Sentences with phrase «teachers representing more»

Head teachers representing more than 5,000 schools across England are supporting a protest letter to the chancellor over «inadequate» funding.

The Peoria Federation of Teachers represents more than 1000 teachers, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, School Social Workers, and School Psychologists working in the Peoria Public Schools.

Not exact matches

More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.

Like my own teacher, she represented a movement toward acknowledging the boyishness of boys or the girlishness of girls; but being a step removed from the actual mother, she could be firmer and more systematic.

There were others who had to be refuted as false teachers for saying that the resurrection had already taken place.21 The New Testament Apocalypse represented still another kind of development, though one more in keeping with the earlier Jewish eschatology.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

Participating groups represented a broad spectrum of New York society, including pensioners, union members, teachers, students, faith leaders, business representatives, and more.

And UFT officials and staffers were well compensated — with many making substantially more than the teachers they represent.

Education International (EI) is the global teacher organisation representing over 30 million teachers in more than 170 countries and territories.

Teachers and employees at CUNY have now gone six years without a raise and five years without a new contract, said Sharon Persinger, Treasurer of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union representing more than 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff.

The UFT represent more than 200,000 teachers, school aides and other staffers.

The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Governor Cuomo forcefully pushed new performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year, that would depend more heavily on standardized test results.

«There is something fundamentally wrong when the union leaders, representing our teachers, refuse to even discuss my proposal to bring more accountability to our school system,» she said.

His competitor and Rep. Charles Rangel's chosen successor, Assemblyman Keith Wright, landed the support of the New York State United Teachers Thursday — a group that represents more than 600,000 members in education, human services and health care, a spokesman for the assemblyman said.

From teachers and lecturers inspiring the next generation, to researchers in academia and industry whose discoveries and innovations are shaping the future — we represent and support a vibrant and diverse community of more than 54,000 people.

Just as professional learning is becoming more mobile, how teachers are choosing to learn represents a recognisable shift away from the traditional staff development day or training program.

The demand among music teachers is represented by the Expo's continued expansion, and this year it is moving across London from the Barbican to take place at Olympia Central, meaning more space, plenty of natural light and free WiFi.

The AFT represents more than 1 million teachers and other school - related personnel.

Baltimore County itself has 57 more departures than it did last year (an increase of 8.6 percent), but that still represents less than 10 percent of Baltimore County's teacher workforce.

5) More than the public, teachers support higher salaries, embrace teacher tenure, oppose merit pay, and back the unions that represent many of them.

For example, Black students represent 15 percent of all students, but 21 percent of chronically absent students who attend schools where more than 50 percent of teachers were absent for more than 10 days.

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

«To get more parents to come to open house, especially during that first open house, when grades and behavior may not be issues, I award keys to students who get someone to represent them at open house,» explains eighth - grade language arts teacher Anica H. Weeks.

«These findings represent the strongest evidence to date that improving teacher compensation relative to other jobs would improve teacher quality by attracting more capable people into the classroom,» says West.

More than 1,500 students, parents, teachers, and community members, representing every school open prior to Katrina, offered input.

Teacher opinion against those who claim to represent them shifted even more dramatically.

(One distinction of Green Dot among charter school organizations is that its teachers are unionized, but we are not told anything more about the union except that it is not the one that had represented the Locke teachers.)

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

One way to achieve this is with a credentialing system that more accurately represents a teacher's specific skills and knowledge.

The coalition is more than teachers unions and includes school boards, administrators, PTAs, and noncertified employees represented by several different unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

He's right, of course, that both are «interest groups,» but does he not see a massive difference between an entity that is devoted to getting more kids addicted to deadly cigarettes so they'll be lifelong clients and a group representing rank - and - file teachers whose life's work is educating children?

For many teachers in Washoe County, the seemingly simple practice of combing through rosters can be a needed wake - up call, representing the first step toward integrating SEL practices more deeply in their classrooms, according to Shaffer, Duvall, and other Washoe administrators.

We represent more teachers and support staff working in independent schools than any other union.

Randi Weingarten is president of the more than 1.4 - million - member American Federation of Teachers, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; and local, state and federal emTeachers, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; and local, state and federal emteachers; paraprofessionals and school - related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; and local, state and federal employees.

Meanwhile, Connecticut will hold a summit in partnership with educator preparation programs focused on increasing the number of teachers certified in priority shortage areas and recruiting more teachers from under - represented backgrounds.

As a union of more than 600,000 professionals, NYSUT proudly represents teachers in charter schools and regular public schools across New York State.

The change represents an increase of about 34 percent more teachers staying in the classroom at least five years.

In addition, a third organization — Educators 4 Excellence, which represents more than 800 teachers, is also planning to endorse the use of student achievement data when it unveils its own proposal for a new teacher evaluation system in coming weeks.

In contrast to the large scale investigations represented by the Goertz et al., McDonnell, and Smith et al. studies, some policy researchers have conducted more in - depth studies of the impact of policy instruments on teachers, schools, and districts.

Of the three autonomy models, pilots are the most flexible option because their teachers, though still represented by UTLA, must sign an «elect - to - work» contract that requires them to put in more hours on the job and participate in supplementary career training.

In the 2014 - 15 school year, teachers in NT3 states and districts represented more than one - third of the total national candidate population, a 50 percent increase from the previous year.

The new board members campaigned together under the Caucus for Change banner, representing teachers and parents in the district and demanding more community involvement in the district's decision - making process.

The superintendents» group probably poured more money into this thinking that somehow they'd acquire better control of teachers and the unions that TRY to represent them!

These results represent the extraordinary hard work of our scholars and their teachers, and we could not be more proud of both.

For most of the past decade, NCATE, the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education and the ed schools they represent have spent more time criticizing school reformers, decrying the presence of alternative outfits such as Teach For America, and defending their shoddy offerings, than on improving the quality of their teacher trTeacher Education and the ed schools they represent have spent more time criticizing school reformers, decrying the presence of alternative outfits such as Teach For America, and defending their shoddy offerings, than on improving the quality of their teacher trteacher training.

More specifically, while 80 percent of traditional public school teachers are white, white teachers represent 71 percent of the teaching workforce in charter schools.

On an annual basis, CEC's 30 staff members and 50 consultants provide direct services to more than 120 member and non-member districts, representing more than 128,000 teachers and 1.5 million students.

If I know for sure that my efforts can make a concrete difference in the lives of the relatively small number of kids, teachers, and parents I interact with every day, why divert a single ounce of energy to reaching out to lawmakers who seem more intent on bickering with each other than listening to the people they represent?

From that group, the National Teacher of the Year is chosen by a selection committee composed of 14 renowned education organizations, which collectively represent more than 7 million educators.