Sentences with phrase «particularly at the middle school»

Most teachers struggle with low student engagement, particularly at the middle school and high school levels.

Who Should Attend: Classroom teachers, particularly those at the middle school level, arts specialists, school administrators, artists, teaching artists and arts administrators

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What makes my back - to - school chaos particularly chaotic, is that I WORK at a school... so I have to go back 2 weeks earlier than most, scramble for additional childcare, and oh, publish an e-cookbook somewhere in the middle of all that chaos:) It's all getting done, slowly but surely.

Let's find out the financial impact of really diversifying and improving our menus in a meaningful way — particularly at the high school and middle school levels.

But for now my goals are more modest: just more freshly prepared food, more whole foods, fewer highly processed and chemically - preserved entrees, and a more varied menu, particularly at the middle and high school levels, so we don't teach our kids it's OK to eat pizza and burgers five days a week, week in and week out.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

Following a decade spent teaching middle school at several progressive schools, Cerruti says he became intrigued by research, particularly uncovering new ideas about education and how kids think.

«Humans need meaningful relationships, particularly when they are in major developmental periods,» says John H. Lounsbury, dean emeritus of the School of Education at Georgia College & State University and consulting editor of the National Middle Schools Association.

Howley and Bickel found that the benefit of smaller schools was particularly important in the middle grades, when children are most at risk of dropping out.

After our first math trail, we understood better the potential of this activity and realized that it could be integrated in our seventh grade Advisory program, particularly at the beginning of the school year, when it can help facilitate the transition into middle school.

Mathematica found that KIPP schools have positive impacts on student achievement, particularly at the elementary and middle school levels.

The size and persistence of the effect of entering a middle school, however, suggests that such transitions are particularly damaging for adolescent students or that middle schools provide lower - quality education than K — 8 schools provide for students at the same point in their education.

The majority of Perkins concerns career and technical education programs at the high school level but there is some new focus on providing opportunities for younger students, particularly middle school students, to explore career paths and benefit from CTE programming.

Eskolta works with nonprofit organizations that partner with public schools to serve the hardest - to - reach high school and middle school students, particularly students in New York City schools who have fallen behind and are at risk of dropping out.

It warns of the need for co-ordination from this «middle tier», between individual schools and central government, particularly in areas where schools are at risk of underperforming.

Traditional out - of - school time programs are voluntary and often do not reach the students who need the most help, particularly at - risk and disengaged students and middle - grades youth.

We're still struggling to make reading across the curriculum a reality, particularly at the middle and high school levels.

Missing at least 10 percent of the school year, particularly in early grades, studies show, reduces the likelihood that students will read proficiently by 3rd grade, increases the chances of poor academic performance in middle school and increases the likelihood that students will drop out in high school.

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The current SPFs (in Denver and otherwise), particularly at the elementary and middle school levels, are primarily a combination of metrics derived from the state summative assessment, which is now PARCC.

A 2011 study of two EL middle schools and one EL elementary school in New York State found that they fared better at reducing race and income achievement gaps, particularly in English, when compared to similar schools.

There are perhaps few careers more challenging, frustrating, and ultimately rewarding than that of education, particularly at the pre-school, elementary, middle school, and high school levels.

As early maturing girls are particularly at risk for eating disorders, it is important to begin preventative steps in the middle childhood or elementary school years.

In particular, population - level studies that capture children's developmental health and well - being as well as associated social and contextual assets from the child perspective, and at representative population levels do not exist — despite the fact that middle childhood represents a developmental period that is particularly apt for prevention and intervention efforts that target actionable factors in children's multiple environments: social relationships at home, school and community; sleep and nutrition habits; school experiences; and after - school time use.

Middle childhood (age 6 — 12 years) is a critical period in which to establish social, emotional - behavioural, cognitive and physical competencies that support successful transition to adolescence.1 2 Children are increasingly exposed to influences beyond the home, and encounter various new challenges, particularly at school.