Sentences with phrase «middle class teacher»

I am a middle class teacher, community leader, and mother who will fight every day for the issues impacting my constituents; not my political career.

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Ashley, a former middle school teacher, was introduced to Pure Barre by her friends who were always raving about how fun class was and how incredible the results were.

It is a language somewhat different from that of the middle - class; and middle - class teachers, therapists, and ministers may not be able to understand it.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

The problem with the former, Moynihan argued, was that it actually redistributed income upward, taxing the poor to pay the salaries of middle - class social workers, teachers and other professionals who ministered to them.

The contents in fact were edited by a fellow teacher, Frank Boyd, from class lecture notes used by Mr. Williams in a course of that title offered at Central Bible Institute (name changed to Central Bible College in the niid - ig6os) during the early and middle 1950s..

One of the students was right in the middle of giving the soliloquy that he had to memorize for class and the teacher just started breastfeeding her baby right in the middle of it.

Charlie Himmelstein was 19, lived in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, a nursery school teacher and college dropout, when he lost in the novice division of the New York Golden Gloves.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there, he served as a class and high school teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairperson.

In the case of the Middle School $ 375 of the total fee goes to the class teacher to fund Middle School ‐ specific activities.

In this workshop, grades 1 - 8 class and subject teachers will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curricula.

A teacher at Fox River Grove Middle School who was fired after officials complained that he had turned his art classes into lectures on veganism filed an appeal Wednesday with the Illinois State Board of Education.

The Zion teenager comes from a comfortable middle - class home; she says her parents, an engineer and a teacher, are caring and supportive; and her life has been absent any of the trauma or serious misfortune that sometimes shapes a reformer.

One Pennsylvania teacher may have had his / her mind wrapped so far around all things Fifty, that they thought giving a word search based on the movie was a great way to exercise the brain power of a class full of middle school students.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

I am a teacher in a very poor school district, but I am a mom living in a middle class suburb.

When the reich wing blowhard teacher - haters are all laid off from their jobs due to the contraction of the economy, the loss off the middle class consumer base and record small business failures, when their kids have to move in with them through their 20s and 30s because their only career paths go through low - wage positions at MacDonald's and Wal - Mart, and when all the good teachers find jobs in Europe, Asia and places like Dubai, maybe they'll be satisfied.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Labour has a new policy on free schools it wants to try out - for it, against building them just for middle classes and using untrained teachers.

These are children of school teachers, nurses, administrative grade civil service jobs and high level technicians — jobs which did not require a degree 20 to 30 years ago but which are now regarded as graduate or middle class jobs.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

He grew up in Park Slope as the son of middle class Jewish parents — his father a lawyer and mother a public school teacher.

More than 35,000 people, including many teachers and public service workers, rallied outside the statehouse in Trenton on May 22 to tell Republican Gov. Chris Christie that «he can not balance the state's budget on the backs of the middle class.»

The people of MINESOTA tried giving the republicans a break and Voted in THE GOP and now their collective bargaining rights for law enforcement and teacher and child education is in jeopardy - the Gop is for the rich and does nt care at all for the middle class but that is my opinion and I COULD BE WRONG but I doubt it»

On his website, he had cited four main objectives — returning power and choice in education to parents, teachers and local districts; pursuing governmental ethics reform beginning with the Governor's office; making sure communities are safe without abridging Second Amendment Rights; and to stimulate economic growth and bolster middle - class financial security.

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

The pupils the teachers concentrated on and earmarked for university were mostly white middle - class students, he says.

The staggering number of teachers with STEM class assignments outside their field of expertise certainly doesn't help: In middle schools, 51.5 percent of math teachers and 40 percent of science teachers lack a major or minor in the subject.

In the middle of the workshop's final week, I emailed the teacher to say I wasn't coming back, and outlined that I felt bullied and humiliated in class.

Name: Linda Retter Age: 60 Occupation: Retired GCPS Middle School Teacher - 32 yrs Hometown: Dayton, Ohio Which class time do you usually attend?

When I was a middle school teacher, I used to have my class write down a daily goal: «What are you going to accomplish today?»

Blanchett is at her best with the characters who are erudite, middle or upper class: a CEO, a TV news reader, a primary - school teacher.

Summary: Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, MONSIEUR LAZHAR tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well - liked teacher.

The swaggering alpha male of the group is Phil (Bradley Cooper of He's Just Not That into You), a married, too - cool - for - school English teacher who is bored with his middle - class family life and, naturally, is the movie's leading candidate for redemption.

Amour's story focuses on married octogenarians Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant) and Anna (Emmanuelle Riva), retired music teachers who are enjoying a comfortable middle - class existence.

After losing his father in an auto accident, 17 - year - old Kale (LaBeouf, Bobby) is having a difficult time adjusting to real life again, with the pressures of coping culminating in assaulting his teacher in the middle of Spanish class.

Even more important is the dazzling role of the title figure, Val (Regina Casé), a live - in domestic blessed with terrific dialogue by writer - director Anna Muylaert, whose previous contributions include «Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,» about a cigarette - addicted lower - middle - class guitar teacher is on the outs with her two sisters.

These qualities are to the forefront in his bracing new film, Amour, in which a middle - class French couple in their 80s, Georges and Anne Laurent, both music teachers, live out the final months of a long marriage.

Samantha is, to some extent, the best possible version of the decent, liberal but unavoidably white, middle - class woman, and a patient, inspirational teacher too — but it is Jasmine who, by being so completely herself, makes the film's most important point: No matter how good your intentions, «rescue» is not ever really yours to give.

It's no surprise that the key players in this two - hander are named, as they always seem to be in Haneke's pictures, Anne and Georges Laurent — sturdy middle - class monikers for tasteful piano teachers.

Cameron Diaz (The Green Hornet, Knight and Day) is the «bad teacher», Elizabeth Halsey, who binge drinks, smokes pot (at school), tosses out profanity liberally, and could not care less about the well - being of the 7th - graders she is in charge of at the middle school she conducts class at in suburban Illinois.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

After taking an EEE class on culturally reflective instruction, Randy Grove, a white middle school technology teacher, was motivated to substitute more culturally relevant images in a lesson he'd taught for years on forms of shelter.

Easy lessons that students can do with a substitute teacher that are still engaging and on - topic for Career and Technology (CTE) classes or other technology based middle school classes.

It argued, «Renewed resistance to accountability is now a middle - class project to «reclaim» schools for a select slice of the American population who no longer want teachers and schools to be on the hook for results or equity.»

Except that there are no students, no classes, and no teachers at the school in the middle of Puerto Rico's mountains where she is the director.

Without grouping, teachers are doomed to homogenised classes where, according to research, they are more likely to teach to the middle.

Mason: Students, especially those in middle and high school, might resist teachers» attempts to «teach» texts steeped in popular culture, especially across the boundaries of race, class, language background, and privilege.