Sentences with phrase «schools and teachers as»

The Christina School District in Delaware, comprised of both urban and suburban schools with a diverse group of learners, was interested in how technology could be used to improve their math instruction while still giving individual schools and teachers as much autonomy as possible.

[10] There is debate [11] over whether value - added models accurately capture the true contributions (in statistical parlance, «causal estimates») of schools and teachers as opposed to simply identifying correlational relationships.

Support schools and teachers as they integrate EducationCity into their classrooms with these resources.

The use of false, inaccurate and just - plain - crappy measures to label schools and teachers as successes or failures is central to what's going on in education reform.

It is fashionable these days to portray schools and teachers as the root of all evil, and JO plays right into that.

The study, from the leading provider of formative assessments to UK schools, looked at children's feelings about school and teachers as well as their attitudes to themselves as learners — their confidence, work ethic and how prepared they felt themselves to be, for instance.

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

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.

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

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.

«Take, for instance, the undervaluation of female - dominated jobs like school teachers, who affect the long - term productivity of children as they grow up and become workers themselves,» Bahn tells Fortune.

As genial as he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealoAs genial as he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealoas he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealot.

Instead, he must find the individuals who can influence its purchase, such as teachers, school district administrators and parents.

As an organization, we view it as part of our mission to up how we interface with all of the other incredible stakeholders in this ecosystem, especially teachers and schools, to figure out how we educate students together, not just all from one sitAs an organization, we view it as part of our mission to up how we interface with all of the other incredible stakeholders in this ecosystem, especially teachers and schools, to figure out how we educate students together, not just all from one sitas part of our mission to up how we interface with all of the other incredible stakeholders in this ecosystem, especially teachers and schools, to figure out how we educate students together, not just all from one site.

Her first job was as an English teacher in Bangkok, Thailand where she taught 140 energetic third and fourth graders at a full inclusion school and learned the art of improvisation.

Founder Charles Best combines his own experiences as a public school teacher in the Bronx with data and analytics savvy that's straight out of Silicon Valley.

She has previously worked as a public health educator and crisis counselor at Washington, DC nonprofits, and as an ESL teacher for primary school & university students, as well as working adults.

And when that same Cruz shot up the school on Valentine's Day, a «pusillanimous» Peterson «cowered in a safe location between two concrete walls» as it «rained bullets upon the teachers and students,» according to the complaiAnd when that same Cruz shot up the school on Valentine's Day, a «pusillanimous» Peterson «cowered in a safe location between two concrete walls» as it «rained bullets upon the teachers and students,» according to the complaiand students,» according to the complaint.

As Krugman would argue, money to the states to prevent firing school teachers, police, and fireman are an easy win.

The Rotman School welcomes business and political leaders as teachers, mentors and speakers.

During his career as an educator, he was a teacher with the Roman Catholic School Board in St. John's, a Supervising Vice-Principal with the Port - au - Port Roman Catholic School Board and a Supervising Principal of the Placentia - St.

«The mother told us that she sees Teddy [a CHP] as a kind of doctor to her and that she has known her for a long time because Teddy was her teacher in grade school.»

Cellphones are still absent from most U.S. schools but new data shows them steadily gaining acceptance as administrators bow to parents» wishes to keep tabs on their kids and teachers find ways to work them into lessons.

They rated Columbia teachers as only «average» — with the exception of a few top - notch professors — and criticized the school for failing to foster a sense of community.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

The autism wing at Double Churches Middle School was expanded to include five full Marcus Model classrooms as well as three additional full - time teachers and six paraprofessionals.

Yet it continues as a core curriculum in most graduate business schools because that's what teachers have been taught to teach, and it's hard for this battleship to change direction» Frank Martin

With a B.A. in English from SUNY at Buffalo and a Master's Degree in Education from Arizona State University, Bonnie started her career as a high school teacher in New Orleans.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Retired Broward teacher Joe Carrier taught a woodworking class at Cross Creek while Cruz attended the school, and remembers Cruz as «a quiet kid» who kept to himself and appeared to be «mildly autistic.»

Each in their early 30s, Joe and Ali Olsen quit their jobs as public school teachers with $ 1 million in the bank in August 2015, retiring after just eight years in the workforce to travel with their young daughter.

Sridevi was cast as a school teacher and a mother bent on avenging the rape of her teenage step daughter by some men, including one of her mates.

Some educators in Arizona are volunteering to care for students and holding food drives as a historic teacher strike that has closed schools stretches on.

Gerald... the difference is that the schools did not coverup the abuse, and teachers are fired and jailed as this comes to light... Your group felt they were above mans laws..

Yes and how we still have children in schools because there are child rapist teachers and how we still have kids in sports because there are child rapist coaches, that's all beyond me as well.

Why yes and since there is a higher incident of sx abuse in families we should castrate all males in families and while we are at ti to be a coach or a school teacher they should all be castrated as well since a significant number of coaches and teachers molest.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The teachers at two different Catholic schools, as well as many years of Cathecism taught me that questioning your faith is a natural and desirable trait, since when your faith wins, it will have grown to be that much stronger.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

I told you before that I was a layman who has been a Sunday School teacher, and that I have taught in missionary settings as well as in counselling.

At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

During successive careers as a legislative analyst, corporate manager, homeschooling parent, and, finally, Catholic - school teacher, I devoured Diane Ravitch's learned critiques of the educational establishment.

It was Sunday school teachers who said that girls who had sex before marriage were «broken,» that no self - respecting Christian man would ever want them after that, and it was the Christian books and conferences that consistently portrayed good Christian girls as helpless princesses in need of rescue.

If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school of human virtues.

My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to nonprofessionals who are in training to lead growth groups.

There's a sort of shared anticipation in the air as the days grow shorter, the breezes get cooler, and folks everywhere begin new journeys together — a new school year for teachers and students, new jobs for recent grads, new projects at work, new Sunday school classes at church, new shows on TV, a new session of Congress in Washington, new routines, new people, new information, new schedules.

whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

Back in the States we most recently had been part of General Baptist churches we were usually involved as worship leaders and Sunday school teachers, my husband a deacon.