Sentences with phrase «into ninth grade»

«You have a better chance of winning at Harrah's than getting into our ninth grade class as it is now,» Gilyot said.

Special emphasis will be given to student transition into ninth grade.

We have some students coming into ninth grade ready to do highly challenging work, and others still at an elementary school level in areas like math and reading.

«Robbie shot himself in the head on January 2, 1997,» Sadasivan told the audience, «four months into his ninth grade year.

Guest blogger Brett Vogelsinger shares five of the tools he's used to integrate daily poetry into his ninth grade English class, including strategies from Billy Collins, Garrison Keillor and a refrigerator magnet app.

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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.

They chose the ninth grade as a place to start because it is the start of high school, and they could roll up or down into the other grade levels from there.

In ninth grade AP Human Geography, a full - inclusion class, the use of experts has increased students» motivation within challenge cycles, as well as given students a view into various careers in or related to geography.

For instance, in our second school, Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, opened in 2002, we tested all the kids coming into that ninth - grade class in the summer, and it was dismal.

For her ninth - grade class, she divided students into two teams, General Electric and the Waterkeeper Alliance, to debate who should clean up PCBs in the Hudson River.

Monroe High School Monroe, Michigan Grades 9 - 12 Dr. Layne B Hunt, principal Our ninth - grade teachers are organized into teams.

* This lack of synchrony leads to bizarre situations, such as an arts - keen kid finding a program that's right for him at one level but only in science, or maybe nothing, at the next level and youngsters welcomed into «gifted» program as late as ninth grade who find no openings in suitable high schools starting in tenth.

Support personnel work with pre-kindergarten-through-second-grade students with poorly developed reading and writing skills, third graders who were held back, and students moving into sixth and ninth grades.

But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a ninth - grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every student in real time.

The final bell rings at the George Wingate Educational Campus, home to four Brooklyn public schools, and a handful of ninth - grade students trickle into a classroom for their after - school service - learning class on a rainy spring afternoon.

Appendix A continues with a detailed pathway for schools to accelerate students by compacting three years of curriculum (7th grade, 8th grade, and algebra I) into two years and further states: «Decisions to accelerate students into the Common Core State Standards for high school mathematics before ninth grade should not be rushed.

Despite an A in algebra and excellent state math test scores, she had to fight to get into the ninth - grade geometry course that would keep her on track to take Advanced Placement calculus during her senior year.

This program is for students who could not get into a GED program or who are reading below ninth - grade level and has three core elements: youth development, a rigorous instruction model (America's Choice), and structured case management.

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.

Our research shows that when students achieve a 92 percent attendance rate, earn 11 or more credits and pass at least one Regents exam in ninth grade, they are far more likely to graduate on time and be ready for entry into a college or career path.

If I have a ninth - grader who reads at third - grade level, I must give the student a strategy for breaking down the word into decodable chunks so that they can read the type of words found in ninth - grade reading material.

Our ninth grade cluster program provides entering freshmen an opportunity for easier transition into the large high school setting by breaking their class into teams that remain together for the four academic core classes (English, Social Studies, Math and Science).

The Oakland Tech ninth - grade team helped each other notice things about student work that they had not seen on their own, and to dig into questions such as: