Sentences with phrase «provide middle grade students»

As part of a city - wide effort to expand out of school time learning opportunities, particularly in the middle grades, the East Somerville Community School is partnering with Citizen Schools this year to provide middle grade students with enriched learning opportunities that will equip them with real - world skills and guide them...

Luehmann and Frink (2012) found that it provided middle grades students experiences «that capitalize on social networks to support interpretation and meaning - making» and «that engage learners centrally in the authentic and core practices of a given discourse» (p. 824).

Not exact matches

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

The Waldorf School of Garden City's Middle School provides a learning environment ideally suited for students in Grades 6 through 8.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Even in a country whose progressive public education system dispenses with tests and grades until middle school and provides every high school student with a laptop, Nordahl Grieg stands out for its commitment to innovation.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

To provide more rigorous evidence on the effect of middle schools on student achievement, we turned to a richly detailed administrative dataset from New York City that allowed us to follow students from grade 3 through grade 8.

The academy or middle school model for ninth grade students is essential to providing them the best opportunity at high school success.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whostudents who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whostudents; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whoStudents Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

A third core principle is that all students need to be provided much greater access to career information, awareness, and exposure beginning at least as early as the middle grades.

www.challengeday.org — this non-profit provides one - day programs as a service to junior high schools, middle schools, and high schools with students in grades 7 - 12.

Okema Owens Simpson, the sixth - grade multi-classroom leader for English language arts at Ranson IB Middle School in Charlotte, N.C, guides viewers through several typical days in which she provides what her teaching team needs most: daily coaching; lesson planning; practice in delivering lessons; data analysis; co-teaching or modeling lessons; and pulling out small student groups for intensive help.

The structure includes: focused grade bands to provide new teachers with specialized knowledge about the students and content they will teach; defined clinical experiences and foundational coursework for each grade band; unique preparation for instructing middle level learners; and enhanced content knowledge preparation for middle school teachers to award high school credit.

Students were provided with either a laptop or desktop computer, and they were divided into three groups: elementary (3rd - 5th grades), middle (6th - 8th grades), and high school (9th - 12th grades).

At each grade level, the variety of life science words, for which definitions and contextual sentences are provided, mirror elementary and middle school science curricula so as to engage all learners and challenge even the most gifted science students.

Middle School Matters provides educators with proven, research - based strategies to increase the number of middle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary suMiddle School Matters provides educators with proven, research - based strategies to increase the number of middle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary sumiddle grade students who are prepared for high school and postsecondary success.

The Middle School (grades 6 - 8) develops independent thinking and provides opportunities for students to apply academic knowledge in real - world settings.

Scope: Match Education provided high dosage math tutoring in four high schools (grade 9) and five middle schools (grade 6), and tutored all students six out of eight periods every day.

It will include nearly 200 teachers and 10,400 seventh - grade students in 66 public middle or junior high schools across North Carolina, which researchers find provides a demographic sampling that is more representative of the entire nation and thus more likely to reliably reflect the impact of the program.

Geography can provide students with tools for exploring the sometimes scary world of the middle grades.

VocabularySpellingCity provides a wide range of social studies vocabulary lists for elementary and middle school students, from grades K through 8, covering geography, sociology, anthropology, humanities, economics, history, and more.

Staffing patterns can significantly affect educators» efforts to provide high - quality instruction and create positive teacher / student relations in the middle grades.

General requirements for middle grades promotion — s. 1003.4156, Florida Statutes, provides the requirements needed for students to be promoted from middle grades to high school.

STW has created a «Leadership Matters» program that provides middle - grades leaders with the knowledge, background, and skills to increase student achievement.

In addition to the physical education requirements for middle - schoolers, the Healthy Schools Act of 2010 required that public schools and public charter schools provide 150 minutes (2.5 hours) of physical education a week for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

The School Library Media Curriculum Guide for Grades 6 — 8 provides middle school library media specialists with a sequential program of library media standards, concepts, indicators, activities, and assessments for students.

We are, however, pleased that ESSA requires state plans to include information about how the state will work with districts to provide effective transitions of students to middle grades and high school to decrease the risk of students dropping out.

Influence state leaders to build the capacity of districts and schools by providing resources for students reading below grade level in middle grades and high schools.

«Starting this school year, Louisiana will administer the ACT test series to all public school students in grades 8, 9, 10, and 11 as part of the state's comprehensive plan for continued improvement... Administering the exam in middle school and throughout high school will provide an assessment of student progress that can be used to keep students on track to graduate ready for college and career.

For example, I initially selected an elementary, a middle, and a secondary school teacher to allow teacher candidates to track (for example) how teachers provide feedback to student writing at different grade levels.

SREB's Challenge to Lead 2020 goals call for states to align middle grades and high school policies with college - readiness standards, to recognize multiple paths to graduation and to provide students with diverse postsecondary options and resources.

Centennial Middle School provides a first - rate education to the 1600 students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades who attend.

Provide middle school students with the concepts and skills foundation they will be expected to know in grades 9 — 12.

But the Success Highways data provided students with clarity about why they were struggling,» said Erika Elias, counselor and eighth grade teacher at Apollo Middle School.

Centennial Middle School provides a first - rate education to the 1600 students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades who come from all five Centennial elementary schools and numerous schools in neighboring districts.

Working in 165 middle schools serving 20,000 8th grade students, the research team provided custom lists with a mix of nearby schools, all with graduation rates at or above the citywide average of 70 percent.

The standard student - device ratio has been less clear than the standard for bandwidth, but more and more schools have begun providing every student within some grade span (usually middle and high school) with a computing device for classwork and homework.

This research synopsis provides an overview of one of the most frequently cited studies on intervention is entitled: «Preventing Student Disengagement and Keeping Students on the Graduation Path in Urban Middle - Grades Schools: Early Identification and Effective Interventions» by Robert Balfanz, Lisa Herzog, and Douglas J. MacIver.

Middle grades schools can provide students with opportunities to learn outside the school day.

This fifth of five 30 - minute professional development presentation provides participants with an understanding of how to use the EWS Middle Grades and High School tools to monitor students» response to interventions.

The new system will provide assessments for middle and high school students (grades 6 - 12), as well as actionable lesson plans for teachers looking to integrate SEL into their classrooms.

Midlands Middle College will prepare 11th and 12th grade high school students for a successful work and educational future through the integration of high school, technical college and the world of work by providing targeted students with a rigorous and relevant academic program.

A consortium report from December found that after grades, attendance habits among Chicago middle school students provided the best indicator of later academic performance on a range of measures.

Since it is known that receiving low grades in elementary school is a predictive factor for dropping out during middle school and that receiving more than one failing grade in a core academic course during ninth grade is a predictive factor for dropping out during high school, tutoring can make a difference.29 Providing access to tutoring to improve students» grades before they are at risk for dropping out could help them to complete further schooling, which, in turn, increases their likelihood of finding employment and earning a family - sustaining salary in adulthood.

As a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering Math) school, Einstein Charter Middle provides advanced educational programs for K - 10 grades, but the SUMMIT students will not get letter grades and instead be scored on mastery.

Whether it's reading, writing, or math, the skills students learn in the elementary grades provide an important foundation for their academic success in middle school and beyond.

College students can enter their school - issued email address to have the password sent to them, while students in grade, middle and high schools will have the password provided by their institution.

Three hundred students in the fifth through eighth grades participated and provided survey data from 2 urban elementary / middle schools.

California state law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires that comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education be provided to students at least once in middle school and once in high school, starting in 7th grade.