Sentences with phrase «school language arts at»

She currently teaches 9th grade English at Carl Hayden Community High School in the Phoenix Union High School District, and she spent the previous eight years teaching middle school language arts at Mountain View School in the Washington Elementary School District.

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Suzanne has also taught language arts at the middle school and for the past 10 years has been writing fiction, including novels for children.

«At Waldorf, we are excited to see students in the high school singing the elements of the periodic table, staging plays in Spanish, drawing in Math, producing short videos for Shakespeare lessons and conveying, through abstraction, the history of language through circus arts and acrobatics.»

In an e-mail she sent to the entire school staff, Heaps wrote: «When I started teaching nutrition a la language arts / science, I realized everything I was teaching did not go along with what is happening at our school when it comes to eating healthy.

At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance, she started attending the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome.

This R - rated comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a 7th grade language arts teacher at John Adams Middle School in suburban Chicago.

Fame Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This update of the original 1980 film follows the lives of a group of students at the New York City High School of Performing Arts as they go through their Freshmen through Senior years.

Darrow's support for Citizen Schools may be eclipsed by that of his wife, Estelle, who teaches literature and language arts at McKinley.

As a part of the history and language arts curriculum at Screven County Middle School in Sylvania, Ga., the 8th graders there have built their own life - size frontier settlement right on the school's campus — complete with a log cabin, smokehouse, stable, springhouse, and liveSchool in Sylvania, Ga., the 8th graders there have built their own life - size frontier settlement right on the school's campus — complete with a log cabin, smokehouse, stable, springhouse, and liveschool's campus — complete with a log cabin, smokehouse, stable, springhouse, and livestock.

Christopher Beamon received an A on the assignment, titled «Things That Go Bump in the Night,» and extra credit for reading it aloud on Oct. 27 to his English / language arts class at the 230 - student Ponder High School, located 50 miles northwest of Dallas.

I want to target at - risk students at the middle school level, focus on leadership, language arts, digital citizenship and lots of other things that tend to get less emphasis in our everyday classroom.

At Cedar Heights Junior High School, seventh graders team up with their language arts, geography, and science teachers to create a Culture Fair.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

The teachers» collaborative project — which involved third and fifth graders at Bergeson Elementary School in San Niguel, California — incorporated art, history, and language arts in order to create an «Andy Warhol Art Show.&raqart, history, and language arts in order to create an «Andy Warhol Art Show.&raqArt Show.»

Today I want to share a really cool site that ~ Sarah Pennington ~ a language arts middle school teacher at the school where I work ~ uses with her...

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

Dowan McNair - Lee helps 8th grader Mikel Robinson with an English / language arts assignment at Stuart - Hobson Middle School.

Jennifer Morrison, this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year, is an eighth grade language arts teacher and department chair at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Performance in English / language arts, math, science, social studies (at the high school level); student growth; four - five - and six - year graduation rates.

Two teachers, Kristie Burke, a 7th - grade reading teacher at STRIVE, and Kerrie McCormick, a language arts teacher at a struggling DPS middle school, sat side by side while the STRIVE teachers went through a professional development day.

She teaches fifth - and sixth - grade language arts at Saints John and Paul Catholic School in Ashtabula, Ohio.

A middle school math whiz may well move through geometry and Algebra 2 by the end of eight grade, but still work at grade level in language arts.

Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Cheryl Harris, a seventh - grade language arts teacher at Albemarle County Public Schools.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

A 2013 quasi-experimental analysis found that, «on average, extended learning time (ELT) tutorials at Match Charter Public High School raised student achievement on the 10th grade English language arts examination between.15 and.25 standard deviations per year.»

At its quarterly meeting last month, the board also elected Josephine Bennett, a teacher of secondary - school biology in Memphis; Lois Jean Turner, a teacher at Stix Investigative Learning Center in St. Louis; Alma Garcia Vining, an elementary - school teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school systeAt its quarterly meeting last month, the board also elected Josephine Bennett, a teacher of secondary - school biology in Memphis; Lois Jean Turner, a teacher at Stix Investigative Learning Center in St. Louis; Alma Garcia Vining, an elementary - school teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school sschool biology in Memphis; Lois Jean Turner, a teacher at Stix Investigative Learning Center in St. Louis; Alma Garcia Vining, an elementary - school teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school systeat Stix Investigative Learning Center in St. Louis; Alma Garcia Vining, an elementary - school teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school sschool teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school systeat the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school sSchool in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school sschool system.

