Sentences with phrase «across grades in a school»

States may continue to average data for accountability purposes across school years and across grades in a school.

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The next year she moved across the San Fernando Valley to North Hollywood and Harvard - Westlake, where she also teaches seventh and eighth grade in the middle school.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomIn 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

There are full scale required class productions in Grades 10 and 12, however, drama in the High School is often used to support other subjects across the curriculum.

In this workshop, grades 1 - 8 class and subject teachers will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curriculIn this workshop, grades 1 - 8 class and subject teachers will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curriculin the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curricula.

I've gone to public, private, Catholic, and Waldorf schools across 12 years — in three states — and remember only two pizza parties in 3d grade.

Since specific science topics taught in a 1st grade class vary across schools, find out which specific science topics your child will be learning about and find ways to explore these topics at home.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

This comes as students in grades three through eight across the state's 700 school began the first of three days of math testing on Tuesday.

Currently, Project BOOST operates in 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight across New York City.

A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Her role is akin to that of someone you come across in your early grade school years who constantly picks on you, but all along the bullying is that person's way of saying they dig your vibe.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

In that role Mitch coached and supported 18 school leaders who lead pre-K-8th grade schools across the city of Newark, New Jersey.

Without combining data in some way, such as across grade levels or school years, Hispanic students won't be included as a separate group in the state's accountability system for that school.

It notes that states must include all schools in accountability systems and may need to use alternate methodologies to include some schools based on their specific contexts, if they remain uncovered after they have combined data across grades and years.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and sciencIn their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and scGrades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and scgrades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and sciencin order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

Is it more valuable to know about third grade performance, across multiple years, or third, fourth, and fifth grade performance in a single school year?

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

I use national data to show how many students would be excluded from accountability measures at different n - sizes and how other combining data across grade levels or years within a school can include more students in the accountability process.

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).

Gov. Bush's recommendation to the legislature builds on last year's Middle Grades Reform Act, which provided hundreds of new reading coaches in middle schools across the state.

Across the country, approximately 26 million students in grades 3 - 8 and one high school grade are being tested.

States and school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand - alone middle schools, which typically span grades 6 through 8 or 5 through 8, rather than keeping them in K — 8 schools.

Looking at these data across all the elementary and middle schools that had test results for at least one grade in 2007, one finds a fairly consistent pattern of improvement.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metricIn the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metricin testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

To answer this question, we compare the characteristics of KIPP students in grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 with the characteristics of their peers across the district as well as of those non-KIPP students who attended the feeder elementary schools.

Across grades and different student subgroups, the Coleman study found that most of the variation in student achievement is within rather than between schools, but a larger share of the variation is found between schools in earlier grades and among more disadvantaged subgroups.

I'm the mother of a second - grade public school girl, a writer, blogger, editor and play recess games with hundreds of students aged K - 5 every school day at a small public school in San Francisco that is directly across the street from our house.

The research questioned 1,000 teenagers across 13 schools in Northern Ireland and found that 41 per cent of pupils who used portable games players «a couple of times a day» achieved five good grades at GCSE, as opposed to 77 per cent of pupils who rarely played.

Franklin School Rahway, New Jersey Grades K - 5 Margaret Morales, principal In our school, teams are formed across grade levels and subject School Rahway, New Jersey Grades K - 5 Margaret Morales, principal In our school, teams are formed across grade levels and subject school, teams are formed across grade levels and subject areas.

It was found to exist across school grades, was firmly rooted in public and private schools, and had spread to different countries (Australia, Greece, and surprisingly China).

While GCSE grades for all pupils are higher in schools with Ofsted ratings of «Outstanding» or «Good» than in those rated «Requires improvement» or «Inadequate», the size of the Attainment 8 gap is consistent across all four types of schools.

We measure peer domestic violence at the cohort level (that is, across all students in a grade at a school) as opposed to the classroom level due to the possible sorting of students into classrooms according to their achievement and behavior.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

We use a school - level measure that has been standardized across the sample of schools included in our analysis, taking into account the various grade configurations in different schools.

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

Khan was approached by the Los Altos, California, school system and developed a program for experimental use of Khan Academy material in two 5th - and 7th - grade classes; the latter held children from «across El Camino Real,» the poorer part of Los Altos.

At my current school, we decided a few years ago to consciously cross-reference the literary texts in our curriculum to achieve continuity across the grade levels and year groups.

I've also seen the making of these adults in schools across our country: students who are consistently being «prepared» for the next test, assessment, or grade level... only to find out after graduation that they don't really know what they are passionate about.

Included: Approaches to career education used in a handful of schools — across the grades.

Up until that moment, students across grade levels had been engaged and excited, exploring the school in a collaborative manner.

Today, report cards featuring each of those reporting formats — skills» lists, letter grades, and teacher narratives — can be found in schools across the country.

The More Kids Read, the Better They Read: Motivating Kids to Read School - Wide With the NEAs Read Across America event just around the corner (March 2) and Get Caught Reading Month coming up in May, this is an ideal time to share some super new resources you can use to encourage reading across the gAcross America event just around the corner (March 2) and Get Caught Reading Month coming up in May, this is an ideal time to share some super new resources you can use to encourage reading across the gacross the grades.

Renaissance uses a «looping» model, in which most teachers remain with students for two years across all grades, including high school, so pre-K teachers generally follow their students into kindergarten.

It is important for our school to design PBL in a way that would be authentic across disciplines, grades and courses.