Sentences with phrase «ninth graders at»

The group, all ninth graders at Nature Coast Technical High School in Brooksville, had the most re-tweets on their video, which got them a $ 1,000 prize from AT&T.

When ninth graders at High Tech High wanted to build Battle - Bots, their physics teacher saw a curricular opportunity.

Katie has been teaching English to ninth graders at a large public high school since her graduation from college six years ago.

Town and State Police responded to a report that a ninth grader at Cairo - Durham High School said he had a bullet and other students could be in danger.

Corey Trevena, a ninth grader at Lodi High School, says he first watched his dad explore Second Life and eventually taught himself how to script — a means of adding attributes and behaviors to the digital objects in the virtual world.

My name is Anna and I am a ninth grader at School Without Walls in Washington DC.

Ijtihad, a ninth grader at Jenkins High School, says the confidence he's gained from performing in the play spills over into all areas of his life.

He is a ninth grader at Springville Junior High.

Smith is the mother of a ninth grader at Medgar Evers Preparatory School and a senior organizer with StudentsFirstNY, an education reform organization.

Gonzalo is a ninth grader at City Arts & Technology High School in San Francisco.

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This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Hysteria over AIDS drove Magic Johnson out of the NBA, but it hasn't sidelined Philip Tepe, a ninth - grader at Lone Wolf (Okla.) Public School.

Warmack was a 300 - pound ninth - grader who «skyrocketed» — his word — to 345 by his senior season at Westlake (Ga.) High.

Not from hisfellow ninth - graders at Detroit's Henry...

A study performed at the Department of Psychiatry in Taipei, Taiwan, polled the parents of 2643 first to ninth graders and discovered that dyssomnia (sleep - disordered breathing problems and daytime inadvertent napping) were related to ADHD symptoms as reported by mothers and teachers.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says about 20 - ninth graders joined the program this fall at McKinley High School.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High School.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

A ninth grader selected at random and told to write a movie about poker would come up with a script very similar to this film.

However, she says a 2004 study by Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters at Johns Hopkins University also found that many ninth - graders who fail algebra and are held back from entering tenth grade end up dropping out.

Nephew Kalen Early is a ninth - grader in the gifted program at Robert C. Hatch High School.

Greg Toppo, a reporter at USA Today, profiles a social studies teacher in Minnesota who can't get his «zombified ninth graders» to care about geopolitics until he invents Fantasy Geopolitics, a version of fantasy football that substitutes countries for gridiron stars.

Along with teaching, Milner directed various summer programs such as STEP, JumpStart, and Rise Up, which work to support at - risk ninth graders.

As I contemplated the writing assignment for our required reading of The Odyssey, I was filled with dread at the thought of reading 120 uninspired essays in which my ninth graders would dutifully recount details from the epic.

But Dunbar says that when you get down to measuring the ability of students at Dallas's Woodrow Wilson High School, for example, where you're comparing this year's ninth graders to last year's, accountability test scores are not very useful.

Mike Reilly teaches ninth - graders in the interdisciplinary Center for Design and Technology at Lanier High School in Sugar Hill, Georgia.

In a study published in the Journal of Educational Research (Jan - Feb 1991), Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement (ERIC Document EJ426449), Sandra L. Crosser compared academic achievement indices of seventh through ninth graders (n = 45) who entered kindergarten at age five with indices of similar children who entered at age six (n = 45).

Wall - to - wall career academies and a transition program for ninth graders have helped create an environment at this Texas high school in which rigorous, relevant education — inside and outside of the classroom — is the norm for all students.

«I had a specific question that I wanted help answering,» he says, noting that the start of a freshmen academy was aimed at keeping ninth graders from slipping through the cracks.

At the heart of its high school reforms were three interrelated changes: the institution of a districtwide high school choice process for all rising ninth - graders, the closure of 31 large, failing high schools with an average graduation rate of 40 percent, and the opening of more than 200 new small high schools.

And so Guadalupe Gonzales, a ninth - grader at Panorama High School in Los Angeles, put the two ingredients together in a dish that was named the top winner Tuesday in L.A. Unified's first annual breakfast recipe contest.

Last fall semester in Tacoma, 46 percent of ninth - graders failed at least one class, according to a recent district analysis.

That study looked at only ninth graders across 24 school districts in California, but also found that students who took algebra a second time were unlikely to score «proficient» on the state exam following the second attempt.

TVLA launched at the start of the 2017 - 18 school year with a class of 40 ninth - graders.

Nearly half of Tacoma ninth - graders flunk at least one class during their freshman year of high school.

Keep in mind that about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and reading, and come from 50 to 60 different middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.

Teacher Wes Upton has just one question for ninth graders in his social studies class at Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center in Indianapolis: Do you like rats?

At Bennett's direction, staff used a loophole in regulations and removed the scores of ninth - and 10th - graders, bringing the school's grade back up to an A. Bennett has said that changing the grade made the rating system credible because he knew Christel House to be a high - performing school.

The district is planning to implement the program with the first cohort of ninth graders in 2017 - 18, with the end goal of all students at every level in the program at 2022 - 23, Koenke said.

Screening data show that only 39 percent of ninth - graders read at or on grade level, «very much mirroring what we knew about our middle school students, says Annie Wolfe, secondary curriculum and development officer.

It has always been true that algebra students need to master variables in order to move on to factoring, for example, but ninth graders weren't always so adept at understanding that, Kylee's teachers said.

The CSFB alumni survey found scholarship recipients enrolled in college at a higher rate than either the Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local studies.

Newark's rates of chronic absenteeism for the 2015 - 16 school year show higher rates of absenteeism for high school students at 48 percent, with 38 percent of ninth graders and 59 percent of seniors chronically absent in Newark's district schools.

«Once you get to high school, there's so many more years a student could be behind, it's not unusual for ninth - graders to be reading at a fourth - grade level,» he said.

In addition to pounding the «UAG way» into everyone (core values include grit, collaboration and empathy), she makes sure that teachers visit every incoming ninth - grader at home before school starts — to meet family members, get a sense of the student's home environment and begin to build relationships.

«Everyone really struggled with the model,» she said, noting that as a nonselective school, she has some ninth - graders coming in at a kindergarten reading level.

In 2011, Federico joined the first class of ninth - graders at Gateway, one of four schools that replaced the High School for Graphic Communication Arts.

In fact, a majority of school districts with ninth - graders in the two counties appear to rely on at least some subjective placement, according to the study issued by the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which compiled previous studies and district data.

Morris Jeff's current batch of eighth and ninth graders will move into the third floor of the Joseph S. Clark Preparatory School next semester, sharing the space with the remaining 40 seniors at Clark.

If I have a ninth - grader who reads at third - grade level, I must give the student a strategy for breaking down the word into decodable chunks so that they can read the type of words found in ninth - grade reading material.