Sentences with phrase «just middle school grades»

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Anne is off to middle school — a whole new world, Joe is headed to grade four, Evie is ready for grade one, and Maggie has just one more year at home before preschool next fall (not that I'm counting down...).

Only 17 percent of local elementary and middle school students met the grade level standard for ELA (English Language Arts), while just 22 percent met the standard in math.

Since I already have 40 years worth of scrapbooks already, and a lot of vintage Valentine's Day cards are already safely tucked behind the page protectors, and the rest are still waiting to be put in their proper places next to 3rd grade school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day cards.

Now I have owned Uggs since I was in the 7th grade, and in middle school and high school on Long Island, they were a «must have», but have «Uggs» become just plain ugly?

Just to be clear: I'm not an art - for - art's - sake aesthete; I've played on Team Horace since a seventh - grade production of «El Mago de Oz» brought down the «English Only» signs in my middle school cafeteria.

At John Adams Middle School in suburban Illinois, lazy, foul - mouthed Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a frustrated seventh - grade teacher whose rich fiance dumps her when he realizes she's just after his money.

When the CCSS first came out, many high school teachers just noticed that the math high school standards got pushed down to the middle grades.

The school is not a charter school; it is just a normal, public middle school for students in fifth and sixth grades who live in South Lawrence.

Many elementary classes start each morning with a meeting that sets the stage for the learning that will occur during the day, but more and more middle schools are finding that this social experience is just, if not more, important in upper grades.

Indifference to the assignment and to the possibility of receiving a failing grade, lack of help at home, apathy toward completing assignments, and laziness — those are just some of the problems eighth - grade teacher Cindy Shields deals with at Jefferson Middle School, in Columbia, Missouri.

Students move on to middle school after fourth grade, so they are often finally well - trained news reporters just as they depart the elementary.

But the comparison is imperfect because Democracy Prep started as a middle school, while Success is just now starting to see significant numbers of students in those grades.

Just as the body is a system made up of a number of essential elements, so too is a high - functioning middle grades school made up of a number of well - functioning elements.

These students at Claremont Middle School have just completed their slave narrative project, a unit that's been taught at the school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three School have just completed their slave narrative project, a unit that's been taught at the school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three years.

Singer, now 37, had enlisted Cowan, a teacher, to help him recruit 5th - grade students for the charter middle school he planned to open in just a few weeks.

Even middle class Black students are denied a meaningful education in the state's urban schools: Just 12 percent of them are taught to read at grade level in eighth grade.

Just as troubling is the fact that these students» relative performance in both subjects continues to decline in subsequent middle - school grades.

In one middle school, he noted, 17 percent of Latino students and just 6 percent of ESOL students passed algebra by eighth grade with a C or higher, compared with 90 percent of white students.

Science teacher Eugenio Machado, 45, received just over $ 1,000 from two categories — for school - wide and his team's performance at Ponce de Leon Middle School, which has maintained an A grade since 2005school - wide and his team's performance at Ponce de Leon Middle School, which has maintained an A grade since 2005School, which has maintained an A grade since 2005 - 06.

«It's just unsettling because there have been so many changes,» said Sunshine Light, a seventh - grade math teacher at Ross N. Robinson Middle School in Kingsport.

Fifth grade is a vulnerable time in any child's life — the preteen years are just around the corner, and the transition from elementary school to middle school is imminent.

The Greenfield schools piloted the model in kindergarten and middle school grades, all of which saw proficiency exceed or equal the scores of other Achievement First schools in Connecticut after just one year.

I'd just add one niche exception: print copies are still vastly preferred in the children's and middle - grade arenas, especially for the kinds of books that could land in classrooms and school libraries.

Three authors of novels for middle - grade / middle school students discuss the value of including fiction in teaching various curriculum areas — and not just designating novels as «extra-credit!»

Previous delinquency, substance abuse, and teen pregnancy prevention programs have been provided in the late elementary or middle school grades, just prior to the ages when delinquent behavior, substance use, and sexual activity increase in prevalence.6, 7,31,32 Yet the social development model that guides the present intervention suggests that early and sustained intervention through the elementary grades should put children on a different developmental trajectory leading to positive outcomes over the long term.

Since I already have 40 years worth of scrapbooks already, and a lot of vintage Valentine's Day cards are already safely tucked behind the page protectors, and the rest are still waiting to be put in their proper places next to 3rd grade school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day cards.