Sentences with phrase «of teacher resistance»

Arguing «there is just no doubt that one of the central problems in improving urban schools — arguably the central problem — is the problem of teacher resistance,» he critiques the progressive expectation that teachers can eventually be coaxed along through evidence on two key counts: first, it presumes that reformers and teachers share the same aims and metrics, and second, it presumes that reformers can marshal the evidence to convince the holdouts.

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«Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other hand, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking I was born to rule over her; and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence.»

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

The movie depicts a young and creative teacher battling what appears to be the unthinking authoritarianism of the school as well as his students» (at first) uncomprehending resistance to his teaching method.

Thomas Upham, one of the more mystically inclined of early Holiness teachers, wrote in 1836 the important Manual of Peace, opposing the military chaplaincy, advocating «tax resistance,» and calling for the abolition of capital punishment.

Madeleine emphasized the importance of collaboration and communication; addressing barriers with teachers and principals who express resistance to in - classroom breakfast, and using the facts about breakfast — it improves test scores, and can be implemented with minimal additional work for everyone involved — to create support for the program.

The proposals prompted hours of debate, and many Democrats — feeling resistance from New York State United Teachers and other groups representing public schools — held their noses as they voted yes.

The bill, which would lift the current cap of 200 charter schools to 460, has met stiff resistance in the Democrat - controlled Assembly and from the teachers unions.

New York teachers, parents, and students have expressed resistance to the rollout of the Common Core standards and its associated curriculum.

Mr. Cuomo is quite likely to face resistance to some of his priorities from the Democratic - led Assembly, which tends to side with the teachers» union, while getting support from the Senate, where Republicans are in control.

After years of watching students push through their resistance and muscle their way into backbends, Annie Carpenter, a vinyasa flow teacher from Los Angeles, suggests a decidedly different approach.

They include Aziz, a former hard - partying college student who now heads the organization; Hamoud, a cofounder of RBSS, who strengthens his resolve by watching the video ISIS took of the execution of his father (a brother was subsequently murdered and another is missing); Hussam, a law student turned reporter who was nearly nabbed by ISIS with encrypted video on his phone; and Mohamad, a former math teacher who joined the revolt against Assad after a student was arrested and has since followed up with resistance to the caliphate.

Yet San Diego became notorious for the fierce resistance of its teachers union, abetted by school board members, to any and all efforts at change, whereas there is hardly any reference to the role of the unions in Cuban's account of Austin.

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.

It argued, «Renewed resistance to accountability is now a middle - class project to «reclaim» schools for a select slice of the American population who no longer want teachers and schools to be on the hook for results or equity.»

We all know the student, the one whose stress response goes from zero to 100 at seemingly small triggers; whose defiant moments test the teacher's hourly resolve; and whose initial resistance towards a classroom task can lead to the tanking of an entire school day.

Meanwhile, and perhaps more important, the forces of resistance also developed an alternative view of teachers and teaching that has gained heavy traction in the past two decades.

My research reveals that resistance to the new law was, in many schools and districts, quite intense, indicating the depth of support for bilingual education among teachers and principals.

As a result, they will implicitly encourage districts to take the path of least resistance: fire their youngest teachers; get rid of art and music classes; and pass along costs to parents in the form of new fees.

Today, the Common Core is not only on the public radar, but the focus of a growing nationwide resistance from an unusual coalition of right - wingers, liberals, teachers, and parents, for a variety of very different reasons.

Most notably, White and Kockler have pulled off these reforms in the face of strident political resistance to Common Core and without running afoul of districts and teachers in this staunch local - control state.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

In each case, the resistance of teachers to discussing the moral meaning of the incident with students was palpable.

For Brill and the reformers in his book, the unions are the enemy, with their defense of incompetent teachers, their hostility to charters, and their resistance to efforts to judge teachers by the achievement of their students on tests.

In a high school science class, the teacher asks students to predict the path of falling objects, using equations that assume there is no air resistance.

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On the left, some of the opposition to Common Core and its assessments is related to broader resistance to high - stakes testing, the linking of student scores to teacher evaluations, and other reform measures such as school choice, which some see as «corporate school reform.»

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«Lots of resistance comes from misconceptions: that we're here to coddle students or expecting teachers to be therapists,» Crnobori said.

Other districts are also using it as part of evaluations or the basis for merit pay programs, moves that have generated fierce resistance from some teachers unions and skepticism from some experts.

My request was met with resistance as the teachers explained to me it was an unnecessary use of time since they had already worked together to write the test and had even determined how many points each question was worth and typed those points on the side of each item.

Trying to stop both charters and vouchers would have caused the teacher's unions, the primary engine of resistance to public education reform, to appear unreasonably rigid which would have undercut their power.

The productivity picture is made worse by the resistance of schools to augment teachers» efforts with new instructional technologies.

• Risk underestimated the resistance to change from the organized interests of the K - 12 public education system, at the center of which were the two big teacher unions as well as school administrators, colleges of education, state bureaucracies, school boards, and many others.

Feinberg recalled the tale of his early efforts back when he was a teacher — how, after encountering waves of bureaucratic resistance, he ultimately resorted to sitting on Houston superintendent Rod Paige's car for five hours just to get permission to launch KIPP.

Any attempt to deviate from this civil service model of payment and staffing is met with great resistance from the teachers unions.

«On one hand, the federal government is saying, «Be bold,» which implies significant challenge to the status quo, which then tends to be disruptive and generate resistance,» said S. Paul Reville, the education secretary in Massachusetts, where the American Federation of Teachers affiliate has revoked its support of the state's second - round application over teacher issues.

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The challenge of fostering leadership distribution is greatly influenced by the existing culture of the school; autonomous teacher cultures are strong sources of resistance to leadership distribution efforts.

The vote was close because «there's an overall fear that exists around what's going to happen in public education, and there's kind of a resistance to changes,» said Arielle Zurzolo, president of Green Dot's teachers union.

For McCoy - Mitti, it was a «baked - in» sense of apathy on the part of both students and teachers, and a resistance to disruption from staff members who wanted to do their best for students, but had not been trained.

But the bulk of the political resistance to the Gates strategy will come from the teacher unions.

It'll cost a fortune, it doesn't improve the identification of effective teachers, but we need to do it to overcome resistance from teachers and others.

To change this kind of climate - and begin to combat teacher isolation, closed doors, negativism, defeatism and teacher resistance - the most effective principals focus on building a sense of school community, with the attendant characteristics.

So the folks at Gates have been trying to scientifically validate a teacher evaluation system that involves a mix of test score gains, classroom observations, and student surveys so that they can overcome resistance to centrally imposed, mechanistic evaluation systems.

Activists cite the recent strike by Chicago teachers as an example of successful resistance against unproven or wrong - headed reforms.

Charter schools, school uniforms, year - round calendar, and alternative teacher licensing programs all hit the scene hard and fast and met resistance every step of the way.

They seemed to offer a hopeful glimmer of how an urban district could win out against resistance from teachers unions and community pressures by sticking with student - centered policies.

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The California State Board of Education moved forward on regulations Wednesday that would change teacher seniority rules statewide despite heavy resistance from statewide teacher unions.