Sentences with phrase «into grade group»

ARC professional development incorporates a gradual release model, starting out with a workshop, moving into grade group meetings, then into «fishbowl» demonstration lessons, and finally into 1:1 support as needed.

Not exact matches

CNN: Jeremy Lin emerges as emblem of burgeoning Asian - American Christianity Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

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.

Other schools don't lump children into a certain grade but group them into classes based on where they place in the school's admissions tests.

In fact, what they did was they grouped us into two groups, so 1st through 4th grade, and 5th through 8th grade.

Unfortunately, Joey doesn't make the grade and is not welcomed into the group.

Like kids in grade school, the ensemble pairs off into smaller groups to tackle ten interrelated, England - set stories that end up coming together through circumstances that I feel more comfortable calling serendipity.

These activities are grouped by topic, grade level, and subject area so they can be easily incorporated into a workshop with varied participants.

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.

The instructional units are grouped by elementary, middle school, and high school level, and each grade cluster is categorized into topics such as: arithmetic, data analysis, fractions, geometry, and probability / patterns for elementary; pre-algebra, graphing / statistics, geometry, number theory, and interdisciplinary for middle school; and algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, Internet, science, and modeling for high school.

During a class discussion, Karina, a third - grade student in the plants - and - animals group, incorporates a social - history perspective into her description of the ranch's stand of eucalyptus.

To address the issue of student self - selection into charter schools, the researchers compared high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered charter high schools with outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered conventional public high schools, ensuring that both the comparison group and the treatment group of students were once charter choosers.

Jefferson School, into whose district my family moved when I was in second grade, was a sizable K — 8 neighborhood school with large classes and unabashed division of reading groups into «blue birds» and «red birds.»

These prizes, separated into three groups by grade level, include $ 2,500 awards and are designed to honor exceptional classroom social studies teaching.

Applicants were organized into 24 matched groupings based on their similarity in terms of grade level, demographics, and whether they comprised a drama, English, or some other type of class.

All of the results reported below are based on analyses that control for student grade level, gender, and minority status, and compare students only within each matched grouping, while taking into account the fact that students within a given group are likely to be similar in ways that we are unable to observe.

By the upper grades of high school, students no longer need roles defined for them and are able to jump into group work without guidance.

To overcome the bias that results from self - selection into peer groups, our main analysis compares cohorts of students in the same grade at the same school in different years.

Our schools in the United States operate primarily as meritocracies: Grades are earned, students are tracked into achievement groups, and awards and rewards are provided for those who perform satisfactorily.

For example, I wrote in a previous blog about a teacher that teaches every fifth - grade math lesson by first presenting students with a challenge problem to see what they can do, then based on results from that task, breaks the students into three groups - remedial, progressing and advanced.

At Bret Harte Middle School, which joined the pilot in the second year, Chantel Parnell divides her 6th - grade math students into three groups.

I addressed that fear in an 11th - grade unit on The Merchant of Venice by having students divide an assigned research question into three or four subtopics depending on the number of people in the group — each individual had his or her own responsibility as the groups explored the cultural and contextual background of the play and then wrote a collaborative research paper.

The grades break down into three groups: access to technology, use of technology and capacity of use.

Books are also grouped into several themes: Articles include guides to book selections such as Christmas books, world history, the World Series, descriptive science, and making of England; Unit Studies include lists for ancient Rome and Greece, Britain and Norse; and Curricula lists books appropriate for grades kindergarten through grade six.

Putting these ideas into practice, I started a lunchtime discussion group with fifth - grade boys who were struggling in their own ways.

Standards for grades K - 8 are broken down by grade, while high school standards are grouped into two bands (grades 9 - 10 and grades 11 - 12) to allow flexibility in their design.

Following on the stereotype of the too - tall kid crammed into a too - small desk in the back row, previous research has looked at the potential downsides of grade retention: stigma, peer group mismatch and reduced expectations from teachers.

Amy Scott: In a fifth grade classroom at DC Bilingual Public Charter School in Washington, students break into small groups to study math.

Using Census Bureau classifications, we group students into three categories according to the location of the school they attended in 3rd grade: 1) a large or midsize city, 2) suburbia (specifically, the urban fringe of a large or midsize city), and 3) towns and rural areas.

A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.

«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.

Students were provided with either a laptop or desktop computer, and they were divided into three groups: elementary (3rd - 5th grades), middle (6th - 8th grades), and high school (9th - 12th grades).

The professional learning from the whole group sessions rolled into the more focused and differentiated work during PLC meetings in which grade level teams worked with other staff members to revise their instruction to ensure that all students stayed engaged.

The WCPSS school board will have to make several unpopular choices including putting more than 30 students in fourth and fifth grade, converting non-instructional spaces such as closets and offices into small - group classroom spaces, and adjusting student assignment plans.

New Mexico divides all teachers into three categories — group A teachers have scores based on the statewide test (mathematics, English / language arts (ELA)-RRB-, group B teachers (e.g. music or history) do not have a corresponding statewide test, and group C teachers teach grades K - 2.

We have quickly grown from a small group of 48 sixth and seventh grade students into a full - fledged charter school of 144 students.

Common Core has made it easier to teach time, for example, by splitting learning about hours and minutes into separate strands across three grades instead of grouping them together.

I believe that teacher and parent groups are right to raise questions and concerns, right to warn that TNReady may not itself be ready and that its incorporation into student grades and teacher evaluations is problematic and potentially unfair.

In fourth and fifth grades, students are grouped into either an accelerated classroom or grade - level classrooms.

All teachers in the school were formed into lesson study groups by grade level.

In this study, the researcher used longitudinal data on student attendance patterns from a large urban school district to model trajectories over time and categorize students into groups based on their attendance patterns from 1st through 8th grades.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

Among those who enrolled in the spring — some just weeks before the school year ended — were a 17 - year - old from Guatemala returning to classes for the first time since he was in sixth grade, a ninth - grader who left a nearby charter school after she was caught with marijuana, and an 18 - year - old who dropped out of Southeast Washington's Ballou High earlier in the year after moving into a group foster home in Northwest Washington.

In those cases where small schools are not feasible, district and school leaders should break down large middle - grades schools into smaller schools or small learning communities where teams of teachers share small groups of students (sometimes called clusters or houses).

Through our «Advancing Thinking Through Writing» course educators across all content areas and grade levels learn to embed our strategies into their curriculum through a combination of direct instruction and individual and group activities.

At Roosevelt, the newcomers included a 17 - year - old from Guatemala who was in school for the first time since 6th grade, a 9th - grader who had left a charter after she was caught with marijuana, and an 18 - year - old who had dropped out of another DCPS high school after moving into a group foster home near Roosevelt.

The measures were divided into two groups, those that affect students in all grades and those that affect students in high schools.

The school guidance counselor led two separate sessions, dividing the grade into two groups.

Governor Baker could ask his state board to award a portion of the Title II funds to a group linked to the MIT Open CourseWare project for the explicit purpose of creating math and science lessons for grades 11 and 12 (unlinked to any set of standards) for Massachusetts high school math and science teachers to use to improve their students» chances of getting into and succeeding at good engineering schools.