Sentences with phrase «at middle grade»

After years of radio silence for her fans, admittedly while she collaborates on some of the most highly innovative movies to come out of a book series, especially one aimed at middle grade readers, J.K Rowling is unleashing something new.

Organized by the Middle Grades Collaborative and hosted by the Tarrant Institute at University of Vermont, the decennial gathering at the Middle Grades Conference on January 7 brought together approximately 150 Vermont educators and students to share and learn about exciting personalized learning practices happening in middle schools across Vermont.

When this verbal harassment is not addressed at the middle grades level, it most often escalates to physical violence at the high school level.

SRI investigated one such strategy in a national evaluation of National Writing Project school partnerships at the middle grades.

Highly qualified teachers at the middle grades need content expertise as well as the skills, strategies, and understanding of how to best shape instruction to meet the learning and developmental needs of these learners.

From building number sense in early years, fractions and factoring in 3 - 5, and ratio / proportion and decimals at middle grades, Cuisenaire rods should be a staple in every math classroom.

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It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

Tracie Chuisano, a mom of three from Wilmington, North Carolina, sees these traits in her middle son: «I let him stay over at a friend's house in the second grade, even though I'd thought his older brother had been too «young» for it.»

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The sixth grade Innovator Team at Salisbury Middle School unveiled its Earth Day - centered mosaic that was installed in the school's lobby to...

Anne is off to middle school — a whole new world, Joe is headed to grade four, Evie is ready for grade one, and Maggie has just one more year at home before preschool next fall (not that I'm counting down...).

I have done synchro since the second grade, though I really started to realize my love for the sport and my drive to excel at the end of middle school.

I ended up coaching 8th - grade boys and girls basketball at local middle schools in San Diego.

Melinda demanded her son keep his grades high in addition to playing saxophone and trumpet (in middle school) and excelling at football, wrestling, track and soccer * in high school.

She also tried basketball, soccer, and track and field before first playing volleyball in sixth grade at Valley Christian's middle school.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

At the Waldorf School of Baltimore, students are assigned homework beginning only in the middle of third grade.

Currently Lylli is the Faculty Chair and Enrollment Coordinator at the Halton Waldorf School and she continues as a teacher in the middle school, offering physics and chemistry blocks in grades 6, 7 and 8.

Two sixth grade girls at Parkway Northeast Middle School learned about diaper need for a school project — and then they did something about it!

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

This is the fourth class of middle schoolers Liz has led at Green Meadow since joining their faculty in 2006, including taking four eighth grade classes; she also serves on the school's Collegium.

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS goes out to the individual statewide Essay contest winners: 1st place - Hawkins Pontes, 8th grade, Blackmon Road Middle 2nd place - Jeffrey Fuller, 6th grade, East Jackson Middle 3rd place - Diamond Sherrod - Lewis, 8th grade, Barber Middle School These four winning schools will be attending the consortium March 28th at the University of Georgia in Athens.

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«Students are free to eat without being categorized and stigmatized, and this has created a wonderful climate of equality and cooperation,» Pruitt Jill Pruitt, the eighth - grade counselor at Coffee Middle School in south central Georgia, told the Atlantic.

Tommi is a middle school block teacher at Whidbey Island Waldorf School, where she taught as a grades teacher between 1997 and 2007.

Our next stop was lunch with Ms. Kramer's 6th grade class at Ivy Hall Middle School.

«We are in agreement that the current academic performance in the middle school grades at Wadleigh is not acceptable,» he wrote.

The DOE plans to close middle school grades at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts.

On Monday, he opted not to close middle - school grades at Wadleigh Secondary in Harlem, as had been planned.

The Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the phaseout of Wadleigh's middle school grades, along with the partial closing of Washington Irving High School, on Feb. 9 at Brooklyn Technical High School.

Fred Baptiste, the parent of a child at PS 161 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which is having its middle school grades truncated despite strong community opposition, said the change on co-locations would be an important first step.

Middle Country School Superintendent Roberta Gerold in a 7th grade math class at Dawnwood Middle School on March 20, 2014.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

A handful of 6th - grade students at Southside Middle School take the Common Core mathematics test in Rockville Center, April 24, 2015.

«We have to discuss the failure of the mayor's educational policies,» said Fred Baptiste, a PTA vice president and the parent of a son at PS 161 in Brooklyn, a school which is losing its middle grades.

In his first major policy speech as chancellor, given this morning at NYU, Dennis Walcott focused on the issues of middle schools, ticking off a panoply of problems in grade six through eight and acknowledging his department must do more to address them.

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One was a fourth grade student at West Road Intermediate School, the other an eighth grade student at LaGrange Middle School.

The senator has been fighting a city plan to close the middle school at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Visual Arts in Harlem and focus only on the high school grades.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

In New York City, the Executive Budget also requires that a charter's entire planned grade configuration — elementary, middle or high school — be located within a single building including grade levels not yet in operation at the time of opening.

In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a robust and strong predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.

In sixth grade, girls in both the European French and North African French groups reported lower levels of gender typicality and felt pressure than boys; contrary to expectations, the two ethnic groups did not differ in this respect at the beginning of middle school.

At Baltimore's Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle, third - grade students who were given male and female zebrafish one day this fall were amazed, just 24 hours later, to see embryos form, and thrilled to observe the growing life forms under a microscope.

With boards ranging from grade - specific collections like First Grade Fun, Second Grade Smiles, and Third Grade Troop to boards devoted to specific core curriculum subjects and themes (e.g., science, math, robotics) or grade ranges (e.g., middle school science), teachers have raced onto the Pinterest scene, virtual thumbtacks and staplers at the ready, and are actively pinning away.

I have taught for 16 years in 4th grade, self - contained 5th grade, 6th - 8th Reading Intervention at the middle school level, and 12 years as a 6th grade ELA teacher.

Here is a private - jet - grade business magnate, rich beyond the dreams of Elon Musk, who has nothing better to do than turn up at his wife's office unannounced in the middle of the day in order to complain she hasn't changed her email address to her married name yet.

At John Adams Middle School in suburban Illinois, lazy, foul - mouthed Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a frustrated seventh - grade teacher whose rich fiance dumps her when he realizes she's just after his money.

This R - rated comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a 7th grade language arts teacher at John Adams Middle School in suburban Chicago.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»