Sentences with phrase «school teachers across the nation»

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I'm not sure of policies across the nation, but locally, any school breaks — winter break, spring break, various scattered teacher work days and conference days are not paid.

Slowly but surely, a few schools and a few teachers across the nation have started to experiment with getting rid of homework altogether.

The President of the state's largest teachers union, New York United Teachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nationteachers union, New York United Teachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nationTeachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nation.»

Yet many schools and teachers across the nation who've used Fast ForWord have seen astronomical gains in their students» reading capabilities.

Teachers need to be aware that sexting is prevalent in middle and high schools across the Nation.

Nearly all classrooms (97 percent) have one or more computers, but half of the nation's teachers say they need training to better integrate technology into classroom instruction — and such support is unevenly distributed across schools.

As it compiles information on «effective» leader and teacher practices from its third cohort of low - income schools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - frschools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - frSchools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - friendly.

NSNO established a framework of basic PL principles to help create common language and understanding across teachers and principals in the nation's most decentralized school system.

After less than a year in office, President Bush implemented by administrative rule a program called «Good Start, Grow Smart,» the central thrust of which is to instruct Head Start teachers across the nation in methods for improving school readiness.

One of the most discussed topics amongst policy - makers in government and in school staffrooms across the country is the future of our nation's teachers.

For the 17 students at St. Johnsbury, as well as other elementary school and middle school students across the nation whose teachers have been deployed to the Middle East, someone has left who not only taught them but also bonded with them.

Walsh emphasizes that better consumer education — informing aspiring teachers and school districts about the quality of programs across the nation — can play a key role in motivating institutions to «change in the direction of effective training.»

More hours in the school day for teachers as well as students can lead to improved academic achievement, according to a new report that studies 17 schools across the nation that give teachers more time for collaboration and professional development.

At the University of Notre Dame, the Alliance for Catholic Education program trains recent college graduates to become teachers and principals in needy Catholic schools across the nation.

On the whole, teachers across the nation have strung together an impressive series of victories, including salary raises, pension reforms, and school funding increases.

MDRC is evaluating the training of teachers and other school staff in this vision of MTSS - B in schools across the nation.

Schools across the nation are confronting the challenge to place an effective teacher in every classroom.

A tentative agreement reached last week would for the first time allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to use students» standardized test scores to rate teacher effectiveness, something many other schools across the nation are already doing.

Recruitment and retention challenges are once again leading to teacher shortages across the nation, especially in urban and rural school districts.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

We are a diverse team of 13 teachers who met for six weeks to review research on teacher evaluation systems across the nation, as well as local evaluation systems being proposed or piloted by UTLA, LAUSD and The College - Ready Promise consortium of charter schools.

«We urge teachers union leaders across the Northeast and the rest of the nation to denounce Ms. Turner's Trump - like hate speech or, by your silence, acknowledge that you agree with her that school choice is akin to homicide.»

Candace previously worked at Teach Plus, as founding executive director of the Washington, D.C. office, to empower teachers» voices to improve outcomes for their students through leadership opportunities in schools, districts, states, and across the nation.

It will include nearly 200 teachers and 10,400 seventh - grade students in 66 public middle or junior high schools across North Carolina, which researchers find provides a demographic sampling that is more representative of the entire nation and thus more likely to reliably reflect the impact of the program.

Across the nation, the debate rages on among policymakers, teachers and education advocates: Do parent - trigger - type laws have the potential to turn around underperforming schools when bureaucrats fail to act?

«We congratulate all the charter schools that were named on the U.S. News & World Report List, along with their students, teachers and families, as they truly embody the spirit of the charter school movement, and the positive impact charter schools are having in transforming public education across the nation.»

NCTR and teacher residency programs are raising the bar for teacher preparation, specifically for teachers preparing to serve in high - need areas and in high - need schools across the nation.

The report has three sections: 1) Setting the Context, which discusses the need for effective systems of evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective educators.

Governor Christie on Friday called for schools across New Jersey and the nation to emulate the performance - pay provisions in Newark's new teachers» contract, but some skeptics were asking how other districts could afford to follow suit.

The report ranks high schools across the nation in student - teacher ratio, college readiness, mathematics, and language.

The TR3 database — on teacher rules, roles and rights — contains information on collective bargaining agreements and school board policies across the nation.

Human Resources Director Tim McConnell said there's no doubt that school districts across the nation are competing to attract and retain the top talent in teaching and right here in Utah, they're already having to compete with teacher pay increases in those districts in which Park City looks for employees.

But the vast majority of teacher preparation programs in California are still failing to adequately prepare teachers, according to a controversial new report released Tuesday that rated more than 1,200 schools of education across the nation.

On March 14, exactly one month after the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, teachers and administrators across the nation plan to walk out of their classrooms, at 10 a.m. in each time zone, for 17 minutes — one minute for each student and teacher killed in the attack.

For more information: Jesse Hagopian, Teacher Garfield HS, 206-962-1685, [email protected] SEATTLE — In perhaps the first instance anywhere in the nation, teachers at Seattle's Garfield High School will announce this afternoon their refusal to administer a standardized test that students in other high schools across the district are scheduled to take in the first part of January.

While some districts across the nation have found initial success in offering bonuses and higher salaries to those who teach in high - needs schools, studies have found that in these schools, supportive school leaders and positive working conditions were more important to teachers when deciding whether to stay in their schools.

Similarly, in his visits to schools across the nation, Pflaum (2004) found that computers were rarely used to facilitate and enhance instructional practice and more often were used for student and teacher productivity.

This campaign comes as young people across the nation face an onslaught of proposals that aim to reconstruct the school - to - prison pipeline by effectively militarizing schools with armed teachers, police officers, and metal detectors.

«Within the United States and across nations, there seems to be consensus that teacher quality is the most important school - based variable in determining how well a child learns.

Public school teachers do incredible work across the state of Tennessee and the nation.

Be one of 300,000 teachers committed and connected across the nation to transform schools into centers of engagement and hope.

School districts across the country are competing to attract the nation's best teachers, said Tim McConnell, associate superintendent over human resources.

So if they didn't fire half the teachers, toss the principal or become a charter, how did this previously unexceptional school crack a code that most districts across the nation are struggling to decipher?

The nation's two major teachers unions and a coalition of education groups called the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools are coordinating protests at schools across thSchools are coordinating protests at schools across thschools across the U.S..

He began his career as a teacher, then later transitioned into school administration, and soon after promoted to lead the implementation of education reforms in Florida and other states across the nation.

Tools for Conquering the Common Core is being used in schools across the nation to help teachers develop students» thinking and literacy skills.

To support the creation of high - quality Personalized Learning schools across America, we need high - quality Personalized Learning teachers, both at Summit and in schools across the nation.

CS&A is an educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in K - 12, private, independent, international and charter schools across the nation and worldwide.

Many urban districts across the nation have expanded the proportion of charter schools; increased the percentage of teachers trained in alternate certification programs; widened attendance zones; adopted voucher programs; constructed new facilities; and changed their relationships with teachers unions.

In addition, there are also higher teacher turnover rates in such schools, and oftentimes such schools become «dumping grounds» for teachers who can not be terminated due to many of the tenure laws currently at focus and under fire across the nation.