Sentences with phrase «even kindergarten students»

Fairy Tale and Folk Tale Cyber Dictionary Whether you're a technology nerd or a trembling «newbie,» your students can participate in the Fairy Tale and Folk Tale Cyber Dictionary project — an activity even kindergarten students will enjoy.

As a mindfulness teacher in an elementary school, I know that even my kindergarten students feel stress sometimes.

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Even the Peck Slip School, which opened its first kindergarten class last fall in its temporary space at Tweed Courthouse, has a wait - list of 13 zoned students.

Verdi alleges that Dinowitz even sent a top staffer to hover over kindergarten registration at the school in April and that he illegally accessed student records.

Students at the elementary level, even in kindergarten, can benefit from opportunities to practice computational thinking.

Even in elementary school, I volunteered to help nursery and kindergarten students with reading and writing.

Appropriate for all students (even kindergarten) but espcially for English language learners.

Thousands of schools — public and private, from kindergarten to college — are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public, betting that round - the - clock supervision, even from strangers, will help motivate students.

But you don't emphasize an important point: Whatever benefits students experienced in kindergarten that resulted in higher test scores, they did not cause higher test scores in later grades — even though they produced better later - life outcomes.

Even after six years running the Chicago schools, Vallas still talks about time on task rather than methods or quality: more kindergarten, double periods of reading for struggling students, summer school, mandatory extended day.

A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even larger effect: «On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.»

If you're a Kindergarten teacher, and some of your students are already reading Harry Potter, while others don't even know their letters, how on Earth do you handle that?

In some schools, high - SES and low - SES students enter school with nearly identical kindergarten readiness rates (or with low - SES students even having a slight advantage in the case of 18 schools).

Such schools, responsible for educating many students who enter kindergarten without knowledge of even the alphabet, need to focus on very basic skills.

For younger students, research has shown that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten is associated with lower achievement in reading and math in later grades, even when controlling for a child's family income, race, disability status, attitudes toward school, socioemotional development, age at kindergarten entry, type of kindergarten program, and preschool experience.

Parents in particular have been saying that the amount of time children spend in school, especially with afterschool programs, combined with the amount of homework given — as early as kindergarten — is leaving students with little time to run around, eat dinner with their families, or even get enough sleep.

Even from kindergarten, students benefit from their parents» engagement with their school experience, and studies have shown that good foundations of engagement build long - lasting success in elementary school and beyond.

Donaldson Gramling even saw it with her kindergarten students, who were making mistakes all day — and were usually totally fine with it.

«If a particular child is having trouble with recognizing letter sounds, I can find that in the data, even if I haven't picked up on it in class,» says kindergarten teacher Justin Myles, who uses his insights to provide create differentiated lesson plans and personalize instruction for students.

Occupy the Classroom The New York Times, October 20, 2011» «This is where inequality starts,» said Kathleen McCartney, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as she showed me a chart demonstrating that even before kindergarten there are significant performance gaps between rich and poor students.

Forced to cut staff because of funding cuts, districts had no option but to raise student - teacher ratios even though the Education Code limits the ratio to 30:1 or less from kindergarten through eighth grade.

«I can't even believe this is before us,» Mertz said, speaking of a complicated arrangement in the proposed contract that would have let IMA continue to charge private tuition for kindergarten for 3 - year - olds in the same classroom as young public students in the school.

FRANKFORT, Ky.)-- Many Kentucky students are at a disadvantage for learning before they even start school, according to Kindergarten Readiness Screener data released by the Kentucky Department of Education.

Even students in the third grade were missing kindergarten - level concepts, making it unrealistic to expect an immediate leap to third - grade math performance.

If you've had the opportunity to view anything in virtual reality, knowing and feeling like you're ACTUALLY there is something which students — even my daughter who's five, she's starting kindergarten this year — she LOVES it.

We assume that fewer students will graduate than started in the ninth grade and even fewer children will graduate than started in kindergarten.

«Aspire has been a partner with the Richmond community even before the first day of school,» said Shahad Wright, father of an incoming kindergarten student at Aspire Richmond Technology Academy.

In preschool and kindergarten, this cross-lingual skill transfer takes place before students even learn to read.

Staffers visit kindergarten classrooms to identify children who, even at their young age, are seen by their teachers as likely future candidates for prison or early pregnancy (because the students carry a great deal of family and social baggage and because, even as five - year - olds, they are extremely hard to manage in the classroom).

«Having some additional funding and focus would mean we could work to get even more of our students ready for kindergarten, and then ready to read.

Kindergarten students will work on one - to - one correspondence (see Glossary), learn about ordinal numbers (First, Second, Third, Fourth, etc.), learn to count by 1s, and may even begin learning to skip count by numbers like 2s, 5s, and 10s (ex: 2,4, 6, 8, or 5, 10, 15, 20).

Educators know that, even when students enter kindergarten, they have a wide range of achievement levels.

While your little student is not going to be trying out theorems and solving proofs in kindergarten, important geometry concepts are introduced even in the very first year of...

Because NYC schools risk receivership and even closure based on test scores, because state test scores are the variable used in awarding free SHSAT preparation, because the city publishes school - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize» it.

Ranger seemed very comfortable in our classroom — even with a large group of very interested kindergarten students and Jessica did a wonderful job of presenting meaningful information to our kindergarteners.

Expansion of Lions Quest, the kindergarten through 12th grade life skills and youth development program, will ensure even more students benefit from the values of social and emotional learning.