Sentences with phrase «in access to good teachers»

There is nothing wrong with this per se, as segregation does lead to inequalities, and those inequalities (in access to good teachers, safe facilities, educational resources, etc.) tend to disadvantage poorer students and racial minorities...

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As a major interpreter of our country's founding, Wood reflects the influence of his teacher Bernard Bailyn, who in two important new volumes provides the best general access to the period in which the Founding Fathers — yes, they were all men — debated their Constitution of 1787 and sold themselves, each other and the public on its ratification.

It's also a good idea to check in with his teacher to see if he's having any trouble accessing the material in school, which would make it harder for him to complete it at home.

«The numbers are undeniable that charter schools haven't done well in serving those students, who have a great need for school access,» explained Lasher, who is also advocating to eliminate the state income tax for public school teachers.

With years of experience and expertise in conducting highly invigorating yoga teacher training programs on a holistic level, we acknowledge the needs of each of our student well and, so we accommodate each student in a safe, hygienic and homely environment where they also get access to all the modern amenities while experiencing the yogic lifestyle.

Her interest in offering home practice videos is to deepen awareness of the benefits of the Ashtanga system for those without access to a teacher, and to inspire daily practice for well - being and personal transformation.

In New York City, we have access to some of the best studios and teachers in the worlIn New York City, we have access to some of the best studios and teachers in the worlin the world.

I imagine every school superintendent, principal, and teacher would agree that it is in their best interest to provide their students with the best access to the most current, scholarly information available.

Programming, laptops, tables and other uses of educational technology have a long history - Seymour Papert was discussing why it was important in the 1970s, but we have only recently started talking about the best methodologies for using the technology, and the kinds of knowledge and skill that teachers need to be able to access if they are going to deploy it effectively.

Institutions capture much of the value that teachers create in the classroom; the cost of education restricts access to those who need it most; and present e-learning solutions are mediocre at best.

Students in high - poverty, high - minority, and low - performing schools have less access to well - qualified teachers.

In order to accommodate students with dyslexia, general education teachers must understand what the condition is and what alternate means work best for accessing information.

Addressing the design flaws we have identified in teacher evaluation systems will bring districts closer to achieving the primary goal of meaningful teacher evaluation: assuring greater equity in students» access to good teachers.

Khan and Hess are somewhat onto this, but seem to be thinking of it more as just enabling in - person teachers of any quality to engage in more interaction with the kids they have — rather than specifically to give dramatically more kids access to the best available in - person teachers.

But the students chosen to receive the new curriculum might differ in a way that influences their academic progress - they might, for instance, have had better reading teachers in the past, be more motivated, or have access to more educational resources at home.

As well as, frequently, school principals, school leaders in small communities have a range of extra responsibilities — which usually aren't found in larger centres and certainly not in metropolitan areas — to do with teacher housing, bus services, accessing specialist services to support students, and just coming to grips with the whole issue of distance.

The importance of access to professional learning is universally recognised but the challenge for teachers and school leaders is how best to engage in it.

In addition, ALL Engage teachers will have access to an online forum where teachers can ask questions, participate in discussions and share best practice in their own online community, moderated by experts at Creative Education the entire yeaIn addition, ALL Engage teachers will have access to an online forum where teachers can ask questions, participate in discussions and share best practice in their own online community, moderated by experts at Creative Education the entire yeain discussions and share best practice in their own online community, moderated by experts at Creative Education the entire yeain their own online community, moderated by experts at Creative Education the entire year!

A good example is in Professor Clotfelter's post, where he writes that «economic segregation almost inevitably means unequal access to the best teachers and other resources.»

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

I think the teaching profession in Australia would be better served if we could negotiate access to research through the state teaching bodies, much as teachers have such access in Scotland.

Maybe we could inspire teachers to teach in a different way if they had access to the best technology can offer them.

Teachers are now using some of the newer and more advanced features in Docs et al. to suggest edits on student work for drafting purposes, as well as leaving comments, and tracking and monitoring student progress through individual and group assignments all securely from anywhere with Internet access.

In an ideal world, teachers arrive at staff training sessions well rested, eager to learn, with easy access to the resources they'll need to implement what they learn.

This raises questions of how well PE teachers and school staff understand the ability of their disabled pupils, and how confident and prepared they are to support them in fully accessing the PE curriculum?

