Sentences with phrase «middle grades teachers from»

These administrators identified elementary and middle grades teachers from their districts who were exemplary language arts instructors to participate in the project.

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Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

Middle School champs received certificates and monetary awards from the Ticonderoga Middle School Teachers Union and Barbara Peria, grade 6 English Language Arts teacher and Spelling Bee coordinator.

With boards ranging from grade - specific collections like First Grade Fun, Second Grade Smiles, and Third Grade Troop to boards devoted to specific core curriculum subjects and themes (e.g., science, math, robotics) or grade ranges (e.g., middle school science), teachers have raced onto the Pinterest scene, virtual thumbtacks and staplers at the ready, and are actively pinning away.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

Since students in the early grades generally have a limited attention span and suffer from learning fatigue in a more demonstrative way than older students, elementary school teachers are constantly forced to manage the learning state more acutely than teachers of middle school and high school.

Brian Hendrickson, a sixth - grade social studies teacher at Hillcrest Middle School, in Trumbull, Connecticut, polled his students to find out how they feel their male teachers differed from their female teachers.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The interests ranged from kindergarten through grade 12, so some students were learning to become high school math teachers, some were working on middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary school.

Into the middle of this bog stepped Merryl H. Tisch, a former 1st - grade teacher with an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a spouse, James Tisch, who heads Loews Corporation and has sometimes appeared on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.

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.

As an eighth - grade teacher, I constantly hear from high school teachers how «we» don't teach certain topics in middle school.

Reflections From a Teacher's Heart is a collection that will bring a tear to the eyes and a smile of recognition to the faces of anyone who teaches middle grade students.

For example, Mizelle (1995) found that students who stayed together with the same teachers through sixth, seventh, and eighth grades and experienced more hands - on, life - related learning activities, integrated instruction, and cooperative learning groups were more successful in their transition to high school than were students from the same school who had a more traditional middle school experience.

we've invited science teacher, content expert and coach Kathy Renfrew to become The Science Lady and write about general science topics from her perspective as a veteran middle grades teacher and early advocate for the Next Generation Science Standards.

Always Formative Jason Buell is a middle school science teacher from California who writes about standards - based grading, education conferences, education books and more.

Peter Meyer of Education Next talks with students and teachers from Hudson, New York about the problem with middle schools and about alternatives to standalone schools for students in grades 6 - 8.

Two students and two eighth grade teachers from Durham Middle School in Acworth, Georgia worked together to bring positive character to their state.

The Comprehensive Assessment Committee has representatives including curriculum coordinators; program directors; special education administrators; school administrators from elementary, middle school, and high school levels; representative teachers from each grade span; and union representatives.

Ken and his family were intimately associated with Moses Brown School from 1981 until 2000, where he worked as a fourth grade teacher, then as a middle school computer teacher, and finally as a network and administrative support specialist.

Rebecca Gault, a 6th grade language arts teacher from Bel Air Middle School in Bel Air, Maryland, has been teaching for 22 years.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

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 2005 - 06.

We got an interesting email in response to our post about LAUSD's low math scores from a Cochran Middle School math teacher named Rustum Jacob, who offers two additional reasons why scores are as low as they are: more 9th grade students being placed into Geometry, and no real alternatives for 9th graders who aren't...

In pending proposals she is seeking to conduct research on engaging families in the transition from middle to high school and on professional development for teachers aimed at increasing high school student motivation and reducing ninth grade failure.

U.S. Programs Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation President Allan Golston «At the opening general session, seventh grade student Matthew Austin from Washington D.C.'s Howard University Public Charter Middle School of Mathematics and Science kicked off the conference with a stirring speech introducing his teacher, D.C. Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly teacher, D.C. Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly Teacher of the Year Kimberly Worthy.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan «At the opening general session, seventh grade student Matthew Austin from Washington D.C.'s Howard University Public Charter Middle School of Mathematics and Science kicked off the conference with a stirring speech introducing his teacher, D.C. Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly teacher, D.C. Schools Teacher of the Year Kimberly Teacher of the Year Kimberly Worthy.

Each of the six participating Michigan schools receive onsite coaching from IEE and administrators and teacher leaders participate in quarterly network meetings that provide professional learning and networking to support middle - grades reform.

She served as a classroom science, math and social studies teacher, in grades 4 through 8, first at John F. Long Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona from 2005 to 2007, followed by White Pine Middle School in Saginaw, Michigan from 2007 to 2011.

Gwen Gray (right), professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, collaborates with teachers from Central Middle School's 8th grade Learning Studio to develop project - based learning around real world problems.

He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2015, and previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Center for Education Data and Research at the University of Washington and as a 7th - grade math teacher at Westlake Middle School in the Oakland (CA) Unified School District as a Teach For America corps member.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas has received a $ 212,000 award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a prototype web interface that would allow students, parents, teachers and researchers to understand the relationships among mathematics topics by exploring the KU - developed Dynamic Learning Maps ™ (DLM ®) tool for mathematics taught in middle - and high - school grades.

Peter began his career as a teacher at Lombard Middle School in Baltimore, where he taught eighth grade Social Studies from 1993 until 1998.

Findings from the best available (i.e., most rigorous) research in key areas (e.g., reading, student behavior supports, dropout prevention) were translated into practical strategies for middle grades teachers and school administrators.

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After a brief welcome statement from the committee chair — Charlotte Boothe, a middle school curriculum specialist from Rapides Parish — small groups of teachers divided by grade level spent two hours coming up with proposed changes for each grade.

Upon returning to Gilbert H. Hood Middle School in 2003 as a Social Studies teacher, he taught 6th and 7th grade until becoming an Assistant Principal from 2005 to 2013.

From Boston to Brown to Brooklyn, Adam Manson Weinstock is in his 6th year at Tompkins Square Middle School, now as co-Dean of Students, exploring restorative justice models of discipline, and formerly as a 7th grade Humanities teacher and Advisory coordinator.

RELATIONSHIPS: CROSS-BUILDING AND CROSS-DISCIPLINE COLLABORATIONS EAST PALESTINE SCHOOL DISTRICT, EAST PALESTINE, OHIO Carol Vollnogle, Principal, East Palestine Middle School Teachers from the district's elementary, middle, and high school formed a districtwide Creative Leadership Team that focused on visual art integration across the curriculum, at all grade levels, across three builMiddle School Teachers from the district's elementary, middle, and high school formed a districtwide Creative Leadership Team that focused on visual art integration across the curriculum, at all grade levels, across three builmiddle, and high school formed a districtwide Creative Leadership Team that focused on visual art integration across the curriculum, at all grade levels, across three buildings.

The closest thing the U.S. has to a federal school system, DoDEA benefits from having small campuses (Quantico Middle / High School has about 300 students in grades 6 - 12), smaller - than - average class sizes and a highly qualified teacher workforce.

«We've always had rules about not bringing cell phones or iPods to school,» remarked seventh grade teacher Angie Kelley from White Plains Middle School in an interview with GoodEReader.

Carol Jones, 63, a retired sixth - grade language arts teacher from Westglades Middle School, was going to support her former students — some of them organizers of the march and some of them killed by gunfire.

For the most part, you can use this cover letter as a template if you are applying for positions as a teacher from grade school, middle school up to high school level.

Grover Washington Middle School — Philadelphia, PA Student Teacher (Spring 2004)-- Special Education, Grades 7th and 8th - Implemented interventions from each of the four theory families, created unique behavior management plans, made accommodations for each special need student within my classroom, and produced assessment strategies.