Sentences with phrase «by middle school kids»

I found a beautifully illustrated flip book written in Hawaiian and English by middle school kids to help younger students with language skills.

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One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

I used to get verbally bullied every day in middle school and high school, by kids that are half my size.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

I mean, it had started harmlessly enough — a few kids with Princeton shirts in middle school, rumors of summer camps at Duke — but by the time senior year rolled around, competition was so fierce that people didn't even talk about where they were applying.

By middle school, many kids have either heard the words related to pornography, listened to the whispers of friends, or been exposed to a variety of images.

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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.

Anyone who has kids in school knows that by the middle of May all that anyone thinks about and cares about is SUMMER!

As a lunch lady in a middle school, I can tell you by keeping pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs off the menu's will just have kids go hungry.

But when viewed against the entire array of what's served by the district — the amount of processed, prepackaged food, the predominance of «kid food» like chicken nuggets and hamburgers, the sub-par «a la carte» offerings (especially at the middle and high school levels)-- these improvements don't seem terribly significant.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

Although bullying can start as early as preschool, by the time kids reach middle school, it has often become an accepted part of school.

(By definition, the recent middle - school project I write about in the book can't possibly be responsible for any recent change in college - graduation rates; the kids receiving character growth cards at KIPP Infinity are many years away from college.)

Teaching your kids these lessons and setting these expectations for them for middle school means they will have time to master them by the time they hit high school.

I was entertained by the menus on this season's kid episode, disappointed that they were serving a middle school audience.

Momentarily stunned out of her sandwich and tater tot induced trance, the girl sees that her lunch has been taken by Cliff Jenks, every coach's favorite athlete, but known as a bully to the kids who couldn't care less about middle school athletics.

In response to a recent sampling event held at Orchard Park Middle School by HUMAN operator partners NFL player Jon Corto and his wife, Jen, reporter and doctor Peter Ostrow said of HUMAN's machines: ``... reading that LCD screen may encourage the kids to start reading labels, then they'll realize that the snacks they enjoy don't have to be loaded with fats, processed foods, and sugar.

NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of EduSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Eduschools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Education.

But in a stark contrast to Cuomo's plan, Mayor de Blasio has sought to improve education by boosting social services, expanding universal prekindergarten and adding more after - school programs for middle - school kids.

And $ 250,000 will go to expand an existing program operated by the Brooklyn Technical High School Alumni Foundation that recruits kids from middle schools in under - represented neighborhoods.

The Independent Budget Office said the city could save major cash by scrapping summer school for elementary and middle school kids, in a new report out Friday.

Dishman and colleagues at the University of South Carolina are now looking at ways to help kids identify with exercise at a younger age, so that by the time they reach middle school they are more likely to identify as someone who exercises.

This is, perhaps, one of the best - kept secrets among parents: kids well into elementary school years are ushered to sleep by a parent or find their way into the parents» bed in the middle of the night.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

Well my friends, who knew that a) pretty much the entire catalog of full episodes of Wild Kingdom are available on YouTube, and b) middle school kids in the year 2016 are also utterly enthralled by it?

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But when I used it in my middle school class a few years ago I knew something was up by the complete shocked silence and looks of terror on the kid's faces.

Phyllis Smith turns a one - dimensional and dithering marshmallow into an interesting study in the conflict between desire and convention, Henry Michael Higgins, is the dolphin - obsessed but otherwise disengaged principal, and they are supported by the usual gaggle of kids found in flicks set in a middle school, played by actors who avoid cutesiness and given a script that sets them up perfectly for the bald truth Elizabeth dumps on them with matter - of - fact disengagement in place of the usual cheery esteem - boost called for by curriculum and compassion.

Imagine «Mean Girls» for the soccer mom set, and you've got some idea of the horrors that await Amy every time she drops off her two kids at McKinley Middle School, an institution ruled by the iron fist of PTA president Gwendolyn James (Christina Applegate).

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

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Later, teaching middle and high school history (an equally tough sell by the way), one of my goals was always to get kids jazzed about learning.

«We're always trying to improve quality, but sometimes we're flummoxed by the way middle school kids think.»

Following a decade spent teaching middle school at several progressive schools, Cerruti says he became intrigued by research, particularly uncovering new ideas about education and how kids think.

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.

Making STEM a Part of Everyday Life U.S. News & World Report, 5/6/14» «How do we, starting in the middle grades, give kids more exposure to the world on a systematic basis, so that by the time they arrive in high school, they are in a position to know how their interests and strengths align with careers so they can make intelligent choices about their career pathways?»

At the end of each day, PASA offers 5 p.m. bus rides home, by which time working parents have returned to welcome home Providence's middle school kids.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

«I feel it is important to make the kids understand what they did wrong but not by punishing them with a skill in which we want them to excel,» Dana Arhar, a teacher at Immokalee Middle School in Immokalee, Florida, told Education World.

By defining science education the way we too often do, we are turning middle school kids off to real learning.

Lest anyone doubt the reach of America's after - school woes — more than 14 million K - 12 students, including 40,000 kindergartners and almost 4 million middle school students, take care of themselves after school — it appears even the economy is suffering: A new study by Catalyst and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, shows that the workplace productivity of U.S. parents suffers when they are worried about what their kids are doing after school.

«Middle school kids learn best by being actively engaged in their work, and hands - on collaborative projects are especially engaging to them,» Bill Ivey observed.

This was corroborated by a national survey we conducted with over 1,000 middle school students: 81 percent said they heard kids saying mean things to one another every single day.

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers (The New Press, 2008) by Kathleen Cushman and Laura Rogers and the students of What Kids Can Do, Inc..

An updated analysis of state - wide data by Mississippi KIDS COUNT, released in February 2016, found that chronic absence rates start high in kindergarten, decrease through elementary school years, and increase again in middle and high school.

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.

He supported Turner Middle School, which was a traditional public school and he supports charters that are doing right by kids and communSchool, which was a traditional public school and he supports charters that are doing right by kids and communschool and he supports charters that are doing right by kids and communities.

By the time many kids — especially low - income kids — get to middle or high school, they lack so much knowledge that grade - level material is far beyond their reach.