Sentences with phrase «with middle grades»

The Professional Development Modules for Middle Grades professional development guide contains detailed outlines for two professional development modules designed for use with the Middle Grades Guide.

Katie McClarty, director of the Center for College and Career Success in Pearson's Research and Innovation Network describes the importance of working with middle grades students on college and career...

High - performing schools with middle grades are learning organizations that establish norms, structures, and organizational arrangements to support and sustain their trajectory toward excellence.

High - performing schools with middle grades are sensitive to the unique developmental challenges of early adolescence.

High - performing schools with middle grades are academically excellent.

High - performing schools with middle grades are socially equitable, democratic, and fair.

High - performing schools with middle grades are socially equitable.

High - performing schools with middle grades are developmentally responsive.

For example, in Kentucky, SREB is working with middle grades and high school principals to provide materials, training, and processes that link LDC with the Kentucky Framework for Teaching.

We're going to start with the middle grades (4 - 8) and expand from there.

The learning equation Talking with middle grade students affirms this idea.

Findings from our 2006 — 2011 Remediation project, as well as findings of low impact from other studies with middle school students (e.g., Kemple et al., 2008), have raised important questions about when and how to remediate reading disabilities with middle grade students.

«We've had such success with middle grade series, like Jedi Academy and DC Secret Hero Society, that are in that world of licensing, and we wanted to do something in YA,» says Debra Dorfman, Scholastic's v - p and publisher, global licensing and media consumer products.

I can't say I'd go traditional with middle grade for the money.

I am also familiar with middle grade and young adult, so I particularly enjoy working with those stories as well.

When I first joined a master group of writers in England, I started out with a middle grade novel.

Earlier this year, I was passionately in love with my middle grade novel.

Since my own experience is with middle grade and YA, that is what I am most familiar with.

That said, there are lots and lots and lots of great lawyers who graduated with middling grades from unranked schools.

Not exact matches

It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

Analysts speculated that Fortescue's weak export rate in October and November may be linked to the Chinese shutdowns and the middle kingdom's growing preference for iron ore with higher grades than Fortescue typically produces.

We got through 4th grade and graduated to Middle School, where our town Jaffrey merged with our neighbor Rindge, and St. Patrick's school.

Our 6th - 8th grade Middle School is an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) World School implementing the Middle Years Program (MYP), an interdisciplinary, project based learning program with a focus on global context and impact.

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

Let's get started with two new books — one for middle grades and one for young adults — that show two different ways of incorporating LGBTQ characters and themes into a story.

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

Gail took all participants on a musical journey that included learning songs (some with associated movements) that were appropriate for the elementary grades through middle school.

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

A student struggling with algebra in high school or middle school needs some gentle guidance in the right direction to avoid failing the class, bring up their grade, and maybe even actually enjoy math.

While it is natural to be concerned with peer relationships during middle school and high school, grades shouldn't drop much.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Our next stop was lunch with Ms. Kramer's 6th grade class at Ivy Hall Middle School.

Whether it's first grade or off to middle school, the start of the new school year comes with some stress on kids and parents alike.

The Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the phaseout of Wadleigh's middle school grades, along with the partial closing of Washington Irving High School, on Feb. 9 at Brooklyn Technical High School.

Simandou is a major new, high quality haematite deposit (with a targeted grade of 65 per cent iron) in proximity to the Atlantic Basin and the Middle East.

A group representing NYC's nonprofit providers is releasing a first - of - a-kind survey that gave the city and state middling grades when it comes to dealing with human service organizations.

McIntosh said the performing arts school could lose a band room, dance studio and a multi-purpose drama room when the Eva Moskowitz - run Harlem Success Academy moves two middle school grades into the building Wadleigh already shares with Frederick Douglass Academy II and an Alternative Learning Center.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

In fact, compared with elementary schools, middle grade schools often have more students per grade, lower levels of student autonomy, less positive teacher - student relationships, and more competition and less cooperation among students.

With boards ranging from grade - specific collections like First Grade Fun, Second Grade Smiles, and Third Grade Troop to boards devoted to specific core curriculum subjects and themes (e.g., science, math, robotics) or grade ranges (e.g., middle school science), teachers have raced onto the Pinterest scene, virtual thumbtacks and staplers at the ready, and are actively pinning away.

As Kayla, Fisher guides us through the frightening halls and classrooms of her middle school during the last few days of her eighth grade year — and all of the fears, regrets and hopes that come with graduation.

Belle's story is laid out with the clean, neat lines and uncomplicated psychology of middle - grade Young Adult fiction.

Jason Reynold's new middle - grade book Patina, the second volume in his Track series, is an entertaining story of four unlikely teammates, each with personal demons who are doing their best to outrun their teenage angst and anxiety.

Here's how, for the middle grades: Create a rhythm with finger snapping and hand clapping, which you model and they echo back.

Even in a country whose progressive public education system dispenses with tests and grades until middle school and provides every high school student with a laptop, Nordahl Grieg stands out for its commitment to innovation.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

FOR GIRLS» SCHOOLS OR SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS This lesson is for students in middle grades and students with learning disabilities in higher grades.

To begin with, it takes a few years of teaching to really understand — let's say, if you teach ninth grade — what the median skill level is for a group of 14 - year - olds (reading, writing, speaking, thinking, emotional, etc.) There's a saying: «Teach to the middle.»