Sentences with phrase «work of middle school students»

The Science Expo, at the American Museum of Natural History, was a showcase for the work of middle school students.

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Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Also, it warrants mentioning that they are accomplishing this without a home gymnasium, borrowing gym space at Salesian High (where DeLuca works as the Dean of Students) and Helms Middle School.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Unique in its position as both a working farm and a wildlife sanctuary, Drumlin Farm has delivered environmental education programs to hundreds of thousands of elementary, middle, and high school students in Massachusetts.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

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.

I work on a wide variety of programming which serves middle and high school - aged students, middle school teachers, and undergraduates.

«I want to work with you and members of the Wadleigh community to develop an alternative plan that will ensure a strong middle school for students at the Wadleigh campus.»

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

He also pledged that his office would commit $ 10 million to renovating the Orchard Beach Pavilion and launch a Bronx Youth Corps this year, which would consist of middle and high school students working to clean up and beautify Bronx neighborhoods.

De Blasio insisted the city would keep working to get hundreds of schools with little arts presence up to compliance, as state law mandates that middle and high school students earn at least one credit of arts instruction from full - time, certified teachers.

At the event, parents and principals thanked Senator Klein for securing $ 700,000 for the program which works to expand the education elementary and middle school students receive through extracurricular activities in a number of Bronx schools.

And I'm sure that the board, once it meets, will consider what the next steps are that we need to take to ensure that all of the 2,500 students plus the additional students that are in the pipeline from the elementary and middle schools actually have a safe, secure learning environment for 21st century work.»

Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for high school biology students.

In 2016, only 4 in 10 eight grade public school students were proficient in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problems.

Rita is also an advocate for the participation of women and minority students in plant science through her participation in career development workshops, and she has worked with Monsanto, Together, an outreach program, to inform elementary and middle school students about plant science and careers.

As a teacher (of yoga and of middle school social studies) I encourage my students to work in that space right beyond their comfort zone.

From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes The Bell Jar Study Guide has everything you need to ace Schools and Online Social Networking By Nancy Willard Most educators working with middle and high school students are aware of the

She has previously worked as an associate programmer for AFI FEST 2013; for AFI FESTs 2009 and» 10, where she oversaw the screen education program, screening a selection of festival titles for middle — and high — school students from across L.A.; and in the film programming department at the American Cinematheque, where she programmed the Cinematheque's first — ever Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Luis Buñuel retrospectives in 2012.

I spent fifteen years as a middle school teacher, working hard to gain an understanding of students who vacillated between being needy children and insightful adults.

It's full of new work by modern - day poets with selections at the level of middle and high school students.

As part of her dissertation work, Honey is focusing specifically on how intrinsically motivated Native American middle school students are to learn cultural information related to the science taught in the classroom.

Note: these are for geography skills, and are aimed mostly at primary or middle school students, although with a bit of clever adaptation, they could work for older children too.

Middle school students engaged in Learning by Design (LBD) consistently outperformed students engaged in traditional instruction on tests of collaboration and metacognitive skills, such as checking work, designing fair tests, and explaining evidence.

The Monuments Project: Giving students as young as middle school opportunities to do the real work of historians — and provide meaningful public service in the process — is the idea behind the Monuments Project.

Educators working with middle and high school students likely are aware of the explosive interest and involvement of youth in such online sites as MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, Live Journal, and the like.

Most educators working with middle and high school students are aware of the explosive involvement of youth on social networking sites.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Develop rhythms and routines that support the sharing of stories: Prior to working with high school students, I taught elementary and middle school students in schools where each day began with morning meeting.

Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout students are scattered throughout classes.

Due to all the hard work and collaborative energy of teachers, administration, school - based leadership teams, community partners, students, and families, the Edwards has reached and continues to meet our goals for student achievement and for providing middle school students in Boston with quality education in academics and enrichment.

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

During multiple six - week sessions over the summer, college and high school students become teaching fellows, working with the middle school students while also receiving guidance from professional educators, part of Breakthrough's «Students Teaching Students» and «Teachers Training Teachers»students become teaching fellows, working with the middle school students while also receiving guidance from professional educators, part of Breakthrough's «Students Teaching Students» and «Teachers Training Teachers»students while also receiving guidance from professional educators, part of Breakthrough's «Students Teaching Students» and «Teachers Training Teachers»Students Teaching Students» and «Teachers Training Teachers»Students» and «Teachers Training Teachers» model.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

An Art scheme of work suitable for Middle School students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials.

I stopped by to see the folks putting together the School of One at a New York City middle school last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student's learning level actually work in praSchool of One at a New York City middle school last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student's learning level actually work in praschool last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student's learning level actually work in practice.

William Sanders, formerly of the University of Tennessee and now at the SAS Institute, has done pioneering work to develop a system of value - added assessment, using the results of annual tests administered to all elementary and middle - school students in Tennessee.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

Teachers at Flat River Middle School realized after their first year of conferences that having students reflect on their work throughout the year not only helped them prepare for the conference, it helped them learn more effectively, said Bettez.

The interests ranged from kindergarten through grade 12, so some students were learning to become high school math teachers, some were working on middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary school.

The transformation of a 300 - student middle school from a traditional lessons and units curricular approach to a true schoolwide PBL pedagogy is not an easy process, and it required us to work on several interrelated fronts.

Edwards Middle School teacher Hassan Mansaray works with one of his students in his English language arts class.

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Below is a collection of catchy sayings that work as cues to be quiet, the first ones appropriate for early and middle grade students, and the later ones field tested to work with high school kids.

This 17 - page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.

Prior to becoming a superintendent, she worked in many different facets of education including as classroom teacher at both the elementary and middle school levels, principal at the middle school level, director of the Upward Bound Program for first - generation college - bound students, and director of the Basic Skills Academy for at - risk high school youth.

For a teacher with both types of students in her classroom, that means trying to challenge kids ready for middle - school work while at the same time helping others to decode.

This ready - to - print 17 - page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.