Sentences with phrase «hear from teachers because»

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We have gathered around ourselves teachers who tell us what our itching ears want to hear, and we ignore and silence the prophetic voices who tell us what we need to hear because these prophetic voices come from those many Christians love to hate.

For example, I send all of my clients to this one yoga teacher because she's reinforcing in her classes what they heard in their childbirth class and what they are going to hear from me.

I know because I heard it first - hand from teachers, from principals, from Lilly, and from the kids themselves.

As for the Assembly Democratic conference, Heastie said: «We don't want to go home and then in September hear that school districts have to lay people off because they haven't received the funding from the budget because of the linkage of the teacher evaluation and the funding.»

Avella, who received 53.17 percent of the turnout, or 25,864 votes, said he has not heard from Padavan, who got 22,781 votes, since the election, which Avella said he won in part because of support from the United Federation of Teachers as well as an effective campaign operation that included knocking on 7,000 doors.

We are comfortable with them because they are about helping teachers help kids, which is something that we don't often hear from the city.»

Many students attend SES because of the environmental focus, but Bodette has heard a wide variety of reasons for students» attachment to the school — from being given the opportunity to learn a great deal of information in depth to working together to being known by other students and teachers to being able to present research to outside audiences.

Another response sprinkled with humor that I heard from a teacher: «You need to learn this because some day when you have a child who asks you for help and you can't help because you don't know it, you won't feel stupid.»

Because of the way that testing permeates education culture, I often hear some «pushback» from teachers about their implementation of PBL.

Current users of the book have said: «this is groundbreaking stuff... so simple and so powerful...», «I feel stronger because I know what to ask about the evidence... any evidence», «my primary colleagues love this book... now we bounce off each other and have become a great school», «Dr Slater is a real living teacher and I think a modern day maverick... as soon as I hear words like «the evidence says...» I use what I got from this book...» «I want the best from my students, my staff and myself and....

«I was a little skeptical when she came in,» one teacher said, «because she was from a charter... But she's a good leader and a good human being, and I've heard [people] raving about her from both sides.»

(I also hear from many teachers who manage to elicit enormous gains for which they don't get any credit because the kids are still behind some standards or pacing guides.)

Parents heard from pro-union teachers that they have received threats by phone, mail and email because they wanted to form a union.

But what you will hear most from teachers is that they're fighting for their students, because they've got a front row seat to the impact of underfunding our public schools.

Because of the way that testing permeates education culture, I often hear some «pushback» from teachers and their implementation of project - based learning.

In 2005, Ms. Moskowitz, then a city councilwoman, ran for Manhattan borough president and lost — in part because of opposition from the teachers» union, the United Federation of Teachers, which was enraged by a series of hearings she held in the City Council that were critical of work rules embedded in the union's cteachers» union, the United Federation of Teachers, which was enraged by a series of hearings she held in the City Council that were critical of work rules embedded in the union's cTeachers, which was enraged by a series of hearings she held in the City Council that were critical of work rules embedded in the union's contract.

LAUSD Board Confirms Its Union - Occupied Status When I heard that the Los Angeles Unified school board had passed a resolution barring its superintendent from seeking grants without board approval, I was 10,000 percent certain it was because John Deasy had sought funding that had strings attached related to teacher performance.

I've found that the site visit is also powerful because of the opportunity to hear from students and teachers, interact with colleagues from other districts, and to spend concentrated time with one's own colleagues.

And most opponents of the voluntary recognition said that goes against the basic tenets of democracy because not all teachers were heard from.

I first heard about this from a teacher friend who told me she couldn't change districts because most districts wouldn't pay her for all her prior years of experience.

Regarding a survey that found 97 percent of Connecticut teachers «believed there should be some sort of moratorium on the implementation of the standards,» Joseph Cirasuolo, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, said that he didn't know where «the approximately 1,500 teachers surveyed by the Connecticut Education Association came from because that's not what he's hearing from the leaders of school districts.»

He had to watch a few for school, stuff that never really caught his fancy and just didn't connect with him because it was not his style or because the teacher made too much of the symbolism and camera angles and he hated writing the papers, but now he's hearing from his friends that movies are really good.

Eileen originally heard about the program from a colleague and decided to get involved because it combined her love for dogs with her love of being a reading teacher.