Sentences with phrase «now teachers from both schools»

Equally exciting, there are now teachers from both schools making the short 3 mile trip to observe each other in the classroom and share good practice.

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Imagine for a moment, those of you who have children in grade school, if your child came home from school tomorrow, and told you that at school from now on, the children were the teachers, and the teachers were going to learn from the children.

My two girls have been home from school almost 2 weeks now (teachers strike), so they have a head start when it comes to boredom!

As you send your elementary aged child to school with items from their list of school supplies, consider showing a little love to their new teacher with these helpful tools they are sure to enjoy now and be sure to help replenish classroom supplies throughout the school year.

After chatting with the owner, Marta, who originally hails from Poland and now calls Schaumburg her home, it's evident that she is quite busy (she also is the owner and teacher of a Polish school), but also quite passionate about providing a fun and safe place for kids to play.

The substitute reportedly came from a staffing agency in Boston, and parents are now questioning the school's sourcing of substitute teachers.

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!

What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

Many schools now have programs to fight these problems, and teachers and administrators know more about protecting students from violence.

The Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) clubs are organized by teachers who have gone through C3 Club training here at the museum and are now organizing afterschool programs on environmental conservation issues in their schools with support from C3!

A one time elementary school teacher with degrees from Rutgers College and Elms College, she now owns and runs Firefly Diapers with the help of her 21 month old assistant

After very careful consideration, and following amicable discussions with staff and teachers from the above named school, we have now decided to take full responsibility for providing for our son's education, «otherwise than at school» in accordance with section 7 of the 1996 Education Act.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shoSchool who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shoschool walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

Now, [she] is trying to take away local control from our school communities by advocating to arm teachers.»

«This process has already caused much uncertainty and disruption to pupils and their families, now teachers and school support staff find themselves removed from their jobs without even financial compensation.

«This distraction has been removed from our Buffalo school board and we are now looking forward to focusing all of our energy on the important work that needs to be done for all of our schools and all of our children,» said Larry Scott, the co-chair of the Buffalo parent - teacher organization, which was part of the petition to get Paladino removed.

THe NY state teachers retirement fund has 108 billion — yea thats right BILLIION dollars in it — they have enslaved the taxpayer — and now they want to deprive the poorest children from having a chance of going to a functional private school — REALLY??? Unbelievable!

Now, school officials hope to convince teachers from the island to follow.

«Right now, while Oyo State Government had paid its workers and pensioners two months salaries and pensions from Paris Club fund and a month allocation, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters is yet to release fund to pay local government workers and pensioners, serving Primary School Teachers and retired Primary School Teachers.»

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

Schooling was now becoming a serious obstacle, as teachers didn't know how to handle him, and he had to wear a helmet at all times to protect himself from his own furious, beating fists.

Torero, who was born in Peru and now teaches at the University of Queensland (UQ), St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, had come to investigate a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero.

But all fifth grade teachers at Christi's school also now have classroom Scientific Method Posters in their rooms, thanks to support from Elmer's ® Products, Inc., which made a limited number of posters available to teachers last year.

Finn was so excited when he got home from school because his teacher told him that since it is now spring, the weather was going to start getting warmer!

In 1966, Wunder was «forced» by his political, moral and social views to leave MPO, where he was now an assistant film editor, and become a teacher in the N.Y.City school teacher; a job that was exempt from the draft.

It's definitely not a huge issue for Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage, in a now - uncharacteristically subdued — one could argue bored — performance), a high school English teacher and an avowed pacifist whose wife Laura (January Jones) is physically and sexually assaulted one night on her way home from music rehearsal.

A couple of days ago we brought you the first image from 11/22/63, the upcoming Hulu adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name starring James Franco, and now we've got another four stills from the event series, which you can see here... 11/22/63 centers on high school history teacher Jake Epping (James -LSB-...]

Alix Koromzay reprises her role from the first film, in which she played Mira Sorvino's faithful, loyal assistant (she's now a school teacher in New York).

Previously an elementary school teacher, Suzanne earned an MA from The New School and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts; she now teaches writing and education courses at Manhattanville Coschool teacher, Suzanne earned an MA from The New School and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts; she now teaches writing and education courses at Manhattanville CoSchool and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts; she now teaches writing and education courses at Manhattanville College.

Now that my son is in middle school — where communication from teachers is less than it was when he was in elementary school and more stuff is happening at school that I need to be aware of — I've identified a list of questions that draw out important information.

Taking issue with the AFT's involvement in opt - out, Stewart wrote, «Why waste an opportunity to exploit the energy of white moms and the teachers that serve them who now see the obsession with closing racial disparities in schools as stealing joy from children of relative privilege?»

Initially teachers from the two schools met two or three times a month — but now to save time and gas, they rely more on teleconferencing.

The lessons from my high school teachers, principal, and counselor continue to inspire me as I now set my sights on graduate school.

«The key shift for an online teacher is to go from the paradigm of thinking about what you're going to teach and how you're going to teach it to what the kids are learning and not learning,» says Boise, Idaho - based Holly Mortimer, who taught in a brick - and - mortar school before becoming an online teacher and who now works for three different schools.

With districts and schools under tremendous pressure to make every dollar count, California teachers can now download top - rated content from the site at no charge, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell.

Programs are now judged, in part, on data from surveys of school districts that employ individuals prepared by the teacher - preparation institutions.

One now - infamous controversy arose when the superintendent of a school district in southeast Michigan wrote CMU's president notifying him that his district would no longer accept student teachers from CMU, hire CMU graduates, or recommend their high - school graduates attend CMU.

In days gone by, and even now in traditional schools, teachers graded students over a five - point scale that ranges from A to F. NCLB needs to rediscover that ancient practice.

Based on exclusive results from an original national survey of about 700 teachers, the Education Week Tech Confidence Index takes the pulse of America's educators and gauges their level of confidence in educational technology in K - 12 schools, both now and in the future.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Here's a question for the KIPPs and YES Preps of the world: Would you be happy if, ten years from now, your middle schoolers were working as cops, firefighters, teachers, plumbers, electricians, and nurses?

In fact, one of the teachers, says Nalani, shared that she had been on the verge of resigning from her teaching position before the camp, but «left reinvigorated and resolved to recommit to her teaching» and is now working to start an AYLE club at her school.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Johnson, the Harvard professor, pauses when asked if minorities will make up a larger percentage of public school teachers 10 years from now.

Since first - grade teacher Sarah Groth began teaching at Namaste a year ago, she has lost 50 pounds, and she now eats better away from school and exercises regularly.

Popular and successful programmes such as CABE's Green Day (now managed by the Landscape Institute) support schools wanting to work more sustainably, providing resources and activities that teachers could use from KS1 - 3.

If attaching stakes to individual teachers is a bad idea and leads to the testing tail wagging the school dog, it's hard to see what will change four years from now.

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.