Sentences with phrase «fourth grade educator»

This high level of imprecision would explain why teachers like Sheri Lederman of Long Island, who is apparently a terrific fourth grade educator based on all kinds of data besides her most recent VAM scores, received an «ineffective» rating based on this flawed growth model (see prior posts here and here).

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P21's Learning Targets and Student - Led Conferences: Fourth - grade educators Doris Malmin and Kevin Armstrong explain how their school got started with student - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons learned.

«The Data Wise protocol allows us to focus in on a line of inquiry,» said Himilcon Inciarte, a fourth - grade teacher at the Umana Academy in Boston, one of 34 educators who participated in the January course.

For fourth grade, educators recommended stories from Homer's Odyssey, Washington Irving's «Rip Van Winkle,» Howard Pyle's adventures of Robin Hood, and biographies of Magellan, De Soto, and William Penn.» They were being inducted into becoming Americans, as that was understood at the time.

Fourth - grade Spanish immersion teacher Tabitha Carro, in Lexington, S.C., shares how she uses Remind, a free messaging app that allows educators to communicate safely with students and parents via text.

I come from a family of educators; my mom currently teaches second grade, and my sister teaches fourth.

Many educators dispute that struggling students will do any better getting back up to speed in a third grade classroom than in a fourth grade classroom.

Teresa Fenske - Fanucci is a fourth - grade teacher at Valley View Elementary School in Columbia Heights, Minnesota and a member of Educators for Excellence - Minnesota.

Another grave concern for educators is the academic gap that would be left by teacher assistants that are primarily tasked with making sure students read on grade level by the third grade — presumably still a significant goal for Senator Berger who was a key driver in the state's Read to Achieve legislation that mandates all third graders read on grade level or be held back from advancing to the fourth grade.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

This article provides one example of how an elementary teacher and a teacher educator have used local resources and problem - based learning to teach a fourth grade unit about human communities and the history of the local area.

He is in his fifteenth year as an educator and has taught third, fourth, and fifth grade students in three different counties of North Carolina.

Nardi Routten, St. Lucie County — Nardi Routten has been an educator for 20 years and teaches fourth grade at Chester A. Moore Elementary School in St. Lucie County.

For veteran educators like Mary Beth Newchurch, who teaches fourth grade at Belle Chasse Primary, the Common Core validates the autonomy she has always exercised in her classroom.

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.

Sheri G. Lederman, a fourth - grade teacher in New York's Great Neck public school district, is «highly regarded as an educator,» according to her district superintendent, Thomas Dolan, and has a «flawless record».

«We've seen schools that have added as many as 90 minutes to their day improve quite dramatically,» says Rebecca Cusick, a fourth - grade teacher and president of the Fall River Educators» Association.

In Oklahoma, the Legislature just tweaked the state's law to let students who have failed the reading test advance to fourth grade if a team of parents and educators approves.

Interacted with residential students as primary educator for third and fourth grade students.

In the world of early learning, educators, researchers and policymakers often correctly focus on fourth - grade test scores and school readiness.