Sentences with phrase «support teacher efforts»

Although I already support our teachers efforts, witnessing their lessons garnered more support from me... and I believe that would be the case for most parents.

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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.

The group supports teachers and community organizations in their effort to teach pre-teens, teens and young adults the financial skills they'll need for financial independence and decision - making.

Proposed by one of the teachers, Jörg Holler, the project was supported by ProVeg Deutschland (formerly VEBU, German's Vegetarian Association) and the health insurance company BKK ProVita, under the aegis of their Pflanzenpower — Plant Power — campaign, part of an effort to help children understand the benefits of meat free eating.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

Encourage and support the teachers» efforts.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

Cuomo aides shot back, comparing the state Senate bill Bloomberg supports with Wisconsin - style efforts to evade collective bargaining with the teachers union.

Notably, some of the unions that declined to endorse de Blasio in the Democratic mayoral primary are participating in the new, coordinated effort, including the United Federation of Teachers, which supported Bill Thompson, and 32BJ Service Employees International Union, which supported Christine Quinn.

The Parents Teachers Association (PTA), of the Tsito - Awudome Senior High School (AWUSCO), in the Volta Region, have explained that the decision to levy students despite the implementation of government's Free Senior High School Policy was a collective resolve by parents to support the school's efforts to enhance the academic performance of students.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher says union support is key to the effort with the Department of Education to train teachers.

Cuomo, too, has been at odds with the New York State United Teachers over education policy efforts as well his support for charter schools.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

Through a collaborative effort with city school teachers, funds are raised through wonderful music concerts to support summer lessons for students at Hochstein School of Music and the Eastman Community Music.

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

DonorsChoose.org, which was founded in 2000 and has funded more than 328,000 projects proposed by more than 137,000 teachers in more than 46,000 schools around the country, Wednesday launched a new donor site — DonorsChoose.org/Newtown — to support classroom efforts of teachers in Newtown.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

Institutional recognition of and support for the champion (s) is crucial for sustaining the leadership of efforts supporting physics teacher education.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.

Responding to the country's critical need for STEM teachers, and for teaching that supports students all the way to graduation and employment in ever - expanding STEM fields, education researchers and practitioners have fought hard to build effective approaches, and AAAS has helped to spearhead those efforts, said Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

The ASP's Arthur B.C. Walker II Award has been established to honor an outstanding scientist whose research and educational efforts substantially contributes to astronomy and who has (1) demonstrated a substantial commitment to mentoring students from underrepresented groups pursuing degrees in astronomy and / or (2) been instrumental in creating or supporting innovative and successful STEM programs designed to support underrepresented students or their teachers.

You can help support Coordinators, and teachers and help us develop systems and materials that will maintain the professionally consistent effort required by prisons.

My soul, like an inner teacher, directed me from an early age to note the magic and depth of spirit that arises when feminine energy is explored in community in effort to support, restore, empower, and have fun with each other.

One teacher is selected annually for the Yoga District - sponsored Maggio Grant of $ 300 to help support yoga outreach efforts.

It does get some support from another storyline, involving the conception efforts of Alex's roommate / sister Sue (Pam Cook), an abstinence teacher, and her husband Stan (Michael Cornacchia), a newly - cast costumed performer on the type of children's show that hasn't existed in decades.

By year three of the program — when individual teachers will implement it in their classrooms — we will have a consistent behavior matrix for all to use and a catchy acronym with a logo and posters to support our efforts.

National Lab Day, the day itself, is a capstone day to celebrate the yearlong efforts and collaborations between students, teachers, STEMprofessionals and community volunteers - all supporting and pursuing fun hands - on learning.

The Washington - based research organization, which supports deregulation and market - driven school improvement efforts, gives the United States as a whole a D - plus in its report, «The Quest for Better Teachers: Grading the States.»

The company is passionate about praising and encouraging children at school in order to boost their self - esteem and support their academic development, as a «Well Done» sticker, «Teacher's Award» badge or «Super Effort» stamp may seem small, but they make a child feel really proud of their achievements, spurring them on to work harder.

And it means that the district provides teacher leaders like Golden to support them in that effort — teacher leaders who meet monthly with the district's academic services division for professional learning to equip them with the skills they need to help schools succeed.

But it has the potential to support teachers» current efforts to establish where individuals are in their learning, to meet students» differing learning needs and to ensure that every student is appropriately challenged.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

These students challenge school support and, often, they do not return the positive feedback loop for teachers» persistent efforts to engage.

Enthusiasts concentrated on designing instructional materials, consulting with states and districts, and training leaders and teachers, seemingly presuming that the public knew what they were up to and supported their effort.

The National Education Association should support efforts to connect elementary and high school classrooms to a national, fiber - optic telecommunications network and take other steps to bring teachers into the information age, according to a new report.

At the same time, they're wrong to imagine that changing policies regarding teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, or school choice will deliver as hoped, absent efforts to help school officials to think differently and then provide the support they need to tackle rules, regulations, and contracts in new ways.

When we first visited schools in spring 2016 for this project — a multi-year, multi-method study of systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning — teachers seemed to be taking on an unsustainably heavy lift as they transitioned to personalizing student learning (PL).

«I support the growing effort of states and school districts to create new incentives that encourage more of America's teachers to take the challenge to become National Board Certified.

[Adjunct Lecturer] Linda Nathan has expertly modeled strength with flexibility as a school leader and practitioner, and she has really supported my efforts as a teacher.

Efforts at the state level have been supported by the Clinton administration's class - size reduction program, passed in 1998, which was to fund the hiring of around 29,000 new teachers during the 1999 - 2000 school year alone.

Despite the Obama administration's continued efforts to build support for merit pay among teachers, the vast majority remains unconvinced.

Union pronouncements about the success or failure of the process, however, and unions» work with states and districts and outside partners on the standards, do influence the materials and supports that are being provided to teachers, and also help shape media and public perceptions of the initiative, and in theory could shape lawmakers» positions on whether to continue, pause, or reengineer the effort.

His generous contributions to the Harvard Graduate School of Education led to the creation of WIDE World and helped support other efforts such as Project on the Next Generation of Teachers and Usable Knowledge.

In recent years, education entrepreneurs have been busy creating tools and services to support teachers and students in an effort to break into what is now a $ 19 billion market.

Surveys show teachers still support the effort.

10, are partnering with the Milton, Mass., school district to study the rollout of the Creative Computing guide, and they plan other follow - up efforts to see how this guide can fit into broader strategies of supporting teachers.

Case studies of exceptional schools indicate that school leaders influence learning primarily by galvanizing effort around ambitious goals and by establishing conditions that support teachers and that help students succeed (Togneri and Anderson, 2003).

The success of any effort to reduce class size ultimately depends on the quality of the teachers and giving teachers the support, time and tools to succeed.

Speaking at a special forum as part of the National Science Teachers Association's 42nd annual meeting, Leon M. Lederman, a physicist and the director emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said he supports a national effort to revise the curriculum into a «pyramidal» model with a strong foundation of math and physics.