Sentences with phrase «includes public school classrooms»

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, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

Polk County Public Schools have lot of great programming, including breakfast - in - the - classroom (Polk County received Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in SY 2012 - 13) and a «What's That Wednesday» program where students learn about new foods; additionally, Polk has implemented CEP at 109 sites which has had a positive impact on participation.

New spending items include $ 36 million for a plan to expand pre-K to 3 - year - olds as well as funding to install air - conditioning units in thousands of public - school classrooms.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

The plan includes $ 36 million — increasing to $ 177 million by 2021 — for a full - day «3 - K for All» program for every city 3 - year - old, and $ 28.75 million over five years to install air conditioning in every public school classroom.

Projects funded this year include numerous classroom upgrades, the creation of new media centers, library renovations, technology upgrades, playgrounds, auditorium renovations and other physical plant improvements in public schools across The Bronx.

Valid concerns are being raised about the safety of some portables, including in Minnesota's Lake Forest Public Schools, where 16 portable classrooms were closed in September because of poor and potentially unsafe construction.

In some cases, the incentives include more - extensive career ladders for classroom teachers than the public schools offer.

Following graduation, he went back to the classroom to help run several afterschool programs, including one at the Fletcher Maynard Academy, a public school in Cambridge where he now serves as the extended day director.

In total, Gaines Pell has five years in the classroom, which includes a stint in Syracuse, N.Y.. Before starting her own school, she also worked for an organization called Pencil, which focuses on developing relationships between business leaders and public school principals.

A detour to the included DVD is instructive: in this Harlem - based, lottery - selected public charter school, we see a 1st - grade classroom that challenges any in the country for the intellectual engagement of its students without any reliance on the regimented, direct instruction that the clichéd objections imagine dominate all successful charter schools.

Denver Public Schools, the largest school district within Colorado, with 210 schools catering to students from early childhood to transition years which include ages 18 to 21, received $ 1M in funding to support the purchase of assistive technologies within the claSchools, the largest school district within Colorado, with 210 schools catering to students from early childhood to transition years which include ages 18 to 21, received $ 1M in funding to support the purchase of assistive technologies within the claschools catering to students from early childhood to transition years which include ages 18 to 21, received $ 1M in funding to support the purchase of assistive technologies within the classroom.

Examples of the schools students can «choose» include: a Milwaukee school that accepted $ 2.3 million of taxpayer funded vouchers but abruptly closed in the middle of the school year; a school in Florida where classes were held in public parks once the school was declared unfit by the fire marshall; or hundreds of schools that teach creationism in science classrooms.

Friendship Public Charter Schools — the city's largest charter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool clasSchools — the city's largest charter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool classchools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool classrooms.

These innovations include virtual courses for students (e.g., Virtual High School and Florida Virtual School); ubiquitous technology programs in which every student and teacher receives a laptop and every school has wireless access (e.g., in every public grade 7 and 8 classroom in Maine); technology used to support inquiry - based learning (e.g., the Missouri - based eMINTS program), and online courses and workshops for preservice and in - service teachers (e.g., the EDC EdTech Leaders Online proSchool and Florida Virtual School); ubiquitous technology programs in which every student and teacher receives a laptop and every school has wireless access (e.g., in every public grade 7 and 8 classroom in Maine); technology used to support inquiry - based learning (e.g., the Missouri - based eMINTS program), and online courses and workshops for preservice and in - service teachers (e.g., the EDC EdTech Leaders Online proSchool); ubiquitous technology programs in which every student and teacher receives a laptop and every school has wireless access (e.g., in every public grade 7 and 8 classroom in Maine); technology used to support inquiry - based learning (e.g., the Missouri - based eMINTS program), and online courses and workshops for preservice and in - service teachers (e.g., the EDC EdTech Leaders Online proschool has wireless access (e.g., in every public grade 7 and 8 classroom in Maine); technology used to support inquiry - based learning (e.g., the Missouri - based eMINTS program), and online courses and workshops for preservice and in - service teachers (e.g., the EDC EdTech Leaders Online program).

VERONICA McDERMOTT began her career in the public schools of Long Island, New York, in 1970 and has worked in numerous educational roles ever since, including superintendent of schools, principal, district director, dean, and classroom teacher.

A 2012 state law prompted the overhaul of the state's existing quality rating system and required a uniform rating system for all early childhood programs that receive any public funding, including private providers, federally funded Head Start centers and pre-K classrooms in public and private schools.

