Sentences with phrase «point during the school year»

But, of course, most parents do both at some point during the school year, depending on what's on the school menu.

Technology, however, makes it possible to record, retrieve, and evaluate entire portfolios of student work, daily and weekly learning outcomes, and a host of teacher practices and behaviors, all of them able to be analyzed, reviewed, and discussed at multiple points during the school year — and indeed over multiple years.

According to 2010 U.S. Department of Education data, 32 percent of students report being bullied at some point during the school year and 8 percent avoid places at school out of fear.

Unlike other online schools, students can enroll in classes at Sequoia Choice at any point during the school year, starting and finishing courses even in...

One way to keep implementation on track and assure successful results is to meet with an Empowering Writers» master trainer at points during the school year.

The new report analyzed data for 94,053 students who were enrolled in traditional public schools or public charter schools at any point during the school year.

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His previous communications director, Dimitri Soudas, and his wife had three children during his nine years on Harper's staff; he made a point of resigning in time to walk his daughter Georgia to her first day of school on Sept. 6.

During the 1990s, he points out, the average number of school shootings with multiple victims increased from two to five per year.

Before long the foundation was thriving, heading toward a point where 82 kids would be attending college on Crescent Moon scholarships during the 1993 school year.

It's sad, but it is possible that your child will be offered drugs, cigarettes or alcohol at some point during the middle school years.

During her first three years of high school, Gregory won consecutive state titles in diving and set the state record for the highest point total.

Schools may begin providing breakfast after the bell at any point during the 2017 - 18 school year, and still be counted in the Challenge.

In a 2013 survey of adults and teens conducted online on behalf of the American Psychological Association by Harris Interactive Inc., Teen reported stress levels during the school year far exceeding what they believed to be healthy (5.8 vs. 3.9 on a 10 - point scale).

As the coalition first discovered during the schools fiasco earlier this year, Tory backbenchers will tolerate and even champion cuts until the point they start to hurt their constituents.

And during his eight years as deputy superintendent and then superintendent for the San Francisco Unified School District, Carranza raised graduation rates for African - American students by 13.9 percentage points and for Hispanic students by 15.4 percentage points — faster than the overall growth rates in California as a whole.

Last year, more than 105,000 New York City public school kids experienced homelessness at some point during the year, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.

«These findings point to the need for effective interventions during the elementary school years to combat peer victimization, as well as programs designed to help children who have experienced repeated peer victimization learn how to effectively cope with stress,» Troop - Gordon explains.

A 2013 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that teens who went to bed later than 11:30 during the school year had lower grade - point averages and were more vulnerable to emotional problems than those who went to bed earlier.

I had no plans on attending West Point or joining the Army, but when my dad (also a West Point grad) made me visit during my senior year of high school, I felt it in my heart that I belonged there.

Already at a breaking point, their relationship hits another obstacle when their eight - year - old son (Jacob Tremblay) makes an unusual presentation during his school's heritage day celebration.

Despite the distance, there were still Salesians to be found — Lynch points out they currently operate in 131 countries — and during his year or so in Boston, he lived at the Saint Dominic Savio High School in East Boston.

During the same school year in New York City, the differences at the same two grade levels were about 4 and 7 percentage points, respectively (see Figure 1a).

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

NCLB is most often characterized as having been implemented during this year, in part because states were required to use testing outcomes from the prior 2001 — 02 year as the starting point for determining whether a school was making adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to submit draft «workbooks» that described how school AYP status would be determined.

In our school, the entire community of students, faculty, and staff belongs to either the White or Blue team, and during the school year the two teams compete for points in various events, such as Field Day or Problem of the Cycle.

◦ Trend: The public grades their local schools more favorably now than at any point in the past ten years, despite mediocre performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the same period.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

You could run a weekend (or weeklong) mindfulness retreat during freshman orientation, senior trips, spring breaks, winter terms, or at any point throughout the school year.

And then at some point during the day I'll come and get you out of class for a minute or two and speak to you, wish you a happy birthday, just talk to you briefly about how the school year is going and then I'll take a «birthday selfie with the principal» with you.

A senior project, aka a culminating project, is a project designed by a high school senior (or in some instances also a junior), which is completed at some point during the student's senior year and which seeks to challenge the student to:

This plan is formally revisited two times during the fellowship year and serves as a starting point for discussions between the fellow, host region, and the KIPP Foundation about preparedness to transition into the school leader role within 2 years.

During recent years, for example, high school graduation rates have soared to record highs, and experts have pointed that data represents genuine progress to a degree.

In particular, high school seniors whose parents received the treatment were 8 percentage points more likely to have completed two years of college, going from 28 % to 36 %, during the first three years following the experiment.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

I certainly applaud the desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful studies show that school desegregation has had positive impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between desegregation and southern gains.

This includes moving away from end - of - year summative assessments (so students can prove mastery at any point during the year), assessing content providers in addition to schools, and developing tools to rate digital programs.

In Tennessee, for example, the state's traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

During this time, they often pulled small groups to the side for minilessons on whatever needed additional time at that point in the school year.

It's around this point during the summer break that local school districts must make staffing decisions for the upcoming year based on how the state has decided to fund the classroom.

But, says Matt DiCarlo, an education policy expert at the Albert Shanker Institute, those school improvements Bush points to have largely resulted from the fact that his changes to the metric during the early 2000s equated to gaming the system, producing artificially higher numbers of schools receiving As in the years after the first grades were released.

The government committed to a six - point action plan, including a promise not to change government policy and for Ofsted not to change inspection framework during the school year.

If you give your students practice during the first half of the year with analyzing the details of a text by looking closely at the plot, vocabulary, syntax, structure, and point of view through multiple reads, you are setting them up to be able to do this more independently during the second half of the school year.

This award was based in part on a 30 - point rise in math and reading scores during years at which the school's poverty rate also continued to increase.

He pointed to a U.S. Department of Education survey that found 13.7 percent of Wisconsin teachers said they were threatened during the 2011 - 2012 school year, the third highest rate in the nation that year.

The 28th annual report, based on a survey of public school teachers, parents, and students during the current school year, finds that teacher job satisfaction has fallen 15 percentage points in just two years.

During state fiscal years 2001 - 02 through 2010 - 11, statewide base per pupil funding under the Public School Finance Act (PSFA) and state funding for categorical programs are required to «grow annually at least by the rate of inflation plus an additional one percentage point;» and after 2010 - 11, by a rate at least equal to the rate of inflation.

TCTA's letter pointed to a Congressional Research Service report listing disaster - related federal waivers granted during 2005 - 2009, including two accountability waivers received by Texas in 2006, the same year that the then - commissioner issued «Not Rated» ratings to hurricane - impacted schools / districts.

Of the 123 seniors who graduated from Roosevelt on June 12 or are scheduled to graduate in August, just 27 started at the Northwest Washington school at some point during their freshman year; 78 percent of the graduates spent three or fewer years in the school.

This has resulted in states such as Tennessee letting traditional districts get away with low bar goals, such as ensuring that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

, says Matt DiCarlo [4], an education policy expert at the Albert Shanker Institute, those school improvements Bush points to have largely resulted from the fact that his changes to the metric during the early 2000s equated to gaming the system, producing artificially higher numbers of schools receiving As in the years after the first grades were released.