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We have only had small problems. A few teachers have had problems with their new phone numbers...things like that. The teachers and students have both said how much they like it here. We wouldn't have been able to open this building without a great effort from the managerial and custodial staff. They have done a wonderful job and I want to thank them for that. It has been a good process.

We involved the public throughout phase one, including making the decision on whether we had one middle school or two. At the individual schools, the teachers had input on where the classrooms were located and what they would look like.

We intend to inform our teachers that they need to stick with the state standards.

You can hear it around campus. We've been congratulated by so many people, teachers and friends. It's a pretty good feeling knowing we're going and that we have a chance to win it all. Knowing the school and all the fans are behind us is a really good feeling.

We were looking for something that was valid and reliable . . . for something that would measure teacher effectiveness that was neutral. This measures student improvement and the value that teachers bring to student improvement.

We were looking for great teachers - teachers with great enthusiasm who have a passion to coach. Then, we needed some wisdom, as well. I think we got all of those things with the combination of the three guys we hired.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.

We do want the best teachers and the most qualified teachers in every position that we can get.

We do want teachers to express their opinions, but to put that in context and to provide opposing points of view. All discussion must be fair and balanced.

We hope that teachers will come back to work and we'll be able to open our schools again quickly.

We hope that more teachers recognize this is not constructive and that we can work together.

We have talented teachers here who are good at seeing who needs extra help and then giving them that help.

We don't even have to advertise because March Break is the week with the highest demand and it always sells itself. For teachers and families with kids in school, it's the only time they can get away. But, it's also the most expensive time to go away as well.

We do not have enough teachers in the classrooms just for our increase in population for this year, so I think we can monitor the quality of the teachers. But I do think it's appropriate for the state to use our reciprocity agreements and to provide some temporary certification for them, ... We're seeing a dramatic increase by the way in the number of students. It doubled yesterday. I think it went from 1,000 to 2,400 in one day. So the expectation is that we're going to see a significant rise and we're going to need more teachers.

With all teachers suffering because of low pay in a state with high growth in the cost of living, particularly in housing, (Winn's plan) is like putting a big screen TV in your living room and not fixing the hole in your roof.

We're building 10-12 brand new schools every year, and we're hiring around 2000 teachers every year.

You all are the key. They trust their neighbors and their child's teachers more than any of the rest of us sitting up here.

We're a little concerned about third grade at Wallace and we wish it was smaller, but for the most part, we're looking pretty good. We want to provide our teachers with the opportunity to teach to the best of their abilities, and managing class size is crucial toward assisting them. We're pleased that we are moving in the right direction.

We're almost at a point where we have all the coaches being employed, first as teachers but then also as teachers in (our) school, ... I've talked to everybody. They support what I'm talking about. They understand how important it is for them to be around (campus day-to-day).

We really, truly need very, very sound biblical teaching by some of the best biblical teachers around. If we could have a really firm grasp on what these biblical principles mean for our world, we can at least know how to live them out. And then we need to learn how to communicate that to the people around us.

We do this for coaches, teachers and all kinds of groups.

When you're in school growing up, you have teachers who sit and read to these kids, and what better opportunity to sit and read a story - one that's not fake. It's not a dreaming story. It's not Harry Potter. It's a real-life story, with glorious moments to horrific moments, including the frostbite - and what better way to show kids their potential than with a real-life story?

We had heard a rumor Thursday that students might leave classes to protest. We had a faculty meeting (Thursday) to let the teachers know. We wanted them to talk to the students and see if they could keep them in class.

We had a lot of pride in the school and I think the teachers did, too. It was in really good shape.

We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

We've had great response for it. It brings all different schools together at one time, a great uniting event with all administrations of school districts in the county. It's our way of thanking teachers and congratulating students for the job they did.

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

We have to pay the best and brightest teachers the best.

We have to look at any and all sources of bringing teachers in. Teach For America has had a lot of success not only in retaining people, but also for being able to turn the performance around of the students they teach.

We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.

We have had inquiries from different organizations that want to help as far as school supplies. Teachers are in the process of compiling a list of needs. We're just working to take inventory right now, and we're also looking at the needs of our students. You know a lot of them had their supplies at the school.

