Sentences with phrase «teachers and principals say»
Building meaningful, caring relationships like these is crucial to success, teachers and principals say, but is not something you're rewarded for on a proficiency test.
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Some teachers and principals say the list of standards that teachers must meet is unwieldy.
Many veteran teachers and principals say the biggest change this year is the amount of time principals are now spending in classrooms.
Teachers and principals said the nurturing atmosphere created for students carries over to the faculty as well; teachers work cooperatively and support one another.
The purpose of this, teachers and principals said, is to identify high performers and to see what practices they are using, and conversely, to determine which teachers might need better practices.
She said some teachers and principals said that despite the new technical challenges of having to administer online assessments, they prefer them to the more cumbersome pencil - and - paper tests.
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But there are teachers who aren't afraid to say «I love you» to their students and friends who say «good job» when you mess up on your part and parents who love the best they can and principals who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.
The teacher called me out and said I had a phone call waiting for me in the principal's office.
The new hotdog, called ProPlus and manufactured by Protein Technologies International, a division of Ralston Purina Co., was selected by the Chicago school lunch council, a comittee comprising teachers, managers, principals, parents and students, Phillips says.
In August, at the first faculty meeting of the semester, principal Soto Pujadas shared an article on homework overload and said to the teachers, «Maybe this will be the year that some of you will want to be the ones to be the trailblazers.»
«We have known for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and we hear from principals and teachers that students are more focused and ready to learn when they start the day with a healthy meal,» said Judy Mobley, President and CEO of Children's Hunger Alliance.
«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 influential NYC principals union endorsed Mayor Bill de Blasio for reelection last night, joining the teachers union and a host of other labor groups supporting the worker - friendly mayor, campaign officials said.
She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.
He said the Regents were attempting to «delay» the rating system, but the proposal would not have stopped the evaluations or removed testing from the evaluations; rather, it would have stated explicitly that educators could use a Common - Core defense during disciplinary proceedings, an option unions said was already available to teachers and principals.
Education advocates and teachers» unions have questioned the use of the test scores in the teacher and principal evaluations, saying they are unreliable.
Elia and the Board of Regents are revising the teacher and principal evaluations for the fifth time since 2010, and Pallotta said there's a lot riding on the reforms, including whether the test boycott movement will continue.
«When principals and teachers share effective strategies, it's the students who benefit,» said Fariña.
The deal would delay that use for two years, but would allow the tests to continue to be used in job evaluations of teachers and principals, said two state officials Tuesday night.
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.»
ELMHURST — Federal prosecutors sued the city Department of Education Thursday on civil rights violations after they say it failed to stop a Queens principal from systematically harassing and demeaning the school's black teachers.
«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.
With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Heastie said.
The union, which has been fighting for a moratorium on using Common Core tests to evaluate teachers, said the Regents» consideration was far from a solution; teachers and principals may already make that argument, they said.
Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.
The 50 - year city educator says some of her major accomplishments in her inaugural year include new contracts for teachers and principals, the rollout of universal pre-K and the creation of 128 community schools with added social services.
She said the need for the landmark engagement was crucial considering the fact that schools have resumed and there was need for key stakeholders such as principals, school administrators, Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), public and private school guidance counsellors, evaluators and others, to become conversant with and abreast of the provisions of the policy.
No CEO in the city would allow an outside force to tell them who to hire or how to keep them,» said Ms. Fariña, herself a former Brooklyn public school teacher and principal.
«I have loved the principals and the teachers and the kids,» she said.
«One of the most important education acts the state can make to turn around struggling schools is to end the year - in, year - out cycle of shortchanging our principals, teachers and ultimately students,» the mayors» statement says, according to the Daily News.
«It's something that needs to be sorted out and it's certainly been noticeable for our students, and for our teachers, but it's not going to deter us from our mission,» said Dr. William Kresse, City Honors principal.
A survey of more than 400 teachers and principals found that only 10 percent were fully satisfied with the strength of the wireless signals on their campuses, Stringer said Sunday.
«I am introducing my bill, the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Disclosure Act, for consideration by the Senate and the Assembly,» Cuomo said in a statement sent after midnight.
In her new role, Akinyemi will develop, carryout and oversee policies and procedures to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of student, teacher and principal data, Elia said.
Elia said she plans to have the toolkit in place before the tests next April to give better guidance for superintendents, principals, teachers and parents.
«For the last couple of years, superintendents and principals and teachers and parents have been saying there's something flawed with the way in which the Common Core has been implemented,» said Roberta Gerold, a former President of the Suffolk County School Superintendents Association.
«It staggers the imagination to think that, given these facts, the DOE can continue to insist that no principal's judgment can be questioned, and that no checks or balances are needed on their powers to destroy a teacher's career,» he said.
«I believe Governor Cuomo's recommendations to improve these regulations will lead to an even stronger teacher and principal evaluation system for New York,» Tisch said in a statement.
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Commissioner Elia and the Board of Regents are revising the teacher and principal evaluations for the fifth time since 2010, and Pallotta, with NYSUT, says there's a lot riding on the reforms, including whether the test boycott movement will continue.
The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.
«Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective,» one document said.
An eighth - grader in Toronto was sent to the principal after a teacher called her natural hair «too poofy» and «unprofessional,» and said that «no one would hire her with hair like that» and if «she were working in a store, no one would buy anything from her.»
Sheila Guidry, with the Louisiana Department of Education, says the principals gain more - strategic approaches to making change: They learn how to use data, work in teams, and foster communication between administrators, teachers, parents, and the community.
«I'll be this way with this teacher and that with that teacher and this way with the principal,» he says.
Sherri Pritchard, the school's social - studies «learning facilitator» — there are no teachers and no principal here — said 95 percent of her online students pass Virginia's end - of - course history test, which would put them well ahead of both the Hampton school district's and state's pass rates.
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.»
Principal Wade Martin says the project brought together core and elective teachers who wouldn't ordinarily collaborate.
Edutopia: What would you say to principals and teachers at more traditional schools who are trying to reach the so - called bad kids, the at - risk students?
«So many new teachers seem to believe that a knowledge of subject matter is enough,» said Jack Burns, principal and chief administrator at South Pacific Academy, in American Samoa.