Sentences with phrase «upper grades literacy»

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In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

For example, in implementing the literacy rotation, first - grade teachers proposed that one paraprofessional be allocated to each first - grade classroom, which required that the upper - grade teachers have fewer than one per classroom.

General Music is a program of music literacy that includes voice, movement, recorder and percussion in the early grades, and adds strings, wind and brass instruments in the upper grades.

The content, structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core standards for mathematics and English language arts / literacy in the upper elementary grades.

Positions for literacy teachers in early grades, counselors and Advanced Placement teachers in upper grades have been targeted to those schools as well.