Sentences with phrase «on teachers and other staff»

Charlotte Avery, headmistress of St Mary's School in Cambridge, discusses how the school develops leaders, and outlines what the school ethos is on teachers and other staff.

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As individuals, we are a group of parents, teachers and helping professionals who have experienced the transforming power of insight and organized ourselves into faculty, staff, facilitators and volunteers to help pass on this insight to others involved with children.

I believe we can and do all agree on two points: 1) really, no one — not teachers, not other parents, and not school staff should be feeding our kids things we don't want them to eat or which could harm them (particularly at younger ages) and 2) that there is much too much unhealthy food being served way too often in schools.

For example, what other adults, like duty aids, physical education teachers, bus drivers, hallway monitors and cafeteria staff, will be notified to be on alert?

Have them tell other teachers (i.e., gym, art, music), recess aides, hallway monitors and cafeteria staff so that everyone who comes in contact with her can be on the lookout and poised to intervene.

Public sector workers, including teachers and other school staff, are expected to strike on Thursday 10 July forcing some schools to shut.

Unlike the vast majority of Mr. de Blasio's press staff, Mr. Kadushin once worked on the other side of the equation, reporting for both the Daily News and the New York Post before departing journalism for the press shop at the United Federation of Teachers.

That means that 70 percent of all dollars spent in New York schools is spent on teachers, their aides and other staff who directly interact with students in a classroom.

Ballots are being sent today to teachers and other UFT staff members in roughly 1,800 schools, and voting is expected to begin Monday on the proposed new contract.

They highlighted the remarkable achievements of the governor that have impacted positively on their lives such as «prompt payment of monthly salaries / pensions, other allowances to state public and civil servants; absorption of 54 % of total cost of 100 housing units at Elim Estate allocated to workers; payment of outstanding arrears of salaries / pensions / allowances to Local Government Staff, through prudent utilization of 100 % of LG share of the Paris Club Refunds; promotion of teachers and recruitment of over 4000 school teachers as well as elongation of terminal grade of qualified primary school teachers to level 16».

Other new members include Elizabeth Zechella, an editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; David Warren, a staff analyst for the Fire Department; Katherine Consuelo - Johnson, an active parent at P.S. 51 on the Upper East Side; attorney Frank Holozubiec; retired teacher Charles Bayor; retiree Aldona McCarthy; Democratic club activist Khemray Singh; and equity trader Delores Rubin.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

While some new or struggling teachers might need to submit daily lesson plans for many weeks or months at a time that you'll need to review and provide feedback on, others will need you in their room to help with a challenging student, or to be a thought partner on a topic they are presenting to the rest of the staff.

This becomes significant as teachers and other staff sign yearlong employment contracts, meaning that the charter school is on the hook for these costs whether pupils stay or leave.

When teachers and other staff members win awards, go on study trips, get advanced degrees or achieve any else you would like to highlight, have them write a sentence or two explaining what they did and how it benefits students.

The synergy between pupil and teacher well - being is clear: student attainment impacts positively on teacher well - being and there is some encouraging, albeit limited, research evidence to suggest that there is a statistically positive relationship between staff well - being and SATs results, with eight per cent of variance attributable to teacher well - being after the exclusion of other factors.

«Unfortunately,» Chavez told Education World, «this teacher is one who occupies my thinking when I am working on issues to present to staff, soliciting input, and other interactive tasks.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

Although most of EVC's work is with teachers and students, their parents, friends, and community members join in the dialog during end - of - term screenings of student work and through portfolio roundtables during which students present and comment on their work to a small group of teachers, peers, EVC staff, and others.

«After Literature Night, the comments sheet is on every child's desk,» says Grover, «and if a child's page isn't filled with comments, teachers and other staff members make sure that every child has many comments and compliments written on their page.

Teachers, principals, coaches, librarians, and other school staff put themselves on the line everyday for our kids.

In my view it is enormously valuable to have a teacher within the school itself to coordinate rehearsals and events, liaise with other staff, follow up on children who have missed lessons (finding out if there is an underlying financial or family problem of some sort), meet with parents at the regular parents» evenings, arrange for permission slips for an event, work with the drama specialist / enthusiast on plans for a musical.

