Sentences with phrase «grade teacher in the district»

Launching the use of the Early Development Instrument, a population based measure of school readiness, with Pre-K through 4th grade teachers in the District to track the impact of early learning policies and programs on child development over time.

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Previously, she was a grade 3 classroom teacher in Lake Bluff, grades 1 and 2 teacher in Schaumburg School District 54, and a classroom teacher assistant for grades K through 2 in that Schaumburg school dDistrict 54, and a classroom teacher assistant for grades K through 2 in that Schaumburg school districtdistrict.

Christopher Albrecht is a fourth grade teacher in the Brockport Central School District.

Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher, is the sponsor of the bi-partisan Common Core Parental Refusal Act (A. 6025 / S.4161), to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse without penalty to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

McDonough, the 46th New York State Teacher of the Year has been teaching first or second grade in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District for her entire career of 22 years.

McDonough, a second grade teacher at Newburgh Enlarged City School District in Newburgh was presented with a certificate of recognition by Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

In light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in questioIn light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in questioin today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in questioin question.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

A teacher at Cambridge Central Schools is on leave after seventh and eighth grade students were given a handout on transgender education this week that angered many parents in the district.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

She conducted an experiment involving 70 third grade teachers from 14 public elementary schools in one district.

Perhaps most interestingly, over 64 % of former RET participants still teach the curriculum unit they developed at the CSNE, which given that teachers may change grade levels, class subjects and school districts, demonstrates an ongoing interest in neural engineering and the long - term value of this curricula.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Delaware's grade in teacher quality receives a boost because the state finances professional development for all its districts and requires and finances mentoring...

Kevin is a 5th grade teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District.

«She wanted to read, to write, to be in the routine the school day offered that I didn't feel day care did,» explained North Macie, a seventh - grade teacher and District of Columbia resident.

Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

It's intended as a cost - effective way for teachers, schools and districts to manage grading in an easy online forum that can be accessed from school and home.

Districts and charter schools could use the extra dollars to lower class sizes, improve classroom technology, or target teacher training in grades K - 4.

Several years ago, the superintendent of a school district in Pennsylvania, proposed that teachers issue report cards grading parents on how involved they are in their children's education.

One of the consequences of the high - stakes state assessments that were mandated in NCLB and the requirement for a fifth indicator of school success in the present - day successor of NCLB (The Every Student Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and schools.

Technology could make a powerful difference by administering tests, automating their grading, and displaying data — to district leaders, principals, teachers, and students — in a timely way that makes strengths and weaknesses clear and next steps more obvious.

In emergencies, Arkansas issues waivers that allow districts to assign teachers to subjects or grade levels for which they are not qualified.

The district created grade - level teacher teams in each school and hired a coach to provide professional development to teachers.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakerIn 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakerin more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakerin Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

We use the Common Core of Data to identify teachers in urban areas, the grade level of each teacher's school, and the per - pupil expenditure on instruction by each teacher's district.

Oklahoma also makes adjustments in its formula for small schools, different grade levels, teacher experience and education, and the geographic isolation of districts.

On Oct. 5, Ms. Neeley had sent a guidance letter to school boards allowing them to grant their district superintendents the authority to ask the state for permission to exceed the class - size cap of 22 students per teacher in grades K - 4.

The act burdens the states as well as local districts, imposing obligations to develop academic standards, test all students annually in grades 3 through 8, hire «highly qualified» teachers in core subjects, and reconstitute persistently failing schools in order to remain eligible for federal aid.

Students there study the New England region, which prompted the students parents to contact their old district in search of a third grade teacher willing to participate in a shared technology experience.

We thought to put him in with his age group, but the district saw that he'd do better in first grade (he actually tested past second), and his new teacher ran her literacy program using flexible grouping so that all the kids could continually excel as was appropriate.

In many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessmentIn many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessmentin grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessments.

Two years ago, when Krakowsky was a first - year 4th grade teacher at P.S. 106 in District 32 in Brooklyn, New York, she participated in New Teacher Academy, a seminar program for beginning teachers, held at Columbia Universitys Teachers Cteacher at P.S. 106 in District 32 in Brooklyn, New York, she participated in New Teacher Academy, a seminar program for beginning teachers, held at Columbia Universitys Teachers CTeacher Academy, a seminar program for beginning teachers, held at Columbia Universitys Teachers teachers, held at Columbia Universitys Teachers Teachers College.

Once a fourth - grade teacher, I recently began my work as an elementary assistant principal in another district.

Focusing on the systems as a whole also would have encouraged districts to be more honest in their observation ratings rather than creating the incentive for subjective observation ratings to compensate for value - added results that, by definition, grade teachers on a curve.

For example, part of a district's methodology could be using state and local funds to support one teacher per 25 students in grades K - 3.

Survey respondents were asked to state the percentage of teachers in their local school district they think deserve one of the five grades on the traditional A-to-F scale.

All students in grades 6 through 12 have the option to take one or more online courses, and district teachers teach all the courses with the exception of those, like Mandarin, where there is no certified teacher available within the district.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develTeacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develteacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develteacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develteacher - directed professional development.

While it is best to hold regular grade - level meetings with teachers in your school, and even your district, curriculum sharing websites are re-defining the realms teachers can explore to find new methods and materials.

When I was a junior in high school, our teacher's union declared an order for all the teachers in the district: they were to «work to rule,» which meant that they would not spend any time beyond the 40 hours indicated in their contract helping students or grading assignments.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

During our analysis period, roughly 15 percent of teachers in our data switched to a different grade within the same school from one year to the next, 6 percent of teachers moved to a different school within the same district, and another 6 percent left the district entirely.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

Marcey Altman, a 12th - grade English teacher at West Springfield High School, recalls an experience she had eight years ago in the Dade County (Florida) school district.

However, controlling for the limited set of student characteristics available in school - district databases, such as test scores in the previous grade, is sufficient to account for the assignment of students to teachers based on parent characteristics.

As a parenting coordinator in a school district in East Texas (it supplemented my income as a third - grade teacher), I was thrilled to participate in family strengthening programs for parents.

In 1995, Brian Maguire, a teacher at Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Central School District, was studying the writing process with his fourth - grade students.

We will work with 3rd through 8th grade mathematics teachers in the Appleton Area School District to implement and evaluate the coaching model.