Sentences with phrase «of teachers from across the state»

That ruling jump - started an effort that has yielded curriculum materials created in consultation with those tribes, a state - sponsored curriculum Web site, and training workshops that have drawn thousands of teachers from across the state.

Thousands of teachers from across the state plan to be in Raleigh for the «March For Students and Rally For Respect.»

Two more counties in Eastern North Carolina have joined the growing list of school districts that plan to close on Wednesday when thousands of teachers from across the state are expected to rally for increased funding for public education.

Not exact matches

In last year's inaugural Illinois 5Essentials Survey, 87 percent of all schools in the state met the 50 - percent participation threshold to receive a Report with participation from more than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible 6th through 12th graders across Illinois.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

Cuomo, who initially backed the fast track implementation of Common Core, withdrew his support as criticism mounted from parents, students and teachers at meetings all across the state.

As budget negotiations were going down to the wire in Albany, some 5,000 parents, teachers and students from across the state converged outside Gov. Cuomo's Midtown Manhattan office for a March 28 rally that marked the culmination of their months - long campaign to stop him from pushing through radical changes to public education policy favored by his Wall Street backers as part of the state budget.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says Governor Cuomo has named a group of diverse education leaders, teachers and parents from across the state to this panel.

Hundreds of teachers and parents from across western New York got their chance to address concerns about Common Core testing standards with New York State Education Commissioner John King.

Education commissioner John King and Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch told reporters in a conference call from Albany that a working group recommended the graduation requirements delay, among other tweaks, in reaction to concerns pouring in across the state from parents, teachers, students and lawmakers over how implementation of the Common Core is being executed statewide.

Sixteen students and two high school teachers from 16 different institutions across the United States lived on the university campus and worked in teams with professors on various research projects as a part of NIMBioS» Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Veterinary Students (REV).

The commissioner of education in Florida, where 70 percent of the 15,000 applicants for new teaching certificates each year come from out of state, has asked school chiefs across the country to help improve interstate information - sharing on teachers whose licenses have been revoked.

Teacher salaries also vary considerably across states, ranging from a low of $ 34,039 in South Dakota to a high of $ 57,760 in Alaska, with a national average of $ 47,602.

The report reviews 41 evaluation studies from a sample of 25 professional - development initiatives for teachers of math and science conducted across the United States from 2004 through 2007.

It also shows the vast amount of energy and creativity from teachers and school communities across the state.

«These types of projects give teachers and students the opportunity to work with other students from across the state and country, develop technology skills, and most importantly have fun!

Each year math educators from across the state nominate an educator with a minimum of 20 years involved in mathematics education, who has made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of math education and has a distinguished record as a math teacher in the state.

By using data from the Illinois State Board of Education Teacher Service Record (now known as the Employment Information System), Bellwether was able to explore patterns in supply and demand, diversity, and staff retention across Illinois schools and within specific districts.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

With over 375,000 members and over 53,000 resources for teachers, Curriki's main website reaches an audience of educators across the globe — only 50 % of members are from the United States.

Identify strategies to capture and learn from state - by - state variation The next iteration of teacher evaluation policies will have much greater variation across states and districts.

Manuel, Washington Post - «How Gates Pulled Off The Swift Common Core Revolution»»... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration... The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... Rteachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... RTeachers... Read More

Despite an outpouring of opposition from parents, teachers, and others across the state, Senator Bob Corker has indicated he will support Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.

These groups include a diverse array of teachers, community leaders and non-profit organizations located across the state: from Buffalo to Potsdam, and Oswego to Queens.

Students and teachers from the pilot schools and a growing number of others across the United States and Europe continued to visit the Web site each day.

The Leading Outstanding Learning Programme (LoL) is a CPD programme for teachers which provides an opportunity to learn from experiences and best practice in a wide range of schools from across South Yorkshire (including outstanding state and independent schools, rapidly improving and ethnically diverse inner city schools and a newly created «school within a school»).

