Sentences with phrase «number of community teachers»

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«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

Communicating your school's nutrition program effectively means reaching out to a number of key groups; not just students and their parents, but teachers, administrators, custodians, and the community at - large.

She spent a number of years as an Early Literacy Instructor training teachers, working with credential programs in local universities, guest lecturing at various venues, and collaborating with parents and teachers to promote literacy in the community.

Utica Community Schools Enrollment: 27,960 Average teacher salary: $ 80,840 Full - time - equivalent teachers: 1,124.3 Bottom and top of salary scale (2016 - 17): $ 39,310 to $ 101,956 (PhD) Number of teachers earning more than $ 100,000: 18.

Its main focus remains on the Taliban, however, with concern registered about the growing number of civilian assassinations - including teachers, nurses, doctors, tribal elders, community leaders and local officials.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

Will a greater emphasis on community colleges result in a decrease in full - time professors at four - year institutions, particularly at non-research universities, ultimately transforming professors from being loyal to a single institution to «free agent» teachers who work with an even greater number of institutions to assemble full - time employment?

Finally, teachers object strongly to the massive amount of reporting and editorializing abot MCAS results and believe that the unfair comparisons drawn between urban districts and affluent suburban communities are destructive to the educational climate and demoralizing to vast numbers of teachers, students, and parents.

For example, there were few differences by age (over or under 30), highest degree attained, the length of time a teacher had student - taught, the number of teaching methods courses taken, grade level taught, community type, and whether a teacher had ongoing guidance from a mentor.

Fortunately, if you are stuck or paralyzed by the number of choices available, there has emerged a growing «industry» of well - read teachers who share their reviews with the larger educational community.

These Kindergarten Emergent Readers include: - mail carrier - artist - business woman - business man - baker - construction worker - chef - teacher (of course)- police officer - doctor - firefighter - nurse - dentist - a blank page for the student / child to draw what job they want to be This community helpers emergent reader set also includes another set for number counting (1 to 5).

Teachers in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students» unique socio - emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more.

The Better Math Teaching Network (BMTN) is a networked improvement community of researchers, teachers, and instructional leaders from New England who are working toward the common goal of increasing the number of students who are deeply and actively engaged in understanding algebra.

Puente provides training to teachers and counselors at community colleges and high schools in writing instruction, academic counseling, and mentoring, with the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented students who earn bachelor's degrees and potentially return to their communities as mentors.

by Kati Haycock and Eric Hanushek In this forum, two experts debate the best ways to identify effective teachers and to increase the number of effective teachers in high - poverty schools and communities.

Improving the numbers of successful literacy learners requires action on multiple levels: teachers and administrators, academics, community leaders, parents, and politicians.

Previous research has found a number of benefits for teachers, or at least for some teachers in certain circumstances, from participating in online teacher communities (Hur & Brush, 2009; Lieberman & Mace, 2010; Schlager et al., 2009).

Reorganizing the schools into a number of self - contained small learning communities or academies helps teachers learn each of their students» names, keep the hallways clear and form stronger bonds with students and other teachers.

These programs and policies may focus on a number of areas including curriculum, data and monitoring systems, student, teacher, and parent engagement, and broader community involvement.

Speaking to Los Angeles - area charter school leaders, parents, teachers and others, the candidates addressed a number of issues affecting the charter school community, including support for LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, support for the expansion of charter schools, and facilities and funding equity for charter schools.

There are number of different technologies that help teachers access and develop online communities, such as Twitter, Voxer, Facebook, and Edmodo.

Working together, the National Board and ACTFL aim to further professional community building in world languages departments, strengthen the teaching of world languages, and increase the number of world languages students who learn from accomplished, Board - certified teachers.

Summary: The goal of the Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance (TECA) is to provide a platform for teachers of color to advocate for themselves and their communities, increase the number of people of color involved in conversations about education policy, and equip educators with advocacy training and tools.

A number of articles in this issue (pp. 26, 35, and 65) describe how schools that surveyed students, teachers, parents, and community members used their findings about values and attitudes to improve everything from grading practices to school climate.

In Monroe County, Georgia, for example, the locally developed dashboard includes data on organizational effectiveness (including new teacher retentions, facilities quality, and internet access); student, staff, and community engagement (including the number of business partners, staff attendance, and music performances); professional learning; and student performance on a range of measures.

The first program highlighted is taken directly from Table 6 and has received accolades from a number of organizations for its selectivity and commitment to diversity, not just in its student body but also in the coursework it provides to prospective teachers and in its community partnerships.

In separate forums, he posed a number of questions to teachers, students, parents, and other community members, such as what they're not doing that should be part of the plan, and what they'd modify, radically change, or do away with.

