Sentences with phrase «eighth grade educators»

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Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

98, an eighth - grade counselor at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School in Massachusetts (Jacob's district), says that in the past few years, her district has put a lot of effort into helping educators at all levels — elementary through high school — get the training they need.

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

An educational support team (EST) comprised of counselors, the school nurse, educators and administrators meets every other week in seventh and eighth grade teams to share information about students who may need some additional help or support.

Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows students to record their own grades.

In addition, the evaluations of about 20 percent of educators — those who teach math and language arts in third through eighth grades — include student test scores.

And most Maryland students take what some educators believe is a watered - down version of Algebra I in eighth grade, while some states have more high - level Algebra I classes.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

At Taylor, which serves a prekindergarten through eighth - grade population of mostly low - income African - American students, educators are celebrating victories in improving attendance (it rose to 94.5 percent among poor children last year from 93.6 percent in 2008) and reducing asthma.

Race / ethnicity and English - language - learner (ELL) status are inadequate proxies for immigrant status, but this brief illustrates that students from immigrant families are a group that requires researchers», policy makers», and educators» attention.This brief draws on interviews conducted with 47 eighth grade students and 27 parents during the 2008 - 09 school year, including 25 students from immigrant families and 16 immigrant parents.

«Educators know firsthand what it takes to keep schools safe and welcoming, yet we're rarely consulted,» said WEAC President Ron Martin, an eighth grade teacher with expertise in restorative justice.

Draw the Line / Respect the Line is designed to be used either by a classroom teacher or trained family life educator in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.