Sentences with phrase «teacher organizations often»

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As a therapist who has taught on the national level for over a decade to families and childcare organizations like Parents As Teachers, First Steps, Children's Hope International, and more about the value of attachment, I knew that truly gentle sleep support for parents was hard to come by and too often attached to a big price tag (from $ 50 to sometimes $ 350 for private coaching, site memberships, books / videos, etc).

Teachers who insist on assigning homework to young children often cite executive function benefits (time management, organization, that kind of thing) as their rationale.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

Teacher education programs are so focused on content knowledge that they often fail to provide adequate preparation on child and adolescent development, concludes a report scheduled to come out this week from two leading organizations in those respective fields.

English, who before enrolling in the Arts in Education (AIE) Program worked as a theater teacher and in nonprofit arts organizations, theorized that exercises utilized in the theater — often constructed around listening, connecting, and sharing — could transcend the stage and be used by people from different backgrounds to interact in powerful ways.

Most of the nation's colleges of education are doing an inadequate job of preparing aspiring elementary teachers for what is often characterized as their most important task: teaching children to read, a report by a Washington - based advocacy and research organization concludes.

Schools have changed relatively little, mainly because of turf battles fought by the knot of organizations that we politely call «the education system»: teachers unions and school boards try to protect their monopolies, publishing companies try to reinterpret all new ideas back into the profitable forms of the past, various levels of government try to protect their relevance by getting in front of every new concern, pretending to lead while aggressively and often destructively following whatever trends they have the wit to perceive.

Learning organizations, or professional learning communities as they are often called in school settings, insist that no teacher and no administrator is alone when it comes to raising achievement.

There was no consensus on what the 188 speakers — school superintendents, executives of advocacy organizations, parents needing interpreters, high school students and teachers — had to say during the orderly but often impassioned one - minute testimonies that went on nearly five straight hours.

As teachers seek to balance instruction in the development and organization of ideas with choices in language fluency and correctness, they often ask, «What is the relationship between writing instruction and grammar?

However, for such renewal to occur professors of ITTE must remain cognizant and respectful of the multiple organizations and individuals involved in the preparation of teachers and the common barriers these organizations and individuals often face related to technology integration.

These groups are often called «teacher - voice organizations,» and in many cases they are established with the aim of giving practicing teachers direct access to influence the policies that affect their practice.

The group has also helped TFA's teachers of color build a public identity, which helps challenge the «messianic, white Ivy Leaguers» image often cited by the organization's critics.

Meanwhile, Democrat Brown not only has the support of the California Teachers Association and there is evidence he might also eventually receive support of the California Charter Schools Association - two organizations that are often at odds politically.

Often, the something that gets done to a Priority School in Tennessee is to fire the school's principal or teachers, hand the school over to a charter school management organization, or a mixture of the above.

While Mississippi's charter proponents were preaching a version of the school choice gospel, national teachers» unions and other professional organizations that often align with Democrats were uncomfortable with charter schools» freewheeling approach to hiring and firing educators.

In contrast to traditional teacher preparation programs, which often do not recruit and place candidates in specific districts to fulfill the districts» particular needs, residents are recruited to work for the partner district (or charter management organization) and fulfill its hiring needs (e.g., filling shortage subject areas and / or teaching in specific schools).

Parents and classroom teachers, who often teamed up in the opt out movement, have been in a permanent campaign mode and are building organizations in most states.

Often, that means more participation in teachers» unions, and the organization encourages such work.

The organizations to which SEAs were linking the most often are a mix of policy organizations, including the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers (official sponsors of the CCSS), literacy organizations like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Literacy Association, and organizations founded to provide resources to teachers in the CCSS era, like Student Achievement PTeachers of English and the International Literacy Association, and organizations founded to provide resources to teachers in the CCSS era, like Student Achievement Pteachers in the CCSS era, like Student Achievement Partners.

As such the Institute aims to combine five core areas, which are purportedly separated all too often: students and learning, teachers and instruction, leadership and accountability, school structure and organization, and high school and college success.

When positive «word of mouth» spreads to many teachers in an organization, often the school / district purchases a group subscription.

And Murdoch's primary American news organizations — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post — have high - profile conservative pundits who have often been skeptical to the point of hostile toward teachers groups.

Grants are often available from the federal government (FAFSA), non-profit organizations and schools, with the most commonly - known grants being Federal Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG), and Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grants.