Sentences with phrase «students across all grade»

The mayor said 67 percent of Richmond Hill students across all grade levels are now on track to graduate, up from 60 percent at this point last year.

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

Students across the grades will enjoy this book, written by James Howe and illustrated by Ed Young.

Ralston's teachers share students across grade levels and create common expectations.

Up until that moment, students across grade levels had been engaged and excited, exploring the school in a collaborative manner.

With teachers who release their passion for learning, students across all grades are free to learn new ways of learning with motivation and joy.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Her work helped contribute to the shift to raise academic expectations for students across all grade levels.

Students across the grade - band have diverse experiences as they share in unique family engagement models that address their age - specific needs.

On average, both Hispanic and Black students across grade levels are one and one half times more likely to be retained than White students (see graph).

In a broader instructional intervention working with ELL students across grades K - 6 for whom science instruction replaced traditional reading / language arts, Klentschy (2003) showed that grade 6 students who participated in the initiative for 4 or more years averaged a percentile rank of 64 on a state - administered nationally - normed reading test.

Expansion of the Science IDEAS model to over 50 classrooms and 1200 students across grades 4, and 5 having diverse (e.g., at risk) student populations was reported in 2001 (Romance & Vitale, 2001).

«Students across all grade levels made very significant literacy progress, and the high school students in particular demonstrated truly outstanding growth: four times the expected rate for students completing the recommended number of activities and nearly double the expected rate overall.

Usually, Wildt works with multiple students at a time, putting together students across grade levels who are all struggling with the same concepts.

His class is an elective, serving students across the grades, as are physical education activities such as martial arts and Zumba.

The 13 school teams attending the Summer Design Institute, part of CityBridge's Breakthrough Schools: D.C. initiative, represent the diversity of Washington, D.C.: a mix of charter and district schools serving students across the grade spans and embracing a myriad of academic models from Montessori to bilingual immersion to a residential program for students in foster care.

In this episode, Paula Johnson, M.A., discusses these issues and the potential civil rights red flags that are raised by data showing Hispanic and Black students across grade levels are one and a half times more likely to be retained than White students.

According to students across all grade levels, there is substantial room for improvement when it comes to assigning work that gives students a deeper level of understanding about the subjects they are learning.

Average teacher compensation increased $ 10,000 in 2013 - 14 and the Capistrano Unified School District used 3 Instructional furlough days and increased class sizes by 1.5 students across all grades to pay for that.

Recognizing the importance of the social atmosphere in schools, I also developed and facilitated an after - school program dedicated to fostering connections between students across grade levels.

I have over 20 years of counseling experience in schools serving students across all grade levels.

The goal of the intervention is to improve high school graduation rates among participating youths by improving their academic achievement, social — emotional skills, school attachment, and relationships with other students across grades.

Not exact matches

Are effective for racially and ethnically diverse students from urban, rural and suburban settings across the K - 12 grade range.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

In April, parents across New York pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight out of state tests in English language arts and math.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

This comes as students in grades three through eight across the state's 700 school began the first of three days of math testing on Tuesday.

Currently, Project BOOST operates in 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight across New York City.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

The study includes results from 359 multiple - choice test items administered to over 20,000 students in grades 4 through 12 from across the U.S..

The journal is designed to provide students from grades 7 to 12 with an opportunity to communicate their school - based science and technology experiences with other students across the province of Ontario and perhaps even the country, as well as an opportunity to test their writing skills and their artwork.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Russell and colleagues analyzed surveys of the seventh -, ninth - and 11th - grade students from nearly half of the schools across the state.

Our goal is to seek out bright students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents entering grades 10 to 12 from groups underrepresented in engineering from across the United States, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

Current enrollment in the pre-kindergarten through 12th grades exceeds 1,000 students from 80 communities across northern New Jersey.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

With the development — finally — of better measures of student learning that came from tracking achievement across grades comes the ability to see where success and failure reside.

But the same local administrators who have been charged with getting more students across the graduation stage also have considerable leeway — via course grades, credit recovery programs, and shadier practices — in determining whether students have earned the privilege.

I find that connecting the strategies across multiple grade levels is illuminating for students, as well as for me.

Since it began in 2003, the company has helped thousands of students across the world achieve the grades they deserve.

Without combining data in some way, such as across grade levels or school years, Hispanic students won't be included as a separate group in the state's accountability system for that school.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and scGrades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and scgrades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

P.K. Yonge decided it would make sense to start by systematically targeting one entire grade level, rather than a smattering of teachers and students across the many different grades.

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop across any grade.

Pooling data across years and grades will include most students in accountability systems, but for lower enrollment populations, pooling across racial / ethnic groups may provide an opportunity to include students in accountability systems in cases where subgroup size is otherwise too small.

Teachers can observe how students choose to use their learning time, manage their workloads, and work independently, with teacher support, or across grade levels.

The shared understanding and enjoyment they feel, along with the friendships across grade levels found in co-curricular music groups, is very inspiring for many students.