the classroom to deliver an excellent education for all.

Primary school teacher and excellent designer of resources!

Teachers are redesigning their schools» roles and schedules so that great teachers reach more students, and most teachers work in teams led by excellent tTeachers are redesigning their schools» roles and schedules so that great teachers reach more students, and most teachers work in teams led by excellent tteachers reach more students, and most teachers work in teams led by excellent tteachers work in teams led by excellent teachersteachers.

To see whether the public — and teachers themselves — hold similarly sanguine views of teacher performance, we asked respondents to indicate the percentage of teachers in their local schools they would assign to each of four categories: unsatisfactory, satisfactory, good, and excellent.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

«I'm excited to be joining the team of teachers engaged in literacy instruction to ensure all students who attend our school get an excellent education and are empowered readers, writers, and thinkers,» she says.