Sentences with phrase «work on class size»

She won the John Dewey award from the United Federation of Teachers for her work on class size in 2007, and was recognized as a «NYC Family hero» by NY Family magazine in 2008.

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Mary Vaccaro, the UFT representative from School District 26, and Joe Kessler, the UFT representative from District 25, praised Weprin and said they looked forward to working with him on decreasing class sizes in their districts.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

Quite a bummer because I'd wanted to try it out (was my first class) to augment my usual work out routine and instead found myself on crutches and a multi-colored ankle the size of a softball.

Creating wall - sized portraits of locals as they travel from town to town, the two inquisitive, kindred - spirit directors peer into the day - to - day life of rural and working - class France, the camera listening and learning as old and middle - aged villagers remember how coal miners used to bathe and eat back in the day or goat - cheese makers give their differing opinions on the subject of dehorning.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Modeling themselves on industrial unions, they fought successfully for better and more equitable salaries, job security, and improved working conditions, such as limits on class size.

Too often, we focus on the negativity that surrounds the profession in the news, and conversation turns to working conditions, class size, union issues or other outside forces that teachers have little control over.

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

Grissmer's reintroduction of highly selective evidence on the effects of extra resources and reductions in class size provides no more support of his work here than it did in the original RAND report.

The pack includes: Powerpoint - A Powerpoint about the festival of Hanukkah - when it is, what is eaten, how it is celebrated - the pages could also be printed off to enable you to create a class book for the children to read Photographs - Colour photos of a Menorah, a Dreidel, Hanukkah Gelt and people lighting the Menorah candles - great to add to your displays or for discussion Word cards Fact cards - Fact cards about the festival of Hanukkah Display banners - 2 different large titles for displays «Happy Hanukkah» and «Hanukkah» each with Hanukkah themed pictures Display border - A colourful display border with Hanukkah themed pictures - this can be printed as many times as you need to use on a display border of any size Writing pages - A collection of decorated A4 border pages - great for the children's work or to add to your writing area at Hanukkah Colour page border - A collection of colour A4 border pages - a great way to quickly display the children's work Colour posters - A set of A4 information posters with pictures of Gelt money, Menorah, Dreidel and Potato Latkes Display lettering - Large letters spelling «Hanukkah» which are decorated with pictures linked to Hanukkah - Great for a larger display Hanukkah story - The Hanukkah story for you to read aloud to the children Colouring posters - A collection of posters for the children to colour - these could also be printed smaller for the children to use on their Hanukkah cards Bookmarks - A collection of Hanukkah themed bookmarks for the children to cut out and colour Number line - A number line to 50 on colourful Dreidels Alphabet line - An alphabet line on candles - this could also be used for other festivals or a part of a birthday display Colour posters - A4 posters with pictures of images associated with Hanukkah Songs and rhymes - A collection of decorated song sheets with songs and rhymes about Hanukkah including two number rhymes Recipe - A photo recipe to make Latke cakes - a popular Hanukkah dish - the pages can be printed to make a book or used for displays Dreidel game - A Dreidel spinner to cut out and play the game of Dreidel Make a Dreidel - A 3D Dreidel spinner to make complete with instructions Hanukkah cards Acrostic poem Maths worksheet - Count the number of Dreidels Addition worksheet - Add the numbers on the Dreidels Menorah Counting - Worksheets to count the number of Menorah candles lit Cut and make a Menorah Number dominoes Word search Worksheets - Match the Hanukkah words to the pictures, draw the Hanukkah pictures and fill in the missing words Writing activities - Worksheets to write the Dreidel instructions and writing about Hanukkah

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

The finished product will look great on the wall of your classroom, and students will be proud of their hard work:) 3 mosaic sizes are included, for flexibility of class size: ◾ 12 worksheet ◾ 20 worksheet ◾ 30 worksheet Caluculate... Colour....

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Charles Hasse, president of the WEA, said his organization was ready to work with the measure's supporters on reforms to reduce class sizes and broaden access to pre-school.

