Sentences with phrase «public school classroom teacher»

He was a public school classroom teacher for 15 years and then a Responsive Classroom presenter, consultant, and developer for more than six years.

When coupled with effective pedagogy, voice recognition tools can provide valuable assessments that reach beyond the human capacities of the average public school classroom teacher.

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, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

With such public accessibility of the materials of instruction, the emphasis of teachers in school classrooms may shift considerably.

She has also worked training public school teachers to effectively convey information in the classroom.

This book is being released in early February, however if you pre-order, you will be given a $ 27 gift card for DonorsChoose.org, the online charity that helps public school teachers raise money to fund classroom projects.

Stay tuned to Beyond Breakfast for Part Two of our interview with Burke County Public Schools» Nutrition Director and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics president - elect Donna Martin, to find out how teachers reacted to breakfast - in - the - classroom as the program was expanded district - wide, and some student - favorite school breakfast menu items.

In fact, according to the Education Market Association, an estimated 99.5 percent of all public school teachers» use their own money to equip their classrooms - to the tune of over $ 400 per year out of their own pocket.

To recap, the reader's child has just entered public school and she's dismayed by the cafeteria food, the snacks in the kindergarten classroom (Rice Krispie Treats and Cheetos), and the fact that her son is receiving Dum - Dums as rewards from the gym teacher.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

Project Coordinator and classroom teacher for Pre-K and kindergarten children with special needs, various public schools

Last spring when Cristy Nolton, executive chef of the Graveyard Tavern in Atlanta, prepared radish and cucumber salad in the classroom for first - and second - graders at nearby Burgess - Peterson Academy, the children cleaned their plates, said Betty Jackson, a physical education teacher and wellness coordinator at the public elementary school.

Compared to the larger public schools around, this school gets less funding, which means less supplies and other necessities teachers need in the classroom.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroomTeachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroomteachers in the classroom.»

Education reform — loosely defined as support for charter school expansion and enhanced classroom standards and evaluations — had largely subsided as a major issue in 2016 for state lawmakers, but had bitterly divided the Capitol in 2015 as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to develop new standards for public school teachers.

Miami - Dade public schools began requiring teachers to lock classroom doors after the Parkland shooting, but main entrances remain unlocked.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

Buffalo Public School principals and teachers are going to be notified they have to take classroom attendance, once the memo completes its path through the City Hall bureaucracy.

The measure would provide tax credits for donations to non-profit scholarship finds that aid students in attending private schools, donations to public schools and help teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies.

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are claiming that the inability to raise taxes by even a modest amount could mean cuts in the classroom.

When a student in a Syracuse or Rochester public school walks into a classroom, they are more likely than not to have a white teacher.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

«We must reward donations to support public schools, give tax credits to teachers who pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, and ease the financial burden on families who exercise choice in sending their children to a nonpublic school.

«By working together and recognizing their shared responsibility to all Los Angeles public school students, United Teachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi WeiTeachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weiteachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Teachers from the Buffalo Public and Cheektowaga Central School Districts heard from a best - selling author about how to relate students of color in the classroom.

The bill would also give public school teachers a first - ever New York State income tax credit when they spend their own money on classroom supplies, up to $ 100.

About Blog I decided to start a blog to keep a public diary of my life as a teacher in an autistic support classroom with middle schoolers.

Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom requests, from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class.

Courtney Sears is a second grade public school teacher in 1:1 classroom in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Parents who send their children to public schools often volunteer in the schools so that they can identify the best teachers and ensure that their children are assigned to their classrooms.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

HGSE will partner with Cambridge Public Schools, Boston Renaissance Charter School, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaSchool in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teaschool mathematics teachers.

And as Waldorf methods have become more accessible and better understood, more teachers have joined charter schools specifically inspired by Waldorf methods or have adopted some of its approaches for their own classrooms within traditional public schools.

Staff development teachers in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools are coaches, mentors, and on - site resources for classroom teachers.

Two staff development teachers in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools told Education World they relish their roles as coaches and mentors and enjoy collaborating with classroom teachers.

«Every one of our classrooms has a computer for the teacher's use,» said high school webmaster Fred Holmes of the Osceola Public Schools.

Broward Sheriff's Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that teachers trying to lock down their students as the gunman began his attack couldn't lock classroom doors from the inside, but had to grab a key, open the door, and turn the lock from the outside.

McCarty has returned to the public school setting as a classroom teacher, to refresh her connection to teaching while completing her administrative credential.

When the deadline for outfitting every public school classroom with a «highly qualified» teacher rolls around at the end of the 2005 - 06 school year, many states are likely to claim they've met it.

TEACH, a new film by Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim, profiles four very different elementary, middle, and high school teachers and their public school classrooms.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

Like every other public school in the city, Stuyvesant is plagued by bureaucratic regulations and corrosive work rules that favor seniority and paper credentials over a teacher's knowledge and skill in the classroom.

The 13 master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education attract extraordinary students from every imaginable background: classroom teachers, district leaders, nonprofit workers, public policy researchers, social entrepreneurs, and software engineers.

Hawaii's public school teachers returned to their classrooms last week, having bargained with the state for sizable raises and bonuses in a deal struck hours before a federal judge made good on a promise to intervene.

My coauthors and I are currently studying teacher hiring in the Washington DC Public Schools and how the performance of college professors changes when they teach online instead of in a conventional classroom.

In some cases, the incentives include more - extensive career ladders for classroom teachers than the public schools offer.

«Audrey is able to make connections between what she has seen in the classroom as a teacher in the Boston Public Schools and effective policy solutions.

By testing students, releasing the results to the public, and attaching rewards and sometimes a few weak sanctions to those results, accountability reformers have attempted to tighten the screws on local school boards, administrators, and classroom teachers.

A decade after testing begins and schools install a highly qualified teacher in every classroom, everything will be hunky - dory with public education in these United States.

But union contracts often limit how many hours a public - school teacher must be in the classroom: that's why a school may hire a substitute librarian rather than send everyone back to their homerooms when the full - time librarian is out.