We have all the teachers of each grade in the same building and usually on the same floor. It just makes for a more collaborative environment.

We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'

We need to increase the salaries of our teachers because we're $6,000 below the national average. And that just will not cut it.

We could have kids that have graduated in here or kids from other schools, ... This will help teachers identify students.

We have tremendous concerns in three areas: transportation, because of rising fuel costs; utilities, because of rising fuel costs; and increases in health care costs. We could have given teachers a 7 percent pay raise instead of taking those things away. We could have hired more of those teachers at a higher salary.

tremendous disappointment of millions of taxpayers and teachers and parents over this Legislature's failure to act on property tax relief and education reform.

Today's parents and teachers want internet safety tools and skills. We must get more actively involved in our children's use of new media and in teaching them to use the internet safely,

Year before last, we missed a B rating by five points, last year we missed it by one point. This year we would like to see the school score a B or higher. Our teachers are working with the children to get the best results possible and have them understand the test and why it is important.

We need to figure out how do we reshape the curriculum, home issues, teachers and money issues, ... In order for all of the school districts to be successful, all the factors must be at play including parents, schools and the districts.

While we recognize the valuable contribution made by all of our substitute teachers for the work they do in maintaining the progression of learning, the outstanding example set by these individuals is particularly noteworthy. They have demonstrated a genuine dedication to student achievement.

We get teachers who either live here or they want to stay in this area. There is no way we're going to attract somebody. So the competition for teachers is real tough for us,

We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers before a special session.

We have not done a work-the-contract week for over ten years now, but it's a first step now to show we are serious about our contract and to show the community, the administration, school board, how much teachers actually do beyond the school day.

The quality of our teachers can be credited for the outstanding performances of our students.

Those changes basically extend the agreement to the community schools teachers, who are in a separate union, and to some teachers who are eligible to retire.

UNICEF's Voices of Youth has organized many Internet chats, like the one you participated in, among children and teachers around the world.

We'll make a determination once they (completely) register students whether additional teachers need to be hired. A lot depends on how many students enter our schools system.

We don't have enough teachers being generated by the teaching colleges, ... We have no choice but to go outside the traditional means of getting applicants.

We don't have a plan if a pandemic comes around, we can't turn 53 buildings, 32,000 students and 1,800 teachers into a kind of virtual school. We couldn't even do that in a year. We don't have a plan for sending curriculum by e-mail to students. We'll be doing whatever we can in the best interest of the community. . . . And we would do whatever kind of enrichment activities we could.

We're losing teachers to Atlanta who can move there and get a $10,000 signing bonus. We're in a global market now and we have to figure out ways to compete.

The policy we do prefer is that teachers teach both the strengths and the weaknesses of evolution, without getting into replacement theories like intelligent design.

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.

When a new coach comes in, it takes a while. You're not going to win right off the bat. A lot of your older (assistant) coaches are excellent teachers and now they're retiring. A lot of the younger coaches are having trouble relating to athletes today. You have to be on a level above your kids, and you have to be a disciplinarian.

We have lost a very valuable person who has left a lot of his philosophy of education still with the teachers who started with him.

We set a higher goal each time and develop strategies and activities to achieve them. We need to give credit to students, parents and teachers who help each student achieve their best. It's not what we do here at the central office. We just try to meet their needs.

We still have areas with growth, so if we have surplus teachers we could send them there.

We are confident that our teachers who care very deeply about our children will show up.

We are giving the government a very strong reason to sit down with the teachers and solve this dispute.

We recognize right up front that there are many accomplished teachers who may never have gone through or considered going through the national board program. What we want to avoid is creating one elite group of teachers running the show.

There are better ways of doing things than to just implement it on us. It hurt a lot of teachers that we couldn't compromise. For every one bad teacher you get several good ones. We don't want the collective bargaining changed for one bad teacher.

There is more awareness among parents and families and teachers that if we want children to succeed in school, we need to provide good experiences in kindergarten and earlier.

There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students out of the way because the AC unit is leaking on one side of the class. I saw a teacher move a row of kids over because water was leaking on one side of the room.

The project will help teachers weave together supports for children literacy and social-emotional development in all classroom activities.

