Sentences with phrase «holding teachers more»

At the same time, Cuomo has been intent on holding teachers more and more accountable for their students» performance on those tests.

If those results hold up, Deasy would maintain a fragile majority in support of his policies, which emphasize holding teachers more accountable for student achievement in the nation's second - largest school district.

Professor Richard Ingersoll makes the case that, to improve teacher quality, schools need to go beyond holding teachers more accountable — by giving them more control.

The Philadelphia school board approved a program last week that will hold teachers more accountable for student performance and give cash awards to successful schools.

Across the country, schools spend some $ 14 billion a year on the extra pay for advanced degrees, according to one study, though the practice is gaining greater scrutiny as policy - makers look to hold teachers more accountable for students» learning.

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

Her complex feelings reflect the nationwide ambivalence toward the growing movement to hold teachers more accountable for what their students actually learn.

For three years, Kimberly Safran has been on the front lines of the Pittsburgh school district's push to hold teachers more accountable for student achievement.

In the drive to hold teachers more accountable for student learning, states are revolutionizing how they evaluate teachers.

A national push to make public schools more rigorous and hold teachers more accountable has led to a vast expansion of testing in kindergarten.

Not exact matches

Students, teachers and parents called for an increase in mental health services and more school counselors on Monday night during a discussion of gun violence held in Delray Beach.

Therefore church members should not be excommunicated for this view but elders and pastors and seminary and college teachers should be expected to hold the more fully biblical view of grace.»

It's not uncommon to hold parent - teacher conferences on Sundays, she says, because many parents whose children attend John Jay juggle two or more jobs, working 16 - hour days six days a week at factories, restaurants and cleaning services.

That's when teachers and parents are more likely to notice problems such as a child having trouble holding a pencil properly or working with numbers or learning to read.

Workshop Description: This is a two session workshop, typically held on a Saturday, for parents, caregivers, teachers and anyone involved with children who wants to bring more understanding, love and joy to their relationships with children of all ages.

I would promise to stay for just one more book or one more song and then her teacher would hold her at the window so that she could wave goodbye.

«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

The Nassau County Democratic Party are using Trump to raise campaign cash for teacher Christine Pellegrino, who is running for a vacant state Assembly seat that Republicans have held for more than 20 years.

Teachers have also held more low tech rallies, with instructors coming after the school day was done to protest at the Capitol.

In 2010, the DOE and the teachers union trumpeted a major agreement to close the centers holding more than 700 idled educators accused of misconduct or incompetence.

Chanting «No more Cuomo», 100's of teachers held a rally at the Capitol Thursday evening protesting Governor Cuomo's education policies.

Parents and teachers in attendance largely blasted the education commissioner, with many holding signs stating: «We are all more than a score.»

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

When Mr. King first walked onto the stage in the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium, he was greeted with a large portion of the 1,000 - person crowd, mostly teachers, quietly holding up green and white signs that read, «We are all more than a score.»

STARKSBORO — Starksboro resident John Jefferies has received a preliminary injunction against ANESU's contract bargaining council that will force them to hold negotiations in open session when negotiating teachers contracts... more

The State Assembly, where teachers union resisting the proposal hold more sway, did not include any such changes.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

Some want the current majority to maintain control and continue pushing for changes such as a longer school day, more charter schools and a teacher contract that holds educators more accountable for performance.

The new methodology is already challenging widely held beliefs by finding that teachers can not be judged solely on the basis of their academic credentials, that classroom size is not always paramount and that students may actually be more engaged if they struggle to complete a classroom assignment.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

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Theo Wildcroft is a yoga teacher working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us.

But there's a more subtle benefit to hip openers, too: We hold stress and negative emotions — such as fear, guilt, and sadness — in our pelvis, says San Francisco vinyasa teacher Stephanie Snyder.

Two small children helped the inner journey go even deeper, and eventually, her technical background and experience and training as a Yoga teacher took hold (in the background of the many science jobs, there was ALWAYS at least one Yoga class being fit into the schedule — if you are a scientist looking for a Yoga teacher (or a Yogi looking to know more about science), talk to Tammy.

I am an outreach empowerment coach because I like to encourage the other AYP teachers to continue holding their outreach classes; when you're reaching more people through yoga, you're creating good relationships with more communities in a country notorious for ethnic tensions.

Her intention is to hold space to allow students to connect more to themselves in order to be guided by their intuition and inner teacher in order to find what they need from their practice.

Denise Scarbro holds a BA in Psychology from North Central College and has been studying the work of various teachers; such as, Debbie Ford, Byron Katie, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and many more, since 2006.

The only one, out of the entire teachers, that I was unfamiliar with was Nasim Pedrad, she's done SNL, but she more than held her own and clearly has an eye for improv if the special features on the DVD are to be trusted.

What makes «Roger Dodger» hold its own is the razor - sharp script by Dylan Kidd (who also directs for the first time), and the decision to focus more on the fall of the rakish teacher than the rise of his student — even if in the end it turns back to Nick and the question of whether he is an alternative model of man, or just another Roger - in - waiting.

The English Teacher is a quirky, dark comedy, not too dissimilar to something that may have been conceived of by Alexander Payne (especially his Election), though not quite focused enough in the more serious moments to hold completely together until the end.

«But we hold weekend workshops for elementary school teachers to prepare them for field trips, to review the science and learn more about each exhibit.

Almost half of teachers asked confirmed that introverted students were more likely to hold themselves back from taking part, rather than engage with hands - on experimentation, due to lack of equipment.

This school's entire teaching staff held a proactive conversation to brainstorm actions teachers could take when this situation inevitably occurs (more on those below).

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

Teaching lower - achieving students — whether because teachers find it more difficult or less rewarding — is a strong factor in decisions to leave Texas public schools, and the magnitude of the effect holds across the full range of teachers» experience levels.

The survey results, highlighted in a new report, Women and the Education Pay Gap, also revealed that more than two in five (43 %) female teachers believe a glass ceiling is holding them back professionally.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

Powell said: «This is more evidence in a series of failures by the Tory Government to get a hold on the teacher shortage crisis.

They listen more attentively to science teachers who hold patents and to coaches who played college ball.

Also, if I sit in regularly at school meetings and begin to hear, «testing,» assessment,» «teachers,» «accountability,» and «standards» more than I hear «students, «learning,» «relevance,» and «engaging,» I know this distortion has taken hold.