Sentences with phrase «teachers and principals do»

Individual teachers and principals do respond to accountability metrics.

When something counts as a rating for your job, it changes behavior... Individual teachers and principals do respond to accountability metrics.

In doing so, we leave aside the subtler and more personal things that teachers and principals do all the time to make their schools function in an orderly way and disseminate as much learning as they possibly can.

Minority students have high expectations for their future, but many of their teachers and principals don't share that view, concludes a report released last week.

When You Disagree With the Principal, Don't Stew in Your «Whine» Teachers and principals don't always agree.

Teachers and principals didn't manage to make the improvements in education that the policymakers claimed, but they did precisely what was demanded of them: They raised scores.

Our teachers and principals did not find it useful.

Not exact matches

I also want to thank the teachers, principals, and other practitioners who let me watch them work and then offered me their insights into why they do what they do, including Brett Kimmel, Margarita Prensa, Tara Goulet, Molly Brady, Ann Szekely, Jessica Sager, Janna Wagner, Brandon Bailys, Michelle Navarre, Roel Vivit, and John Wolf.

We like to document what we do, and asked principals if we could use testimonials from the kids; we got testimonials from teachers as well.

We would like to do it in more schools, and we're working with principals and teachers to get that going.

With the help of Challenge Success, JLS Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.

Whether you're trying to convince a reluctant principal, or a room full of skeptical classroom teachers, it pays to do your homework — and show your work!

If your child has a teacher with whom no one is happy, and your meeting with the principal does not bring about any resolution, you should meet with the other parents and approach the school superintendent as a group.

My ladies and I brought all the information to the principal, showed the video to the teachers, and did a trial run in the classroom.

Our principal ended our end of year meeting agreeing that teachers should be able to use candy as a tool and those that don't agree shouldn't judge.

Part of what the successful teachers or principals are doing is developing a strong sense of community, attachment, and connection among the students themselves and between the students and teachers or other educators.

The principal at this school and vice principal are wonderful and do not deserve to be demonized because this teacher got in trouble for going over the line.

* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) * School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary School)

Encourage your child to ignore or walk away from bullies, and to tell an authority figure like a teacher, principal or even another parent if it doesn't stop right away.

If you do find out that your child does not want to go to school because he is being bullied, let his teacher and principal know what is going on, and work side by side with them to make sure the bullying stops.

If you don't think that your child is ready for kindergarten, talk to the preschool and kindergarten teachers, school counselors, the principal, and your pediatrician for advice.

If you have principal support it makes it easy, but if you don't I recommend getting the support of a couple of teachers and doing a pilot.

Although you had to wonder why the 8th - grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant «to influence the students against our school lunch program.»

«While public policy and legal approaches are important, what's especially exciting to me is that individual schools, principals, teachers and community members are in many cases taking this problem into their own hands and saying, «What we can do to solve it?»»

The bill, dubbed the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» would ban federal officials from requiring states and school districts to rate the job performance of teachers and principals, though states could continue doing that on their own.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Thursday the city's DOE stood by and did nothing while Pan American International High School Principal Minerva Zanca compared one of the school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.»

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

In the end, the governor dropped that demand, but he did win changes to the state's teacher and principal evaluation systems.

Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013 teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).

«I think the reasonable thing to do is unplug the assessments from the evaluations for teachers and principals,» Elia replied.

The supporting cast sure doesn't want for talent, even if most of the roles are fairly forgettable and one - note; there's Tracy Morgan as a sad sack gym coach, Christina Hendricks as a sexy drama teacher, Dean Norris as a consistently baffled, pissed - off principal, and easily the best of the bunch, Jillian Bell as meth addict counselor Holly.

The film's at its best in the early sections, filling out the details of the world with nice little character moments for Mildred Dunnock as the school teacher who doesn't get the principal job, Russ Tamblyn as the sensitive shy boy next door and Diane Varsi as the main character, a girl smart enough to see the hypocrisy around her and want to get out of town as fast as she possibly can.

Dean Norris plays the principal, who wants his own prank related problems to be fixed, but once he has the chance, all he does is listen to the superintendent recall his fishing trip, laughing at all the right moments, unaware of how this is affecting the other students and teachers who desperately want to be heard.

Second - year PE instructor Coach Webb (Janelle Schremmer) seems to blow the whistle around her neck 24 hours a day, harassing teachers who don't follow school rules, trying to enlist colleagues in a 6 AM walking club, and complaining endlessly to the new assistant principal, Mrs. Reddell (Shannon Haragan).

As for the cast, the principals reprise their lead roles, as do critical support players in Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, and Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange, while noteworthy newcomers include Bill Nighy as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, and Carolyn Pickles as Muggles Studies teacher Charity Burbage.

Despite Bad Grades, Many Boston Teachers Stay In Class WBUR, May 25, 2011» «The amount of work that a principal has to do with data and other evidence of lack of performance and meeting standards can take hours and hours of time,» [Professor Thomas] Payzant says.»

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.»

and «If I were principal, I would make sure that teachers didn't yell at kids.»

They saw their principal and a former teacher who now works with technology at the school district level, as well as three others they didn't know — one of those three being me.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

It is also clear that despite their best intentions many teachers, principals, superintendents, and professors at schools of education do not know how to address these shortcomings on a meaningful scale.

Many of the principals» goals revolve around the themes of curriculum improvement, professional development, and motivating teachers to do the best they can do for all students.

In the days and months before and after Teacher Appreciation Week, there are at least three things principals can do to show their true appreciation for the great teachers in their buildings:

Often a retired school administrator, the role of the SAM is to do everything possible to maximize the amount of time principals get to spend working with students and teachers to improve instruction and learning.

One of the primary complaints I hear from teachers is, «I just don't feel appreciated» (echoed often also by principals and other administrators in our school system).

As a principal, do you roll up your sleeves and get involved alongside your teachers when implementing school improvement programs?

[From the parent point of view] if something went wrong, bang «I'm going to see the principal and I'm going to tell them what I think», bang «I'm going to demand to see the teacher now, I don't care if it's nine o'clock in the morning, I want to see them now»; yet [that staff member has] got 25 kids in front of them that they're trying to teach.

Principals, curriculum leaders and teachers, please let us know what you're doing and thinking about assessment by filling in our online survey.»

«Don't be afraid to ask questions of veteran teachers and administrators,» echoed David Innocenzi, vice principal at Hamilton (New Jersey) High West.

Encouraged by his parents, he did something about this, enlisting a school counselor, a responsive teacher, and ultimately the principal, to bring about change.