Sentences with phrase «school teacher and school»

Most recently, he was a vice president at Educators for Excellence, a progressive non-profit group focused on public school teachers and school policy.

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The larger effort will now support 200 middle school STEM programs by 2020 and aim to reach 5 million students with free technology resources, teacher training, STEM curricula, and connectivity.

For so many of us, schools and teachers are the primary source of our information.

«Thurman Thomas isn't a running back, just like you're not a widget maker,» says negotiation researcher and Harvard Business School teacher Kevin Mohan.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

It's a question parents, teachers and students have been urgently asking since the latest school shooting tragedy in Parkland Florida that left 17 dead.

Men make up 3 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers, 19 percent of elementary and middle school teachers, and 41 percent of high school teachers.

Think back to elementary school when your teacher was explaining the difference between a rectangle and a square.

He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

As an elementary school teacher Scott took a part - time summer construction gig and turned it into his full - time career.

Katherine Gredley is a full - time elementary school teacher with a background in marketing and a passion for professional development.

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

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.

Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

You may have heard of Fortnite, the new, free game that's sweeping the nation and irking teachers everywhere, but parents and school administrators may have to re-think their disciplinary plan: Fortnite could actually help kids stay in school.

We want to stand for education worldwide,» Evans said, and Oaktree has since built schools and teacher training facilities in countries such as South Africa, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

One girl, who declined to be identified, told WSVN she was a graduate of the school and had returned on Wednesday to visit a teacher.

She was 23 and had just started her first year as a high school English teacher.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Experts also advise pushing for more personal finance in the school curriculum, lobbying both your local schools for inclusion and area businesses for sponsorship or teacher training funds.

Several of his former peers and high school teachers also identified him to media outlets and said Cruz had a history of threatening behavior.

«Yesterday, a school filled with innocent children and caring teachers became the scene of terrible violence, hatred, and evil,» Trump said at the beginning of his address.

Looking ahead, the company is focused on beefing up mobile offerings, helping teachers share information within schools, and creating ways for students take ownership of their behavior.

If Jeffrey Isquith had his way, the next time there's an active shooter inside a school, students and teachers will be able to duck for cover safely behind chairs, desks, and walls that are made with his company's bullet - resistant technology.

They also have a new pilot program that allows teachers to regroup the middle school students based on the students» performance and their learning curve.

But teachers and staff in schools across the country say the spinners do nothing but distract the students, and schools now are banning them.

This is thanks in part to a new wave of educational startups that offer innovative ways for school districts and teachers to engage with technology in the classroom.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

If there's an emergency, a teacher can use the app to set off an alarm, access an evacuation plan, and chat with any other staff member in the school.

Remember when you were in grade school and you ran into your teacher at, say, the grocery store?

One of the app's main features is a «panic button» that teachers can hit to send a school - wide alert (every phone and computer in the school will sound an emergency tone).

After careful consideration, Brad has decided to continue to make Kid President videos, write a book, and work to connect with schools across the country to empower students, teachers and families.

That's right, people are literally paying tour guides to confiscate their phones like grumpy high school teachers and force them to actually appreciate beautiful foreign lands.

Recruits, hires, trains, places, and manages substitute teachers and school support staff for more than 250 client schools.

«She was quiet and hardworking,» recalls her high school accounting teacher Glenda Eichmann.

While out walking in London recently, I passed a group of uniformed school children moving in an orderly, single - file line, with teachers in front and rear.

One of her teachers insisted that her parents put her back into school — and in 1937, she sat where you are sitting today and received a Berkeley degree.

So Eggers, the celebrated writer, and Calegari, a veteran public - school teacher, got creative.

Her high school teachers remember a mix of precociousness and humility — and an ability to multi-task at a very young age.

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

With just 10 employees, Chalk.com is used in more than 20,000 schools worldwide and by 100,000 teachers.

She pursued engineering in college largely because her high school math teacher suggested it and her parents approved.

Conversely, 36 % of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood educators, and secondary school teachers — all of which fall within a less than 1 % chance of automation.

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

Chicago has had a pretty painful year — it just experienced its most violent summer in recent memory and the teacher's union strike in September paralyzed schools as they prepared to open.

Used in over 20,000 schools worldwide, Chalk.com solves the problems of lesson planning, assessment, and collaboration designed to ease teachers» pain, facilitate personalized education, and help drive student success.»

Jim Gard, a teacher at the school who taught Cruz, said that he was told Cruz «wasn't allowed on campus with a backpack on him» and that Cruz had threatened fellow students, the Miami Herald reported.

The school's four - to - one ratio of students to teachers ensures that every student interacts closely with professors and receives personal attention.