Sentences with phrase «great teachers and principals»

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Our great teachers and principals are leading an era of progress, supported by a transformed system that is focused squarely on helping all students find pathways to success.

We're still waiting to get a critical mass of great teachers and principals into underperforming schools located in underserved communities, where our failure to educate has in fact perpetuated cycles of poverty and social failure.

When the focus of the work shifts from compliance to capacity building, a lot of great teachers and principals choose to apply for those jobs because they know they can have a real impact on the whole district.

In these conditions, district leaders must pay increased attention to often obscure work of human resources departments, focusing disproportionate attention on recruitment and retention of great teachers and principals.

The other $ 4 billion was intended by Congress to fund grants to help states improve in four key areas: building data systems, adopting «career - and - college ready» standards and tests, hiring great teachers and principals, and turning around low - performing schools.

«We must avoid a future that continues to consign millions of poor children to inadequate schools lacking the great teachers and principals they need.

The ARRA specified only that the federal government should encourage states to improve data systems, adopt «career - and - college - ready» standards and tests, hire great teachers and principals, and turn around low - performing schools.

Its policies, practices, habits, systems, contracts, and so much more conspire to stymie great teachers and principals.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has bluntly asserted, «We're still waiting to get great teachers and principals into underperforming schools... We're still waiting and we can't wait any longer.»

ED's press release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great teachers and principals, robust use of data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.

Several essays analyze the ways that market incentives and deregulation might be used to get and keep great teachers and principals.

Not exact matches

The Blackboard Awards honors schools and principals of excellence as well as great teachers.

Many thanks to the great school nutrition staff, teachers, principals and school administrators in Knox County.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher RTeacher Reserve.

Principals, teachers and school boards have objected to the tight deadline in the law, as well as the greater reliance on standardized tests, a component that Governor Cuomo has insisted upon.

Principals, teachers and school boards have objected to the tight deadline in the law, as well as the greater reliance on standardized tests, a component that Cuomo has insisted upon.

As part of the 2015 state budget lawmakers voted to create the new teacher evaluation system that places a greater emphasis on student test scores when evaluating the job performance of teachers and principals.

When a principal fails to keep the bar high for who gets to teach in his / her school - and who gets to stay - the teaching culture is eroded and great teachers will be less likely to remain.

And support is greater among younger Americans — 78 percent of those under age 40 have trust and confidence in teachers, and 70 percent have trust and confidence in principaAnd support is greater among younger Americans — 78 percent of those under age 40 have trust and confidence in teachers, and 70 percent have trust and confidence in principaand confidence in teachers, and 70 percent have trust and confidence in principaand 70 percent have trust and confidence in principaand confidence in principals.

The South Australian Education Department has told school principals that teachers are to place a greater focus on teaching numeracy to lift mathematics skills, in line with their reading and writing ability.

In the days and months before and after Teacher Appreciation Week, there are at least three things principals can do to show their true appreciation for the great teachers in their buildings:

«It was a great experience for me; it gave me more appreciation for what teachers and principals go through,» added Mrva.

Great teachers — teachers who make principals stand up and say «Wow!»

Great leaders help graduates grow, and Principals Australia Institute (PAI) can help with this, supporting leaders to mentor graduate teachers.

When I ask great high school principals what makes a great teacher and a great school — once their door is closed — they'll invariably say that it's all about love and high expectations.

Much as we value and should reward fine teachers, those who lead them will need to be paid substantially more if we are serious about finding and keeping great principals.

Although this video is long at 14 minutes, the panel of teachers and principals organized by Colorin Colorado offers great tips for connecting with the families of ELLs.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Money may be better spent helping beneficiaries of reform — parent groups, principals and teachers who have gained greater freedom of action, and civic coalitions — organize and make their cases.

All principals recognize that great schools comprise great kids and teachers, great climates, and great programs.

Contact your school principal with good news — It will be a pleasant suprise for both teacher and principal, and a great opportunity to help foster a positive teacher - principal relationship.

The No Child Left Behind Act «looks great» but it is «killing teachers and killing principals,» says James Caradonio, superintendent of the Worcester, Massachusetts, school district.

But these teachers consistently described their need for robust support from their schools and principals — and here, researchers found a great degree of variety in how school leaders responded to the complexities of their environment.

And it all looks great and it's just killing, killing teachers and killing principals.&raqAnd it all looks great and it's just killing, killing teachers and killing principals.&raqand it's just killing, killing teachers and killing principals.&raqand killing principals.»

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

«Principals generally know when they've got great teachers and when they've got teachers that need to improve and I think that there needs to be far more emphasis on developing teachers — there can't be teachers who are allowed to opt out,» Graham said.

A great principal fosters a collaborative environment and teamwork, provides rigorous and constructive feedback to teachers, and maintains and ensures a safe environment.

Jo Mason, Director of Innovations and Professional Learning at the Principals Australia Institute, spoke to Education Matters magazine's Kathryn Edwards about the importance of harnessing teacher and principal health and wellbeing in our schools, encouraging positive relationships and how principals can best deal with greaterPrincipals Australia Institute, spoke to Education Matters magazine's Kathryn Edwards about the importance of harnessing teacher and principal health and wellbeing in our schools, encouraging positive relationships and how principals can best deal with greaterprincipals can best deal with greater autonomy.

The family background and parents have the absolute greatest influence on student outcomes, then the teacher, the principal, school resources and finally the child's peers.

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

Motivating Teachers: A Wire Side Chat with Todd Whitaker «Outstanding principals know that if they have great teachers, they have a great school,» Todd Whitaker, author of Motivating and Inspiring Teachers, told EducatioTeachers: A Wire Side Chat with Todd Whitaker «Outstanding principals know that if they have great teachers, they have a great school,» Todd Whitaker, author of Motivating and Inspiring Teachers, told Educatioteachers, they have a great school,» Todd Whitaker, author of Motivating and Inspiring Teachers, told EducatioTeachers, told Education World.

«Just as a great school is reliant on its teachers and principal, so too in outside school hours care, we rely on committed and engaged educators.»

«Schools would develop a team led by the principal because this is all based on instructional leadership which sees the principal as having the greatest impact on teachers and teachers having the greatest impact on students.

The AEU is also calling for greater investment in teacher professional development and principal support, along with greater investment in school infrastructure and building projects to make up for the Coalition government's cuts over the past four years.

There are great outfits today (examples include Teach For America, the Relay Graduate School of Education, New Leaders for New Schools, and the Broad Fellows program) that assist talented individuals who want to work in education to gain entry — as teachers, principals, leaders, and so on — without requiring them to pass through all the traditional certification hoops.

For example, when a principal is «monitoring» student dismissal at 3 p.m., that responsibility should be viewed as both management and leadership, Dr. Alvy said, because the principal is making sure students are safe as they are leaving school and taking the opportunity to talk with students, teachers, and bus drivers about the day and important educational issues — such as, «Monica, I heard you did great on your math test yesterday; well done!»

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