Sentences with phrase «more elevated teaching profession»

Through Educators for Excellence, educators are working across the state to provide a more elevated teaching profession and improved student outcomes.

Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) is the corporate funded education reform advocacy group that purports to be «working across the state to provide a more elevated teaching profession and improved student outcomes.»

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Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's plan includes «elevating» the teaching profession, rebuilding schools, breaking the school - to - prison pipeline, the expansion of affordable preschool and child care, and making college more affordable by offering free tuition at community colleges and four - year public universities.

Google has also followed suit with their Google Teacher Academy and many many more tech companies have also helped elevate and recognize the teaching profession through credentialed programs like Apple's.

Smith, who has taught for more than a decade in both D.C.'s public charter and traditional district schools, immediately saw the benefit for students, but says she was most captivated by the opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole.

Five years into her teaching career, she has supported her more junior colleagues as they enter the profession, an experience that in turn made her a more reflective practitioner and inspired her to pursue her Board certification — an achievement that has further elevated her leadership.

Today E4E has six chapters (Boston, Connecticut, New York, Chicago, Minnesota and Los Angeles) and more than 25,000 members, who are united around a common set of values and principles for improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession.

And yes — even when budgets are tight — how can we make teaching a more attractive career and elevate the profession?

If new evaluation systems succeed in identifying good teachers, we might also expect them to elevate the profession, encouraging more capable individuals to pursue teaching or existing teachers to stick with it.

Innovating in this area would undoubtedly elevate the status of the profession and encourage more students to consider whether teaching could be a strong fit for them.

Recently convened national campaigns like TeachStrong, a coalition of 60 education organizations and teacher Ambassadors dedicated to elevating the teaching profession, are a sign that now is the time to demand more support for teachers.

«Now, more than ever, if we want to fight global warming, racism, illiteracy, poverty, sexism and homophobia, we need to elevate the teaching profession to the financially viable and prestigious one it deserves to be.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

By taking these steps, teacher preparation programs can elevate the teaching profession, making teaching a more attractive career choice.

Although elevating the teaching profession will require a comprehensive approach, education organizations and teacher preparation programs agree: We need to recruit, train, and support a more diverse, high - achieving teacher workforce.

And really helping us to understand more deeply an incredibly important issue to all of us in the room and certainly to the Department of Education, which is how do we elevate and enhance the teaching profession in order to improve student outcomes?

E4E teachers take action in three different ways — we advocate for more teacher leadership and collaboration at our schools, push for district and state policies that include our ideas and get involved within our union and district to ensure that decisions elevate student achievement and the teaching profession.»