Sentences with phrase «as eighth grade»

Stacy Zeiger began writing in 2000 for «Suburban News Publication» in Ohio and has expanded to teaching writing as an eighth grade English teacher.

As eighth grade marks the end of middle school, curriculum focuses on strengthening previous skills while building new knowledge in preparation for high school.

Word lists support eighth grade English language arts curriculum, as well as eighth grade subject areas including math, science and social studies.

The study of five years of attendance data emphasizes the need for early identification of students who are chronically absent, and identified chronic absenteeism as a key predictor of dropouts as early as the eighth grade.

Fortunately, the fourth grade NAEP test uses the same scale as the eighth grade NAEP test, so we can compare them.

The Chancellor's Office touted McBryde as «a dedicated instructional leader with over 16 years of experience,» having begun his teaching career as an eighth grade teacher in Atlanta.

Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.

Ms. Lehman previously served as an eighth grade Science teacher and the Enrichment Coordinator at Roxbury Prep.

The data show that when measured as their own «state», Arizona charter students outpaced the gains realized by their state level peers in all four major tested subjects: fourth grade reading and math, as well as eighth grade reading and math.

Mr. Magoon returns to Brooke Mattapan as an eighth grade ELA and social studies teacher.

Not exact matches

At the suggestion of her principal, Corinne skipped fourth grade and took eighth grade math as a seventh grader.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Each of them should then be sentenced to a three - year hitch as a seventh or eighth - grade teacher.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

Michelle turns away and grinds her teeth — how could this be happening to the girl who won the Greg Tatum Award in eighth grade as her school's most Christlike child?

Four years after gracing our cover as an eighth - grade slugger, Vincent Byrd II is still swinging away

But as she got older, she realized she needed to get out on the perimeter, and after her eighth - grade year, she started moving to the outside.

Video from an eighth - grade geometry class in Japan collected as part of James Stigler's international study of math teaching

The day after the treatment and control exercises were administered, the primary dependent variable was measured: students» food and drink choices for a «snack pack,» announced by the principal as a reward to the entire eighth grade class for their hard work during the state testing period that had just ended.

He took a class from first to eighth grade at the Denver Waldorf School, then worked as a high school science teacher at High Mowing and class teacher at Pine Hill Waldorf School before moving to Michigan.

Our dual - language program of both Mandarin and Spanish from first through fourth grades, followed by intensive study of Spanish from fifth through eighth grades, provides both an intellectual boost as well as a window into the cultural practices of the wider world — in Nashville and beyond.

From 1993 - 2001, Gary took a class from first to eighth grade at the Denver Waldorf School, then worked as a high school science teacher at High Mowing School and a class teacher at Pine Hill Waldorf School before moving to Michigan.

The school added a sixth - grade class for the first time this year and plans to add seventh and eighth grade as the current sixth - grade class progresses.

Throughout seventh and eighth grade, I would often drink as many as six cans of soda per day.

Saugerties High School senior Austin Beaudette and Saugerties Junior High School eighth grade student Kira Daniels were selected as Mid - Hudson / Westchester region honorees by the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) earlier this spring.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa say they've been in touch with testing vendor Questar Assessment since Wednesday, when testing was delayed for an unknown number of third - through eighth - grade students as they sat for the mandatory tests.

The move to refuse the state standardized tests scheduled for later this week is getting more vocal, as test dates approach for children in third through eighth grades.

At a ceremony that included a saxophone performance and was attended by the Friends of the East Elmhurst Library as well as by about 30 fifth - and eighth - grade students from East Elmhurst's PS 127, the East Elmhurst Library's Community Library Manager Johnnie Dent and Queens Library Chief Executive Officer Tom Galante thanked Peralta for his donation.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — As Part of Optimum Power to Learn «Internet Smarts» Event, New York State Senator George Latimer will participate in an event with Sixth -, seventh - and eighth - grade students to address the topic of safe and appropriate online behavior as part of Optimum's Power to Learn Internet Smarts prograAs Part of Optimum Power to Learn «Internet Smarts» Event, New York State Senator George Latimer will participate in an event with Sixth -, seventh - and eighth - grade students to address the topic of safe and appropriate online behavior as part of Optimum's Power to Learn Internet Smarts prograas part of Optimum's Power to Learn Internet Smarts program.

TICONDEROGA — Eighth - grade toes tapped in anticipation as the final day of the Ticonderoga Central School District Second Annual Spelling Bee took place.

And nationwide scores for students classified as Hispanic rose in both grade levels; the score gap between white and Hispanic eighth - graders shrunk by three points between 2009 and 2011.

The longitudinal study looked at the electrical brain responses of six - month - old infants to speech and the correlation between the brain responses and their pre-literacy skills in pre-school-age, as well as their literacy in the eighth grade at 14 years of age.

The researchers queried 785 adolescents three times over four years: in seventh grade, about their social autonomy and parental relationships; in eighth grade, about peer influences; and in 11th grade, about problem behaviors such as drinking and aggression.

It turns out that even in the world of scientific writing, your eighth - grade teacher was right: how you write can matter as much as what you write.

Before starting her writing career, Tanya Brown worked as an eighth - grade language arts teacher.

Sure, you probably visited the capital somewhere between sixth and eighth grade, which is all the more reason why you definitely need to go back as an adult.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

As Kayla, Fisher guides us through the frightening halls and classrooms of her middle school during the last few days of her eighth grade year — and all of the fears, regrets and hopes that come with graduation.

Guy never graduated from the eighth grade and uses that as he way into competing in national children's spelling bees.

The actor stars as Guy Trilby, a middle - aged loser who discovers a loophole in the spelling bee bylaws permitting anyone who hasn't graduated past the eighth grade to participate.

Starring as the misanthropic Guy Trilby, a middle - aged man who never passed the eighth grade, Bateman finds a loophole in the rules for The Golden Quill spelling bee, a competition designed for school children, and enters himself into the contest.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

She spent seven years as a classroom teacher ranging from first to eighth grade.

In my personal world (one that, at times, seems to take on fictional overtones), the image of Cobble's Knot provides a nice way to begin pulling at the threads of my own practice as I implement a new arts - based alternative program for seventh - and eighth - grade students.

Making Tomorrow's Millionaires This site, part of an eighth - grade social studies project, includes portfolio templates for use in the classroom as well as links to sources for current stock prices.

Duey is a former professional rapper, but Alex Kajitani (known as the Rappin» Mathematician) approached rapping from the opposite direction: The eighth - grade algebra teacher started doing it as a survival technique.

As an eighth - grade language arts teacher, I've experienced this myself.