Sentences with phrase «from white teachers»

Al Sharpton: The note I wrote to myself on the back of this large check from the white teachers union says that I agree with Randy Wine Garden.

But from some White teachers, I hear the «if you haven't taught, don't tell me how to do my job» mantra used as a blanket for everyone from Bill Gates to the parents and community advocates where they teach.

Black students learn more from black teachers and white students from white teachers, suggesting that the racial dynamics within classrooms may contribute to the persistent racial gap in student performance, at least in Tennessee.

Not exact matches

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, after listening to a series of emotional stories and pleas to enhance school safety at the White House Wednesday, floated the idea of arming teachers and school staff, an idea that was met with support from many of the attendees.

«There's a scene in Breaking Bad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at all.

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

I want to give credit to two fellow handwork artists, Patricia Livingston, handwork teacher at the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf School and Cindy Hansen of White Mountain Waldorf School, from whom this article was inspired, along with my teachers and colleagues at the Waldorf Applied Arts training in Spring Valley; and the book, «Will - Developed Intelligence» by David Mitchell and Patricia Livingston.

The «Chefs Move to Schools» program launched by first lady Michelle Obama from the White House lawn calls on chefs to adopt schools and work with teachers and school nutrition professionals to help educate kids about food and nutrition.

I write this from the perspective of being a white kindergarten teacher and mother of two biracial daughters.

«Yesterday a school filled with innocent children and caring teachers became the scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil,» President Donald Trump said from the White House in his first public comments on the country's latest school shooting, the 18th so far this year.

Constant «megaphone» use can lead to your audience tuning out your tweets — it becomes white noise or what I liked to refer to as «the teacher» from Peanuts, «WahWah.»

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

This is his «passion» and the initiatives it has spawned are visible across government: from the new academy schools run by teachers rather than local authorities, via the health service mutuals planned in the NHS white paper, to the renewed emphasis on charities and volunteer groups.

The Bloomberg administration just released a memo from Deputy Education Chancellor John White, outlining how Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed teacher evaluation bill won't change the current last in, first out layoff requirement that the mayor has been pushing to change.

Speaking today at a White House event honoring the nation's top elementary school teachers and scientist - mentors, President Barack Obama gave a stump - like speech about the need «to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.»

In Doubt, Flynn wears his nails long, a trait meant to signify the wolf, and in Monsieur Lazhar, Alice tells her teacher that the wolf (from Jack London's White Fang) is her favorite animal, thereby referencing Flynn's counterpart.

Viewers who have been paying close attention (though why they would is a mystery) won't be terribly surprised by this development, since the Colleens earlier received an extended lecture from their history teacher (Vanessa Paradis) on the area's latent Nazi population — as illustrated through black - and - white mock - archival footage of the villainous Adrien Arcand (Haley Joel Osment) trying to start his own Third Reich by blaming unemployment on «the fault of the Canadian Jew» and proposing the launch of «Le Solution Finale.»

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One of those sketches involves parents (Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts) who homeschool their son (Jeremy Allen White) while trying to give him an accurate experience of what school is actually like, from the teacher who can't be bothered to remember the students» names to bullying.

«The White Ribbon,» which will be released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics, marks a notable departure for writer - director Haneke from his string of highly charged, intense contemporary - set films such as «Caché» and «The Piano Teacher.»

Taking issue with the AFT's involvement in opt - out, Stewart wrote, «Why waste an opportunity to exploit the energy of white moms and the teachers that serve them who now see the obsession with closing racial disparities in schools as stealing joy from children of relative privilege?»

Teachers tend to be white, female, and have nearly a decade and a half of classroom experience, according to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Education in August.

According to a 2014 Center for American Progress report, high school teachers believe that high - poverty, black, and Hispanic students are 53, 47, and 42 percent less likely to graduate from college compared to their white peers.

Due to the interest from teachers, the stories have been turned into videos which can be shown on the class room white board and used as a teaching aid or watched on a laptop or tablet.

