Sentences with phrase «grade curriculum program»

During her classroom teaching experience — in grades three through twelve — she worked with the Amory Center for the Arts in Pasadena to create and implement an arts - integrated sixth grade curriculum program and wrote a school - wide grant (Arts In The Schools) to bring music education from kindergarten through sixth grade to her school.

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Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Proceeds will benefit the more than 29,000 students in Grades K - 12 in TVUSD schools by providing funding for curriculum support grants and programs.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

The program in all grades also includes Music (singing and playing the recorder progressing to strings and orchestra), Eurythmy (a form of movement unique to Waldorf Education), Foreign Languages, Handwork, Form Drawing, Painting, Beeswax and Clay Sculpture, Woodworking (grades six to eight), Gardening, Drama, Speech, Physical Education and curriculum related field trips.

The Nursery through twelfth grade curriculum is supplemented by a number of auxiliary programs, including the Parent - Child Program, a summer day camp and extended - day program in Garden City, and our 250 - acre extension campus and farm located in Marlborough, New HamProgram, a summer day camp and extended - day program in Garden City, and our 250 - acre extension campus and farm located in Marlborough, New Hamprogram in Garden City, and our 250 - acre extension campus and farm located in Marlborough, New Hampshire.

During the last twenty years he's taught 2nd through 12th grade classes, designed curriculum, and founded a national mentoring program.

During my tenure, I worked as a Early Intervention Program teacher, a Curriculum Support teacher, a Special Instructional Assistance teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher, and a Kindergarten through Fifth grade classroom teacher.

We are currently doing a pilot in grades 6 to 8 offering French four times per week as we explore changes in our French program to reflect the new curriculum requirements for French in Ontario public schools.

Developed in conjunction with Arlington Heights School District 25 to enhance the 5th - grade curriculum, the program teaches students the significance of history.

The programs — easily searchable by grade, topic, and framework — align with Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education curriculum frameworks.

Although you had to wonder why the 8th - grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant «to influence the students against our school lunch program.»

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Pprogram founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer PProgram to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer ProgramProgram.

The program provides selected high school teachers a curriculum geared to students in ninth or 10th grade in the required health education classes.

Founder and executive director David Micklos anticipated that there would be huge gaps in science curricula taught at even the finest schools and conceived a program that would better prepare students in 5th through 12th grades (and their families) to thrive in the gene age.

She has developed and taught curriculum for after school and enrichment programs, including karate, latin dance, and other fitness classes to grades K - 6.

In this quasi-experimental study on the Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) program, 11 LTTA schools were compared to control schools over three years to examine the benefits of an arts - integrated sixth grade curriculum.

Editor's Note: NASA has retired its free Explorer Schools program for grades 4 - 12, but they offer STEM curricula and additional resources for students and teachers on their educational website.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

This article systematically reviews research on the achievement outcomes of four types of approaches to improving the reading success of children in the elementary grades: reading curricula, instructional technology, instructional process programs, and combinations of curricula and instructional process.

The grade - level - appropriate curriculum program includes student newsletters, which focus on current events and relevant topics, and are delivered to teachers throughout the school year.

During a semester - long program, students design their own curriculum, act as teachers to each other, and even grade themselves.

For K — 12 education, he proposes programs to «recruit math and science degree graduates» to teaching and «ensure that all children have access to a strong science curriculum at all grade levels,» more funding for «intervention strategies in middle school» for «teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time» — all to address the «dropout crisis.»

Gilbert is outreach manager at Guide Dogs for the Blind, based in nearby San Rafael, and, a few months before her visit to Bacich with her German shepherd guide, Hedda, she teamed up with the school's third - grade teachers, and with the Marin County Office of Education, to help introduce materials from Guide Dogs for the Blind — and from the National Federation for the Blind's Braille Is Beautiful program — into school curriculum.

The report calls for targeted and intense interventions in program design, assessments, professional development, curriculum, and family engagement to make a difference in third - grade reading levels.

