Sentences with phrase «great teachers at the high school»

But there are some great teachers at the high school and, because teacher evaluation is so poor around the country and in the state, we don't have good evidence as to who should stay and who should not.

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Great Mills High School student Desmond Barnes, 14, and a teacher communicate with a 911 operator after a shooting at the sSchool student Desmond Barnes, 14, and a teacher communicate with a 911 operator after a shooting at the schoolschool.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

He is also a former teacher and administrator at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School and the Waldorf School of Garden City, the high school from which he gradSchool and the Waldorf School of Garden City, the high school from which he gradSchool of Garden City, the high school from which he gradschool from which he graduated.

Among students who had fun with their family most days, the likelihood of being in the group with higher life satisfaction was much greater if students also reported that a teacher or another adult at their school believed that they would be a success.

Furthermore, it is progressively greater at higher grades, indicating a cumulative impact of the qualities of teachers in a school on the pupil's achievements.

Merga advises that, where possible, interactive reading should happen both at school and at home and, indeed, teachers may have a greater responsibility as parents could face challenges such as low literacy or not being at home because of high workloads.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall ConfSchools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Confschools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall ConfSchools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

Having had the opportunity to document some of the amazing work produced at schools like High Tech High, Aviation High, SES, ASCEND, EAST, and King Middle School, I am convinced that a digital archive of great student work, along with the proper context and supporting material, would inspire and motivate a significant number of teachers and students.

Teachers who used RC practices and / or resources reported collaborating more, valuing collaboration to a higher degree, and perceiving greater involvement in school decision - making, controlling for whether they taught at a RC school.

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* From Great Teachers and Great Leaders Pictured above is the 2015 - 16 Cohort of Achievement Coaches during the Summer Institute held at Princeton High School.

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In the south end, where poverty is greatest, the average teacher at Rainier Beach High School earns $ 60,673.

Resistance might also be greater for high school teachers who typically view themselves as subject specialists, said veteran educator Ray Salazar, who blogs about his work teaching English language arts at a Chicago public high school.

I joined Teach for America after graduating from Duke University, and had the great fortune of receiving placement at Democracy Prep Charter High School as a special education teacher in writing, math, and literature.

This study found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

Years ago, a science teacher at Boston's Greater Egleston Community High School, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out High School, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure ouSchool, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure ouschool situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out why.

At scale, Touchstone's schools will meet the five Reach Extension Principles of an Opportunity Culture, which call for reaching more students with excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great teachers.

Great World Texts — an interdisciplinary humanities program that connects high school teachers and students across the state with faculty and staff at UW - Madison in the study of world literature — is seeking participants.

Tami King, a Moore Public Schools elementary teacher, shows a class project during Great Expectations Summer Institute at Edmond North High School.

Even at Village Green, a virtual charter high school that is using technology perhaps to the greatest extent in our state, they understand that they need great teachers.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

At East End Prep, we are built on the firm belief that great teachers given the right tools and support to perform on a high level and «work their magic» in the classroom is the key to long term, sustainable student and school success.

When you ask education leaders in Omaha why the achievement gap is so glaring, you get the usual answers, «Those kids don't care, they're too poor to achieve at high levels, their parents don't get involved, etc. etc.» Fortunately we know that when schools expect ALL students to achieve, and give them great teachers who believe in their ability, students can beat the odds and rise above the challenges.

While city educators and «country» educators might argue whose hardships are greater, rural school leaders unquestionably recognize that their greatest challenge today is building, sustaining, and supporting a teacher corps so that schools can operate at high levels.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

Only 54 percent of middle school and high school teachers surveyed thought their students «have sufficient access to digital tools at school,» according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, and 84 percent said that «today's digital technologies are leading to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts.»

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

Public Impact says an Opportunity Culture creates a plan whereby a team of teachers and administrators at each school choose among models that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to reach more students with personalized, high - standards instruction — a hallmark of great teaching.

As a new principal at John Burroughs Elementary School, Aqueelha James applied a key lesson she learned as a biotechnology teacher at her high - performing former school: provide great instruction and high - level content, and students will meet the chalSchool, Aqueelha James applied a key lesson she learned as a biotechnology teacher at her high - performing former school: provide great instruction and high - level content, and students will meet the chalschool: provide great instruction and high - level content, and students will meet the challenge.

In an ideal world, if teachers and staff at a struggling high school voiced a strong commitment to improving instruction, developing their skills, and challenging their own beliefs about student abilities, their superintendent would just smile and say, «Great.

In North Carolina, greater agreement (i.e., higher satisfaction levels) with the empowerment questions on the survey had a significant effect on teacher retention at the high school level.

In short, the bill's proponents argued that, in return for decreased state funding, giving school districts greater power over their workers would allow them to hire and retain high - quality teachers at a lower cost.

CTAC research found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

According to a press release issued at the time, «The reorganization addresses Governor Dannel P. Malloy's six principles on education reform, including: (1) Enhancing families» access to high - quality early childhood; (2) Turning around Connecticut's lowest - performing schools and districts; (3) Expanding the availability of high - quality school models; (4) Removing red tape and other barriers to success; (5) Ensuring that our schools are home to the very best teachers and principals; and (6) Delivering more resources, targeted to districts with the greatest need - provided that they embrace key reforms that position our students for success.»

They are not using factors beyond their control as limitations — every great coach or teacher has demonstrated that students who are economically deprived can achieve at the highest levels when they are placed in schools where teachers are effectively differentiating instruction and engaging their students in meaningful learning.

Today's shortage is structural, with nearly a third of teachers departing within their first five years and leaving at far greater rates in high - poverty schools.

Daniel J. Quinn is executive director of the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice; a teacher at Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan; and a doctoral student in educational leadership at Oakland University.

In Opportunity Culture models, a team of teachers and administrators at each school chooses among models that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to reach more students with personalized, high - standards instruction — one hallmark of great teachers.

Rebecca Snyder, Ed.D. is the 2009 Pennsylvania Teacher of Year and teaches English Language Arts at Greater Latrobe Senior High School in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Nick Polcini, a special education teacher at Henderson High School in Pennsylvania, is one great example of this commitment.

Betty Tompkins, who is quite a successful artist these days — her very early work from the late»60s, which were photorealist - inspired compositions based on pornography, [is] in a show opening right now at Marianne Boesky Gallery — was really a great high school teacher.

Teachers who used RC practices and / or resources reported collaborating more, valuing collaboration to a higher degree, and perceiving greater involvement in school decision - making, controlling for whether they taught at a RC school.

Teachers everywhere, from East High School and Glendale Middle School in Salt Lake City to a national survey, agree: social and emotional learning matters enormously, and its assessment deserves and demands a much greater place at the table of school improvement and accountabSchool and Glendale Middle School in Salt Lake City to a national survey, agree: social and emotional learning matters enormously, and its assessment deserves and demands a much greater place at the table of school improvement and accountabSchool in Salt Lake City to a national survey, agree: social and emotional learning matters enormously, and its assessment deserves and demands a much greater place at the table of school improvement and accountabschool improvement and accountability.

My daughter is a freshman at Burges High School and all the teachers and most of the kids there are great it's the attendence office I have a problem with.