Sentences with phrase «new middle school program»

I am coaching the 6th graders this year with the new middle school program and they really seem to enjoy the more mature curriculum.

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They also have a new pilot program that allows teachers to regroup the middle school students based on the students» performance and their learning curve.

The school is currently expanding its program to serve Middle School students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall ofschool is currently expanding its program to serve Middle School students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall ofSchool students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall of 2015.

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.

The Clarendon Hills Park District is hoping a new deal in the works with Hinsdale - Clarendon Hills School District 181 will better ensure it gets priority to hold park district programs and classes in the gym and other facilities it shares with Clarendon Hills Middle School.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (middle) meets and speaks with children at New Lane Elementary school in Selden to mark the start of the Suffolk County School Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarschool in Selden to mark the start of the Suffolk County School Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarSchool Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarschool meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewardship.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about recently imposed changes by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to the District 30 Gifted & Talented (G&T) Middle School enrollment process, effectively discontinuing the automatic articulation for K - 8 schools into the middle school G&T program: «Parents make -LSMiddle School enrollment process, effectively discontinuing the automatic articulation for K - 8 schools into the middle school G&T program: «Parents make -LSSchool enrollment process, effectively discontinuing the automatic articulation for K - 8 schools into the middle school G&T program: «Parents make -LSmiddle school G&T program: «Parents make -LSschool G&T program: «Parents make -LSB-...]

Caught in the middle are a host of issues affecting 8.5 million residents of New York City such as mayoral control of schools, the expansion of charter schools and the most recent hot - button issue between the two men — the controversial 421 - a tax abatement program.

The Bloomberg administration has also proposed initiatives forcing residential landlords to regulate smoking in apartments, mandating sexuality education in middle schools, denying second helpings to school kids in city breakfast programs, and encouraging new mothers to breast - feed.

After - school advocates had hoped for a big boost when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his proposal for a high - earner tax that would fund pre-kindergarten as well as after - school programs for middle schoolers.

Students at the Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School in central New York are learning computer coding through a program developed by a local nonprofit.

The proposed increase would raise the tax rate of New Yorkers who make $ 500,000 or more from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent, which de Blasio estimates would raise $ 2.6 billion over five years, to fund after - school programs for «tens of thousands» of middle schoolers, as well as universal pre-K.

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New York City mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on the promise of raising taxes on the city's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs for middle schoolers, and de Blasio said earlier Tuesday that he intends to continue pushing for that tax, calling it a «mission» from voters.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about recently imposed changes by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to the District 30 Gifted & Talented (G&T) Middle School enrollment process, effectively discontinuing the automatic articulation for K - 8 schools into the middle school G&T prMiddle School enrollment process, effectively discontinuing the automatic articulation for K - 8 schools into the middle school G&T prSchool enrollment process, effectively discontinuing the automatic articulation for K - 8 schools into the middle school G&T prmiddle school G&T prschool G&T program:

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.

De Blasio is calling for an income tax increase on New Yorkers earning $ 500,000 or more to fund universal Pre-K, as well as provide quality after - school programs for middle school students across the city.

In his first major policy speech since being elected, De Blasio, who takes office Jan. 1, largely avoided new policy proposals, instead sticking to his campaign promises of delivering universal pre-kindergarten and free after - school programs to middle schoolers.

What's more, a 2005 federal transportation bill allocated an additional 612 million for a new national Safe Routes to School program, requiring all states to hire a coordinator to administer funds to communities for new bike lanes, pathways, sidewalks, and education and promotion campaigns in elementary and middle schools.

Three elementary and middle schools in the eastern Massachusetts city of Revere have implemented the BOKS program for the current school year as part of a new study, led by Whooten, that is now underway.

The new study analyzed results from 82 different programs involving more than 97,000 students from kindergarten to middle school in the U.S., Europe and the U.K. where the effects were assessed at least six months after the programs completed.

In addition to Project BioEYES, the program has expanded to include a new project called Your Watershed, Your Backyard, in which middle - school students grow zebrafish embryos in water samples from their own local watershed to test the effects of pollution.

A new after - school / Saturday morning science program for middle and high school students and their parents is being planned for the new Buck Learning Center.

In - School & After - School Enrichment Programs: • Seymour Osman Community Center (Middle Schoolers), Dover, NH • Seacoast Academy Middle School, N. Hampton, NH • Newcastle Elementary School, Newcastle, NH • Central School, South Berwick, ME • Hampstead Academy Middle School, Hampstead, NH • Dover Middle School, Dover, NH • Timberlane Academy, Atkinson, NH • Kennebunk Elementary School, Kennebunk, ME • Portsmouth Christian Academy, Dover, NH • New Franklin School, Portsmouth, NH • Little Harbor School, Portsmouth, NH • Horne Street School, Dover, NH

The authors report that much of the enthusiasm for the potential of blended learning comes from School of One, a math program operating inside three New York City public middle schools.

