Sentences with phrase «allowing middle school students»

The district begins placement testing in 5th grade and continues each year, allowing middle school students to accelerate their course sequence for those ready for a tougher math curriculum.

Over the past two years we have allowed our middle school student to choose when to do his homework and when to take breaks.

The word lists, which correlate to the Common Core State Standards, allow middle school students to learn all of the specialized expressions & equations terminology they need in a fun and enjoyable way.

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They also have a new pilot program that allows teachers to regroup the middle school students based on the students» performance and their learning curve.

Most schools have, Red Cross Clubs are available in middle and high schools, allowing students to learn leadership skills while participating at local American Red Cross chapter events and on related projects.

Christen Middle School's community garden helped grow lettuce for the salad bar in 2015, cutting food costs and allowing students to connect with where their meals came from.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

In Crystal Lake, the city, Park District and local schools have created a program that allows some middle - school students to act as helpers at neighborhood elementary schools.

Your child's middle school may have certain rules about what the students are allowed to wear.

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.

It would be fair to allow all current students in the G&T programs in District 30 to continue so that they may auto - articulate into their own middle school and continue through 8th grade.

If there is to be a change in policy, the new policy should be applied for next year's incoming kindergarten class, and all current students in the G&T program in P.S. 122Q should be allowed to continue so that the students can auto - articulate into their own middle school.

Parents whose children are enrolled in P.S. 122Q have been reaching out to my office to express their strong opposition to any change in the current policy of allowing current students to auto - articulate into the middle school G&T.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

Whenever time allows, she gets involved in science fairs and workshops for middle and high school students.

Because students enter adolescence during their middle - school years, examining the effect of start times as students age allows me to test this theory.

To provide more rigorous evidence on the effect of middle schools on student achievement, we turned to a richly detailed administrative dataset from New York City that allowed us to follow students from grade 3 through grade 8.

Until it becomes the rule, it is only fair to allow poor students to escape inner - city schools most middle - class parents refuse to consider for their own children.

Looking at school uniform policies, there's a middle ground where schools do allow normal clothing, but maintain restrictions over, say, certain brand labels or styles of dress; BYOD could achieve a similar balance between opening the door to more diverse devices and limiting certain features to prevent them from setting some students apart from their peers.

For the last ten years — through the Food and Conservation Science Program (FACS)-- my students at Hood River Middle School and I have been designing, building, and operating a permaculture - inspired system that allows the depth, complexity, and ownership required to move from a linear pedagogy to a systems - based approach offering the variables and relevance that my students devour.

Our data do not allow us to comment on the experience of students who entered charter schools before grade 4 and attended them through the end of middle school.

Data from the tracking schools allow us to estimate the effect of being taught with a higher - achieving vs. lower - achieving peer group by comparing students with baseline test scores in the middle of the distribution.

The Discovering series, which the Seattle district already used in elementary and middle schools, allegedly allows students to learn math principles on their own through «inquiry - based learning.»

These efforts occur in ways that allow students — or in our case, youths and pre-service teachers — to demonstrate creativity and have their perspectives valued in ways that few middle - or high - school lessons (and maybe even fewer traditional teacher education clinical experiences) enable.

Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows students to record their own grades.

Also on the plus side, these middle and high school teachers say teaching writing is easier now because collaborative online platforms allow them to work alongside students and enable students to collectively edit their work

Online courses allow districts to expand programming options for students in middle school and high school.

The statewide scores also got a bump from a new state law that allowed elementary and middle school students who failed the exams by slim margins to retake them with a parent's permission.

Clarence Edwards Middle School Boston, MA More time allows schools to deliver the supports individual students need, but for some students the expanded day is not enough.

Administrators also need to allow middle school teachers some room to develop the creativity needed to manage relationships with their students.

Middle School in Berkeley, Grimmway's edible schoolyard allows students to develop an understanding and appreciation about the food they eat, while learning about life cycles, plant anatomy, and nutrition.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

But perhaps the most intriguing bit of the mayor's lengthy list of proposals was a demand that the state change its law to allow students who attend a charter elementary school to receive preference in the lottery to be admitted to the middle and high schools operated by the charter school.

Both middle and high school students can accelerate their learning pace, allowing the district to compete with larger middle and high schools.

The goal of the collaboration is to share BART's data - based approach to middle school mathematics teachers, allowing them to better track student performance and, ultimately, support better student outcomes.

At the middle and high school, two computer labs allow students the opportunities to have computer instruction and also to work independently at online courses and for other projects.

«Otto Banks... said this vouchers proposal is more politically feasible than a previous measure which would have eventually allowed vouchers for any student of a low - to middle - income family, regardless of whether the student were within the attendance boundary of a failing school.»

Interview with Principal Ryan Tomolonis West Carter Middle School Principal Ryan Tomolonis discusses the «no zero» policy as well as a strong tutorial program offered multiple times during the day that allowed all students to meet state standards and demonstrate significant academic growth.

Intended for middle and high school teachers, this book presents a step - by - step guide on how to create an authentic learning environment, which allows students to work on real - world problems, tasks, and projects so that they are better prepared for college and their careers.

Carroll County Middle School will grow students who have a wide range of skills that enhances their ability to excel within an ever - changing world and prepares them for the post high school success, which allows for their successful participation in a competitive work School will grow students who have a wide range of skills that enhances their ability to excel within an ever - changing world and prepares them for the post high school success, which allows for their successful participation in a competitive work school success, which allows for their successful participation in a competitive work force.

The dual - credit program that allows students to get college credits while in high school at little cost is proving to be a national model, but benefiting most are middle - class students who planned to go to college anyway.

A day after Obama's visit to Wright Middle School on Madison's South Side, the Wisconsin Legislature barely approved a bill allowing student test scores to be used in teacher evaluations - something Obama specifically called for.

Having data about student growth in the middle of the school year is important because it allows educators to adjust instruction for students needing faster growth.

Such a partnership could allow students to gain college credits beginning in their middle and high school years to reduce college costs and be better prepared to be successful in college.

One middle school added gr 9 last year but only allowed 100 of their 200 gr 8 students.

What follows is a tightly designed course of study that allows undergraduates to complete a rigorous major in mathematics or one of the sciences while embarking on a set of clinical experiences with middle or high school students.

For example, I initially selected an elementary, a middle, and a secondary school teacher to allow teacher candidates to track (for example) how teachers provide feedback to student writing at different grade levels.

«We are the first middle school in the area that I am aware of have students build a digital portfolio on their self - created webpage, which not only allows them to share their work with their parents and family, but to also keep a record of their accomplishments for years to come.»

Saying that the state's education code allows school districts flexibility in laying off teachers in order to comply with constitutional requirements to provide equal education to all students, a Superior Court judge granted an injunction today that prevents the Los Angeles Unified School District from laying off teachers at Gompers, Liechty and Markham middle schools thisschool districts flexibility in laying off teachers in order to comply with constitutional requirements to provide equal education to all students, a Superior Court judge granted an injunction today that prevents the Los Angeles Unified School District from laying off teachers at Gompers, Liechty and Markham middle schools thisSchool District from laying off teachers at Gompers, Liechty and Markham middle schools this year.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas has received a $ 212,000 award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a prototype web interface that would allow students, parents, teachers and researchers to understand the relationships among mathematics topics by exploring the KU - developed Dynamic Learning Maps ™ (DLM ®) tool for mathematics taught in middle - and high - school grades.