Sentences with phrase «handful of teachers»

Amazon said it tested its new writing curriculum with a handful of teachers before formally debuting it.

Sebastian, a short, stocky, quiet Latino with round cheeks and a thick bristle of black hair, was in the sixth grade at Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, and two days earlier, along with sixty teammates and a handful of teachers and parents, he had traveled eleven hours in a chartered bus to Columbus, Ohio, for a few days of competitive chess.

Jayne Clare, a 30 - year veteran Special Education teacher, and tech enthusiast manages this site along with a handful of teachers, therapists, and interns.

At our school, there are a handful of teachers known as the «candy teachers.»

The mayor said an evaluation system would highlight the «amazing» job that teachers have done to improve graduation rates, adding that a «handful of teachers» could use «remedial work,» while others «can not be in front of our kids.»

The New York State United Teachers, along with a handful of teachers and local teachers» unions, filed suit in Albany Tuesday.

«It's working for interest of a handful of teachers.»

However, in another article on «yoga must - reads,» where a handful of teachers name a book that has inspired or influenced them, all of the featured teachers are white women, with the exception of one man.

Today only a handful of teachers regularly teach this series, which is comprised of six different pranayama techniques.

Only a handful of teachers I had would e we wear heels all day every day and I totally appreciated them more for doing it and putting in that extra effort for doing that!

And, at those two, only a handful of teachers still embraced my Pachamama obsession.

The practice Powell was showing off involved having its teachers present their reteaching plans — developed on data day — to a handful of teachers from other grades and specialties.

There were a handful of teachers there who were Teach for America grads.

It is tempting, at first, to feel sorry for the handful of teachers who responded to this question by saying they don't have a teachers» lounge.

In my new position as a gifted resource teacher, I now have the opportunity to watch a handful of teachers, in a handful of different grades, teach each day.

(Previously, many school districts relied on binary rating systems in which all but a handful of teachers were deemed satisfactory.)

The pilot program was trialled last year at West Lakes Shore School and Modbury Primary School in Adelaide, across all year levels with a handful of teachers.

The survey helped start before - school e-mail conversations with a handful of the teachers, noted Gaines.

In May, the CTU passed a tough resolution opposing the Common Core in its entirety, which it followed with calls for parents to boycott tests; a handful of teachers refused to administer the tests (see sidebar, opposite page).

You're greeted by a handful of teachers, spread out across several different learning stations.

This fall, a handful of teachers will facilitate our first online classes for students.

Using a tool like Google Hangout, have a handful of teacher friends sign on at a set time one night a month.

He has plans to improve the training of teachers, because currently, training a teacher one - on - one for two weeks puts a lot of strain on a small school with a handful of teachers, he says.

He reexamined his own attitudes and gathered a handful of teachers who were successful at incorporating technology into their curricula.

So at the start of this past school year, Wehrheim turned to her coach from the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) for advice on introducing herself to the handful of teachers she would mentor that year.

Earlier in the day a handful of teachers affiliated with the education advocacy group Stand for Children invited a half - dozen reporters to Ritz's statehouse office, urging the state superintendent to allow implementation of the Common Core to continue.

While we started as just a handful of teachers in New York, today we are a growing movement of 25,000 educators, with chapters in Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Minnesota, and New York.

(broadcast on BBC on July 5, 2010) made a big play out of the fact that only a handful of teachers have been struck off for incompetence.

The reason I'm not is because a handful of teachers made a point of putting human connection first, despite the challenges of the education system.

While a handful of teachers in a school might be using differentiation to great success, it takes a collaborative, schoolwide approach to maximize differentiation's effectiveness and improve outcomes for all students.

It's likely that both sets of teachers, those identified as high - and low - performers, will need to buy into the model for it to translate into better achievement for students, since administrators in both districts say they plan to replace only a handful of teachers — those at the very bottom of the ratings.

On November 17, 2017, you met with a handful of teachers and organizations to hear their experiences with the previous administration's guidance on reducing discipline disparities in our schools.

We asked for teacher volunteers who wanted to be trained and supported in using this new program, and we ended up with a handful of teachers that wanted to see what Unify could do.

Friday's dismissals are a departure from recent practice when typically only a handful of teachers would be fired and then only because of gross misconduct.

McQueen was among a handful of teachers chosen by the Arizona officials to spend spring break 2013 in Chicago working with other education professionals to help evaluate the scoring rubrics used in conjunction with the new PARCC test — the Common Core - aligned assessment that's replacing the state standardized test.

Just from a practical standpoint, unions will not spend money and manpower to organize a handful of teachers at a single charter school.

We know, as an organization that started with a handful of teachers and has become into a national movement, that a relatively small group of people advocating for change can grow to a critical mass.

The awards are presented each year on Sondheim's birthday, March 22, to a handful of teachers, kindergarten through college, who are nominated via the Kennedy Center website.

Until now, materials were purchased through a printed catalog; if teachers were lucky, there was some sort of conference or in - depth demo of a new material, but those were typically attended by a handful of teachers who brought the materials back to their respective schools.

Firstly, the girls you encounter aren't random nameless characters, but come from a roster of well over 60 girls in the game, spanning all 3 years of high school as well as a handful of teachers and staff, and you'll repeatedly encounter each of them as enemies.

There are also a handful of teachers who stand out in having lasting positive effects in terms of building up the self - esteem and academic efforts of children.

The Principal sets no clear direction for the school with a handful of teachers guiding the school's direction.