Sentences with phrase «support teachers across the country»

A couple of months ago I shared about how Staples and Katy Perry are working to support teachers across the country.

«How could we support teachers across the country from one office in Brookline?»

CAS aims to promote the teaching of computing at school and supports teachers across the country.

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«In support of supply teachers across the country, the NASUWT has now given them the opportunity to turn the tables on these ruthless employers by rating the company on a SupplyAdvisor website, exposing exploitative practices.

Jason Ryterband is a mindfulness teacher in Santa Monica, CA, and the founder of Insight Meditation Support, which offers mindfulness resources and one - on - one mentoring to practitioners across the country.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

Since the programme started in 2012, Historic England has provided direct support to more than 600 schools, and training to 3000 teachers and trainee teachers, reaching more than 500,000 schoolchildren across the country.

She and 15 others chosen for the honor organized more than 200 roundtable discussions attended by more than 3,000 teachers across the country, seeking their views on an Obama administration proposal to change how teachers are recruited, prepared, licensed, supported, promoted, and compensated.

73 percent of respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.

Kirsty Williams said: «I hear it often enough, from teachers and headteachers across the country, that time and funding is too often taken up by school maintenance issues, as opposed to supporting learners.

As I work with school administrators across the country, I continue to assist them in ensuring that the teachers they hire have the full realm of support they need to remain in the profession.

NatureMapping organizes support teams across the country, and many state NatureMapping programs have funds available to help pay for bus rides, substitute teachers, field guides, or measuring equipment.

Our hope is that in creating quality online teaching materials and providing support through the wider EAL Nexus project, teachers across the country will feel better prepared to teach EAL learners in their classrooms.

The key objective of the scheme is to support BME teachers to progress into senior leadership positions so the school workforce reflects the diversity of the pupils and staff it represents and so becomes an accepting environment for all cultures and backgrounds, ensuring that BME pupils across the country have strong role models to inspire them.

The competition, supported by Capita SIMS, is now in its sixth year and offers teachers across the country the chance to win a grant of up to # 15,000 for their innovative idea to raise the achievement of disadvantaged children in maths, English or science.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Teachers» unions are playing a strong role in state elections this fall, providing candidates across the country with grassroots support, endorsements, and millions of dollars in campaign contributions — the vast majority of that money flowing to Democrats.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

The Chartered Teacher programme aims to support teachers» personal, professional and career development, and acknowledges and celebrates the fantastic work that happens in classrooms across the country every day.

When I train educators across the country on building relationships with families, I find that what teachers can do to gain families» commitment, involvement, and support falls into these major buckets:

Across the country, teachers and supporters of public schools are vocally supporting the Fight for $ 15, in recognition of the fact that raising wages for families raises academic performance for students.

«I'm proud that Seattle is leading the way with its residency model, and look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure teachers across the country have the resources and support they need to be prepared for the classroom.»

Given this, you'd think school districts would do more to support the development of school - to - school, teacher - to - teacher, and principal - to - principal learning rather than the typical top - down professional development model that is far too common in districts across the country.

The Chartered Teacher programme aims to support teachers» personal, professional and career development and to acknowledge and celebrate the fantastic work that happens in classrooms across the country every day.

Once these are agreed we can look to build a set of descriptors and in turn rigorous, meaningful assessment processes that recognise (and indeed serve to support and develop) the high - quality teaching already happening in many classrooms across the country, rather than adding to teacher workload.

But after almost 15 years of supporting the growth of teachers across the country, we also know that maximizing the reach of professional development into the classroom requires one key ingredient — the instructional leadership of the school's leadership team.

Instructor Daniel Johnson has been a classroom teacher and coach, and as a consultant with Education Elements has supported hundreds of schools and districts to design and implement blended and personalized learning across the country.

Our team has interviewed and observed hundreds of teachers from across the country to learn where technology is falling short in their classrooms and where teachers need additional support to take their instructional practice to the next level.

They work closely with us to develop powerful tools and resources to support Educators Rising students and teacher leaders across the country.

For instance, many teachers unions across the country have opposed merit pay in contract negotiations, despite the fact that individual teachers may support it.

As a result of Minnich's leadership, state education agencies are now better positioned to support their schools and districts, to elevate teacher voice in decision - making and to offer career pathways to every kid across the country.

form the backbone of new secondary - based pathway programs and «grow our own» efforts to support aspiring teachers in high schools across the country.

Holding hundreds of conversations with thousands of teachers and other stakeholders across the country which helped form the basis of the Department's RESPECT project (Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence and Collaborative Teaching) to transform the teaching profession and inform policy efforts to support great teachers and leaders;

I work for the Buck Institute for Education, and we provide professional development across the country, supporting educators, teachers, leaders, instructional coaches in using Project Based Learning or what we call PBL.

We both work with educators across the country, and it's hard to find a teacher who wouldn't want a strong, positive classroom culture that supports the learning needs of all students.

The Teach to Lead Initiative, along with 50 supporting organizations including ASCD, is hosting regional Teacher Leadership Summits to help spotlight the teacher - led work that is happening in states, districts, and schools across the cTeacher Leadership Summits to help spotlight the teacher - led work that is happening in states, districts, and schools across the cteacher - led work that is happening in states, districts, and schools across the country.

CEC supports labor - management collaboration to improve student learning across the country by providing training, resources, and coaching to union leaders, administrators, teachers and principals to build knowledge and capacity for collaboration.

Seminars, conferences and lectures have engaged 10,000 + teachers across the country, and NET Associates have directly supported more than 2000 schools on their improvement journeys.

Although on the surface E4E supports many proposals that union leaders across the country have been fighting, Stone said they've gotten mixed reactions from their teacher peers and union leaders, some of whom approve of E4E.

CEL has been addressing this critical understanding through thousands of hours of support each year to district, school and teacher leaders across the country.

We work with school leaders across the country and support them in asking questions that help design the right professional development for their teachers.

Over time, we have developed four key ways to provide direct support to teacher leaders across the country:

And across the country, states and districts are exploring Broader, Bolder ways to recruit, induct, support, and evaluate teachers:

A boycott by Seattle teachers of district mandated Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests has drawn support from educators, parents and students across the country.

The value - added assessments of teachers — which use improvements in student test scores to evaluate teacher effectiveness — has grown in popularity across the country with support from the federal Department of Education, which has tied teacher evaluations to the Race to the Top state - grant program, reports the New York Times.

Convenings will take place in dozens of cities across the country and are supported by Summit's expert professional development team made up of former teachers, school leaders and district administrators.

Despite consensus efforts like the Teacher Leader Model Standards, however, the array of teacher leadership roles in districts across the country is so broad, and the implementation of these roles so varied, that it is difficult to consistently define them or determine the best ways to supporTeacher Leader Model Standards, however, the array of teacher leadership roles in districts across the country is so broad, and the implementation of these roles so varied, that it is difficult to consistently define them or determine the best ways to supporteacher leadership roles in districts across the country is so broad, and the implementation of these roles so varied, that it is difficult to consistently define them or determine the best ways to support them.

And across the country, states and districts are exploring Broader, Bolder ways to recruit, induct, support, and evaluate teachers: In California, CORE districts are collaborating to craft systems of accountability as a teacher support and school...

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