Sentences with phrase «of teachers around the country»

ThingLink is a popular interactive visual image network being used by thousands of teachers around the country.

Findings from a federal survey of teachers around the country show that teachers actually have significant control over their professional work.

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After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

Video reviewers observe and assess the classroom and instructional performance of teachers from around the country, who send videos of themselves for review.

PowerSchool is the leading K - 12 education technology provider of solutions that improve the education experience for 100 million students, teachers, and parents in over 70 countries around the world.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

In terms of school breakfast, every year we release a teacher's report in which we survey 750 K - 8 teachers from around the country in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

To help answer those questions (and ease your mind), we've asked highly regarded kindergarten teachers from around the country to share their insights on helping your child gain the right mix of kindergarten - readiness skills.

On Tuesday 21st January T and I set off extremely early in the morning to London joining the commuters on the train to one of the main London Stations and then onto the Tube for a trip to West Minster Palace to meet with other parent bloggers who believe strongly like we do that together we can make a change for these children with our voices, teachers, students, volunteers, representatives of Save the Children and Beanstalk, MP's from around the country and peers of the realm to talk about reading, books and how we can make a difference.

According to the Fall / Winter 2011 issue of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education, published quarterly by AWSNA (the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America), «There is a drastic shortage of trained Waldorf teachers — class teachers, as well as early childhood / kindergarten... This shortage exists in North America and around the world, including in English - speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Ireland.

Through her Cook for America ® culinary boot camps, she works around the country to provide school food personnel with culinary training, turning them from re-heaters of processed food into what she calls passionate «Lunch Teachers.»

Attracting over 200 people, including members of the Waldorf Institute, Sunbridge College, and Sunbridge Institute communities; Waldorf teachers and other educators; and friends of Waldorf Education, our Weekend Conference offered a program of events presented by leading Waldorf and Waldorf - related educators, anthroposophists, artists, and innovators from around the country, all of whom hold deep connections to Sunbridge from across the decades.

Or just call her Mrs. Q. That's the moniker chosen by the anonymous teacher who has vowed to eat school lunches for a year and blog the results in hopes of inspiring change at her school and others around the country.

Any hint of criticism and out trots the cartoon stereotypes about «ideologues» and «enemies of promise» when, in fact, the opposition is coming from heads, teachers and parents around the country.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

DonorsChoose.org, which was founded in 2000 and has funded more than 328,000 projects proposed by more than 137,000 teachers in more than 46,000 schools around the country, Wednesday launched a new donor site — DonorsChoose.org/Newtown — to support classroom efforts of teachers in Newtown.

Teachers in Brooklyn «Unplug» to Build a Stronger Computer Science Foundation Educators around the country this week are celebrating the Hour of Code, an international effort to bring awareness to computer science.

Bulging class sizes, stagnant salaries, fewer teachers and limited supplies of everything from books to copy paper: That is what the reduction in per - pupil state funding looks like in thousands of classrooms around the country since the Great Recession — despite a much vaunted economic recovery.

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.

The assessment materials, used to measure students» understanding of the sciences in middle and early high school, will be amplified by Naiku, a Minnesota - based company whose assessment platform reaches teachers around the country, and a Canadian consortium that includes McGill University in Montreal.

As administrators and school boards around the country consider the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Science Buddies is helping teachers begin ramping up, now, for some of the ways in which traditional classroom science projects and assignments may change.

The Country Teacher (Unrated) Romance drama revolving around a homosexual schoolteacher (Pavel Liska) who takes a new position in a rural region of the Czech Republic where he befriends a recently - abandoned housewife (Zuzana Bydzovska) in order to put the moves on her handsome, 17 year - old son (Ladislav Sedivy).

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

Her program at the Yeshiva University currently works with 20 Jewish Day Schools around the country supporting their cohorts of new teachers.

Cowhey: What I am hearing from teachers around the country is that the overwhelming pressure to teach to standardized tests gets in the way of their ability to teach critically.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

Fifty percent of the program's students, who come from around the country, are K - 12 classroom teachers in brick - and - mortar schools.

But teachers, administrators, and literacy coaches from around the country danced to a roving jazz band and joined in Mardi Gras - style revelry at the opening of the second annual national Reading First conference here late last month.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 9 - Around the world, covering countries, directions, languages, air travel and holidays.

And so one of the things that our group is doing right now is we're engaging with teachers from all around the country, in fact all around the world, to try to learn from them what they're doing in their own classroom practice to instill a growth mindset in their students and to help students see intelligence, and to see their academic ability, as things that they can grow.

«There are organisations around the country that are really keen to support teachers, but they kind of need someone to work with, they need someone to host things, they need someone to be able to provide a facility, and to promote it in their area.

Typically, TFA assigns its new teachers to one of nine summer training institutes that are spread around the country.

Clearly they felt that I, personally, was going to inspire teachers around the country to rise up and refuse to cater to the whims of parents who themselves don't know how to set boundaries.

Narrowed down from 8,000 nominations in 148 countries around the world, the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize 2016 came up with a list of ten finalists.

Newspapers.com enables teachers to look up newspapers online around the country so students can catch the local sentiment about a variety of local, national, and international issues.

Teachers can sign - up to participate in a meetup in one of ten cities around the country, or they can start their own.

The harassment at River High reflected another theme related by teachers around the country — that gender roles and sexuality are tied together, and students who are viewed as outside the norm of traditional notions of gender are targeted for harassment.

Our standards for the first edition of the Teacher Prep Review are based on research; internal and external expert panels; the best practices of other nations and the states with the highest performing students; and, most importantly, what superintendents and principals around the country tell us they look for in the new teachers they hire.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

The event, taking place at the Leicester Marriot Hotel from Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 March, seeks to bring together teachers and school leaders from around the country to engage in discussions around the key issues facing education and to share best practice around the use of education technology.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

To celebrate this milestone, our team at the Ed School — in collaboration with teachers from around the country — asked hundreds of public K — 12 students, «What would you tell your friend about Scratch?»

Mathematica was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate one approach that uses selective teacher transfer incentives in school districts around the country.

(Actually, though I work with schools and teachers around the country, I can't think of any that do this, but I figure there are probably a few out there).

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Seven Experienced Educators from Across the Country Selected to Receive Leadership Credential Washington D.C. — High - performing education systems around the world invest in the recruitment, preparation, development, and career advancement of teachers and leaders.

Eliminating tracking might be effective in small classes where teachers can give personal attention to a manageable group of students, but budget constraints — in New Jersey and in many districts around the country — necessitate a high student - to - teacher ratio.

Founder of Art of Inquiry, LLC (math circle at Rockville, MD); NASA engineer; former astronaut instructor; former math / science teacher at public and private schools around the country.

A comprehensive survey of 10,000 teachers from around the country showed that when teachers are asked for their honest, professional opinions, overwhelming majorities agree that «engaged and effective» teachers are very important for student learning and that student achievement is the most important measure of their performance.

The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student assessments.