Sentences with phrase «teacher and one's unions»

One route is legislative, with teachers and unions advocating for laws providing for autonomous schools.

One issue I have encountered in negotiations on policies — from teachers and unions is the question of how would a teacher demonstrate good pupil progress.

At the same time, teachers and their union leaders are developing new approaches to identifying, promoting, and rewarding teacher leaders.

The groups included representation from classroom teachers and union representatives — they are a great example of the profession taking charge of their own development.

The change also comes in a new political climate for teachers and the union.

Most writers — and I'll include myself in this — are pretty quick to draw a line between teachers and their unions.

For many teachers and the unions who represent them, there is a very real fear of using student performance as one component in evaluating teachers.

Many teachers, and even some administrators, felt the changes were rushed through without proper training — and teachers and union officials complained about classroom discipline issues.

And how must we change, too, so that teachers and their unions become agents of needed improvements?

Did they think teachers and their unions wouldn't politically resist an effort to compel compliance to Common Core through high stakes tests?

We base our findings on the analysis of six excellent examples of how teachers and their unions have been critical to improving public education systems in collaboration with administration.

In the process, he blows apart several pervasive myths that have been used for far too long to let teachers and their unions off the hook.

According to teachers and union staff, the program does not have basic functions that are routinely found in other computer programs, such as an «auto save» feature.

I don't think people should paint you or your school with a broad brush any more than traditional teachers and the unions that represent them.

They were turned off by the way the movie treated teachers and unions.

It is the way to include, not exclude teachers and their unions from the process.

Teachers and union workers came together last legislative session to protest bills that put limits on the collective bargaining process.

But eventually, even they will have to step back into the realities of a new and less open way of talking to and working with teachers and their unions.

According to many teachers and the unions they belong to, well, suck it up.

This analysis reveals that turnout can be an important resource for teachers and their unions.

The chaos that ensued was caught on video, and shows a throng of teachers and union members in the crowd booing the newly proposed contract.

And instead of demanding the bill be stopped until these issues are resolved, the Executive Director of the organization responsible for promoting and preserving Connecticut's school athletic programs is backing Governor Malloy's version and condemning any changes that would bolster the role of teachers and unions in the school governance process.

Upon graduation, you'll become a Chicago Public School teacher and a union member for four years post graduation.

The interests of teachers and their unions don't always coincide with those of students, but on the really big issues, such as overall investment in education, the convergence of interests is strong.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

Tucked into the safety of a right - wing «think tank,» the Malloy we have come to know couldn't resist the opportunity to attack teachers and their unions while accepting the accolades of the corporate education reform industry.

Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

There already is a moratorium on using the test results for teacher evaluations, after teachers and their unions objected to the idea.

The nation's second - largest school system is once again inviting bidders to take over poorly performing and new campuses, in a school - control process that is, once again, pitting teachers and their union against independently operated charter schools, most of which are nonunion.

There's already a moratorium on using the test results for teacher evaluations, after teachers and their unions objected to the idea.

Putting aside the work I've done to speak out for teachers and their unions over the past two years, and my lifetime commitment to public education, Governor Malloy has proven himself to be the most anti-teacher Democratic governor in the country.

We speak with Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher and union representative at Garfield High School.

In Moe's telling, however, the lack of distance between teachers and their unions does not reflect well on unions but rather reflects poorly on teachers.

«This was bad - faith bargaining,» said Vargas, a former teacher and union leader.

Also unlike similar laws passed this legislative session that pitted teachers and their unions against lawmakers, teachers unions helped craft the law.

For at least two and a half decades, political leaders and opinion makers have been telling teachers and union leaders like me that it is high time to move away from the single salary schedule.

Another thing that ticks me off is the amount of prep time is not considered that the teacher had to do, and the money for the popsiclemsticks, snd tubs, and well, PBL needs lots of... TIME... somall teacher and unions will need to add 2 hours of in class teacher time fot the teachers to cover PBL and all common core standards... Why is it teachers do not speak out more about the pressure they must be... Read More

One «myth» is inelegantly phrased as: «While Teachers and Their Unions Use Poverty as a Convenient Smokescreen for Their Own Failures, It's Become Obvious That Grit and Merit Can Overcome Every Disadvantage.»

Democratic state superintendent candidate Glenda Ritz, a Washington Township teacher and union activist.

Do the policymakers have to focus on a villain, in this case, teachers and unions as the bogeyman?

The Tom Mooney Institute for Teacher and Union Leadership is an effort by seasoned local leaders within the teacher union movement to develop the leadership skills and organizational capacity of the next generation of reform minded teacher unionists.

He served as a middle school teacher and union chapter leader, and spent seven years as a school principal, first at a district middle school and then as the founding principal of a charter high school serving over-age and under - credited students who were court - involved or in foster care He comes to Parent Revolution with a deep belief that all students, from all communities and in all kinds of situations, deserve excellent schools and the opportunities afforded by a high quality education.

«Despite years of ugly rhetoric about teachers and their union from the mayor and his allies, New Yorkers come down overwhelmingly on the side of those who go into schools every day and work hard to make children's lives better.»

On Good Day New York, E4E - New York special education teacher and union delegate Susan Keyock discussed the teacher evaluation deadline with Wall Street Journal education reporter Lisa Fleisher.

The NUT, in partnership with other organisations, supports a wide range of international campaigns which aim to: support teachers and their unions, advance high quality education for all, work towards poverty reduction and sustainable development, and promote human rights.

At other times, it was his vehement anti-teacher, anti-union rhetoric that created the impression that his disregard for teachers and their unions made it difficult to know when his explanations were fact or fiction.

Another is bargaining, with teachers and unions advocating for contract provisions that allow for the creation of autonomous teacher - powered schools or make it possible for an individual school to negotiate a package of autonomies.

The unions are willing to hold poor families hostage to a failed system even while a majority of Jersey City teachers and their union president send their own children to private schools.