Sentences with phrase «by middle school teachers»

Other problems associated with «egg babies» were revealed on recent postings to a message board populated by middle school teachers.

An examination of assignments given by middle school teachers appears to show that most of the work asked of students does not reflect the higher, more rigorous standards set by Common Core.

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The larger effort will now support 200 middle school STEM programs by 2020 and aim to reach 5 million students with free technology resources, teacher training, STEM curricula, and connectivity.

Ashley, a former middle school teacher, was introduced to Pure Barre by her friends who were always raving about how fun class was and how incredible the results were.

Why Middle - School Girls Talk Like Babies — And What Teachers Can Do About It by Jessica Lahey for The Atlantic

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

• Children in middle school who are securely attached to both parents are perceived by teachers to be more competent than children who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et al, 2007).

«We placed the boys in side - by - side infant seats and spoon fed them with one spoon and bowl first one mouth, then the other,» says Jennie Howell, a middle school teacher and mom of adult fraternal twin sons.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

upstatetoday.com, March 4, 2009 Seneca High has top consumer science teacher by Greg Oliver «Zandra P. Overstreet, a former Walhalla Middle School teacher who has been a member of the Seneca High School teaching staff since 2005, has been named the state's top teacher in the area of family and consumer science.

This summer, hundreds of CCSD teachers are taking advantage of training opportunities offered by CCSD; school nutrition workers have been busy learning new skills and ideas for tastier lunchroom fare; more than 400 school buses will be inspected; warehouse and technology employees are stocking a brand new replacement Dean Rusk Middle School; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school camschool nutrition workers have been busy learning new skills and ideas for tastier lunchroom fare; more than 400 school buses will be inspected; warehouse and technology employees are stocking a brand new replacement Dean Rusk Middle School; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school camschool buses will be inspected; warehouse and technology employees are stocking a brand new replacement Dean Rusk Middle School; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school camSchool; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school camschool campuses.

1 out of 5 STEM college students decided to study STEM in middle school or earlier because their interest in the subjects was sparked by a teacher or interest in a subject matter.

A recent study shows that a brief intervention encouraging teachers to respond with empathy to misbehaving students was able to reduce middle school suspension rates by half.

Arogundade who attempted to commit suicide in a bush behind the Christ Africa Middle School in Osogbo, was rescued by a food vendor who sighted him and mobilised the nearby teachers to his rescue.

According to the same form, Percoco's wife — a former middle - school teacher — was paid by a Connecticut consultant with ties to a third company, Competitive Power Ventures, that is in the process of constructing a natural - gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

Students in middle schools with low student proficiency rates were more than four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with high proficiency rates.

Flanked by Stringer and chancellor Carmen Fariña at Tuesday's press conference, de Blasio further broke down how the $ 23 million would be spent: $ 5 million on hiring costs that will be shared by 50 middle schools, $ 7.5 million to upgrade existing arts facilities, and a $ 3.1 million fund directed to schools with certified full - time arts teachers, at $ 1,000 a teacher.

The contract showdown between the Buffalo Public Schools and its teachers union has been a long time coming.Perhaps surprising is that teachers are frustrated with those on both sides of the bargaining table, feeling caught time and again in the middle of what has become an epic battle shaped by politics, ideology and personalities.They feel many people in the community bl...

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

One innovative program to address these concerns is the «mentoring ladder» used at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, where postdocs mentor grad students, grad students mentor undergrads, undergrads mentor high school and middle school students, and everyone is mentored by (secondary and college) science teachers.

The assessment materials, used to measure students» understanding of the sciences in middle and early high school, will be amplified by Naiku, a Minnesota - based company whose assessment platform reaches teachers around the country, and a Canadian consortium that includes McGill University in Montreal.

Project 2061's middle school unit on matter changes in nonliving and living systems, is currently being taught by 14 teachers in seven Maryland middle schools and reaches over 1,500 students each year.

Middle and high school students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human DeveloSchool of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle - school students for high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.

While the pull - up has been used by everyone from middle - school gym teachers to Marine drill instructors to measure fitness, the fact is that many fit people, particularly women, can't do even one.

A former Texas middle - school teacher who was impregnated by a 13 - year - old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Alan Morris, a former teacher and church deacon, is jailed for a string of historic assaults on young boys Alexandria Vera, former middle school teacher impregnated by 13 - year - old sentenced to 10 years The Houston - area teacher was facing the possibility of a

Summary: Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, MONSIEUR LAZHAR tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well - liked teacher.

by Walter Chaw Ben (Jimmy Fallon), a Red Sox fanatic and middle - school math teacher, falls in love with corporate minx Lindsey (Drew Barrymore), who, as is often the case in Farrelly Brothers films, is perfect.

Eastwood's film follows the three childhood friends (played, in their younger days, by William Jennings, Bryce Gheisar and Paul - Mikél Williams) as they buck against the authority of their Christian middle school and the teachers want to impose upon them an unnatural rigidity of thought and behavior.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Press By Gary Murray Stephen Chbosky comes across more as a middle school shop teacher than a...

It takes little for Tim, who is «pre-engaged» to his freshly - divorced middle school teacher (Sigourney Weaver), to be tempted by married mother Joan, but their connection is no punchline.

Cantet — a gifted storyteller whose better films include «Human Resources» — has turned it into a pseudo-documentary by casting Begaudeau in the lead role of Francois, along with real - life teachers and students from an actual Paris middle school.

A stoner played by Nicholas Braun ends up a middle school teacher, enlisting his pupils to build him elaborate bongs.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

In its hero and actor Paul Giamatti, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor have found the middle - aged Everyman, a sad - sack, depressed - but - medicated middle - school English teacher who has written a huge novel about his life and awaits its acceptance or rejection by a publisher.

Rick Shertle, middle school teacher and founder of the Washington Maker Workshop in San Jose, California recently opened his doors to the community by securing a space from a local church for free.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

This will be done by eliminating high school sports, Advanced Placement programs, middle school guidance counselors, the jobs of several dozen teachers, and music for grades 1 - 3 — as well as closing elementary, middle, and high schools.

For middle and high school teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to paschool teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to paSchool Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to parents.

It is a project easily put into place by middle school and high school teachers and can be adapted to any topic.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scores.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

Judy Willis, a neurologist, middle school teacher, and author of several books on the subject, says educators can achieve a lot just by designing lessons that appeal to multiple senses.

Mrs. Faucett began her career by teaching math at Jefferson Davis Middle School in Duval County, Florida, where she was named Teacher of the Year in 2001.

Some 400 educators and researchers gathered here this month to hear how some struggling middle schools turned student achievement around by providing more - rigorous coursework, establishing stronger policies, and fostering better relationships between students and teachers.

TEACH, a new film by Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim, profiles four very different elementary, middle, and high school teachers and their public school classrooms.

Story Maps and Boxes 6/28/2001 [Language Arts, Literature, Reading Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Patricia A. Fry] Patricia A. Fry, a teacher at Templeton Middle School in Sussex, Wisconsin, submitted this week's lesson that has students creating story maps to share information about books they have read.