Sentences with phrase «teacher at a public charter school»

Trevor Baisden is a founding fifth grade ELA and history teacher at a public charter school.

As a teacher at a public charter school and a Teach for America Corps Member, Ravitch, while respected in the field, continually belittles the work I do in the classroom.

Which candidate will support great teachers at public charter schools and traditional public schools alike?

Not exact matches

Charter school advocates pointed to their schools» impressive results - many outperform neighboring public schools - and lashed out at United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, who accused them of being «fixated» on raising the state cap.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

His hourlong visit on National Teachers Day also included a brief meeting with special - needs students at P.S. 149, a public school that shares a building with the charter school.

Certifications earned under these regulations will only be valid at charter schools authorized by SUNY, so teachers who want to transfer to other charters or to traditional public schools will need to take additional steps to earn a conventional state certification.

Many teachers are particularly outraged at Cuomo's support of charter schools instead of existing district schools — he even recently said he wants to break up the monopoly that is public education.

At rallies and protests, parents and teachers argued that Moskowitz's charter schools have a poor track record of sharing space with other public schools.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, the union of the city's teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public Teachers, the union of the city's teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public schools.

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

«I had expectations of what the parents were supposed to do,» says Melissa Bryant, a math teacher and dean of students at D.C. Scholars Stanton Elementary, a novel partnership between the Washington, D.C., public schools and Scholar Academies, a charter operator.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instTeachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instteachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty skepticism — of teachers unions to the charter school movement, districts with a greater union presence were more likely to have a charter school and to have a greater share of public school students enrolled in charter schools in 2003 — 04.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

• Charter schools employ many inexperienced teachers at pay that is competitive with other public schools.

In public schools, teachers claim their level of control over their teaching is 4.8 on a 6 - point scale, while charter and private school teachers rate their level of control at 5.6 on a 6 - point scale.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappocharter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the sSchool in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the sschool initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the schoolschool.

In this post, I share excerpts from a recent interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning teacher who teaches AP US history and 10th - grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma, a high school that is part of the Summit Public Schools charter network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Tteachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of TeachersTeachers.

Kardos and Liu randomly selected a sample of 110 new teachers in New Jersey teaching at both charter and non-charter public schools, and surveyed them about their experiences with the hiring process and the professional culture.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

Notably, while most teachers in traditional public schools are tenured and have multiyear contracts, 96 percent of charter teachers in their study were either at - will employees or had annual contracts; thus charters can and do separate ineffective teachers.

For example, the AFT first states, «Charter school salaries tend to be competitive with other public schools at the beginning - teacher salary level and less competitive for more experienced teachers.»

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

Attempts to establish public charter schools in Maryland have been thwarted at almost every turn by entrenched school boards, teachers unions and principals resistant to any competition.»

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Students at Match Community Day Charter Public School jump to attention at resident teacher Erica Vuolle's command.

We, two public school teachers in Los Angeles, made a choice to teach at Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, the largest public charter network in Los Anpublic school teachers in Los Angeles, made a choice to teach at Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, the largest public charter network in Los AnPublic Schools, the largest public charter network in Los Anpublic charter network in Los Angeles.

In 2004, teachers and parents at five of seven public schools voted (by margins greater than 70 percent) to convert to charter schools so we'd have more control locally.Since that time, we have made great strides.

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Eric Murphy, a seventh grade humanities teacher at Excel Public Charter School in Kent, takes his students through a lesson about Syrian refugees and the issues surrounding whether or not they should be able to emigrate to this country, in January.

At Aspire Public Schools, the charter - school network, teachers were assigning projects long before the implementation of the Common Core, said Chief Academic Officer Elise Darwish.

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In this blog post, Umut Özek, a principal researcher at AIR, describes a new study in which he and his fellow authors examined the disparities in teacher effectiveness between charter schools and traditional public schools in Florida.

Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is coauthor, with Halley Potter, of A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, to be published next month by Teachers College Press.

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After teaching Social Studies in St. Paul Public Schools for three years, David co-founded El Colegio Charter School in Minneapolis and served as start - up coordinator, board member, advisor, special education teacher, lead teacher, and executive director during his 13 + years at the sSchool in Minneapolis and served as start - up coordinator, board member, advisor, special education teacher, lead teacher, and executive director during his 13 + years at the schoolschool.

«All throughout my childhood, I saw how much she enjoyed working with her students,» said Chaffee, a ninth - grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy public charter school in Boston, Mass. «She showed me that education is powerful and we can change the course of our lives through learning.»

Public charter school teacher Nicholas Simmons once wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he «worked in the same building as the Wadleigh Secondary School, at which 0 percent of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis aschool teacher Nicholas Simmons once wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he «worked in the same building as the Wadleigh Secondary School, at which 0 percent of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis aSchool, at which 0 percent of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis added).

The Texas Charter Schools Association (TCSA) held its sixth 2017 Texas Public Charter Schools Rally earlier this week at the state capitol with public charter school students, parents, teachers, leaders, and advocates from campuses across theCharter Schools Association (TCSA) held its sixth 2017 Texas Public Charter Schools Rally earlier this week at the state capitol with public charter school students, parents, teachers, leaders, and advocates from campuses across the Public Charter Schools Rally earlier this week at the state capitol with public charter school students, parents, teachers, leaders, and advocates from campuses across theCharter Schools Rally earlier this week at the state capitol with public charter school students, parents, teachers, leaders, and advocates from campuses across the public charter school students, parents, teachers, leaders, and advocates from campuses across thecharter school students, parents, teachers, leaders, and advocates from campuses across the state.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute looked at teacher absenteeism in states with both traditional public and public charter schools.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes wereTeachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes wereteachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

Golden Oak Public Charter Montessori School filled a 57 passenger bus with Upper Elementary students, teachers, parents, Board members and Head of School and headed for Charter School Advocacy Day at the Capitol in Sacramento.

Grant Design Team members are all Oakland public school employees and include at least two full - time Oakland public school teachers (PreK - 12 in district - run or charter - run Oakland schools)

Rep. Rob Bryan is working on legislation behind the scenes in the General Assembly that could turn over poorly performing public schools to for - profit charter school companies who could then fire teachers and administrators at will with no accountability.