Sentences with phrase «below grade level performance»

Many of our students come to us with compelling and unique stories of below grade level performance, disinterest in school, and frustration about teaching that feels irrelevant to their lives and future prospects.

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The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

But at Success Academy Harlem 4, one boy's struggles were there for all to see: On two colored charts in the hallway, where the students» performance on weekly spelling and math quizzes was tracked, his name was at the bottom, in a red zone denoting that he was below grade level.

Over half of poor and minority students have reading and math skills far below grade level, whether measured by the tough performance standards of the NAEP or by the standards of the various states.

The community of our school, including grade levels above and below ours, that needs us for our performance, collaboration, and ideas, just as we need that community.

, sponsored by the Planning and Evaluation Service of the Department of Education, is that when adult mentors read once a week with students who read below grade level, the students» academic performance and classroom behavior improve.

In its analysis of data, GPSN identified «more than 160,000 low - income students and English language learners who are enrolled in schools whose performance is so dismal that 80 percent of students are learning below grade level.»

They meet as grade level partners (and periodically with teachers 1/2 grades below or above), examine curriculum, past test data, student performance and then write their own tests.

Writing lesson plans that aren't rigorous enough for the grade level you are teaching: compare lessons, objectives, and assessments with the teachers teaching the grade levels above and below you, to ensure that you are holding your students to an appropriate grade - level standard of performance.

I teach six classes a day; one of essentials, student performance two to five years below grade level, four of regular, performance slightly below to slightly above grade level, and one of advanced, students performing at least one year above grade level.

The year before Hardy took over, about 50 percent of its students were performing below grade level, behavioral infractions had risen, and the state had dropped Sylvanie Williams's performance grade from a C to a D.

Students who demonstrate persistent mathematics difficulties and whose performance is severely below grade level require intensive intervention.

Differentiated streams for below - and above - grade level readers are included and adapt based on student performance.

Yet even when the «cut scores» (the point selected on the scale above which students pass and below which they fail) on these improved state tests are set at the level of bona fide readiness for the next grade, the results of a child's test performance are apt to be reported to his parents (and himself) in misleading terms.

Each score report — such a fifth grade student's math report — explains student performance based on the following performance levels: mastered, on track, approaching, or below.

But he's also reaching out to software developers and connecting them with the problems the city wants to solve — from below - grade - level mathematics performance for 60 percent of 6th graders, to helping students and parents wade through the often - overwhelming high school choice process.

For example, classroom concentration, attention, and memory immediately increase after physical activity, and student test scores correlate positively with regular participation.122 Research has also shown that elementary school students that perform better in reading, mathematics, and science have higher physical fitness test scores.123 In addition, children who perform below grade level academically and participate in a physical activity program are more likely to improve their performance on standardized tests than are their less active peers.124

Despite modest gains in academic performance, far too many children are below grade level in reading and math.