The One-to-One Institute is the catalyst for changing the way teachers teach and students learn based on the proven result of Michigan's Freedom to Learn program. With our guidance and resources, states and school districts can begin to fully integrate technology as the key ingredient in reform and transformation.

TISD can no longer wait on the state and must act in the best interest of our teachers and students.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. The principal and teachers literally went door to door inviting parents to participate. They found most parents had no idea the school was so dependent on them.

We work on reading and writing strategies and we teach behind a glass where other teachers watch us. We all have to take a turn teaching behind the glass. The child doesn't know the teachers are watching.

The fact that these teachers are willing to share their time is important, and we are very grateful.

The fact that the National Academies is recognizing the efforts of teachers and mentors is indicative of how much importance they are placing on national higher education.

The facts are startling: in Germany, 36% of undergraduates receive their degrees in science and engineering. In China, the figure is 59%, and in Japan 66%. In the United States, the corresponding figure is 32%, ... It is clear we need to do all we can to attract more students to the sciences to remain competitive in the global economy. Such an effort must start in our elementary and secondary schools. National Chemistry Week provides our teachers with the tools and ideas to spark that interest.

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

What I think is really important is that parents, students and staff should know, regardless of the work to be done, school will start on Sept. 1 and teachers will be ready,

What we've been doing is using data to make instructional decisions. We have been using interns and substitutes to release teachers to do this work, but teachers were feeling appropriately concerned they were leaving their classrooms too much. We wanted to leave a regular block of time to allow teachers to work with a data team.

We're trying to help the county get the workforce, ... If you have courses for student teachers in Charlotte County, they're more likely to stay in Charlotte County after they graduate.

The real loser in the election tonight was not Jim Leininger but the parents of inner-city children trapped in failing schools who will now have more legislators aligned with teachers unions instead of children who need help.

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

We were shocked and dismayed that one of our teachers would be involved in something like this. Teachers are held to the highest standards, and again, we are shocked.

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

We asked that you change what you look like, and that's an uncomfortable feeling, ... we ask teachers to change . . . how they work, how they teach. What we try to get them used to throughout the day is the Leander way.

We can't treat teachers like glorified test monitors and pay them accordingly if we want to have any hope of keeping teachers in classrooms,

We are collaborating to keep the kids and the teachers in one place.

We have been helped so much by the teachers and staff of the Henryetta schools. They have donated thousands of dollars to help pay Victoria's hospital bills and other expenses. I can't thank them enough for their love and,

We have been a district that looks to technology as a tool to facilitate learning and teaching. In this case, DIBELS may save our teachers time with regards to scoring and record-keeping, thereby allowing them to spend more time focusing on instruction.

We have great test scores, veteran teachers who are good at what they do and a great group of kids. Our challenge is to look at what we can fine-tune (for continuous improvement)," ()

We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.

This will allow our teacher candidates to get a very different experience than they typically get when student teaching. Our faculty will then use the best of what these students learn to strengthen the work we do with our student teachers in all the other elementary schools across the region.

This report validates recent studies that show teachers to be the most critical element in instructional technology, ... Teachers must have access to both quality professional development and technical support if they are to unleash the power of technology to improve instruction.

When children start learning math in school, they already have a basic understanding of the concepts. This understanding should guide teachers to work on enhancing these skills.

We run generally about 15 teachers pretty much throughout the year. Many of them have classes that they've been doing for years. And (people) just keep coming to the same class over and over again, they like it so much.

We keep hearing 'teach to the national standards.' But how can teachers make the subject relevant to students today?

Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.

We had 150 people attend an information session in Rice Lake. That tells you how confusing it is. Organizations, such as the Wisconsin Retired Teachers Association, are holding their own meetings and making recommendations to their members.

Trying to document that was a circus. I talked to former superintendents, teachers and students. I made a lot of calls. I have several theories in the book, and maybe one of them is true. The closest bell was the most difficult to document.

(Trustees) all say the same thing, it's only a few teachers that are upset. Well, the events of today expose that as mythology.

With over $8 billion available before the Perry tax plan is even considered, any school finance plan that leaves our children's schools and their teachers out of the equation just doesn't add up.

The program is all about the empowerment of teachers. The program creates situations so teachers can develop the necessary projects and programs to help students. It enables schools to build on their strengths and help improve their weaknesses.