Sentences with phrase «half of each instructional day»

The policy may permit physical activity to be considered part of the instructional day, not to exceed 30 minutes per day, or 150 minutes per week.

Whatever you decide to do with the last handful of instructional days, stay flexible and open to taking the journey with your students.

Adjusting for the effect of instructional days, we estimate that scores increased by roughly 0.25 standard deviations, nearly 40 percent less than the reported gains.

Perhaps the best evidence comes from a recent study in Minnesota, which estimated that increasing the number of instructional days from 175 to 200 would cost close to $ 1,000 per student, in a state where the median per - pupil expenditure is about $ 9,000.

Our studies use variation from one year to the next in snow or the number of instructional days cancelled due to bad weather to explain changes in each school's test scores over time.

Figure 1 compares the magnitude of the effect of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn from other high - quality studies of the impact of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.

Because some districts were affected while others were not, he was also able to provide unusually convincing evidence on the effect of changes in the number of instructional days.

A simple and transparent way to do this is for state report cards, which inform parents about school outcomes and summarize the information on AYP status, to include information about the number of instructional days at test date as well as the total number of instructional days for the year.

The real answer is that schools have been increasing the number of instructional days recently, but only the number of days prior to the administration of assessments.

Even in schools with EL specialists, ELs spend the majority of their instructional day with core teachers.

If you change the number of instructional days / hours as stipulated in your charter contract, you will need to seek Charter School Board approval.

At Jackson Avenue, which houses the third and fourth grades, all 417 children, including those in special education, have their own tablets, and they spend about 75 percent of their instructional day on the devices, more than many other schools that have embraced digital learning.

The annual district - wide target for 2012 - 2013 was for 67 % of students with disabilities to participate in the general education program at least 80 % of the instructional day.

Half of each instructional day is spent at internships with local businesses, with academic support.

The COP founding schools are already exceeding this target with 73 % of students with disabilities served in general education classrooms for 80 % or more of the instructional day.

Class period — A segment of time in the school day that is approximately one - sixth of the instructional day.

It isn't about better teacher quality or the low number of instructional days.

Search EdSource's database to find the chronic absenteeism rate (the percentage of students who miss 10 percent or more of instructional days) for all California schools by grade level.

ESOL instruction occurs for a portion of the instructional day and is in addition to the student's regular instructional program.

CTSO activities are considered a part of the instructional day when they are directly related to the competencies and objectives in the course.

Perhaps the biggest shift giving leeway to the adoption of a four - day school week is that an increasing number of states have passed legislation giving schools the flexibility to substitute the number of instructional days for instructional hours.

However, OSSE finds that the number of instructional days suspended students miss increases steadily by grade: more than half of suspensions for students below fifth grade are for less than two days, but most suspensions given to students in older grades are typically between two and five days, with an increasing proportion of longer suspensions (six to ten days) through the end of high school.

These are the foci of teacher education programs and make up a significant part of the instructional day.

Question: Can charter schools reduce the number of instructional days they offer from 175 to 170 and still receive full apportionment?

The mid-August start has created a few other oddities to the calendar, including an unbalanced number of instructional days in the semesters, with the fist semester having 79 days and the second semester 101.

Not exact matches

Counseling of this variety is very different from what is often meant by «pre-marital counseling» — i.e., one to three instructional interviews preceding the wedding by a few days or weeks.

ADVNC Day Camps are fun and instructional camps for players of all ages and abilities.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their familiday, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their familiDay Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

There have been legitimate concerns about food waste, sanitation problems, lost instructional time, and the quality of the food served (though it has improved somewhat since the early days of the program, when the inclusion of daily animal crackers in the breakfast was what actually motivated me to start this blog.)

«Potty Training In One Day ~ A DVD For Today's Parents» is the first instructional video of it's kind.

There are required standards for instructional time, so more time for recess / meals would require not just more funds for supervisors, but a change to the length of the school day, bus schedules — a cascade of issues to be solved.

The full day junior program will offer a review of skills with advanced teaching, plus innovative instructional games to ensure students are always challenged.

This junior day camp is a perfect mix of match play, drill work, strategy sessions and fresh instructional games to ensure students are always challenged.

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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.

Every January (and every day) people flock to the gym or buy a new pair of running pants or order a set of instructional yoga DVDs with high hopes that this one will finally change their life for the better.

When Alonzo (Denzel Washington) takes Jake (Ethan Hawke) out on his Training Day the day looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional toDay the day looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional today looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional tour.

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«Even though our school is undergoing an accreditation study this year, is adopting a new math program, and has a significant amount of state mandated instructional in - service as a result of a court decision, our primary goal is to provide the best possible day — full of creative, profitable learning experiences — for each student!»

The other day, one of my Instructional Designer colleagues was telling me about the first time she tried to introduce a game into an employee training program early on in her career.

If you save 15 minutes a day through more efficient transitions, that will result in 45 extra hours of instructional time per year.

Does dressing a teddy bear for the weather each day make optimal use of instructional time?

Cultivate leadership among teachers and other staff members because they are so much closer than the principal to the day - to - day instructional lives of students.

«With tardy students entering the school day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large number of cumulative instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.

As an e-learning, m - learning, and ILT vendor - partner working directly with clients and as manager of a team of instructional designers, Catherine Davis actively works on innovative instructional design projects every day.

Lessons are short - term instructional plans that take anywhere from a part of a day to multiple days of instruction.

Flaking out: Student absences and snow days and disruptions of instructional time.

I meet with my students for 54 minutes every day, and every last second of instructional time is precious.

The challenge comes in isolating the causal effect of a longer school day or year from the effects of other characteristics of schools and school systems that offer more instructional time.

«When a single student misses a day or more of instruction, the teacher can review the recently presented material for the student who missed it, in which case the absent student's peers lose out on valuable instructional time, or she may move forward with new material and risk having the absent student fall behind.»