This contrasts with the voluminous research on class size, which shows that class size reduction is one of the very few ways to narrow the achievement gap and one of only four reforms cited by the Institute of Education Sciences as proven to work through rigorous evidence.

Her work in Title I schools with swelling class sizes, high numbers of ELLs, and an enormous range of learners provided the foundation for the many books she has authored on the teaching of reading and writing.

The work on reducing class sizes isn't done, and now it is up to the community to make this law work for the educators, students, and families in Wake County.

Because small class sizes are proven way to boost achievement, the district should not postpone working on a strong class size policy.

«Education leaders, working hand - in - hand with teachers, can focus on key issues like testing, planning time and class size to help alleviate some of the pressures that many teachers are feeling today.»

A staggered school day with both students and teachers working on alternate, overlapping schedules would afford smaller class sizes, more minutes of instruction, and more opportunities for student movement, activities, and enrichment.

A strike in which teachers emphasize issues like class size, said Pelto, «actually provides a perfect opportunity to educate the Democratic base about what's going on... the good guys are the ones that are out on the picket line working to defend the profession.»

While such activities are not a substitute or a replacement for a skilled teacher, these technologies may allow adjustments to teachers» schedules or to class sizes during the time students are working on computers or other devices if other staff are able to provide supervision during this time.

Improving teacher working conditions means more than focusing on resources, class sizes, and physical structures.

Although the existing literature provided a basis of information, more work on the sociology of middle class black families needs to be done, especially as this demographic increases in size and importance in the future.

A dozen working - class folks, both genders, they'd staked out a spot on the cement with a prison - window - sized view of the hairpin.

While Mercedes - Benz has put a lot of its focus on its utility vehicles for the current model year, the introduction of the new S - Class Cabriolet is a big addition for the brand, as it works to capture the full - size luxury car market.

She has taught hundreds of public dog training classes and worked one - on - one with dogs of all breeds, sizes, and temperament.

Agility For Fun Class: Introduction to Clicker Training and Shaping, firming up obedience with distractions (On both sides - Attention Heel Work, Sit and Down Stays, Recalls, Emergency Recall, Leave It, Tug with Drop Its to name a few, come to side, etc.), Introduction to Low - Level Sized Puppy Sized Agility Equipment (Table, Ladders, Tunnels, Cones, Plungers, Mini-Teeter, Pivot Boards, to name a few), and Targeting (Paws & Nose Targeting).

Wave height on the Bali Pipeline was in the 4 - 6ft class and just starting to work when it starts getting in that size range.

This questioning of the continued relevance and future siting of public sculpture continues a line of enquiry by Jankowski that has previously seen him create numerous life - size bronze Living Statues (2007)-- simulacra of street performers posing as Julius Caesar and Che Guevara in Barcelona — as well as a giant socialist - realist sculpture based on an anachronistically luxurious photograph by one of the Mexican Muralists, entitled Monument to the Bourgeois Working Class (2012).

Whereas Control Room's efforts take on the collective and community acting as an example to acknowledge these gaps while applying working - class promotional aesthetics and rewarding each of their supports with the simple transparent act of their name included in the advertisement, with text size proportionate to their donation.

After a long, challenging legal battle, the B.C. Supreme Court found that the B.C. Government unjustifiably breached teachers constitutionally protected freedom of association when it stripped class size and composition provisions and other provisions governing teacher working conditions and prohibited bargaining on those subject matters in the future.

The water company is looking to invite up to 10 candidates to compete for places on the new panel, which will handle regulatory investigations, class actions, High Court appeals, M&A and major projects — work that «goes beyond business as usual» due to «size, complexity or significance».

The study took random samples from populations of different sizes and then compared the samples to the whole population to see how many records were identifiable, that is, matched uniquely to a unique person in the whole population on the basis of 9 demographic variables: Age (85 categories), race (4 categories), gender (2 categories), ethnicity (2 categories), marital status (3 categories), income (3 categories), employment status (2 categories), working class (4 categories), and occupation (42 categories).