Sentences with phrase «language learners at»

VERONA — Elizabeth Folberg, a teacher of English language learners at Stoner Prairie Elementary School, had looked into obtaining her National Board Certification 15 to 20 years ago.

Grant recipients all enroll special education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to district schools as a whole.

Klein and other parents had expressed concern about the high number of low - income students and students identified as English language learners at Ball's Bluff Elementary and Catoctin Elementary.

As voters decide whether to allow more charter schools, a Globe review has found that the schools enroll English - language learners at much lower rates than those in traditional systems, even as many charter schools have been stepping up efforts to recruit more of the students.

Use the «Data Quick View» to see the types of accommodations permitted for students with disabilities and / or English language learners at the national level in 2017 at grades 4 and 8 and in 2015 at grade 12.

Hear about the challenges and needs of new arrivals to the country and English language learners at High School of World Cultures.

Eighty - two percent of Sanger Unified of students were minorities, 76 percent were eligible for free - or reduced - price lunch, and 24 percent were English language learners at the end of 2011.

Promising Practices George Theoharis and Joanne O'Toole English - language learners at two schools succeed when educators accept responsibility and plan for success.

Scores for English language learners at charter schools were higher than at traditional schools and magnets.

Further, English language learners at charter schools outperform their school district peers in every subject!

As IDRA's 2014 José A. Cárdenas School Finance Fellow, Dr. Jimenez - Castellanos will conduct an important and timely empirical study to examine the amount of supplemental funding above the base funding level that is required to effectively implement appropriate services for English language learners at the secondary level in the State of Texas.

«We serve a large population of second language learners at our school.

She has TESL certification and worked teaching English language learners at the University of Florida English Language Institute before coming to MeTEOR Education in 2014.

schools must enroll special education students and English language learners at rates similar to the district as a whole

Students with disabilities and English language learners at New York City charter schools are outperforming their peers in traditional district schools.

CAL specializes in developing effective solutions for educators and practitioners working with language learners at all levels of instruction (preK — 12, higher education, and adult education).

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

Not exact matches

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

Furthermore, children with expressive language disorders and or are English language learners may be at a higher risk for developing selective mutism.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

Forcing special needs and English language learners to take high stakes standardized tests is «abusive,» Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa told parents and community leaders at a forum held last week.

«Art brings joy back into the classroom,» summed up one teacher earlier this year at a conference, sponsored by the Teacher Center and the Center for Arts Education, titled «Uplifting teaching and learning for English language learners through the arts.»

Jennifer Ronayne, a fifth - grade teacher at the Connetquot schools with 13 years of experience, said Cuomo has little understanding of how classrooms work — and of how harmful his policies have been for teachers and students, particularly those children who have special needs or who are English language learners.

«What we know is we're going to have big spending pressure on English language learners, special education, health care costs are three things that are coming at us,» Kremer said.

A new summary of 12 years of research on North Carolina's pre-kindergarten program for at - risk 4 - year - olds shows that «dual - language learners» make the greatest academic progress in the program.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

Implementation in five Saint Paul Public Schools serving high proportions of dual language learners led to gains in literacy of nearly a half a year at the end of preschool.

«We wanted to examine the influence of both environment and the learner on language, so we included children from a wide socio - economic range to look at variation in learning environments, and children with early brain injuries to study variation in learners,» said Goldin - Meadow.

It's primarily aimed at English language learners from CLB 2 - 4, but it could also be used in elementary school classes.

The data we have also suggest that, at the time they applied, 4.2 percent of charter school applicants were classified as English language learners, while 13.6 percent of New York City's students were classified as such.

«I have some English - language - learners, some students reading at fourth grade level, and some at fifth grade level.

For instance, you may have very concise medical or scientific information that needs to be consumed by your learners, and you may have the core aspects on screen; but your narration needs to be of a little more common language or at least easier for a narrator both to speak and be heard.

In a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balance.

It takes advantage of «just in time learning» so that language learners can have lessons at their own convenience rather than having to adhere to a set classroom schedule.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

Ninety - five percent of students at Redwood City's Hoover School, in San Mateo County, come from low - income and working - class Latino families, and nearly all start school as English language learners (ELLs).

Since PLCs were organized at the district's Jefferson Elementary School, where 60 percent of the students are English - language learners, those students have hit 53 percent proficiency in English language arts, an enormous jump from 3 percent in 2002.

Recommendations encourage teachers to use a mix of phonics and language experiences to support the development of a wide range of learners in a context where literacy demands are increasing at a dramatic rate.

Aside from the logistical challenges of getting learners and facilitators in the right location, at the right time, in the same classroom, there are also language translations, cultural considerations, and differences in employee labor laws that can leave people with the blackest of Six Sigma belts to feel overwhelmed.

09, then - principal at the Donald McKay K - 8 School, described by Abeyta as «90 percent Hispanic, 90 percent free and reduced lunch, 50 percent second - language learners.»

Mary Glasgow Magazines, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, publishes 17 magazines aimed at secondary school language learners around the world specialising in French, German, Spanish and English as a foreign language.

Over the objection of officials at the statistical wing of the U.S. Department of Education, the independent body that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress has approved a policy that significantly narrows the grounds for excluding students with disabilities and English - language learners from the exams.

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

Attached is a spreadsheet with 1 - 10 in different languages, which I asked the learners as a group to try and remember at the end (without looking at the sheets) which resulted in some psychedelic and intuitive spelling and a lot of teamwork.

Her research this year has focused on the language and literacy development of students at risk for special needs — especially those who are English language learners — and she plans to continue this research in the hope of developing better interventions.

English - language learners and special education students accelerated their learning at an even greater pace.

Looking at language, and the ways it works, either similarly to, or differently from, English, helps learners become implicitly aware of linguistic concepts in both languages, and how nouns may change from the singular to the plural.

«Most English - language learners are not doing well in the content areas,» Robin Scarcella, the director of the English - as - a-second-language program at the University of California, Irvine, said...

At his first post-Ed School job, Sagolla worked at the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning project with Seymour Papert, the person whose LOGO programming language first awoke a teenaged Sagolla's inner learneAt his first post-Ed School job, Sagolla worked at the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning project with Seymour Papert, the person whose LOGO programming language first awoke a teenaged Sagolla's inner learneat the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning project with Seymour Papert, the person whose LOGO programming language first awoke a teenaged Sagolla's inner learner.