Sentences with phrase «teachers around the district»

UTLA said in a statement that thousands of students and teachers around the district were wearing stickers today that highlighted their class size and student / teacher ratios, KNBC reported.

Not exact matches

moving abusive teachers around from school district to school district is so common in the profession that it is called «passing the trash».

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

Our teachers come from our local K - 12 districts (NUSD, FUSD, NHUSD), as well as various institutions of higher education around the Bay Area.

The school district responded with a statement saying, «The homework worksheet in question was downloaded from a website that allows teachers around the world to share educational resources.

«It could be something that New York's teachers and school districts could really get their arms around and I think New York's parents would love because it differentiates instruction to the needs of individual kids.»

A coalition of schools groups — ranging from the umbrella organization for the state's teachers union and the Council on School Superintendents — called for a variety of funding reforms for districts around the state ahead of next year's budget negotiations.

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

From the late 1990s to the early aughts school districts were putting in less than one percent of teachers» salaries, while teachers contributed around 3 percent because the economy was doing well.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

[113][114] Harig won the support of the Buffalo Teachers Federation and AFL - CIO, [113] while Paladino received the endorsement of The Buffalo News editorial board, which wrote: «Despite all his defects — his offensive comments, his bullying, his sometime inability to function effectively on the board — it is because of his influence that the board is even interested in turning around an underperforming district.»

Requests for STEM volunteers to assist teachers in classrooms around Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia were recently published by The Washington Post.

My son, Daniel teaches mindfulness practices to teachers and children in school districts around the country.

While there are practitioners around the country who have been implementing deeper learning for decades, many districts are not yet equipped to make it happen in their schools, with their teachers and students.

From offering child care to building tiny homes, districts are trying out a variety of ways to recruit teachers and keep them around.

Other strategies LACES faculty has used include participating in district - supported site leadership for closing the achievement gap; designing opportunities for teacher collaboration around increasingly common assessments; and offering professional development for highly differentiated instruction, noted the California Best Practices Study.

In meeting with teachers around the world, she notes that they are most surprised by the depth of research available, and by the fact that most school districts are not taking advantage of the research.

Let's hope that Seattle and Baltimore are a stronger indication of the future of union - district cooperation around teaching evaluations than is the case of DC and that when properly engaged, unions can embrace the idea of teacher evaluations that include a component for student performance as well as compensation packages that are linked to evidence of effective teaching practices.

The authors collected results from MET researchers around the country into a volume that will help school districts implement new evaluation systems that will enhance teacher performance and student achievement.

Each summer, the district provides a «boot camp» for first - year immersion teachers around the state, in which they learn how to teach content and manage students in immersion classrooms.

Around the nation, most school districts and teachers recognize that traditional pay schedule for what it is — an imperfect system.

Teachers in Salem, Mass., returned to work last week after a two - week walkout, and several districts around the country neared settlements in contract disputes.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

ePals, a free, online global learning community for K — 12 teachers and students that enables educators to find one another and protect children from unfiltered content, is already in use in many school districts around the country.

You will learn so much from just talking with colleagues about what projects and lessons they are using with their students.I teach at a summer program for gifted and advanced students, where I work with other teachers of gifted in the school district, and I always pick up new ideas and methods from hanging around them.

Districts just move teachers around to fill vacancies.

As an experienced teacher educator, Hobbs offers staff development programs for school districts and educators across the United States and around the world.

Most recently, before retiring last year, Harris devised a way to overhaul how the district deals with teacher absences — something very few schools around the country have found ways to address creatively.

Mathematica was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate one approach that uses selective teacher transfer incentives in school districts around the country.

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

High - seniority teachers will bump low - seniority teachers all around the district.

This fall, as school districts scattered around the country are considering «no homework» policies, teacher educator Curtis Chandler looks at research on whether and how homework can support learning and suggests teaching apps to help make it short, meaningful, and accessible.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

Eliminating tracking might be effective in small classes where teachers can give personal attention to a manageable group of students, but budget constraints — in New Jersey and in many districts around the country — necessitate a high student - to - teacher ratio.

After many years of teacher layoffs, school districts around California are hiring again.

Last time around, the school board — with the same 5 - 2 pro-union majority it has now — approved a 10 percent raise for teachers, which was more than the union was asking for and in spite of the district's projected deficits.

The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student assessments.

During the recent 2012 - 2013 APPR Conference held in Albany, 200 educators heard a panel representing school districts from around New York State share reflections on their experience in developing a working APPR agreement for teachers and principals.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Since it seems likely that teachers unions will be around for many years to come, it would be wise to find ways to collaborate with them to devise peer review programs like those that have shown promise in districts such as Toledo, Ohio, and Rochester, New York.

Study: Once - a-Year Teacher Evaluations Not Enough Associated Press, January 6, 2012 «Those surveys, also being piloted by the foundation in school districts around the nation, are not popularity contests, [Professor Thomas] Kane said.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.

As districts and schools around the country think about extending the reach of excellent teachers, they want real - life examples to show them how to tackle each of these challenges.

My Hamilton Project proposal explains how ESSA's new SNS language has the potential to unlock Title I funds for struggling students, allowing districts to spend Title I on broader school improvement strategies — such as improving a school's core curriculum, or implementing common planning time for teachers — rather than working around the edges.

Beginning in the 2000 - 2001 school year, the district began using a range of variables around the promotion cutoff to make promotion decisions; recommendations from teachers and principals, for example, were then incorporated into the promotion decisions.

The administration doesn't want to let reform - minded school districts miss out on Race to the Top funding just because their states are recalcitrant dinosaurs in the grip of teacher unions, etc.S o they're going to try something unusual: channeling dollars AROUND the states and directly to districts.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Tennessee, where lawmakers passed legislation that mandates using student achievement as half of a teacher's annual evaluation in every district, stood out for its mature «value - added» data system that has been around for nearly two decades.