Having an adequate supply of skilled STEM teachers is critical to ensuring Australian students are well positioned to access the opportunities arising in a globalised and technologically interconnected world and to turn around the plateauing performance we are seeing in these subjects.

It also implies a teacher working in conditions that enable them to access their «best self».

The new tools are offering up real - time feedback on what children know, quick access to an array of tailored instructional materials, and important data for teachers to use to improve their own approaches — all in an effort to do a better job personalizing learning in ways that address students» individual strengths and weaknesses.

«Today's investments will help these districts and school networks — and in time, all districts — develop better systems to identify and reward great teachers, make sure the highest - need students have access to the most effective teachers every year, and give all teachers the support they need to improve.»

Rethinking Class Size to Expand Access to Best Teachers and Raise Pay In this presentation given at the 39th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Suzanne Simburg shared the findings of an Edunomics Lab study exploring cost neutral options to raise teacher pay and provide more...

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

The CAS Network of Excellence (NoE), free to teachers, provides access to good practice and support from other schools, to free help from world leading universities, and a wealth of support from the existing 26,500 CAS members who include university academics, IT professionals from global corporations and outstanding teachers in over 3,000 schools across the UK.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

In a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he diIn a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he diin Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he did.

The fact that organizations like Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks volumes.

In fact, ensuring that all students have access to well - prepared and supported teachers undergirds all other efforts to improve student outcomes.

«Assuring that every student has access to a well - prepared and effective teacher is the key element in the formula for successfully preparing the nation's youth for life.»

Through these collaborations, Rechner is ensuring teachers and administrators have access to the best - in - class digital content and professional development solutions they need to transform teaching and learning and meet their strategic goals.

Without access to these models, some of our preservice teachers would have doubted the actual existence of teachers out in the field who used the progressive teaching practices that they were learning in their certification coursework, and doubted their own ability to implement such teaching approaches in their own future classrooms as well.

Here's what I told them: As a teacher, I would love for someone to ask me to imagine what it would be like to work in a place that ensures that all teachers have the chance to improve their craft, and be rewarded for getting better; a place that lets all teachers make the best use of their talents by focusing their time and energy on parts of their job that they do best; a place that lets great teachers multiply their impact by giving more students access to their teaching for more pay; and a place that offers excellent teachers leadership roles that are not far removed from students.

A DfE spokesperson said the white paper reforms were the next step in ensuring every child had access to an «excellent education by putting control in the hands of the teachers and school leaders who know their pupils best.

«It's something that puts huge amount of pressure on schools and individual teachers who are there at the moment covering those lessons in sciences and it's a big problem for students in terms of access to that science specialism as well as access to individual support.»

The report was part of a U.S. Department of Education study that examined the reasons poor and minority students fail to get equal access to the best and most qualified teachers ---- the lack of which remains a persistent problem in the state.

In the latter part of the decade, VanFossen and Waterson (2008), as well as Friedman (2008), once again assuming easy access to Internet - based primary sources, reexamined how social studies teachers used them in their instruction in Indiana and North Carolina, respectivelIn the latter part of the decade, VanFossen and Waterson (2008), as well as Friedman (2008), once again assuming easy access to Internet - based primary sources, reexamined how social studies teachers used them in their instruction in Indiana and North Carolina, respectivelin their instruction in Indiana and North Carolina, respectivelin Indiana and North Carolina, respectively.

We can best do this in our public schools by focusing on creating positive learning environments that nurture the whole child and provide access to enriching and coherent curriculum — not on shallow tests designed to evaluate individual teachers and students.

Finally, and most importantly, the state must improve ELs» educational opportunities in school by expanding access to core content, bilingual instruction, and well - prepared teachers.

Teachers have access to a variety of instructional tools, materials, and resources to design lessons that best meet the needs of the readers in their classrooms.

Other possible solutions for improving access to courses have been offered by rural school advocates, like Robert Mahaffey, executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust, who proposes expanding courses in rural schools that invest more in their staff, as well as offering teachers more pathways towards credentials and certification

The degree to which the teachers of the school district are appropriately assigned, and fully credentialed in the subject areas, and, for the pupils they are teaching, every pupil in the school district has sufficient access to the standards - aligned instructional materials, and school facilities are maintained in good repair.

The SBHC at his school makes sure students and their families have access to health care, but it also provides valuable health education — beyond what many teachers are able to do in the classroom — so students and parents can make better decisions that positively impact physical health, behavior, and academic success.