Sentences with phrase «began as a high school student»

Her educational career began as a high school student when she tutored at her former elementary school.

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What began as a request from a Florida high school student has now become a full - fledged Nike product.

Trentlage was born in Chicago and began penning jingles as a high school student, starting with one about a fictional company he called Modern Plastic Brooms.

In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

The Gatorade petition began as idle curiosity by Sarah Kavanaugh, a 15 - year - old high school student in Hattiesburg, Miss..

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey made a school visit today, going to Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School for a tour and discussion with students as he began an extended effort at demonstrating deepened policy knowschool visit today, going to Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School for a tour and discussion with students as he began an extended effort at demonstrating deepened policy knowSchool for a tour and discussion with students as he began an extended effort at demonstrating deepened policy knowledge.

As news of the shooting began to spread, students from Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the site of a deadly shooting in February, began tweeting.

(pictured <) «From the beginning, we have been clear and consistent in our position: forced co-locations that result in overcrowding, special students» losing space, and elementary students being mixed with high school students, are unacceptable; as are co-locations that ignore the will of local parents and teachers.»

As summer draws to a close, participating middle school students will begin tackling chemistry concepts to prepare them for the rigor of high school biology courses.

As the fall semester begins at U.S. high schools and universities, the rites of introductory biology begin anew: Tens of thousands of students are listening to lectures on photosynthesis, memorizing parts of the cell, and learning the terms of taxonomy.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

But what began as a senseless tragedy transformed into a glimmer of hope as the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began to come forward and speak out against gun violence.

Say hello to your gaggle: the group of guys already in your life that will lead you to Mr. Choi (Kang Hye - Jung) begins work as a student - teacher at a high school.

Choi (Kang Hye - Jung) begins work as a student - teacher at a high school.

At the beginning of «Election,» Alexander Payne's stinging follow - up to the 1996 «Citizen Ruth,» Tracy («Pleasantville» and «Cruel Intentions»» Reese Witherspoon) is running unopposed for what she envisions as the crown jewel of her high school career: student council president.

Director Shawn Christensen uses three different timelines to tell the story — Sidney as high school student, Sidney as young married man and successful author whose world begins to disintegrate around him, and Sidney as aimless drifter.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacheAs a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacheas a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacheas more than a teacher.

Broward Sheriff's Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that teachers trying to lock down their students as the gunman began his attack couldn't lock classroom doors from the inside, but had to grab a key, open the door, and turn the lock from the outside.

There I had the opportunity to begin college as a high school student, which greatly diminished my fear or timidity regarding higher education.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.

The story of Souhegan High School in New Hampshire surely describes what high schools should strive to become: oriented around creativity and questioning, designed to ensure that students are known as individuals and will be aggressively targeted for intervention if they begin to fall behHigh School in New Hampshire surely describes what high schools should strive to become: oriented around creativity and questioning, designed to ensure that students are known as individuals and will be aggressively targeted for intervention if they begin to fall behhigh schools should strive to become: oriented around creativity and questioning, designed to ensure that students are known as individuals and will be aggressively targeted for intervention if they begin to fall behind.

Last fall, my high school handed iPads to each student in the building, and I began my journey as the school's Instructional Technology Coach.

Taillefer began as a Match Corps tutor in the second cohort and went on to be director of development as well as a math teacher and dean of students at Match Middle School and Match High School.

This strategy — which has so far been replicated nationally in eleven states, plus the District of Columbia — includes placing as many visits as possible during summer and fall to parents of teens entering high school — a critical transition point for many students — to begin building a net of support and to connect parents to the new school.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

To determine which hypothesis was more accurate, we assessed the net impact of the phase - out process on a range of outcomes for the 9,600 9th - grade students who were beginning their high school careers at a closure school just as that closure was announced.

In most industrialized countries — nearly all of which outperform us on measures of academic achievement, such as PISA and TIMSS — students begin preparing for a career while still in high school.

Starting in the 1980s, states increased the number of courses required for high school graduation, and began mandating students take additional courses in core academic areas such as math, science, social studies and foreign language.

Students Hard Work Educates Community About Recycling Begun by Purdy (Missouri) High School students, the Purdy Recycling Project has become a community - wide program that is turning a profit, raising scholarship money for students, and serving as a model for similar programs in other commStudents Hard Work Educates Community About Recycling Begun by Purdy (Missouri) High School students, the Purdy Recycling Project has become a community - wide program that is turning a profit, raising scholarship money for students, and serving as a model for similar programs in other commstudents, the Purdy Recycling Project has become a community - wide program that is turning a profit, raising scholarship money for students, and serving as a model for similar programs in other commstudents, and serving as a model for similar programs in other communities.

As teachers, let's take on the challenge of expanding that definition and begin having students bring in meaningful artifacts from the outside world to share with their classmates (yes, middle and high school teachers, too).

During the 1970s, nearly every state in the nation began instituting tests of basic skills for high - school students as the leading edge of the so - called «first wave» of education reforms.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

As such, Schiess and Rotherham begin their work by asking whether rural high schools graduate a higher proportion of students under less rigorous standards than non-rural high schools.

Accountability groups shall mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.

Although the gap in academic performance between rural Hispanic and white students begins in elementary school, it grows as students move into middle and high school.

Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).

One way to educate families about the importance of the 9th - grade transition might be to require that students and their parents are given information on colleges» entrance expectations - minimum coursework requirements, GPA, etc. - preferably as early as the middle grades, if not earlier, but absolutely at the beginning of high school.

Louisiana, South Carolina, Washington and New Mexico all use some form of the individualized learning plan that is introduced during middle school or the beginning of high school and revisited as students» progress through their education.

Denver has taken the first step toward fixing high schools by identifying problems such as the achievement gap that begins before students even enter GW's IB program.

Therefore, the standards begin by identifying the basic knowledge and skills students are expected to learn in the early elementary grades, and then call on students to learn increasingly advanced material as they progress from grade to grade up through high school.

Every year thousands of excited and anxious students begin their journey as a 9th grader entering high school.

Within Naviance, your student will begin to participate in activities such as Goal Setting, Career Exploration, Course Planning, and High School Readiness.

However, her experience in supporting students with special needs goes back to her job that began in high school as a 1:1 aide for a student with Autism, leading vocational workshops, and being a nanny for a student with Autism while in college.

Andrea D. Hanford began her career in education 24 years ago as a teacher of middle and high school students with behavioral disorders identified as Emotionally or Severely Emotionally Handicapped.

Begun as a log schoolhouse in 1853, TTSD is now the ninth largest district in Oregon and the fifth largest in the Portland metropolitan area, serving approximately 13,000 students in 10 elementary schools, three middle schools, two high schools, and an alternative school program.

Our program began as a grassroots initiative, led by a group of dedicated volunteers helping twenty - nine 12th grade students at Garfield High School gain acceptance to college.

Jelani began his career in education reform 11 years ago as a community organizer and youth worker at Mikva Challenge, where he developed curriculum to train teachers in grass roots activism and supported over 5,000 high school students» activism projects.

Robert Lee, Ph.D., superintendent of Kenston Local School District, has announced that beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cSchool District, has announced that beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cschool year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cschool start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the change.

This process began by thinking of the large school system of 300,000 high school students not as a school system, but rather a system of schools — which meant that every school had to be a good school.