Sentences with phrase «teacher organization at»

I also volunteer for the parent - teacher organization at my daughter's school.

The parent - teacher organization at the school has been raising money to pay for a new wooden floor in the gym and has already raised $ 100,000, said Kim Anderson, co-president of the PTO.

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He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

Of course I was never a teacher at a religious school, but its interesting though not surprising to me that his organizations could not support his experiment.

New York based wine importer Cape Classics is making great strides to transform the South African wine industry through the establishment of the Indaba Education Fund (IEF), a fully accredited 501 (c)(3) organization which provides early childhood teacher training, learning materials, and educational infrastructure to young, at - risk children living in the South African Winelands.

Sunbridge graduates enjoy teaching and administrative careers at Waldorf schools and early childhood centers, teacher education institutes, and affiliated organizations across the U.S. and around the world.

Marian's life is an eclectic mix: child of the Great Depression, mother of seven, global ambassador of a fledgling breastfeeding support organization, during a time period when most women were either stay - at - home mothers or were working as teachers, secretaries, or factory workers.

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

The American Federation of Teachers in Connecticut, the NAACP and other unions and community organizations are looking to pick up the torch lit by those who rallied 50 years ago at the March on Washington.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Teachers and directors at pre-K centers in community - based organizations (CBOs)-- which make up about half of all the city's pre-K offerings — make significantly less and have fewer benefits than their counterparts at Department of Education pre-K centers.

Bullied has been endorsed by Charles Haynes, Senior Scholar at the First Amendment Center; Kevin Gogin, Program Coordinator, Support Services for LGBT Youth, San Francisco Unified School District; Sandra Lee Fewer, Commissioner, San Francisco Unified School District and these organizations: Alabama Safe Schools Coalition, Anti-Defamation League, Committee for Children, Encompass, Fortunate Families, GLSEN, Groundspark, Mississippi State Schools Coalition, National Safe Schools Coalition, NEA, New York State United Teachers, PFLAG National and Welcoming Schools / HRC.

Members of the New Paltz United Teachers (NPUT) organization were at the meeting wearing their signature red t - shirts emblazoned with the word «Respect» on the back.

But as a result of our grassroots organization, we were at least able to put back the number of teachers and put back the firehouses and senior centers,» Upper Manhattan City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said.

Hawkins, who is polling at 9 %, has picked up the endorsement of a number of teacher organizations and education advocates, including the Buffalo Teachers Federation and Diane Ravitch.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

THAT at the upcoming conventions of the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, NYSUT sponsor and support resolutions encouraging teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon their pension and retirement funds to not invest in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the rights to organize into a union and bargain collectively.

ChangetheStakes.org, a citywide grassroots organization, is one of the groups helping to promote an important discussion on high stakes testing, the Common Core curriculum and teacher evaluations this Wednesday at Lehman College in the Bronx.

His relationship with the magazine helped lead the way to his joining the board of directors for its parent organization, Science Connected, a nonprofit aimed at creating equal access to science education and providing resources to science teachers.

«Leaders at every level, from grade school teachers and principals, to heads of national and international organizations and governments, must convey respect, support and enthusiasm for all who venture into STEM.»

A mentor is supposed to be not just a teacher but also an older guide to career, life, and whatever,» says Thomas von Foerster, a retired science publisher who is one among the many mentors at the Point Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that provides mentoring, scholarships, and leadership training for LGBT students in the humanities and sciences.

The research team measured teacher - child interactions at the start and end of the program using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), an observation tool with three components: emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support.

Whether you want to bring yoga to schools, prisons, hospitals, or homeless shelters, there is not only a teacher training, but also at least a half a dozen organizations dedicated to helping you.

She is also a certified yoga instructor and meditation teacher, writer and speaker for organizations including Standard Medicine X, The Clinton Foundation, Health 2.0, Summit at Sea, and Further Future on how we can reinvent health care.

It tells the story of my time volunteering as an art teacher at an anti-trafficking organization, Odanadi Seva Trust in Mysore, India.

In a nutshell, this is the mission of Kula for Karma, a New York City - based nonprofit organization of trained volunteer yoga teachers who provide breath work, therapeutic yoga and meditation classes at no cost to people in need, particularly those who are facing illness, disease and chronic pain, or recovery from abuse, trauma and addiction.

34th Annual KidFilm Festival, January 20 - 21, 2018 To request a schedule of events, send us an email marked «KidFilm Schedule» to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Teachers who would like to book an arts - in - education field trip in February 2018 or Summer for your camp, organization, class or entire school (Grades K - 5), contact the Festival any time of year at 214-821-6300.

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

Wayne Urban, professor of education and an expert on teacher unions, notes that NEA president Robert Chase gave a pivotal address on behalf of new unionism at the National Press Club in 1997, calling for «the transformation of his organization away from the adversarial stance institutionalized in collective bargaining toward one that was more professional.»

We also have a special recognition at our Teacher of the Year banquet, along with some small mementos donated by local organizations and businesses.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

A recent study at the state level asked experts to rank interest groups according to political influence, and the teacher unions came out number one, outdistancing business organizations, trial lawyers, doctors, insurance companies, environmentalists, and even the state AFL - CIO affiliates.

Furthermore, not only does the organization train hundreds of teachers in the region — 150 of whom have been recognized as leaders in their field — but ConTextos directly serves over 10,000 at - risk youth in El Salvador alone, one of the world's most violent nations.

Those sites and non-NASA sites, such as the Challenger Center, provide programs, resources, and links to other outstanding organizations at which teachers can find hundreds of additional opportunities.

Hobson applied to be a teacher fellow with StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's organization that works to enact public education policy that puts students» interests at the forefront.

At my organization, my colleagues and I also feel that means we have to live what we want teachers to live.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

Most IEP students arrive with professional experience in international education and development, perhaps as teachers or administrators at international schools, Peace Corps volunteers, field researchers with NGOs, or policy analysts with U.S. - based aid organizations.

The average tenure of teachers at Partnership Schools is more than ten years, over four times that of some the larger charter management organizations in the city.

Teachers can find some classroom activities at the Web site of the National Flag Day Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to educating all Americans about the history and origin of the flag as well as the major people and events in history that have shaped the United States.

The principal now plans to address this by having teachers create better classroom routines around organization and working with parents to implement these techniques at home.

Instead of taking a TFA position teaching French at a rural Arkansas school, Ms. Anderson opted to join a similar, but smaller and less renowned organization, the Mississippi Teacher Corps.

Strange Bedfellows Dillon calls it a «strange - bedfellows twist,» and his story describes how Michelle Rhee, former D.C. superintendent, has hired George Parker, former head of the district's teachers union, as a part time senior fellow at her new advocacy organization Students First.

That's the verdict rendered at a two - day conference this week put on by Teachers College, Columbia University, and by the Campaign for Educational Equity, a research and advocacy organization based at the college.

The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a national, nonprofit organization that works to provide systematic support to new teachers, and more recently principals, through the use of full - time mentors.

Students can present their projects at a community event involving parents, teachers, and local businesses and organizations.

And King knew Steiner through Teacher U, a teacher training program Steiner launched as a partnership with three high - performing charter management organizations while he was at Teacher U, a teacher training program Steiner launched as a partnership with three high - performing charter management organizations while he was at teacher training program Steiner launched as a partnership with three high - performing charter management organizations while he was at Hunter.

Even teacher organizations that would lose half of their membership and half of their collegial help at the school site will capitulate to the siren song of higher salaries.

They report that prominent organizations such as the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group workTeachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group workteachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group work.»

At the time, 1952, we are told, there were 106 teachers» organizations in the New York City school system.