Sentences with phrase «with pilot teachers»

This concern was surfaced during a focus group with pilot teachers, and the district was able to adjust their report card requirements to ease that burden for teachers.

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The launch of this new resource follows a national pilot with teachers, caterers and teaching assistants at over 30 schools and training providers.

The Master Teachers pilot test the materials with their students, providing feedback for improvement.

Evaluation of a pilot AIDS education package for schools showed teachers» inhibitions to be the main stumbling block: some teachers ignore all modules that deal with sex and condoms, leaving pupils misinformed, anxious and frustrated.

Roseman is looking to improve the new energy curriculum with the help of teachers in Virginia and Maryland who will participate with their students in pilot testing of the unit next spring.

A pilot session launched in May 2014, and the organizers have in place a curriculum, teachers, supplies, and partnerships with Haitian universities.

Here I am with my teacher Swami Vishnu - devananda, who was known as the «flying swami» - mainly because he had a pilot's license and used it to promote world peace as well as inner peace.

Throughout the pilot trial, the teachers found the real - time interactive features incredibly useful, especially when collaborating with students.

For the prototype phase, Intrinsic staged two pilots during school holidays, borrowing the multipurpose areas of neighborhood schools, where teachers could interact with students who volunteered to participate.

It began in November 2016 as a pilot across 10 districts, and has since rolled out nationally across England with over 1,400 schools participating following positive feedback from teachers and pupils.

Secretary da Silva called this method of teaching «teacher - present high school with technological mediation,» and he wanted to know: Would the IDB be willing to make an investment that would help the program transform from an experimental pilot into a radically new, statewide model for education?

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

The hallmark of the Pay for Performance pilot was paying teachers $ 1,500 bonuses for meeting measurable objectives set collaboratively with their principals and based on the academic growth of the students they taught.

«The Word Generation program has proven so useful and accessible to schools in part because it was developed by our curriculum team in collaboration with Boston Public School teachers, who helped us brainstorm topics and pilot early units,» says Snow.

The community group launched a pilot home - visit program with six elementary and two middle schools and, in 2002, spun off the Parent / Teacher Home Visit Project as an independent nonprofit.

The Denver Public Schools, with the collaboration of the teacher union, launched a Pay for Performance pilot program in 1999 and, when it ended in 2003, started a more comprehensive Professional Compensation System for Teachers (ProComp).

LAUSD has been negotiating with UTLA to try to put in place a pilot program with three percent of district teachers, who would be evaluated in part on student performance on the state's standards - based tests.

Teacher groups went after and won most of the schools, with some opting for the pilot model, embracing the idea of autonomy with all the trappings, «except a thin labor contract,» Hill said.

The curricular changes, piloted with his own students in 2002, helped the percentage of students scoring «below basic» on the Stanford 9 test to fall from approximately 80 percent to just 40 percent in one year, according to the National Teacher of the Year office.

The revamped PLP tool, which was created with much input from teachers, was initially piloted just in Summit schools.

Those pilots were designed to a) introduce PBL to our students, and b) provide teachers with the time and authority to design how PBL looks at the school.

Support from CZI allows us to draw upon the work we have already done,» said Jones, «including a content analysis of 25 leading evidence - based SEL programs, to develop a set of kernels that are grounded in research and practice, and to work directly with teachers to pilot the kernels and learn from them with the larger goal of generating effective and responsive practices that support children's healthy development and well - being.»

«The pilots are currently supporting over 100 schools with dedicated support for headteachers and teachers.»

For example, during an initiative to revolutionize STEM learning across the Los Altos School District in California, assistant superintendent Alyssa Gallagher tapped math teacher Courtney Cadwell and three others to be part of a blended learning pilot team tasked with integrating online learning tools.

The district nonetheless moved forward with the pilot to implement formative, ongoing assessments for teachers that would provide them with structured feedback on their instructional practices.

After being asked by lawmakers to clarify plans for a pilot program that would provide teachers with merit pay, the North Carolina Board of Education has submitted its proposal for the program to the legislature substantially unchanged.

Do you see any indication that Congress intended this as a requirement that states «develop, adopt, pilot, and implement, with the involvement of teachers and principals, teacher and principal evaluation and support systems,» as Duncan now mandates?

He also supported a boom in new charter schools with diverse models, from military academies to single - sex schools, and piloted a program to pay teachers bonuses for top performance — two controversial innovations Obama supports.

There will also be new style bursaries in maths piloted, with generous upfront payments of # 20,000 and early retention payments of # 5,000 in the third and fifth year of a teacher's career.

The academic explains the approach used in the UK pilot study grew out of an initial, small - scale trial in Melbourne involving 30 teachers and students with disabilities.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

My organization, PowerMyLearning, conducted a pilot in 2011 - 12 that worked with teachers on incorporating blended learning into their classrooms.

Murphy - Brewer saw Summit's model as a good fit for Pomeroy: Because of the school's blended - learning pilot, its teachers already had some experience with self - paced learning.

Two fifth grade teachers advocate trust, respect, and inclusion when sharing the practices and results of their PBL pilot program with on - site colleagues.

Even though most teachers reported that students were highly engaged when working with digital content and were better able to learn the material, only one - fifth of Rogers pilot teachers said their students did better on benchmark tests the first year (see Figure 1).

The research, carried out for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) by UCL Institute of Education, carried out in - depth interviews with staff in five primary schools piloting the assessments and questioned 1,131 NUT and ATL members in a snapshot survey.

«Now that we've completed our pilot program with St Agatha's, we've been able to hear some of the feedback from both students and teachers.

The project will also work closely with teachers and other school staff in 24 pilot schools across the UK to improve understanding of the needs of EAL teaching and improve school provisions for EAL learners.

Interested schools should email [email protected] with the heading «Specialist Teacher Training Pilot» for further information.

The education programme has been piloted with over 250 teachers and 1000 students from key stages 3 to 5.

Others were a bit devious: one teacher gathered as many of the palm pilots as she could so others had to search harder to come up with that response to one of the riddles.

After teachers paid 3,000 house calls to improve relations with the parents of their students, all nine schools in the city's unified school district pilot program reported improvement in the classroom.

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Researchers pilot the series of portraits and activities / prompts with individual teachers from many different schools.

L.A. Unified is looking to pilot a teacher evaluation program that will use student test data in measuring performance; Deasy made clear that this will come up during the district's contract negotiations with the AFT.

During the pilot, kindergarten students and their teachers had the opportunity to engage with the app, which is focused on enhancing students» vocabulary development.

The pilot, which is in partnership with the Teaching School Council, is being put together to help shape a national programme that will offer specialist training and mentoring to at least two teachers in every secondary school in England by 2020.

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Eleven districts, through a pilot initiative, have joined with the state to create the new teacher - evaluation system.