Sentences with phrase «ninth graders with»

Some ENLACE programs provide ninth graders with mentors — upperclassmen or college students — to help with the transition and act as role models.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

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He was just a teenage boy, a ninth - grader new to basketball but already taller than most men, with hands as soft as flannel.

«When you don't know a word, Copia has a dictionary to help us with it,» said ninth - grader Damien Goodridge.

And the writing task improved the scores of highly anxious ninth graders so much that they performed as well as students with low anxiety on a biology final exam.

They also found that eighth and ninth graders who played violent games more frequently displayed greater «hostile attribution bias» (being vigilant for enemies) and got into more arguments with teachers.

«But that's not going to help a ninth - grader who is struggling with third - or fourth - grade math problems.»

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.

Daniel Scheinert: — a coming - of - age teen comedy about ninth - graders crashing a party that the 12th - graders are throwing, but it has a bit of a Scott Pilgrim videogame aesthetic, where we would try to take that manic energy teenagers have and try to explore it with interactivity, where they're like, «What do I do?

Writing and publishing a book in collaboration with her class of ninth - graders is just the kind of authentic learning experience that Michaelsen advocates.

I played music with positive subliminal messages to ninth graders until they complained that it gave them headaches.

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.

With my ninth graders, I use a centuries - old resource to discuss moral quandaries: the play Macbeth.

As described in the post, Gehlbach and his research team surveyed 315 ninth graders and 25 of their teachers with questions on ``...

In a growing number of high schools around the country, however, ninth and tenth graders are being organized into interdisciplinary academic teams, with advisory programs not unlike middle schools.

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).

Support personnel work with pre-kindergarten-through-second-grade students with poorly developed reading and writing skills, third graders who were held back, and students moving into sixth and ninth grades.

Bassett also knows the program is working because of the number of ninth and tenth graders who have moved on but return to ask to do community service with the group.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

When you see a tenth grader try to «clone a carnivorous plant,» or a ninth grader learn sign language to communicate with her deaf younger cousin, or a fourth grader produce his own movie, then you'll know why 20 % rocks.

Ultimately comparability is also how a parent could determine how her ninth - grader is faring in comparison with her peers elsewhere in the nation — and other nations.

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.

A «Big Sister / Brother» Program that begins in eighth grade and continues through ninth grade, a spring social event for current and incoming high school students, and writing programs where eighth - graders correspond with high school students are just a few ways that transition programs can provide students social support.

Treasure Valley Leadership Academy (TVLA) is a new, small innovation high school in the Nampa School District which launched in August 2017 with a class of 40 ninth - graders.

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

Only 3.8 percent of New York's eighth and ninth graders hit the mastery level on the new algebra exam, compared with more than 15 percent on the easier pre-Common Core exam.

While teachers are the ones handing out homework assignments and giving lectures, decorum was set aside as their athleticism came out, including assistant principal Stacy Miller's mean overhand serve in the volleyball games with the ninth - graders grappling to get the ball back over the net.

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.

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.

«If you are an intelligent ninth grader, you can probably complete it with very little problem,» said Kretschmer, the Northridge professor.

In an area high school, I worked with ninth graders reading on a third to fifth grade level.

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.

Among those who enrolled in the spring — some just weeks before the school year ended — were a 17 - year - old from Guatemala returning to classes for the first time since he was in sixth grade, a ninth - grader who left a nearby charter school after she was caught with marijuana, and an 18 - year - old who dropped out of Southeast Washington's Ballou High earlier in the year after moving into a group foster home in Northwest Washington.

«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.

Teachers and school counselors are working with eighth and ninth graders this week to select their preferred academic pathway.

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.

Haytmanek said it's unreasonable for school directors to expect that ninth - graders will spend time in an operating room when some third - year medical students can count on one hand the number of times they've met with hospital patients, Haytmanek said.

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

But one Texas lawmaker has proposed a practical first step — teaching ninth graders how to interact with law enforcement.

Short sentences with content ranging from conversation to real - life scenarios can help middle school students through ninth - graders learn how to make inferences about what they have read.

In several high schools ninth - graders attend a Methods for Academic and Personal Success (MAPS) class to develop SEL skills and study skills to help with their transition to high school.

In the study, reading and mathematics scores were matched with fitness scores of 353,000 fifth graders, 322,000 seventh graders, and 279,000 ninth graders.

During a lesson, my smart, sweet ninth graders were distracted by a roach striding across the floor, victoriously waving a cookie crumb in the air with its pincers.

As with many ninth graders, the future seems far from definite.

We enjoyed the semiautobiographical story of ninth - grader Arnold Spirit's life on the «rez,» along with the humor and the well - developed characters.

Participants were 478 ninth - graders (48 % girls) with peer nomination scores for peer status, aggression, and dating popularity.