Sentences with phrase «middle grades program»

Experts say the focus of Towson's middle grades program is ideal.

Cheri was a 22 - year - old African - American woman who was 3 months into her first semester as a professional development school intern in the middle grades program of a central Illinois university.

Our faculty in the Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte often spends time discussing issues we see within our middle grades program, including with our undergraduate teacher candidates...

She has coordinated middle grades programs at Shorter College, and Charleston Southern University before arriving at UNC - Asheville in 2002.

Growth in math and reading, as well as family and school factors that encourage success during the middle grades years, will be the focus of MGLS: 2017, which will provide evidence about the effectiveness of middle grades programs and practices.

In Humboldt Park, Orr High School's building could host an elementary and middle grade program managed by the KIPP charter school network.

KIPP hopes to bring an elementary and middle grade program inside the Orr Academy High School building as part of its proposals.

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Our 6th - 8th grade Middle School is an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) World School implementing the Middle Years Program (MYP), an interdisciplinary, project based learning program with a focus on global context and Program (MYP), an interdisciplinary, project based learning program with a focus on global context and program with a focus on global context and impact.

Appelbaum's sons attend the high - performing Bell School on the city's North Side, which placed in the top 10 of a 2007 Chicago Sun - Times list of the highest - scoring middle - grade programs in Illinois.

Established in 1996, Richmond Waldorf School is a not - for - profit, independent school offering a parent / toddler program (18 months to 3 years old), mixed - age kindergarten (2 1/2 to 6 years old), elementary school (grades 1 - 5), and middle school (grades 6 - 8).

Although you had to wonder why the 8th - grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant «to influence the students against our school lunch program.»

That's scarcely enough to provide middle and high school seats for charter children now in grades K - 4 — let alone provide for even a minimal expansion of the program.

Superintendent Christopher Brown told his school board recently that the district would have to cut 62 full - and part - time positions, drop a year of middle school art and eliminate its seventh - grade reading program and high school Latin classes, among many other reductions.

It would be fair to allow all current students in the G&T programs in District 30 to continue so that they may auto - articulate into their own middle school and continue through 8th grade.

Also in 2007, Quinn's Middle School Task Force recommended «every middle - grade student have access to after - school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.&Middle School Task Force recommended «every middle - grade student have access to after - school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.&middle - grade student have access to after - school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.»

In 24 elementary and middle schools in three eastern Massachusetts communities during the 2015 - 16 school year, the parents of all students in grades K - 8 were invited to enroll their children in the BOKS program and the study.

In 2016, only 4 in 10 eight grade public school students were proficient in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problems.

FOR GIRLS» SCHOOLS OR SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS This lesson is for students in middle grades and students with learning disabilities in higher grades.

This will be done by eliminating high school sports, Advanced Placement programs, middle school guidance counselors, the jobs of several dozen teachers, and music for grades 1 - 3 — as well as closing elementary, middle, and high schools.

One researcher suggested that recent studies saying current middle school programs focus more on developing a nurturing climate than strong academics, and the emphasis on high - stakes tests in eighth grade, may have spurred some principals to drop service - learning programs, according to Kielsmeier.

(Disadvantaged high schools were also randomly selected into the program; we focus only on elementary and middle schools since these are the grades for which we can measure math and reading achievement.)

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

All LUSD students are evaluated for placement in middle - school G&T programs during 5th grade, including those who participated in the district's G&T program in elementary school.

On average, Illinois elementary and middle schools have 9.4 teachers in these grades, 5.2 of whom have 15 or more years of experience prior to the ERI program.

Our lottery analysis is based on the sample of LUSD 5th - grade students determined to be eligible for G&T programs in 2007 — 08 who applied for admission to one of the two middle schools with an oversubscribed G&T magnet program.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

So he did something else that most school superintendents would never even consider: he invited both YES Prep and KIPP to take up residency in two middle schools, building grade - by - grade expansions that would lead to YES Prep establishing a high school program within an existing Spring Branch high school.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

When grades six to eight were added, the meetings were built into the middle school program, which Sears heads.

For K — 12 education, he proposes programs to «recruit math and science degree graduates» to teaching and «ensure that all children have access to a strong science curriculum at all grade levels,» more funding for «intervention strategies in middle school» for «teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time» — all to address the «dropout crisis.»

Join two middle school teachers in their first post of a year - long series about implementing a PBL pilot program in their fifth grade classroom.

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.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

While presenting her story to students in the early elementary grades, Hawkins was asked by a principal to develop an etiquette program that would help sixth graders prepare for middle school.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

For instance, if Congress had allocated two - thirds of all new federal spending (non-disability related) on K - 12 education since 1992 to this program, $ 10 billion would have been available for scholarships this year - enough to provide full $ 500 scholarships to all middle - and low - income children in kindergarten through the 8th grade.

The program targets middle schools, because, according to Citizen Schools interim California director Sylvia Kidder - Barry, «A lot of students drop out in ninth and tenth grade, and we can reach them best in middle school.»

Since 2009, Leavitt has been the middle school academic coordinator at Boston's Young Achiever's Pilot K — 8 School, where she directs an afterschool program for students in grades 6 — 8.

After our first math trail, we understood better the potential of this activity and realized that it could be integrated in our seventh grade Advisory program, particularly at the beginning of the school year, when it can help facilitate the transition into middle school.

Using an innovative technique made possible by Internet surveys and geo - coding technology, Martin West and his colleagues at Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance («Grading Schools,» research) were able to match each member of a nationally representative sample of adults to the specific elementary and middle schools that serve his or her neighborhood.

Over the past 15 years, Ms. Akano has been a classroom teacher in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, a teaching assistant for the Freshman Immersion Program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and an assistant middle school principal.

Mary Ting is a 7th grade student enrolled in Blair Middle School's International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years program.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Research has found, however, that when middle school students took part in a high school transition program with several diverse articulation activities, fewer students were retained in the transition grade (Mac Iver, 1990).

student test data on the elementary and middle level English language arts and mathematics assessments in the New York State Testing Program, the Regents competency tests, all Regents examinations, the second language proficiency examinations as defined in this Part; (ii) student enrollment by grade;

www.challengeday.org — this non-profit provides one - day programs as a service to junior high schools, middle schools, and high schools with students in grades 7 - 12.

Program FocusAudubon Technology and Communication Middle School is a traditional, comprehensive middle school serving monolingual and bilingual students in grades Middle School is a traditional, comprehensive middle school serving monolingual and bilingual students in grades middle school serving monolingual and bilingual students in grades 6 - 8.

Responsive practices in the middle grades: Teacher teams, advisory groups, remedial instruction, and school transition programs.