Coalitions of community - based organizations, student groups and teachers unions have developed in a number of cities across the country to rally around educational justice.

I can recall a large number of teachers, from elementary to high school who were not only close in age with my mother, but also members of the community.

Appendices Appendix A: Attendance Recordkeeping Required Codes for Grades PK - 12 Students Appendix B: Attendance Recordkeeping Required Codes for Adult Students Appendix C: District Name Table Appendix E: FEFP Program Numbers Appendix F: Florida Public Community College and State University Reporting Numbers Appendix G: Country Codes Appendix H: State Codes Appendix I: Test Name Table Appendix K: Private Postsecondary Institution Reporting Numbers Appendix L: Test Subject Content Codes Appendix N: Languages Codes Appendix P: Definitions for Incident Reporting Appendix Q: United States Commonwealth and Territories Appendix R: Core Courses for No Child Left Behind (Highly Qualified Teacher) Appendix S: Core Courses for Class Size Reduction Appendix T: Title I Supplemental Educational Services — Service Providers Appendix U: Transportation Membership Category Appendix V: List of Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), And Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Courses

Researchers from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center crunched the numbers for this first - of - its - kind report, examining the 17 - year - olds who took a dual enrollment class in 2010 and tracking them for six years as they made their way through college.

Altogether, about 16 % of teachers move jobs or leave teaching annually, and the numbers are much higher in the communities with the greatest needs.

Their work uncovered that turnover and repeated waves of new teachers create several problems for schools and communities: (1) high turnover schools employ a large number of novice teachers; (2) turnover creates unstable teaching assignments; (3) turnover hinders relationships between teachers, students, and families; and (4) turnover disrupts the social capital needed to support expanded leadership opportunities for teachers.

At a time when statistics show a steady increase in the number of segregated schools, this study shows serious consequences for teachers, as well as for the parents and students who are part of segregated school communities.

Strategic Partnerships — As a Full - Service Community School, CCSP has cultivated a number of strategic partnerships, enabling us to support teachers in the classroom with additional resources.

The high school provides the facilities (during a reasonable hour... say 2:00 - 3:00, or 3:00 - 4:00) and a majority of the students, and it's a double win for the institutions involved: the community college bolsters its numbers and gets more funding; the high school ensures that its students enroll in college classes and can also utilize its own teachers in different classrooms.

In her acceptance of this recognition, Moir urged the education community and the public at large «to pay close attention to the growing number of new teachers in the U.S., and give them the intensive support they need to improve student learning and to remain committed to teaching.»

Like when schools create a safe and orderly environment, when they have ambitious instruction, when teachers get time to collaborate, when there's a lot of parent - community outreach — there are a number of factors that consistently relate to higher levels of student achievement.

«This action will have a detrimental effect on the members of the Texas State Teachers Association and the students of the San Antonio ISD community,» the complaint reads, listing a number of alleged violations the SAISD board committed in initially approving the contract.

As a result of commitments made under federal funding or prompting from community demands as well as courts - a number of districts are engaged with their local teachers unions over new evaluation systems that include student performance as an indicator.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

Though the board had received notice days in advance that the number of teachers, parents, and community members expected to attend the first meeting of the board, which was elected in November, would exceed the room's capacity, the board refused to change the venue.

The National Board for Professional Teacher Standards, Southfield, Mich.: to increase the number of teachers working in low - income communities who seek and achieve National Board Certification.

The schools in your community need your skills and experience to increase the number of effective teachers in your area.

In the wake of a number of disappointing, no - effects - seen evaluations of professional - development programs, several scholars are proposing that the research community upend its traditional approach to studying in - service teacher training.

With the 2014 gubernatorial election less than 16 months away and facing growing opposition from school teachers, parents and others who recognize the unfairness of attaching teacher evaluation programs to student's standardized test scores, Governor Malloy announced today that he wanted to «reduce» the number of standardized testsand allow communities to forgo using test scores in their teacher evaluation programs.

The event will also feature presenters and an in - depth discussion on the state of public education, the impact that Education Secretary DeVos is having around school privatization, zero tolerance discipline policies, the declining number of teachers of color and community schools.

Designed by the Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE), a New Jersey - based nonprofit, the model, called «First Things First,» combined a number of ideas that were gaining currency at the time: small learning communities, «looping» (in which teachers stay with the same students for multiple years) and changes in teaching practices to emphasize engagement and rigor.

Reorganizing the schools into a number of self - contained small learning communities or academies helps teachers learn each of their students» names, keep the hallways clear and form stronger bonds with students and other teachers.Interdisciplinary teacher teaming further reinforces the physical organization through common planning time during which teachers develop integrated lesson plans and share information about the performance of their students in different disciplines.