Sentences with phrase «on teacher and principal»

Todd C. Whitaker (@ToddWhitaker) Delve into instructional leadership with Whitaker, the leading authority on teacher and principal effectiveness.

House education chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the top - ranking Republican on the education committee, have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO)-- Congress's investigative arm — conduct a study on the department's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver policies, specifically examining the cost of applying for such waivers and the implications of the waivers on teacher and principal evaluation systems.

With the range of decision - making opportunities for high school students to be meaningfully involved in, positions on teacher and principal hiring teams almost appear obvious.

The speakers selected to comment on teacher and principal quality were a teacher who told the committee how she looked forward to being evaluated by test scores, and Anna Hall, the new head of StudentsFirst NY.

Join the discussion on the ASCD EDge ® platform, the association's professional networking community for educators, and contribute blog posts, comment on posts from other educators, and take a brief survey that captures your views on teacher and principal effectiveness.

«That includes the expansion of our Inter-District School Choice program, the passage of the Urban Hope Act, the agreement on a groundbreaking contract in Newark, and the regulations on teacher and principal evaluations we will be introducing in the coming months,» she said in an email.

In the article Support Principals, Transform Schools, the authors describe the positive impact of a leadership coaching initiative in Oakland Public Schools on both teacher and principal turnover.

Of the 124 invited applicants, 23 focus on teacher and principal effectiveness; 39 focus on science, technology, engineering, and math education; 32 focus on parent and family engagement; 20 focus on school turnarounds; and 10 focus on rural education.

Many more examples of new state and district policies on teacher and principal evaluation are available at www.tqsource.org, all of which offer innovative ideas and lessons learned for the benefit of other education leaders around the country.

The most recently available results from the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher included results on teacher and principal job satisfaction.

During her career, Dr. Wood - Garnett has also worked on teacher and principal evaluation systems in Washington state and New York, served as a district leader in the District of Columbia and Washington state, directed three technical assistance centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and taught graduate - level courses.

Earlier this week, the Regents passed emergency regulations putting a hold on the use of state test scores on teacher and principal evaluations.

Attendees listen to a speaker during a learning summit on teacher and principal evaluation at the New York State Museum on Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Albany, N.Y.

New York might lose out on $ 300 million in federal funding if last - minute negotiations on teacher and principal evaluations disconnect Common Core test scores from final ratings.

At 9 a.m., the state Education Departmentis kicks off an all - day «Learning Summit» on teacher and principal evaluation today.

Shengchang Tang, principal of the Shanghai High School (the leading high school in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and principals.

«Just as a great school is reliant on its teachers and principal, so too in outside school hours care, we rely on committed and engaged educators.»

On top of all that we approved virtual schools, unlimited charter schools, put undue pressure on teachers and principals by adopting an assessment tool that is unnecessarily bureaucratic, adopted the Common Core, and are preparing to implement a new assessment called PARRC.

We can't continue to blame failure on teachers and principals.

The report concluded that Atlanta Public Schools «put unreasonable pressure on teachers and principals to achieve targets.

Parents depend on both teachers and the principal to create an environment that keeps their children safe and helps them learn.

Research Design: This study uses survey and administrative data on teachers and principals from the Miami - Dade County Public Schools from the 2007 — 2008 school year.

Not exact matches

How to qualify: Once they have spent some time in front of the classroom, teachers aiming for an admin position head back to class themselves — for a master of education degree or additional specialist and principal's training, which varies depending on the province.

Initially, he was a teacher and an assistant principal in the LaGrange and Wheeling school districts while operating Inland on a part - time basis with Messrs. Dan Goodwin, Bob Baum and Bob Parks.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

But there are teachers who aren't afraid to say «I love you» to their students and friends who say «good job» when you mess up on your part and parents who love the best they can and principals who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.

There is no district - wide policy on homework so teachers and principals can use their own discretion.

On the other hand, while providing all of those supports, we understand if teachers and principals are not held accountable to high expectations for these children.

Building on reporting for his magazine, the author interviewed economists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examined their recent research, and talked to students, teachers and principals to produce this fascinating overview of a new approach with «the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net.»

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom will be there, presenting an education session on breakfast - in - the - classroom on Tuesday, July 12; please join us for «A CN Director, A Teacher, and a Principal Walk Into a Bar: A Discussion with the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom» at 8:45 a.m.

I tried talking to the teachers and contacting the school's wellness committee but the health initiatives were not high on the principal's list of priorities.

Officials will be working with parents, teachers and principals through focus groups to gain feedback on how the school day should be structured.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) * School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary School)

In August, at the first faculty meeting of the semester, principal Soto Pujadas shared an article on homework overload and said to the teachers, «Maybe this will be the year that some of you will want to be the ones to be the trailblazers.»

If you do find out that your child does not want to go to school because he is being bullied, let his teacher and principal know what is going on, and work side by side with them to make sure the bullying stops.

Meagan Biello, Assistant Principal for Cherokee HS, who currently serves there as a teacher on special assignment; and,

Although you had to wonder why the 8th - grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant «to influence the students against our school lunch program.»

While this school is fictional, it's based on real - life statistics and stories we hear from school food service staff, principals, teachers, parents and students.

Montana principals, teachers, school nutrition staff, and health care providers all put their stamp of approval on these programs, because children and teens who regularly participate in school breakfast may potentially:

State Commissioner John King suspended federal improvement grant funding for 10 districts — including NYC — that failed to live up to their commitment to reach agreements with their teacher and principal unions on new performance evaluations).

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

By creating one system, it also simplifies administrative processes, allowing schools, principals, and teachers to focus on teaching.

The bill, dubbed the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» would ban federal officials from requiring states and school districts to rate the job performance of teachers and principals, though states could continue doing that on their own.

Principals, teachers and school boards have objected to the tight deadline in the law, as well as the greater reliance on standardized tests, a component that Governor Cuomo has insisted upon.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

ALBANY — With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Speaker Carl Heastie told POLITICO New York on Thursday.

At the Oct. 19 Delegate Assembly, the first since the summer break, UFT President Michael Mulgrew reported on principals abusing the teacher evaluation system, the dysfunctional Special Education Student Information System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of taxes.

Going forward, move toward basing teachers» and principals» ratings, in part, on a 3 - year average of student test scores.