Sentences with phrase «school reading and language arts»

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Lessons will include math and reading (including the innovative techniques used in Waldorf Schools), handwork & visual arts, science labs, movement / games and foreign languages.

She has extensive experience as a reading / language arts curriculum coordinator for several local school districts and as an elementary school principal.

I have taught middle school reading, language arts, social studies, science, industrial technology, life skills, and careers education.

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.

* Change curricula: Schools should adopt more male - friendly language arts programs to encourage boys to read and write.

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.

Mason has worked in many Massachusetts public schools as a language - arts coordinator, an elementary program coordinator for reading and language arts, and an elementary school principal.

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.

Starting with the 2002 — 03 school year, NWEA administered tests in mathematics, reading, and language arts to more than 90 percent of the state's students.

The Obama administration will waive cornerstone requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, including the 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in math and reading / language arts, and will give states the freedom to set their own student - achievement goals and design their own interventions for failing schools.

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

To develop comprehension throughout middle and high school, then, reading and language arts teachers should give lessons a clear, useful, engaging purpose.

Kaitlyn Watson, a middle school English language arts teacher in North Carolina, has students build their own vocabulary lists from the context of their reading instead of generating whole - class lists for them, and then «they break down context clues and work toward their own applications of the words.»

At Sutter Middle School, teacher Monica Sigala's language arts students were learning to perfect the art of letter writing while simultaneously reading about the contributions of farmworker advocate (and local hero) César Chávez.

It's a high school language arts class, and students are reading a novel.

Our focus is on elementary schools and the reading / English language arts instruction occurring within them.

Include assessments, in each of grades 3 through 8 and high school, in both reading / language arts and mathematics that have been operational for more than one year and have received approval through the NCLB standards and assessment review process.

The CLAS reading assessment was designed to evaluate the success of the language arts curriculum, and to help districts and schools understand how well students were internalizing the strategies that encourage them to construct understandings beyond the school setting.

Additionally, we asked them to keep a weekly time log of instructional activities in reading / language arts for a week in February and a week in May, and to complete a questionnaire on school and classroom practices related to reading.

Julie Byren, a 13 - year - old from Hermosa Beach, Calif., located about 20 miles from where Mr. Enciso teaches English / language arts at the 1,900 - student Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, read the piece and decided to hand over $ 800, a portion of the money she had recently received for her bat mitzvah, the Jewish rite of...

KIPP Delta College Preparatory School (DCPS) has a rigorous and intense academic program with a priority on the core subjects of language arts, reading, and math.

At this school, a total of two and a half to three hours a day was spent on reading / language arts instruction and practice.

Nutley Public Schools has engaged in an effort to increase student success with a readers» workshop language arts focus that enables young readers to read independently while acquiring crucial and enduring understandings of key reading concepts.

The middle school language arts program continues to focus on the development of student skills in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

As part of an Institute of Education Sciences (IES)- funded research project, our team (in collaboration with current middle school educators) is developing a professional development (PD) model specifically for middle schools to help them implement research - based reading practices in content areas, including English / language arts, science, and social studies.

The aim of SFA is to ensure success in reading and language arts skills for all students, with a particular focus on schools serving large numbers of students from low socioeconomic circumstances.

The Roots and Wings model consists of elementary school age learning programs, reading and language arts instruction, tutoring, family support and integrated services, social studies and science instruction, and mathematics instruction.

Milwaukee Public Schools» grade - level standards for high school students are based upon the Common Core State Standards for math, reading and English / language arts.

Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) is a school - based program that targets reading, writing, and language arts in grades 2 thrReading and Composition (CIRC) is a school - based program that targets reading, writing, and language arts in grades 2 thrreading, writing, and language arts in grades 2 through 6.

Based on the same model as CIERA's immensely popular Every Child a Reader package, Teaching Every Child to Read: Frequently Asked Questions offers fresh answers to ten of the most pressing questions about teaching reading, as raised by teachers, school administrators, and district or state language arts coordinators.

Children will be taught math, science, language arts, social studies and more, following an established curriculum as they would in a traditional school, but are taught in a foreign language, in which they will also become fluent in reading and writing.

As part of a high school reform initiative, 10th grade English language arts teachers and literacy coaches worked with a data coach to define essential questions about students» reading performance.

He then got a Reading First Grant and changed the way literacy was taught in K - 5 grades, and refocused the school on language arts and math to bring up test scores.

When NCLB first required all schools to test all students in grades 3 — 8 and high school in reading / language arts and math, no one intended that other subjects should be diminished or cut — but that's what happened.

A recent study conducted by the Council for Basic Education confirms what many educators have feared: The curriculum is narrowing as schools zero in on reading, writing, and math at the expense of the arts, foreign languages, and elementary - level social studies.

In the 2014 - 15 school year, the department plans to replace the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination in grades 3 - 8 for reading, math and language arts with the Smarter Balanced Assessment being developed by a consortium of states.

HOT Schools shares the same broad goals identified in the Common Core State Standards readiness anchor standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, and HOT practices affect work habits (imagination, investigation, construction and reflection) identified by National Core Arts Standards.

All states, both waived and unwaived, must report the number and percentage of students in each subgroup, how many pass the reading / language arts and mathematics tests, the number who graduate high school with a standard diploma, and so on.

9Your high school student's scores on the KAP math and English language arts assessments are one indicator of whether he or she is on track for success on the math, reading, and English portions of the ACT.

A 9th grade language arts teacher explains how her school helped struggling readers by placing them in an Academic Literacy class that gave them time to read books for pleasure and helped them develop strategies for choosing books, eliminating distractions, and monitoring their thinking as they read.

The federal education law, whose most recent reauthorization is also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, requires schools and school divisions to meet annual objectives for increasing student achievement on statewide assessments in reading / language arts and mathematics.

High - stakes tests are given only in math and English language arts, so reformers have decided that all teachers (and, sometimes, principals) in a school should be evaluated by reading and math scores.

Students in 3rd through 8th grade must be tested once per year in reading or language arts as well as mathematics, and once more in high school.

In just our first year of using Accelerated Reader 360, we've experienced tremendous success, including increased English language arts proficiency and an unprecedented enthusiasm for reading across the school.

How to use scientifically - sound and efficient reading / language arts and mathematics assessments for benchmarking K - 6 students to promote adequate yearly progress and support universal screening, and once per year universal and / or individual screening for middle and high school students;

None of our current methods attempt to steadily build up children's knowledge; not the empty state and district language arts standards, which rarely mention a specific text or piece of information; not the reading textbooks, which jump from one trivial piece to another; and not the comprehension drills conducted in schools in the long periods of 90 — 120 minutes devoted to language arts.

«The statewide accountability system shall be based on the challenging State academic standards for reading or language arts and mathematics to improve student academic achievement and school success.

To insist that every school offer children a full education that includes not only the basics of reading and writing and mathematics, but science and the arts, and for language and history and civics.

The only measures a State may include within its Academic Achievement indicator in addition to the required measure of student performance on the statewide reading / language arts and mathematics assessments under ESEA [Education and Secondary Education Act, of which ESSA is the latest version] section 1111 (b)(2)(B)(v)(I) are the two optional measures: (1) an achievement index or similar measure of student performance in reading / language arts and mathematics at multiple academic achievement levels above or below proficient (see question B - 10 and B - 11); and (2) measures of student growth in reading / language arts and mathematics for high schools (see questions B - 14 and B - 15).

This is a must read for anyone in the teaching profession, especially middle and high school language arts.