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«From founding a thriving STEM school to testifying before the U.S. Senate, training thousands of teachers across the country on the AFT's Thinking Mathematics program and coaching a national - qualifying FIRST Robotics team, she has done it all.

The Gates Foundation and Scholastic recently released «Primary Sources: 2012 - America's Teachers on the Teaching Profession,» which surveyed 10,000 teachers across the country on their honest, professional opinions about the major issues in American public education.

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Their mission statement emphasizes the need to make the lives of students and teachers the nation's «top priority» and calls on students across the country to join their cause.

This is the basic measure of value - added assessment in use today; teachers in many states across the country are evaluated (and sometimes compensated or fired) based on similar measures.

The cuts would have devastating effects on teacher training, class size, literacy programs, and enrichment programs across the country.

My Healthy School Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental toxins.

Validation forms for the month of January 2016 on some institutions across the country and some text messages from the CAGD intercepted by NewsGhana.com.gh confirm the claim made by the teachers.

«In support of supply teachers across the country, the NASUWT has now given them the opportunity to turn the tables on these ruthless employers by rating the company on a SupplyAdvisor website, exposing exploitative practices.

Graduate Teachers in a «Teach Ghana» program focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Technology and Mathematics (STEM) and other relevant subjects in primary and secondary schools across the country.

Across the country, Democratic governors and mayors have cozied up to the teachers unions and given up on education reform.

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said his Ministry will take on any regional director of Education who fails to protect female students who are victims of sexual abuse by teachers in Senior High Schools across the country.

Teachers, parents and pupils from across the country joined politicians at Westminster calling for more money to be spent on schools.

A, says the money that would have spent on paying teacher trainee allowances has been invested in infrastructures in the colleges of education across the country.

On the anniversary of the Columbine shooting, teachers and students at Columbine High took part in community service in an effort to turn the day into something meaningful and thousands of students across the country took part in walkouts to protest gun violence.

«They can change the world, and we can only go with them,» Darren Levine, a Stoneman Douglas High teacher, said of the school's students at an anti-violence rally in Delray Beach, Florida — one of at least three across the country on Monday.

The shooting comes a day before students and teachers across the country participate on walk out to honor the 17 people killed at Stoneman Douglas and call for stricter gun control laws.

Jason Ryterband is a mindfulness teacher in Santa Monica, CA, and the founder of Insight Meditation Support, which offers mindfulness resources and one - on - one mentoring to practitioners across the country.

The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and classrooms across the country.

The Common Core drafting process relied on teachers and standards experts from across the country.

The commissioner of education in Florida, where 70 percent of the 15,000 applicants for new teaching certificates each year come from out of state, has asked school chiefs across the country to help improve interstate information - sharing on teachers whose licenses have been revoked.

Kirsty Wainwright - Noble, from Towergate's Education Division said: «Stress levels in the classroom are reaching tipping point, and it is taking its toll on retaining and recruiting teachers across the country.

The problem of how to attract and hang on to talented new teachers has dogged school districts across the country.

Schools across the country have latched on to the need to reach more students with their excellent teachers.

In addition, in schools with larger concentrations of low performers, the quality of educational resources is lower, and the incidence of teacher shortage is higher, on average across OECD countries, even after accounting for students» and schools» socio - economic status.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

A valid comparison would require that the information be collected in similar ways across all countries — either we rely upon self - reports in surveys of teachers for all countries or we rely on contractual hours for everyone.

In addition, the profession is still largely dominated by women, who make up seven out of 10 teachers on average across OECD countries.

Gender: The teaching profession is still largely dominated by women, who make up seven out of 10 teachers on average across OECD countries.

She and 15 others chosen for the honor organized more than 200 roundtable discussions attended by more than 3,000 teachers across the country, seeking their views on an Obama administration proposal to change how teachers are recruited, prepared, licensed, supported, promoted, and compensated.

By contrast, negative teacher - student relations seem to undermine students» confidence and lead to greater anxiety: On average across countries, students are about 62 per cent more likely to get very tense when they study, and about 31 per cent more likely to feel anxious before a test if they perceive that their teacher thinks they are less smart than they really are.

Here are some of the theaters and theater - outreach groups across the country that offer workshops, seminars, and residencies on playwriting for teachers and K - 12 students:

On average across countries, students who reported that their teacher is willing to provide help and is interested in their learning are also about 1.3 times more likely to feel that they belong at school.

These trainees, alongside those returning to the profession and teachers changing schools, are vital in helping to fill the vacancies on offer by schools across the country.

Why Schools Matter also fails to discuss — mostly because it was not included in the TIMSS surveys — how teachers» knowledge and skills differed across countries and what effect that might have on achievement.

I do this as someone who played a role in the events that I describe: in 2011 and 2012, I was part of the policy team working on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver initiative and grant programs like the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), and played a role in spreading the Obama administration's teacher evaluation policies across the cTeacher Incentive Fund (TIF), and played a role in spreading the Obama administration's teacher evaluation policies across the cteacher evaluation policies across the country.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

With a focus on improving educational outcomes in classrooms across the country, what role could a survey play in determining the similarities between teachers and their students?

Proponents, insisting that tying teacher salaries to measurable standards will improve schools, have instituted a wide variety of incentive plans across the country: Some evaluate teachers based solely on standardized test scores, some on teacher skill development; some offer more pay to teachers working in at - risk schools or with at - risk children, or for teaching certain subjects.

Despite signs that the nation's economy is on the road to recovery, teachers across the country are still finding pink slips along with their paychecks.

Given the greater focus being placed on LTLT competencies in national policy frameworks, curriculum, teachers and of course, at the international level, it seems this may be an area for further development across all ten countries.

We are consulting on proposals to improve development opportunities for teachers across the country and have a range of generous bursaries to recruit teachers into subjects like maths and physics.

Our latest research suggests that four in 10 teachers have suffered from work - related stress in the past six months, as the pressures of planning, marking, paperwork and assessments weigh down on teachers across the country.

With many schools seeking to take a more hands - on approach to teacher training, NCTL's Charlie Taylor looks at a school - led scheme which is gaining popularity across the country

Without valid information on the performance of students at each school relative to that of their peers across the country, the entire education enterprise flies blind, leaving parents, teachers, school managers, and policymakers with nothing more than intuition and consensus as the basis for making decisions.

The book, called Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers, is based on in - depth interviews with parents across the country.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

Teach.com is a comprehensive resource for information on becoming a great teacher in any state across the country.

Teachers across the country have been invited to share their views on the new Internet Safety Strategy green paper, in a number of focus groups organised by the London Grid for Learning (LGfL TRUSTnet) on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Like many school districts across the country, D.C. Public Schools leaves the decision on whether to include cursive as part of the curriculum up to individual principals and teachers.

a new enterprise on Wednesday, sharing its model with more than 15,000 teachers, principals, superintendents, and policy makers from across the country.