Sentences with phrase «ninth grade teachers»

The development of the new teaming structure for the ninth grade teachers will hopefully support the planning and coordination of more of this type of enriching educational experience in the future.

Perhaps, our ninth grade teachers did such a tremendous job that these students would have shown a tremendous growth over what they would have scored had they taken the test the previous year.

Most of our ninth grade teachers are first year teachers.

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Hastings, a former ninth grade math teacher, bought the Bellevue, Washington - based start - up for an undisclosed price in April 2010.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

As a bookish kid struggling to find a place in a world of hunting, fishing, and athletics, I was offered refuge in art, literature, and music my ninth - grade English teacher.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YTeacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to Yteacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

His first teaching job was at Whitfield School, a small private school in St. Louis, Missouri, as a long - term substitute for a ninth - grade biology teacher who was on maternity leave.

The program provides selected high school teachers a curriculum geared to students in ninth or 10th grade in the required health education classes.

My early elementary school memories up through ninth grade are of teachers struggling to maintain class discipline with occasional coverage of academics, but the students did learn how to survive under difficult circumstances.

Funded by the West Virginia Math Science Partnership program, the Earth / Space Science Passport workshop provides West Virginia science teachers with professional development in Geology, Meterology and Astronomy concepts that will enable them to teach a new mandated ninth grade Earth / Space Science course.

Even when we go home at the end of the day, we're still thinking about YES,» says ninth - grade English teacher Rachael Arthur.

In ninth grade, I had a very influential teacher.

That question was on teacher Stephanie Sleeper's mind as she contemplated a photo of Emily Polak's flexible classroom for ninth - grade English students.

The study used a school - level, randomized, experimental design involving 113 teachers and 1,371 ninth - and 10th - grade students in 60 high schools from eight metropolitan regions in the United States.

As the ninth grade humanities teacher of a completely project - based curriculum called MPX at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, I always have more student project work than I do display space.

«For students whose parents had college degrees, their parents» involvement in the seventh grade set forth a chain of reactions that improved their school behavior from teachers» perspectives in the eighth grade, which in turn increased their grades and test scores in the ninth grade,» Hill says.

«Sometimes I'll group students together because I know that this particular kid is good at drawing one thing out of another, or that one of them might have strong spatial skills, and another might have strong symbolic skills, and if we could have them working together, they can try to bridge that,» explains Shannon Hammond, a University Park ninth, eleventh, and twelfth - grade teacher.

This fall, Phillips made the transition to Excel Academy's new high school, where he is a founding ninth - grade English teacher and instructional leader.

Imagine this: You're a ninth - grade math teacher, and you've just been anointed as head of the school's wellness committee, a team thrown together to deal with student stress levels that are «far too high.»

Monroe High School Monroe, Michigan Grades 9 - 12 Dr. Layne B Hunt, principal Our ninth - grade teachers are organized into teams.

«My middle school didn't have any procedures, and my teachers didn't know what to do,» reflects Miles Sanchez, a ninth - grade bisexual and transgender student in Colorado.

For example, providing students with the same teacher and classmates in both ninth grade and tenth grade «cuts out weeks of the getting - to - know - you, so the teacher can build on that existing community,» Pieri says.

But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a ninth - grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every student in real time.

The high school program replaces the standard ninth - and tenth - grade English classes not with English as a Second Language instruction but with a special college - preparatory course taught by the same teacher for two years.

When ninth - grade theater students rehearse their Working in Silence scenes, they perform in front of their peers and faculty, receive feedback from their teachers, and then re-perform the scene to immediately incorporate their feedback.

Two ninth - grade teachers — history teacher George Bishop and English teacher Shawn Swanson — have taken up the Freedom Fighters Project in the Humanities class that they teach together.

10, a ninth - grade English teacher at Eugene Ashley High School in Wilmington, N.C., says, «Parents think it is strange when their children are not assigned a substantial amount of homework.»

I recalled my early high school years and a teacher I had, Mr. Roth, who went above and beyond to educate my ninth - grade class on Civil Rights history and involve us in civic engagement, while specifically connecting us to current issues challenging civil rights and civil liberties.

Andrea Marshbank is a ninth grade English Language Arts teacher for a wonderful high school in Topeka, Kansas.

In a ninth - grade math class, about half of the 17 students were asleep with their heads resting on their desks as a teacher flashed slides on a white screen that detailed how to use the distributive property to simplify and evaluate expressions.

Before becoming principal in 2014, he was a social studies teacher for seventeen years, an assistant principal for two years, and a ninth - grade principal for four years.

In 2012, more than 90 percent of students in kindergarten through fifth grade had a parent who attended a meeting with their teachers, compared with 87 percent of middle - school students, and 79 percent of ninth - through twelfth - grade students.

He will start as a ninth - grade English teacher at Excel Academy Charter High School when it opens in the fall.

«All throughout my childhood, I saw how much she enjoyed working with her students,» said Chaffee, a ninth - grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy public charter school in Boston, Mass. «She showed me that education is powerful and we can change the course of our lives through learning.»

I observed teachers reading Elie Wiesel's Nobel lecture, «Hope, Despair, and Memory», a text that is included in the ninth grade curriculum.

The plan also asks for funding to put laptop computers in each ninth - and tenth - grade English and social studies classroom in urban districts, and funding to provide technology training to teachers.

In the fall of 1999, Allyson Young, a high school English teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia was having difficulty teaching writing with two of her applied level ninth - grade English classes.

Of the cross-disciplinary project she helped develop with her ninth - grade teaching team, math teacher Susan Reed says, «There's something nice about it.

Let's start with Melinda Bundy, the ninth grade English teacher at Cathedral High School we introduced you to earlier this year.

Teacher Wes Upton gets high marks on his evaluation, but the ninth grade social studies teacher still sees room for improTeacher Wes Upton gets high marks on his evaluation, but the ninth grade social studies teacher still sees room for improteacher still sees room for improvement.

Board members voted 6 - 1 on Wednesday to retain the Harper Lee novel in the ninth - grade English curriculum while allowing teachers to further examine its context in the classroom.

Magnolia Consulting conducted the study with third -, sixth - and ninth - grade teachers and students in the United States during the 2014 - 15 school year.

Researchers recruited 201 middle grade (fourth to ninth grade in Australia) generalist teachers in their first three years of teaching to participate in the study.

As a ninth grade humanities teacher, it has been an amazing privilege to devote my life to this art.

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.

In this blog post, CEL Project Director Joanna Michelson takes a real - world example and shows step by step how a group of teachers collaboratively analyzed Elie Wiesel's Nobel lecture «Hope, Despair, and Memory» and found ways to help ninth grade students to comprehend and interact with the complex text.

A ninth - grade academy is a self - contained school - within - a-school with interdisciplinary teacher teams designed to provide ninth - graders a smooth transition to high school and a caring, respectful environment in which to begin their high school careers.

The students are still talking about the program, teachers said, and it is returning this summer, but only for students who will be enrolled next year, which some hope will be an incentive for students to choose Mann for ninth grade.