Sentences with phrase «additional grades as»

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In our view, holes such as this serve as evidence that the program has uncovered significant additional high - grade mineralization outside of the existing areas being mined at Fire Creek.»

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 classrooms.

The department of education is required to provide the appropriate method of instruction for grades K - 12, and LEAs may implement additional courses as they see fit.

The Canvas LMS provides a seamless environment for students, teachers, and parents to access course content, assignments / assessments, grades, and attendance, along with the integration of additional technology tools such as OneDrive and Office 365.

In 1989 an additional building was rented to house the nursery and two kindergartens, as well as the grade one and two classes.

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.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).

Requirements: The training is open to all teachers and serious students, however if you wish to become certified as a Relax and Renew ® Trainer, you must fulfill the following: attend all sessions (no exceptions), complete a project to be submitted approximately 12 weeks after the workshop, including a check for an additional $ 150 (payable to Judith Hanson Lasater and included in the report; any student from outside the US can pay in cash at the training) This payment covers the cost of the certificate, grading, and a lifetime listing on Judith's website exclusively promoting Restorative yoga teachers (www.restorativeyogateachers.com).

As an additional service to moviegoers, each film is given a Critics» Choice Rating (on a 1 - 100 scale, 100 being the highest), based on the cumulative grades each film receives in the monthly balloting.

They can be used to open additional sidequests or call for military grade distractions such as flares for air strikes.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

While the gains among these initial 3rd graders are not as dramatic as the 4th grade gains which had captured national attention, Winters found «the gains among initial 3rd graders were very substantial,» about 0.36 standard deviations between 1998 and 2009, or roughly a full additional year of academic progress.

He already added two more employees to the staff, and he'd selected 14 of 16 teachers selected for the school, which would open as a K - 3 and add an additional grade over the next five years.

And several proposals (such as the one from the Teach Plus Teaching Fellows, and another from Samantha Semrow and her fellow Harvard classmates) suggest including additional data on schools» report cards, but not using them to determine school grades.

As little as one additional grade level may increase the income earning potential for girls up to 20 % in developing countrieAs little as one additional grade level may increase the income earning potential for girls up to 20 % in developing countrieas one additional grade level may increase the income earning potential for girls up to 20 % in developing countries.

Although many were reading at grade level or above, one group of students did not benefit as much from the additional attention and intervention strategies.

As someone who entered the profession with a generic certification for grades 1 - 8, I would now need additional certification to teach content in middle schools.

For instance, fourth - grade teacher Kevin Durden gives kids additional choices, such as creating a PowerPoint slide show or a comic strip (using Comic Life software) or filming a skit (using Flip video cameras).

This year I have been teaching fourth grade, and I wanted to fulfill a long - held ambition of giving children, most of whom are learning English as an additional language, an opportunity to participate in an after - school Shakespeare drama club.

«Retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»

We have developed these fun second grade crosswords puzzles to teach, re-teach, practice, or assess vocabulary in the second grade Scott Foresman Science Curriculum for units A, B, and C. Each puzzle contains vocabulary words for each chapter within the unit, as well as some additional words found in each chapter.

As those children move through the school, the organization will take over control of an additional grade each year, sharing the building with the public school while gradually supplanting it.

The change, announced yesterday by State Education chief Tom Torlakson, came in response to concerns that the US Department of Education would withhold as much as $ 45 million dollars in funding, as well as additional Title I funds if the state did not comply with long standing federal rules that students in grades three and eleven be tested annually in both subjects.

(Tenn.) A report out this month marking the results of the first three years of a new program that trains principals to better evaluate teachers using classroom observation found 100,000 additional students were on grade level in math in 2014 as compared to 2010; and 57,000 more were on grade level in science.

In a 2014 report, called «Opportunity Mississippi,» the governor wrote, «My «Third Grade Gate» literacy measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.»

Allows LEAs to include locally selected reading assessments (grade 3) and math assessments (grade 7) as additional snapshots of student progress

We got an interesting email in response to our post about LAUSD's low math scores from a Cochran Middle School math teacher named Rustum Jacob, who offers two additional reasons why scores are as low as they are: more 9th grade students being placed into Geometry, and no real alternatives for 9th graders who aren't...

Publisher - provided electronic versions of selected textbooks contain additional resources, such as video clips, text - to - speech, auto - graded practice tests, and valuable support material.

