Sentences with phrase «set of elementary schools»

At least one sizable trial has been mounted to test a violence prevention program based on a set of elementary schools that were randomly assigned to the program and to a control condition.

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Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

In Long Island City, Queens, a worship band sets up sound equipment in a rented elementary school auditorium while the congregation of Trinity Grace Church's local parish files in.

In elementary school, we do a better job of encouraging this process, whether it is the difficulty of swinging across the entire set of «monkey bars,» processing a rejection from a friend, or mastering a list of new spelling words.

You can check out the salad bar, see what kinds of foods they are serving and — I think most elementary schools try to have volunteers there to help the kids make smarter choices and encourage the fruits and veggies; at least this is what my daughter's school told me - and you can see what the set - up is like.

Another notable feature in both the proposed and final rules — one likely to be of special interest to elementary school parents — is a requirement that wellness policies set nutritional standards for foods and beverages that aren't sold but instead made available to children at school, such as offerings at classroom parties or treats given out by teachers as a reward.

Last night, my little public elementary school, Nettelhorst, hosted a public screening of the powerful new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago high school kids as they set out to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

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Because each of Illinois «958 local school districts has the ability to set its own property tax rate, and because each has a different base of local property value on which to collect taxes, there is a wide variance in the tax rates and dollars that support local elementary and high schools.

From coloring presentation boards to art class students from elementary school throughout high school will need their own set of coloring pencils for projects in the school year.

My own admittedly non-scientific experiments with chocolate milk in an elementary school setting have been that when offered a choice of sweetened vs. white milk, almost nobody chooses regular milk.

The U.S. Department of Education says children in early elementary school should have class time set aside for independent reading.

«I'm concerned for our school districts... One of my school districts launched lost an entire elementary school — one that, in fact, just had gone through a beautiful renovation — they're now trying to locate themselves in another place,» the assemblywoman told me while standing outside a Vestal shelter where she has set up a temporary district office.

WBFO»S Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley says this U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will allow the district to begin setting up salad bar in elementary schools to promote healthy eating.

Recent research in cognitive and developmental neuroscience is providing a new approach to the understanding of dyscalculia that emphasizes a core deficit in understanding sets and their numerosities, which is fundamental to all aspects of elementary school mathematics.

«Setting [such radiation limits] for elementary schools is inexcusable,» Toshiso Kosako, a radiation health expert at the University of Tokyo, said on 30 April, when he resigned as an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meschool where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meschool - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meSchool of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

Because of her acting career, her elementary school teachers would mail her lessons and assignments on cassette tapes to be used by her on - set tutors.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

The initiative aims to extend and strengthen the range and quality of the services these professionals provide in all kinds of school settings: public and independent; rural, suburban, and urban; and elementary and secondary.

As researchers long focused on social studies and informational reading and writing education in the early elementary grades, we were frustrated by this pattern of neglect, and troubled that it is even worse in high - poverty school settings.

The elementary school in Oregon's Willamina district set out last year to pick apart a complicated problem that would ultimately require an equally complicated solution: Many of its Native American students failed to show up on a regular basis.

Jones and her team are working with HopeLab and four public elementary schools in South Carolina to implement and refine a set of «Brain Games.»

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a new working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool setting, according to a new working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

An elementary school in Washington State recently set itself a ridiculously haughty goal of having 100 percent of its students represented by a parent during the semi-annual parent - teacher conferences.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Under Rivera's leadership, the Rochester district has set up a series of early college schools with higher education partners and has changed the organization of many elementary schools from neighborhood to magnet schools.

An elementary school principal can access a set of briefs written by Professors Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie Jones that help guide the formation of early education programs.

Nonetheless, attending a quality preschool program can help children develop the skills and habits of mind that support their success in early elementary school, when compared to lower stimulation home - care settings,» write Assistant Professor Luke Miratrix; Lindsay Page, Ed.M.»

All elementary - school students in the district take a set of exams each year, in reading and math.

This unique set of supplies cards features upper elementary / middle school and teen students and focuses on the types of supplies associated with these age groups!

Aside from the immediate challenge of survival for the elementary school, Sorensen has his sights set on expansion.

Under Rivera's leadership, the district set up a series of early college schools with higher education partners and has changed the organization of many elementary schools from neighborhood to magnet schools.

The initiative aims to help the helpers, extending and strengthening the range and quality of the services these professionals provide in all kinds of school settings: public and independent; rural, suburban, and urban; and elementary and secondary.

We analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

A broad goal of this work is to generate a framework and kit of SEL - focused strategies (along with embedded performance management tools) for elementary schools and other learning settings.

Their analysis of student achievement in New York City middle schools confirms parents» conclusion that children learn more if they stay in an elementary - school setting through grade 8 than if they move to a stand - alone middle school.

Baking in multiple stretch goals for what happens to students after they leave for middle school is effectively a set of bonuses to keep long - term ambitions on the radar of elementary schools.

All of this has set the stage for education industry lobbyists to achieve an unprecedented expansion in for - profit elementary through high school education.

In this study, we analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

I come with a passion for teaching and learning and with 7 years of experience teaching in elementary school settings in Mankato, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee.

Many important studies of instructional leadership have been conducted in elementary school settings.

After setting aside elementary teachers we found that levels of intrinsic motivators — teachers» efficacy and social recognition — were moderately correlated with reported levels of social cohesion inside one's school.

Arbogast, who taught elementary - school students, including special education, beginning in 1982 in SKSD before taking her current position, believes that using test - score data to evaluate teachers is flawed because each inherits a different set of circumstances.

His specific areas of course instruction include foundations of American education, instructional design, program evaluation, student assessment and NCLB legislation, content area literacy, literacy foundations, teaching writing in elementary and middle school settings, social foundations of education, and literature in the classroom.

Models compress the learning cycle into a predictable set of routines that may be effectively implemented in classroom schedules at the elementary, middle, and / or high school levels.

While KIPP serves a majority of black students, Hiawatha's student population — spread out at the elementary and middle school levels, with a new high school set to open in the fall of 2018 — is mostly Hispanic (89 percent of students).

Based in a School of Education, we are particularly focused on children and youth, and on educational and sport / performance settings, including elementary, middle, and high schools, college counseling centers, and college athletic teams.

Provides nursing care or studetns with chronic or special health care needs in the elementary, middle and high school setting under the direction and supervision of a Milwaukee Public Schools Nursing Supervisor.