Public schools issues related to the role of religion in the classroom, including First Amendment, Establishment, Free Exercise, and Free Speech clause issues.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.

Previous experiences include: Director of Assessment, Research and Accountability for Fayetteville Public Schools, researcher at the National Office for Research on Measurement and Evaluation Systems, preschool teacher, and early elementary classroom teacher.

The proposed legislation included provisions to reverse Mr. de Blasio's decisions on school space, and it required the city to provide public classrooms to new and expanding charter schools or contribute to the cost of renting private buildings.

Tracy's rich experiences throughout the early years of her career were hands - on at many levels, including teaching and learning for the hearing impaired, 6th grade classroom, and serving as a speech pathologist for Battle Creek Public Schools from 1984 to 1994.

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

It is important to note that this research only addresses full - time online charter schools and does not assess the performance of other charter public school models, including blended - learning programs (many of which are classroom - based).

After all, neither Brill nor Guggenheim (or even other reformers, including those in the Parent Power movement) hold ed school degrees, are ensconced in think tanks, or have spent a day in a classroom — even though it doesn't take the possession of either credential to know that American public education is in crisis.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

It includes the use of brain imaging, in addition to work in public school classrooms in Houston and Austin.

As charter schools have proliferated New Orleans and the country, many schools, including Success Prep, have largely relied on young, inexperienced teachers who tend to leave the classroom sooner than their peers at traditional public schools — an approach to hiring sometimes described as «churn and burn.»

It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their district school counterparts.

Many intelligent people at the time, including Teachers, said that: «Integration will RUIN the Public School System, because every classroom will have to go down to «THEIR» level (meaning the Negro students)».

We represent 50,000 members statewide, including public school teachers and others directly involved in classroom teaching or teaching support, including librarians, counselors and teacher aides.

His career also included classroom teaching in public schools, leadership positions in state agencies, and research and administrative positions in the national career and technical education center at The Ohio State University.

In addition to presenting her work at scholarly and professional conferences, Herrmann Abell also leads workshops on the item development process for researchers and classroom teachers, including, for example, those in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, the American Chemical Society, the University of Michigan, and the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology.

Schools were ranked by a series of standards, including admissions selectivity, classroom management instruction, and student teaching programs as measured by public documents such as class syllabi and required texts.

Ellen's classroom experience includes three years as a public elementary school ESL teacher in Raleigh, North Carolina, and one year as private English as a foreign language tutor in Bilbao, Spain.

«Because of the failed leadership in Tallahassee, Hillsborough County schools are having to cut teachers, including bilingual classroom aides, and can't even afford to repair air conditioning in certain schools — while brand new for - profit schools are being funded and built with tax dollars that should be going to our public schools,» Cruz said.

Her 35 years of experience as an educator began with 11 years of classroom teaching experience and include time serving as a middle school assistant principal, middle and high school principal, and assistant / area superintendent in Gwinnett County Public Schools.

CAROL ANN TOMLINSON career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher of a differentiated classroom.

By including a snapshot of each school's finances, USC's report also provides a useful temperature check on the fiscal health of the movement, and demonstrates quite dramatically how charters are uniquely poised to weather the economic storm gripping the nation and public education in California, and how charters are prioritizing and protecting the classroom from the worst cuts.»

Caperton oversees a number of The Print Center's public programs, including its Artists - in - Schools Program, which places teaching artists in classrooms in Philadelphia public high sSchools Program, which places teaching artists in classrooms in Philadelphia public high schoolsschools.

Other public property that historically has not been open to such activities, but which the government has allowed access to for such activities on a permanent or limited basis, include schools that open classrooms for after - school use by civic, social, or rec groups.

Our course includes thirty hours of classroom instruction at all the Carroll County Public High Schools and six hours of Behind - the - Wheel instruction on a range of roads.

You can choose to have classroom space, or you may conduct classroom driver education at off - site locations, including local public or private schools, or churches.

If your classroom is in a public or private school, you must include a letter from the school administration.

You can choose to have classroom space, or you may conduct classroom driver education at off - site locations, including local public or private schools.

Tim highlights the importance of computers and technology in the classroom, including Apple's recent partnership with Chicago Public Schools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Atlanta Public Schools, Atlanta • GA Year — Year Paraprofessional / Teacher & ASP Director Provided strong program insight and direction for exceptional children experiencing emotional behavior disorders and managed all facets of classroom operations that included curriculum development and structure.