Sentences with phrase «teachers meeting each week»

We might also imagine teachers meeting each week to read and discuss research — developing applications for their classrooms and tracking the results.

Not exact matches

For the past five weeks, a U.S. jury that includes teachers and retirees has heard all about the luxe life these men lived that included suppers featuring tango dancing, flights on private jets to exclusive resorts like Mauritius, stays at five - star hotels and a clandestine night meeting at a lavish farm at an Uruguayan resort.

In 1874, Bishop John Vincent brought together a group of Sunday school teachers for a combined two weeks» training course and recreational period at an old camp meeting ground on Lake Chautauqua in New York.

It's world book day this week and my teacher in school asked me to bring in my favourite book, so I brought Meet Mighty Red, the best book ever!

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.

, still need to run out to buy something for tomorrow's school bake sale, have nothing to wear to the fundraising gala next week, your nanny called in sick, and just realized your boss called a meeting at the same exact time as today's parent - teacher conference.

Last week the girls met their teacher's and brought their school supplies to their classrooms.

We're only a couple of weeks into the school year and so far it has been an endless stream of communication from the school - don't forget about meet and greet day, can we work parties, can we volunteer at the sale this week, will we attend Parent Education night, do we want to buy school pictures, please remember that all 4 year olds have to buy a school t - shirt, can we send $ 25 a kid for teacher gifts throughout the year, do we want to attend the coffee hosted by the room mom, will we be going on the zoo trip, don't forget that 4 year olds bring their own snack this year, please send in updated immunization forms for everyone, did you fill out the emergency contact paperwork, and on and on and on.

When we have «meet the teacher» before school (usually 15 minutes to chat with the teacher the week before school), I have begged another mom to just watch my daughter / son run up and down the hallways while I actually focus on the other child.

Trump, who has been slammed by survivors, has agreed to meet with students and teachers from the school for a «listening session» this week.

Over the last couple of weeks, teachers and their supporters built the action and held meetings to make lunches for students who will miss school.

The state's new education commissioner, in her first address since beginning the job just over one week ago, told the rural schools association, meeting in Cooperstown, that she intends to be more inclusive to teachers in New York.

At the end of the nearly hourlong meeting, Hoosick Falls music teacher Rob Allen summed up many residents» feelings, saying «the next few weeks will be critical» in whether the governor and his aides can regain the trust of the citizens in the Village.

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.

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.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, met last week with a group of elected officials and George Gresham, the president of SEIU 1199.

The Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete of the Week Program provides coaches, teachers, administrators and school counselors in public schools in the five boroughs of New York City with the opportunity to nominate a high school senior who otherwise meets the eligibility criteria to be named as a Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete.

Fariña reported that attendance has dropped at parent - teacher meetings in the weeks since Trump issued executive orders subjecting any foreign national accused of any crime to deportation.

Black will spend the next weeks and month meeting with parents, teachers, officials and community leaders, Bloomberg said.

[Here's a follow - up on a post from last week about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's meeting with Long Island teachers who protested his appearance at the Suffolk County Democrat Party dinner.]

The first meeting between the president of the Syracuse teachers» union and the superintendent of the school system since their relationship publicly disintegrated last week has been called «productive.»

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

President Trump, who has been slammed by survivors of the Florida high school mass shooting, has agreed to meet with students and teachers from the school this week.

The UFT and DOE representatives have been meeting since last week, including most of Saturday and Sunday, to hammer out the details of a new teacher evaluation system.

This year O.H.S.U. is hosting seven weeks of activities, including talks by leading brain researchers and science writers such as Jonah Lehrer (a contributing editor for Scientific American Mind), a workshop for teachers, a brain fair and a scientific meeting.

Eight weeks after the first review of the students» needs and again in the second half of the school year, site coordinators met with teachers to evaluate the plan and the children's progress.

We held a Teacher Informational meeting last week, which has been posted.

My roommate and one of my best friends Melanie (who you guys virtually met a week or so ago) is a first grade teacher and has the unique challenge of finding something stylish but also classroom friendly everyday.

The book profiles heroic charter school teachers and leaders and chronicles their 80 - hour work weeks, their meetings in teacher's homes to retool instruction because of new data, and their personal commitment to taking students to visit colleges.

Of course, what is «right» can seem relative, and figuring out if there is a more just approach to a routine or system (especially among a group of teachers) is complicated; however, meetings like we had this week are an imperative as schools figure out the sort of learning environment they want to be, need to be for their students — the human beings with whom we are entrusted.

I attended four meetings this week (about two hours a piece), and it was clear to me that every teacher in those meetings had ideas about how schedules and systems can be improved.

In addition to meeting several times with the AP Human Geography teachers, Patrick came to Sammamish four times over a four - week period.

In fact, it works well when teachers meet with various groups throughout the week while the individual children are practicing reading.

The week or two before conferences, teachers meet and share important notes on students with the advisor.

That same week, I served as chair for the first - ever meeting of an NPS educational advisory committee, composed of distinguished researchers, teachers, and leaders of national education groups.

Mentor teachers meet at least once a week with students, and four times each year with students» families.

Humboldt teachers have grade - level meetings every week to review their data together and strategize, as well as sharing tips and practices.

If you know you have a game, meet, or competition coming up during the week, don't be afraid to ask your teachers for homework ahead of time.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

Since then, she has met with teachers a few times a week, she said, and finds the exchanges «incredibly heartening.»

The kindergarten and pre-K teachers met to talk about themes for the week — all the kindergartens follow a weekly theme.

Advocating at school meetings several days per week at one of the largest urban school districts in the country, invariably I see tremendously frustrated teachers, mind - numbing paperwork and by definition dissatisfied parents.

Just a week after school started, teachers had their first faculty meeting after school.

Budget cuts and travel restrictions placed on school personnel did not dissuade more than 18,000 reading teachers and experts from around the world from meeting here last week for the 48th annual conference of the International Reading Association.

Such competing views will shape much of the debate as the National Education Association decides whether to merge with the American Federation of Teachers at the NEA's annual meeting, which gets under way next week.

Students meet with a P.E. teacher once a week to download the data from their monitor to her computer and discuss their workouts.

Among other things, he's brought in Monica Higgins, an associate professor at the Ed School, to organize a series of 90 - minute roundtables every three to four weeks in which outside policy experts and practitioners meet with Duncan and his top deputies for an open discussion on a particular topic — teacher performance, turnaround in schools.

I was part of a teacher's choir that met once a week during that time — just for the joy of singing together.

The district allocates time for Glandon to meet regularly with Arnold and the teachers, and every four to six weeks, the group reviews the curriculum taught in all 30 of the district's kindergarten classes, identifies unit objectives, discusses skills they should reinforce, and brainstorms activities in which grandmas and grandpas can help students learn.

I went through a week of in - depth training and met with some veteran PBL teachers.