Sentences with phrase «middle school students into»

The academies focus on transitioning middle school students into high school while applying the same type of rigor that the rest of the student population gets.

Making turned New Jersey middle school students into teachers for a weekend — and sent some of them to the White House.

Not exact matches

It is difficult to know how to put this into words, but I suggest that it can best be understood as the middle way between old - fashioned subject - centered schooling and ultramodern student - centered schooling.

When I teach the Gospel of John, I usually tell my students that a paraclete is the one whose name you call when you are hauled into court on false charges, when the school bully is beating you up on the playground, when you wake up from a bad dream in the middle of the night.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

We will start with the high school students and if things go well, we will incorporate it into middle school service and eventually to elementary school.

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

Readers meet Elizabeth Spiegel, a Brooklyn, N.Y., middle school teacher who routinely turns C and D students into nationally ranked chess players.

P.S. 51 students could be split up and moved into P.S. 11 and the Clinton Middle School in the wake of construction.

She has referred to the battle over charter co-locations into district schools, which critics say siphon away needed resources from district students, as a «Middle East war.»

The enrichment programs offer incoming middle and high school students an intensive, hands - on academic boost to ensure a smooth transition into the next phase of their education.

BRANT LAKE The YMCA is trying to provide developmental programs for people of from infants to seniors - but the core group falls into the Y - Achievers program, focusing on middle and high school students.

The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the data breach that occurred after Questar Assessment Inc. of Apple Valley, Minnesota, administered the statewide test to elementary and middle school students, officials said.

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.

If there is to be a change in policy, the new policy should be applied for next year's incoming kindergarten class, and all current students in the G&T program in P.S. 122Q should be allowed to continue so that the students can auto - articulate into their own middle school.

Parents whose children are enrolled in P.S. 122Q have been reaching out to my office to express their strong opposition to any change in the current policy of allowing current students to auto - articulate into the middle school G&T.

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.

Researchers introduced four interactive online science units, which students and teachers accessed with computers or tablets, into 13 middle school in two US states.

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel is intended to feed into a proposed $ 250 - million mathematics initiative by the Bush Administration aimed at giving elementary school students a strong foundation in math and boosting the abilities of middle school students who have fallen behind (Science, 10 February, p. 762).

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.

But when you work at a middle school where students toss out unwanted food into clear, see - through bins that essentially function as food waste «measuring cups,» it's hard not to.

Cantet — a gifted storyteller whose better films include «Human Resources» — has turned it into a pseudo-documentary by casting Begaudeau in the lead role of Francois, along with real - life teachers and students from an actual Paris middle school.

At Mansfield Middle School — slogan: «Where Compost Happens» — in Storrs, Connecticut, 60 pounds of cafeteria and food waste daily go into a student - run compost bin.

This series of three videos shows how designers and community volunteers helped a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco transform his crowded classroom into a space that fosters collaboration, creativity, and active student learning.

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While Estefany watches other girls get into the ring during the two - hour Monday and Wednesday Girls Train2Box session at the Nickerson Community Center, a short van ride away, another group of middle school students is at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, participating in the Pets & Vets program.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

Students at Bates Middle School in Annapolis, MD, learn about art concepts such as photo composition (above) that are integrated into other curricula like math.

A novice middle school teacher, fresh from experiencing an ecstatic moment of student learning, burst into the teachers» room to share her news.

This year's group of fifth grade students (now entering the stream of «tweendom and preparing to step into the potentially perilous middle school years of sixth - to - eighth grade) was born in 2001.

After watching a protest by middle school students demanding better education grow into a national strike that shut down the country's education system for months, Adelman says she realized where her work would take her.

MathMobs are friendly competitions that tap into middle school students» motivation to play to engage them in math.

As one example, in a very useful recent policy proposal, Jacob and Rockoff propose three low - cost ways to organize schools to maximize student performance: combining elementary and middle schools into single buildings; optimizing teacher assignment policies; and starting school later in the day for middle and high school students.

Bennet Copes With Death, Roof Woes Just two weeks into the school year, Bennet Middle School staff and students found themselves mourning the brutal death of a recent graduate, and shifting students and classes after another section of ceiling collschool year, Bennet Middle School staff and students found themselves mourning the brutal death of a recent graduate, and shifting students and classes after another section of ceiling collSchool staff and students found themselves mourning the brutal death of a recent graduate, and shifting students and classes after another section of ceiling collapsed.

And we have to bring more mentors into our middle schools to inspire our students to prepare for college early.

While reading Edgar Allan Poe helps Bennet Middle School students get into the Halloween spirit, science and math teachers lay the groundwork for more complex lessons.

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...

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

We then used that prediction to place each student into one of the two groups we are comparing, that is, students who attend middle schools and those who do not.

If students do sort themselves into middle schools because of some unobserved characteristic that causes changes in academic achievement over time, we would incorrectly attribute differences in achievement to the middle schools instead of to characteristics of the students themselves.

With the transition into a middle school, students set out on a trajectory of lower achievement gains.

Much can be learned from the theoretical frameworks discussed here, which can be used as a guide for future research into the efficacy of computer - assisted reading interventions on struggling middle school students.

O'Brien's goal is that his current projects, The Propeller Car Challenge and Making History, will make it into the hands and minds of every U.S middle school student and their teachers within the next two years.

Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer effects at KIPP schools does not explain the large cumulative impacts on student achievement identified by prior studies.

Some schools / districts get their students prepared for the increased workload and stress levels of high school by simply downloading high school workload and stress levels into the middle school classroom.

Not so many years ago, an elementary - or middle - school student eager to impress a classmate might have stuffed a live frog into the pocket of his windbreaker.

As the report states, by the time they reach 6th grade, «middle - class students have spent 6,000 more hours in learning activities outside school than students born into poverty.»

With the aid of technology in the classroom, Professor Heather Hill's newest study, the Mathematics Teachers and Teaching Survey, will be able to track and collect data on middle school mathematics instruction, providing key insight into teachers» mathematical knowledge, the curriculum, and the nature of mathematics instruction being offered to students.

Matt Davis has highlighted resources for parents, teachers, and administrators that can help students make the transition into elementary, middle, and high school — and beyond.