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rada pedagogiczna?


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Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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What would be the best translations of:
rada pedagogiczna
board of education
home-room teacher
vocational counsellor
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teachers' meeting or teaching staff meeting
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Polonius3
rada pedagogiczna - staff meeting, teachers' meeting
board of education - no such thing in Poland on districts' level as far as I'm concerned, but I would say "komisja edukacyjna"
home-room teacher - again, no homeroom in Poland, I would say "wychowawca", but it doesn't translate 1 to 1
vocational counsellor - doradca zawodowy
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Many dzięks Marynka. Coupla more...
superintendent of schools (would that be kurator?). Couldn't board of education be kuratorium?
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Kuratorium Oświaty is on voivodship level. And all people are paid, so I don't know, seems a little bit far from the idea of Board of Ed. where the parents can also participate in decision making.

Kurator is the head of kuratorium, so again, the translation will be off.

In this case I would just use descriptive translation.
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Marynka11:
rada pedagogiczna - staff meeting, teachers' meeting


faculty meeting? (it might sound odd in Europe but in the US, where the OP is writing from even elementary school teachers can be referred to as faculty).

I tend to think of rada more as the people on a particular board but I guess that's wrong...
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mafketis:
faculty meeting

exactly "faculty" that's the word I was missing
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Aren't you confusing board of education with ther PTA (parent-teachers association)? Parents are not involved in a US board of education which is a public authority as described below.

A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level.

The elected council helps determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state, or province. It usually shares power with a larger institution, such as the government's department of education. The name of the board is also often used to refer to the school system under the board's control.
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Polonius3:
Aren't you confusing board of education with ther PTA (parent-teachers association)? Parents are not involved in a US board of education which is a public authority as described below.


In my township Board of Ed. which is a group of elected people, mostly parents of school kids who participate in the district meetings and vote on district's decisions. They are all volunteers.

I looked into my old powiat, and I think the closest to Board of Ed they have is Komisja Oświaty, Kultury, Sportu i Turystyki. I don't know how the members of the komisja are elected though.

I think Kuratorium (wojewodzkie) is something like State Department of Education.
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Just shows to go that despite globalism there still are many discrepancies in the realm of administrative terminology.


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