Sentences with phrase «of local high school teachers»

High school girls from around the country take part in a unique engineering workshop taught by Union College faculty with the assistance of local high school teachers.

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January 25, 2018 — MILFORD, MA — Today, Consigli Construction Co., Inc. hosted more than 40 teachers, guidance counselors and administrators from 11 local high schools at its Milford headquarters for a professional development workshop in partnership with the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

(pictured <) «From the beginning, we have been clear and consistent in our position: forced co-locations that result in overcrowding, special students» losing space, and elementary students being mixed with high school students, are unacceptable; as are co-locations that ignore the will of local parents and teachers.»

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

«I never went to drama school, but from high school, or really the age of nine, I did this drama class with a local teacher and it was almost completely improvised,» recalls Lynskey.

There Was Once... (Unrated) Tolerance - themed documentary about a Hungarian high school teacher who recently decided to create a memorial for members of the local Jewish community totally wiped out during the Holocaust.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

According to a 2003 report in a Maryland newspaper, a local high school English teacher, as part of a lesson on Henry David Thoreau, urged his students to perform a «nonconformist act.»

Kemi Jona, an associate professor at Northwestern University and a member of the VOISE Academy High School design team, explains that online curriculum provides «a ticket to entry for students, getting them ready for the really exciting stuff: the projects, the collaborations, and the local connections that a teacher can bring.»

An exhibit like Climate Change can satisfy a high school standard, she says, while an elementary school teacher can meet those standards by focusing on the intricacies of the local ecosystem.

(In my own hometown of Seattle, students, staff and parents at a local high school staged a walkout in 2014 to protest the district's move to eliminate a critical Latin teacher.)

A local group of musicians from our high school were supposed to perform, but had to back out at the last minute, so we went to Plan B and had our teachers form groups and perform for our students — which they loved!

According to Carla Smith, her high school has produced three elementary school teachers and one para-educator in the last decade, all of whom work in Renton schools, which represents a meaningful contribution to the local district.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

Districts could address within - district inequities in lots of ways — they could offer higher salaries to teachers in poorer schools, they could have lower class sizes in poorer schools, or they could expand other services within poorer schools — but local teachers» union contracts often prohibit all of these policy options.

In today's low - return environment, the pension promises being made to state and local employees in general, and public school teachers in particular, have become very expensive and difficult to maintain largely because the largesse of the pension plans assumes long run returns on the order of 7.5 percent (or higher).

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

Teachers already offered a higher evaluation in 2008, but even from that high level there has been an upward shift of 8 percentage points to 69 % of teachers giving local schools either an ATeachers already offered a higher evaluation in 2008, but even from that high level there has been an upward shift of 8 percentage points to 69 % of teachers giving local schools either an Ateachers giving local schools either an A or a B.

For instance, the manager of the local general store had problems handling his Web site, so he and a teacher at the high school got together and decided it would be a good idea for the kids to help with the store's Web marketing, and they moved into the basement of the store.

In Littleton, Colorado, infamous for its student assassins, a teacher has been taking high school students to a remote part of Kenya where they work side by side with local people, a project that gets no media coverage.

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Although informing people of the ranking of the local school district changes their views of teachers unions, the shift in opinion depends on whether the local district has a high or low ranking relative to other districts.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

At Oakland High School, a Manhood Development class student wears a hoodie decrying the shooting death of a local teen teachers said was a promising student.

Bridge International Academies in Kenya provides a standardized model of high - quality affordable education by designing cutting edge curricula, building schools and training teachers from the local community.

Forty percent of the public give the public schools in their community an A or a B, while a quarter give them a D or an F. African Americans assign lower marks: only a quarter give their local public schools an A or a B, while a third give them a D or an F. Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (Q. 2).

New technologies and staffing strategies allow rural schools to increase the number of students receiving high - quality instruction, even when the supply of local teachers remains limited.

Randi Weingarten is president of the more than 1.4 - million - member American Federation of Teachers, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; and local, state and federal emTeachers, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; and local, state and federal emteachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; and local, state and federal employees.

By shifting money to pay for more academic counselors and librarians next year at the lowest - performing schools, administrators of East Side Union High School District in San Jose have revised the district's draft three - year Local Control and Accountability Plan, incorporating key recommendations of parents and teachers.

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the 1.7 million - member American Federation of Teachers, AFL - CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood edTeachers, AFL - CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood edteachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood educators.

Requiring districts to equalize their state / local spending in each Title I school with the average spending in non-Title I schools can create incentives for districts to adjust which schools they designate as Title I. For example, if a district's lower - poverty Title I schools (which could still be high poverty schools), have new, less - expensive teachers, kicking those schools out of Title I would lower average spending in non-Title I schools.

A core group, consisting of a nurse, teacher, administrator, parent, nutritionist, and food service and district public relations employees coordinated contests, high school and community ambassadors programs, a milk and cookie break activity, posters, and publicity in the school and local media.

Under the banner of «community empowerment,» each local school council assembled the principal, four parents, four teachers, a noncertified staff member, a community representative, a corporate - partner representative, and, in the high schools, two students.

Ms. Gates was in New York to visit New Visions Charter High School for the Humanities II, in the Bronx, and to talk with local teachers about professional development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Proposed by a group of local teachers, Saint Anne's High School for Girls will be a secondary school for Luton that will provide a calm, caring and nurturing environment where hard work and exemplary behaviour are theSchool for Girls will be a secondary school for Luton that will provide a calm, caring and nurturing environment where hard work and exemplary behaviour are theschool for Luton that will provide a calm, caring and nurturing environment where hard work and exemplary behaviour are the norm.

A lack of resources at the state and local level for secondary schools caused many school systems to eliminate positions for reading teachers and literacy coaches at both the middle and high school levels.

Kristen Dawn, a German teacher at Ben Davis High School and president of the local teachers association, doesn't like that approach.

David Simmonds, head of the Children's Board at the Local Government Association said that phasing the school building announcements could be difficult - because authorities and head teachers needed to plan, and because the demand is high and urgent.

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An added bonus: They often have deep roots in the local community and may be more likely to stay in the job, which can help address the chronic problem of high teacher turnover at many urban schools.

The analysis found that the portion of teacher evaluations that local districts solely control is heavily weighted in most Long Island school districts toward ensuring teachers to score high enough to get an overall «effective» rating.

Under ESSA, a new preschool program will, for the first time, «promote coordination in early learning among local communities; align preschool with early elementary school; and build the capacity of teachers, leaders, and others serving young children to provide the highest - quality early learning opportunities.»

Participants discussed a range of factors that impede student success, including gaps between tribally enrolled students and other Native students; high teacher turnover in remote areas; poor attendance and truancy; low family and community involvement; schools» lack of knowledge about AI / AN culture and history; and fragmentation of services among state, tribal, and local agencies.

As Wendy Lecker explains in her column entitled, «Opting out, parents answer to a higher authority,» the Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the Malloy administration are telling local school superintendents, principals and teachers that they are to instruct parents that their child MUST take Connecticut's standardized tests and MUST take the new poorly designed and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.