Merilee MacKay, a language arts teacher at Sagemont Virtual High School in Weston, Florida, used the program for the first time last year, and plans to continue using it with her pupils.

Academic Leagues at Edwards Middle School - Excerpt provided by NCTL from the Time Well Spent Report, explaining how Edwards has closed the achievement gap within Massachusetts in math, English language arts, and science with their Academic Leagues

Since PLCs were organized at the district's Jefferson Elementary School, where 60 percent of the students are English - language learners, those students have hit 53 percent proficiency in English language arts, an enormous jump from 3 percent in 2002.

Liza Medina, a language arts teacher at Suffern Middle School, in Suffern, New York, had such good results holding literature - circle discussions in Teen Second Life that she has planned more.

For teachers like Nancy Krakowka, a sixth - grade language arts and social studies teacher at Cutchogue East Elementary School, on New York's Long Island, a PLC makes all the difference.

In a sense, the IB's programs express the effort to nurture both ambitions: the Diploma Program along with its pre-secondary school counterparts embody the rigors of classical education, including the arts and sciences and mathematics, languages, and independent writing projects; at the same time the IB has developed career programs for students focused on more immediate employment.

At BCF's flagship schools, Brighter Choice for Girls and Brighter Choice for Boys, 3rd and 4th graders have been outperforming their district counterparts almost from the beginning on the statewide English language arts and mathematics exams (see Figure 1 for the 2009 test results).

English language arts, history, and science are essentially detracked, i.e., schools typically offer a single course that serves students at every level of achievement and ability.

«We send home a calendar at the beginning of the six - week grading period with all major tests and projects listed for all academic subjects,» said Sharon Lynch, a seventh - grade language arts teacher at the school.

At Craig Middle School, science teacher Wayne Naylor and language arts teacher Jennifer Smitley have jointly given their seventh and eighth graders the daunting assignment of creating and executing a project that addresses a community need.

An eighth grader in the early 1990s attended middle schools offering at least two distinct tracks in [each of] English language arts, history, and science.

Teachers at Sam Rayburn Middle School have turned this special community service project into lessons in geography, art, language, and more.

Nevertheless, many English language arts teachers (including 56 percent at the middle school level) assign none of the literary or informational texts listed in the survey, which represented both CCSS exemplars and other high - quality texts.

Among them: requiring at least one art class for high school graduation; adding arts education standards to those the state is adopting in language arts, math, science, and social studies; and offering tax breaks to arts and entertainment companies that volunteer time, expertise, and other resources to schools.

Prather teaches eighth grade language arts, eighth grade practical living, and an enrichment class for seventh and eighth graders at Silver Grove Independent School in Kentucky.

Soon after, and as part of a broader school - board decision to expand school - choice options, the district launched a science and technology middle school, a dual - language immersion elementary, an all - digital high school, an arts - centered grade school, a virtual school starting at grade 3, and more.

Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoSchool in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoSchool Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoschool district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

For instance, I loved socialscience, and I could take a social scienceclass, whereas in high school, we wereso focused on math skills, science skills, language arts skills, the sorts of thingsI wasn't very good at.

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 Capitolschool, Stuart - Hobson Middle School on CapitolSchool on Capitol Hill.

I have heard from his teachers and principal at Annapolis, Maryland's Wiley H. Bates Middle School about the academic benefits of arts integration, how various forms of artistic expression (PDF) are employed to learn math and science as well as language arts.

The P.S. 175 Data Wall commands a central place in Principal Cheryl McClendon's office at the Henry Highland Garnet School for Success in Harlem, N.Y.. It's color - coded, with green and blue signifying proficiency in state math and English language arts exams.

As a PLC facilitator, Nancy Krakowka, a sixth - grade language arts teacher at the district's Cutchogue East Elementary School, knows that collaboration doesn't happen overnight.

Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.