Sentences with phrase «of teachers and school»

Join the thousands of teachers and school districts throughout the U.S. and internationally who are using these innovative resources to engage students in thinking about important fundamental ideas in science and mathematics that make up the building blocks of enduring understanding.

Only with the intimate involvement of teachers and school leaders can schools become strong partners in the identification of ACEs, timely referral for appropriate services, and productive responses within educational settings.

«We know that the vast majority of our teachers and school leaders are hardworking and dedicated professionals.

Closing the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and others is the biggest challenge faced by our generation of teachers and school leaders.

We worry that it will tie the hands of teachers and school administrators when it comes to maintaining discipline, possibly leading to greater disorder and even violence.

It will certainly improve the morale of teachers and school leaders; after all, who would want to work in a system where the majority of children do not perform at a minimum level of proficiency?

The assurance with which Kirp offers his policy recommendations, going so far as to say that they'd look familiar to «any educator with a pulse,» stands in stark contrast to the approach of the teachers and school leaders who adapt to the needs of their students.

Half the membership would consist of teachers and school administrators, including the principal, and half would be parents, students, and community representatives.

Our organisations, representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders, have set out our strongly held concerns about the longstanding erosion of pay across the teaching profession a...

As education leaders who have implemented successful education reforms around the country, we believe that Title II - A, the largest Federal resource dedicated specifically for the development of teachers and school leaders, is vital to our efforts.

But in many districts, some schools seem to consistently languish at the bottom despite the efforts of teachers and school officials.

A state shall make public any criteria for measuring the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders.

Around the globe, increasing numbers of teachers and school leaders are flipping their classes.

In a survey about Don't Laugh at Me done in 2001 - 2002, 86 percent of teachers and school counselors who responded said that implementing the program was valuable and beneficial to their students.

New Teacher Center improves student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders.

Your aspirations are in contrast with the current trend in the United States, where there is a growing shortage of teachers and school administrators.

In divisive times, the work of teachers and school leaders grows ever more challenging.

The AACTE is a national alliance of educator preparation programs dedicated to the highest quality professional development of teachers and school leaders in order to enhance PreK - 12 student learning.

«Our white paper reforms are the next step in achieving excellence everywhere by putting control in the hands of the teachers and school leaders who know their pupils best, alongside new measures to more swiftly tackle failing and coasting schools.

As a former high school teacher and administrator, her research focuses on the work of teachers and school reform.

I examined five KIPP schools and found that 72 percent of their teachers and school leaders had attended top undergraduate institutions ranked very competitive to most competitive by Barron's.

It's one thing to have a goal, it's another thing to really spend some time and energy and invest in the resources to build the capacity of teachers and school systems to deliver on the idea that all students ought to achieve at high levels.

The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers and the school district's administration jointly designed a new teacher salary system that includes both a pay structure based on knowledge and skills and a bonus linked to school performance.

In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers and the school system collaborate in creating staff development that is woven into the workdays of teachers.

Our White Paper reforms will ensure we continue to spread excellence everywhere by putting control in the hands of the teachers and school leaders who know their pupils best, alongside new measures to more swiftly tackle failing and coasting schools.

It is morally indefensible — and it is most damaging to the very students who most desperately need the help of their teachers and school leaders.

Does this mean that transformative instructional models will not come into the mainstream until the current generation of teachers and school leaders retire?

This series highlights the crucial responsibility of teachers and school counselors to conceptualize students as whole individuals.

And because these thinkers are not instructing education students, they are isolated from the rising generation of teachers and school leaders.

It is a story of collective courage, of teachers and school leaders coming together to hold each other accountable.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

I credit these qualities — along with the tireless dedication of our teachers and school leaders, who instill in our students the values of integrity, humility, hard work, and service — for our remarkable success.

There is anecdotal evidence of teachers and school leaders moving towards more personalised, targeted and job - embedded professional learning (AITSL, 2014).

AITSL's Professional Growth team supports teachers and school leaders, systems and sectors, to implement the Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework and the Australian Charter for Professional Learning of Teachers and School Leaders.

During the speech, Bousted offered her opinion on locally based teams of teachers and school leaders carrying out inspections instead of the government's current regulator force.

The changes we are making will put control back in the hands of teachers and school leaders - those who know their pupils best - making sure every single child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.»

Nor does it really explain just why such a relatively conservative bunch of teachers and school administrators would not only put up with her antics so long, but also praise her for a job well done from time to time.

He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

«The Secretary of State needs to take seriously the very deep concerns and anger of teachers and school leaders.

He was instrumental in developing New York's successful Race to the Top application and key to designing a new system for the evaluation of teachers and school leaders.

As my own contemplation turned nonjudgmental, I came to the conclusion that in the end, there are all sorts of teachers and schools.

But lately, accountability has been under fire from many critics, including Common Core opponents and those calling for more multifaceted measures of teacher and school performance.

The Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at Harvard, will help states and districts assemble and analyze their student and teacher data, providing policymakers with much needed information about trends on student graduation and college - going, the effectiveness of teachers and schools, and human capital management.

As I read through the article written from the lens of a teacher and school leader, I became curious as to how our parents would respond if given the opportunity to speak up about what they want teachers to know.

This progress mindset has important implications for how we judge the performance of both teachers and schools.

As part of Brookings» ongoing series, The Brown Center Chalkboard, Professor Tom Kane's paper — «Do Value - Added Estimates Identify Causal Effects of Teachers and Schools?»

Digital systems put the power back into the hands of teachers and schools, and allows everyone in the process to find the right fit simply and directly.

• First, efforts to develop a civics curriculum are snagged by a basic truth about America: beyond a narrow core of shared beliefs (honesty, tolerance, obeying the law), Americans hold strong but often divergent views about the values they want their children to acquire and about the role of teachers and schools in inculcating those values.

And as well as being of questionable effectiveness, incentive schemes often result in unintended and undesirable behaviours on the part of teachers and schools, ranging from the narrowing of the school curriculum, to withholding less able students from testing, to providing inappropriate assistance to students during tests.