Sentences with phrase «middle school and high school research»

The guide is posted on the district library website in three parts for elementary, middle school and high school research.

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When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

The balanced middle school program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activschool program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activSchool fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activschool, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activities.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

High - flyers including managers and middle ranking professionals are going back to school and becoming teachers, new research shows.

Presenting findings from research conducted through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Herrmann Abell and DeBoer point in their chapter to steady but modest improvement in students» understanding of energy from middle to high school, but they also note that «even after years of instruction, many students have a very limited and unsophisticated understanding of the formal conventions for thinking and talking about energy.»

A former faculty member at both a research university and a liberal arts college, he spent his senior year of high school and college summers teaching elementary and middle school students at the Cranbrook Institute of Science, a natural history museum near Detroit.

The FAU project will integrate research and education at the graduate and undergraduate levels at the University as well outreach to middle and high school students.

While teen dating violence prevention programs increased knowledge and changed student attitudes to be less supportive of such behavior, they did not actually reduce dating violence, according to this meta - analysis of research on middle - and high school intervention programs, report investigators.

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

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.

The Community of Practice provides professional development opportunities for middle and high school teachers across the country to learn more about current heliophysics research and incorporate it into their classroom.

She coordinates activities for research training programs (MBRS and Bridges to the Baccalaureate) and outreach programs with local middle and high schools.

Current programs include COSEE Coastal Trends director and lead PI, Learning Science through Research, a program for middle and high school students which features science conducted at HPL, and the Chesapeake Teacher Research Fellowship program, a 7 week summer research experience for secondary school tResearch, a program for middle and high school students which features science conducted at HPL, and the Chesapeake Teacher Research Fellowship program, a 7 week summer research experience for secondary school tResearch Fellowship program, a 7 week summer research experience for secondary school tresearch experience for secondary school teachers.

The Pulsar Search Collaboratory is a unique program in partnership with West Virginia University that enables middle and high school students to participate in active pulsar research using data from the Green Bank Telescope.

The RET program is a summer research experience created for middle and high school science teachers.

At San Diego State University, researchers and staff partner with the MESA program to connect middle school and high school students with our research.

Middle and high school teachers, Hannah Earhart, Phelana Pang, and Alexandra Pike, all took part in the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering's (CSNE's) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program this summer at the University of Washington (UW).

In fact, this research, which tested middle school, high school and college level students, found that 80 per cent of participants thought that sponsored articles were actual articles, and had a hard time distinguishing where this information actually came from.

Drawing on drop - out crisis research at the national level, as well as author Robert Balfanz's decade - long experience working with middle and high schools that serve low - income students, this report provides a unique guide to tackling the issue locally.

As a scholar of math teaching, Dr. Dieckmann's research interest is in the area of mathematical explanation (oral and written), especially for linguistically diverse students at the middle and high school levels, collaborating with Kenji Hakuta at Understanding Language.

At about the same time, Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Balfanz and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research were finding that chronic absenteeism in middle and high school was a leading indicator that students would droSchool Research were finding that chronic absenteeism in middle and high school was a leading indicator that students would droschool was a leading indicator that students would drop out.

Middle school students spent the whole year doing intensive research on the quality of every high school in Chicago — learning which high schools would dramatically increase their odds of finishing college and what it would take to get in.

A former middle and high school math teacher, Star's research has explored the development of flexibility in mathematical problem solving, with flexibility defined as knowledge of multiple strategies for solving mathematics problems and the ability to adaptively choose among known strategies on a particular problem.

The Stanford University School of Education continues to examine the issue of student stress through research and conferences with local middle and high schools, and has held conferences on student stress.

Decades of research show that homework has some benefits, especially for students in middle and high school — but there are risks to assigning too much.

A lot of my research came from elementary and high school teachers, so I relied heavily on my own experience in middle level education to predict issues and to incorporate solutions within my model.

To that end, Moje also leads Clinical Rounds in Secondary Teacher Education, an extensive research, development, and teacher education project focused on developing sophisticated disciplinary literacy teaching practices and assessment tools among both novice and veteran middle and high school teachers.

The success of the middle school program led to initiatives in other schools, and now the district's high school has a 5,000 - square - foot wellness center that includes resources for exercise, research, and weight training.

As one of nine research teams for Students at the Center, an initiative by Jobs for the Future and the Nellie Mae Foundation for Education, WKCD's Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman spent a year interviewing and observing teachers, students, and administrators in six diverse middle and high schools, experienced in student - centered learning.

The study called Making Caring common conducted the research during the 2014 - 15 school year, including a survey of almost 20,000 students from a diverse range of 59 middle and high schools.

For middle - and high - school levels, the research team found that achievement gains in charter schools and traditional public schools were about the same, with two exceptions.

Research by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer demonstrates that the impact of attending an HCZ charter middle school on students» test scores is comparable to the impressive effects seen at high - performing charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (known as KIPP schools).

A September 2013 study from Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA middle and high school math teachers outperform other math teachers in their schools, by the equivalent of students gaining 3 points on a 100 - point test.

Research indicates that students benefit most from having individualized learning plans when introduced in middle school and frequently revisited until high school graduation.

«This study builds on Mathematica's previous body of research on the KIPP model in middle schools by addressing the effects of KIPP elementary and high schools on student achievement and a variety of other outcomes,» explains Christina Tuttle, senior researcher and lead author of the study.

Like the Cook research on behavior, the Rockoff and Lockwood study finds that the negative achievement effect on children who moved into middle school «persists at least through 8th grade, the highest grade for which we could obtain test scores.»

The results of the Cook et al. research complement those of Kelly Bedard and Chau Do, whose 2005 study of national data found that moving 6th graders to middle school resulted in a 1 to 3 percent decline in on - time high - school graduation rates.

The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.

Forty - five percent of those students came from middle and upper income families, according to Out of Pocket: The High Cost of Inadequate High Schools and High School Student Achievement on College Affordability, a new research report from Education Reform Now and Education Post.

Researchers and educators collaborated to create a substantial set of research - based instructional practices, performance management strategies, and student supports that middle schools should implement to increase the number of students prepared for success in high school and beyond.

Study the author's research and observations of 34 schools 11 elementary schools, 14 middle schools, and 9 high schools and how each school's staff supported or hindered student achievement.

BERC's research and analysis on these projects between 2008 and 2011 will highlight school and classroom practices that equip students for success at the elementary, middle grades, and high school levels.

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The middle grade years are the last best chance to get students ready for success both in high school and beyond, but these grades are often overlooked in both research and resources

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Middle School Matters provides educators with proven, research - based strategies to increase the number of middle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary suMiddle School Matters provides educators with proven, research - based strategies to increase the number of middle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary suSchool Matters provides educators with proven, research - based strategies to increase the number of middle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary sumiddle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary suschool and postsecondary success.

The Boston Leadership Institute offers three - week, hands - on summer research programs for gifted middle and high school students

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

The middle grade years are the last best chance to get students ready for success both in high school and beyond, but these grades are often overlooked in both research and resources The MSM initiative takes on this challenge by turning high - quality research into strategies for districts, schools, and teachers to improve reading, writing, and math instruction.