Sentences with phrase «when teachers and leaders»

We believe there is a transformative academic and social benefit for students when their teachers and leaders reflect a diversity of backgrounds.

Great schools are grown from the ground up and the top down: when teachers and leaders come together in a joint effort for whole - school improvement, everybody wins.

We believe students» academic success is attained when teachers and leaders have access to quality pre-service, induction, and personalized professional development that is strength - based and needs - aligned.

And when teachers and leaders attend to those five essentials they are literally ten times more likely to make substantial improvement and 30 times less likely to stagnate.

We help you develop your teachers and leaders, because every student benefits when every teacher and leader is continuously growing.

Not exact matches

It would be great if everyone would live as the Bible suggests, but then how could it be expected when every other teacher, pastor, and priest is either gay or a pedophile and their leader the pope would rather shuffle them around rather than remove them from «service» to God.

When the religious leaders challenged his disciples, «Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?»

When those who are held out as your leaders and teachers you are in big trouble.

Not an issue when we recognize Christ as our only Rabbi, teacher and leader and our fellow believers as simply cherished equal brothers and sisters.

Our children look to us as their leaders and teachers, and though they might not always be able to listen and respond the way we would like them to, when they have a serious question, they trust our answer.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Delegates and chapter leaders were still reeling from the sting of having inaccurate Teacher Data Reports published in some newspapers when they arrived at UFT headquarters for the March 7 Delegate Assembly.

When the leaders of the American Federation of Teachers — whose president Randi Weingarten hopes to become Secretary of Education — endorsed Clinton without holding local meetings to consult the members, hundreds of angry teachers rebelled and signed up with Labor forTeachers — whose president Randi Weingarten hopes to become Secretary of Education — endorsed Clinton without holding local meetings to consult the members, hundreds of angry teachers rebelled and signed up with Labor forteachers rebelled and signed up with Labor for Bernie.

«When teachers in the school got no relief the UFT and community leaders protested on the steps of Tweed.

But Bloomberg said the city did make «some progress» in the budget, especially when it comes to an agreement between the governor and legislative leaders that will essentially prevent any teacher evaluation plans from sunsetting — a big concern for the mayor.

Flanagan's ascension leavesommittee he chairs — Education — without a leader at a time when education remains a very hot topic at the Capitol, thanks to the ongoing debate over the state's teacher evaluation system and Common Core - related tests.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps that...

Daniel Dromm is a teacher and democratic district leader who is no novice when it comes to city politics.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

Hope Scott, the parent association leader at P.S. 123, in Harlem, said she could not forget a summer day in 2008, when she saw desks and teachers» property thrown in the hallway as a Success Academy school was «moving in.»

Moreover, leadership and learning are important areas when it comes to people's beliefs; political, symbolic and business leaders have a major impact on our lives, as well as the school and university leaders, and — not the least — those who lead the learning that takes place in those organizations: the teachers.

Union leaders often invoke norms of justice when seeking to ensure that veteran teachers continue to enjoy the same perks and protections they were implicitly promised when they entered the profession a quarter century ago — despite intervening changes in the larger world, in the needs of students, and in management and organizational practice.

When teachers have a voice in decision - making, they are four times more likely to believe that they can make a difference and three times more likely to encourage students to be leaders and make decisions.

When a team of teachers operates effectively, there is one group leader and usually five to six committed educators who are all working together to meet student needs.

The school community Elsewhere, teachers should look within the wider school community for residential expertise and, when appropriate, for volunteer adults and student leaders.

School leaders, this research is liberating because it suggests that you don't need to take care of everyone; you just need to build teams that can support each other, provide new teachers with coaches and mentors, and establish nets that teachers will fall into when they inevitably fall.

As a school leader, when implementing an educational approach, how do you ensure teachers receive ongoing PD and supervision?

It's too early for formal research results but, informally, teachers are seeing the growth that happens when students step up as leaders and have occasion to think critically about authentic problems in their communities.

Leaders of AL teams at CPAHS have drawn from Lingard and Renshaw's assertion that teachers must take on a «researcherly disposition'to improve their practice and that this is further strengthened when «research - informed» teachers collaborate with researchers (Lingard, & Renshaw, 2009).

The Report Card, which is presented below, covers four categories of soft skill that most school leaders, teachers, and parents would agree are within the responsibility of schools to monitor and, when necessary, develop: social skills, self - management, academic soft skills, and approaches to learning.

Relatively few leaders have pushed to the envelope's edge when exploring flexibility within the salary schedule or have emulated the aggressive tenor of Joel Klein's Teacher Performance Unit in seeking to evaluate and remove teachers within the constraints imposed by state law.

DS: Well, first of all, when I discuss the idea of a state wide curriculum with the leaders of both the NYSUT and the UFT [teacher unions], they were and are enthusiastic.

Leaders noted that the more teachers are involved in the design process upfront, the more likely they will be to persist and adapt when challenges to implementation inevitably arise.

But when education leaders use these technologies merely as replacements for textbooks, gradebooks, and worksheets, they risk complicating teachers» jobs with only marginal gains for students.

When teachers and school leaders can collaborate on curricula, instructional practice and assessments, it leads to better outcomes.

Borrowing a page from the medical school world, educators at the Ed School are showing teachers and school leaders how to find common ground when it comes to learning and instruction.

Following an review that showed our Maths marking needed to be improved, I (as Maths subject leader) created a system called «Think Pink» in which teachers highlight part of their marking in pink highlighter (something specific - a question, some corrections, an extension, an explanation) and the child responds when their book is returned in pink pen.

School leaders must make sure classroom teachers are using instructional strategies in a way that reaches all students and are taking appropriate steps to improve teacher competence when this goal is not being met.

«I was a little skeptical when she came in,» one teacher said, «because she was from a charter... But she's a good leader and a good human being, and I've heard [people] raving about her from both sides.»

Following commencement, he worked as a teacher and principal, and cofounded two schools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lLeaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leadersleaders.

Missouri should not have a system that puts our neediest communities at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting talented teachers and states should not impose a tariff on attracting quality teachers and school leaders.

Unions deserve their share of the blame for making it tough to remove lousy teachers, but the fact that 99 % of teachers are routinely rated as satisfactory can be chalked up almost entirely to school and district leaders failing to do their job when it comes to evaluating personnel (unless you happen to believe we have 3.4 million phenomenal teachers).

Schools should seize this window of transition — when it is safest for teachers to ask for help (and for instructional leaders to offer it)-- to completely reinvent the teacher evaluation process.

An EI - savvy school leader knows when a teacher has done a great job on a project, and makes an effort to acknowledge it.

And CBP hasn't yet figured out how to measure its impact — how to calculate the board's role, separate from the teachers» or school leader's, when reading scores rise.

And also the leaders, you know, their first role as a coordinator, it's different from when you're a teacher, it's another level so it's important that there's someone there that can help you through that, how you're working and so on.&raqAnd also the leaders, you know, their first role as a coordinator, it's different from when you're a teacher, it's another level so it's important that there's someone there that can help you through that, how you're working and so on.&raqand so on.»

moment people get when they go from the unconnected side to the more collaborative, sharing world of connected education, a world where educators share globally, collaborating with thought leaders, authors, administrators, teachers, parents, and even students with less regard for titles and higher regard for worthwhile ideas.

When decision making about resources, chiefly personnel, is decentralized to the school level, the principal and other site - based leaders can further their improvement efforts by hiring teachers and staff with qualifications that match the school's needs.