Sentences with phrase «grade teacher advocated»

Two fifth grade teachers advocate trust, respect, and inclusion when sharing the practices and results of their PBL pilot program with on - site colleagues.

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Katherine Brezler, a second - grade public school teacher, has been a staunch advocate for policies that work for New York public education.

In the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in Europe.

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.

we've invited science teacher, content expert and coach Kathy Renfrew to become The Science Lady and write about general science topics from her perspective as a veteran middle grades teacher and early advocate for the Next Generation Science Standards.

What do state lawmakers, teachers and other school advocates have to say about moving the IREAD - 3 test to second grade?

A mantra of the Common Core's advocates has been that it sets standards, not curriculum: teachers are not being told what to teach, but rather given grade - level expectations for what students should know and be able to do, year by year.

These include many reforms familiar to public education advocates such as Teacher Merit Pay, Parent Trigger, Education Savings Accounts, Charter expansion, Central Charter School Authorizer, Corporate Tax Scholarships, Universal Vouchers, Collective Bargaining, Innovation Schools / Districts, Virtual Charters, Data Mining, District Report Cards / School Grades, Personalized Learning, Open Enrollment, and the conveniently bundled «Indiana Education Reform Package.»

Researchers, teachers, education advocates and others agree that eighth grade math is a critical indicator of success in high school and beyond.

In the system that we advocate, this process of identifying, interpreting, and scaffolding these learning standards takes three days and results in a Pre-K-12 set of end - of - year and within - year learning targets, aligned to agreed - upon standards, vertically articulated between grade levels, and understood by all teachers within the system.

While this reteaching and reassessment by skill does create additional work for classroom teachers, however, advocates for standards - based grading note that this process may help teachers to refine their instruction.

Pearl Arredondo, a sixth grade teacher, will draw on her experience as an educator and advocate to give a talk during TED's first - ever made - for - television...

She also advocates «a short reading list» of up to 10 «indispensable literary classics» for each grade and, in general, more respect for the challenges teachers face in classrooms with students who come from widely divergent social and economic backgrounds.

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In an era when many school systems had no regular salary schedules or implemented schedules paying more to men than women and more to high school teachers than to grade school teachers, TCTA advocated for a single salary schedule.

Velia Martinez, Brenda's Descubriendo la Lectura teacher, strongly advocated that Brenda remain in first grade and be placed in DLL.

The Economist: School choice does not work as well as its advocates hope WashPost: Exodus from PR grows as island struggles to rebound from Hurricane Maria Salt Lake Tribune: While the principal made thousands marketing this school, students» grades were mediocre Voice of San Diego: Tormented by a Student's Sexual Assault, a Teacher Falls NPR: More Than Half Of Transgender Teachers Surveyed Tell NPR They Are Harassed Crain's Detroit: Duggan aims to knit public schools, charters with transportation

Because of this, our Teacher Policy Team members awarded a passing grade, but are committed to continuing to advocate for the transformational changes they want to see.»