Sentences with phrase «local high school teacher»

A local high school teacher is turning to politics, hoping to replace longtime state senator John DeFrancisco in Albany.

High school girls from around the country take part in a unique engineering workshop taught by Union College faculty with the assistance of local high school teachers.

Worked with local high school teachers to create a curriculum suitable for all types of learners

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January 25, 2018 — MILFORD, MA — Today, Consigli Construction Co., Inc. hosted more than 40 teachers, guidance counselors and administrators from 11 local high schools at its Milford headquarters for a professional development workshop in partnership with the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).

Local high school students or college students, especially those who are studying to become teachers, are perfect candidates.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

(pictured <) «From the beginning, we have been clear and consistent in our position: forced co-locations that result in overcrowding, special students» losing space, and elementary students being mixed with high school students, are unacceptable; as are co-locations that ignore the will of local parents and teachers.»

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

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The Heliophysics Educator Ambassador (HEA) program is a collaborative, multi-mission effort that provides professional development and resources to middle and high school science teachers who then train other teachers at local, regional and / or national workshops, conference and meetings.

I'm studying psychology and currently work as a substitute teacher at a local high school.

But when his girlfriend (Diane Venora), a teacher at the local high school, is assaulted after a gang leader threatens her, Berenger decides to take matters into his own hands.

«I never went to drama school, but from high school, or really the age of nine, I did this drama class with a local teacher and it was almost completely improvised,» recalls Lynskey.

Sam Manners (Jeff Daniels) is the local school board president, and he's falling in love with a new teacher at the high school (Elizabeth Perkins).

Set in the mid-seventies, the plot follows the Lisbon family, with James Woods, a physics teacher at the local high school, as the scatter brained father, and Kathleen Turner as the uncommonly strict mother.

There Was Once... (Unrated) Tolerance - themed documentary about a Hungarian high school teacher who recently decided to create a memorial for members of the local Jewish community totally wiped out during the Holocaust.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

According to a 2003 report in a Maryland newspaper, a local high school English teacher, as part of a lesson on Henry David Thoreau, urged his students to perform a «nonconformist act.»

Kemi Jona, an associate professor at Northwestern University and a member of the VOISE Academy High School design team, explains that online curriculum provides «a ticket to entry for students, getting them ready for the really exciting stuff: the projects, the collaborations, and the local connections that a teacher can bring.»

The superintendent's 10 - point plan includes full - day kindergarten, high academic standards, more professional development for teachers, and local school - governance councils.

An exhibit like Climate Change can satisfy a high school standard, she says, while an elementary school teacher can meet those standards by focusing on the intricacies of the local ecosystem.

(In my own hometown of Seattle, students, staff and parents at a local high school staged a walkout in 2014 to protest the district's move to eliminate a critical Latin teacher.)

A local group of musicians from our high school were supposed to perform, but had to back out at the last minute, so we went to Plan B and had our teachers form groups and perform for our students — which they loved!

According to Carla Smith, her high school has produced three elementary school teachers and one para-educator in the last decade, all of whom work in Renton schools, which represents a meaningful contribution to the local district.

90, studies K - 12 and higher education issues including urban education, accountability, charter schooling and school vouchers, teacher licensure, local governance, and school finance.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

Districts could address within - district inequities in lots of ways — they could offer higher salaries to teachers in poorer schools, they could have lower class sizes in poorer schools, or they could expand other services within poorer schools — but local teachers» union contracts often prohibit all of these policy options.

In today's low - return environment, the pension promises being made to state and local employees in general, and public school teachers in particular, have become very expensive and difficult to maintain largely because the largesse of the pension plans assumes long run returns on the order of 7.5 percent (or higher).

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

Teachers already offered a higher evaluation in 2008, but even from that high level there has been an upward shift of 8 percentage points to 69 % of teachers giving local schools either an ATeachers already offered a higher evaluation in 2008, but even from that high level there has been an upward shift of 8 percentage points to 69 % of teachers giving local schools either an Ateachers giving local schools either an A or a B.

Funders get excited about things like small high schools, education technology, or a local teacher - pay initiative and they dive in.

Right now, teacher observations are done by the local principal, who may have different expectations in high and low - income schools.

Tom Farber, an Advanced Placement calculus teacher at San Diego's Rancho Bernardo High School, made headlines when he asked parents and local businesses to sponsor his exams.

For instance, the manager of the local general store had problems handling his Web site, so he and a teacher at the high school got together and decided it would be a good idea for the kids to help with the store's Web marketing, and they moved into the basement of the store.

2) Local school administrators and teachers with the flexibility to determine how their schools can best meet high standards.

In Littleton, Colorado, infamous for its student assassins, a teacher has been taking high school students to a remote part of Kenya where they work side by side with local people, a project that gets no media coverage.

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A continuing dispute between the local teachers» union and school administrators has some education officials in Detroit worried that several alternative schools that opened in August to lure high school dropouts back to the classroom will be forced to close.

The school district in Anne Arundel County, Md., this spring entered into what appears to be a unique contract with the local teachers» union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three school district in Anne Arundel County, Md., this spring entered into what appears to be a unique contract with the local teachers» union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for threteachers» union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for threTeachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three school for three years.

While some teachers or districts may prefer lower expenditures on retirement benefits in exchange for higher base salaries, neither teachers nor local school districts are given that choice.

«We work with local high school and college instructors to find equipment for particularly advanced projects,» says science teacher Susan Duncan.

St. Malachys High School hosted the Northern Ireland launch and its lead teachers will work with other Digital Schoolhouse secondary schools, Ballyclare and De La Salle, to support local feeder primary schools and bring the creative computing programme initiative to Northern Ireland.

Although informing people of the ranking of the local school district changes their views of teachers unions, the shift in opinion depends on whether the local district has a high or low ranking relative to other districts.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

Scientists have been hard to find for Hood River teachers, but by reaching out to the high school science department, they were connected to a local geologist.