Sentences with phrase «seriously engage teachers»

It would also, from the beginning, seriously engage teachers and the community in setting goals and putting them into practice.

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How Teachers Can and Must Reverse the «Boy Crisis» In the book The Trouble With Boys former Newsweek reporter Peg Tyre outlines boys» struggles in school, describes how education became less friendly to boys, and warns that failing to engage boys in school could seriously impact the nation's future.

Teachers must be able to engage seriously and continuously in their profession's discussions of evaluating teacher quality, of developing standards and curriculum, of allocating resources.

Hearing these divergent voices helps us understand better what different groups mean when they talk about school reform: policymakers and business leaders want new skills and higher standards; parents in disadvantaged communities worry about their children's lack of hope and eroding values; teachers and principals want the central office to take their concerns seriously; students want schools to be more respectful and engaging.

And yet, as the CEA seriously — and finally — engages on this vital issue, along comes the claim that the NWEA MAP test is a valid mechanism for evaluating teachers — a claim that may please Governor Malloy and his anti-teacher friends but is absolutely and completely out of line with the academic evidence and good public policy.

But seriously, the crass manner in which the apostles of corporate education reform have «engaged» parents and teachers from Connecticut to California demonstrates how little respect they have for the communities or «children» whom they claim to value.

To change that, he has established an organization that counsels schools on the best strategies to engage seriously disabled students, then helps to assess technological and teacher training needs.