Sentences with phrase «for champion teachers»

By providing an opportunity for champion teachers to grow professionally while remaining in the classroom, we will increase our collective understanding of great teaching while celebrating the craft of these exemplary teachers.

Not exact matches

For example, in 1923 Mullins, the champion of «soul liberty,» outlined various basic Christian beliefs (e.g., biblical inspiration, the miracles of Christ, his vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, literal ascension, and final return) and declared before the SBC: «We believe that adherence to the above truths and facts is a necessary condition of service for teachers in our Baptist schools.&raqFor example, in 1923 Mullins, the champion of «soul liberty,» outlined various basic Christian beliefs (e.g., biblical inspiration, the miracles of Christ, his vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, literal ascension, and final return) and declared before the SBC: «We believe that adherence to the above truths and facts is a necessary condition of service for teachers in our Baptist schools.&raqfor teachers in our Baptist schools.»

Jeopardy's annual Tournament of Champions — featuring the season's top 15 contestants (including automatic entries for top College and Teacher champs) begins Monday night and lasts for two weeks.

Each month students are selected by teachers and rewarded for «random acts of kindness» with a special breakfast («Breakfast of Champions») with school principal Deb Powell.

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Elia came to New York with a national reputation as a reformer and champion of accountability for schools and teachers.

Cuomo championed those reforms, including making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure.

«Mr. Carranza has earned a reputation for collaboration with teachers, parents and school communities and has been a real champion of public schools,» said United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael teachers, parents and school communities and has been a real champion of public schools,» said United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew.

Senator Flanagan is a committed champion for expanding school choice and access to great teachers, and we look forward to working with him on behalf of students and parents across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

Lawmakers in both chambers are pushing for changes to the teacher evaluation criteria and its implementation — a policy championed by Cuomo in the budget approved last month.

He talks about more rigorous standards and evaluations for teachers and students, even while the charter schools he champions function without any effective oversight.

At one point, when the union members were considering symbolic resolutions that offered NYSUT's support or opposition for a variety of political issues, the teachers voted to remove Cuomo's name from a pledge to support the Women's Equality Act, which he championed.

A champion of the Common Core learning standards, Dr. Tisch, 60, pushed for the creation of new, harder tests based on those standards and for teacher evaluations tied to students» performance on the exams.

«The governor has made it clear that he is determined to be a champion for our students — and that he will not allow the teachers union to drag its feet any longer on implementing new teacher evaluation systems across the state.

Institutional recognition of and support for the champion (s) is crucial for sustaining the leadership of efforts supporting physics teacher education.

The man who has been dubbed a «champion for children» shares some insights he has gained through countless meetings with youngsters and discusses how teachers can more effectively reach them.

That's the crux of the matter: IT professionals in schools need to act as champions for digital change, clearly communicating how technology can serve to enrich education practices and empower teachers to deliver more impactful lessons.

He is a National School Board Association «20 to Watch» for 2013, Center for Digital Edcuation «Top 40 Innovators in Education» for 2013, SMART Exemplary Educator, Discovery Star Educator, Classroom Champions Teacher, Ron Clark Academy Slide Certified, part of the Remind101 Teacher Advisory Board, and a Flipped Classroom Certification Instructor for Sophia.org.

Additionally, 69 % of teachers suggested that it would be helpful for each school to have a lead teacher for financial education who could champion the subject, while 65 % believe that schools need outside support to teach financial education well.

Martin Scorsese champions a visual - literacy curriculum, available free to teachers for use in middle school classrooms.

Those championing teacher evaluation, School Improvement Grants, or Common Core frequently sound as if they think no one could have anticipated or planned for the challenges that have emerged.

Thus, they champion national policies for teacher recruitment, preparation, and evaluation.

Through her vision of providing authentic opportunities for international collaboration and relevant learning with use of advanced teaching practices and latest technology, she champions teachers and students to prepare for their futures in a world that will prioritize creativity, innovation, and exploration.

«Teachers have been really great — they have really embraced the new system and we have found we have quite a few technology champions who are helping other teachers with the system,» Cameron Taylor, the eLearning coordinator for grades 7 to 1Teachers have been really great — they have really embraced the new system and we have found we have quite a few technology champions who are helping other teachers with the system,» Cameron Taylor, the eLearning coordinator for grades 7 to 1teachers with the system,» Cameron Taylor, the eLearning coordinator for grades 7 to 12, said.

School boards and parents, however, will fight efforts to substitute machines for teachers, even when champions of reducing labor costs dress up the purchase of new technologies as overall savings and a technological Utopia.

Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.

Movement strategists consider five factors when selecting battlegrounds, she said, and the District met each condition: a legislative and an executive branch controlled by supporters, local political champions for education or urban renewal, local business support, a weakened teacher union, and grassroots backing.

The best way to address this problem is for a principal, champion of the program in the school or district, or one of the support staff to help teachers understand the research behind the program.

People have been waiting patiently for the teachers unions to champion school reform since the days of Al Shanker, who served as AFT president from 1974 to 1997.

The only force standing in their way is the teachers union — «the champions of equity,» who «define solutions that drive excellence and success for all students,» as described by former NEA president Dennis Van Roekel in his keynote address to the Representative Assembly in July 2014.

Similarly, we welcome the commitment to the development of specialist qualifications and will continue to work closely with government to champion a career path for teacher educators as part of this development work.

A former high school teacher and administrator in a Denver school district, she is a champion of high quality induction programs for novice teachers, research - based professional development opportunities for practicing teachers, and the creation of mutually beneficial partnerships among higher education, K - 12 schools, and communities.

Two Teachers champions balanced partnerships in inclusion settings and the potential of the Universal Design for Learning.

The Democratic congressman has been a champion of President Clinton's proposals for modernizing school buildings, hiring new teachers, and expanding professional development for educators.

We are graduating our first class and we want every single staff member, from janitorial to front desk to teachers, to be champions for these kids.

The Music Center is recognizing champions for arts education and is looking for nominations of teachers or schools that use art to inspiring learning by Oct. 15.

The highlights of Shirley's career have included coaching a two - time national champion coed cheerleading squad, speaking in front of the US Senate Education Committee as a finalist for National Teacher of the Year, and participating in the Japan - America Grassroots Summit.

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, Paraprofessional School Related Personnel (PSRPs), parents, community members and other champions of public education who fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of Chicago's students.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

All Chicago Teachers Union members, and other champions of public education, shall be eligible for membership.

She champions success and growth for all students and teachers and has earned the respect of the entire community.

It's often noted that the original vision for charter schools, championed by legendary teachers union leader Al Shanker and others, was that they'd be «laboratories of innovation» whose lessons could inform the broader system.

Both teachers described their instructional approach as being student centered, emphasizing classroom community and student interaction, which are hallmarks of the powerful social studies teaching championed by the National Council for the Social Studies (2008).

«The event demonstrated there's a chance we'll find an early learning champion who will value the importance of high - quality early learning programs for all of California's kids with teachers who are compensated fairly,» said Patricia Lozano, executive director of Early Edge California, an advocacy organization promoting expanded early education programs.

Klein and Rhee have championed holding teachers and principals accountable for student performance, weakening union protections and closing down failing schools.

Changes championed by these leaders include incentive pay for teachers based on test scores, greater school choice and new data systems that track the performance of students, teachers and schools.

Researchers in Schools is the second programme from The Brilliant Club, aimed at widen access to highly selective universities for under - represented groups by placing PhD holders as trainee teachers in schools, promoting subject expertise and research in the classroom, and championing higher education.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

I am a teacher because of the many great champion teachers who believed in me despite my labels and developed my love for learning.

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.