New Orleans launched a PL - focused
teacher network founded by two educators and supported by New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO), a regional partner.
In a recent survey,
Teachers Network found that 80 percent of teachers said network participation encouraged them to remain in the classroom, while 90 percent said that networking improved their teaching practice.
Not exact matches
And the survey
found 16 % of
teachers said parents were also using social
networking to post comments about
teachers.
The program hosts annual regional conferences, bringing Noyce
Teacher Scholars and administrators together in a structured
networking atmosphere to
find innovative ways to improve STEM teaching and learning strategies in high - need school districts.
Jeanette Deutermann of North Bellmore, a parent and former
teacher who
founded Long Island Opt Out, a grass - roots
network, dismissed the modifications made by the state — from fewer questions and unlimited time to take the exams to a moratorium on a link to
teacher evaluations — as «tweaks.»
Teachers reported they felt they were meeting the needs of students and
findings suggest a need for more professional development and additional planning time as these
networks take root.
Teen Yoga
Network Classes
Founded by Lisa Flynn of ChildLight Yoga and facilitated by the Seacoast Area of
Teachers of Yoga in Action (SATYA), The Teen Yoga
Network is a group of seacoast yoga studios offering free or reduced fee classes for teenagers in order to make yoga for accessible to all.
Tap into our
network to
find amazing tutors, dance instructors, acting coaches and music
teachers.
If you are interested in promoting
Teachers Passions via our Affiliate Program, you can
find information on the Passions
Network affiliate program here.
A good place to start preventing and managing stress in schools is to: • accept that work - related stress might be a problem for employees • understand what work - related stress is as well as the relationship between work and home stress • listen to employees and take action on
findings • set expectations with staff so they understand what can and can not be done for them • make time to tackle stress properly — try using the HSE's stress management tool (available from www.hse.gov.uk/stressstandards/) • ensure staff are aware of available support should they experience work - related stress (e.g.
teacher support
network: www.teachersupport.info).
Maycock's solution was to
found a nonprofit organization that combines rigorous, standards - aligned assessments; data - analysis training and coaching for school leaders and
teachers; guided peer review; and
networking across schools.
Too often,
teachers have worked at home to identify and select Web pages for use in classroom lessons, only to
find that a
network filter prevents students from using those sites.
cohort 1, for example, is leveraging the program to build on her experiences as a kindergarten
teacher in the South Bronx, N.Y., and as the
founding principal of Bushwick Charter School, which is part of the Achievement First
Network.
Several
teachers in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social -
networking site Facebook that school leaders
find objectionable, including one
teacher who wrote, «I hate my students!»
The public is largely disenchanted with the way the federal No Child Left Behind Act measures student learning and
teacher quality, and it would like greater input into the law's implementation, a report scheduled for release this week by the Public Education
Network finds.
Michael Horn: When you
founded Rocketship Education, a school
network, you thought a lot about the human capital challenges and opportunities in education gleaned from your own time as a
teacher and in technology.
Without a sector - wide view of
teacher talent needs and a strategy to tackle them, charter schools with lesser - known brands or smaller infrastructures, like independent schools or regional
networks, will struggle every year to
find enough effective
teachers in high - need subject areas.
Teachers can
find mini-CPD sessions, support and informal
networking opportunities through the 90 + CAS regional hubs that hold termly meetings throughout the UK.
It follows that many of our staff work exclusively with us and have done for some time — schools that work with Key Skills Education as their education recruitment agency will have access to this exclusive
network of
teachers and considerably improve the schools chances of
finding good to outstanding teaching staff for any given vacancy.
«We provide a slow, steady drip of professional development,» says Cornell - Feist, who also helped
found Achievement
Network (see «Teaching the
Teachers,» features, Summer 2012) and, by her count, six other education start - ups.
They can also collaborate with their peers by walking across the room and showing them their results on the iPad, they can ask the
teacher questions through the
network, and the students can
find, or better yet, create pressure simulations to predict the results.
In addition to
founding Democracy Prep, he also worked in the
network's schools in roles ranging from
teacher to principal to superintendent.
Larry Sand, a former LAUSD
teacher who
founded California
Teachers Empowerment Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to educate teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liab
Teachers Empowerment
Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to educate
teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liab
teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liabilities.