In the fall of 2000, word spread throughout nine middle and high schools in Oakland: A new program was starting just for girls.

Debra Evans initiated a New Zealand Teacher Exchange Program (see video at the top of this page) with a school in Rotorua after connecting through the Middle Years of Schooling Association (MYSA).

Possible Futures, Possible Selves, its new program for middle school students, provides open - source curricular modules for middle school teachers to download and use centered around skills for success and looking toward the future.

Schools can adapt over time to changes in funding levels, but they can not be effective if they must hire new staff or change their program in the middle of an academic year.

The Daily News cited a new study by Rachel Cole, James Kemple, and Micha Segeritz of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools that reported that School of One had produced modest results at the three middle schools currently implementing the model as the regular in - school math program in its first yenew study by Rachel Cole, James Kemple, and Micha Segeritz of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools that reported that School of One had produced modest results at the three middle schools currently implementing the model as the regular in - school math program in its first yeNew York City Schools that reported that School of One had produced modest results at the three middle schools currently implementing the model as the regular in - school math program in its firsSchools that reported that School of One had produced modest results at the three middle schools currently implementing the model as the regular in - school math program in its firstSchool of One had produced modest results at the three middle schools currently implementing the model as the regular in - school math program in its firsschools currently implementing the model as the regular in - school math program in its firstschool math program in its first year.

This past summer, she taught in New York with the Breakthrough Collaborative, an academic enrichment program for underserved middle school students.

When middle school students Alison and Nat confer with their teachers, it's to talk about the lessons the students are preparing for student teachers as part of a new Generation www.Y program.

Then ~ the winds of change took me ~ like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and Toto ~ transplanting my classroom into a new educational program... I was now a middle school teacher.

These are among a handful of topics that middle school students in New York City have tackled as part of their Saturday debate program, which draws heavily from Word Generation, the innovative curriculum developed under the direction of HGSE Professor Catherine Snow.

When Maine's one - to - one laptop program for middle schools came along nine years later, King was primed to elevate its already innovative curriculum to a new level.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced a new professional development program for middle and high school educators to learn how to develop more caring, ethical chiSchool of Education has announced a new professional development program for middle and high school educators to learn how to develop more caring, ethical chischool educators to learn how to develop more caring, ethical children.

The National Library Power Program promotes the creation of new public elementary school and middle school library programs that improve the quality of services for children.

School missions get diluted by repeated rounds of school reform; academics get crowded out by new policy goals; principals become middle - managers carrying out the programs chosen by district administrators; and teachers become «labor,» fulfilling contractual obligations instead of doing whatever is necessary to suSchool missions get diluted by repeated rounds of school reform; academics get crowded out by new policy goals; principals become middle - managers carrying out the programs chosen by district administrators; and teachers become «labor,» fulfilling contractual obligations instead of doing whatever is necessary to suschool reform; academics get crowded out by new policy goals; principals become middle - managers carrying out the programs chosen by district administrators; and teachers become «labor,» fulfilling contractual obligations instead of doing whatever is necessary to succeed.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

Like some 1,000 other middle school students from the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island boroughs of New York City, the 7th grader is involved with a local program called Election Connection.

With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing — and a new readiness to learn — in a bold program of daily meditation.

The Pine Tree State set a new standard for teaching 21st - century skills when lawmakers agreed to put laptop computers in the hands of every middle school student and teacher — a program that's now being expanded into high schools.

A brand new middle school, Excel Public Charter School, was hiring for a position that sounded better than any I could have dreamed up - a «Computational Thinking Program Manager.&school, Excel Public Charter School, was hiring for a position that sounded better than any I could have dreamed up - a «Computational Thinking Program Manager.&School, was hiring for a position that sounded better than any I could have dreamed up - a «Computational Thinking Program Manager.»

Accordingly, my feed was full of updates last summer as we built our makerspace and created our middle school's new Technology, Engineering, and Design program.

New Commitments by More than 20 Colleges To Offer Advice to Students Navigating College Application: More than 20 colleges and universities are — along with efforts in other categories — taking actions to expand summer college preparation programs for low - income students; creating new relationships with high schools to provide advising about college and financial aid; and expanding opportunities for current college students to work in high schools and middle schools to help advise students on college optiNew Commitments by More than 20 Colleges To Offer Advice to Students Navigating College Application: More than 20 colleges and universities are — along with efforts in other categories — taking actions to expand summer college preparation programs for low - income students; creating new relationships with high schools to provide advising about college and financial aid; and expanding opportunities for current college students to work in high schools and middle schools to help advise students on college optinew relationships with high schools to provide advising about college and financial aid; and expanding opportunities for current college students to work in high schools and middle schools to help advise students on college options

Santa Ana Unified offers dual immersion programs that provide lessons in two languages in eight elementary, middle and high schools — including a new elementary school program opened this year.