Sentences with phrase «teachers of color as»

The district is having difficulty hiring new teachers of color as fast as their veteran counterparts are retiring.

Initial studies on residencies suggest that they attract a more diverse pool of teacher candidates — twice the proportion of teachers of color as the national average — and draw them to the harder - to - staff subjects (such as math, science, special education, and bilingual education).

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If the extreme realists would already have had reservations about a middle - of - the - road understanding which was only colored by supernaturalism, as perhaps reflected in the Lokottaravadin, then extremely supernatural conceptions such as those found in the writings of the Mahayana teachers must have aroused their deepest displeasure.

She also organizes a series of nutrition education programs for students, called «Color Me,» where district principals, teachers, the superintendent and students dress up as characters and perform skits about nutrition and healthy food choices.

Tiffany Maqubela As a yoga teacher, she hopes to contribute to the diversity of instructors and encourage all people, regardless of size, age, ability, or color, to feel a part of the world of yoga.

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.

District officials have plans to travel as far as Puerto Rico to recruit teachers of color, according to Syracuse.com.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Students in schools with high percentages of students of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students of color.

The study found that teachers are more likely to see academic challenges as disabilities when white boys exhibit them than when boys of color exhibit the same difficulties.

Conversely, teachers are more likely to perceive behavioral challenges as disabilities among boys of color than when white boys have the same behavioral difficulties.

One of my primary goals as a yoga teacher of color is to create spaces were diverse populations of yoga practitioners can feel safe, see themselves and their life experiences reflected in their teacher, and know that even their differences will be seen and honored.

«What does it mean to be a black woman teaching yoga and to be in the seat as a teacher, and how is that capacity different for white women versus women of color teaching in yoga studios?

This outfit is perfect for teachers as it has a variety of colors so one can easily pair it up with different contrasting things.

Like Hart's 2016 directorial debut «Miss Stevens,» an indie charmer inspired by her tenure as a young high school teacher, the roots of «Fast Color» grew from personal experience — and a frustration with the ways the same characters and stories kept being told within the superhero genre.

In between, there's a crusade to bring down a male teacher that her stepbrother Luke, played by Joey Morgan, has accused of molestation as well as a Thelma and Louise-esque escape attempt, with Luke and Erica speeding across a Joshua tree - punctuated landscape in a stolen Saab convertible and dressed in clothes seemingly inspired by Floridian retirees — Erica in particular has a penchant for flamingo - colored sunglasses and palm - tree prints.

As part of the 2014 Alumni of Color Conference, Christopher Emdin — associate professor of science education at Teacher's College — explores the ways that hip - hop culture expresses an interest in, admiration for, and in some cases, deep knowledge of science that goes unnoticed by educators.

But at age 26, as a white teacher learning to become an ally and advocate for students of color, I lacked the language to argue my position.

The «cultural understanding» theory also supports the idea that students of color assigned to diverse teachers might be more likely to feel cared for and happy in class as a result of feeling understood by a culturally sensitive teacher.

As the country's K - 12 student population grows more ethnically diverse, students of color face the troubling possibility of never having a teacher who looks like them.

Students of color, immigrant students, refugee students, LGBTQ students — as well as their teachers and families — may feel targeted by federal policies and actions, and deeply worried.

Using True Colors, teachers, coaches, and administrators can learn about their personality types as well as those of their students and colleagues.

And the idea of dreams that people can do it, I leave you with the vision of a little colored girl from Wetumpka, Alabama, my mamma, who learned to read as a child and became a teacher for 40 years.

Research has shown that closing the teacher diversity gap results in better outcomes for students of color, and teachers who share students» backgrounds can serve as powerful role models.

«Virtually everybody concludes that this has to do with the fact that high - minority schools — which is where teachers of color want to be — are on average more dysfunctional as organizations.»

As a student at the Ed School, she wanted to learn how «to fix this problem of not having teachers of color.»

Teachers often use reward / punishment systems such as having students move to different colors on a chart to signify compliance or the breaking of rules.

As a teacher today, when I see my own students of color, I think they're a lot more comfortable with ethnicity than I was.

Students Leaving School for Summer, Teachers Leaving for Good Huffington Post, June 26, 2012 «But as [Professor] Susan Moore Johnson at the Harvard Graduate School of Education states, it's also true that until a few decades ago, women and men of color were often closed out of other careers.»

Systemic inequality is certainly a factor as well, given that children of color are more likely to attend schools with lower funding levels and weaker teachers.

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

To be sure, bias plays a role, as studies are finding that teachers tend to have lower expectations for children of color.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

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So, she left her position as chief executive officer and lead tutor to become a long - term substitute teacher in the New York City Public Schools, hoping to have a greater impact on the academic performance of students of color.

We recommend printing them on color paper, but each page is a different pre-assigned list such as the weekly planner, list for PLCs, list for beginning of the year, for the weekend, for open house, for parent teacher conference, for TpT items, and so much more.

We oppose high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing, the use of standardized test scores as basis for refusing to fund schools or to close schools, and the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.

This article analyzes the experiences of preservice Teachers of Color using critical race theory and Whiteness as property to relate the idea of science as White property.

As in previous times when California experienced a shortage of qualified teachers, low - income students of color and students with special needs are disproportionately impacted.

If reducing children's exposure to school removal as punishment is a national priority, then our study points to one potentially effective strategy: increasing the number of teachers of color in public schools.

Still I do not think any of us presumes to think that teachers will remain in positions as long as their predecessors did when many other types of occupations and professions were not open to women or people of color.

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

Teacher education programs at HBCUs — much like those at other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)-- are not only our nation's major contributors to the pool of teachers of color, but they are actively trying to solve issues of teacher retention and attrition aTeacher education programs at HBCUs — much like those at other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)-- are not only our nation's major contributors to the pool of teachers of color, but they are actively trying to solve issues of teacher retention and attrition ateacher retention and attrition as well.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Research also shows that teachers hold differing and lower expectations for students of color and low - income students, as compared with more affluent students, which is a key link to our educational achievement gap.

As has been the trend in California whenever shortages re-emerge, these teachers are assigned largely to high - need schools serving students of color and new immigrants in schools of concentrated poverty.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

These efforts, well - intentioned as they may be, fail to (1) challenge existing mindsets about children of color, (2) add substantively to teacher knowledge, or (3) develop new and equitable structures.

As part of our community organizing efforts, we have talked to over 300,000 New Yorkers in predominately low - income communities and communities of color who are deeply concerned with the lack of quality schools and quality teachers available to their children.