Sentences with phrase «group of middle school students»

Advisor for a small group of middle school students; designed and delivered lesson plans focusing on organization, time management, leadership, character, and stress management.

As Rocket Lawyer continues to help communities both online and off, we were excited to host a group of middle school students from San Francisco Day School who were participating -LSB-...]

Another story tells of a group of middle school students in Vermont who agitated to stop school bus idling that saved 20 gallons of gas per bus per year.

While Estefany watches other girls get into the ring during the two - hour Monday and Wednesday Girls Train2Box session at the Nickerson Community Center, a short van ride away, another group of middle school students is at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, participating in the Pets & Vets program.

A small group of middle school students caused the trouble, said Capt. Karen Smith of the North Tonawanda Police Department, the city's juvenile aid officer until recently.

In one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing back.

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Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

Our Youth to Youth Program, MIND YOUR MELON, takes high school athletes who have healed from concussions to speak to groups of middle and high school students.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

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.

BRANT LAKE The YMCA is trying to provide developmental programs for people of from infants to seniors - but the core group falls into the Y - Achievers program, focusing on middle and high school students.

They also found that parental involvement in monitoring internet activity is low among this group with about a third of middle school and 17 % of high school students reporting that their parents monitor their internet.

A team of researchers from Princeton, Rutgers University and Yale University engaged groups of influential students in 56 New Jersey middle schools to spread messages about the dangers of bullying and school conflict.

Set in 1976 Texas, Dazed and Confused flows from one group of high - school and middle - school students over the course of one night — the traditional cinematic one - night - that - changes - everything.

Language: Korean Genre: War MPAA rating: NR Director: John H. Lee Actors: Seung - won Cha, Sang - woo Kwone, Seung Hyun Choi Plot: As the Korean war heats up, a group of student - soldiers defend a middle school.

A group of students and teachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bullying.

Organized by partnerships between school districts, nonprofit organizations, universities, and others, they provide a more diverse group of students with the enriching science, art, and community - based activities that middle - and upper - income parents can provide by paying for fee - based summer sessions.

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This year's group of fifth grade students (now entering the stream of «tweendom and preparing to step into the potentially perilous middle school years of sixth - to - eighth grade) was born in 2001.

Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout students are scattered throughout classes.

Although we found substantial drops in achievement during middle school for both groups of students, the first - year drop and cumulative deficit were, respectively, 50 percent and more than 200 percent greater for students who start at the lower end of the achievement distribution.

The School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and so on.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

Now, reformers in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maryland, and New York, and the large urban districts of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, are challenging the notion that grouping students in the middle grades in their own school buildings is the right approach.

To educate this very different group of students entering high school, middle school, and even preschool, we need a new approach to the way we teach, train, and interact.

We then used that prediction to place each student into one of the two groups we are comparing, that is, students who attend middle schools and those who do not.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

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.

In other words, if students from feeder elementary schools eventually attend five different non-KIPP middle schools, the two most commonly attended of these middle schools would be included in the «comparison» middle - school group.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

In both groups of schools, students who leave before completing middle school are substantially lower - achieving than those who remain.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology studied 240 middle school students who learned science in groups of four via Learning by Design (LBD) or traditional methods with matched teachers.

A group of elementary or middle school students are unruly, disrespectful, and underperforming academically and socially in the classroom.

This unique set of supplies cards features upper elementary / middle school and teen students and focuses on the types of supplies associated with these age groups!

One morning near the end of the school year, I sat in on a string of meetings between students at Francis Scott Key middle school in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a group of adults — a family - court judge, a district attorney, a school social worker — who are part of a truancy project sponsored by the University of Baltimore School oschool year, I sat in on a string of meetings between students at Francis Scott Key middle school in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a group of adults — a family - court judge, a district attorney, a school social worker — who are part of a truancy project sponsored by the University of Baltimore School oschool in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a group of adults — a family - court judge, a district attorney, a school social worker — who are part of a truancy project sponsored by the University of Baltimore School oschool social worker — who are part of a truancy project sponsored by the University of Baltimore School oSchool of Law.

Ms. Kinney, 52, who is the principal of the 700 - student Talent Middle School in Talent, Ore., succeeds Kathy McAvoy, who will serve as the group's president for the same one - year term, which began Nov. 7.

Several years ago, a group of parents in Silicon Valley came together to reimagine the middle and high school experience, with the goal of radically improving student readiness for college and for life after school.

I am working with a group of graduate students on a non-profit called CommonLit.org that creates free resources for middle school literacy teachers.

This set of REVIEW QUBES is designed for middle school life science and can be used by groups of any size, from pairs of students all the way up to an entire class divided into teams.

Data from the tracking schools allow us to estimate the effect of being taught with a higher - achieving vs. lower - achieving peer group by comparing students with baseline test scores in the middle of the distribution.

In joining the Beyond Wild Justice project, Gonzalo became part of a larger group of learners examining the groundbreaking legal case in which middle school bullies were charged in a case of a 14 - year - old student who committed suicide.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and testStudents in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and teststudents on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scores.

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Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

The Class Size Matters advocacy group has also compiled data showing that about 40 percent of elementary and middle schools in the Renewal program — and nearly all of the high schools — have some classes with 30 or more students in them.

Two groups of students were studied: elementary - school students in grades 3 through 5 (where most students have a single teacher throughout the year) and middle schoolers in grades 6 through 8 (where students tend to have a different teacher in each subject).

A 2016 report by the Stanford History Education Group, analyzing the work of roughly 7,800 middle school, high school, and college - level students, found that a majority were unable to tell sponsored advertisements from real articles, or to recognize where information they read was coming from.

Although the math achievement of students who entered middle school in 7th grade improves by 0.05 standard deviations in 9th grade relative to students who attended K — 8 schools, the same pattern is not evident in reading or in either subject for the much larger group of students who entered middle school in 6th grade (see Figure 2).