Sentences with phrase «former teacher advocating»

Linn put the pricetag on paid parental leave for all union workers at $ 250 million, according to Council Education Committee Hearing chair Mark Treyger — a former teacher advocating for the UFT to get paid parental leave.

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Sinek said he also advocates for teaching kids independence and resilience; the best teachers I've found on these two points are former Stanford dean of freshmen Julie Lythcott - Haims and former Navy SEAL commander Eric Greitens.

Kirsten Saenz Tobey — Former teacher and advocate for corporate responsibility, Tobey is COO and co-founder of Revolution Foods.

The race for Skelos» former state Senate seat in Nassau County has turned into a proxy war between charter - school advocates, who support Republican Chris McGrath, and teachers unions, which back Democrat Todd Kaminsky.

From Queens Gazette: In the expected - to - be close Democratic Party primary in the 25th Council District (Jackson Heights), school teacher and gay advocate Daniel Dromm has received an important endorsement from former Assemblymember Ivan Lafayette.

The increase is well short of what education advocates like former Hannibal school teacher and Citizen Action of New York Board Member Bill Spreeter say is needed.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

He's in love with his former high - school teacher, Carol (Edie Falco), his biggest advocate throughout his prison years — and likely the reason for his early parole.

According to a 1955 Education article by Leon Mones, then an assistant superintendent in Newark, New Jersey, and a former principal, Symonds and others were openly advocating that the emotional life of the teacher become the focus of teacher preparation, since «it is the teacher's personality that is the tool with which he works rather than the content in which he gives instruction.»

Dr. Tara Laughlin, a former teacher and passionate advocate for developing students» social - emotional skills that she believes are necessary for college and career readiness, explained to me recently that these skills don't just materialize — they must be taught.

What is remarkable is that Solmon, a former education dean, Jupp, a union leader, and Koppich, a «new union» advocate, agree that the debate is no longer whether to throw out the single salary schedule by which most of our teachers are paid, but what to replace it with.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

Jaclyn Eichenberger, a passionate advocate for EL students, teachers, and families, is a former EL teacher now completing an Ed.M.

She's a former Democrat and a polarizing firebrand who made a name for herself by fighting teachers unions and advocating fiercely for the expansion of charter schools.

Voters have a choice between Thurmond, the status quo candidate embraced by the teachers» unions, and Tuck, the change advocate supported by education reformers like former Obama administration Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and retired Rep. George Miller.

Charter school students, parents, school leaders, teachers & advocates State Rep. Scott Hilton Former State Rep. Mike Dudgeon Former State Rep. Alisha Cromartie GCSA President and CEO Tony Roberts GCSA Board Chair Frank Morris GCSA VP of Policy and Advocacy Andrea Arroyo

This year's Master Class Speakers include teacher and former student duo Donna Porter and D.J. Batiste, as well as STEM advocate Christopher Emdin.

Before the housing was approved, former West Tallahatchie Superintendent Reggie Barnes, an outspoken advocate for the state's most impoverished schools, told Mississippi Department of Education officials that districts like his struggled to help teachers find housing.

A former classroom teacher with deep experience in policy and advocacy, Schleifer will run the day - to - day operations of E4E's flagship chapter and work side by side with E4E - NY's members to advocate for the changes they want to see in their profession.

Dr. Tara McLaughlin, a former teacher and passionate advocate for developing students» social - emotional skills that she believes are necessary for college and career readiness, explained to me recently that these skills don't just materialize — they must be taught.

John Dougall, a Republican and former Utah legislator, is largely in agreement with teacher advocates and the Utah Education Association in promoting the idea that higher pay in other fields is drawing potential teachers away from the teaching profession, particularly in the «STEM» fields.

I am excited to be a part of the charter school movement both as a former teacher and now as a legal advocate on your behalf.

A former teacher in Oregon schools, Jane Krauss has long been an advocate for technology integration practices in elementary education.

Great article that my principal had us ESL teachers just read - thank you for your no nonsense outspokenness, and no, Mr Shanahan, ESL will not pull during teacher direct instruction in the content areas until small groups break out - only 30 minutes then - but it's a packed schedule to do it - 8 groups a day 5 days a week to pull for listening / reading and speaking / writing per WIDA some of your comments appreciated much as a former elementary homeschooler and advocate of of ED Hirsch and his cultural literacy - which I've preached since I returned my kids to public schooling in middle school 17 years ago....

The appointees, each an expert and prominent voice in the field, included current and former education officials from all levels of government, academic and policy researchers, civil rights leaders, the presidents of the national teachers» unions, education policy advocates and associations, and public interest lawyers.

Case in point: in the June 2016 school board elections in Riverside County, CCSA Advocates supported Barbara Hale, a former teacher who became a principal at Sycamore Academy, a TK - 8 charter school in Wildomar.

Ritz was voted in as a rebuke to the reformy policies of former Superintendent Tony Bennett (not the one who left his heart in San Francisco), so Pence was faced with a quandary: How to continue the reformy agenda with an actual public school teacher and advocate for public education in office as the schools superintendent.

After floating a raft of names — from former rival and now designated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson to New York City charter magnate Eva Moskowitz to former Washington D.C. School Chancellor and Patron Saint of Firing Teachers Michelle Rhee to actually qualified school choice advocate and Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Williamson Evers — Donald Trump has settled upon Michigan billionaire and school privatization zealot Betsy DeVos as his nominee for Secretary of Education.

Eli Broad has said he «expects to be a major contributor» to Students First, former D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee's organization that advocates for the expansion of charters, vouchers, and an end to seniority protections for teachers.

In New York today, a group of parents and advocates, led by former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown, filed a suit challenging state laws that govern when teachers can be given tenure and how they can be fired once they have it.

Meanwhile, former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, now a Democratic candidate for governor, led a rally of more than 1,000 people on the Capitol steps in Tallahassee, calling for a ban on assault rifles and criticizing the National Rifle Assn. for advocating the arming of teachers.

I'm passionately Catholic, a Gifted and Twice Exceptional advocate, and a former high school English teacher turned homeschooling mom.

Christopher «Kit» Bond is a former United States Senator who has been a longtime supporter of Parents as Teachers and advocate for families and children.

But Sarah, a former art teacher and an advocate for school gardens, was undeterred.