Sentences with phrase «teacher meetings last»

We had parent - teacher meetings last week, where it was suggested my kids spend more time on the computer.

Leaders of New York State United Teachers met last month to talk about a possible merger with the National Education Association of New York, but no decision was made, according to Dennis Tompkins, a spokesman for NYSUT.

Not exact matches

For the last five years, a group of gifted teachers of philosophy and law has been meeting regularly with friends on the federal bench under the auspices of our James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding.

I've met lots of great teachers over the last year or so and have been so inspired by them all, but one of the most inspiring teachers is Steffy — she's amazing.

As a last resort, ask to meet with the other child's parents, but do so only with the teacher, guidance counselor or principal present.

In last year's inaugural Illinois 5Essentials Survey, 87 percent of all schools in the state met the 50 - percent participation threshold to receive a Report with participation from more than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible 6th through 12th graders across Illinois.

Last week the girls met their teacher's and brought their school supplies to their classrooms.

Over the last couple of weeks, teachers and their supporters built the action and held meetings to make lunches for students who will miss school.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

«The last time stakeholders met, the agreement was that steps should start for their payment in June,» the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers David Ofori Acheampong told 3FM 92.7.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

HARLEM — Despite being given a last - minute reprieve, dozens of parents and teachers from Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts attended the Panel for Education Policy meeting Thursday night where 23 schools were shut down.

Last night's meeting featured several West Seneca teachers and administrators who are also parents of kids in the school district.

Trump first floated the idea of arming teachers and school officials after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month — an idea that was met with immediate criticism.

The Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE - UFT) voted unanimously at our last General Body meeting to propose that the United Federation of Teachers, instead of sitting out this gubernatorial race, endorse the pro-public education platform presented by Howie Hawkins for Governor and Brian Jones for Lieutenant Governor.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, met last week with a group of elected officials and George Gresham, the president of SEIU 1199.

Last month, StudentsFirstNY officials met with public school parents to talk about the issues surrounding teacher evaluations.

State Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) has asked local superintendents to meet with their school's community members — including parents, students, teachers, and PTAs — to organize their comments and questions relating to Common Core, teacher evaluations, standardized testing and student privacy, and submit them to his office by last Thursday.

He did say he did not know how teachers would react if the contract was not settled by the time of an all - teachers meeting he called last fall.

The fast tracking of the new national Common Core standards set off a near rebellion last fall, as parents, teachers and students voiced their concerns at often raucous meetings with state education officials.

[Here's a follow - up on a post from last week about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's meeting with Long Island teachers who protested his appearance at the Suffolk County Democrat Party dinner.]

When the teachers» union made all those calls last year claiming the board of education had secret meetings, I thought no way.

The first meeting between the president of the Syracuse teachers» union and the superintendent of the school system since their relationship publicly disintegrated last week has been called «productive.»

The UFT and DOE representatives have been meeting since last week, including most of Saturday and Sunday, to hammer out the details of a new teacher evaluation system.

He has argued that the information was coincidental to the closed door meetings, and necessary to expose the financial troubles presented by a teacher's contract that he says was «rigged» when the Buffalo Teaches Federation supported candidates in last year's school board session.

In the last the discussion of the meeting there were 4 conclusions about improving education in science: to motivate and pay teachers well (primary and secondary levels), to promote science via the media (government back up), to inspire leaders to start the change, and to develop a good mentoring system so the student can study at home and go back to the professor with questions.

We held a Teacher Informational meeting last week, which has been posted.

Last night was Cooper's school orientation / meet the teacher night.

When would teachers hold their «reflection meeting,» the last step in the assessment cycle, to look at the new results?

Consensus needs to be reached on the focus of the observation (teacher, students or both), the frequency and duration of observations, the structure of pre - and post-observation meetings, who is going to own and control these data (critical with video recordings), and last, but certainly not least, the classroom observation guide to be used.

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«I don't make it competitive,» Goodrow, a special education teacher, told Education World during one of the last club meetings in May 2004.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

At its quarterly meeting last month, the board also elected Josephine Bennett, a teacher of secondary - school biology in Memphis; Lois Jean Turner, a teacher at Stix Investigative Learning Center in St. Louis; Alma Garcia Vining, an elementary - school teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school system.

Hayes even met with Secretary of Education John King last November about how better to recruit and retain minority teachers.

Budget cuts and travel restrictions placed on school personnel did not dissuade more than 18,000 reading teachers and experts from around the world from meeting here last week for the 48th annual conference of the International Reading Association.

The teacher recruitment crisis affects the majority of subjects — six per cent of the 29,787 postgraduate teacher training places went unfilled last year with only history, English and physical education meeting or exceeding their target quotas.

To support that position, I met with our computer science teacher at the end of last year.

After two years, the schools were no longer required to hold weekly meetings for their planning teams; instead, unsuccessful algebra teachers (those whose teaching allowed fewer than 15 percent of their students to pass the end - of - course exam last year) would be pulled out of their classes for eight days of in - depth training.

Several technology - related businesses planned to announce new products during the National Science Teachers Association annual meeting last week in Boston, but only one offered a «sneak preview» of a science - related coming attraction.

«Government ministers» sons and daughters don't go to FE colleges,» observed a frustrated councillor and former teacher last week, at a meeting to agree a college merger.

The four finalists who have been chosen for the 1996 National Teacher of the Year program met last week in Washington for their final interviews with a national selection committee.

Last year we recognised some incredibly dedicated teachers and staff from all corners of the country and we're looking forward to meeting even more inspiring individuals this year.

Educators from these schools, several new teachers from our existing partner schools (Emerson Elementary School, Oakland International High School, Oakland Technical High School, and Park Day School) and last year's AbD cohort met for the first time as a group on September 17 at Claremont Middle School.

At the COBO Center in Detroit last summer, I followed Teach for America's new co-CEOs, Matt Kramer — a former McKinsey consultant whose wife did TFA — and Elisa Villanueva Beard — who began her career as a TFA teacher in her native Rio Grande Valley — to a basement meeting room.

Furthermore, if a... meeting will last longer than one hour, the administration is required by contract to notify teachers of the date and expected duration at least one calendar week in advance.»

Burlington, Vt — Convening what the state schools chief called «the largest faculty meeting I have ever seen,» Vermont officials late last month brought together a 12th of the state's teachers to brief them on their pioneering assessment program.

A national panel of scholars met here last week to begin work on a mammoth task: synthesizing research on all the ways in which teachers are prepared across the United States and advising policymakers on how to improve the process.

Five hundred representatives from 27 university, teacher, and business groups met in Houston last month for the first - ever Texas Congress for Educator Preparation.

Over the duration of the last academic year I have been studying this theory, using learning observations, meetings with teachers, student voice, book looks and learning walks (supportive strolls) as sources of information from which I could hopefully draw some conclusions.