Sentences with phrase «immersion school for»

The Korean - immersion school for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade will be located just a few miles from the nation's very first charter school, which opened in St. Paul in 1992.

Officials at the Center for Economics and Law Charter School, a finance immersion school for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student district.

Not exact matches

Aboriginal Studies, an English - Ukrainian program, a French immersion primary school, and a program for at - risk youth are just a few examples.

WESTCHESTER & UPSTATE EF Academy International Boarding Schools 582 Columbus Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594 www.ef.edu/academy [phone] EF Academy prepares students not only for academic success, but also for true global citizenship through critical learning and unparalleled intercultural immersion in what amounts to a diverse United Nations - style high school community.

If, for example, you decide to enroll your child in a dual language immersion school, it may require a bit of a drive.

The Rudolf Steiner School is an environment where science, music, and math intertwine; where nimble fingers lead to nimble minds; where immersion in arts and academics allow for deeper understanding.

If you feel that language immersion school is a good choice for your child, feel free to enroll them at the earliest opportunity.

Join us this summer at the International School of Arizona for our 2018 Spanish and French language immersion Summer Camp.

Summer Science Splash Camp is a week - long residential camp — an immersion in scientific observations and experiments for middle - school students — on the campus of Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA..

A Chinese Immersion Montessori School for children 6 weeks to 6 years old.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

Six - day summer immersion workshops are also available for high school students to follow a line of scientific inquiry in a lab setting, analyze data, discuss the ethics of scientific research, and present their findings to their peers and scientist - advisors.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

For teacher trainees coming to ISHTA from another yoga school, the Immersion Program is a requirement for entrance into the 300 - Hour progrFor teacher trainees coming to ISHTA from another yoga school, the Immersion Program is a requirement for entrance into the 300 - Hour progrfor entrance into the 300 - Hour program.

This unique trip will trace the history of ancient Greece with Yoga immersion AND with every trip purchase, Philomobile will give one child the gift of yoga for an entire school year!

I took French for nearly eight years... All through elementary school, I was in the French immersion program.

Here in Portland, officials have hired native speakers to staff classrooms for the Mandarin Chinese - immersion program at Woodstock Elementary School and Hosford Middle School.

At L'Etoile du Nord French Immersion School, in St. Paul, Minnesota, a group of sixth - grade students volunteered to help Books for Africa with this type of work after holding a book drive for the organization.

Maybe you do need that dual - language - immersion charter school in the suburbs — not because you care about it educationally, but because its families help you make the case for charters politically.

For instance, officials could turn an under - enrolled high - poverty school into a Montessori school or bilingual immersion program, offerings that are attractive to many middle - class parents.

Past activities for students at YES Prep North Central have included National Outdoor Leadership School wilderness trips, college - prep immersion programs on university campuses, and service trips to India and Ghana.

Cesar Chavez Elementary School, a Spanish - immersion school, in Davis, California, has discovered a way to bring the Spanish - speaking world to life for its students while also allowing them to share ideas and resources with other kids: It found a sister school in rural NicaSchool, a Spanish - immersion school, in Davis, California, has discovered a way to bring the Spanish - speaking world to life for its students while also allowing them to share ideas and resources with other kids: It found a sister school in rural Nicaschool, in Davis, California, has discovered a way to bring the Spanish - speaking world to life for its students while also allowing them to share ideas and resources with other kids: It found a sister school in rural Nicaschool in rural Nicaragua.

In a wide - ranging discussion, Murphy talks about the problem with interpreting the performance data of EAL children too simplistically, issues with «immersion» programmes and the lack of support for schools in helping EAL children in the classroom.

There were no bilingual teachers when I went to school, and [English] immersion worked for me.

Mason attends Richmond Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaSchool in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaschool that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaSchool and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaSchool, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language learning.

By the end of summer, my literary immersion had renewed me for another school year.

We opened our doors in fall 2000, and we are the first international school for Seattle and the first — and only — language - immersion school.

Houston is expanding dual - immersion schools, including a brand - new school where students will learn in Arabic for half the day.

Nearly 500 of the multitrack school's 1,300 students will return to school, and administrators will have to carry out a new state law that calls for limited - English - proficient children to be taught in English - immersion programs, rather than bilingual education.

Miami - Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to stop teaching 30 minutes of Spanish a day in elementary school — nobody learns much — and offer a rigorous, intensive dual - immersion program for students with grade - level skills.

The school districts have also failed to require detailed documentation of the need for a bilingual education classroom, as the initiative requires, and they have changed the requirement of a year in a sheltered English - immersion classroom from a maximum to a minimum.

Funding instructional assistants is a constant challenge for the school and the district, and instructional assistants may only be available part - time in upper - grade - level immersion classrooms.

For her top three choices, Curry selected an English - Spanish immersion school, a school with a social justice theme, and a school that offered Spanish as well as a holistic learning experience rich in the arts, sciences, and gardening.

In 1985, only 50 foreign - language - immersion schools existed in the United States, and as of 2011 that number has grown to 448 (Center for Applied Linguistics (PDF), 2011).

«Within three blocks of my house, kids are attending at least six different public elementary schools,» said Hewson, who found that many parents she knew were opting for schools with stronger performance or special features like dual - language immersion.

As part of a two - day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language - immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages...

To help build schools» capacity for teaching the language, the nation's first Mandarin Chinese immersion school, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year, has begun offering professional - development programs and resources.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

Existing 1960s buildings at this Maori - language immersion school were removed to make way for a modern learning centre that maintained its links with the past, ties to the community, and reflected the local culture and landscape.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

Culture College is an Arnhem Land - based Indigenous cultural and outdoor education immersion program tailored for secondary school students and designed to simultaneously educate and inspire our «leaders of tomorrow» and to invigorate the local homeland economies in the Northern Territory.

Outlining its vision for an enterprise skills education program, FYA says it would: start in primary school and build year on year throughout high school; be taught through experience and immersion; include information about future jobs and career skills; and involve students, schools, parents and industry representatives working together to design learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom.

Authorizes school districts to establish dual - language immersion programs for both native and non-native English speakers.

Over the past 15 years, Ms. Akano has been a classroom teacher in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, a teaching assistant for the Freshman Immersion Program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and an assistant middle school principal.

Under the district's current bilingual education plan, parents have the right to request English immersion classes for their children, Burton acknowledged, but school representatives also have the duty to explain why they think their approach is better.

Immersion did wonders for my French fluency, and I was fortunate to have academically - inclined teachers in Grades 1 - 3, 5 and 6, but K and 4 were lost years, and I owe much of my formal knowledge of French to my high school Modern Languages department head, an L2 French speaker!

Soon, several new English - immersion villages, some sponsored by the government, will open for intensive and extended instruction for middle school students.

And here, schools such as St. Louis Language Immersion offer a hope that's largely eluded the city for years:

Nash - Rocky Mount Public Schools is recruiting elementary schools students to join Spanish - language immersion classes for the cominSchools is recruiting elementary schools students to join Spanish - language immersion classes for the cominschools students to join Spanish - language immersion classes for the coming year.

Yu Ying Public Charter School is a Chinese language immersion school, with children alternating between Chinese and English - language days for instruSchool is a Chinese language immersion school, with children alternating between Chinese and English - language days for instruschool, with children alternating between Chinese and English - language days for instruction.