Sentences with phrase «individual schools and teachers»

The Christina School District in Delaware, comprised of both urban and suburban schools with a diverse group of learners, was interested in how technology could be used to improve their math instruction while still giving individual schools and teachers as much autonomy as possible.

The actual power to decide what to teach rests with state and local governments — and often, in a very real sense, with individual schools and teachers.

She is passionate about supporting classroom teachers and schools with curriculum planning, assessment development, and implementation of professional learning targeted to the needs of individual schools and teachers.

In total, 120 single and consolidated submissions were received from the Federal, State and Territory governments and regulatory authorities, education unions, professional peak bodies and individual schools and teachers.

Because the CTTL is committed to personalizing and supporting individual schools and teachers, it limits the number of collaborations during each school year.

They object to using the data gleaned from it for high - stakes purposes, such as rewarding or punishing individual schools and teachers.

The imprecision of statistical models that estimate year - to - year changes in student test scores to evaluate the quality of individual schools and teachers is sufficiently large that accountability systems frequently sanction success and reward failure.

Far too much of it is done somewhat inefficiently by letting individual schools and teachers do it, so that it takes a long time for people to develop the curriculum units that they want to have in place in order to achieve the standards.

And individual schools and teachers are figuring out ways to rethink their curricula using the UDL lens.

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Instead, he must find the individuals who can influence its purchase, such as teachers, school district administrators and parents.

School boards, superintendents, principals, and teachers ought also to be related to one another in a scheme of authority and subordination with carefully articulated limitation and separation of powers, checks and balances, means of representation, individual and minority rights, and maximum delegation of responsibility.

It tends to yield an individualistic picture of theological schooling; it suggests that to understand God is a phenomenon experienced «in the privacy» of students» and teachers» individual minds.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Linden Waldorf School is seeking a qualified and motivated individual to serve as class teacher for our upcoming first grade class.

This takes place through school visits of one to several weeks annually in North America Waldorf schools, working with teachers, classes, staff, and individual students, as well as offering lectures / workshops for parents and the wider community.

But in the end, it will be down to individual schools and their head teachers.

What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

We are grateful for the many individuals and organizations who support our children, our teachers and our schools.

My suggestion — as a parent of public school children and as a former public and private school teacher — is that we individuals who are «outside» school culture (i.e. not administrators or teachers) become invested in whatever ways we can.

About 3,000 teachers and school - based staff have already been laid off this summer because of school closings and cuts to individual school budgets.

So teachers at Mango Elementary School in Fontana, Calif., are replacing homework with «goal work» that is specific to individual student's needs and that can be completed in class or at home at his or her own pace.

«Teachers can make a huge difference in individual classrooms and schools, and how we prepare teachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent inTeachers can make a huge difference in individual classrooms and schools, and how we prepare teachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent inteachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent interview.

In this presentation Michael will cover effective strategies that schools and individual teachers can use to support parents with their parenting dilemmas.

Consider people who know your twins as individuals and people who observe them both separately and together: day care providers, pediatrician or medical caregivers, current or previous teachers, school administrators, friends and family members.

We also need the collective will of the individual parents and teachers who are «on the ground» at schools each day to «unjunk» our classrooms.

Before our task force was created, each parent of a child with food allergies had to train the teacher and school administrators about food allergies and what accommodations would be necessary to keep their individual child safe.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

From these statements three principles emerge about self - administration: Schools must be free of state control as part of a free cultural life, teachers must be centrally involved in the running of the school and in decision making, and the school should be organized along republican principles in which teachers are equal but delegate specific responsibilities to individuals and committees.

The group should include one or more individuals from the following list: • The headteacher or a member of the senior management team • Parents • Governors • The school catering manager and / or area supervisor • Midday supervisors • Class teachers • Pupils (4 - 6 has been shown to be a good number).

«While public policy and legal approaches are important, what's especially exciting to me is that individual schools, principals, teachers and community members are in many cases taking this problem into their own hands and saying, «What we can do to solve it?»»

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said: «Delegates representing every part of the teachers union got a chance to have their voice heard on this issue and their message is clear — individual merit pay hasn't worked and doesn't work for schools and kids.»

«It could be something that New York's teachers and school districts could really get their arms around and I think New York's parents would love because it differentiates instruction to the needs of individual kids.»

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial sSchools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial sschools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schoolsschools.

«Michael Gove has suggested that he wishes teachers to be «free from stifling bureaucracy» and yet at the same time plans to put in place a curriculum that will force all schools to teach the same subjects regardless of the needs individual learners, employers and their local communities.

The community partners honored at the event — three individuals and one program — have had a major impact on the lives of students and teachers in the city school district.

The Legislators also supports an explicit law that ensures school districts, individual schools, teachers and students are protected from any withholding of state funds, sanctions or negative impact on a teacher's evaluation associated with the outcomes related to test opt outs.

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

In his State of the State address on Jan. 21, Governor Andrew Cuomo tied $ 1.1 billion in additional state education aid to the passage of his «reform» proposals in the state budget: individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.

There's the same emotional attachment to individual teachers and local schools, even the ones that don't work very well, so the governor's attacks make people feel protective.»

Under Cuomo's plan, the public would still be able to review school and grade - level data, but all information linking scores to individual teachers and principals would be scrubbed out.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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