An increase of $ 11.8 million one - time federal funds to support additional early math resources, including professional learning and coaching for educators, as well as additional math learning opportunities for pre-K through grade 3 children;

The WFF grant will be used to improve the current educational facilities and provide additional technology as the PREP prepares to expand from a 9th grade program with 102 students to a 9th and 10th grade program with 325 students.

She began her teaching career teaching 7th and 8th grade social studies at a small charter school in South Nashville and continued to complete three additional years teaching 7th and 8th grade English and serving as Team Lead.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

As an additional result, this whole school's staff is expanding the process to the other grade levels.

That affects the roughly one in five teachers whose students now sit for those exams, essentially language arts and math in grades 4 through 8, but will become more of a concern as additional state tests are introduced.

As noted above, the local school district is then responsible for bringing students that were enrolled in the charter school back up to grade level which usually requires the district to provide additional support services for the students.

Our recommendations aim to address this disparity, improving the inputs that matter in schools that the state's system has categorized as those most in need.6 As noted above, the Committee does not support the current A-F grading system, but for purposes of these recommendations accepts it as given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional supporas those most in need.6 As noted above, the Committee does not support the current A-F grading system, but for purposes of these recommendations accepts it as given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional supporAs noted above, the Committee does not support the current A-F grading system, but for purposes of these recommendations accepts it as given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional supporas given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional support.

As noted above, the Committee does not support the current A-F grading system, but for purposes of these recommendations accepts it as given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional supporAs noted above, the Committee does not support the current A-F grading system, but for purposes of these recommendations accepts it as given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional supporas given and focuses on using the letter grades to identify schools in acute need of additional support.

Besides the enormous concerns with Achievement First's disciplinary policies as revealed in the report last year (which should have resulted in placing the charter under state supervision and in preventing additional school takeovers, I mean openings), a troubling issue with In - School Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out - of - School suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning environment.

Supplemental resources available to students and their families includeReading A-Z-Spanish version (primary grade students only), varied Spanish - English library resources and additional materials as contributed by students and our school community.

It should act as an alarm, triggering access to additional work, other intervention from the teacher or school, or the use of a grade recovery program.

Early intervention or additional direct instruction should begin as early as kindergarten or first grade for struggling readers when the gap is small and students benefit from brain plasticity advantages for learning language - based information.

Districts have used additional measures, such as grades and proficiency scores on other state tests, in which the scores held back some students no longer needing sheltered English instruction in classes with less demanding content.

Our college counseling program is designed to introduce the admissions process to students as early as 9th grade, with additional critical elements being incorporated over time.

If you have additional information, such as one teacher who needs multiple grade levels, please enter that information here.

Together, the team decided to collect a variety of additional data, including measures of student achievement (standardized test and report card grades), engagement (such as attendance and discipline), and teacher perceptions of parent involvement.

Here's the deal: Federal law does say that districts should administer tests to at least 95 % of students and that states should test all students in reading and math from grades 3 - 8 and at least once in high school, with a suggestion for additional high school testing as appropriate.

- All model grades feature a passenger side airbag as standard equipment for improved safety performance and additional user - friendly features such as an electrical outlet -

Numerous additional detailed measures targeted the interior, the exterior and the technology, such as higher - grade, lighter steel for the exhaust system's tailpipes.

* Horsepower and torque expected to top previous model (testing is ongoing — check media.gm.com for updates) * NOx emissions reduced at least 63 percent over 2010 models * Quieter operation * High - pressure (30,000 psi / 2, 000 bar) Piezo - actuated fuel system for greater fuel efficiency, improved performance and reduced emissions * Exhaust brake system that enables controlled vehicle slowdown on downhill grades without actuating the brakes * Selective catalytic reduction after - treatment system using diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injection to provide the best overall diesel characteristics and performance — with a range of about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) between DEF refills * Combustion and after - treatment have been optimized to provide about 700 miles (1,125 km) between diesel particulate filter regenerations — a 75 - percent improvement over the previous system and significant contributor to improved fuel efficiency, as the regeneration process requires additional fuel * B20 biodiesel capability for an alternative fueling option * Internal revisions that improve durability

The top Limited Platinum grade will be equipped with a 360 - degree - view camera as standard equipment, and all Highlanders will be equipped with four additional USB ports (last year's model had only one).