Sentences with phrase «middle school kids need»

«Middle school kids need to have unwinding and reflecting time just as adults do,» Meyer tells Education World.

But unless you are passing down a smart phone, I don't think middle school kids need a smart phone.

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His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

In middle school, more homework and big projects hijacked precious family weekends — just when my kids needed more sleep, more time to adjust to their rapidly changing brains, and more healthy time with friends, and when my husband and I needed some rest.

Set Your Kids Free: 10 Things They Need to Be Able to Do on Their Own by Middle School (also posted as guest blog on Bonbon Break)

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

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?

My kids are independent and have learned to do their homework on their own.But I had to step in recently to help my middle - schooler with a term paper that needed a lot of help.

The #TalkEarly program started as an idea that conversations about alcohol need to happen before alcohol even presents itself directly to kids, often middle school aged.

Stopping to take phone calls to chat with friends in the middle of school definitely doesn't work for the younger kids and their attention spans, nor can they really achieve what they need to without your full, undivided attention and support.

Middle and high school kids need their parents to teach them how to be good people who do the right thing, online and off.

All schools need do is follow the lead of Berkeley and other school districts that understand that tons of sugar can not be good for kids in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

I model and directly teach that to a room full of special needs middle school kids on a daily basis.

Teachers and parents from Lux Middle School, in Lincoln, Nebraska, talk about how technology can level the playing field for kids with special needs.

Most immigrant and lower middle class kids need this assistance in every high school.

I think one of the things middle school teachers need to recognize is the incapability of consistency from most kids.

This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.

Says Jodee Rose, a former art and math teacher who developed a middle school lesson plan for teaching the method, «It's low tech, but it's high tech ideas, because it's working through computer language, which kids are going to need to learn eventually.»

«Charters want to reach kids of the greatest needs, but one of the best things you can do for low - income kids is give them the chance to go to middle - class schools,» he said.

At Trousdale County's middle school — Jim B. Satterfield Middle, named in honor of Mr. Satterfield's father — a unique schedule delivers some form of intervention to all students, whether kids are in need of enrichment ormiddle school — Jim B. Satterfield Middle, named in honor of Mr. Satterfield's father — a unique schedule delivers some form of intervention to all students, whether kids are in need of enrichment orMiddle, named in honor of Mr. Satterfield's father — a unique schedule delivers some form of intervention to all students, whether kids are in need of enrichment or RTI2.

She meets with the teachers, she comes into the math class and pulls out the kids who need more into separate groups for more challenging math, she writes the GIEPs, attends PAGE conferences, and also is in the process of working with the middle school AT teachers to give them a heads up on the needs and successful learning strategies of the up and coming 5th graders.

Our first two - time Parent Group of the Year winner adapts to changing needs of middle school kids and parents — 10 years after first winning.

Kids should be involved in active, project - based learning, especially middle school students who desperately need to feel like they own their own learning and that learning is relevant to their lives — otherwise they'll stop attending.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

Sooner or later, you'll need to know how to talk to your kids about California Renters Insurance when they're in middle school.

Education in grade, middle, & high schools — make kids accountable, teach them to go home & teach their parents if needs be.