Sentences with phrase «improving early elementary school»

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«Although most preterm children catch up with their full term peers during early elementary school, future interventions to improve friendships and social interaction skills should start before school entry to prevent later psychopathology and behaviour problems.»

Florida's test - based promotion policy is part of a broader effort to improve early reading instruction, which has included state - funded reading coaches, evidence - based professional development, and mandatory blocks of time dedicated to reading in all elementary schools.

Betty Ann Bowser visited an elementary school that practices early intervention — engaging students with technology and art to improve their chances of earning a diploma.

Middle schools were supposed to dramatically improve learning out comes by freeing early adolescents from the dragging academic «anchor» of elementary school, but protect this fragile period from the blacktop «jungle» of high school, allowing for a running start into high school.

This session is intended for district and school leaders who want to improve and measure the transition from early childhood education programs to elementary school.

Early childhood education improves school readiness for all young children and helps to ease the transition into elementary school.

Resources for Supporting Teachers and Administrators to Improve Outcomes for Dual Language Learners in Pre-K through Third Grade identifies selected resources on best practices and policy to support effective teaching and learning for dual language learners (DLL) in early childhood programs and early elementary school.

High - quality early childhood and elementary school programs improve character skills in a lasting and cost - effective way.

The Seattle Social Development Project — a program directed toward improving child social and emotional functioning across elementary school into early middle school — was found to have an effect on outcomes extending into young adulthood, covering areas of mental and emotional health, as well as reduced crime and substance use.

Improving children's long - term academic success will require a trajectory of high - quality early learning and elementary school programs that support healthy child development and learning.

One reason the administration focused on elementary and secondary schools in the Race to the Top competition and early childhood in the Challenge Fund is that the two are at contrasting levels of development, administration officials said, with the public schools needing initiatives to improve teacher effectiveness, for instance, and early childhood needing basic structures of governance.

Decreasing expulsion rates in preschools can help children succeed in elementary school, reduce stress and turnover for staff, and improve the quality of early childhood programs.

Challenges for the young pre-schooler about to enter kindergarten have been well documented.3, 4,5 What makes this an especially important developmental transition period is the consistent evidence for a «trajectory hypothesis» in both middle - class and low - income samples: how children fare academically and socially in early elementary school is a strong predictor of their academic, social, and mental health outcomes throughout high school.6, 7,8 These findings imply that interventions to improve the child's relative standing at school entrance could have long - term payoff.