Sentences with phrase «middle and high school students across»

Your tax - deductible donation to the Nashville Public Library Foundation, one of NAZA's key funders, supports equal access to high - quality afterschool and summer programming for middle and high school students across the city.

The Nashville AfterZone Alliance (NAZA) is an expanded learning system of high - quality afterschool and summer programs for middle and high school students across Nashville.

BROOKLINE, MA (February 17, 2016)- Today through March 16, middle and high school students across the U.S. have the opportunity to win individual and classroom prizes up to $ 2,500 as part Facing History and Ourselves» second annual Facing History Together Student Essay Contest, «Student Voices: To Kill a Mockingbird in Today's World.»

Today through March 16, middle and high school students across the U.S. have the opportunity to win individual and classroom prizes up to $ 2,500 as part Facing History and Ourselves» second annual Facing History Together Student Essay Contest, «Student Voices: To Kill a Mockingbird in Today's World.»

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

STEM Wars is an annual event bringing together middle and high school students across Chautauqua County to celebrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Not exact matches

Berkeley Business Academy for Youth summer program for middle and high school students fosters creativity, innovation, and collaboration through a project based curriculum, taught by Haas faculty and with students from across the global.

This year's event, which took place in Texas in February in conjunction with the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, brought 32 scientists into middle and high school classrooms across Austin, Dallas and Houston reaching more than 5,000 students — a significant jump from the 20 scientists who participated in Boston in 2017.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

Nearly 58 percent of middle school students in nine states and almost 73 percent of high school students across the country don't get the recommended amount of nightly shuteye, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

She has previously worked as an associate programmer for AFI FEST 2013; for AFI FESTs 2009 and» 10, where she oversaw the screen education program, screening a selection of festival titles for middle — and high — school students from across L.A.; and in the film programming department at the American Cinematheque, where she programmed the Cinematheque's first — ever Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Luis Buñuel retrospectives in 2012.

Is it too much to expect that we can create and implement effective strategies that would enable virtually all students to succeed on appropriate standards in elementary, middle, and high school, so that virtually all can meet rigorous requirements and walk across a stage, head held high, knowing that they truly attained what a high school diploma is supposed to certify?

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scores.

Mason: Students, especially those in middle and high school, might resist teachers» attempts to «teach» texts steeped in popular culture, especially across the boundaries of race, class, language background, and privilege.

«This is an opportunity for tens of thousands of middle and high schools students, teachers, parents and community members across the country to begin or continue their involvement in youth activism,» said Doug Pietrzak, Ed.M.»

According to more than 40 studies of elementary, middle, and high school English classrooms, discussion - based practices improve comprehension of the text and critical - thinking skills for students across ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic contexts (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, Gamoran, 2003).

Joel Rose: Teach to One: Math is a math program adopted by leading middle and high schools across the country that enables teachers to personalize what, when, where, and how their students learn each day.

These funds also helped reduce class sizes across Kaukauna's elementary, middle, and high schools by two to six students per classroom.

This program serves its 27,000 students spanning across 18 elementary schools, seven middle schools, five high schools, four magnet centers and two alternative schools.

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with students in other elementary grades and middle school — across the country and in the mid-Atlantic region.

Researchers at UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access interviewed 87 elementary, middle and high principals across California to gauge the impact of the recession and budget cuts on student welfare and school learning environments.

But, in fact, many teachers across the country are reading to students in middle and high schools, too, and some education researchers say more teachers of adolescents ought to be using the same strategy.

Positive effects of charter schools on student achievement were found at both the middle and high school levels and across subjects.

Only one in 10 elementary classrooms across the country emphasizes the development of cognitive skills; other researchers have advocated for explicit instruction of metacognitive, cognitive, and other strategies to facilitate the process of learning as a way to engage and motivate middle and high school students.

There are 209 KIPP schools across the country educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.

Elementary, middle, and high schools across Washington State joined in student voice training, programs, and evaluations regarding the role of students in formal school improvement activities.

Charter School Demand and Effectiveness: Understanding Boston A new report by researchers from the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theSchool Demand and Effectiveness: Understanding Boston A new report by researchers from the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theSchool Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theschool students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theschool grades on the MCAS.

Specifically, across subsamples of Latino / a students — separated into groups of low achievers, middle achievers, and high achievers — teachers almost consistently perceived ELL Latino / a students as individuals who demonstrate less effort in school.

It serves 88,000 students in 209 elementary, middle, and high schools across the country.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

The goal is to increase disciplinary literacy instruction in middle school across almost the entire district and connect that instruction to high school so that students have more cohesive learning experiences throughout secondary school.

The Foundation supports the promotion and integration of student - centered approaches to learning at the middle and high school levels across New England — where learning is personalized; learning is competency - based; learning takes place anytime, anywhere; and students exert ownership.

It will include nearly 200 teachers and 10,400 seventh - grade students in 66 public middle or junior high schools across North Carolina, which researchers find provides a demographic sampling that is more representative of the entire nation and thus more likely to reliably reflect the impact of the program.

Rising proficiency for students with disabilities across most subjects (exceptions for middle school writing, high school math, and high school social studies), at a pace that can contribute importantly to narrowing one of our widest achievement gaps

PCN advances college opportunity by promoting the use of research - based policies and practices, the development of new research that is both rigorous and actionable, and the alignment of efforts across middle school, high school, and higher education in order to improve college access and success for underserved students.

The new report, which looked at middle and high schools across the country, finds significant discipline gaps between white, black, and Hispanic students.

We currently educate more than 3,600 students across eight schools — three elementary schools, four middle schools, and one high school — and over 1000 alumni in the KIPP Through College program.

As part of its vision to promote excellence in middle and high school leadership, NASSP, with financial support from a number of partners, annually recognizes principals, assistant principals, schools, students, and advisers from across the country for their leadership and for making positive, significant differences in our schools and communities.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

In turn, other work from Lindsay shows that black students — across elementary, middle, and high school — are less likely to be suspended or expelled by an African - American teacher.

As confirmation that proximity matters, at least 7 percent of elementary, middle, and high school students across the city attend a public charter school located within their school boundary (see Figure 4).

Our network of schools across Cleveland area school districts has helped us reach 219,100 middle and high school students.

Our curriculum is centered on five exemplary innovations: (1) Emphasis on Literacy through a two - teacher model and classical curriculum equips students with a firm foundation for learning across content areas in IB Programs in middle and high school.

He is a leader and a co-founder of Diplomas Now, an evidence based school transformation model for high needs middle and high schools which combines whole school reform with enhance student supports guided by an early warning system and winner of a federal Investing in Innovation (I3) validation grant which is currently being implemented in forty schools across twelve school districts.

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

In many ways, these outstanding school leaders reflect the diversity of the dedicated principals leading schools across the country — supporting students on the West Coast and East Coast, at the prekindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school levels, and in traditional district and charter school settings.

This event is part of the annual Facing History Los Angeles Summit on School Culture, where hundreds of Facing History students, educators, and administrators from over 20 middle and high schools across Los Angeles come together to help shape school culture rooted in empathy and reSchool Culture, where hundreds of Facing History students, educators, and administrators from over 20 middle and high schools across Los Angeles come together to help shape school culture rooted in empathy and reschool culture rooted in empathy and respect.

In 2011, Josh Kinsler, an education economist at the University of Georgia, ran a study that looked at roughly 500,000 students across 1,000 elementary, middle, and high schools in North Carolina.

To be eligible to attend The Davidson Academy, students must be at the middle or high school level across all subject areas and score in the 99.9 th percentile on IQ tests or at the extreme for their age groups on aptitude tests.

As the oldest teacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend college.68