Sentences with phrase «teacher groups who»

Such protests have brought together school reform advocates and teacher groups who agree that children's best interests should not be subject to the tourism industry's bottom line.

Most of the remaining schools were allocated to the newly formed teacher groups who had greatly strengthened their political position by siding with UTLA against the charters.

Not exact matches

Naturally, when you preach a sermon like this to a group of people who think God hates filthy Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers, and that God's ultimate goal for such people is to kill them and send them to burn forever in hell, you will not be the most popular teacher that this particular audience has ever had.

We must recognize that if someone comes into our group who teaches differently than we do, one of us is a false teacher — and it might not be the other guy.

My favorite part of the post is «that if someone comes into our group who teaches differently than we do, one of us is a false teacher — and it might not be the other guy».

My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to nonprofessionals who are in training to lead growth groups.

Justin's Sunday school teacher connected him with Rick, and assistant pastor at Justin's church who introduced him to a group called Homosexuals Anonymous.

A typical case was that of Domingo F. Sarmiento in Argentina, who in 1869 - 70 invited for the first time a group of Protestant teachers from the United States for the purpose of introducing new educational systems throughout the country.

It behooves school administrators to make professional growth groups available to teachers who desire them as part of their continuing training.

After talking about how the false teachers are bringing destruction upon themselves, Peter is going to give several examples from biblical history about other groups of people who were destroyed.

The teacher asked each of us to select another person in the group who would become our «prayer partner.»

If that is too ambitious, we can at least organize groups of teachers who will develop innovative techniques in their classrooms.

When he studied the lives of those who gave themselves to the search for truth, he saw that they might be classified in four groups: the scholastic theologians, who proclaimed themselves the followers of reason and speculation; the Isma`ilis and other Shi`as who held that to reach truth one must have an infallible living teacher, and that there always is such a teacher; the philosophers, who relied on logical and rational proofs; and the Sufis, who held that they, the chosen of God, could reach knowledge of Him directly in mystical insight and ecstasy.

In 1960 the largest single group of workers was called by the census «professional, managerial, and technical people,» like me and my wife who are teachers.

The school was started by a group of committed parents and teachers who believed they could offer a distinct educational alternative by forming a school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education.

There have been countless moms who have participated in the group who were nannies or preschool teachers in their premom life.

What he loves most about the Corvallis Waldorf School is the feeling of community that comes from a group of parents and teachers who want to improve the lives and futures of our children.

As individuals, we are a group of parents, teachers and helping professionals who have experienced the transforming power of insight and organized ourselves into faculty, staff, facilitators and volunteers to help pass on this insight to others involved with children.

We are a local group of parents, students, teachers, principals, nutritionists, policymakers, anti-hunger advocates, and community members who want our kids to have good food in our schools.

Our camp staff are a diverse group of naturalists, teachers, and college students who want more than a summer job.

Ask any child care teacher who is in charge of a group of potty trainees and they will tell you just how difficult it can be for little arms and hands to manipulate complicated pants, overalls and other clothing when the urge to pee or poop is looming.

The parents were joined early on by an experienced Waldorf teacher, Renate Kurth - Sutherland who became part of the founding group and later became the school's first administrator.

It helps to remember that teaching is communicating knowledge and skills from someone who knows them to someone who doesn't, and that a lot of skills learned by paid teachers are for class management of groups, which we generally don't need as home schoolers (we need parenting skills, to manage our children when we are home schooling, but we need those anyway).

The Care Group comprises experienced teachers and educational support professionals who work together to understand each child's needs.

Geoffrey Canada is a teacher who came up against the most - difficult - to - educate group of kids a teacher can face: kids who grew up in poverty, with broken homes, surrounded by drugs and guns and alcohol.

It was never explicitly stated whether or not the adults were expected to join in the singing and group large motor activities, but after a couple sessions it was clear to me that the parents who sat and watched this circle time tended to have the children who sat and watched, whereas those of us who jumped up and down and wiggled our fannies along with the teacher had children who participated.

I just came home from a meeting with our food service advisory board — a group of parents and teachers who are working with our food service director to improve what our kids are eating.

The program is designed to be run by a professional who is familiar with this age group such as a school social worker, school psychologist, guidance counselor, teacher, or school administrator.

In addition to her clinical skills, Ms. Platt has experience running groups and seminars for parents and teachers who seek behavior management tools.

All donations collected towards the program will go towards covering the meeting space and lodging for the teachers who are gifting their time and travel to the group.

The ways we engage with our friends, the preferences and hostilities we harbour, the views we have about teachers, parents, education, or people from other ethnic groups — however loosely held — can easily be «excavated» by the student of ideologies, who can then identify, classify and maybe even anticipate the ideas and behaviour people display in their roles as members of a society.

There are plenty of teachers who are big backers of AQE, which, of course, is the foundation of Nixon's early support, though she has been branching out with other progressive groups of late.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who made a point recently of speaking to a rally organized by a group tied to the teachers union, says he thinks Cuomo's plan to force teacher evaluation agreements makes sense.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a statewide coalition of education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English speaking.

The proposal to exempt those schools, though, was sharply opposed by most Assembly Democrats, who have close ties to teachers» unions and related education groups.

«The incident arose out of an explosive combination of events, a teacher who was in a fragile state of health and a group of pupils who recognised this and decided to exploit it.

[16] Kennedy received the backing of the New York State United Teachers and realtors, while Grant received the support of the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of state Senate Democrats who sided with Republicans in the Senate.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

Cuomo, who in his first term had a decidedly strained relationship with public - sector labor groups who represent state employees as well as teachers, said there's an «anti-union movement» afoot in the coutnry.

Now, Pellegrino, a reading teacher from West Islip who helped found a grass - roots activist group of former Bernie Sanders supporters, had a county executive, a county party chairman and the state comptroller at a fundraiser where the turnout, at 150, more than doubled what organizers had anticipated.

They said candidates will be presented to the United Federation of Teachers, parent leaders and other groups, but the chancellor makes the final decision on who is hired.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

Through my experience in schools and talking in particular to head teachers, I saw that there is a group of young people who aren't just disadvantaged economically.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

McIntyre, who ran unsuccessfully last May for an at - large - school board seat, said it's important for the Buffalo Teachers Federation and its members to realize advise from the parent group is not against teachers or adminisTeachers Federation and its members to realize advise from the parent group is not against teachers or administeachers or administrators.

At the same time, the two groups have become a major nuisance to Mr. Bloomberg's successor as mayor, Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, who campaigned on reversing some of his predecessor's policies and is friendly with the city teachers» union.

Isis's deputy leader, Abu Alaa Afri, a former physics teacher who was thought to have taken charge of the deadly terrorist group, has been killed in a US - led coalition airstrike.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about an arrest of a former college student who threatened to commit a mass shooting at an unknown elementary school and a group to review teacher ratings system used by the New York State Board of Regents.

The Buffalo union, along with its parent group New York State United Teachers, funneled thousands of dollars and other resources into the races, backing candidates who seemed willing to resolve the contract dispute.