Teachers unions across Washington opposed the initiative from day one, saying it diverts money from the traditional schools, the schools lack a consistently high success rate for students and the measure allows out - of - state operators to run schools within the public school system and without traditional oversight.

«Earlier this year the Secretary of State also announced she would hold a flexible working summit to bring together teachers and experts from other sectors to look at how we can make this way of working common practice across the profession.»

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

Thousands of teachers from across North Carolina are expected to come to Raleigh for the «March For Students and Rally For Respect» to lobby state lawmakers for better pay and working conditions.

«California still does not require annual evaluations for all teachers, and while there is some vague language in state code about using student achievement as part of teacher evaluations «as applicable,» this language is far from the clear mandate now seen in the overwhelming majority of states and is clearly not the practice in districts across the state.»

This is the first year for both the TCSA's Leader of the Year and Teacher of the Year programs which honors one outstanding charter leader and educator from across the State of Texas.

Following a wave of teacher demonstrations across the United States, roughly 20,000 educators from across North Carolina converged in downtown..

Following a wave of teacher demonstrations across the United States, roughly 20,000 educators from across North Carolina converged in downtown Raleigh on Wednesday to ask their state's leaders to do more for public schools.

The Wright v. New York case was first filed in 2014, when nine families from across the state brought suit against the State of New York and others, claiming that teacher tenure, dismissal, and quality - blind layoff laws deprive New York children of their right to a sound basic education as guaranteed under the New York State Constitustate brought suit against the State of New York and others, claiming that teacher tenure, dismissal, and quality - blind layoff laws deprive New York children of their right to a sound basic education as guaranteed under the New York State ConstituState of New York and others, claiming that teacher tenure, dismissal, and quality - blind layoff laws deprive New York children of their right to a sound basic education as guaranteed under the New York State ConstituState Constitution.

You might recall from a post I released approximately 1.5 years ago a story about how a person who self - identifies as «Virginia SGP,» who is also now known as Brian Davison — a parent of two public school students in the affluent Loudoun, Virginia area (hereafter referred to as Virginia SGP), sued the state of Virginia in an attempt to force the release of teachers» student growth percentile (SGP) data for all teachers across the state.

Upwards of 50 Rhode Island teachers, from seven districts across the state, piloted these micro-credentials.

This Saturday, thousands of New York City teachers will be in Washington, D.C., with the parents, community groups and clergy with whom we work so closely, our friends in the civil rights movement, elected leaders from the City Council and state Legislature and tens of thousands of others from across the nation for a historic march for jobs and justice on the eve of the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King Jr..

Insight is incredibly excited to announce a new partnership with five districts across four states funded by the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program (TSL) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Last year, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University surveyed a representative sample of approximately 1,500 teachers across five states (Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, and New Mexico) to learn about the instructional changes they had made in preparation for the new assessments from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

School administrators, teachers and parents from across America are leading the State Standards Initiative, along with the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers) and the NGA Center (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices).

In fact, using these numbers, it becomes clear that city teachers during were at least 4.6 times more likely to face 3020 - a charges than were teachers from across the rest of the state.

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 150 teachers from across the state met Friday for a demonstration of new educational technologies that will be piloted in schools this fall.

In this exciting endeavor, we gathered together 20 solutions - focused teacher leaders from across the state, willing to push themselves to think outside of what is; and begin looking towards what could be.

The announcement has garnered support from Gov. Gina Raimondo and leaders across the education spectrum, including the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals, the Rhode Island Student Advisory Council, the Rhode Island Association of School Committees, and the state's superintendent's association.

But the technology education teacher wouldn't leave his job in the Middleton - Cross Plains School District, turning down recruiters from school districts across the state, some of whom were offering to pay relocation costs and signing bonuses.

«It is disappointing that our state's request — which enjoyed such strong support from parents, teachers, administrators, and education advocates across California — has apparently been rejected,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said in a press release Friday.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

The table below shows 54 teacher preparation institutions from states across the country that house programs in which the student body is diverse and selected for their high GPAs or for being at the top of the class for college - bound high school students.