Sentences with phrase «put middle grade»

These worksheets will put middle grade or middle school students to work on the first days of school, and give them a platform to talk about who they are and what they like.

Balfanz, R. (2009) Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path.

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Spruce can hold only two classes per grade but this fall will take in four kindergartens because of the swelling population downtown, which parents fear could put the middle school in jeopardy down the road.

Since I already have 40 years worth of scrapbooks already, and a lot of vintage Valentine's Day cards are already safely tucked behind the page protectors, and the rest are still waiting to be put in their proper places next to 3rd grade school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day cards.

98, an eighth - grade counselor at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School in Massachusetts (Jacob's district), says that in the past few years, her district has put a lot of effort into helping educators at all levels — elementary through high school — get the training they need.

The experiences of educators such as Rabe, and many others who put Turning Points into practice, provide what authors Jackson and Davis call the «muscle, heart, and soul» to the renewed push for middle grades reform.

Education Week spent six months reporting on how the District of Columbia's vision of the common - core English / language arts standards is being put into practice in one 8th grade classroom at one school, Stuart - Hobson Middle School on Capitol Hill.

For about a year, teachers there have been putting the middle and high school grades online.

Some students, especially in middle and high school, put no effort into the annual tests because the scores aren't counted in their grades.

As Eva Moskowitz puts it: «If (we) backfilled older grades... the incoming students» lower relative academic preparation would adversely affect the schools» other students... We have an obligation to the parents in middle and high school, and the kids in middle and high school, that until the district schools are able to do a better job, it's not really fair for the seventh - grader or high school student to have to be educated with a child who's reading at a second - or third - grade level.»

District officials have put forward a number of initiatives to address middle school performance, especially to prepare eighth - graders for ninth grade.

«A lot of people think performance is all about tested skills and so there's been a lot of money put into programs aimed at improving student test scores — but what we find is that improvements in attendance in the middle grades are associated with better high school outcomes than improving test scores,» said Allensworth.

On behalf of the nation's elementary and middle level principals who serve over 33 million children from prekindergarten to the eighth grade, NAESP calls on Congress to put the Every Child Achieves Act on the Senate Floor and make America's students a priority.

If you're putting out a middle grade book, you have to expect low sales.

One writer I know has put out several award - winning picture books and a middle grade novel that has gotten starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal, but she has no agent.

As middle grade writers, we find joy in putting ourselves into the young characters we write about.

They're putting out a catalog of great middle grade books, with all kinds of information to help you decide if they're right for your students and patrons.

Previous delinquency, substance abuse, and teen pregnancy prevention programs have been provided in the late elementary or middle school grades, just prior to the ages when delinquent behavior, substance use, and sexual activity increase in prevalence.6, 7,31,32 Yet the social development model that guides the present intervention suggests that early and sustained intervention through the elementary grades should put children on a different developmental trajectory leading to positive outcomes over the long term.

Since I already have 40 years worth of scrapbooks already, and a lot of vintage Valentine's Day cards are already safely tucked behind the page protectors, and the rest are still waiting to be put in their proper places next to 3rd grade school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day cards.