Sentences with phrase «fourth grade students at»

Today we had a grade level meeting about the NWEA scores for the fourth grade students at my school.

Jennifer Bynum, right, teaches music to fourth grade students at Kelly Elementary School Friday, April 29, 2016, in North Las Vegas.

Speech - language therapist Dacia DeAngelis demonstrates gravity in a lesson with fourth grade students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in the Asbury Park School District in New Jersey.

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.

One was a fourth grade student at West Road Intermediate School, the other an eighth grade student at LaGrange Middle School.

The Appellant was a teacher at one school while her son was a fourth grade student at another school.

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Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

At the Waldorf School of Baltimore, students use fountain pens from fourth grade on.

Through NY Parks 2020 Governor Cuomo launched Connect Kids to Parks program, which provides free day - use park entry to fourth - grade students and their families, grants to public schools for field trips to state parks and historic sites, and free learn - to - swim lessons throughout the summer at 27 parks.

At 10:30 a.m., state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia visits with fourth - grade students at the North Colonie Central School District, Blue Creek Elementary School, 100 Clinton Rd., LathaAt 10:30 a.m., state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia visits with fourth - grade students at the North Colonie Central School District, Blue Creek Elementary School, 100 Clinton Rd., Lathaat the North Colonie Central School District, Blue Creek Elementary School, 100 Clinton Rd., Latham.

For fourth - grade students at Hoosick Falls Elementary School this year, it also included becoming a published author.

Sheri Lederman, a fourth grade teacher at a Great Neck elementary school, wants to sue the state education department for personal injury after receiving an «ineffective» job rating due to student test scores.

II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.

More than one - fourth of the 2,500 largest U.S. school districts have at least one full grade of students with their own laptops — a figure expected to rise 50 percent in three years.

«I have some English - language - learners, some students reading at fourth grade level, and some at fifth grade level.

Eight assessments generate valid estimates of U.S. national reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year - olds.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Some students in the class are reading at a first - or second - grade level, and some above fourth grade, which means Boxwood has to tweak her lesson plans a bit.

At the start of fourth grade, all of the students lagged behind the 120 WCPM goal for third - grade completion.

Susan Phillips, a teacher at Enfield Elementary School, in rural Enfield, New York, recently noticed that one of her fourth - grade students was always cranky and distracted at the start of the week but turned mild mannered by Tuesday.

She provided the core idea and assisted in a project that became «Newington: Highlights of History,» a PowerPoint and oral presentation created by fourth - grade students at two schools in town.

Verne - Marie Kozak, a teacher of fourth - grade students in a talent pool enrichment program of gifted and high - achieving students at Anna Reynolds and Elizabeth Green Schools, became the «director» of the multimedia presentation.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

«The students have become better learners because they're better readers,» says Michael Hill, a fourth - grade teacher at Houston's Alcott Elementary School.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

In mathematics, 40 percent of fourth - grade students and 34 percent of eighth - grade students scored at or above proficient.

In reading, 37 percent of fourth - grade students and 36 percent of eighth - grade students scored at or above proficient.

Erin Burleigh, who taught third and fourth grade at Picnic Point Elementary School, in Edmonds, Washington, says students came to her for guidance in dealing with other teachers as well as their peers.

When I was a master's student at Princeton University, I had the eye - opening experience of observing a Trenton, N.J., fourth - grade classroom for a semester.

At PS 41, Zangara's 26 students were split up among the remaining four fourth grade classrooms.

«At fourth grade, students are expected to read so they can learn science, history, literature, and mathematics.

While Student A may be struggling with learning the alphabet and initial sounds, Student B might be reading at a fourth - grade level.

And while building these basic skills is not the only job of our K — 12 system — or even of our elementary and middle schools, whose students» performance is what we'll see in forthcoming fourth grade and eighth grade results — they are surely at the center of the enterprise.

In Rebecca Mohler's fourth - grade class, for example, at least half the students speak a language other than English at home.

In 1995, Brian Maguire, a teacher at Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Central School District, was studying the writing process with his fourth - grade students.

Dr. Carbo: Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that, by fourth grade, only one third of U. S. students read at or above grade level.

Fourth and fifth - grade students argued the case for or against term limits for members of Congress and Supreme Court justices at the finals of the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Education's Citizenship Challenge.

Later on, I visited the fourth - grade math class of Tarik Walmsley, a lanky University of Washington graduate who was homeschooled at his students» age.

And it thereby required, for example, all fourth grade students from the previously black and previously white schools first to attend together what would now be a «mixed» fourth grade at one of the school buildings and then the next year to attend what would now be a «mixed» fifth grade at the other school building.

I let my fourth grade students vote at the beginning of the year.

Moreover, looking at the absolute performance of our students on the 2011 NAEP — rather than relative to other states — fewer than half of NJ students were deemed «proficient» across fourth - and eighth - grade math and reading.

A fourth - grade student listened to her teacher during a math class at Dr. Hiram González School in Bayamón, P.R., in May.

While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

«Students can add their own pictures and create their own prompts,» says Nancy Carroll, a fourth - grade teacher at Boyden Elementary School in South Walpole, Massachusetts.

At the fourth grade level whites register no gains in math and black students gain but a measly 2 points.

To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~ white and Asian students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities at the fourth and eighth grade levels.

Fisher and her team at Carnegie Mellon are now observing students in kindergarten through fourth - grade classes.

«I'm pleased that eighth - grade reading scores improved slightly but remain disappointed that only about one - third of America's fourth - and eighth - grade students read at the NAEP Proficient level,» said former Michigan Governor, John Engler, interim president of Michigan State University and chair of the National Assessment Governing Board that oversees NAEP, in a written statement.

Denise Cooper, a fourth - grade teacher at Belle Chasse Primary, said many of her students are adjusting to the more sophisticated writing assignments — and even enjoying them.

This group also includes students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), who are in special education programs and may only be at a third - or fourth - grade reading level.