Sentences with phrase «eighth grade class for»

The day after the treatment and control exercises were administered, the primary dependent variable was measured: students» food and drink choices for a «snack pack,» announced by the principal as a reward to the entire eighth grade class for their hard work during the state testing period that had just ended.

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The students were doing third grade work in what they considered the school's «fast class» but Everett is ready for sixth to eighth grade level work.

Each April, I wrap up my high school counseling work with the eighth grade class at Katherine Delmar Burke School, a kindergarten through eighth grade school for girls in San Francisco, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief.

The school added a sixth - grade class for the first time this year and plans to add seventh and eighth grade as the current sixth - grade class progresses.

She paired her brother up for a school dance and was voted «The Next Ann Landers» by her eighth grade class.

On our staff, for example, discussions around awards tend to concentrate on who is going to win the honors in each eighth - grade class and which teacher will be responsible for getting the plaque engraving done.

As a social studies teacher, he had seventh and eighth grade students in a «looped» class in which he taught the same students for both years.

Prather teaches eighth grade language arts, eighth grade practical living, and an enrichment class for seventh and eighth graders at Silver Grove Independent School in Kentucky.

Every day, for the first ten minutes, students in this eighth grade class collaborated on these videos.

• Then there's the story of Mary Durand's seventh and eighth grade math classes who obtained a Safe Routes to School planning grant, gained accolades from the Kansas Department of Transportation for their work, and helped spur improvements in road conditions around their school.

Four eighth - grade classes participated in the exercise in early September, said teacher Leigh Conner, with kids working on their essays for nearly two months.

Fordham today released a paper by Michael Hansen projecting the impact on student learning if excellent eighth - grade teachers — those in the top 25 percent — were responsible for six or 12 more students per class.

The Arizona Education Progress Meter, which represents key metrics that support a shared vision for world - class education in our state, includes eighth grade math as one of eight indicators by which to measure the health of education in Arizona.

One cited study of 112 eighth and ninth grade language arts classrooms found that students engaged in true discussion for less than one minute per hour of class.

He expects about half of the eighth - grade class of 120 students will stay for ninth grade and thinks Mann's high school program will be attractive to families who might otherwise go to a charter, private, or magnet school.

For example, a student may have done well in an eighth - grade algebra class but been re-enrolled in the same class in ninth grade, Marchbanks said.

This video, developed by the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies, demonstrates use of the Frayer model in an eighth grade math class to increase students» understanding of math concepts.

Partnering with RFA, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) examined the implementation and impact of LDC tools in two contexts: eighth grade history / social studies and science classes in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and sixth grade Advanced Reading classes in Florida.

«By the time they're taking the PSAT, it's much too late to determine whether they should be taking algebra in the eighth grade, biology, and other important gatekeeper classes needed for college,» he said.

Johanna Rodriguez, whose eighth - grade son was included in the civil rights complaint, said her son was suspended and at home for most of last year, while this year she said he was suspended in school most of the time in a room set aside for students who are removed from class because of a behavior issue.

By the time our kids left eighth grade, whether by staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school exams.

Algebra in eighth grade prepares students to take more advanced classes in high school, which in turn better prepares them for college and a possible career in science, technology, engineering or math (what are known as the STEM fields).

Every seventh and eighth grade student participates in a weekly class that covers topics directly related to the skills needed for high school success.

(Summer) Responsible for developing week long fiber arts projects for 4 different class levels (fifth through eighth grades) over a four week camp session.

In 2013, program participant Carl Andersen developed a curriculum on global citizenship for his eighth grade language arts class, using the work of ART21 featured - artists to explore what it means to be a responsible global citizen, and to exist responsibly in terms of self, community, and society.

Get Real Middle School is designed to be implemented with 9 sequential classes per year for 3 years while students are in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, and the lessons are designed to be medically accurate and age appropriate for these particular grades.

-- Consisted of 15 classes in seventh grade, 10 booster sessions in eighth grade, and five booster sessions in ninth grade, and taught general «life skills» and skills for resisting social influences to use drugs.