Sentences with phrase «middle school kids build»

ITHACA, NY and WASHINGTON, DC - Middle school kids build nest boxes using wood certified to the SFI Standard.

Not exact matches

To meet these goals, the plan is to continue to build a strong off - season club (Freestyle, Greco - Roman, and SCWAY Collegiate style) at the kids, middle school, and high school levels.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

Using the tasting to introduce and build support for «envelop - pushing» school lunches will hopefully mean winning over even the pickiest elementary and middle school kids, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director who also creates the recipes.

As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?

The next highest risk is anytime kids enter a new school building for the first time, such as entering kindergarten, middle school, or high school.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

The middle and high school years are the most difficult times to be introverted, because when hundreds of kids are crammed together in a single building it can feel as if the only way to gain respect and friendship is through vivacity and visibility.

Fourteen feet above a middle school cafeteria floor, kids work through an iterative design process to build «treehouses» and transform this space from institutional to cool.

Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.

When Little Shop visitedLesher Middle School in April, Jones says, «Some of the kids asked, «Who builds all thisstuff?»

Building parent involvement in the school is important, but its also a forum for parents to discuss and share stories and experiences in raising kids in these important middle school years.

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

For the next 25 years, Dockterman tested and created dozens of educational programs, among them the award - winning Science Court, an animated television show that aired on ABC Kids that taught the fundamental concepts of elementary and middle school science; the Great Ocean Rescue, a computer application where students face four challenging rescue missions that take them deep into the world's oceans; and Decisions, Decisions, a game that teaches students the complexities of topics like immigration, the constitution, environment, or building a nation through role - playing and informed discussion.

Particularly for black, Latino, and even the few Native middle - class families, they want their kids to both get college preparatory curricula and still be around peers of their own race and ethnicity — especially those who are also doing well in school — in order to build self - pride.

In the rush to build a better kid, parents enroll them in extra curricular activities that burn them out before they get to middle school.