As a result, for the first time, a media - literacy curriculum has been mandated in Ontario's language and English programs for grades 1 - 12.

The program ties in with the state's third - grade social studies curriculum, which focuses on local history.

The expectation is that this collaboration will lead to the kind of systemic blend DesignShare lauds as «a seamless grade 9 - 16 curriculum» and that blur physical and program boundaries in a way some educators believe can lead to a paradigm shift for learning in all inner - city high schools.

Such policies include instituting external, curriculum - based exams linked to real - world consequences for kids; maintaining high standards for earning good grades; and experimenting with well - designed cash - incentive programs.

In my home state of Texas, for example, the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) requires that in addition to the content standards specified for each grade band, the curriculum for teacher preparation programs must include 17 specific subjects of study.

The Distinguished Achievement Awards are the largest branch of the AEP awards program and recognize the year's best products according to subject area and grade level in the categories of Curriculum, Periodicals, Professional Development, and Supplemental Resources.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

As my colleagues and I were building curriculum for our ninth grade project - based program, we found that most of our conversations centered not on potential projects themselves, but rather on building student self - motivation and self - mastery.

Teachers and curriculum designers are encouraged first to establish their program frameworks using the social studies standards as a guide, and then to use the standards from history, geography, civics, economics, and others to guide the development of grade level strands and courses.

The project team will utilize meta - analytic techniques to estimate the impact of STEM teacher professional development and novel curriculum materials on student outcomes, and analyze the relationships between program effectiveness and key moderators identified in the literature, such as duration, intensity, format, grade and disciplinary topic, and alignment with NCTM / NSTA standards.

Through the Farm - preneuer Program, which is connected to Walter Bracken's STEAM curriculum, fourth - grade students learn how to create a business from their vegetable gardens.

For Citywide programs, the standard NYC public school curriculum is simply taught a year in advance, so that kindergarteners are doing 1st grade work, 1st graders are doing 2nd grade work, etc..

Cass Street School, located on the lower east side within walking distance of museums and downtown cultural attractions, offers the SAGE small class size (18:1) program from 5 - year - old kindergarten through third grade and strong college and career readiness curriculum in all grades along with art, physical education and music classes.

Where a school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more schools have been designated as a school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status of the newly registered school based upon his review of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as: school mission, school administration and staff, grade configurations and groupings of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.

Senior leaders assign teachers to grade levels, give them textbooks and curricula, buy and set up their technology, lay out their schedules, create disciplinary policies they need to follow, and choose programs for how they will work with students learning English, and students with disabilities, and students with reading difficulties, and students who are homeless.

The constraints on teachers mentioned above were not relaxed by the incentive - pay program — teachers still were given their grade levels, their students, and their curricula.

At the same time, she facilitated ongoing improvement efforts mandated at the district level prior to her appointment (curriculum writing, implementation of a commercial mathematics program)-- collaborating with grade team and subject leaders, specialist teachers, and trainers provided by the externally developed mathematics program.

The in - service training programs will provide the opportunity for collaboration among teachers and school library media specialists to advance information literacy in the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum.

Insight in Action As part of a statewide initiative to develop and support quality mathematics programs, school - based teacher leaders supported the implementation of the Investigations curriculum in grades K - 5.

The program features a new curriculum designed to teach high school students how to read at grade level.

Though they get tested and graded like any other public school in the state, state laws give charter schools more «flexibility» to set programming and curriculum as they see fit.

But Kockler says the department, which has been focused on grading textbook and curriculum programs, is just starting to grade other products.

Science4Us is a program that was developed for K - 2 students and teachers as a complete science curriculum, but students in upper elementary grade levels can benefit as well.

The Comprehensive Assessment Committee has representatives including curriculum coordinators; program directors; special education administrators; school administrators from elementary, middle school, and high school levels; representative teachers from each grade span; and union representatives.