Sentences with phrase «grade school students about»

Percoco's lawyers have argued that the consultant payments were tied to the downstate energy firm compensating his wife's legitimate work to develop a curriculum and teaching grade school students about energy as part of the firm's public relations effort.

Not exact matches

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

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Concerned about their students» inability to make it through high school and college even though they're prepared academically, they grade students on self - control, gratitude, optimism, curiosity, grit, zest, and social intelligence.

Regardless of the grading system that your child's school uses to report on student learning, there are some universal truths about modern student report cards that every parent needs to know.

Today's New York Post has a story (in which I'm quoted) about eighth grade students in Queens who, due to school cafeteria overcrowding, will be required to eat their «lunch» this year at 9:45 am.

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Whether you were a child in grade school or a university student, summer meant freedom from study and responsibility, the opportunity to work a job and have plenty of disposable income at hand, or even just to laze about all summer enjoying your life of irresponsibility and freedom.

Quogue Elementary School has about 120 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade.

«I remember being a student back in grade school and learning about the explorers crossing the oceans in their ships.

Chook said the students meeting less stringent criteria might go to the school after fifth - grade simply because it's an option — not because they or their parents particularly care about the school.

Lyncourt school district pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school district with about 350 students.

CHESTERTOWN About 45 students from grades 5 to 12 will participate in North Warren Central School's production of «Mary Poppins Jr..»

CHESTERTOWN About 45 students from grades 5 to 12 will participate in North Warren Central School's production of «Mary Poppins Jr.» more

The Spruce Street School will serve about 280 students in pre-K to second grade this year.

The non-profit state Sheriffs» Association says there are about 4,750 public schools and nearly 2,000 private schools in New York educating students in grades K through 12.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

School teachers from elementary through high - school grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathemSchool teachers from elementary through high - school grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathemschool grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathematics.

Kentucky also brings up the rear among youth in grades 9 - 12 who use tobacco; according to 2011 CDC data, about 24 - percent of high school students smoke cigarettes.

Valente and his team surveyed 1,563 10th - grade students from the El Monte Union High School District in Los Angeles County in October 2010 and April 2011 about their online and offline friendship networks and the frequency of their social media use, smoking and alcohol consumption.

We don't know what is going on above us, if there is a full or crescent Moon and how that affects us, we just worry about ourselves and we don't care about the world around us,» says Valentina Vio, 11th grade student at Hernando de Magallanes high school.

We are a group of 4th and 5th grade student reporters, who report [blog] about the activities and events happening at our school Frequency about 2 posts per month.

Filmed by EL Education, «Austin's Butterfly, a true story about a Presumpscot Elementary School first - grade student who was tasked with making a scientific drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, shows the impact of feedback and revision on creating high - quality work.

The results for about one - third of these schools are very imprecise, usually because they had very few students in test - taking grades during the analysis years.

This is evident, for example, in the fourth - grade class, as eight students sit in a circle and share what they like best about their school.

McComb agreed as well, stating that, if we do the math based on the number of students he has compared to the time he gets in school to grade, he has about 20 seconds per student to grade their papers and give feedback.

«I clicked it, and it was a story about a seventh - grade student who decided to launch a high - altitude weather balloon into the top of the lower reaches of our atmosphere as an after - school project.»

And now, increasingly, we are getting high school students to come back and help, and those students will tell you all about their experience way back when they were in sixth grade.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high sSchool of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high schoolschool.

Located about 40 kilometres north - east of Melbourne's CBD, the school is utilising the program in Grades 5 and 6, after trialling it in 2016 for three months with Grade 5 students.

For script material, eighth grade students who were peer leaders met and reminisced about the fears they had before entering middle school.

He added he wanted to minimize any disruption to the school, which has about 1,040 students in pre-k through 12th grade.

For example, the 1988 National Assessment of Educational Progress found that about half of students in all grades read a total of 10 or fewer pages a day for homework and school.

And only about 25 percent of charter school students were enrolled in a secondary grade during the 2003 — 04 school year.

Like in the case of elementary grades, minority and disadvantaged students, who tend to blindly trust the information given out by schools, will be particularly hardly hit by this fog of doublespeak about college readiness.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

Sometimes this practice also provides key insights, such as one student writing about having a hard time at home and that it's affecting her grade, or another student setting a goal to check off every item on his agenda each day before he leaves school.

And, because the students I teach are in 8th grade, I included questions about the challenges ahead, such as Do you feel ready for High School?

Kathryn Prellwitz's fifth - grade students at South Beaver Dam Elementary School (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) know those facts and many more about the U.S. Presidents.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

Many students are so concerned with grades, tests, and college admissions that they've lost what's really important about school.

School grades and jobs were cited most often as the primary concerns of the 6,000 9th - through 12th - grade students included in the survey, followed by anxieties about attending college, according to Russell J. Watson, who conducted the research as a doctoral candidate at Northern Illinois University.

Story Maps and Boxes 6/28/2001 [Language Arts, Literature, Reading Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Patricia A. Fry] Patricia A. Fry, a teacher at Templeton Middle School in Sussex, Wisconsin, submitted this week's lesson that has students creating story maps to share information about books they have read.

Do not expect that students only will talk about the lesson, class assignment, project, or other school related topics while you sit back at your desk doing paperwork or grading.

For those of you eager to bring this to your classroom, check out this lesson (downloadable PDF) that my high school Personal Finance students used to teach our entire third grade about what money is, and why they should save it.

The third - grade students at Samuel Powel School in West Philadelphia took their spots in a circle on the floor and eagerly opened their books, anxious to resume reading Ballhawk, a story about a baseball team.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

With Charisse L. Nixon, Davis recently published a study of 13,177 students in fifth through twelfth grades from 31 schools and in 12 states, focusing on giving students a chance to speak about school connection, peer mistreatment, and student and adult actions.