Sentences with phrase «known as the new teacher»

In 2009, an education reform group known as The New Teacher Project (TNTP) issued an influential report finding widespread «institutional indifference to variations in teacher performance.»

The Mind Trust will use the remaining $ 1 million to support TNTP - formerly known as The New Teacher Project - a national group which recruits and trains mid-career professionals to teach in schools.

Not exact matches

The New Testament records indicate the presence in the early communities of a particular functionary known as the teacher (didaskalos).

I never knew there was actually a movement back in the day that tried to press the claim that Jesus was white... as a teacher of history I really enjoy learning new things like this.

A struggling New York artist living with his black mistress, Peter lacks the sense of vocation, the sense of place, that his father came to know as a small - town teacher.

Upon completion of his Waldorf Teacher Education in Eugene, he accepted a teaching position with a therapeutic educational program in association with Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School and Farm known as the E.A.R.T.H. (Education and Renewal Through Hands) program in Upstate New York.

Working as a classroom teacher (and as a parent of three of my own), I know that some children are better able to adapt to and cope with new or different situations while others need to be supported and taught more intentionally how to manage their feelings.

The New York State United Teachers and Kerry Kennedy are scheduled to introduce a new lesson on bullying Monday that will be added to the existing human rights cirriculum for New York's public schools known as Speak Truth to PowNew York State United Teachers and Kerry Kennedy are scheduled to introduce a new lesson on bullying Monday that will be added to the existing human rights cirriculum for New York's public schools known as Speak Truth to Pownew lesson on bullying Monday that will be added to the existing human rights cirriculum for New York's public schools known as Speak Truth to PowNew York's public schools known as Speak Truth to Power.

The Senate passed a one house bill that would end what's known as LIFO, the last in first out policy for unionized teachers in New York City, something Mayor Mike Bloomberg has requested as a tool to better manage expected teacher lay offs.

Prospective teachers in New York will no longer have to score as high on a qualifying test to obtain teaching certificates now that the Board of Regents has agreed to lower the passing score

Known for a time in Brooklyn as «the Mwalimu» («great teacher» in Swahili), Vann was the moving force behind a landmark 1982 Federal case that led to the expansion of minority representation in New York at the state and federal levels.

As you know, we're into our second full year of the New Education Bargain, with an emphasis on community schools, parental engagement, teacher support - and her responses to the questions that the Board asked indicated that she would be someone that would be very supportive of all of the tenets of the New Education Bargain.»

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

A New York appeals court ruled last year that a less comprehensive form of teacher evaluations used by New York City's Department of Education — known as Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Informatiteacher evaluations used by New York City's Department of Education — known as Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of InformatiTeacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Information Law.

He also championed the state's lessons plans designed to support the new curriculum, known as «modules,» as well as new, state - mandated teacher evaluations and a contract with inBloom, Inc. that will store student data and personal information.

Earlier this year, the state did mandate that New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), or risk losing additional state aid.

The teacher and principal evaluations aren't being carried over under the new law, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

His group collected 4,800 signatures from parents and teachers at charter schools, asking for more money in the new state budget to build more schools, known as facilities aid.

Prospective teachers in New York will no longer have to score as high on a qualifying test in order to obtain teaching certificates, now that the Board of Regents has agreed to lower the passing score on a test required for a teaching certificate.

Over the past five years, the United Federation of Teachers, New York State United Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers have spent a total of $ 5.5 million on groups collaborating with a coalition known as the Hedge Clippers, according to records.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

Newly - released numbers from Siena Research Institute suggest a wide majority of New York State residents support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation known as the SAFE Act and oppose the idea of arming teachers.

Maybe as we train new biology teachers — make sure that we give them what they really need to know — new teachers can arm themselves with the evidence that's out there.

As a mindfulness and meditation teacher, I knew I needed to somehow find time to meditate every day when I became a new mama.

If becoming a yoga teacher is something you're toying with as a possibility for your future, please know that all you're committing yourself to is becoming a new type of student.

We continue to be teachers as well as learners and know that learning a new foreign language as an adult is not difficult as such, but requires commitment and frequent practice.

A New Zealander of Maori descent, this superb actor has had a thriving international career — you may know him as the English teacher Travis Manawa on the TV series «Fear the Walking Dead» — but never, until now, a starring role that's fully worthy of his gifts.

Unexpected --(read review here) Cobie Smulders may be known for her turn as Robin in How I Met Your Mother, but she definitely proves here that she can play in a new sandbox in her turn as a teacher whose life is changed when she discovers she's pregnant and subsequently finds out that one of her best students is as well (Gail Bean).

Critics of test - based accountability programs have long argued that within a few years of introducing new tests, teachers learn to limit their instruction to what is likely to be assessed — otherwise known as teaching to the test.

As a new teacher, I remember being nervous for Parent Open House because I did not know what to say to parents.

Weingarten is no less committed to the primacy of her union, a commitment she credits to her mother, who as an AFT member and a teacher in Nyack, New York, participated in a seven - week strike even at the cost of «material sacrifice for our family.»

Now, education researchers at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo have come up with a new and effective way to do just that, in the process reenergizing teacher assessment through a classic film technique known as point of view.

One of the benefits of this is that rather than simply having the other teachers know me as the «new guy,» or the «weird guy,» they will know my name and consider me a colleague.

EW: In what ways can teachers promote peace and cooperation among students, especially as they get to know one another in a new class?

But we've also had to consider what newcomers might want from an English language class, which could be as something as simple as talking to them about things they know and care about, say educators like Darren Chase, an ELL teacher with New Design High School in New York City.

«Graduate teachers deserve to know that they have the skills to succeed in the classroom just as students, parents and principals deserve to know that new teachers have been given the best possible skills.»

All we need to do, as teachers and school leaders, is to perfect what we already know — and then we never have to learn to do anything new or differently.

(According to district budget figures, New York City, for example, spends as much on teachers who no longer teach as on those who still do.)

The study was not clear as to whether «content and skills» related to teachers learning how to use and implement new technologies, or whether teachers felt they need to know more to keep up with the massive amounts of content that students can now access online.

The new department will be known in the future as the Teacher Regulation Agency, and will be led by existing teams at the NCTL.

But instead, I would like to challenge teachers to use what we know from improv and accept this as an offer to see what happens when we implement a new reading program.

The 1 - million - member group, formerly known as the National Retired Teachers Association and now dubbed NRTA: AARP's Educator Community, expects to convene a panel of business and education leaders early in the new year to guide the initiative.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

As a mom and a kindergarten teacher at Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville, New York, Ifft - McGirr knows young children.

This «move up» enables students to meet with their new teachers, get to know the new facilities they will be attending, and ask questions, said DeGenova, who is assistant principal at Slippery Rock (Pennsylvania) Area High School and as well as a part - time elementary principal at the district's Har - Mer Elementary School.

Bennet starts a new year with few bumps, as Royal 7 teachers spend time getting to know their students.

Shanker is perhaps best known for his work as a union organizer in New York City, where he founded the United Federation of Teachers in 1960 and led the 1968 Ocean Hill - Brownsville strikes.

So I leave you with this quote which seems particularly salient for teachers — from an address Lincoln gave for the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in 1859: «I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable — nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.»