Sentences with phrase «what public school teachers»

Indeed, I think my daughter's teachers should be counseled and supported (and provided with some professional development that includes basic civics instruction on what public school teachers can not do), but frustrated as I am with their judgment regarding the candy, I don't think this alone is anywhere near a firing offense.

Not exact matches

The notion that education consists in the authoritative inculcation of what the teacher deems true may be logical and appropriate in a convent, or a seminary for priests, but it is intolerable in universities and public schools, from primary to professional.

Since he clearly was getting a terrible education in public school, I decided it was up to me to provide what his teacher and parents were not.

I have family and close friends who are teachers, and do not discount what they do to serve our nation's children in the public schools.

What I find in the public school system is that the teachers and administrators have grown increasingly reluctant to reach out to the parents by simply picking up the phone.

John Holt, who was for a time a public school teacher, was very influential in fostering and molding what is now generally called «unschooling.»

«While public policy and legal approaches are important, what's especially exciting to me is that individual schools, principals, teachers and community members are in many cases taking this problem into their own hands and saying, «What we can do to solve it?»&rawhat's especially exciting to me is that individual schools, principals, teachers and community members are in many cases taking this problem into their own hands and saying, «What we can do to solve it?»&raWhat we can do to solve it?»»

September is going to be back - to - school month, with posts on issues like: what on earth to pack in that empty lunch box every morning; how we all feel about making meals «cute» (heart - shaped sandwiches and the rest); an interview with some moms who've gone way beyond heart - shaped sandwiches — the Yum - Yum Bento moms; an interview with a public school teacher who has become a cause celebre in the school lunch reform movement; and more.

With the strike, the Chicago Teachers Union is sending a strong message to Washington — to both Obama and Duncan — that it is in charge of what goes on in the public schools, and it won't be dictated to by politicians in Chicago or Washington.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher.

Granted, the teachers» unions have some independent resources, but what they have to spend politically to defend public education is peanuts compared with what the billionaires spend to privatize public schools.

Who in their right mind would even want the job of school superintendent: parents hate you, teachers hate you (if you're doing your job)-- and the pay scale for superintendents is absurdly below what would be paid to a private sector CEO / COO managing the people and contracts and mandates that public school superintendents manage.

The veteran public school teacher and administrator said he's «not sure what I'm doing next,» but he said he's focusing all his attention between now and then on the task at hand.

For lawmakers to truly curb government spending across New York State they need to get public school teacher and administrator salaries, as well as the five - and six - figure payouts many of them receive upon retiring, back into the realm of what's normal for middle - income earners.

As a public school teacher for the past twenty - four years, I know first - hand what is working in our education system and I know all too well what desperately needs fixing.

«NYSUT historically has backed lawmakers of both parties — those who support teachers and public schools, public higher education, organized labor and what's good for working families.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

Hundreds of teachers are rallied at the State Capitol late Monday, saying they are calling out Cuomo for what they say is his anti public school agenda.

One of the candidates for her seat, veteran public school teacher Daniel Dromm, has already won the support of the United Federation of Teachers and says he will run no matter what.

The contract showdown between the Buffalo Public Schools and its teachers union has been a long time coming.Perhaps surprising is that teachers are frustrated with those on both sides of the bargaining table, feeling caught time and again in the middle of what has become an epic battle shaped by politics, ideology and personalities.They feel many people in the community bl...

«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

In a country and an era marked by divisiveness, acrimony, and the often incapacitating inability to work together, we strongly encourage the Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation to set a different example, and to show the city and our children what compromise and collaboration look like.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

«I had expectations of what the parents were supposed to do,» says Melissa Bryant, a math teacher and dean of students at D.C. Scholars Stanton Elementary, a novel partnership between the Washington, D.C., public schools and Scholar Academies, a charter operator.

«In speaking with the theme, we need a counterrevolution to what's been going on to speak against current rhetoric of bashing teachers and bashing public schools.

Every once in awhile I visit a school that reminds me of what public education can be at its best, a place where I'd like to be, as a child or a teacher, a place that elicits the best in me as an educator.

The unions put the best public face on their collective - bargaining demands, arguing that what is good for teachers is good for kids and that they are just fighting for quality public schools.

This K - 8 school, one of the first public schools inspired by Waldorf methods, infuses music, art, and movement into lessons and offers student - directed learning and what public schools refer to as looping, a process in which a teacher follows her class, ideally, from first grade through eighth grade.

When Andrea Curtis became the education program manager for the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, her first priority was to listen to what teachers had to say, a lesson she learned from studying partnerships between Boston Public Schools teachers and area museums.

NCTQ is rating the quality of individual teacher - preparation programs using a set of measurable, objective standards that reflect what public school educators view as important attributes in new teachers.

A few years into my experience as a public school parent, I can confidently say that I know what angers us moms and dads the most: when a teacher puts on a movie during the school day.

In order to gauge how pensions affect teacher retention, researchers Cory Koedel and Brett Xiang studied what happened after Saint Louis Public Schools greatly expanded teachers» pension benefits.

What's more, critics say, single - sex schools such as the 49ers Academy and the Philadelphia High School for Girls might owe their success to any number of factors: smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a higher public profile, which often brings extra revenue.

What do Americans think about the quality of the teachers in their local public schools?

The survey also reports on what the public thinks about Common Core, charter schools, teachers unions, and more.

Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty skepticism — of teachers unions to the charter school movement, districts with a greater union presence were more likely to have a charter school and to have a greater share of public school students enrolled in charter schools in 2003 — 04.

Yet that is what the public schools are about to ask of teachers more generally.

New York — On a recent Friday morning, while legislators and other state officials were making financial decisions that would make the difference between retaining and immediately laying off 1,000 of New York City's public - school teachers, Frank J. Macchiarola did what, in almost any other case, would be described as switching hats a few times.

Retaining Black Teachers in Public Schools: What Roles do Interpersonal Bonds and Racial Match Play?

So next year, I will look for all the shiny bright spots in our public schools and I will do what I can to make them visible (including documenting my discoveries on this blog) and I will guide principals and teachers to do the same.

The United Federation of Teachers, along with some parents whose children attend the New York City public schools, has filed a lawsuit against the city to force that repairs be made on what it calls «disgusting, demoralizing, and even dangerous buildings.»

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

What they know is that technology is threatening to low - performing teachers, that it is threatening to jobs — and that its innovations need to be resisted, however much they might actually improve the management and operation of California's public schools.

They haven't always agreed — especially on which levels of government should do what, how many forms of school choice warrant public funding, how best to evaluate teachers, and so on — but I'm not talking about consensus on the details of policy and implementation.

Just about everyone with experience in public schooling knows what a teachers» salary schedule looks like.