Sentences with phrase «among students from grades»

Research shows that among students from grades 5 — 12, positive emotions such as hope, wellbeing, and engagement account for 31 percent of the variance in students» academic success.

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Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

In their daily morning (or «main») lesson, Waldorf students from first through twelfth grade spend up to two hours concentrating on one subject which rotates every 3 - 4 weeks among the academic disciplines.

The data comes from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative survey that examines the prevalence of risky health behaviors among 9th - to 12th - grade public and private school students.

The greatest improvements should be seen among schools that had already received one F grade from the state, since their students would become eligible for vouchers if they received a second F. To test this hypothesis, average FCAT scale - score improvements for schools were broken out by the grade they received the year before.

Teaching at Innovations can be labor - intensive, she said, especially among 9th - grade students, who come in expecting to be «led from one class to another» and earn credit by sitting quietly.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

Among 4th - grade students in the lowest decile, there was an astonishing 13 - point gain from 2000 to 2003 pre-NCLB; the same group saw a gain of only five points from 2003 to 2007.

For example, at Pembroke Elementary School, detentions slid from twenty - eight to three among students who had laptops, suspensions dropped from five to zero, and 91 percent of the students with laptops improved their grades in at least one academic area.

The authors surmise that students in grades 6 - 8 who remain in K - 8 schools «may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.»

When Wheeler began researching grammar issues in urban classrooms, she noticed similar problems with subject - verb agreement, possessives, plurality, and double negatives among African American students from third grade to community college.

American students in fourth grade are among the leaders on math assessments worldwide, but by the time students graduate from high school, they are nearly last among 41 nations, according to the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Audio - recordings, collected during the academic year in 40 sixth - grade classrooms from two sites (Illinois, Massachusetts), will be analyzed for the characteristics of talk among and between teachers and students.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10 - year - old on the eve of her first day of 4th grade, a 16 - year - old boy shot in a city bus on his way home from school, and an 18 - year - old honor student killed outside his high school, among others.

Schoolwide grade point averages among the students have gone up half a point from a C to a B -.

Teaching Students to «Go Fourth» Peacefully Go Fourth, an anti-bullying program based on classroom discussions and exchanges among children around the globe, recently brought teachers, parents, and fourth grade students from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, school to Shaoguan, Guandong province, China, on a mission to promote respect for cultural diStudents to «Go Fourth» Peacefully Go Fourth, an anti-bullying program based on classroom discussions and exchanges among children around the globe, recently brought teachers, parents, and fourth grade students from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, school to Shaoguan, Guandong province, China, on a mission to promote respect for cultural distudents from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, school to Shaoguan, Guandong province, China, on a mission to promote respect for cultural diversity.

This suggests a final potential interpretation of our results that is directly related to the choice of grade configuration: students may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

Here's a quick quiz: Which big urban school district's students posted the fastest academic progress from third to eighth grade among the 100 largest districts in the U.S.?

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

At Taylor, which serves a prekindergarten through eighth - grade population of mostly low - income African - American students, educators are celebrating victories in improving attendance (it rose to 94.5 percent among poor children last year from 93.6 percent in 2008) and reducing asthma.

The findings from the survey we conducted among middle grade students support the concept that educators can influence the social and emotional climate of schools.

«The diversity of perspectives among principals of all grade levels will make for richer conversations leading to greater understanding about how to enhance teaching and learning for students from Pre-K-12, particularly during times of transition from one school level to the next,» added Connelly.

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

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.

These students were among the 200 from Boulder High School that staged a mass walk out on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, refusing to take their 12th grade social studies and science tests.

The Nation's Report Card, 2013 Mathematics and Reading, shows some improvement nationally from the last assessment in 2011 among fourth - and eighth - grade students in mathematics, and among eighth - grade students in reading.

shows some improvement nationally from the last assessment in 2011 among fourth - and eighth - grade students in mathematics, and among eighth - grade students in reading.

A working paper from Jonathan Roth, a doctoral student at Harvard University, examines the impact of the rise in teacher retirements immediately following the passage of Act 10.68 He finds that in the 2011 - 12 school year, teacher value - added measures in math improved among school - grade levels in elementary schools in which a larger fraction of teachers retired.

Among the various components we are putting in place to support this new initiative is a digital program from Wonder Media that allows students in grades 3 — 8 to create value - based, animated videos.

By sixth grade, chronic absence predicts the likelihood of a student dropping out of high school.84 In the 2013 - 14 school year, 14 percent of students in the United States — or 1 in 7 students — were chronically absent, having missed at least 15 days of school.85 Chronic absences were particularly prevalent among students from low - income families, students of color, and students with disabilities.86 As a result, consistently missing school compounds the challenges that disadvantaged students already face.

And the narrowing of the gap between black and white fourth - grade math students doesn't result from improved performance among black students relative to white students.

A consortium report from December found that after grades, attendance habits among Chicago middle school students provided the best indicator of later academic performance on a range of measures.

In addition to assisting with reflective practice and better communication among faculty, curriculum mapping also helps to improve overall coherence from grade to grade, thus increasing the likelihood of students achieving program - or school - level outcomes.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

It was part of the Taiwanese Adolescent Self - Harm Project (TASP), a prospective study conducted to evaluate the 1 - year incidence of self - harm behaviour and the associated risk factors among adolescents in Taiwan.16 From October 2008 to March 2010, we recruited first - grade students from 14 senior high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan by purposive samplFrom October 2008 to March 2010, we recruited first - grade students from 14 senior high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan by purposive samplfrom 14 senior high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan by purposive sampling.

Associations between family dinner frequency and specific food behaviors among grade six, seven, and eight students from Ontario and Nova Scotia

The first, early childhood education, linked two goals: the need (regarded by many as the most urgent) for a strong collaborative effort between schools and social service organizations in establishing an early childhood program which, among other items, sets «specific benchmarks for all... students to reach proficiency by grade three»; and to closely monitor child development from birth to three years.

In Palo Alto Unified, as in many districts, school staff work to build social skills and prevent bullying in dozens of ways that differ from school to school and grade to grade, from instituting «student social kindness ambassadors» to using the Second Step curriculum, which teaches students how to use «self - talk» to remain focused, among other self - management skills.

Principles from ecological theory and knowledge derived from studies of risk and protection among children and youths are used to examine individual -, peer -, school -, and family - level factors associated with the likelihood of victimization among 150 low - income, urban, Hispanic female eighth - grade students.