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Early registration not only provides smooth transition into the schools but helps us to find highly qualified teachers because teachers are allocated based on enrollment.


Barbara Batts

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CONRAD BURNS The transition has been remarkably smooth. The kids have had plenty of opportunity to communicate wi...
DAVID MADDEN It's very hard for children to do well in school if they don't have highly qualified teachers.
HUGH PRICE They have all the ingredients for a successful school - good teachers who are highly qualified, tota...
HARRY KEMP Things have always operated with somewhat of a shortage. We could always use more qualified substitu...
PAUL ALDERETE Things have always operated with somewhat of a shortage. We could always use more qualified substitu...
SUPERINTENDENT PAUL ALDERETE Teachers don't want to have a letter sent home saying that they are not highly qualified, ... We lik...
CHRIS MILLS Anytime that we can help the teachers in any way monetarily we should. Not only are we helping our t...
BETTY COVINGTON It would be unwise to place a lot of stock in these numbers, because we have watched states game thi...
ROSS WIENER Many new teachers that we hire are actually ready to earn permanent status after their second year. ...
BOB WELLS Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
MAGGIE GALLAGHER I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through prop...
MICHAEL BENNET There are a lot of high schools where teachers have not put enough emphasis on grammar, punctuation ...
WILL SUTTON Our schools will be open on Friday, hopefully with our teachers.
MICHAEL POCKL Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teacher...
ALEXA POSNY [The schools need positive support; they need positive comments from community members, Morris said....
ANTHONY MORRIS My personal bias is to let districts and schools and teachers make the adjustments and not to try to...
GEORGE PRINCE We think this is a win-win situation both for Arkansas schools in need of teachers and for displaced...
BEVERLY WILLIAMS I'm proud of the schools. I'm proud of the teachers.
ELAINE TAYLOR We have been helped so much by the teachers and staff of the Henryetta schools. They have donated th...
DAN EDWARDS It's a wonderful thing serving our district. We are truly blessed at Milan schools because we have t...
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MICHAEL LEUNIG Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
BOB TALBERT I'm not sure what good it would do to expand the curriculum if the courses are watered down or your ...
DAVID RESCHKE For some of the newer teachers, the transition is natural. But ... some of the other teachers, who m...
ANDY NELSON All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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OLIVER BUTTERWORTH Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English...
SYLVIA PLATH The teachers in a sense are recommending these candidates into office. It's a process designed to re...
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BALROOP SINGH I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports ...
JONATHAN KOZOL Teachers were not surprising because kids are so darn germy. Some of the others kind of surprised us...
CHARLES GERBA Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and...
MONICA JOHNSON Even if it's hard to find teachers you don't lessen the requirements just because it's hard to find ...
CAROL RUPE It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look g...
AMY WILLIAMS Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE...
SEBASTIAN COE We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
DAVID SELBY Our kids have had some of the same teachers, same schools as we have had.
HEIDI ADAMSKI Schools were starting earlier and earlier. I talked with parents, teachers and principals from all o...
LARRY MCKEOWN I get the sense when I go out to the schools [that] the teachers will tell you how they feel. And th...
KARL KILDOW Our newer schools have thermostats in classrooms that teachers can control, but they don't go lower ...
JEANANN PADDYFOTE The goal of the teachers' workshops is to help improve your teaching skills and the teaching environ...
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DALAI LAMA XIV You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
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CINDY SULHAM The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nons...
KAREN BEST She's responsible for a major attitude adjustment among the teachers on the team. She is as much of ...
CAROL GREIG The program is all about the empowerment of teachers. The program creates situations so teachers can...
JOSEPH KRETOVICS At small high schools, there often aren't enough students interested in a particular course to make ...
CHERYL VEDOE These are the schools that are getting it done. These schools are being recognized for their commitm...
KATHY COX There are no problems, only teachers (people, places, and things) that challenge us to be all we can...
JIM GENOVESE My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemme...
CARI DONALDSON If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define...
WILLIAM GLASSER We're basically removing all of the procedural barriers--such as late fees--and speeding the admissi...
JOHN BEACON We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was impor...
DARREN FLUTIE Teachers have been saying that kids are studying in groups now. We want there to be a real continuit...
DOUGLAS HENDERSON If we are well-connected to the schools, we're going to have a better understanding of what students...
FRANCES KOCHAN Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers...
WENDY KOPP Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have ...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and f...
ARNE DUNCAN Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
DAN QUAYLE Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as pr...
DIANE RAVITCH My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
WOODY ALLEN In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are n...
ADAM HAMILTON We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and ...
AZIM PREMJI I think the teachers are just as excited as the kids. Many teachers told me they had difficulty slee...
ELIZABETH ENGLISH Based on current enrollment, state regulations would only allow us to build 130,000 square feet if w...
CARLA SULLIVAN Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the pro...
ALBIO SIRES They (the symphony) work with the teachers to come up with the concerts, to find out what the music ...
HEIDI DALLIN 'My Fair Lady' is based on 'Pygmalion,' by George Bernard Shaw, which many teachers have on their re...
JOHN MCDONALD I'll be visiting the schools and going into classrooms and talking with teachers and meeting the kid...
ALAN GENOVESE We will work with the teachers at other schools. No teacher will be affected, and we will have more ...
JAMES BENNETTS And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp...
WARREN BEATTY We were drawn to the Teachers for New Era's reliance on evidence as its critical reform model. Clear...
GAIL LEVIN There are amateur musicians who want to play with other amateur musicians, and there were students l...
BETH COHEN It's practical common-sense stuff that's making us successful. Our teachers don't have to spend half...
DR. HUEY MILLS I'm not as highly recruited as Tim obviously because he's more talented. But some smaller schools mi...
AUSTIN MEIER They don't find teachers who believe in them. They get convinced they are stupid.
GOOD WILL HUNTING The teachers of this province are not going to be broken.
JINNY SIMS The FSA tests are beginning to affect teaching and learning in a bad way. Because those tests are us...
JINNY SIMS Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper (County) are very frustrating, ... We spend an awful lot...
ANNE ANDERSON The teachers' rooms that were open, they went through their desks, ... They broke into the snack mac...
ANDY PARKER A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young wh...
EMILE CAPOUYA This presents an opportunity to explore the building, find their way around, ... It helps them make ...
J. LEWIS This presents an opportunity to explore the building, find their way around. It helps them make the ...
JO LEWIS We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools,...
ANNE ANDERSON This is not about embarrassing people who are not a threat. Our top concern has to be the kids that ...
JASON BREWER Are you saying you're going to need teachers or not?
JEFF ROBERTS It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
JOHN BRADSHAW It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
JOHN BRADSHAW We were just not surprised. Because, sadly the number one profession that hits on our underage profi...
XAVIER VON ERCK In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always r...
JON CARROLL Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
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BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER