Sentences with phrase «teachers by their principals»

Montgomery County's school district and union are focusing on standards - based professional development and the evaluation of teachers by principals, with the goal of improving student achievement.

Method We began by identifying four first - grade teachers who had considerable classroom experience, were considered good teachers by their principals, and taught at schools with similar demographics.

The connection is nearly identical to the correlations that prior studies have found between value - added measures and confidential low - stakes evaluations of teachers by their principals.

To make matters worse, some members may be subject to evaluation by other members (teachers by the principal, most obviously).

Dozens of states adopted new teacher - evaluation systems that relied upon student achievement and observations of teachers by principals.

Not exact matches

Failure to act as direct teacher and dean or principal of a school of discipleship by its pastoral leader probably accounts more than any other single factor for a congregation's inability to mature in its ministry.

So if the public schools don't by default give the days off, parents should talk to the school (principals, teachers) about not having exams on days they plan to have their kids miss school.

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Jack was Fischer's principal chess teacher, and Fischer spent hours at the Collinses» Brooklyn home, playing endless games of chess with Jack and eating food prepared by Ethel.

The need for such testing may be brought to the attention of the principal through a search authorized by § 49-6-4204 or § 49-6-4205, observed or reported use of drugs by the student on school property, or other reasonable information received from a teacher, staff member or other student.

Each month students are selected by teachers and rewarded for «random acts of kindness» with a special breakfast («Breakfast of Champions») with school principal Deb Powell.

Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.

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.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

IEPs are created collaboratively by parents, teachers, the principal, and any other professionals who meet the child at school — Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT), Educational Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, etc..

Keep an open line of communications with your child so you always know what is going on, in case you need to take further action by contacting parents, teachers or principals.

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.

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Principal Amy Graham and PE teachers, Michael L'Esperance and Josh Philpot, will be recognized by the Cherokee County School Board and Superintendent of Schools at the School Board's August meeting.

The support for school breakfast programs in Montana is growing by leaps and bounds — from local teachers and principals all the way to the state Office of Public Instruction.

By declaring his stake in the BIC program, Leggett's principal helped secure buy - in among other parties — teachers, custodians, school nutrition staff — in the early stages of planning.

The 2.5 million - member AFL - CIO has backed Gregg Lundahl, a UFT member primarying Democratic Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has angered the teachers union by introducing a bill that would give principals authority over teacher layoffs.

Peter Dada, Akure The All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools has called on the Federal Government to take the future of pupils of secondary schools in the country seriously by providing better education through employment of quality teachers.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

By creating one system, it also simplifies administrative processes, allowing schools, principals, and teachers to focus on teaching.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today detailed an agreement to guarantee every school district has a permanent teacher and principal evaluation system in place by June 1st.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher RTeacher Reserve.

More than 10,000 city school employees, from custodians to principals, and about half of them teachers, were assaulted or threatened by students last school year, The Post has learned.

The proposals would also strengthen the role of School Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of principals.

State aid increases continue to be linked to compliance with the teacher and principal evaluation process; districts will be ineligible for school aid if they have not fully implemented the teacher evaluation process for the 2013 - 14 year by September 1, 2013.

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

The regulation approved by a Regents committee would postpone until at least the 2019 - 20 school year any use of standardized state English and math scores in penalizing students, teachers or principals.

Scores for fourth - through eighth - grade math and English teachers and their principals are expected to be finalized by mid-August and could be released through a Freedom of Information request under the current law.

Those who attain certification under this more rigorous process are more likely to find a job, principals have a better pool of candidates to choose from, and students will be taught by better teachers.

Principals across the city will no longer be able to select the teachers they want if they're unable to fill a vacancy; instead, breaking a promise made by Chancellor Carmen Fariña, the city will force on the school an unwanted teacher from the Absent Teacher Reserve, teacher from the Absent Teacher Reserve, Teacher Reserve, or ATR.

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.

Leadership in both houses of the state Legislature support a two - year moratorium on using Common Core - aligned test scores to evaluate teachers and principals or to make decisions about student placement or promotion, a plan supported by teachers» unions.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

In 2006, Dromm was chosen as «Outstanding Teacher of the Year» by his school's principal and in 2009, he was chosen as «Educator of the Year» by the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside.

The bill as introduced by the governor would allow parents and legal guardians to view teacher and principal evaluations.

«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.

But de Blasio's decision to further reduce suspensions by outlawing them completely for kids in kindergarten through second grade drew criticism from the presidents of both the city teachers union and the principals union.

King's new plan includes student surveys in teacher evaluations and principal empowerment by minimizing bureaucratic hurdles.

«Aside from that, both principal and subject teachers should be enjoined to ensure that they give the desired guidance to the students on the proper use of Opon Imo in the sense that whoever for any reason among the beneficiaries (students) misapply its uses, it will attract N50, 000 fine and this is backup by legislation of the Osun State House of Assembly.

Etter was reportedly scolded and told by the principal to «stick to the curriculum» according to the teachers union.

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