Will a high school teacher ashamed of his whiteness alienate students from white college teachers and employers not so ashamed?

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Students of all ages will learn from six great sites; among them are sites created by a high school history teacher, the White House, and a class of first graders.

With the soundtrack, various performances from the White House and television, and a 90 - minute PBS documentary about the making of the musical, there is plenty of material that teachers can access to use Hamilton in the history classroom.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

At least three distinct theories have been proposed about how moving away from a majority - white teacher workforce would be beneficial for students of color.

New GCSE and «literature», we are doing education with Y7 so I have created this reading skills focussed ppt using extracts from les excuses de petit Nicolas Use of white boards and an element of competition stops it from being too teacher led and the great thing about Nicolas is if they like him he can come up again - we are doing les vacances with Y8 so we might add in a petit Nicolas on holiday extract

The Department for Education said: «Since launching our proposals in the education white paper, the government has listened to feedback from MPs, teachers, school leaders and parents.

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

Facing heckling from the crowd, Morgan warned teachers that they should work with the Conservative government, saying: «Teaching unions have a choice — spend the next four years doing battle with us and doing down the profession they represent in the process, or stepping up, seizing the opportunities and promise offered by the white paper and helping us to shape the future of the education system.»

It's true that a single school - board member with an agenda or strong political views can jeopardize an entire curriculum, but the teacher - leader network that White and Kockler have constructed in Louisiana seems likely to insulate students from the passions and politics of the moment.

The white paper, entitled From Quicksand to Solid Ground: Building a Foundation to Support Quality Teaching, and written by Harvard Graduate School of Education associate professor Jal Mehta and his colleagues, argues for the development of a reliable and integrated set of mechanisms — a functioning system — to build teachers» knowledge, skills, and expertise.

A recent white paper from Learning Forward and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF), Moving from Compliance to Agency: What Teachers Need to Make Professional Learning Work, draws from interviews with teachers and administrators to report on the current state of professional development and what it will take to transform it to really support educator lTeachers Need to Make Professional Learning Work, draws from interviews with teachers and administrators to report on the current state of professional development and what it will take to transform it to really support educator lteachers and administrators to report on the current state of professional development and what it will take to transform it to really support educator learning.

Additional project examples from the 21st Century Learning Academy available on teachers Eric White and Lindsey Ott's humanities page (log in as a guest): http://elearnwca.org/course/view.php?id=62

The only way to sort it out is if you have a given teacher who has taught lots of different types of students — high - income, low - income, African - American, white, Latino — where you can disentangle the effect of a specific teacher from the effect of students» backgrounds.

That shows the line between «can» and «can't yet» and it literally plots the next step for each student so we found it incredibly useful and it was used by teachers because all they had to do was follow the student along their line, when the colour changed from green to white, they could check on that point, refer back to the NAPLAN writing guide and work out «what is the next focus for that student?»

From the abysmal record (and recent statements) of Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White, to Los Angeles Unified School District's lousy handling of teacher performance management, we have far too many school leaders who aren't worth of their titles.

During a White House ceremony honoring educators ahead of next week's National Teacher Appreciation Week, President Trump presented Mandy Manning, from Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, WA with...

In 2011, the White House announced it would offer waivers from the law, but states that want them must agree to fulfill other requirements to evaluate teachers and schools.

And despite the stereotype of a Teach for America teacher as a rich white kid from Harvard, the organization had built a special recruitment team to seek candidates at 103 historically black colleges across the country.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

#Armmewith is the Twitter campaign from educators in response to the White House suggesting teachers should carry guns.

But the best examples may come from the recent conflicts between reform advocates and critics in which race and class have been explicit topics of the debate - when Newark's Cami Anderson is under attack for being a white interloper in a black community, or when Chicago's Rahm Emanuel is accused of being a racist murderer by the head of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Given Project STAR's limited number of Hispanic, Asian, and Native American participants, I edited these data to include only those observations from black and white non-Hispanic students with black and white non-Hispanic teachers.