Sentences with phrase «grade curriculum around»

Facing History is now at the center of our 8th - grade curriculum around civil rights.»

On the other end is Stella Schola Junior High in Redmond, which builds its sixth - to eighth - grade curriculum around classical literature and historical themes.

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The success of his book, she argues, is «the kind of meme around which you could build a week - long media blabfest, not to mention a whole lot of curricula, grading templates, books, radio shows and grant opportunities.»

After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting social justice curriculum reform within the network.

There are no letter grades, and learning revolves around something called the Living Curriculum, which is heavily project - based and personalized for individual learning styles.

Funders are wise, then, to focus on new initiatives around curriculum development and adoption, student assignments and grading, next - generation professional development, and efforts to integrate technology and personalized learning into the classroom.

Our recommendation to construct curriculum around assessments may lead to a related misunderstanding; i.e., that we need to assess each grade - level Standard in isolation, one by one.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

I loved teaching fifth grade, but three years ago I jumped at the chance to shift gears and work with other outstanding teachers and math experts in New York and around the country to help write a world - class math curriculum.

Typically serving between 150 and 200 students from grades 9 or 10 through grade 12, Career Academies are organized as small learning communities, combine academic and technical curricula around a career theme, and establish partnerships with local employers to provide work - based learning opportunities.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

Partnering with K12, a world class curriculum, teachers and educators from around the state of South Carolina were ready for a technology infused 21st Century model of learning for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Even in the early grades most American schools have been coerced into using curriculum - driven instructional systems in which teachers are expected to «cover» long lists of content expectations, far more in a year than any of the high performing school systems around the world.

With mandated state testing around the corner, we strive to make sure our kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students are ready for the future rigorous science curriculum.

Factoring student performance on tests like the ACT into school grades is puzzling, given that the high school curriculum is not developed around the ACT specifically and students who excel on these tests are often able to take advantage of test preparation coursework outside of school.

The International Baccalaureate ® Diploma Programme is growing in popularity at high schools around the world, but did you know that this curriculum is designed only for students in grades eleven and twelve?

This web site, which is part of the NCTM Illuminations project, allows students to challenge themselves or opponents from anywhere in the world by playing games that are organized around content from the upper elementary and middle grades math curriculum.

Charter schools may limit enrollment to specific grade levels and may structure curriculum around particular areas of focus such as mathematics, science or the arts.

Kyouzai kenkyuu involves an investigation of the intended learning trajectory related to the topic, from prior to later grades, through a review of the standards and curriculum, and research into teaching and learning issues such as typical misunderstandings around the topic.

Its interdisciplinary curriculum is built around six cross-curricular themes that are art infused, which every grade - level team explores for six weeks:

Around two weeks ago parents in the Idaho school district of Meridian successfully campaigned to remove a novel from its 10th grade reading curriculum.

Its brick - and - mortar Dallas laboratory school, founded in 1997, engages urban children from age 3 through fifth grade around a rigorous academic curriculum that integrates key social emotional learning concepts and experiences.

The Open Circle team is currently updating its grade - differentiated curriculum to provide more support around bullying prevention and increase accessibility and applicability to urban communities.