Sentences with phrase «from teachers and principals»

Wolfe says, «We are still getting emails from teachers and principals about how professional the quality of the performance was, and how the kids are still talking about the experience — days and weeks after we've left.

Kids deserve more support from their teachers and principals.

Hakol Chai's pilot educational program «Expanding the Circle of Compassion,» launched earlier this month in 21 classrooms of 8 Arab schools, is already reaping praise from teachers and principals monitoring the over 600 students participating in it.

More important, using the reports from teachers and principals to determine the amount of technology available and in use in the schools, we found that 42 percent of the variation in math scores and 12 percent of the variation in English scores could be explained by the addition of technology in the school.

In contrast, student demographics are vastly different from teachers and principals.

In North Carolina, CTQ analyzed more than 34,000 surveys from teachers and principals in 90 percent of the state's schools.

In Washington, D.C., officials shortened a new teacher evaluation checklist after complaints from teachers and principals that it was too long and time - consuming.

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.

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

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.

«We hear from our teachers and principals, our partners in the schools, there are more kids who could desperately use a youth advocate so at the time we're having to look at whether we can go, instead we're having to cut back and we know the number of students who could benefit from the program is growing,» says Malgieri.

Beginning in the 2000 - 2001 school year, the district began using a range of variables around the promotion cutoff to make promotion decisions; recommendations from teachers and principals, for example, were then incorporated into the promotion decisions.

By the end of the 1990s «New Labour» made a commitment to teacher workforce reforms designed to remove administrative burdens from teachers and principals.

De Blasio's full - court press for universal pre-K and added social services has backing from the teachers and principals unions, which oppose many of Cuomo's reforms.

Kids deserve more support from their teachers and principals.

I have heard from his teachers and principal at Annapolis, Maryland's Wiley H. Bates Middle School about the academic benefits of arts integration, how various forms of artistic expression (PDF) are employed to learn math and science as well as language arts.

With encouragement from her teacher and her principal, this fourth - grade child choreographed a dance to illustrate a science concept, which her entire class performed at Town Meeting.

Guess that exempts charters not just from teacher and principal certification requirements, reasonable discipline and suspension policies, honest and full financial reporting, and all sorts of other standard educational requirements, but also from truth in testing.

Not exact matches

We like to document what we do, and asked principals if we could use testimonials from the kids; we got testimonials from teachers as well.

At some point as a parent, you will likely be faced with the dreaded email from your child's teacher telling you that your kid has crossed the line and that you need to come in for another conference — or the principal will call to tell you that your teen has missed the last week of school... Read more»

Principals, teachers, food service staff, and other community members attended the event, which featured speakers from the district, region, and country.

Have support and involvement from the school principal, school nutrition professional, lead physical education teacher and the school's Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

This week you will have the opportunity to read interviews from the teachers, principals, administrators, and food service directors who work tirelessly and understand the need for increasing participation, decreasing barriers, and raising awareness of school breakfast programs in our nation's schools.

Get everyone involved, right from the beginning — principals, school nutrition staff, custodial staff, and teachers.

We will talk to school nutrition directors and managers, principals, superintendents, teachers, and other stakeholders to learn how they are navigating school breakfast — from grant application, to assessment, to implementation, and beyond.

Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.

nutrition education and involvement from the principal and teachers is a solution as well.

Bucking this trend can sometimes be hard, though, and many parents have reported getting a surprising amount of push - back from fellow parents, or recalcitrant principals, teachers or soccer coaches, when they've asked to improve the snacks and treats offered to their kids.

A second - grade teacher and an assistant principal have been removed from student contact at Jordan Elementary Community School in the Rogers Park neighborhood while Chicago Public Schools conducts an investigation into their conduct.

At some point as a parent, you will likely be faced with the dreaded email from your child's teacher telling you that your kid has crossed the line and that you need to come in for another conference - or the principal will call to tell you that your teen has missed the last week of school altogether, unbeknownst to you.

Encourage your child to ignore or walk away from bullies, and to tell an authority figure like a teacher, principal or even another parent if it doesn't stop right away.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

Hear from your peers that have worked with principals, teachers, parents, and custodial staff to foster a positive environment for a successful implementation.

«Successful meal programs have made continuous innovation and collaboration with students their guiding principles, and they've worked to improve not just cafeteria menus but what schoolchildren are taught about food, with help from principals, teachers, and parents.»

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«We have known for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and we hear from principals and teachers that students are more focused and ready to learn when they start the day with a healthy meal,» said Judy Mobley, President and CEO of Children's Hunger Alliance.

The support for school breakfast programs in Montana is growing by leaps and bounds — from local teachers and principals all the way to the state Office of Public Instruction.

While this school is fictional, it's based on real - life statistics and stories we hear from school food service staff, principals, teachers, parents and students.

I know because I heard it first - hand from teachers, from principals, from Lilly, and from the kids themselves.

The bill, dubbed the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» would ban federal officials from requiring states and school districts to rate the job performance of teachers and principals, though states could continue doing that on their own.

There will be two required observations, from a teacher's principal or administrator and an «independent» evaluator, who could be a principal, administrator or «highly effective» teacher from another school or district.

He said the Regents were attempting to «delay» the rating system, but the proposal would not have stopped the evaluations or removed testing from the evaluations; rather, it would have stated explicitly that educators could use a Common - Core defense during disciplinary proceedings, an option unions said was already available to teachers and principals.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

More than 10,000 city school employees, from custodians to principals, and about half of them teachers, were assaulted or threatened by students last school year, The Post has learned.

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

Those who attain certification under this more rigorous process are more likely to find a job, principals have a better pool of candidates to choose from, and students will be taught by better teachers.

ELMHURST — Federal prosecutors sued the city Department of Education Thursday on civil rights violations after they say it failed to stop a Queens principal from systematically harassing and demeaning the school's black teachers.

Plus, the mayor's business - like approach to the system has empowered principals to set their own local budget priorities and to demand excellence from teachers.

New York might lose out on $ 300 million in federal funding if last - minute negotiations on teacher and principal evaluations disconnect Common Core test scores from final ratings.