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This state has the highest average pay for teachers.
What is New York?
These are the standardized tests taken by Pennsylvania k-12 students.
What are the PSSA and Keystone exams?
This is Mr. Lowe's number one love language.
What is Acts of Service?
This is the central location that will receive all documents of certification and be where all reporting is sent for Pennsylvania.
What is the Pennsylvania Department of Education?
This is a written set of rules in a school handbook to designate what clothing is and is not appropriate.
What is a dress code?
According to the ACLU, "The disturbing national trend wherein youth are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal legal systems. Many of these youth are Black or Brown, have disabilities, or histories of poverty, abuse, or neglect, and would benefit from additional supports and resources."
What is the school to prison pipeline?
These two teams have won the most Super Bowls in NFL history, with six wins.
What are the Steelers and the Patriots?
Of elementary school teachers, middle school teachers, and high school teachers, this group gets paid the highest.
What are high school teachers?
This is the United States' fourth oldest institution of higher learning, an ivy league, founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin.
What is the University of Pennsylvania?
This Constitutional Amendment is the one usually considered for educational rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
You must take these certification exams before becoming a state certified teacher.
What are Praxis exams?
These are the collective bargaining units that represent the needs of educators and argue with officials to better conditions for teachers.
What is a union?
44% of education is funded by on the local level, most of which comes from this levy.
What is property tax?
Sandwiched in Italy, this is the oldest University in the world -- and I am telling you the truth.
What is the University of Bologna.
This state has the lowest average pay for teachers.
What is Mississippi?
There are 29 of these in Pennsylvania, which are entrepreneurial, highly skilled, technology-rich, and agile providers of cost-effective, instructional, and operational services to school districts, charter schools, and over 2,400 non-public and private schools.
What are Intermediate Units?
This court case deemed segregation of school illegal and permanently ended the "separate but equal" statute.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
You must maintain this rating as a teacher in your state to maintain employment in a school. Such aspects of this rating may include your Student Performance Measure, your testing results for tested grades, differentiated supervision, and principal evaluation.
What is satisfactory?
The academic practice of receiving a status of employment that can only be terminated for a justifiable cause or under extreme circumstances.
What is tenure?
According to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, black K–12 students are 3.8 times as likely to receive one or more of these as their white peers.
What is an out-of-school suspension?
This is the longest running show to have ever been on Broadway.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
According to US News, this state has the best ranked k-12 education system in the country.
What is New Jersey or Massachusetts?
Pennsylvania is ranked here in teacher pay according to NBC.
What is 4th?
About what percentage of taxpayer income goes to education?
What is 3-4%?
These usually take place before or after school, held once a month (or more), and meant for collective professional development and sharing of essential information coming soon.
What are faculty meetings?
This is what many school districts use to offer employment in a regulated delineated set of rules and expectations between the educator and the school district.
What is a contract?
Paolo Freire wrote his book, "Pedagogy of the THIS," meaning subject to harsh or authoritarian treatment, on which Critical Pedagogy is based.
What is the Oppressed?
This actress has the most number of Oscar wins in movie history.
Who is Katherine Hepburn?
According to US News, this state has the worst ranked k-12 education system in the country.
What is New Mexico?
Pennsylvania ranks here in U.S. News for k-12 education system in the country.
What is 22?
This is the number of states that still allow corporal punishment.
What is 19?
You must maintain these type of credits of continuing education to maintain licensure in the state. Hint: It can take more than two days to maintain them!
What are Act 48 credits?
This is the certificate needed to have permanent content certification in Pennsylvania.
What is Instructional II Certification?
According to Pew Research Center and NCES, this is the percentage of the teaching force that identifies as Non-Hispanic White.
What is 80%?
This is the program through Mercyhurst University that provides afterschool programming to students in urban Erie -- let it lead you in the right direction!
What is Compass Academy?