Sentences with phrase «elementary grade programs»

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS • Over 13 years of experience working as a teacher for third and fourth graders • Highly skilled in creating flexible elementary grade programs and classroom environment fit for learning • Hands on experience in instilling strong moral codes in students through unorthodox teaching practices • In - depth knowledge of grade - appropriate curriculum development and implementation

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Established in 1996, Richmond Waldorf School is a not - for - profit, independent school offering a parent / toddler program (18 months to 3 years old), mixed - age kindergarten (2 1/2 to 6 years old), elementary school (grades 1 - 5), and middle school (grades 6 - 8).

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

Second grade elementary students from Statham Elementary partnered with high school students at the Sims Academy of Plant Sciences Program for a live streaming event in which Academy students gave the second graders a virtual tour of their greenhouse.

«At the elementary school level we are doing some plate waste study to see what the children actually are eating, and in one school we are trying a nutrition program in grades K through 3 that uses colors to help children add nutritious foods of differrent food groups to their trays.»

Next year, Southern will see both its elementary and high school participating in the program, making it a school - wide Pre-K to grade 12 endeavor.

«I've wanted to be a geologist since the fourth grade,» she says, «starting with the «rock hound» program at my elementary school.

In 24 elementary and middle schools in three eastern Massachusetts communities during the 2015 - 16 school year, the parents of all students in grades K - 8 were invited to enroll their children in the BOKS program and the study.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

The district had claimed in court that when the elementary grades were returned to resegregated neighborhood schools, safeguards would be installed to ensure that equity was monitored, and that programs would be implemented to foster student integration.

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.

Responsive Classroom guides the character education program in the pre-K though elementary grades.

The bill would also provide that collaboration grants be offered to each state to coordinate Head Start and other family services, reauthorize transition projects extending Head Start services into the elementary grades, improve Indian Head Start programs, and enable Head Start grantees to construct facilities and purchase vehicles.

There is a place for online learning for elementary grades and is typically used with students in the home learning environment where the parents are actively involved in the daily instructional program.

(Disadvantaged high schools were also randomly selected into the program; we focus only on elementary and middle schools since these are the grades for which we can measure math and reading achievement.)

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

All LUSD students are evaluated for placement in middle - school G&T programs during 5th grade, including those who participated in the district's G&T program in elementary school.

On average, Illinois elementary and middle schools have 9.4 teachers in these grades, 5.2 of whom have 15 or more years of experience prior to the ERI program.

This article systematically reviews research on the achievement outcomes of four types of approaches to improving the reading success of children in the elementary grades: reading curricula, instructional technology, instructional process programs, and combinations of curricula and instructional process.

Miami - Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to stop teaching 30 minutes of Spanish a day in elementary school — nobody learns much — and offer a rigorous, intensive dual - immersion program for students with grade - level skills.

Additionally ~ without having to have a reading series as was mandated in a 6th grade elementary program ~ my team created a very unique program we dubbed STARS (Specific topics to advance reading and other skills).

While presenting her story to students in the early elementary grades, Hawkins was asked by a principal to develop an etiquette program that would help sixth graders prepare for middle school.

In its latest «report card» on the subject, the health watchdog group graded the nutritional quality of the elementary school lunches served in 18 of the largest school districts participating in the federally funded National School Lunch Program.

The district piloted VTS in grades K - 5 at El Verano last year and plans to expand the program to all elementary schools by 2009.

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053 children from grades 2 - 6 from 11 elementary schools in New York City.

Using an innovative technique made possible by Internet surveys and geo - coding technology, Martin West and his colleagues at Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance («Grading Schools,» research) were able to match each member of a nationally representative sample of adults to the specific elementary and middle schools that serve his or her neighborhood.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

student test data on the elementary and middle level English language arts and mathematics assessments in the New York State Testing Program, the Regents competency tests, all Regents examinations, the second language proficiency examinations as defined in this Part; (ii) student enrollment by grade;

How do we sustain positive outcomes for children from preschool programs into the elementary grades and beyond?

The ExCEL P - 3 project examines whether one preschool program, reinforced by a system - wide alignment of instruction into elementary school, has impacts on a range of skills through third grade.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

Researchers with Mathematica Policy Research, an independent group, found positive effects both for the combination of KIPP pre-K and KIPP early elementary grades and for KIPP pre-K programs alone.

Science4Us is a program that was developed for K - 2 students and teachers as a complete science curriculum, but students in upper elementary grade levels can benefit as well.

The Comprehensive Assessment Committee has representatives including curriculum coordinators; program directors; special education administrators; school administrators from elementary, middle school, and high school levels; representative teachers from each grade span; and union representatives.

The program is implemented at the second grade level in all three elementary schools.

In fact, children who enter AppleTree programs below grade level typically graduate at or above it, with a well - rounded foundation to succeed in kindergarten, elementary school, and beyond.

She is currently overseeing the elementary program, secondary program, special programs, individualized learning, and assessment departments for grades K - 12 across 36 schools in three regions within Texas, impacting over 19,000 students and growing.

When asked about dropout prevention programs, school officials pointed to the district's Reading by Four program, which is a response to one of the greatest indicators of a future dropout — whether a child can read at grade level while still in elementary school.

Monitoring and implementing the School's Special Education Program, which includes compliant timely... A minimum of two years experience teaching in relevant elementary grades * Experience working in a...

Now that all 37 elementary schools have implemented the Extended Day Enrichment Program, all pre-K to fifth - grade students across the community can participate in an enriching and educational environment that further facilitates student success.

Now that we know that the preschool programs that are part of DPP are doing well as a group, it's time to take a closer look at which ones are having the largest impact on student learning in early elementary grades.

The College of Education offers initial teacher preparation programs designed to prepare candidates to meet the Nebraska teacher certification requirements at the elementary grades, middle grades, and secondary levels.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

Our new toolkit, Relationships Matter, is designed to help school districts establish a success mentoring program focused on attendance in elementary grades.

The assessment program for Georgia includes customized criterion - referenced tests at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; the National Assessment of Educational Progress in grades 4, 8 and 12; and an optional norm - referenced test.

And in Chicago the public school district has had a pilot program in place since 2006 in 31 of its 483 elementary schools to give students in grades 6, 7 and 8 more control over what they read.

Leverage your chronic absence data to decide whether to focus on one or more elementary grades for the entire district, or let elementary school leadership determine where to start the program based upon their own data and strengths.

Annually, this program reaches over six million students, primarily in the elementary grades.