Below, you'll
find categorized suggestions, from the Learning
Network staff and from
teacher - friends around the country, for great Times essays, articles, Op - Eds and humor pieces on a range of topics to read aloud to your students — no matter what their ages.
«It can give students access to great
teachers... enable them to tap into resources they would never
find in a school's media center... help them personalize their learning... open doors to forge
networks with other students across the world.»
The New
Teacher Project (TNTP) recently looked at professional development in large school districts and a charter school
network and concluded that «We
found no evidence that any particular kind or amount of professional development consistently helps
teachers improve.»
AACTE is excited to launch a new webinar series highlighting the experiences and
findings of each of the 10 institutions in the AACTE Black and Hispanic / Latino Male
Teachers Initiative
Networked Improvement Community (NIC).
Next month, AACTE will host the second installment of a webinar series highlighting the experiences and
findings of each of the 10 institutions in the AACTE Black and Hispanic / Latino Male
Teachers Initiative
Networked Improvement Community (NIC).
Edge and Mylopoulos (2008)
found that participation in a cross-school
network of
teacher leaders contributed to
teacher leaders» confidence in providing instructional support to
teachers, including demonstration lessons.
Founded in 2006 by East San Jose native and National Board Certified
Teacher Frances Teso, Voices is a public charter school
network with a mission to prepare all students for the challenges of higher education through the context of an academically rigorous dual - language program.
The NCSS
Network Ning incorporates many of the features and affordances
found in other contemporary online
teacher networks.
In Chicago, she taught special education and high school math for four years as well as was a
founding math
teacher at a charter
network.
The Expertise: We have
found it essential to support our
teacher and school partners with a
network of experts who can serve as resources during the design thinking — and execution — process.
Some
teachers, however,
found ways to integrate the arts into their curricula despite these obstacles and cite that they help generate the support they need to do so by providing research and advocacy on arts integration to their administrators, building a
network of allies within their schools, and thoroughly documenting the outcomes of their students» achievement learning in arts integrated lessons.
Instead of blaming them or throwing up their hands in despair, the
teachers begin to use language of empowerment and persistence in
finding a
network of support for their instruction, their school environment, and the community.
Relay is a
teacher preparation program
founded in 2011 by three high - achieving charter school
networks that were concerned about the quality of
teachers coming out of traditional degree programs.
A study of how elementary school
teachers used social
networks during reform efforts (Daly, Moolenaar, Bolivar, & Burke, 2010)
found that they interacted primarily with fellow
teachers in the same school and grade level; they rarely reached out beyond those groups, not even to their own principals and instructional coaches.
Founded in 2014, Georgia PTO is the only statewide
network of autonomous parent and
teacher organization chapters dedicated increasing K - 12 parental engagement.
Founded in 1891, the Canadian Education Association (CEA) is a
network of passionate educators advancing ideas for greater student and
teacher engagement in public education.
And
teachers and principals alike are
finding informal support through professional learning
networks.
After 13 years in secondary public education, I entered the
teacher preparation arena and
found the value of Twitter and social
networking for professional development purposes.
It wasn't until the Florida
Teacher of the Year Roundtable where I learned about the
Teacher LEAD
Network and began to
find my direction.
These were the
findings in a report «Still on the Right Trajectory,» released by the National
Network of State
Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY), in partnership with EducationCounsel and Clowder Consulting.
The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English
teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach,
founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the
founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars
Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.
A 2009 report by The School Redesign
Network at Stanford University
found that many
teachers are not getting the type of professional development that they say is most useful, which is focusing on their specific content area.
Coaches must
find out what methods of communication work best for each of the
teachers they are working with, like emails, texts, phone calls, Ning social
networking sites, etc..
Achievement First, a charter
network founded in New Haven, is also trying to promote
teacher leadership.
Prior to
founding Internationals
Network for Public Schools, Claire worked in diverse roles and settings spanning public secondary education,
teacher education and community / workplace organizing.
Our online curriculum center also allows these same IB
teachers to
network globally, where they can share with other
teachers what they are doing and
find out what is working and what is not.
However, the longitudinal
findings emerging from this tool should, at a
network - level, inform collaboration opportunities across coaching teams,
teacher and coach professional development, and of course, additional supports and resource allocation.