Sentences with phrase «elementary school students made»

At the forum, Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at Stanford University, presented new research that shows CPS elementary school students make six years» worth of learning gains in five years.

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Effective for distributions made after December 31, 2017, 529 accounts may distribute up to $ 10,000 per student per year for tuition at a public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school.

This is certainly so in Plainfield, Ill., where elementary school principal Sandy Niemiera made a startling announcement: because of diversity concerns, students will no longer be allowed to celebrate any holidays at all.

One of our big things last year was the Pedometer Challenge, with a goal of 10,000 steps a day, and it started with employees but made it to the student level — at the elementary level it prompted some schools to form walking clubs, where students were able to do a lap around the park and walk back to school.

By making small tweaks to the menu to feature student favorites, and moving assembly to the front of the house, participation at the high school has increased by 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake Elementary!

To its credit, my son's elementary school has made some positive changes in recent years, including stopping the sale of cookies and brownies at morning recess; banning vending machines in student access areas; and restricting bake sales to once a month or less.

Now, the building serves approximately 256 students from the elementary school, making it «under - utilized» since it has the capacity for 659 students, according to the DOE.

After reading about elementary schools sending food packages home with students, Sharma decided to make hunger the primary focus of his research.

When not studying yeast in the lab, he made a home in the classroom, teaching biology to a wide range of students, in elementary school, college and medical school.

We envision a day when all elementary students are exposed to principles of genetics and disease risk; when all high school students have the opportunity to do hands - on experiments with DNA; and when all families have access to genetic information they need to make informed health care choices.

While these young adult books are typically middle school level, their resonant subject matter, complex characters, profound themes, vivid vocabulary, and historical contexts make them suitable as enriched reading for elementary students and as a bridge for high school freshmen.

Although elementary schoolers in Los Angeles have made real gains in literacy in recent years, among high - school students, only 23 percent in reading and 34 percent in math meet or exceed the national norm on the Stanford 9.

Although Mira's story lasted almost an hour, those elementary and middle school students sat still and did not make a sound.

EW: What are some ways an elementary school teacher can motivate the male students and make the classroom more «boy friendly»?

The various levels make it easy to differentiate and provide an avenue for participation by elementary, middle and high school students.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

In the case of elementary students, they are given the chance to make up missed work, and school officials work with families to help improve attendance.

«The JEF program, for the near term, is focusing its efforts on hands - on science for preschool and elementary school students and making use of resources on the Internet,» Bemley says.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

The late Laurel Pennock — a friend, colleague, and an outstanding elementary principal — told me that he always made a special point to quickly memorize the names of the kindergarten students because the majority of them would remain at the school for several more years.

It appears that in the past the country made up for low quality in elementary and high school by educating students for longer periods of time.

There, he established national scholarship and grant - making programs for — and conducted original research about — high - achieving low - income students from elementary through graduate school.

Kids in After - School Programs Make Academic Gains After only two years of funding after - school programs, mostly for elementary and middle school students, California has seen improvement in attendance and behavior at school and in the academic skills of children in the proSchool Programs Make Academic Gains After only two years of funding after - school programs, mostly for elementary and middle school students, California has seen improvement in attendance and behavior at school and in the academic skills of children in the proschool programs, mostly for elementary and middle school students, California has seen improvement in attendance and behavior at school and in the academic skills of children in the proschool students, California has seen improvement in attendance and behavior at school and in the academic skills of children in the proschool and in the academic skills of children in the programs.

For elementary school students, check out A Perfect Pet, which teaches kids about how people have to make choices when they have limited resources.

Honorable mentions for sheer commitment to these elementary - school teachers in Blackwell, Oklahoma, for their take on Taylor Swift's sassy «Look What You Made Me Do,» and to these students in Saudi Arabia for passionately squawking out «Shape of You» on recorders (especially the boy in front who seems to have forgotten his instrument).

With age appropriate visuals (featuring upper elementary, middle school kids, and teens), this resource was designed to make communication clearer for students with learning disabilities, ESL / ELL and language barriers, autism spectrum / nonverbal populations, and beyond.

Matt Davis has highlighted resources for parents, teachers, and administrators that can help students make the transition into elementary, middle, and high school — and beyond.

The end of the school year can be a nervous time for students, especially for those who will be making a major transition into elementary school, middle school, high school, or college in the fall.

In many communities, out - of - school youth sports programs are available only for students in elementary and middle school, while high school sports programs are often open only to those who are good enough to «make the team.»

Here are five tangible tips from the Making Caring Common Project for educators working with upper elementary to high - school students:

Let's say we want to evaluate preschools on whether their students make progress on cognitive assessments, or judge elementary schools based on student - level gains during grades K — 3.

A teacher at an elementary school that I recently visited told me about Ken, a fifth grade student who had developed a bad reputation but was making an effort to turn things around.

Yet I believe, based on what I have seen in schools, that we should move in the opposite direction, and take time out of academics in the early elementary years to focus on making students feel safe, secure, and confident in the classroom, in other words making them ripe for learning.

While students at a Connecticut elementary school learn the «ropes» of respect, middle schoolers in California are making community service part of the curriculum.

In a growing number of simulations, ranging from the off - the - shelf SimCity and to Muzzy Lane's Making History to MIT's experimental Revolution and Supercharged, students — even elementary school children — can now manipulate whole virtual systems, from cities to countries to refineries, rather than just handling manipulatives.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Yet, though elementary school administrators minimize the impact of a teacher's departure, high school staff seize on a teacher's deployment to make the war in Iraq more real to their students.

Middle schools need to re-evaluate and strengthen the assistance offered to students as they make the leap from elementary to middle school.

Promoting Respect and Service: Two Programs Get A + for Impact While students at one Connecticut elementary school learn the «ropes» of respect, middle schoolers in California are making community service part of the curriculum.

Ashoka selects the world's leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows; the leading elementary, middle and high schools as Changemaker Schools when their students prioritize empathy, teamwork, leadership, problem - solving and changemaking; and colleges and universities as Ashoka Changemaker Campuses when they make social innovation an embedded coreschools as Changemaker Schools when their students prioritize empathy, teamwork, leadership, problem - solving and changemaking; and colleges and universities as Ashoka Changemaker Campuses when they make social innovation an embedded coreSchools when their students prioritize empathy, teamwork, leadership, problem - solving and changemaking; and colleges and universities as Ashoka Changemaker Campuses when they make social innovation an embedded core value.

Does it make sense, educationally and developmentally, to eliminate recess for students in elementary school?

Our students make presentations to elementary - school students about bullying and to hospital institutional review boards about medical research proposals.

This year, KIPP NJ students continued to make gains in elementary, middle and high school proficiency rates, and in some cases passed the state averages.

She works with elementary through high school students, and I love that she emphasizes that to reach ESL students — and, let's be honest, most students — the key is making connections to pop culture and timely events.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieschools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achievement.

Without these essential competencies — such as decision - making, interpersonal communication, and self - regulation — too many of our students will not realize their full personal or academic potential during their elementary, secondary, or post-secondary schooling, or in careers and life.