Sentences with phrase «small elementary schools with»

We found that relational trust is more likely to flourish in small elementary schools with 350 or fewer students.

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The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

Traditionally, everyone had one public school to which they were assigned on the basis of where they lived with elementary schools being more numerous and in smaller geographic catchment areas than middle schools than high schools.

I suddenly realized this toe dexterity exercise was the same one I practiced with kids in «Toe Ga.» In Toe Ga we (elementary school yogis and myself) practice picking up small pom poms with our toes and placing them in a bucket.

The charter school opened its doors in the fall of 2004, with an elementary and a middle school crammed into a small building that had housed a Catholic school.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

On September 1, I will be a literacy specialist for a small, public elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts, at a school with students almost entirely from the very nearby community (the principal says nearly all of them walk to school).

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

Among the smallest quintile of elementary schools, 47 percent of racially heterogeneous schools (those with four or more racial subgroups) won performance awards, versus 82 percent of similarly sized but racially homogeneous schools.

Makerspaces can be full high school workshops with a bevy of high - tech tools, or as small and low tech as one corner of an elementary classroom.

Dumas is a small school district, with two elementary schools, a junior high and a high school.

Charter schools, with a median size of 110 students, tend to provide small learning communities compared with district elementary schools, whose median size is 590.

For an analysis of how district administrators differentiate support for improvement to schools, for example, we focused on medium - to large - sized districts serving multiple schools at all levels, rather than small districts with only an elementary, middle, and high school.

I saw small classes; although the official class size for elementary school is 24, I never saw a class with more than 19 children (and that one had two assistant teachers to help children with special needs).

In every BVP elementary school classroom, scholars have the opportunity to work in small groups with their teachers, with their whole class, and independently throughout their day.

Manchester Community Schools in Michigan is a smaller district, with only one elementary school.

Their explosive growth has been driven by corporations courting small, rural elementary districts with promises of additional revenue with little to no impact to the school district.

Since I work in a small districk, I joined NAESP to network with other elementary school principals.

As elementary schools build common learning areas adjacent to classrooms, architects are incorporating small nooks — some with beanbag chairs — where younger students can sit and work independently on their devices.

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

It identifies the 20 U.S. school districts with the smallest white - black and white - Hispanic achievement gaps in 2009 to 2012, based on standardized reading and math tests in elementary and middle schools.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

One high school will partner with the Detroit Medical Center; an elementary school in Farmington Hills will highlight Chinese and Spanish language immersion programs; in the small town of St. Helen, families will once again have an elementary school; and one school in Saginaw will serve incarcerated students.

With teaching certification in elementary and special education, followed by graduate coursework in educational management and parenting studies, and then parenting three children, Tricia is committed to the rich, personalized learning and family connections that small schools cultivate.

A little more checking, and I found that the study was paid for by a small endowment at Rutgers called the Daniel Tanner Foundation which describes itself as «advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.

It would start small, with a pilot Achievement District plan that would force five of North Carolina's most persistently low - performing elementary schools to close or be taken over by charter operators.

The Nevada Legislature allocated additional funding to provide all elementary Zoom Schools with the universal half - day preschool, full - day kindergarten and smaller kindergarten class sizes of 21 students maximum per teacher and free summer school programs that extend the school year by 17 days beyond the state - mandated 180 days of instruction.

Today, amid the farms and small - town stores, all three schools in this 1,800 - student district have been equipped with Wi - Fi, elementary school students use their own iPads in class, older students take their MacBook laptops home every day, and a state - of - the art, totally wired high school opened this school year.

Later in the week, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Diane Wentzell, focused the state's bullseye on the small town of Sherman, Connecticut with its 380 or so elementary school students.

Because school site support is critical, consider launching the program with a small group of priority elementary schools with eager principals.

Putting aside why Jumoke, the charter school management company that was hired to take over and run the Dunbar elementary school is looking for four new teachers, over a month into the new school year, the job posting announces that the charter school company wants educators who will «sweat the small stuff» and are committed to «embracing the challenges facing urban schools with a mantra of «No Excuses» and a willingness to do «Whatever it takes.

As a former elementary school principal, I can attest to the challenges of increasing student achievement (in all its forms) with the small budgets elementary schools receive.

We have chosen to analyze concentrated areas with low - performing elementary schools because they have the smallest geographic attendance boundaries, unlike our middle and high schools with much wider boundaries given their larger student populations.

Although Sharpe's Jumoke Academy has never served bi-lingual students and only takes a small percentage of special educations students compared to the number served in Hartford's public schools, Commissioner Pryor, the State Board of Education and the City of Hartford's Board of Education recently transferred Hartford's Milner elementary school, with all of its students and taxpayer funds, to Jumoke.

Newark's middle school students stay in their elementary schools through eighth grade, and high schools tend to be small and specialized, with enrollment determined by an application process, not by neighborhood.

I personally experienced this phenomenon early in my career (albeit with a much smaller elementary school staff team), as I attempted to spend significant time in each teacher's classroom.

• Looking for elementary education teacher position with a small independent school district within Austin area.