Sentences with phrase «sixth grade teacher who»

As California bilingual education grows, teacher training is key Zyanya Cazares, a sixth grade teacher who is starting a new assignment this fall teaching in a bilingual education program in Los Angeles, grew up speaking Spanish.

We at the Learning First Alliance recently interviewed two representatives of ABC to find out: Richard Saldana a high school teacher and department chair who also serves on the executive board of the ABC Federation of Teachers, and Tanya Golden, a sixth grade teacher who also serves as a teacher leader.

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As a sixth grader, Daniele benefits from having the same teacher she had in grade five, one who already knows her strengths.

On the morning I visited Polaris, I sat in on a sixth - grade crew meeting led by a teacher named Molly Brady, who had been at the school for six years.

My sixth - grade English teacher would dock points from students who said anything negative about his or her work.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

«But I had one teacher in sixth grade who insisted I speak up loudly and threatened me with lower grades if I didn't participate,» she says.

«That was so powerful to just be around so many people from all around the world,» says Radden, who loops between sixth and seventh grades as a social studies teacher.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Let me introduce you to 100 other sixth - grade language arts teachers who you can network with.»

«Third - grade teachers aren't worried about reading, it's the sixth -, seventh -, and eighth -[grade teachers] who are worried.»

Teacher Promotes Blood Donation Education Stephen Socolosky, who teaches sixth grade in East Hartford, Connecticut, recently was honored by the governor of Connecticut, John G. Rowland, for his commitment to blood donation.

Twelve - year - old Manuel heard about the program from his sixth - grade literature teacher who suggested that Citizen Schools could help him improve his grades.

He reached out to sixth - grade engineering teacher, Rebekah Rottenberg, who was just as excited to bring this project to life.

For example, Mizelle (1995) found that students who stayed together with the same teachers through sixth, seventh, and eighth grades and experienced more hands - on, life - related learning activities, integrated instruction, and cooperative learning groups were more successful in their transition to high school than were students from the same school who had a more traditional middle school experience.

I think of a sixth - grade teacher in our small district who, on meet - the teacher - night, passed out no «parent contracts» and no «student contracts» — both were then the rage — and gave no lectures about student behavior and the role of the parent.

She was inspired by her sixth - grade teacher, Mrs. Koeppl, who paved the path for her to study writing and literature at Naropa University and earn a master's in fiction at The New School.

And it told us that except for the rare bright spot — like a principal dedicated to academic growth for all learners, but who went on sabbatical a year after we changed to her school, and a teacher who volunteered to teach sixth - grade math in a fifth - grade classroom — we would not be getting the services needed for our children.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

She is the proud mother of a 27 - year - old son who is a sixth grade teacher in Monterey.

There are so many stories that I could tell — the story of my guidance counselor's sixth - grade, learning disabled child who feels like a failure due to constant testing, a principal of an elementary school who is furious with having to use to use a book he deems inappropriate for third graders because his district bought the State Education Department approved common core curriculum, and the frustration of math teachers due to the ever - changing rules regarding the use of calculators on the tests.

Marcella Barrett, who teaches sixth grade at Valerie Elementary, was named Dayton Public Schools Teacher of the Year.

Today's guest, Michael Matera, is a middle school social studies teacher who runs a sixth grade game - based history class.

«I want [my students] to be thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and be able to formulate opinions regarding these issues,» says Leslie Rector, a sixth - grade teacher who collaborated with Wolk on some of the units featured in this book.

The Core Knowledge Foundation extends its sincere thanks to all teachers who developed these sixth grade lessons for our National Conferences (1992 - 2011) or through their participation in the Colorado Unit Writing Project (1999 - 2004).

We have a middle school teacher who rewrote my menu for the sixth - grade curriculum, and a few elementary school teachers are now making it their own.

Sharon Michaels is a sixth grade English Language Arts, social studies, and writing teacher at Truesdell Education Campus who enjoys designing and facilitating learning experiences for English language learners.

Hill, a teacher at Naturita Elementary School in Naturita, Colorado, has 40 students between the first and sixth grades who are currently benefiting from this kind of philosophy and from the material presented in the Reading Horizons method.

«Teachers would just send them to my room because I built a connection with them,» said Weaver, who taught sixth - and eighth - grade math and is now a school principal.

One sixth - grade class in which none of the students passed math had a teacher who previously worked at the high school level, Shafer told the school board.

Cynthia Hunter, a sixth - grade math and science teacher at Curtiss Middle School in Carson who took a two - day course aimed at teachers, said she found the sessions useful.

When people wag their heads and predict a bookless future, I'm reminded of my sixth - grade teacher, who told us to hold onto our twelve - inch rulers, because by the time we were in college, they would be obsolete, and worth money as antiques.

The vacancy came to my knowledge from a friend Ms. Karen Neil who works as a mathematics teacher for grade sixth.