Sentences with phrase «serving students of all grade»

Located in different boroughs, serving students of all grade levels with varying needs, and implementing a range of instructional and organizational models, C3S aims to exemplify the diversity, innovation, quality, and commitment - to - community that inspired the original vision of the public charter school movement.

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The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

She was the founder and head of Bridges Academy, which serves a population of twice - exceptional students in grades 6 - 12, from 1994 - 2003 (bridges.edu).

Any public school containing these grades with a minimum enrollment of 125 students per school site, have a breakfast program, and serve at least 40 % of its lunches to free and reduced price meals shall be eligible for a state financial supplement.

Students up to 6th grade must receive 12 servings of grains, breads, rice or pasta per week, compared to the previous eight servings.

For this school year, in a bid to boost participation in its lunch program from its paying students, the district will now offer them the choice of two entrees and a self - serve salad bar available on Tuesdays and Thursdays for students in grades three to five.

The school serves a maximum of 80 students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

When we served pizza, one 4th grade student said, «this is the best pizza I've ever had, and I've had a lot of pizza in my life.»

Since the school's inception in 1981, Hartsbrook has evolved from a fledgling institution with one teacher and a handful of kindergarteners to a fully accredited Waldorf school serving students from infancy through 12th grade.

With a total enrollment of around 5400 students from pre-school to eighth grade, Gadsden will be serving breakfast - in - the - classroom in all nine of its schools: six elementary schools, two junior highs, and a pre-school.

Those fighting to keep Jonathan Levin HS open acknowledge that its grades on the DOE's School Progress Reports have slipped, but note that Tweed has failed to give the school the support it needs to serve rising numbers of English language learners and special education students.

The percentage of 12th graders taking courses in biology, chemistry, and physics since 8th grade increased to 41 % in 2015 from 34 % in 2009, said Mary Koppal, Project 2061's communications director, citing the most recent results for science from the National Assessment of Education Progress, which serves as a national report card on student achievement.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Sixth - grade teacher and veteran of flexible seating Kristin Harrington says, «At the beginning of the year, flexible seating may be a novelty and could serve as a distraction, but by the time testing rolls around, this environment has become the norm for students.

It will also serve as a daily meeting space for one of five student advisory groups at each grade level.

We gathered the data for our study during the spring of 2011 from 32 of the 49 public schools in Boston that serve 8th - grade students.

Elementary schools in New York City typically serve students until grade 5 or grade 6, while a smaller portion of elementary schools run through grade 8.

Half of our 18 CMOs serve (or will serve) students in grades K through 12, three serve middle and high school, three are networks of elementary schools (including K — 8 schools), and three operate only high schools.

Fourth - grade teachers» perceptions of giftedness: Implications for identifying and serving diverse gifted students.

For example, in the case of a KIPP middle school serving grades 5 through 8, late entrants include students who enroll for the first time in grades 6, 7, or 8.

As is typical of KIPP middle schools, each of the schools in the sample serves students in grades 5 — 8.

From where I sit, this interregnum would serve no higher purpose for the children of my state, and would be damaging to the current cohort of public school students, especially those entering the upper grades.

• The Cyber Village Academy (CVA) in Minnesota was originally set up in 1998 to be the first online learning charter school to serve seriously ill children (often home - or hospital - bound) and home schoolers — now a total of 140 students in grades 4 — 8.

With tuition of $ 9,515 per year, Acton Academy initially enrolled 12 students and has since 2009 grown to serve 75 students in grades 1 to 9.

It might also be a function of schools serving different students better or worse at different grade levels.

Although those schools serve students only through grade eight, dropout prevention has become part of their mission.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.

Once our lesson plans were finalized, all the grade - level teachers were asked to compose, using key vocabulary and concepts from each unit, «ideal student responses» to serve as measures of student comprehension based on participation in class discussions.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

The case was brought last month by the parents of three white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades K - 5.

Using students» test scores as one part of evaluations for teachers, principals, and superintendents is associated with better academic performance at schools serving the middle grades, a report released this week has found.

The United Federation of Teachers had expected the trustees of the State University of New York to vote at their May 24 board meeting on the union's application to open a 450 - student charter school serving grades K - 5, starting in September.

State Sen. Joe Manchin caused a ruckus with television and radio advertisements accusing opponent Charlotte Pritt, who has served in both houses of the legislature and also worked as a public school teacher, of backing a bill calling for sex education for 1st - grade students.

Linking students» test scores with evaluations was one of the «best practices» that high - performing schools serving students in grades 6 to 8 have in common, the report found.

Ten years later, it is one of the highest - performing charter schools in the city, serving 48 preschoolers and 291 students from transitional kindergarten through 6th grade.

«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.

To serve the school's 700 students in grades 7 - 12, its overall design combines a modern learning environment with the aesthetic of a traditional Pueblo village.

Each with approximately 100 students per grade in grades 9 through 12, these schools were created to serve some of the district's most disadvantaged students and are located mainly in neighborhoods where large failing high schools had been closed.

Like KIPP and Mother Hale, Crossroads School on Manhattan's Upper West Side, not far from Harlem, serves as a haven for many of its sixth - through eighth - grade students.

The institution has expanded from a single school with 200 students to a network of eight schools spanning grades K - 12 and serving 2,500 students.

Specifically, the website provides up - to - date information on school enrollment, grade levels served, the racial and ethnic makeup of the student body, and performance on standardized tests.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.

The room is open to students with a GPA of 70 or better, which serves as an incentive to students to keep up their grades.

Schools with large populations, schools exclusively serving middle school grades (e.g., grades six to eight), and schools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - Americans.

Sharif El - Mekki is the principal of Mastery Charter School — Shoemaker Campus, a neighborhood public charter school in Philadelphia that serves 750 students in grades 7 - 12.

In Canada (Nova Scotia) P — 12 is used commonly in place of K — 12 and serves students from grade Primary through 12.

The Crestone Charter School now serves 93 students in grades K — 12 in multi-age classrooms, and it prides itself on helping students become «educated citizens of the world.»

REALM The mission of REALM Charter School is to advance knowledge through rigorous studies, cultivate resiliency, develop critical thinking skills, and equip students in grades 6 - 12 to serve our communities and the world in the 21st century.

The University of Dayton School of Education and Health Sciences offers a top - ranked online MSE in Educational Leadership that prepares students to serve effectively at all levels of leadership from pre-k to grade 12.