Sentences with phrase «for teacher grants»

Support success tip: Set clear guidelines for teacher grants and classroom funds.

The following year, as a Fund for Teachers grant recipient, she traveled to Singapore to observe the country's language and literacy policies in government schools.

She loves to travel and in 2010 she was a recipient of a Fund for Teachers grant which sent her to Madagascar to study the rainforest, community development, and environmental education.

Each Fund for Teachers fellowship is as unique as the teacher who designed it, and since 2001, approximately 5,000 teachers have been awarded $ 17.8 million in Fund for Teachers grants - up to $ 5,000 for individuals, or $ 10,000 for teams.

Fund for teachers grants fuels passion - based learning.

Not exact matches

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Granted, downloading a set of textbooks and teacher guides isn't the same as taking classes; then again, for many people self - paced learning is the best kind of learning.

She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

Students who plan to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income area may qualify for a TEACH grant.

A total and permanent disability (TPD) discharge relieves you from having to repay a William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program loan, Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program loan, and / or Federal Perkins Loan (Perkins Loan) Program loan or complete a Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant service obligation on the basis of your total and permanent disability.

Granted, it takes more time for some of us... I shook so badly the first time on stage, my 12th grade teacher kindly helped me continue a bit further... and then, walked me off carefully.

My taxes pay for a lot of things that we take for granted, police officers, teachers, public schools, our highway systems and bridges, roads and light fixtures for our everyday usage and our countries defense by way of paying our men and women who are defending our lives right now both here and abroad.)

The federal government has assisted the movement through a grant of the National Institute of Health for more than $ 20,000, to educate public school teachers in TM.

Christian teachers took for granted the existing structure of society, with its known moral problems and dangers.

He wasn't prepared for what many LAUSD teachers and coaches are accustomed to when it comes to scheduling, travel and the things a coach takes for granted when a vast majority of his team lives a short drive away.

For Grant and McTighe, it's not a balance between teacher - direction and student exploration.

Board Policy 4320 (2001) recommends, when grant funds are available, that training programs in nutrition be provided for teachers.

It's very easy for tweens and teens to think the world revolves around them, and to take family, friends, and teachers for granted.

Teachers at Buford Academy won a grant for two Tower Gardens that are now displayed prominently so students can see them daily and watch various vegetables grow.

I have had repeated conversations and pleaded with our mayor in Salem (who is a mother herself) where I live to help volunteer, write grants, and work on upgrading the school lunch program, and even though she cares, it is not a priority — especially when budgets are tight for good teachers and other necessary school supplies.

I am always taking my kids» teachers for granted.

I spent almost 4 years of my life trying to get the funding for that Point of Sale system — we applied for grants, we looked for a private funder, we approached the city — until finally we were able to get it funded through a parcel tax which was sold to the voters as a pay increase for our hard working and underpaid teachers, but which also contained a small portion vaguely dexcribed as «technology.»

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State Commissioner John King suspended federal improvement grant funding for 10 districts — including NYC — that failed to live up to their commitment to reach agreements with their teacher and principal unions on new performance evaluations).

In addition, teachers whose students» test scores are consistently low; those who have failed to secure their teaching certificates on time; those who haven't had a permanent position for six months or more; those who've faced department probes leading to substantiated allegations of misconduct; and those granted an extension regarding tenure could also be dismissed.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

It would cut more than $ 2 billion in grants for teacher training and class - size reduction and would reduce after - school grants from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1 billion.

NEWCOMB — The Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation recently awarded the Adirondack Curriculum Project (ACP) a grant for the sixth annual Adirondack Day for students and their teachers who use the Adirondacks to meet NYS Learning Standards.

A state grant is helping Hamburg Central School District construct a new area for teacher training, student learning and community education and collaboration.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

Katko said he would vote for any bill that would provide federal grants to schools for the hiring of resource officers, but he believes it would be a mistake to also arm teachers.

The state's education commissioner says she's open to granting waivers to delay new teacher evaluation for an additional year, saying the new systems should not be hastily pushed through because of an arbitrary date.

The United Federation of Teachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was inTeachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was inteachers when he was in office.

The committee will review and award enrichment grants for programming outside of the annual school budget, based on requests by administrators, teachers, and during the annual grant cycle.

The Senate Republicans are calling for a $ 1.655 billion increase in school aid, grants for charter schools and $ 4.6 million in aid to nonpublic schools, while the Assembly Democrats, aligned with the state teachers unions, proposed a $ 1.1 billion increase in Foundation Aid.

A Board of Regents» move last week that paves the way for undocumented immigrants to get state - granted professional licenses, including teacher certifications, is prompting some ongoing blowback among Republican lawmakers.

In order for the state to receive a $ 700 million federal «Race to the Top» grant it won in 2010, a teacher evaluation program must be implemented.

It is also endangering tens of millions of dollars in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants earmarked for its teachers, because it has not adopted a system which recognizes and highlights great teaching.

In other areas, such as a proposal to change seniority rules for school teachers or allocate $ 500 million next year in competitive school aid grants, a column titled «Compromise (if any)» is left blank, suggesting more distance between the three leaders at the time the memo was prepared.

The mayor said he needs to get rid of the teachers in order to salvage some $ 60 million in school improvement grants for the failing schools.

The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

He congratulated the department for using $ 4 million in federal grant money for professional development but stressed a bigger investment would be necessary as teachers and students adjust.

Cuomo proposed $ 25 million for competitive grant programs, which includes $ 20 million to establish a fund to supplement high - performing teachers» salaries and $ 5 million to expand early college high schools throughout the state.

UFT Chapter Leader Michael Grant, one of the speakers, said there was no need to close the school and that closing it would betray the legacy of the young teacher for whom the school was named.

«There is a fear out there, and it's understandable on the part of school districts, that... when the grant comes to an end, there will be pressure for them to continue the work, and they clearly don't have the resources to do that,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of New York State United Teachers.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

Head teachers of Senior Secondary Schools in the Upper East Region say the quality of teaching and learning is under threat due to inadequate accommodation for staff and students, encroachment on school lands and inconsistencies in the payment of feeding grants.

The teacher evaluations are required in order for the state to be eligible for $ 700 million dollars in federal funding, as part of the Race to the Top grants.

«The appeal process will not go into effect unless and until Mayor Bloomberg negotiates agreements with the UFT for an overall teacher evaluation deal... for schools eligible for School Improvement Grants,» Mulgrew said in a statement, adding that «the Mayor's obsession with closing schools presents a significant barrier to us reaching that overall agreement.»

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has announced that the GETFund has released GHC 50 million for disbursement as feeding grant for teacher trainees in the 38 Colleges of Education across the country.