She was a founding kindergarten and first
grade teacher at a charter school, and served as the Memphis liaison to the Tennessee Charter Schools Association.
Not exact matches
At 6:30 a.m. on September 22, 2015, fourteen very excited grade eight students and one slightly anxious yet enthusiastic class teacher boarded a charter bus at the Halton Waldorf Schoo
At 6:30 a.m. on September 22, 2015, fourteen very excited
grade eight students and one slightly anxious yet enthusiastic class
teacher boarded a
charter bus
at the Halton Waldorf Schoo
at the Halton Waldorf
School.
When I first asked 6th -
grade math
teacher Jennifer Rivera
at Northbrook Middle
School how wrapping a YES Prep charter school into half of her school had changed her life, she answered, «Not that much.&
School how wrapping a YES Prep
charter school into half of her school had changed her life, she answered, «Not that much.&
school into half of her
school had changed her life, she answered, «Not that much.&
school had changed her life, she answered, «Not that much.»
Picture of Health: Sarah Groth, a first -
grade teacher at Namaste
Charter School, lost 50 pounds practicing what she preaches.
In this post, I share excerpts from a recent interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning
teacher who teaches AP US history and 10th -
grade modern world history
at Summit Tahoma, a high
school that is part of the Summit Public
Schools charter network in the San Francisco Bay Area.
«Many of the
teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of T
teachers — who worked
at all
grade levels in both public and
charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of
TeachersTeachers.
Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th -
grade math
teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public
charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.
Trevor Baisden is a founding fifth
grade ELA and history
teacher at a public
charter school.
The United Federation of
Teachers had expected the trustees of the State University of New York to vote
at their May 24 board meeting on the union's application to open a 450 - student
charter school serving
grades K - 5, starting in September.
In my research I have identified 34 different examples of
charter school innovation, including small size; untenured
teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and
teacher involvement in
school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual
grade configurations; split sessions and extended
school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for
at - risk and other frequently absent students.
06, a sixth -
grade English
teacher at Excel Academy
Charter School in Boston.
Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high
school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school English
teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary
school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school teacher at a KIPP
school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First -
grade teacher at Brooke
Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare
teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms
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Teacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially
Teacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth -
grade social studies and language arts
teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially
teacher at Hoboken
Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially aware.
Eric Murphy, a seventh
grade humanities
teacher at Excel Public
Charter School in Kent, takes his students through a lesson about Syrian refugees and the issues surrounding whether or not they should be able to emigrate to this country, in January.
He will start as a ninth -
grade English
teacher at Excel Academy
Charter High
School when it opens in the fall.
First
grade teacher Jill Kams runs a group of four pupils through a math lesson
at Abby Kelley Foster Regional
Charter School.
Ryan Grant, a fifth -
grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of
charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in
charter schools in other states, plus the experience of having a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs
at a special
school.
At the E.L. Haynes
charter school in Northwest, fifth -
grade teacher Brigham Kiplinger uses a stopwatch to keep his lessons on track.
«All throughout my childhood, I saw how much she enjoyed working with her students,» said Chaffee, a ninth -
grade humanities
teacher at Codman Academy public
charter school in Boston, Mass. «She showed me that education is powerful and we can change the course of our lives through learning.»
Ryan Grant, a fifth
grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of
charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in
charter schools in other states plus the experience of parenting a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs
at a special
school.
Public
charter school teacher Nicholas Simmons once wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he «worked in the same building as the Wadleigh Secondary School, at which 0 percent of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis a
school teacher Nicholas Simmons once wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he «worked in the same building as the Wadleigh Secondary
School, at which 0 percent of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis a
School,
at which 0 percent of students in
grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis added).
Luis Regalado is a fourth -
grade teacher at Aurora
Charter school, Minneapolis Minnesota.
Ellie Herman is a writer and English
teacher, who taught Drama, Advanced Drama, Creative Writing, English 11 and 9th
grade composition
at Animo Pat Brown
Charter High
School in south Los Angeles.
On Monday, December 10th, Brandon Schwartz, a fifth -
grade science
teacher at Duval
Charter School at Coastal, was awarded the CSUSA Bright Spots award for the month of November.
Ms. Baylou, a 5th -
grade teacher at Manatee
Charter School, is setting out to make an impact on the environment by implementing a recycling program school -
School, is setting out to make an impact on the environment by implementing a recycling program
school -
school - wide!
