Sentences with phrase «local teacher union leadership»

The announcement of the Intensive Partnership grants culminated a yearlong competitive application process that brought together school district, school board, and local teacher union leadership to develop comprehensive and innovative reform plans.

Not exact matches

«In the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

And he was sometimes at odds with the leadership of Miami's local teachers union, United Teachers teachers union, United Teachers Teachers of Dade.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

Worse yet, I was personally present with local and national union leadership when they acknowledged that reality and celebrated that much of the money donated by Mark Zuckerberg was going to go into the pockets of their teachers rather than towards a radical expansion of the charter sector — as had been the case, for example, in New Orleans.

The school leadership operates with broad local control, exemptions from District policies and some waivers from the teachers union contract, including the unique ability to replace staff at the end of each school year.

Every teacher should have a vote for the leadership of their Unions at the local, state, and national levels.

The local teachers union, UTLA, is holding its annual leadership conference next weekend, starting August 2 at the Westin Hotel near LAX.

Our members lead the charge for change by building a movement of forward - thinking educators through grassroots organizing; identifying, training and supporting teacher leaders to take on key leadership positions in their schools, districts, states and unions; creating teacher - led policy recommendations on issues selected by local educators; and advocating for implementation of those ideas through teacher - driven campaigns.

The ATL motion approved today calls on the union's leadership to lobby the government to restore and fund local authority supply lists — platforms run by councils that allow supply teachers to find vacancies without using a costly agency.

The local teachers union has some harsh words for the district's leadership institute.

Once one of the most powerful unions in the American Federation of Teachers, the PFT, Local 3 of the AFT, has been undermined for more than a decade by a combination of corporate «school reform» and the attempts by the union's leadership to compromise with the union busting and privatization policies of local Democrats and state RepubliLocal 3 of the AFT, has been undermined for more than a decade by a combination of corporate «school reform» and the attempts by the union's leadership to compromise with the union busting and privatization policies of local Democrats and state Republilocal Democrats and state Republicans.

Another 300 teachers joined the TLI in 2014.55 All participating teachers learn skills associated with three kinds of leadership: instructional leadership, or how teacher leaders can improve the systems that support teachers and students within schools and districts; policy leadership, or how teacher leaders can influence policymakers at local, state, and national levels; and association leadership, or how teacher leaders can advance the goals of their local and national unions.56 When they return to their districts, these teacher leaders work to address leadership challenges that they identified through their training.

MITUL provides leadership and organizational development services to teacher union locals by engaging in a multi-year consulting relationship with the locals and providing a cohort experience for a group of «critical friend» locals.

As veteran Glastonbury teachers with a range of recent classroom experience, local union leadership activism, and political experience in their local school districts,