Sentences with phrase «give middle school students»

Give middle school students the confidence they need to experience success on high - stakes assessments with this supplemental program that provides strategies for solving problems that require the use of higher - level thinking skills.

Every time we give middle school students genuine leadership roles and real jobs, there is a possibility that they will fail.

Give middle school students a chance to learn more about careers and business as they work with a team to create their own teen business!

Giving middle school students tough problems in advance of instruction pushes them to work like mathematicians.

Supporters of the Rutherford County schools are quick to point out successes the school has had, including securing a federal «Race to the Top» grant to give every middle school student a laptop to use for schoolwork.

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Long is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia and St. Anne's Belfield School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the school students in the state.

«As a school we have been attending for several years now and hope to continue giving our students such a wonderful experience of this majestic match for years to come» — Martyn Bagwell (Head of PE at St Osmunds Middle Sschool we have been attending for several years now and hope to continue giving our students such a wonderful experience of this majestic match for years to come» — Martyn Bagwell (Head of PE at St Osmunds Middle SchoolSchool)

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

Students at South Middle School in Arlington Heights gave an enthusiastic welcome to restaurant owners from China during a tour of the cafeteria on Monday, May 19.

One Pennsylvania teacher may have had his / her mind wrapped so far around all things Fifty, that they thought giving a word search based on the movie was a great way to exercise the brain power of a class full of middle school students.

Students are given healthy choices on a lunch line at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y., in 2012.

A group of Manhattan middle schoolers is leaving a mark on NYC government — coming up with a bill to give a boost to school groups that aid gay students.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

Elementary and middle school students who are given at least 25 minutes to eat lunch are more likely to choose fruits and consume more of their entrees, milk, and vegetables according to a new study released in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Kilgus said the student version, which was given to middle school students in the study, is available through Fastbridge Learning, a software company that works with schools to offer online academic and behavioral screening, as well as other assessment services.

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel is intended to feed into a proposed $ 250 - million mathematics initiative by the Bush Administration aimed at giving elementary school students a strong foundation in math and boosting the abilities of middle school students who have fallen behind (Science, 10 February, p. 762).

A New York City middle school teacher gives students a close - up look at the art and science of television weather reporting.

As Pam Van Walleghen, a teacher at Urbana Middle School in Urbana, Illinois, testified, «Giving students the opportunity to do «real science» using state - of - the - art technology is about as exciting as education can get.»

One effective way to identify future mathematicians and scientists would be to give the SAT to middle school students, a study suggests.

Also, in middle school and high school, where the number of students taught in a given subject is larger, the stability of the measures tends to be higher.

The Monuments Project: Giving students as young as middle school opportunities to do the real work of historians — and provide meaningful public service in the process — is the idea behind the Monuments Project.

Chef Alice Waters's Edible Schoolyard gives Berkeley middle school students a complete seed - to - table experience through gardens and kitchens at their own schools.

Then I realized that I had never phrased the material as outside the realm of what the students were expected to achieve, so to them these concepts were just what typical middle school students should see — they weren't aware it was high school material, and they were less prone to give up easily.

Drawing on the results of computer - adaptive tests given periodically throughout the year, the 7th and 8th grade humanities teacher and her students at Oak Valley Middle School in San Diego set classroom goals that target the areas the youngsters struggle with the most.

Give feedback on the quality of communication, not the content of the opinion: Recently, a very sweet middle school student gave me her speech on how we should all come together as a country.

Good grades, good character, and community and school service can get their photo and statistics on a trading card — which are given as rewards to elementary and middle school students.

For example, a study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that giving middle school math teachers access to lesson plans from the company Mathalicious resulted in a statistically significant increase in student achievement.

As part of the Marin Speaker Series in San Rafael, California, legendary Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was asked what advice he would give a middle school math student.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

That group (full disclosure — I am a member) has proposed giving incentives to states if they enact legislation that encourage community colleges, universities, charter schools, and other providers to offer virtual courses to high school and middle school students over the internet.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Noe offered this explanation for the different approaches of two teachers: «For example, although her students were definitely able to carry on literature circle discussions on their own, middle school teacher Janine King found that she gained such valuable assessment information from observing the groups that she couldn't give that up.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

«The whole point behind our research was to see if we could design games that would help the bottom third of students, students that even by middle school have given up on themselves and on school,» explains Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool have given up on themselves and on school,» explains Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool,» explains Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

Rising Starr Middle School in Fayetteville, Georgia, gives its students even more advanced notice of assignments and tests to come.

Even the smallest concepts become big enough to grasp in this middle school science class, where teacher Rob Olazagasti gives students opportunities to learn by creating, remember by experiencing, and show what they know by teaching.

PASA's Club AfterZone, located in Providence middle schools, gives students the flexibility to alternate their on - site enrichment activities with an additional «learning time» session, during which students receive individual help on schoolwork from volunteers, many of whom are students at local colleges.

The district also gave more families the power to choose, expanding open - enrollment options for middle school students.

More than half of last year's speakers had attended Swartz Creek Middle School as students and wanted to show their appreciation by giving back.

After 12 years teaching English Language Arts and history at an urban middle school, where he has inspired students with a love of Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams plays, Holt hopes to further what he sees as his mission in education giving «students access to learning situations that are as close to the real world as possible.»

The program is aimed at giving the nations» 37 million middle - school science students and teachers an inside look at the facility where such space - age...

An examination of assignments given by middle school teachers appears to show that most of the work asked of students does not reflect the higher, more rigorous standards set by Common Core.

I gave something like a five - year lead time so students could begin to take the test in middle school and then could take it every year and then in a diagnostic way know what they needed to work on in order to pass the test.

Developed for middle school and high school students, Gen i Revolution is an online game that gives your students the chance to learn important personal finance skills as they play and compete against fellow classmates.

In Maine, every middle and high school student is given a school - issued laptop.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

Teachers and academy students will spend an entire day at a middle school, handing out brochures and giving presentations to every eighth - grade class.

Then the word spread, other teachers liked the concept, the principal gave permission to set aside the regular curriculum temporarily, and 115 kids — fully a third of the students at Springfield Middle School, an urban school in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote nSchool, an urban school in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote nschool in Battle Creek, Michigan — wrote novels.

Last year, Antioch Middle School borrowed time from other periods to give students recess for the first time.