Sentences with phrase «years of public school teaching»

After fifteen years of public school teaching, both in regular education and special education classrooms, Stephanie worked for twelve years as a staff developer for the Denver based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), a partnership of leaders from education and business, who support innovation in public schools.

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I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

The 2007 Associated Press investigation identifies 2570 public school teachers who, from 2001 through 2005, had their teaching licenses «taken away, denied, surrendered voluntarily, or restricted» as a result of sexual misconduct with minors» an average of 514 per year.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

This is your standard school - type English 11 textbook, of the sort I haven't used since I taught English 11 in public school twenty - three years ago.

However, the upheaval of the «20s has received renewed public concern in recent years because of the revival of fundamentalism in the US and the sponsorship of creationism in schools as opposed to the teaching of evolution.

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

Marianne is a highly experienced, trained Waldorf teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience in public and private Waldorf schools as well as experience as a Spanish - bilingual teacher in New York.

With 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

In the wake of last month's election that returned Gov. Jerry Brown and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson to office, the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers have the best political opportunity in 40 years to reshape teaching and schooling.

Faith has fifteen years of teaching experience in public and private Christian schools, serving in childhood literacy, reading assessment, and identification and remediation of reading difficulties.

With over 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director, and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, learning biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the third grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor LSchool and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lschool outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, where he learned biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the Third Grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School, and taught that block for fifteen years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor LSchool, and taught that block for fifteen years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lschool outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

Jones has taught in New York City public schools for nine years and is currently working toward a doctorate at the City University of New York.

Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining public safety and quality of life.

Elia, a Lewiston, NY native who taught in public schools in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst early in her career, says she is glad to be «coming home» after many years away.

Miner, who this week begins a spring semester teaching positions at the pring semester as a «visiting distinguished urbanist» at the New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, said Sunday she is still considering options for her political future, including a possible Democratic primary challenge this year against Cuomo or a run for Congress.

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

Rennie: Sure, Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science and Natural Education, who has done wonderful work for years in trying to make sure that evolution, is taught appropriately in public schools and to try to discourage the teaching of creationism under any of its various guises as a bad scientific alternative to that.

At the end of that year, they were eligible for a «standard alternative teaching certificate,» enabling them to teach for 4 years in public schools, after which they became eligible for full certification.

Enjoying the experience but worried about the lack of job security, last year she decided to transition into public - school teaching via NC TEACH.

For 15 years, one of the biggest suppliers of alternatively certified science and math teachers to the Chicago Public Schools system was a program called NU - TEACH, run by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

I served as a lead teacher for Bent On Learning for 6 years, which gave me the pleasure of teaching Yoga to children from ages 4 to 18, through out the NYC Public School System.

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

Despite a wave of patriotic fervor washing over the country during the past year, most Americans expect schools to teach children the bad as well as the good about U.S. history and government, a survey by Public Agenda reveals.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

Not for the students of Walden Middle School, an all - black, low - income, urban public school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several School, an all - black, low - income, urban public school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several years.

From tales of his 30 years teaching in New York City schools to the public's indifference toward teachers, Pulitzer Prize - winning author and former teacher Frank McCourt's lighthearted and humorous talk yesterday to students in the Teacher Education Program, one of 13 master's programs at the Ed School, left an impression.

Only half of the state's public school teachers typically remain teaching after five years.

Over the years, while teaching at the Ed School and helping to lead CAST (originally the Center for Applied Special Technology), Rose has become the most prominent public face of UDL.

Teacher attrition rates are especially bad in Hawaii, where only about half of the state's public school teachers remain teaching after five years.

Over ten years work with schools, colleges and the general public we have developed a set of approaches that inform our teaching and learning about sustainability.

The Kozol text that struck me the most was Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools that had been published in 1967 and was a narrative about Kozols first year teaching in that same very section of Boston - Roxbury.

She more or less goes her own way in teaching the course, but after the first year of «Civics in Action,» the Boston Public Schools introduce standardized, districtwide midterm and final exams for it, and Levinson worries how her students will do.

After 40 years of teaching in public schools, I have finally retired, but to keep myself sane, I like to keep connected to all things education.

It stipulated that a teacher coming into the system from any other school district (either public or private) could not be given salary credit for more than five years of previous teaching experience.

«Each year on National Teacher Day we thank the nation's hard - working public school educators and take time out to reflect on the future of the teaching profession,» said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel.

A normative political philosopher who researches civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics, Levinson draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.

In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.

The American Public School Teacher is a comprehensive report on the state of the teaching profession in the United States based on a 5 - year study by the National Education Association.

She taught middle school humanities in several New York City public schools for 11 years and took on various leadership positions serving as a director of middle school curriculum and instruction, curriculum developer, project advisor, and teacher mentor.

To shed new light on this question, my Brookings colleague Matthew Chingos and I used a unique administrative database to follow the careers of almost 32,000 high school teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001 - 02 and 2006 - 07 school years, roughly 3,500 of whom left teaching for a new job in the state during that time.

The study from the Council of Chief State School Officers, in Washington, looks at data from a federal survey of 60,000 public school teachers conducted in the 1999 - 2000 school year to gauge how many teachers in grades 7 - 12 are highly qualified in the subjects they School Officers, in Washington, looks at data from a federal survey of 60,000 public school teachers conducted in the 1999 - 2000 school year to gauge how many teachers in grades 7 - 12 are highly qualified in the subjects they school teachers conducted in the 1999 - 2000 school year to gauge how many teachers in grades 7 - 12 are highly qualified in the subjects they school year to gauge how many teachers in grades 7 - 12 are highly qualified in the subjects they teach.

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

60 percent of all public school principals had 10 or more years of teaching experience before becoming a principal, and 90 percent had 5 or more years of experience.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's plan includes «elevating» the teaching profession, rebuilding schools, breaking the school - to - prison pipeline, the expansion of affordable preschool and child care, and making college more affordable by offering free tuition at community colleges and four - year public universities.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

In spite of these travails, in school year 2003 — 04, 89.4 percent of California public school teachers held full teaching credentials in their teaching area.