Sentences with phrase «urban middle school»

The role of moral and performance character strengths in predicting achievement and conduct among urban middle school students.

His work at Sojourner Truth Middle School in East Orange helped to transform it into one of the highest performing urban middle schools in the entire state of New Jersey.

His research also has powerful implications for counseling and out - of - school youth interventions, as evidenced through his youth mentorship program, T.H.R.E.A.D.S (Truth, Honor, Respect, Education and Development of Self) which promotes positive youth development for urban middle school boys in a fifteen week after - school format.

An in - depth examination of two urban middle schools engaged in mathematics reform (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015) found that in one school, data conversations were mostly superficial.

MLK is a large urban middle school that serves a diverse student body — from the sons and daughters of UC Berkeley professors who've grown up shopping at the local farmers» market to low - income youth who've never taken so much as a single bite of an organically grown fruit or vegetable.

Boushall is a high poverty urban middle school that serves as almost entirely African American and Latino students.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

In that time, our approximately 20 teachers will continue to work together to create authentic learning experiences for Baltimore urban middle school students.

Berkeley's Edible Schoolyard is an incredible program that helps urban middle school kids grow their own lunch.

Crossroads is not a typical urban middle school, and Ann Wiener is not a typical principal.

Scaling Within Rather Than Scaling Up: Implications From Students» Experiences in Reforming Urban Middle Schools.»

Graduating from New York University with a master's degree in English Education and TESOL, she is extremely passionate about restoring and creating more engaging literacy opportunities within urban middle school curricula.

Barela, E. and McCurdy, D. Lessons Learned from Three Urban Middle Schools Engaged in the Turnaround Process.

The Role of Moral and Performance Character Strengths in Predicting Achievement and Conduct among Urban Middle School Students In Press, Teachers College Record

Shann (1998) used data from a 3 - year project of school effectiveness in four large urban middle schools to examine teacher satisfaction.

Description: Seven high - poverty urban middle schools that participated in a study conducted by the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin for the U.S. Department of Education, examining how high - performing, high - poverty middle level schools improved student performance.

Teaching to Strengths: Character Education for Urban Middle School Students, Meghan F. Oppenheimer, Claire Fialkov, Bruce Ecker, and Sanford Portnoy

Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis, Daniel Losen and Russell Skiba, Southern Poverty Law Center, September 2010 (Download PDF)

Oppenheimer, M.F., Fialkov, C., Ecker, B., & Portnoy, S. (2014) Teaching to Strengths: Character Education for Urban Middle School Students, Journal of Character Education, Volume 10 (2), 91 - 105.

The study included 1,205 students at five urban middle schools in the same charter system.

Urban middle school students engaged in a standards - based, inquiry - based science curriculum in ten middle schools showed higher levels of achievement on a curriculum - aligned test than students who received traditional instruction in a district - comparison group (Lynch, Kuipers, Pyke, & Szesze, 2005).

Urban middle school students engaged in PBL showed increased academic performance in science and improved behavior ratings over a two - year period (Gordon, Rogers, Comfort, Gavula, & McGee, 2001).

Upon arriving at this large, urban middle school, I had noticed a racially mixed group of parents drinking coffee and laughing in a room filled with couches and books.

Generating knowledge of academic language among urban middle school students.

Drawing on her experiences as a political theorist, an urban middle school teacher, and an education scholar, Levinson investigates the widening civic empowerment gap and offers ideas on how to close it.

Standards - based, inquiry - based science curriculum in ten urban middle schools had a positive effect on achievement.

It was happenstance when seventh - grade reading teacher Michelle Skinner sat down next to Taylor Percival, also a seventh grade reading teacher, at the HGSE Orientation this fall, but the two instantly bonded over the challenges they faced as reading teachers in urban middle schools.

After 12 years teaching English Language Arts and history at an urban middle school, where he has inspired students with a love of Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams plays, Holt hopes to further what he sees as his mission in education giving «students access to learning situations that are as close to the real world as possible.»

Meditation at this urban middle school has helped bring down truancies and suspensions and significantly reduce stress.

All students at this urban middle school participate in a daily program of quietude and optional meditation.

Students Taking Action Together is currently in place in seven urban middle schools in New Jersey, and it is making a difference.

The economics of a small schools simply can not support the range of specialized teachers that a large, urban middle school can.

We examine the effects of a multifaceted scaling reform that focuses on supporting standards based science teaching in urban middle schools.

Problem - based learning was used as an enrichment activity in 2 % of an urban middle school's curriculum.

The middle school concept was implemented in the early 1990s when I was a teacher in an urban middle school.

The Department of Middle Childhood Education at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio, in partnership with the United Way of Greater Toledo and AmeriCorps, is providing mentors and tutors at Jones Middle School, an urban middle school in Toledo, Ohio.

The benefits of working together are apparent in the joint efforts of a small midwestern college and an urban middle school to close the achievement gap.

A report released in November on a blended learning math program called Teach to One found positive but uneven gains during the first year at seven urban middle schools.

James Dierke on Leading an Urban Middle School What does it take to lead an inner - city middle school?

In a high - poverty, urban middle school in Mississippi, the principal has partnered with local businesses to develop a community garden that students work in to grow fresh vegetables they can take home — and good deeds can earn them credit for supplies at the school store.

The MLD project is a four - year program that will work with twelve high - needs rural and urban middle schools in Michigan and Kentucky using the STW Leadership Matters model.

My first experiences with visual tools came during the early 1980s, when I began teaching writing in an urban middle school in Oakland, California.

To illustrate, let's look at how principals in two schools I studied organized teachers to work together.1 These urban middle schools, which are located in the same school district and serve similarly diverse student populations, provide portraits of different approaches to organizing teacher learning.

Geier and colleagues (2008) demonstrated that a project - based approach improved science content knowledge and science process skills among urban middle school students.

Viewers can see how reading programs developed by an inner - city high school, a suburban high school, and an urban middle school enhance student achievement in reading and in the content areas (Stock No. 402033; members, $ 195; nonmembers, $ 234; includes one tape and a Facilitator's Guide).