Before parents and
teachers could react, unproven concepts such as a high stakes tests mandatory
grade retention, for profit
charter schools, vouchers, A-F
school / district
grades and tying
teacher evaluations to test scores were signed into law
at a rapid pace.
Runner - Up: Ashley Sweigert, third -
grade teacher at Imagine Elementary
at Tempe, a K - 6
charter school serving 285 students in Tempe.
Four years later, she began teaching
at CALS
Charter Middle
School as the 8th
grade Humanities and Reading
teacher.
Ms. Sparkes worked
at Roxbury Prep
Charter School in Boston for four years, her first year as an apprentice, then as the founding fifth
grade reading
teacher for three years.
Richelle Lewis is a third -
grade teacher at American Leadership Academy — Queen Creek, a K - 6
charter school serving 760 students.
She began her teaching career as a 7th
grade English
teacher at PUC Lakeview
Charter Academy and went on to teach 9th
grade at PUC Lakeview
Charter High
School where she later served as the Assistant Principal.
Ashley is a third -
grade teacher at Imagine Tempe, a non-profit K - 6 public
charter school in Arizona.
AACTE congratulates 2017 National
Teacher of the Year Sydney Chaffee, who teaches 9th -
grade humanities
at Codman Academy
Charter Public
School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Prior to Brooke, she worked as a special education
teacher and case manager
at Mastery
Charter Schools in Philadelphia, teaching reading and math to students in the 7th through 11th
grades.
Richelle Lewis, a third -
grade teacher at American Leadership Academy — Queen Creek Elementary, a K - 6
charter school serving 760 students in Queen Creek.
Second
grade teacher Jessica Moy said she feels more as part of a collaborative team
at KIPP than she did previously
at a private
school and a different
charter school.
Amanda Presslak, front, a fourth -
grade teacher at Passages
Charter School, and other teachers, protest in front of the school on May 24,
School, and other
teachers, protest in front of the
school on May 24,
school on May 24, 2017.
U.S. Programs Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation President Allan Golston «
At the opening general session, seventh
grade student Matthew Austin from Washington D.C.'s Howard University Public
Charter Middle
School of Mathematics and Science kicked off the conference with a stirring speech introducing his
teacher, D.C. Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly
teacher, D.C.
Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly
Teacher of the Year Kimberly Worthy.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan «
At the opening general session, seventh
grade student Matthew Austin from Washington D.C.'s Howard University Public
Charter Middle
School of Mathematics and Science kicked off the conference with a stirring speech introducing his
teacher, D.C. Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly
teacher, D.C.
Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly
Teacher of the Year Kimberly Worthy.
A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator
School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics
teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle
School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th -
grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding
teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High
School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities
teacher at Camino Nuevo
Charter Academy.
«It's important for students and families to pick where they want to go to
school,» said Ryan Porter, a third - grade teacher at The Village Charter S
school,» said Ryan Porter, a third -
grade teacher at The Village
Charter SchoolSchool.
She has eluded to perhaps the best suggestion to date to fix our
schools, a comprehensive and challenging curriculum in every discipline
at every
grade, but somehow this message has been lost in all the hoopla over merit pay,
charter schools, evaluating
teachers based on their students» test scores, collective bargaining rights, etc..
With the exception of one multigrade
charter school teacher, all participants were public
school teachers teaching
at least one eighth -
grade Algebra I course, with an average of 21 students in each class.
Diane Ballard is a sixth -
grade teacher at John Hancock
Charter School.
«The
teacher raise is important, but it's only one piece of the puzzle,» agreed Chris Weaver, a third -
grade teacher at Evergreen Community
Charter School in Asheville.
Most recently, Sydney Chaffee, a ninth
grade humanities
teacher at EL Education - credentialed Codman Academy Charter Public School, was honored as the 2017 National Teacher of th
teacher at EL Education - credentialed Codman Academy
Charter Public
School, was honored as the 2017 National
Teacher of th
Teacher of the Year.
After that, I was a seventh
grade Math
teacher at a
charter school and then moved onto becoming a principal of an all - boy Catholic middle
school where the focus was college preparedness.
She has spent the last three years teaching fifth and sixth
grade English Language Arts and has served as the English Language Learners
Teacher at a small
charter school in south Nashville.
He is a member of his
charter network's
teacher advisory panel and has developed and implemented curriculum on identity - building for 9th
grade English
at an LAUSD
charter school.
He then spent 6 years
at Boston Collegiate
Charter School as a 7th and 8th
grade math
teacher, basketball coach and enrichment advisor.