Sentences with phrase «teacher takes a day off»

I resent it when teachers take a day off to see a movie.

He spoke about how when community activist Khalid Ali was beaten up by the police and charged himself with assault, the teachers took days off to support his fight and got him out.

As you probably know by now, there will be a teacher workday that day due to the high number, over 1,000, of DPS teachers taking the day off to protest what they consider to be poor teaching conditions in the system.

Not exact matches

Instead, the centerpiece of the teachers union's interaction with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is paid parental leave, in which teachers would be guaranteed pay for a certain number of days each year if they have to take time off to care for children.

Things that I take for granted as an instructional technologist, but quite honestly those questions made me excited for the day — it meant some teachers were going to have their socks rocked off — and I'm fairly sure I'm not wrong.

In a 2011 report for the Providence, Rhode Island, school board, researchers at Brown University's Urban Education and Policy program found that the district's 1,321 teachers took off an average of 21 days each per school year.

U.S. teachers take off an average of 9.4 days (roughly 1 day per month) each during a typical 180 - day school year.

It's even a strain on the regular teacher trying to take a day off as he or she scrambles beforehand prepping curriculum for a regular substitute to use.

The Duke researchers proposed increasing teacher salaries by $ 400 a year and then charging teachers $ 50 for each day they take off.

Cleveland, Ohio, whose teachers may take 18 days off, is budgeting $ 10.8 million for substitutes this year.

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

The Harvard study found that the highest percentage of absences at that northern, urban district were on Fridays, when 6.6 percent of teachers took off, providing themselves a three - day weekend.

Nearly 3 million teaching days are lost through sickness in schools in the UK every year, and the SAS is aiming to reduce this number by providing teachers with quick and easy healthcare — helping them avoid waiting times at the clinic and the hassle of taking time off to see a doctor.

But that doesn't stop these cartoon education tools from taking center stage on days when regular classroom teachers are off the job.

Chicago teachers who didn't have tenure took fewer days off after principals were given more flexibility to dismiss probationary teachers, a new study has found.

The number of Durham teachers taking May 16 off to advocate for public education in Raleigh on the General Assembly's opening day has swelled to nearly 1,000, which is about 41 percent of the district's 2,400 teachers.

By canceling classes on Wednesday, school districts aren't requiring teachers to pay the $ 50 fee to take the day off.

Local groups are providing childcare options May 16 when Wake County and other Triangle school districts are closed, a result of so many teachers planning to take the day off to protest in Raleigh.

But when it comes to parent - teacher conferences, President Obama is just like every other working parent, forced to take off from work in the middle of the day to travel to his children's school.

A few gave impromptu speeches in support of the teachers, who took a day off work to attend the Colorado Education Association's annual Lobby Dday off work to attend the Colorado Education Association's annual Lobby DayDay.

While some teachers carved out time to listen to students who needed an ear right away, either in classroom conversation or one - to - one, others kept the day's routine as normal as possible to give their students the opportunity to take their minds off the situation.

While it is true that when Green takes off his journalist hat and puts on his columnist one he is no longer under any obligation to describe things accurately, he is being more than a bit disingenuous to suggest the «Commissioner's Network» (Section 18 of Senate Bill 24) simply means «longer days, year - round school, more social services, better pay for sought - after science and math teachers — without the constraints of restrictive labor contracts.»

And another thing: you talk about teachers calling off work, but you fail to point out that Rhee took a lot of days off herself.

It also provided teachers with a breakdown of standards — some that they could tick off their checklist in one day, and others that might take a month or more for students to fully comprehend.

It should not be considered an excuse to take a day off or extend a reason for not attending school for children and teachers.

My husband and I are both teachers and I am taking a few years off because we had our third daughter on labor day last year.