Sentences with phrase «with teachers from districts»

The educators who attended wanted to learn more about digital tools for the classroom and spend time collaborating with teachers from districts throughout our region.

As part of our study, the class visited a local quarry, along with a teacher from our district's Outdoor Ed department, so each child could gather samples of 12 particular kinds of local rocks and label them.

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Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

During a recent speaking tour to Egypt, I walked with Emile Zaki, an Egyptian pastor and teacher, from his church in a worker's district of Cairo to the nearby train station.

As school districts roll out these changes, they should expect lower contributions from parent organizations and put scaffolding in place for both: Teacher who rely on that outside money, and those parents who want to fundraise but need to come up with new funding methods.

The 67 - year - old Northbrook resident has co-organized or helped with everything from Parent Teacher Organization meetings to the district's annual Lew Blond Memorial 5K Run fundraiser.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

The school district responded with a statement saying, «The homework worksheet in question was downloaded from a website that allows teachers around the world to share educational resources.

According to Township High School District 214, Ginder has been a teacher at Buffalo Grove for 14 years and previously was the leading scorer on the Hersey High School team with 1,527 points from 1990 - 94.

Day three of the hearing to remove Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School Board began with School Superintendent Kriner Cash taking the stand and testifying that Paladino's public comments about the teacher contract hurt the district and its future contact negotiations.

Her journey has taken her from the Julliard School in New York to the Royal College of Music in London and back to Rochester where, in 1975, she embarked on a thirty one year career as a music teacher with the Rochester City School District.

But the school board pursued his removal based on the sharing of information from a closed - door executive session of the board, arguing it helped undermine the district during its negotiations with the teachers union for a new contract.

In the decision, Elia writes that Paladino «disclosed confidential information» from the board's executive sessions regarding collective bargaining negotiations with the school district's teachers union.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

He has long been at war with teacher unions and his handling of school aid and pushing charter schools have brought opposition from school districts as well as teacher unions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

Cuomo has charged the panel with examining everything from teacher recruitment and performance, to whether the current school calendar is appropriate, and how the state's more than 700 school districts are structured.

The race for the 30th SD (the Harlem district once represented by Gov. David Paterson) has become a proxy war over charter schools, with Perkins enjoying support from the teachers union.

The Legislators also supports an explicit law that ensures school districts, individual schools, teachers and students are protected from any withholding of state funds, sanctions or negative impact on a teacher's evaluation associated with the outcomes related to test opt outs.

Former New Suffolk School teacher Martha Kennelly, who has spent two years fighting with the district that refused to reinstate her when a special assignment ended, appears to have won her case that would force the district to reinstate her and pay back wages and benefits from June 30, 2015, according to the decision written by State Commissioner of Education Mary Ellen Elia.

Day three of the hearing to remove Carl P. Paladino from the Buffalo School Board began Monday with School Superintendent Kriner Cash taking the stand and testifying that Paladino's public comments about the teacher contract hurt the district and its future contact negotiations.

Phillips, a high school history teacher from Endwell, formally launched his campaign Thursday with a seven - county tour in the 22nd District.

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need students.

They say the powers of the state Education Department will be strictly limited to approving teacher evaluation plans from school districts that comply with the new rules.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

As for the teacher evaluation systems, Mr. McKenna said each district developed its own APPR plan with little guidance from the state.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

Bank officials, along with Elmo from Sesame Street, celebrated the launch of the program yesterday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum — it's one of the 14 centers and has received a 2 - year, $ 384,000 grant to work with 20 preschool teachers, 20 aides, and 600 students from public schools in the District of Columbia.

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

Using a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the district hired a consultant, William McKersie, to work with a group of administrators and teachers who were tasked with researching the best situations for the smaller learning communities.

It is important to note that even with the dramatic savings from Act 10, district costs and total premiums in Wisconsin are still well above the national average for teachers.

Concurrent with my efforts to turn kids away from viewing discussion as an exercise in point - scoring, I was involved with contract negotiation between our teachers» association and the school district.

It means that teacher leaders like Saldana meet at least monthly with district leadership to discuss concerns that come forth from the teachers representative council of the union (which also meets monthly), so there's a constant flow of information between teacher and the district.

With support from a host of community partners, the district spent more than a year preparing the museum and its teachers before opening two years ago.

Frank, Several of our teachers initially had the same question... they Googled and then took the search from there, along with working with our district IT team.

Everyone from central districts and federal offices to teachers unions and universities is either partnering with teacher - centered groups or creating their own.

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.

Some students whose teachers were absent never got a teacher — school aides stayed with them; some students joined other classes, doubling their already large size; and others spent the day with school administrators, taking them away from their duties at the school or district office.

With districts and schools under tremendous pressure to make every dollar count, California teachers can now download top - rated content from the site at no charge, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell.

Those districts are turning to Kaplan for a range of services — from intervention services for students with the greatest need to professional development for teachers.

According to a 2010 report from the Arizona Auditor General, out of 222 districts receiving CSF funding, the auditor could identify only 29 «with strong performance pay plans that did a good job of linking teacher performance pay to student achievement.»

In cities with well - developed compacts, the charter and district principals and teachers constantly rub elbows to learn from one another.

At a packed meeting, and with members of the local teachers» union protesting outside, the board voted 5 - 2 on June 8 to reduce the number of «local districts» from 11 to eight.

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.

This trend coincided roughly with a teacher hiring boom here in the United States, meaning these changes happened despite districts» employing more teachers, and it's likely to continue as states and districts continue to feel the pressure from unfunded pension and health care promises, which totaled $ 1.38 trillion at last count.

A panel discussion, «Perspectives and Complexities in Educating for Global Competence,» will follow Schleicher's remarks, with HGSE Professor Howard Gardner, senior director of Project Zero; Kate Ireland, director of global education from the District of Columbia Public Schools; Siva Kumari, director general of International Baccalaureate; and Joan Soble, a retired teacher from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

The term «teacher union leader» typically evokes a hard - charging labor activist who shares an adversarial relationship with the school district, is focused solely on protecting members» bread - and - butter interests, and flees from phrases like «school reform.»

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