On the other hand, support staff can deliver relatively unbiased outcomes and are better placed to focus on the timetable during peak periods, but significantly lack the on - the - ground «know - how» of teacherOn the other hand, support staff can deliver relatively unbiased outcomes and are better placed to focus on the timetable during peak periods, but significantly lack the on - the - ground «know - how» of teacheron the timetable during peak periods, but significantly lack the on - the - ground «know - how» of teacheron - the - ground «know - how» of teachers.

This will require specific training and knowledge - building on the part of teachers and other school staff.

High - achieving schools, on the other hand, could receive bonuses of up to $ 1,500 per teacher and $ 500 per paraprofessional staff member, to be spent on school programs and services.

Provide training on bullying for teachers and other school staff School personnel need training on recognizing the signs of bullying, knowing what to do when incidents happen, and learning how to prevent bullying.

The report by the data - gathering branch of the U.S. Department of Education compares public schools with nonsectarian, Roman Catholic, conservative Christian, and other religious schools on their relative levels of school - based control, educational missions, curricula, staff sizes, professional development, and teacher compensation.

Michaelis told teachers she wanted the targeted students to meet with her and other staff members at the end of January to explain what they have been working on and how they know they have improved.

On the other hand, in a toxic school environment, «teacher relations are often conflictual, the staff doesn't believe in the ability of the students to succeed, and a generally negative attitude» prevails, notes Peterson.

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.

To what extent are teachers, administrators, and other school staff encouraged to focus on students» social and emotional learning needs?

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

Principal - evaluation systems must be «based in significant part on evidence of improved student academic achievement and growth and student outcomes, including the English language proficiency of English language learner students, and evidence of providing strong instructional leadership and support to teachers and other staff.»

Assuming the principal is working productively with staff and other stakeholders on improving the school, more frequent changes in principals typically results in wasted energy, dissipation of scarce resources and considerable skepticism on the part of teachers that they will receive the support they need when the change process begins to confront the most difficult challenges.

No school can succeed for long without doing so, but, especially for community schools, success depends on the quality of the relationships that school and district staff maintain with various partners, including teachers, counselors, social workers, parents, clergy, elected officials, business leaders, volunteer tutors, and others.

Principals need to engage teachers and other staff members in similar discussions, focused especially on ways to involve parents in roles beyond the superficial tasks often allocated to them (e.g., coordinating social events, fundraising through bake sales).

On the other hand, schools with higher clusters of black male teachers tend to be among the hardest to staff, economically disadvantaged, and lowest performing schools.

The school staff had little positive to say about that consultant «s input, and district leaders did not report any district initiatives to deal with the situation other than supporting and relying on the principal and teachers to find a solution.

Three of the four most effective schools reported having an active site council in which parents served on the committee with teachers and other school staff and helped to make decisions concerning school practices.

The teachers and other school staff should familiarize themselves in and even receive training on teaching life skills.

One of the most striking findings of the universities of Minnesota and Toronto report is that effective leadership from all sources - principals, influential teachers, staff teams and others - is associated with better student performance on math and reading tests.

The amount of money spent on these tests could be used for teacher salaries and other support staff and services to children.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, claimed that cutting support staff would mean «less support for children who need most help and put extra pressure on other staff».

Mathematica staff are presenting at the AEFP conference on principal and teacher effectiveness, education research standards, financial aid policies, and many other topics.

Guided by tools such as a high - tech calendar that charts the time the principal is spending with teachers and others, the SAM or SAM team meets regularly with the principal to schedule instructional leadership time, reflect on whether and how changes in time allocations are affecting instruction, and designate other school staff members to tend to busing or other matters that don't need to be handled in most cases by the principal.

Hiring, onboarding, professional learning, evaluation, and other talent management data combine with HR, student and external data sources to provide principals and organizational leadership clear and accurate data on their teachers and staff.

Most of these teachers reported that they were applying their gained knowledge and skills by regularly using technology «to improve their efficiency and productivity, especially for tasks such as maintaining attendance, grades, data on students; creating instructional materials; and communicating with staff members and other colleagues» (Maryland State Department of Education, 2002, p. 2).

Gonzalez said talks with the parent union started out collaboratively, including teacher involvement during staff development days, then quickly snowballed into what he felt was an attack on him and other teachers by Parent Revolution and the parents they trained.

Providing professional development for all adults throughout the education system centered on Meaningful Student Involvement and Student / Adult Partnerships helps teachers, administrators, support staff, parents and others focus on collaborating with students beyond simply listening to student voice.