Sentences with phrase «teachers are on board»

The majority of teachers are on board with the move to a four - day school week.

It worked; teachers were on board.

Teachers were on board but, after a while, says Pactor, «The principal didn't like seeing all of the Fs.

But even if there was buy - in at the administrative level for the change, not every teacher is on board.

Not exact matches

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

A 16 - year - old high school student who said he was frustrated with his teachers unleashed an attack on the Osaka Board of Education server that took 444 elementary, junior high and high school networks offline, investigators said.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

I suspect our teacher unions would not be adverse to let some portion of their member teachers compensation be based on a test score bonus rather than the meddling of school boards.

In addition to these honors, Sivek and Borsum have served on numerous industry boards, have contributed to several books and are sought after speakers and teachers at industry educational conferences.

Teacher Catherine is a childbirth educator and author, she is also on the Advisory Board of the International Academy of Baby Planner Professionals.

This is another place where school boards should step up — to give teachers contractual guarantees that they can speak freely on policy issues without fear of repercussions, or at least to provide avenues for anonymous (but publicly accessible) commentary on policy issues.

Teachers can actually connect their iPads through a projector so its content is shown on the classroom's Smart Board.

A teacher at Fox River Grove Middle School who was fired after officials complained that he had turned his art classes into lectures on veganism filed an appeal Wednesday with the Illinois State Board of Education.

I agree that geting the teacher on board with the healthy snack idea is a hard one.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Foundation Studies Prelude Series - Spring 2018 - Five Wednesdays starting 3/28 Foundation Series — Starting Fall of 2018 The Foundation Studies and the Prelude series are open to any community member (parents, board members, teachers, alumni, alumni families) who feels a genuine longing to work on gaining a deeper acquaintance with Anthroposophy, the worldview that stands behind Waldorf education.

Courses are open to: Parents, board members, teachers, alumni, alumni families Both the Foundation Studies and the Prelude series are open to any community member who feels a genuine longing to work on gaining a deeper acquaintance with Anthroposophy, the worldview that stands behind the Waldorf school.

This new professional development course offers teachers, administrators, board members and parents an opportunity to reflect on and work with the challenges of building a Waldorf School Community that is vibrant, innovative and effective, while honoring the unique contributions of each member of the community.

Rather than having parents and teachers punish bad behavior without addressing the causes, therapeutic boarding schools get to the heart of the matter and work on healing emotional, behavioral and mental health problems that each teen is facing.

Following detailed negotiations between the States Employment Board and representatives from the NUT and NASUWT teachers» unions, agreement has been secured on a package of measures for teachers in Jersey.

The plan, which is expected to be voted on by the full board Tuesday, assumes that such teachers would be of help in dealing with an expected influx of students from those U.S. territories.

The Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization (BPTO) is trying to put pressure on the State Education Commissioner to remove city school board member Carl Paladino.

Paladino's lawyers also pointed out that the board issued press releases regarding the status of contract negotiations with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, which remain on the board's website, in an attempt to contradict the assertion by Nevergold that all closed - door discussions regarding the teachers contract were barred from disTeachers Federation, which remain on the board's website, in an attempt to contradict the assertion by Nevergold that all closed - door discussions regarding the teachers contract were barred from disteachers contract were barred from disclosure.

It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the Board's $ 450 million lawsuit against Lou Ciminelli, for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

SPOTTED: Cynthia Nixon hugging a nursery school teacher on Thursday morning at the MTA's Lorimer Street station as she was about to board a Manhattan - bound L train this morning — pic http://bit.ly/2GsgABH... Boris Epshteyn with Rudy Giuliani Thursday morning at 1100 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn for an interview for the Sinclair daily segment, «Bottom Line with Boris» — pic http://bit.ly/2IO26BC

As you know, we're into our second full year of the New Education Bargain, with an emphasis on community schools, parental engagement, teacher support - and her responses to the questions that the Board asked indicated that she would be someone that would be very supportive of all of the tenets of the New Education Bargain.»

«It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the board's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of BufBoard of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the board's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Bufboard's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

«You're going to have data on every math and ELA [English Language Arts] teacher in New York state,» Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch told The Post.

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.

The state's new education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, has been on the job just over a week, and she's been traveling the state on a listening tour to reach out to teachers, school boards and others who've been buffeted by an intense political climate during the most recent legislative session.

Phil Rumore of the teachers» union says he believes the shift in power on the school board means progress will be made on a number of key issues.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officBoard of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officboard leaders and teachers union officials.

Democratic lawmakers, who are closely aligned with teachers» unions but have mixed opinions on whether to support the movement, argued nevertheless that this year's testing boycott would send a specific message to the State Board of Regents: Minimize the impact of test scores in teacher evaluations.

On the school board, it's likely at some point you'll get teachers mad at you, or taxpayers, or both.

The state's Board of Regents acknowledged that failure rates are running far too high — at 23 percent — on a teacher - licensing exam taken so far by about 22,000 college students and others statewide.

The vacancies on the board come after Regents backed a plan to place a moratorium on linking Common Core - based test results to teacher performance evaluations as the standards are being studied and potentially revised in New York.

Calls are growing for Paladino to be removed from his post on the Buffalo School Board from state lawmakers and the Parent Teacher Organization.

At least eight of the 17 members of the Board of Regents appear ready to try to modify or amend the teacher - evaluation plan passed by the Legislature and are set to vote on the plan during their meeting this coming week.

A retired Ithaca school teacher has been tapped to fill an opening on the New York State Board of Regents.

Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to the teachers union contract.

A coalition of education groups — including the school boards association, the Council of School Superintendents and the state's teachers union — are calling for changes to the cap that would eliminate tying the cap to the rate of inflation, making the limit a 2 percent cap on levy increases.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

While Mr. Gamberg and the school board have agreed there are some good elements to Common Core, they've also been one of the more outspoken school districts on the North Fork to oppose the state's mandate that ties teacher evaluations to state assessment scores.

According to the early results, 92 percent of teachers outside New York City are either «effective» or «highly effective» and only 1 percent fall in the lowest category that could lead to their firing, state Education Commissioner John King told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.

«This distraction has been removed from our Buffalo school board and we are now looking forward to focusing all of our energy on the important work that needs to be done for all of our schools and all of our children,» said Larry Scott, the co-chair of the Buffalo parent - teacher organization, which was part of the petition to get Paladino removed.

Ms. Lofstad's running mate is Tommy John Schiavoni, a teacher who is on the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals and the Sag Harbor School Board.

A collection of school groups, including New York State United Teachers and the New York State School Boards Association, is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to release the proposed education aid runs for the 2015 - 16 fiscal year.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Commenting on the announcement by exams regulator Ofqual that it is requiring each exam board to take actions to improve the control of exam papers, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

The Buffalo Board of Education is still waiting for a fact - finding report on the Buffalo teachers contract.