The strategy encouraged teachers to take risks and tease out the "learning" in class.
The school encouraged teachers to try different pastimes so that they might then introduce them to students.
The director encouraged teachers to shun lectures and rely on debates and even arguments to impart their lessons.
Teachers also praised the program's pacing: coaches encouraged teachers to adopt steps slowly over a sustained period, instead of trying to transform their classrooms overnight.
Merryl H. Tisch, the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, said she had encouraged teachers and parents to greet the news "not with disappointment and not with anger".
But the numbers may be inflated because of a pension incentive that encouraged teachers eligible for retirement last June to stay on the job for one more year.
It concluded that Propst may have helped engineer the altering of a player's grade and encouraged teachers to grant preferential treatment to athletes.
Recent years in engineering education have encouraged teachers to engage their students in various forms of communication.
Finally, he vowed to encourage teacher evaluation and accountability.
Yet the administration is not planning to abandon the law's commitments to closing the achievement gap between minority and white students and to encouraging teacher quality.
