Sentences with phrase «eighth grade girl»

Following the likes of «Moonlight,» «Menashe» and «The Florida Project,» Burnham creates a universal story out of a very specific experience: that of being an eighth grade girl in the year 2018.

The group, which included eight pre-selected eighth grade girls, met weekly for a year and focused on helping their transition to high school.

Dr. Shakeshaft was also the principal investigator on a three - year National Science Foundation project to promote interest in science careers among seventh and eighth grade girls, particularly girls of color from low - income families.

Fairview Public Schools — Presentation to eighth grade girls, Fairview, OK.

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The Severson Sisters — Super Girl Program helps girls in third through eighth grade connect to their «inner super girl.&raGirl Program helps girls in third through eighth grade connect to their «inner super girl.&ragirl.»

Michelle turns away and grinds her teeth — how could this be happening to the girl who won the Greg Tatum Award in eighth grade as her school's most Christlike child?

Each April, I wrap up my high school counseling work with the eighth grade class at Katherine Delmar Burke School, a kindergarten through eighth grade school for girls in San Francisco, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief.

The state of Michigan even considered allowing all - girl schools for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.

In an article recently published in the journal Body Image, Hillard and her colleagues, fellow Notre Dame psychology graduate student Rebecca A. Morrissey, and Notre Dame faculty members Dawn M. Gondoli, associate professor of psychology, and Alexandra F. Corning, research associate professor of psychology, reported on results from their study of a representative group of sixth - through eighth - grade girls and their mothers.

For Emi - Jay founders Julianne Goldmark and Emily Matson, starting a hair accessory business in eighth grade was just a practical solution to get Gossip Girl - worthy hairstyles without Gossip Girl prices.

From eighth - grade girls to skateboarding showboats to struggling gay teenagers, these actors and their roles wowed audiences at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — and promise to keep audiences buzzing all year.

«Techbridge girls are more interested, more motivated, and more willing to stick to long - term projects,» says eighth - grade science teacher Dan Fleming, who heads up the Techbridge club at John Swett Elementary School.

«These girls are in the eighth grade but can already see that society is telling them how to look and how they are going to be,» Waddy says.

During Levinson's interactive PPE session, she presented participants with a case study focused on an eighth grade teaching team, which had to decide whether to promote or retain a 15 - year - old girl who had failed required classes and was reading way below grade level, but who also had worked hard to succeed in the face of numerous personal traumas.

In the after school space, I help run a program called Girl Talk, which is aimed to be a safe space for young girls (sixth through eighth grade) to discuss the obstacles they face in school and in society.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

SANGER, California — At a table strewn with papers, four eighth - grade boys with gelled hair and flashy sneakers comb through lyrics, discussing everything from girls to grammar.

Utah's eighth grade science scores improved between 2011 and 2015 for white, Hispanic, and American Indian students, as well as for students both eligible and not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch and for boys as well as girls, NAEP reported.

Data from LA Unified's 2011 - 12 state standardized test scores shows the percentage of girls ranked proficient or advanced in science drops from 54 percent in the eighth grade to roughly 27 percent a year later.

Unlike the eighth - grade girls and all boys, seventh - grade girls did not show a significant gain in the TOSRA.

Utah's eighth grade science scores improved for white, Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander, and American Indian students as well as for students both eligible and not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch and for boys as well as girls, NAEP reported.

She attended Urban Day School, a charter school, from fourth through seventh grade, a public school in Tennessee for eighth grade, and South Division High School in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located downtown.

She decided to home - school her elder daughter in sixth through eighth grades because, Ms. Devos said, the daughter had grown increasingly bored in school and the girls in her class were growing increasingly «catty.»

She has a B.S. in elementary education from the University of Maine at Farmington and has worked with students of all ages for almost thirty years: as a volunteer at Pine Hill Preschool in Jefferson, a teacher of third and fourth grades at Chelsea and Waldoboro elementary schools, a science teacher of fifth and sixth grade students at Kieve Science Camp for Girls, a seventh and eighth grade math and science teacher at CTL, and, for three years, a helping and kindergarten teacher at CTL.

The theater students at the district school are creating hip - hop pants and hoodies inspired by astronaut outfits for the charter school's eighth - grade girls, he said.

Thirteen - year - old Jeffrey must figure out how to live as a cancer survivor, get the girl, and graduate eighth grade.

In this nuanced story filled with well - developed characters, three eighth - grade girls from immigrant families face prejudice in their affluent New Jersey suburb.

The language arts teacher at Pines Middle School, at 200 N. Douglas Road in Pembroke Pines, was trying to break up a fight between two eighth - grade girls.

On the other hand, girls who were more aggressive (red solid line) were bullied more than girls who were less aggressive (red dotted line) over time, and the difference was significant in eighth grade.

Girls who were less prosocial (red dotted line) were bullied more than girls who were more prosocial (red solid line) throughout the school years, although the difference in eighth grade was not signifiGirls who were less prosocial (red dotted line) were bullied more than girls who were more prosocial (red solid line) throughout the school years, although the difference in eighth grade was not signifigirls who were more prosocial (red solid line) throughout the school years, although the difference in eighth grade was not significant.

In eighth grade, girls who were more shy were bullied significantly more than girls who were less shy.

Girls were initially contacted when they were in either seventh, eighth, or ninth grade.

The subjects included 390 boys and girls in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades at middle schools in D city.