Sentences with phrase «as middle grade»

Marketed as a middle grade novel, the themes, character depth, and emotional journey of the book are applicable to people of all ages and life stages.

As middle grade writers, we find joy in putting ourselves into the young characters we write about.

The press release describes it as both middle grade and young adult, so the book's age range is unclear at this time.

The publication also will totally discontinue mass market paperback lists as well as the middle grade e-book and young adult e-book lists.

A third core principle is that all students need to be provided much greater access to career information, awareness, and exposure beginning at least as early as the middle grades.

Anne Jolly began her career as a lab scientist, caught the science teaching bug and was recognized as an Alabama Teacher of the Year during her years as a middle grades science teacher in Mobile, AL..

One way to educate families about the importance of the 9th - grade transition might be to require that students and their parents are given information on colleges» entrance expectations - minimum coursework requirements, GPA, etc. - preferably as early as the middle grades, if not earlier, but absolutely at the beginning of high school.

She began her career as a middle grades Math Teacher through an alternative certification program in 2004.

As middle grades educators struggling to find equity in assessment while honoring the strengths of our learners, we (authors) began crafting a translation guide for students in middle school that can help bridge achievement levels with reporting mechanisms.

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It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

Currently Lylli is the Faculty Chair and Enrollment Coordinator at the Halton Waldorf School and she continues as a teacher in the middle school, offering physics and chemistry blocks in grades 6, 7 and 8.

When your son transitions from grade school into middle school and then teen years, he might begin to clam up and quit talking, especially about critical topics, such as bullying, substance abuse, sex and more.

Other schools may designate 7th and 8th grades as the middle school years.

Tommi is a middle school block teacher at Whidbey Island Waldorf School, where she taught as a grades teacher between 1997 and 2007.

In the third grade the recorder and stringed instruments such as the violin are introduced and carried on throughout middle school.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Your child may have successfully completed the grades that preceded fifth grade, only to now be showing signs of trouble as she prepares for middle school.

On Monday, he opted not to close middle - school grades at Wadleigh Secondary in Harlem, as had been planned.

These are children of school teachers, nurses, administrative grade civil service jobs and high level technicians — jobs which did not require a degree 20 to 30 years ago but which are now regarded as graduate or middle class jobs.

In his first major policy speech as chancellor, given this morning at NYU, Dennis Walcott focused on the issues of middle schools, ticking off a panoply of problems in grade six through eight and acknowledging his department must do more to address them.

In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a robust and strong predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

The Sweet Valley Twins series features the twins as sixth grade students attending Sweet Valley Middle School.

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.

Set in and around surely the most dimly - lit university campus in the whole of the United States, it stars Katie Holmes as a grade - A student who takes a break from tax - dodging, staying in bed until the middle of the afternoon and complaining about the cost of food (but still having enough money for booze, no doubt!!)

The film sees Kalu take on a community leadership role as traditional Hawaian burial sites are disturbed; Kalu's status Kumu sees her teach her male high school students as they prepare for a end of performance, accompanied by sixth grade tomboy Ho'onani, who is also «in the middle» like Kalu.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

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.

As the man of mystery in the middle of the jungle in swathed in khaki and cynicism, he channels the quintessential cheesy hero of a B - grade adventure flick, yet, he is not allowed to pull out all the stops necessary to take full advantage of the ci - mentioned potential absurdity.

This R - rated comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a 7th grade language arts teacher at John Adams Middle School in suburban Chicago.

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.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

As Ross used to tell his fourth grade students, «In middle and high school, when all of your friends are messing around on social media, I want you to be using it to grow your own businesses!»

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.»

This will be done by eliminating high school sports, Advanced Placement programs, middle school guidance counselors, the jobs of several dozen teachers, and music for grades 1 - 3 — as well as closing elementary, middle, and high schools.

I like the interdisciplinary team concept in middle school — we're organized and meet as a grade - level team every day — rather than the department focus of high school teaching.

For eight years, Kamras has worked as a 7th and 8th grade math teacher at the John Philip Sousa Middle School in Washington D.C..

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

As high schools garner headlines in the current wave of school improvement work, educators and experts are trying to spread the word about the role the middle grades can play in that mission and the successful paths taken by some of the nation's middle schools.

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Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

Good grades, good character, and community and school service can get their photo and statistics on a trading card — which are given as rewards to elementary and middle school students.

To guard against illusory achievement gains, states should rate elementary and middle schools based on the on - time promotion rate of students in the next two grades after they leave a school (as Morgan Polikoff recommends).

The instructional units are grouped by elementary, middle school, and high school level, and each grade cluster is categorized into topics such as: arithmetic, data analysis, fractions, geometry, and probability / patterns for elementary; pre-algebra, graphing / statistics, geometry, number theory, and interdisciplinary for middle school; and algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, Internet, science, and modeling for high school.

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.