Sentences with phrase «eighth grade teacher at»

Efekoro added that his eighth grade teacher at the school was the best he'd ever had — and there was no teaching to the test.

But the Success Highways data provided students with clarity about why they were struggling,» said Erika Elias, counselor and eighth grade teacher at Apollo Middle School.

Zandra Grady, an eighth grade teacher at Leesville Junior High School, echoed Hagan's excitement after completing a June literacy training with CEL.

Not exact matches

He took a class from first to eighth grade at the Denver Waldorf School, then worked as a high school science teacher at High Mowing and class teacher at Pine Hill Waldorf School before moving to Michigan.

From 1993 - 2001, Gary took a class from first to eighth grade at the Denver Waldorf School, then worked as a high school science teacher at High Mowing School and a class teacher at Pine Hill Waldorf School before moving to Michigan.

The tests will still be given to students in third through eighth grade this spring, but they won't count on either the students» or the teachers» records until at least 2020.

A teacher at Cambridge Central Schools is on leave after seventh and eighth grade students were given a handout on transgender education this week that angered many parents in the district.

«Techbridge girls are more interested, more motivated, and more willing to stick to long - term projects,» says eighth - grade science teacher Dan Fleming, who heads up the Techbridge club at John Swett Elementary School.

If Albert Einstein had to illustrate his theories at a local science fair, he would surely have appreciated the efforts of eighth - grade science teacher Maya Garcia.

Jennifer Morrison, this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

«Students love to be challenged,» says Colvin, a seventh - and eighth - grade English teacher at University Christian School in Jacksonville, Florida.

Jeff Schwartz, an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher at Lincoln (where Monastero used to teach), says Private Watkins's presentation gives students «something they don't get from a textbook.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Monastero, half of the Los Angeles - based sketch - comedy duo Ten West, taught for seven years at Santa Monica's Lincoln Middle School, five of those as an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher.

Meghan Rosa, a UPCS seventh - and eighth - grade English language arts teacher, has her students share their low - stakes writing homework at the beginning of each class.

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

Indifference to the assignment and to the possibility of receiving a failing grade, lack of help at home, apathy toward completing assignments, and laziness — those are just some of the problems eighth - grade teacher Cindy Shields deals with at Jefferson Middle School, in Columbia, Missouri.

In fact, Healy says, «simulations can be like a game, and at the right age, around seventh or eighth grade, some research shows that in math it works if you do it really well and have great teachers and the right equipment.»

This year's recipients are Amy Smith, an English teacher Charlestown High School; and Laura Sylvan, a seventh and eighth grade science teacher at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge.

Teachers from Valley View School, a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school in South Phoenix, Arizona, attended a week - long program at an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound camp in Prescott, Arizona.

«To get more parents to come to open house, especially during that first open house, when grades and behavior may not be issues, I award keys to students who get someone to represent them at open house,» explains eighth - grade language arts teacher Anica H. Weeks.

As a former fifth grade math teacher, I vividly remember having some students in my class at a second - grade level, some at an eighth - grade level, and everything in between.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

Annual assessments stop in the eighth grade; teacher value - added scores aren't generally computed at the high school level.

But many more challenges were still ahead for Deborah Bambino, an eighth grade science teacher / leader at Philadelphia's Central East Middle School.

These students at Claremont Middle School have just completed their slave narrative project, a unit that's been taught at the school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three years.

Teachers and academy students will spend an entire day at a middle school, handing out brochures and giving presentations to every eighth - grade class.

«The pre-teaching involved preparing students to participate in the fair,» Beth Brocato, a seventh - and eighth - grade science teacher at the school, told Education World.

«I use the activity as a time filler in my eighth - grade health classes,» said Anitha Diol, a health teacher at Dowagiac (Michigan) Middle School.

«I think we don't have to validate or accept the really divisive, disrespectful words that we hear from candidates or campaigns,» says Kelly Sherwin, an eighth grade social studies teacher at an independent school in Cleveland.

More than half of American teachers say they use digital games in their classrooms, according to a national survey of 500 kindergarten through eighth - grade teachers conducted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

«The Blackboard Jungle helped me decide to become a teacher,» concurred Fran Borden, who teaches eighth grade at Unadilla Valley Middle School in South New Berlin, New York.

Top Teacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and sociallyTeacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and sociallyteacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially aware.

Adam Wellington, an eighth - grade social studies teacher at Coal Ridge Middle School, details how the support helped teachers during those early days of integrating technology en masse.

Whitney Neal, a mom and former eighth grade U.S. history teacher in Texas, is the director of federal and state campaigns at FreedomWorks.

This post by Whitaker Brown, an eighth - grade science teacher at Ranson IB Middle School in Charlotte, N.C., first appeared on the Project L.I.F.T. website.

Elaine Rainone, an eighth - grade science teacher at Rochelle Park's Midland School, echoed his view.

Two Federal Hocking (OH) Middle School teachers — Robin Hawk, an eighth - grade social studies teacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh - grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh - grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduTeacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher eduteacher education.

Polikoff of the University of Southern California and Andrew Porter of the University of Pennsylvania looked at the value - added scores of 327 fourth - and eighth - grade mathematics and English language arts teachers across all six school districts included in the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study (New York City, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Memphis, and Hillsborough County, Florida).

Benjamin Feinberg is an eighth - grade math teacher at LA Unified's Luther Burbank Middle School.

A great teacher (defined as one better than 84 percent of peers) for a single year between fourth and eighth grades resulted in students earning almost 1 percent more at age 28.

I was so energized by my children's experiences at Christine Donnell School of the Arts that I returned to the classroom and became the school's eighth - grade teacher.

Ms. Lehman previously served as an eighth grade Science teacher and the Enrichment Coordinator at Roxbury Prep.

«I've been working with ELL students my whole career,» said Scott Jensen, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Centennial Middle School in Portland, Ore. «I still feel like it's been only recently that I've been making tangible strides with these students.»

The following school year, Dara Schmoe, an eight - grade algebra teacher new to Totem at the time, wanted to increase the number of eighth - graders taking algebra.

Lovelyn Marquez - Prueher, an eighth - grade English teacher at LA Unified's Dodson Middle School in Rancho Palos Verdes, was named today as one of five California Teachers of the Year for 2015.

«It was very different from what I was used to teaching in the past,» says Melissa Henderson, a seventh and eighth grade language arts teacher at Woodland.

Watson organized its teachers on teams, with two - person teams common at the sixth - grade level and five - person teams at the seventh - and eighth - grade levels.

Yazmin White Mitchell is a seventh - and eighth - grade Diverse Learning Teacher at O'Keeffe School of Excellence located on the South Side of Chicago in the...

This year in Chicago Public Schools has been rough on budgets, but E4E - Chicago teacher leaders like Lacey Clayborn, an eighth grade math teacher at Howe School of Excellence, are planning and executing events around the city to appreciate their colleagues who thrive in the face of adversity.