Sentences with phrase «of smaller elementary schools»

That's exactly what Siena has done for the past six years at P.S. 150, one of the smallest elementary schools in the city, which has just one class per grade and has no cafeteria, gym or auditorium.

STOCKTON - Forgive yourself if you have a difficult time remembering the name of the small elementary school on American Street near downtown Stockton.

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The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

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.

This small but insightful book explores rich and stimulating methods for the teaching of English composition skills in Waldorf elementary schools.

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

Because the UVM study is small in scope (involving only two elementary schools in Vermont) and conducted only in the semester before (spring 2012) and the first year after implementation of the new nutrition rules (spring 2013), this study is an inaccurate representation of the school meals environment and behaviors of students in the lunchroom.

By making small tweaks to the menu to feature student favorites, and moving assembly to the front of the house, participation at the high school has increased by 100 - 125 breakfasts per day; breakfast - in - the - classroom is increasing participation at the elementary and middle school level as well — it's up 55 percent at Lake Elementary!

Traditionally, everyone had one public school to which they were assigned on the basis of where they lived with elementary schools being more numerous and in smaller geographic catchment areas than middle schools than high schools.

A small staff of teachers are forced to fight their way out of their elementary school when the cafeteria chicken nuggets turn the children into...

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

The charter school opened its doors in the fall of 2004, with an elementary and a middle school crammed into a small building that had housed a Catholic school.

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

The state has some of the lowest percentages of students in small schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Elementary schools in New York City typically serve students until grade 5 or grade 6, while a smaller portion of elementary schools run through grade 8.

But the curriculum, important as it is (as illustrated by the success of E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge program, especially in elementary schools), is a relatively small piece in the puzzle.

Thomas Cook, writing in 1984, concludes that meta - analyses of results from all the studies, taken together, support the view that the effects on the mathematics and reading achievement in elementary school are quite small or even zero.

The first BVP elementary and middle schools are among a small number (less than 10 percent) of public schools to receive the highest «Commended» designation from Rhode Island's commissioner of education.

While Case and Deaton found that smaller classes were modestly beneficial, Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby's careful quasi-experimental study of elementary schools in Connecticut suggests that Case and Deaton's results may not be relevant for more developed countries.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

A mathematician I know who teaches at a small college told me that a graduate of his education school caused much embarrassment when, during the interview for a job in an elementary school, the job seeker was unable to add two fractions when asked to do so.

On September 1, I will be a literacy specialist for a small, public elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts, at a school with students almost entirely from the very nearby community (the principal says nearly all of them walk to school).

EW: Although the trend has been to build bigger schools over the past 70 years to keep costs down, do you think evidence from recent studies strongly favors the construction of smaller schools, including middle schools similar to the size of elementary schools?

Their small sample of schools was further stretched so as to compare private versus public sponsorship, elementary versus middle schools (the sample included no high schools), and higher - versus lower - income student populations.

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).

A study of elementary and middle - school funding in the 2007 08 school year found that the 18 smallest elementary and middle schools received 28 percent more dollars per student than the six largest: $ 10,900 compared to $ 7,800.

I was the principal of a small arts integrated elementary charter school at the time.

All but one of the elementary schools assigned an assistance team were among the smallest 40 percent of schools.

Among the smallest quintile of elementary schools, 47 percent of racially heterogeneous schools (those with four or more racial subgroups) won performance awards, versus 82 percent of similarly sized but racially homogeneous schools.

Although American Catholic schools have never enrolled more than a small fraction of the national student population, as late as 1980 they accounted for almost 80 percent of enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?schools have never enrolled more than a small fraction of the national student population, as late as 1980 they accounted for almost 80 percent of enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?Schools Be Saved?»

Makerspaces can be full high school workshops with a bevy of high - tech tools, or as small and low tech as one corner of an elementary classroom.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scores.

Our methods reveal 10 distinct types of elementary schools comprising large segments of similar schools, small segments of two to three schools, and niche schools.

Being the principal of a large secondary school, for example, requires quite different capacities than serving the same role in a small elementary school.

The City can do much more to foster economic integration of elementary schools than the small scale efforts it has made to date.

Even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across years resulting in a substantially greater achievement gap at the end of elementary school than was present at the beginning (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2004; see also Borman & Dowling, 2006; Lai, McNaughton, Amituanai - Toloa, Turner, & Hsiao, 2009).

In 2006, Digital Wish founder Heather Chirtea's 7 - year - old twins were enrolled in a small, rural elementary school on the brink of closure.

Teachers well qualified to give elementary instruction in all the branches of useful knowledge, should be employed; and small school libraries, maps, globes, and requisite scientific apparatus should be furnished.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

Charter schools, with a median size of 110 students, tend to provide small learning communities compared with district elementary schools, whose median size is 590.

For an analysis of how district administrators differentiate support for improvement to schools, for example, we focused on medium - to large - sized districts serving multiple schools at all levels, rather than small districts with only an elementary, middle, and high school.

An elementary school in an isolated corner of Colorado saw a 9 - point spike in its state math scores, and smaller gains in other subjects.

Eight years ago, after 21 years of serving as principal of a small, rural elementary school that housed preschool through third grade, I accepted a position as principal of a startup public school preschool in a large urban district.

Jennifer Dzul, a recent graduate of Alliance Dr. Olga Mohan High School, transferred to an Alliance middle school after going to a large LA Unified elementary school and said the small environment was key to her suSchool, transferred to an Alliance middle school after going to a large LA Unified elementary school and said the small environment was key to her suschool after going to a large LA Unified elementary school and said the small environment was key to her suschool and said the small environment was key to her success.

The school was so small I was really able to get everybody's name and learn where they came from, versus elementary school where I have my group of friends and that's it,» Dzul said.

Tools and processes that pass the tests of reliability and validity, and that are flexible enough to take different school contexts into account (leading a large suburban high school, for example, is different from leading a small rural elementary school).

Their explosive growth has been driven by corporations courting small, rural elementary districts with promises of additional revenue with little to no impact to the school district.

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.