Sentences with phrase «working teachers whose»

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As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the retirement savings of working people — carpenters and coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests come first?

In doing so he saw himself in continuity with the great teachers of the patristic period, especially John Chrysostom, whose works he once considered translating into French.

It's not uncommon to hold parent - teacher conferences on Sundays, she says, because many parents whose children attend John Jay juggle two or more jobs, working 16 - hour days six days a week at factories, restaurants and cleaning services.

But the researchers did find two positive associations between working motherhood and well - adjusted children: kids whose mothers worked when they were younger than 3 were later rated as higher - achieving by teachers and had fewer problems with depression and anxiety.

Five days a week, 41 children from age 6 through 12, whose parents work, come by bus to the Kraft Building at 1880 Glen Ellyn Rd.. Once there, until 6 p.m., Peterson and staff teachers Alyson DeLaney and Michele DelPercio provide friendship, fun and-most important - attentive and caring supervision.

Leslie is also a Lazure artist whose beautiful work graces our Upper Brookside classroom, and prior to becoming a Waldorf teacher was a professional fiber artist specializing in surface design and wearable art; she also spent several years as a speech pathologist.

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

But we fought to ensure that the new evaluation system includes an appeals process with a fair hearing for teachers whose ratings have nothing to do with their work in the classroom.

«No one wants to show their cards unless they have to,» said United Federation of Teachers president Mike Mulgrew, whose organization has an interest in seeing a working Democratic majority, which would presumably be friendlier to the union's interests than the Republican majority has been.

Previous recipients of the International Solidarity Award are: Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) Jalila al Salman (2013) The National Executive has adopted seven guiding principles for conferring the Award to individuals whose contribution is to: (i) Defending human rights (ii) Defending trade union rights of teachers (iii) Working for quality education (iv) Demonstrating values of solidarity, equality and democracy (v) Educator / teacher (vi) Challenging violence, injustice, bigotry and hatred (vii) Working in countries outside the UK.

But the governor did succeed in setting in motion another overhaul of the teacher evaluation system, whose details will be worked out in the months ahead by the State Education Department and in negotiations between each local school district and its teachers union.

The three - person police commission now includes Earla Van Kleeck, a former teacher and a town resident for 30 years; John Kurz of Samsonville, whose experience includes 17 years with the Kingston police department as well as work for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); and Bob Krause, whose 40 years as an attorney included work in the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Katherine Schreiber, co-author of The Truth About Exercise Addiction: Understanding the Dark Side of Thinspiration, is a NYC - based writer and yoga teacher whose work has been featured...

His work will live on in the hearts and minds of the countless students and teachers whose lives he has touched.

With over 6000 hours of teaching in schools and facilitating professional development workshops and 100 - hour teacher trainings, I am grateful to serve and support those of us whose work aims to empower vulnerable populations through innumerable opportunities for personal and professional development.

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

Most obviously, he is a prideful twerp who begins his studies at Miskatonic by picking a fight with one of the teachers, the towering, imperious Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), whose work West regards as derivative.

The action revolves around three tenants of a run - down apartment: a cat - obsessed waitress (Emily Hampshire) working in a Chinese restaurant that never seems to have any customers, a wheelchair - bound widower (Scott Speedman) whose suite is filled with aquariums, and an emotionally needy, newly arrived elementary - school teacher (Jay Baruchel).

Nagarajan — whose teaching experience includes a year in Chennai, India, after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami — remained in the background on data meeting day as Hope's teachers worked on their reteaching plans.

Others may team teach several subjects via two or three teachers who like working together and whose subjects lend themselves to blending.

Sean M. Douglas is an author, businessman and teacher whose latest book From Storm Clouds Come Angels has been praised as a work of true and genuine insight.

Nashville, Tenn — Mary H. Futrell, president of the National Education Association has told Gov. Lamar Alexander — whose proposal last spring for a statewide «master - teacher» program helped catalyze the national debate on school reform — that by working with the Tennessee Education Association he can develop a «model reform package.»

Since then, Fennell has worked to increase the influence over education policies of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, whose membership comprises current and former honorees.

