Sentences with phrase «move head teachers»

«What we did see was governors going into the school and deciding they would move head teachers out of the school... to promote their own ideas,» he said.

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Most programs have a head coach who may have played in the field before moving into coaching or have teachers of the game with a mind for offensive prowess.

For the teacher who brings his lunch to school Move your teacher to the head of the class... err, the teachers» lounge with a personalized thermal that will keep his lunch cool and contained.

(For example, the head teacher suggested the next time the boy was obnoxious, my daughter's seat would be moved; on my suggestion we agreed that the BOY's seat would be moved.

Mr Azeriya Ayeriga, Public Relations Officer for the Tema Metropolitan Education Directorate, said head teachers of the two schools had asked leadership of the Invisible Forces to move their activities from the immediate compound of the school to the park some few metres away.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

United Federation of Teachers» head Michael Mulgrew has taken the mayor's push as an attack on seniority and a move designed to cut costs by getting rid of more highly paid tTeachers» head Michael Mulgrew has taken the mayor's push as an attack on seniority and a move designed to cut costs by getting rid of more highly paid teachersteachers.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

There is a strong resistance to moving swiftly to formal capability processes as many head teachers would prefer that a poor performer leaves after finding another job — they believe that the inclusion of a formal capability process in a reference would sink any chance of the less than competent teacher leaving quietly.

The head's union maintains it «strongly opposes» the government's proposed limit as the move would «hamper recruitment» and worsen the present teacher shortage which is «one of the most significant issues affecting schools and their communities».

New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins and the head of the United Federation of Teachers moved last week to deny reports surfacing in the city's daily newspapers that the Mayor had asked the union to renegotiate a contract the school board had ratified only the week before.

With the move to push responsibility for school budgets down to head teachers and away from local authorities, there is an opportunity to introduce lots more schools across the state sector to the Firefly platform.

Morgan has written a letter to members of the Teacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualificaTeacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualificateacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualifications).

A cooler - headed Esquith later explained the book's theme on National Public Radio: «If I could care so much I didn't even know my hair was on fire, I was moving in the right direction as a teacher — when I realized that you have to ignore all the crap, and the children are the only thing that matter.»

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have joined together to question the academy plans and welcome the Labor Party's move to secure a debate in the House of Commons.

The row involves West Dunbartonshire council's move to cut the number of principal teachers of individual subjects in the area's five secondary schools and replace them with «faculty heads» whose roles cover a range of subjects.

Chris Smith, head of Target Tracker at EES for Schools said: «The lives of both teachers and parents are becoming increasingly busy and they are on the move more often than not.

Forward - thinking head teachers know that the way to get children moving more is to embed physical activity into every aspect of school life.

Moves have required some schools to change names, bring in new head teachers, new uniforms or a change in curriculum.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

Many states are moving to delay or alter test - based accountability for schools and teachers, as tests associated with the Common Core State Standards head for their debut nationwide in the coming school year.

Prof Donaldson said he had spoken to a lot of head teachers who were impatient to get moving with it and others who were worried about having enough time to come to terms with it.

With the goal of moving from a good to outstanding Ofsted rating, Head teacher Kate Jennings at Mission Grove Primary School chose to partner with Discovery Education to support her teachers in becoming excellent at using technology to support student engagement.

We should be moving towards a model such as in Finland where teacher education is taken seriously and not considered something which individual heads can confer after a short period of on - the - job practice.

But head teachers» leader Mr Lightman said: «Moving to no notice for routine inspections is unnecessary and would be counter-productive.

The move on school funding follows a campaign by head teachers over cash shortages - with the National Audit Office saying that schools faced a # 3bn funding gap.

Media outlets like the Tribune are still using this sort of empty cheerleading to prop up Fed Ed Head Duncan's demand, funded by millions in Race to the Top money, that we must move fast to fire experienced teachers and replace them with, well, other people.

The EEF's chief executive Sir Kevan Collins says it was a struggle to convince teachers and heads to understand and act on evidence, but the approach is starting to bear fruit — something which has become more important with the move to academies and free schools, in which head teachers are freer to make their own decisions but may be unused to finding and assessing evidence to support these.

«We do think in a minority of cases there might be some head teachers who are using pupil moves to boost their league table moves,» he added.

Leading on from the initial meeting in March 2014, where four head teachers decided it would be a good idea to join forces to create a collaborative project that would inspire our young people, Eastbourne Schools Partnership (ESP) was formed and has since moved from strength to strength.

«As a result of representations I received from head teachers and others during the consultation, I decided to move instead from two days» notice to much shorter half - day notice inspections from September 2012.

We think stability in education is really important, but we will move away from partisanship — the dividing line of education — focus on qualified teachers, smaller classrooms and strong head teachers.»

«Abandoning the movement midstream is the wrong move,» said Becca Moskowitz, a seventh - grade teacher and head of the English department at Excel.

In order to move to a competency - based system, we should take advantage of the opportunity to model that approach for those at the head of the classroom: teachers.

In doing this, parents were careful to follow the chain of command within the school, not skipping over key decisions makers or moving, too soon, over the heads of teachers and principals.

Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Technocracy Troubles my sight: a waste of administrative bloat; A shape with lion body and the head of Bill Gates, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant teacher unions.

When he moved on to take up the reins as Executive Head Teacher of the newly formed Grenestede Academy — formerly a federation of two East Grinstead schools — he chose once more to work in partnership through NAHT Aspire.

MICHAEL MULGREW is an affable former Brooklyn vocational - high - school teacher who took over last year as head of New York City's United Federation of Teachers when his predecessor, Randi Weingarten, moved to Washington to run the national American Federation of Teachers.

While the move by the state's teachers» union turned enough heads to make it seem like a rare occurrence, both national and local teachers» unions have recently made endorsements and donations to some Republicans who speak and vote against their values.

Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, welcomed the move towards having a single exam board per subject, which he said was sensible and would «remove a lot of concerns about the system».

Head teachers» union, ASCL, said the move was wholly unacceptable and is threatening legal action.

Unions for head teachers and teachers have attacked the move, describing it as a damaging backward step.

In 1949, Biggers accepted a position as an instructor at Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery, but moved to Houston, Texas, in August to establish and serve as department head of the Art Department at Texas State University for Negroes (later Texas Southern University), where he spent over thirty years of his career.