Sentences with phrase «growing class sizes»

We need your help to ensure that this amendment passes and we begin to address the serious issue of growing class sizes in our school district.

While this school model can do a great deal to personalize learning and help schools meet the challenges that come with growing class sizes and shrinking budgets, it can't be implemented overnight.

Educators are often asked to help students succeed amid challenges including growing class sizes, new tests, new rules and new evaluation measures.

Thank the school board members for taking this issue seriously and listening to staff, families and community members who are concerned about growing class sizes in the district.

Participants expressed concern about integrating the new curriculum materials within their unique school environments, which included growing class sizes and an emphasis on test preparation.

The 2017 - 18 MMSD budget does not do enough to address growing class sizes in the district.

These op - eds provide information on the issue of growing class sizes in the MMSD, as well as the research supporting the many benefits of small class sizes.

They showcase proven strategies that imaginative teachers and schools have adopted for closing the opportunity gap, demonstrating how they have succeeded by working in partnership with low - income families, and despite growing class sizes, the imposition of rote pedagogical models, and teach - to - the - test mandates.

We showed that whilst movement in and out of teaching remains relatively stable, with a steady 10 % joining and a corresponding 10 % leaving each year, aspects such as growing class sizes and shortages in specific school phases and in subjects (specifically EBacc subjects) mean that the topic remains significant.

Schools across the U.S. and Canada faced with growing class size and fewer resources have come to rely on an individualized learning model supported by technology.

Last June, SCAPE was part of a coalition that successfully advocated for, and won, a budget amendment that addressed growing class sizes in the district.

In today's environment of growing class sizes — with an average of 25 students in elementary classrooms and 150 students a day in high school classes — it's difficult for teachers to provide one - to - one instruction.

SCAPE is working with the MTI Action Committee, the East Attendance Area PTO Coalition and the Westside PTO to address growing class sizes in the MMSD.

After a difficult budget year for the board, Guion said that growing class sizes and STEM initiatives need to be priorities.

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In addition to standardized testing and growing class sizes, there are numerous other factors that educators must account for.

You signed up to be a teacher because you love inspiring children to learn and grow, but with all of the demands of the modern classroom plus growing class sizes, your career feels draining rather than energizing.

According to the Beloit Daily News, hundreds of teachers and staff took turns addressing the board, «with one saying educators are working in «a climate of fear» because of lax student discipline and growing class sizes.»

Districts that already faced crumbling infrastructure, outdated curricula and growing class sizes were forced to take out lines of credit to cover everyday costs.

Faced with growing class sizes and dwindling resources, school closures, and the ongoing attempts of charter management companies to entice Oakland schools to convert to charters, it is critical that we link our struggles with those of the 99 % of Americans fighting for social and economic justice.

Part of it is also because of the 2008 financial crisis, but it's also largely because of changes in our legal education itself — growing class sizes, new law schools, and more international law students (many of whom are Canadian studying abroad).