Sentences with phrase «local middle schools grades»

Interestingly, respondents assigned their local middle schools grades that were, on average, one - quarter of a letter grade lower than the grades they assigned their local elementary schools (see Figure 1).

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I ended up coaching 8th - grade boys and girls basketball at local middle schools in San Diego.

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.

There were three Catholic grade schools that fed into the one local Catholic high school, and since that high school and my high school were rivals, in middle school we considered all of those grade schools to be our «rival.»

* In a nutshell, we asked a nationally representative sample of American adults to identify their local elementary, middle, and high school and to grade them on a standard «A» to «F» scale.

After first selecting the specific schools they considered to be their local elementary and middle school, survey respondents were asked to grade those schools.

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

Only 6 percent assign their local elementary school a «D» or and «F,» while 12 percent assign those low grades to their local middle school.

No less than 65 percent of those surveyed are willing to give the school they identified as their local elementary school one of the two highest grades, and 55 percent are willing to give one of those grades to their local middle school.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

The activity can be used in a variety of social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international studies — and in both the upper elementary grades and middle school.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

Two Federal Hocking (OH) Middle School teachers — Robin Hawk, an eighth - grade social studies teacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh - grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher education.

In 2015, for instance, the Skills for Success grant program supported local educational agencies and their partners in developing programs and practices that promoted positive learning mindsets among middle - grade students.37 The winning entities included Chicago Public Schools, KIPP, Long Beach Unified School District, and Los Angeles Unified School District.38

While the tensions between our two overarching perspectives are more complex than what we have described, long discussions related to that conflict caused us to work together to examine how a veteran social studies teacher and his student teacher in a local middle grades school perceived and implemented technology in their classroom.

The National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform recommends that national, state, and local policymakers provide resources and support to create small schools at the middle - grades Middle - Grades Reform recommends that national, state, and local policymakers provide resources and support to create small schools at the middle - grades Grades Reform recommends that national, state, and local policymakers provide resources and support to create small schools at the middle - grades middle - grades grades level.

The National Forum calls for federal, state, and local policymakers to provide resources and support to create small schools at the middle - grades level.

She has organized a full - blown comics convention at her middle school in Shelbyville, Indiana, which will feature student art from all grades, and local comics retailer Mike Costello of Downtown comics will be there as well.

An outdoor education program that brings 6 — 8th grade students from both Marina and Denman Middle Schools in San Francisco out to Tennessee Valley to experience, enjoy and steward their local national park during the school year.

A soup kitchen, local middle / grade school, or even tutoring younger nursing students at your college are all great options that will give you an edge on your resume.

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Pyschotherapist Lauren Muriello of the Well Being Therapy Center presented the lecture «Helping Your Teen Develop Healthy Coping Skills for Life» to a packed auditorium of parents of local students in grades 7 - 12 at Heritage Middle School on Monday as part of the «Parent Series» sponsored by the Livingston Municipal Alliance Committee.

I was in 3rd grade when my parents started inviting a child (middle school age) from the local children's home to stay with us on the weekends, spend holidays with us, and go on vacation with us.