Sentences with phrase «from teachers and»

One high school principal told me that his philosophy of leadership was to «do his absolute level - best to say «yes» to as many good ideas from teachers and students as possible.»

DeVos, in her role as chair of the Trump administration's newly formed Commission on School Safety, will also hear Wednesday from teachers and education advocates who argue that the federal guidance is needed to prevent minority and disabled students from winding up in the «school - to - prison pipeline.»

That disconnect provokes a persistent outcry from teachers and parents for a better system.

This book will show how you can redesign any learning space on a budget, with insights from teachers and leaders who've done it!

He began asking for help from teachers and fellow students, and found that there was no stigma attached to not understanding a concept — as there had been at his former school.

Nicola Sturgeon and the panel members heard from teachers and pupils at Windygoul Primary School in Tranent, East Lothian

Personalized learning is built around three main pillars: student directed learning, high quality instruction from teachers and leveraging technology to assist in organizing and managing learning.

Advertise your business on our website and receive the focused attention of education professionals from teachers and professors to administrative staff, planners and board members.

Many transfer school students have never grown accustomed to taking feedback from their teachers and using it for their own improvement.

But his unilateral directive to make student data account for up to 30 percent of a teacher's evaluation met furious backlash from teachers and was quickly rescinded.

Before the parent trigger petition, 24th Street Elementary was already slated to undergo a reform plan developed by the principal with input from some teachers and parents as part of the district's Public School Choice program.

Because of the way that testing permeates education culture, I often hear some «pushback» from teachers and their implementation of project - based learning.

Check out views from teachers and advocates who want to see teacher tenure preserved and elevated as an important professional milestone.

Standardized testing — and the accountability that goes with it — has provoked pushback from teachers and a vocal group of parents across the country.

Perhaps the best evidence of the value of a games approach to word study comes from teachers and parents who actually use them.

In our test - obsessed public school culture, struggling students receive a disproportionate amount of attention from teachers and administrators to bring them up to a minimum passing level, but our high - ability students deserve just as much of an opportunity to fulfill their potential (Walzer & White, 2002).

Strategies that come from teachers and then are shared with other teachers are highly valuable.

complaints from some teachers and the political left over the standards» connection to testing.

To Kill a Mockingbird, like many literary works, includes both language and topics that require careful consideration from teachers and students.

But after hearing objections from teachers and school officials around the state, he backed away from that approach, the governor said Wednesday.

This year's eight fellows were selected from a pool of over 1200 applications from teachers and instructional specialists serving in traditional public and charter schools, as well as alternative and private schools; from nearly every state, grade level and instructional area, and who teach in a wide variety of urban, rural and suburban settings.

Over the summer, we developed a set of seven principles to guide Congress in reauthorizing NCLB, and collected numerous letters from teachers and parents expressing our views.

It'll cost a fortune, it doesn't improve the identification of effective teachers, but we need to do it to overcome resistance from teachers and others.

Like in the workplace, students critique each other, critique themselves, and receive critique from teachers and experts.

Winter's aims to provide parents with everything they need to make the right choice, from key information about the international schools scene to detailed advice from teachers and Heads.

Mathisen said he's heard from teachers and administrators that Smarter Balanced eats up too much classroom time.

This approach provides an ideal opportunity to see and hear about the impact of this kind of work from teachers and teaching artists.

This began initially with gallery gatherings that were held region by region across the state, gathering input from teachers and administrators, alike.

The NEA continues to suggest that negative school experiences such as dislike of school, retention at grade level, and disconnectedness from teachers and students all contribute to a student's tendency to dropout.

But, like any other strategy for improving STEM teaching and learning, buy - in from teachers and administrators is pivotal in ensuring teacher participation and a supportive context for the PLCs at the building and district levels.

You can hear from the teachers and pupils of Balmedie Primary in Aberdeenshire as they share why they love Discovery Education Espresso in their school.

From teachers and parents to elected officials, community leaders, employers, and on and on, everybody has a stake in decisions about their local school budget.

3) Analyze what teachers need — Through both feedback from teachers and things noticed while «walking the halls,» identify what teachers need to know.

The students are so respectful, and that comes from the teachers and administrators who show that caring for these children is more than just a job for them.

But, like any other strategy for improving STEM teaching and learning, buy - in from teachers and administrators is pivotal in determining teacher participation and a supportive context for the PLCs at the building and district levels.

Policymakers, hear directly from teachers and administrators about why an Opportunity Culture appeals to excellent teachers and those aspiring to excellence — then see how you can make an Opportunity Culture possible.

According to the research, advice from teachers and school policies on curriculum influenced subject choices.

«Since the beginning of the school year, we have heard from teachers and administrators voicing their concerns that too much change is hitting their classrooms at once... This confluence of changes jeopardizes the success of our teachers, and thus our students... We've hear their concerns loud and clear, and understand.»

Launching TeachNY today in Albany, they unveiled the findings of the TeachNY Advisory Council — a distinguished group of state and national thought leaders convened by SUNY — and launched a listening tour to receive feedback from teachers and school leaders as well as college faculty and administrators throughout the state.

The assessment system, known as IMPACT, that was introduced by Rhee and continued by Henderson, drew serious concerns from teachers and principals, who found it unworkable and unfair, with performance goals that were impossible to meet and metrics that were questionable.

Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, What School Could Be provides a realistic and profoundly optimistic roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools.

See more vignettes and case studies here, and see more videos from teachers and principals, and details on what makes an Opportunity Culture different.

But if there is one thing that Luke Bronin has made clear in his campaign for mayor, (it even cost him the endorsement of the Hartford Teachers Union), is that money from Paul Tudor Jones and the other corporate education reformers is far more important to his candidacy than any support from teachers and their unions.

Working with the assistant principal, this team examines referrals from teachers and seeks to identify at - risk students for counseling to address trauma, reactive anger, substance abuse and grief.

I am a life - long learner and I learn from teachers and students.

As we work with districts on establishing professional goal - setting processes, we often hear from teachers and principals that they are unsure about what kinds of formative assessments of students» learning they should use to set and assess their professional goals related to instructional practice.

«You have pressures from teachers and states to move and a feeling that Congress and not the Education Secretary should be rewriting the law,» Jennings said.

Statements collected from teachers and media specialists also revealed positive perceptions toward the portal and associated activities.

There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

Local, state, and national attention would likely be revealing, not only seeking to verify financial practices, but to hear first hand from teachers and administrators regarding the culture in the schools, and in particular, in the department of special services., Ms. Mostel's courage and Dr. Rush's advocacy are leading the way forward.