Sentences with phrase «teachers in districts where»

Anderson says training in dismantling racism is one of the first trainings for teachers in districts where she has worked.

Unsurprisingly, Han's analysis finds teachers in districts where collective bargaining is allowed are more likely to remain in teaching than teachers in districts where bargaining is prohibited.

Not exact matches

Create a mentoring program where Amazon engineers, economists, data scientists, accountants, and other professionals are partnered with hard science teachers in our school districts to help show kids what it's like to work in STEM;

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.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

Dr. Hightower in his presentation cited Ms. McCarthy's stellar record as a classroom teacher, where she was recognized as a Teacher of the Year, and as a school administrator and district teacher, where she was recognized as a Teacher of the Year, and as a school administrator and district Teacher of the Year, and as a school administrator and district leader.

Her journey has taken her from the Julliard School in New York to the Royal College of Music in London and back to Rochester where, in 1975, she embarked on a thirty one year career as a music teacher with the Rochester City School District.

«Imagine a day a day without substitute teachers, especially in the Buffalo school district, where the need is quite high,» said Barthel.

The mailer has become a controversy in key races for the state Senate, where the New York State United Teachers has mailed the fliers in the 60th Senate district in Buffalo, and two Hudson Valley races.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenIn Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenin the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenin the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenin student achievement.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

Mr. Rodriguez, the representative of the district where the rally took place, argued that the Assembly had given a great deal to teachers unions and public education advocates by proposing a $ 1.8 billion outlay for schools in the budget.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidateIn other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidatein at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidatein the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

Battle, her husband Jay and two children reside in Schuylerville, where she serves as President of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at Schuylerville Central School District.

Parete, now the mother of two pre-schoolers, was a teacher in the Saugerties district and ran for county legislature in Saugerties four years ago, where she met her future husband.

Successful programs do exist for recruiting quality teachers (targeting males, minorities, and people with specialties) in high - need areas; eliminating barriers for them to move to where they are needed; and increasing the ability of low - wealth districts to pay for them.

I'd love for Florida to be the first state in the nation where every parent has a choice in truly customizing his or her child's education at the teacher, school or district level.

It is in these districts and subjects, where critics have fretted about the numbers of long - term substitutes and «burned out» veterans, where the wave of new teachers will most likely be recruited and welcomed.

Principal burnout can be as critical as teacher burnout, especially in the toughest school districts, where good administrators are needed most.

In fact, many of these other teachers lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!In fact, many of these other teachers lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!).

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Using data on contributions from NASRA and pension fund annual reports where necessary, and using weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teachers.

The case has been closely watched, in part because similar legal disputes have arisen recently in at least two other school districts, including one in Dover, Pa., where a group of teachers has objected...

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing teacher effectiveness.»

The letter says that the district has never evaluated the teachers using student test scores, and, as a consequence, has never told teachers where they stood and counseled them on how to improve in terms of increasing their students» learning — all of which are required by the law.

It then gives thoughtful insights on how online learning can help districts and schools address students» needs better in areas where teachers are scarce.

The district has been a flash point in Colorado, where the system's difficult relationship with its local teachers union led to the expiration of its contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relatiteachers union led to the expiration of its contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relatiTeachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relationships.

As the report documents, the teacher chronic absenteeism gap is particularly striking in the fourteen states where districts — but not charters — are required to bargain collectively.

In the college town where he was living, an astonishing 47 percent of the school district's 721 teachers were absent more than 10 days during the school year, according to data the district reported to the U.S. Department of Education for a 2009 — 10 study.

In some Minnesota districts, where pay is based on performance, aggressive professional - development programs help ensure all teachers have the chance to earn the extra pay.

Because a tenure decision involves thousands of future students as well as future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands of their current supervisor alone.

In many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessmentIn many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessmentin grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessments.

They lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by one and two percent (where teachers were taking wage freezes!)

These teachers are presumably just as middle class, public spirited, and committed to education as other teachers are; but because they don't work in the district where they live, they do not have an occupational stake in their local school - board elections.

These nine are analytically useful because they are clustered in close proximity to one another, and teachers who don't live in the district where they work often show up as residents of one of the other districts.

The program now recruits teachers in 24 states, takes applications, and refers people to districts where there are vacancies.

There's plenty of conventional wisdom, to be sure, mostly along the lines of, «unions are most powerful where every teacher must belong to them and every district must bargain with them and least consequential in «right - to - work» states.»

All students in grades 6 through 12 have the option to take one or more online courses, and district teachers teach all the courses with the exception of those, like Mandarin, where there is no certified teacher available within the district.

A corollary issue is whether teachers who live in a district where they don't work vote at higher rates than ordinary citizens do.

We said we needed time to use the tools we already have,» explains Jim Carleton, who helped develop the project for the Simcoe County District School Board, in Ontario, where he is a technology - resource teacher.

Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.

He explains today there are many types of lesson study activities in terms of the context, focus and size — intra-school (in elementary schools and some secondary schools), within whole school districts or cities, at a prefecture level and national events where thousands of teachers visit a school to observe and discuss.

Some districts, like the nation's largest, in New York City, have found that it helps to pair general education teachers with special education teachers in a co-teaching model, where teachers share classroom responsibilities and both receive specialized training in teaching students with autism.

The New Teacher Project's recent report, The Widget Effect, noted that in the 12 school districts it examined, less than 1 percent of all teachers had received an unsatisfactory evaluation, even in schools where students were chronically underperforming.

If a teacher works in a school or district where parents and the community have been well informed about PBL, the arrival of news about their child's first project will be welcomed.

In districts where attracting new teachers is already a chronic problem, «alternative» means»em ergency.»

Teacher buy - in, and ultimately the success of educators to support their curriculum and teaching with technology, rests with district leaders who must meet teachers where they are and not promote some idealized version of what 1:1 really looks like.

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.