The NEA also plans to work with the Community Teachers Institute, a privately funded organization whose goal is to recruit and retain teachers for urban school diTeachers Institute, a privately funded organization whose goal is to recruit and retain teachers for urban school diteachers for urban school districts.

Trainers work most intensively with new teachers, teachers who request extra help, and those whose principals have requested extra help on their behalf.

However, we should remember that she was simultaneously an outstanding, productive scholar whose work on teacher - student relationships will help improve the social climate of classrooms for years to come,» Gehlbach said.

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

The conversation is being recorded and will be transcribed for later, more careful analysis by the teacher and a colleague whose students are working on a similar project hundreds of miles away.

In my advocacy work I also find that more and more parents whose kids don't fit the cookie cutter mold of their neighborhood school are increasingly interested in the option of high - quality education online — even if it means missing teacher - led instruction.

Consider the school personnel who already understand, intuitively, how this principle works: the music teacher whose program has been cut in order to fund computer labs; the principal who has had to beef up security in order to protect high - priced technology; the superintendent who has had to craft an «acceptable use» agreement that governs children's use of the Internet (and for the first time in our history renounces the school's responsibility for the material children are exposed to while in school).

«Teachers probably are not drawn to the profession for financial incentives,» says Stein, whose faculty receives additional pay because they work in his high - needs school.

They can also communicate with teachers via email, an option that helps parents whose work schedules make reaching teachers by phone a challenge.

lack of personnel, lack of money, lack of time... students who have weak skills, teachers whose content and pedagogy need big shifts... administrators who are still learning what good common core instruction in their teachers should look like... you name it, this is a work in progress.

Carter works hard to create community - building and visioning processes amongst her diverse teaching staff and between the teachers and the low - income parents of color whose children attend the school.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the earliest groups of educators to embrace MI theory were teachers whose daily work entailed supporting students with learning disabilities.

For Hodges, whose Trout Go to School was the ninth such project for her, teaching this way adds relevance, not burdensome work for teachers.

He's right, of course, that both are «interest groups,» but does he not see a massive difference between an entity that is devoted to getting more kids addicted to deadly cigarettes so they'll be lifelong clients and a group representing rank - and - file teachers whose life's work is educating children?

The culmination of two years» hard work, these outstanding results are a great credit not just to the individual pupils but also to their teachers whose expertise and dedication has enabled our candidates to achieve so highly.»

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Low - income parents» involvement in school may be hindered by transportation difficulties, chronic health conditions, or conflicts with work schedules, while parents whose primary language is not English may not feel able to participate in school activities, or may belong to a culture where questioning teachers is not a norm.

Think of the 7th grade math teachers with modest student test scores whose extra work ensures that their students excel in algebra two years later.

Only after everyone has a chance to offer opinions and observations do the teachers whose students performed the dance — two women who run an after - school neighborhood outreach program sponsored by the Boston Ballet — reveal that the dance is a blending of hip - hop and Bhangra, an Indian dance form, assigned as a choreography project to enhance self - confidence and to give the girls a chance to work on creativity within boundaries.

Is it the poorly paid, beginning teacher whose salary teacher unions work hard to enhance and protect?

That entails training teachers to use 40 to 50 different software packages, working with teachers whose skill levels run the gamut from never having touched a mouse to highly proficient, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, and just generally picking up the slack for whatever the individual district's instructional technology department can't handle.

As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put it in 2013, «For too long, in too many places, schools systems have hurt students by treating every teacher the same — failing to identify those who need support and those whose work deserves particular recognition.»

Insight in Action During one school system's reform efforts, 25 - 30 teacher leaders whose release time from the classroom ranged from no - time to 3 / 4 - time engaged in work at the school and district level.

A task force of educators led by AACTE created the principles to ensure the privacy of those whose images and work are captured in the performance assessment of aspiring teachers.

Why try to judge a teacher striving mightily to work with dis, or un-interested students whose family doen't care.

Credit goes to the District's students, teachers and principals, whose hard work is reflected in the scores.

In those days, any teacher whose jobs was eliminated could be forced into another school, regardless of whether they wanted to work there or whether the principal wanted to hire them.