Sentences with phrase «sixth grade students»

Last year, our partner schools increased their state - wide ranking by an average of 10 percentile points as determined by the percentage of sixth grade students meeting proficiency in math.

The average ages of the sample of first through sixth grade students ranged from 6 to 12.5 years.

Even sixth grade students learn how to sew a seam and use a hot glue gun fairly quickly.

This report details the findings of our e ‐ reader trial involving the use of 16 Kindles by sixth grade students at the Orphan Aid Africa School in Ayenyah, Ghana, which ran from March 16 through March 26, 2010.

Mr. Longe was also an AmeriCorps Teaching Fellow with Citizen Schools during which time he taught sixth grade students in an expanded learning day program in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Poetry Cafe is a program for sixth grade students that allows them to express their thoughts and feelings.

The Sweet Valley Twins series features the twins as sixth grade students attending Sweet Valley Middle School.

I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago, when a tall and painfully shy sixth grade student named Lisa sat down at my kitchen table for her first math lesson with me.

The Dr. Seuss Diner task helps sixth grade students explore algebra for the first time.

Only 44 percent of sixth grade students met or exceeded the achievement level on the English Language Arts (ELA) assessment (North Haven Public Schools, 2016).

Destination Graduation: Sixth Grade Early Warning Indicators for Baltimore City Schools: Their Prevalence and Impact examines the 2000 - 01 cohort of sixth grade students from Baltimore City Schools to determine whether there were indicators that predicted eventual dropout with a reasonable level of certainty and identified enough students to justify intervention efforts.

DEAN RUSK MIDDLE SCHOOL TRANSITION SCHEDULE FOR RISING SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS DRMS 2018 - 19 Feeder School Transition Dates Parent Nights at Dean Rusk Middle School Feeder Schools Indian Knoll Elementary: Tuesday, March 6 at 6:30 pm Hickory Flat Elementary: Tuesday, March 13 at 6:30 pm Holly Springs Elementary: Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 pm Mountain Road

Betty Kistler's sixth grade students used the Internet to obtain weather in a country they were studying in - depth over a period of time; they then used Excel to record and compare the weather in that country to their own.

To foster collaboration and teambuilding, sixth grade students experience Boss Level in advisory groups known as Home Base, small groups of 12 - 15 students that meet with an advisor four times a week throughout the year to work on SEL skills.

Learning how the body works becomes an adventure as sixth grade students embark on a biology - based narrative journey at game - based learning school Quest to Learn.

This year, I reported on a study I did in which more than 50 percent of a sample of 152 sixth grade students reported musculoskeletal discomfort with computer use.

Expand sixth grade students for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these practice exercises into their daily learning.

The State of Idaho requires that I - DEA sixth grade students participate in school a minimum of 900 hours over the course of 180 school days.

Flexible Learning Environments: UCLACS» sixth grade students spend an entire week at the Hammer Museum, facilitated by UCLA faculty and students.

More recently, the state's release of the 2011 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) scores — Florida's primary measure of student achievement of the Sunshine State Standards — showed that Brevard's sixth grade students ranked first in Florida in both reading and mathematics, and in June the district was honored for the third consecutive year by the Association of School Business Officials for financial excellence.

Every year, we form official partnerships with NYC - area public, parochial, and charter middle schools to support our recruitment of exceptional sixth grade students.

By the end of the school's first year, Habans sixth grade students, the oldest cohort in the school, grew their reading level by 1.37 years.

In the four years PowerMyLearning has worked with her, Ms. Arenas has increased the number of sixth grade students achieving year - end proficiency by more than 25 percentage points (that's moving more than a quarter of the sixth - grade students over the proficiency line).

From left, Rikki Eriksen (California Marine Sanctuary Foundation), Assemblymember Catharine Baker, sixth grade student Sienna Cano - Stocco, Jennifer Savage (Surfrider Foundation) and Lori Mendez (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

For the last four years, sixth grade students at North Forestville (Maryland) Elementary have completed the program that resulted, «Steps to Success.»

Located in Santa Cruz, California, Spring Hill is an independent private school serving preschool through sixth grade students and sending graduates to top national and local public and private schools.

The Latin Policy Debate team began during the 2016 - 2017 school year with two sixth grade students in the novice division.

Transitioning from elementary school is smoother as sixth grade students will work with teams of two teachers and then increase to four teacher teams at the eighth grade level.

Small groups — 5 to 6 — fourth, fifth or sixth grade students meet with an HRA representative weekly during the school day (usually during language arts or library time).

The researchers originally conducted a series of interviews with a cohort of 247 sixth grade students from six schools.

My wife recently graduated with a degree in elementary education and the blessings of GCU, the love of Christ, and the benefits of servant leadership are now being transferred to her sixth grade students in a local Christian School in the Phoenix area.

The sixth grade students at Hunt Middle School have been learning about the great Halifax Explosion of 1917: an event that few people beyond Nova Scotia have heard of.

The sixth grade student has reached the beginning of a turbulent time with the onset of puberty and the physical and hormonal changes that mark this period.

For this study, sixth grade students were selected to participate, broken into four categories: low - income rural, low - income urban, high - income rural, and high - income urban.

It's also a fun and informative way to assess my sixth grade students at Quest to Learn early in the school year — and a powerful example of an embedded assessment that allows me to better support the learning process.

So the art / technology teacher set out to create Poetry in Motion, a digital video project in which his sixth grade students at Eisenhower Middle School in Wyckoff, New Jersey, made «movies» based on their favorite works by authors like Shel Silverstein.

In Decembers past, sixth grade students have been tasked to build a Rube Goldberg machine — a complex system made up of several parts that can successfully complete a simple task.

When our sixth grade students learned about the North Pacific Plastic Gyre, they shared their discoveries with our first grade classes.

Not fun for a sixth grade student.

At Quest, I teach a hands - on inquiry based course called The Way Things Work (TWTW) which gives my sixth grade students a chance to be scientists, designers, makers, and players.

She is the sixth grade student who named the Mars Rover Curiosity.

Logistically, giving fourth, fifth and sixth grade students the ability to transition between classes on campus was «scary» at first, says Young.

I Choose is a 30 - minute block of time during the day that allows fourth, fifth and sixth grade students to rotate through various interventions within RTI or attend their choice of electives including peer tutoring, library, physical education, computers, or music.

I asked a sixth grade student at Calhoun what he thought of the school's food program.

This 30 - minute block of time allows fourth, fifth and sixth grade students to rotate through various interventions within RTI or attend their choice of electives including peer tutoring, library, physical education, computers, or music.

«I didn't do very well in the library, I was distracted,» one of my sixth grade students told me a few days after completing a math progress monitoring test in the school library.

Fluency Formula is a supplemental curriculum designed to promote reading fluency for first through sixth grade students.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.