Sentences with phrase «graders participate»

Students visit a different college every year at Envision and all 11th graders participate in College Spring to help them prepare for the SAT.

Interested seventh and eighth graders participate in elective debate courses, which require participation in at least two Saturday tournaments.

Eligible seventh and eighth graders participate in a language immersion trip or exchange for each world language.

Ninth graders participate in large - group volunteer opportunities at local assisted - living facilities.

Sixth graders participate in forensics, a public speaking and performance competition.

Some specific ways your donation contributes to closing the achievement gap include: ensuring that all Brooke eighth graders participate in an annual experiential learning experience in Washington, D.C., purchasing books for every middle school student who participates in Brooke Book Club with Boston professionals, support for Brooke High's Debate Team, assistance with the costs of college text - books for our alumni, and much more!

But I have never seen students write with as much enthusiasm as they do each November when my 8th - graders participate in the Young Writers Program of National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo).

- Utilizing classroom geology curriculum, 2nd graders participated in a «rock swap» activity to practice social skills, using appropriate language to trade rocks in a large group.

This scene is Science Camp at Gus Guerra Elementary where fifth graders participated in an engaging series of learning centers to master science concepts.

Beginning in kindergarten, classes of young students were referred to by their graduation year — «Class of 2016» instead of 4th grade — and transitions to middle and high school became opportunities to look ahead, with 8th graders participating in a graduation rehearsal rather than a graduation ceremony.

Approximately 2,900 fourth - grade students and 2,800 eighth graders participated in the assessment between late January and early March 2009.

Results indicate that these 1st graders participating in CCPT demonstrated a statistically significant increase on the Early Achievement Composite of the YCAT when compared with children in the control group.

In a randomized controlled trial, first, second, and third graders participated in a bi-weekly, 12 - session integrative program of mindfulness and relaxation.

Not exact matches

Camp Registration Includes: Instruction from De La Salle Coaches, alumni and current student athletes 1:8 coach to camper ratio Camp Tee Shirt Each camper will receive a certificate of participation Weekly awards Incoming K to 9th graders - for some camps The mission of the De La Salle High School athletic camps is to offer children of all ages (male and female) the opportunity to participate and experience an enjoyable camp while at the same time providing assistance to the Bishop John S. Cummins program.

I think it is Texas State Law that prohibits 6th graders from participating in many competitive UIL sports (I think so they adjust to new school and workload).

Some 209,000 fourth - graders from 8,500 schools and 175,200 eighth - graders from 7,610 schools participated in the 2011 test.

The four - year project led by Victor Carrion, M.D., will ask 800 third - and fifth - graders from California to participate in 45 - minute wellness classes, including yoga and coping skills, two to three days a week.

This study of 1,159 seventh graders, using both a correlational and quasi-experimental approach, compared students participating in the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts program.

Second graders from low - income backgrounds participated in two project - based units which integrated literacy and social studies.

Loizos Karaiskos, a 5th grader at Silvermine Elementary School in Norwalk, Conn., was one of 2,900 middle school students participating in the Junior Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference from January 16 - 21.

Fourth graders at Watergrass participated in a program called WriteSkype, a collaborative program involving ten elementary schools in the district.

«Perhaps the best integrated project I participated in involved 8th graders looking at World War II posters on the Internet.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

Samantha Bearface, a 5th grader at Willamina Elementary School in Willamina, Ore., participates in a spelling lesson.

According to school officials who participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey, only 60 percent of the state's 8th graders attend schools where classroom misbehavior is not a problem or is only a minor problem, putting the state near the bottom on that indicator.

Right now, my ninth graders are participating in the H&R Block Budget Challenge.

The method used in the study, known as regression discontinuity analysis, takes advantage of the fact that the district uses a strict numerical cutoff in the index score assigned to students as 5th graders in order to determine their eligibility to participate in the G&T program the following year.

Fourth and fifth graders can earn books after attending their club sessions three times because chapter books are plentiful, but younger students sometimes have to participate six to eight times before they can be given a new book due to their numbers and the supply of materials.

It found U. S. 8th graders to be ranked Number 9 among the 48 participating countries, and its score, at 508, was above the average for all students from participating countries.

For students like seventh grader Huber, who found himself the object of media scrutiny when he participated in a protest to call attention to the plight of children in Iraq, it means asking questions, exploring opinions and ideas, and finding his own voice.

Fourth graders from another participating school, St. Margaret Mary School, also a pre-K to grade - six school in Ottawa, wrote poems using the words «I have a dream» as the opening and closing lines, computer teacher Noelle McCabe said.

«The hamburgers were good,» said Latia, a sixth grader at Van Ness Elementary School in Washington, D.C., who participated in a taste test in January 2002.

For the last several years, seventh grader Manuel and eighth grader Kris — who both struggled at Redwood City's tougher schools — have participated in McKinley's Citizen Schools after - school program.

A smaller subgroup of 3,556 5th graders showed no difference in performance on 5th grade science standards, based on whether or not their teachers participated.

Second graders whose teachers over three years had participated in the program showed significant improvement in reading skills, equal to moving from the 50th to the 57th percentile.

Spurred by the events, the two 11th graders at McCluer High School in the Ferguson - Florissant school district decided to focus on improving their school, first by participating in forums on race and then leading The Vision, a student group formed in the wake of the unrest.

Second graders who had participated in the SFA program for three years significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program on a measure of phonics skills, but on average did not perform better than the control group in reading fluency or comprehension.

In every participating state, a majority of 4th and 8th graders perform at the «basic» level or below in reading and mathematics.

First graders and even kindergarteners join the competition when they are ready, and they too participate in the fun, explained Hughes.

So when Jefferson students begged for their own program, Violet Tantillo agreed to start one for fourth and fifth graders — but stipulated that to participate in hip - hop yoga, students had to sign up for the afterschool A + Math and Accelerated Reader programs.

Authors with Artifacts Through a writers» workshop, participating fifth graders gathered family «artifacts,» learned their meaning, and created books that explained them.

The oldest students — our fifth graders — were teamed against staff members who were willing to participate.

In 2014, BGCA members who participated in Summer Brain Gain's project - based learning practices showed significant improvements in reading (fifth - and eighth - graders) and math skills (fourth -, fifth -, and sixth - graders).

Because all students in New Jersey have participated in the same testing programs at the same time — that is, all 6th graders took the 5th - grade NJ ASK and the 6th - grade PARCC assessment — academic peers refers to the same concept that it traditionally has.

Nearly 15 percent of New Jersey 11th graders refused to take their state tests this spring, but the overwhelming majority of younger students participated in the new PARCC exams, according to preliminary state numbers.

Eighth - graders in a Queens, N.Y., public elementary school recently organized a «fight club» for first - graders, beating up those who wouldn't participate.

Academic progress in Boston increased steadily under his leadership, with Boston's 4th and 8th graders handing the 65 - year - old Boston native a nice farewell gift by coming out on top in math improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2005 assessments among ten participating urban districts (see Figure 1).

Not one of the nations participating in these assessments can demonstrate that a majority of its 4th graders can clear the equivalent of the NAEP proficiency bar in reading in 2011.

Applying the NAEP benchmark to 8th graders in countries that participated in TIMSS, a majority of students in just three nations (Japan, Singapore, and South Korea) can be thought of as proficient in mathematics.

Shemika Murphy, a petition supporter and a named plaintiff in the lawsuit who has a second - grader at McKinley, was among those who refused to participate in the verification process.