Sentences with phrase «from middle school kids»

Browse for Phyllis Fagell has dealt with her share of awkward sex questions from middle school kids.

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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.

My kid - focused brain knows that this weekend signals the 2 - week mark until my youngest graduates from elementary school and officially becomes a middle schooler.

The high schools battle each other to attract students and athletes from the Catholic elementary and middle schools for years before any of those kids will have the opportunity to don their colors in the Holy Bowl.

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.

In elementary and middle schools, the end of the school year tends to bring with it a long string of outdoor games, field trips, and parties, as teachers let kids rejoice over having made it through to June (and try to keep them from getting so much spring fever that they actually gnaw through their desks in frustration).

while far from conclusive, has raised alarm bells among some in the youth sports community and prompted at least one leading concussion expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, MomsTeam's concussion expert emeritus, to recently recommend that kids not play such sports until middle or high school, at least under current rules.

Bullying occurs more often in the middle school and early teen years because kids are transitioning from being a child to an adolescent.

I love kids and have worked with all ages from newborn to middle school age.

Here is a new piece from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, who has written some popular posts, including «Why so many kids can't sit still in school today,» as well as «The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class» and «A therapist goes to middle school and tries to sit still.

(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.)

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

I live in Chicago, and I have friends who let their kids ride the bus and el to / from middle school.

As you look ahead to Middle School in the fall, how do you feel kids from other elementary schools will treat you once they learn about your food allergies?

Pick up kids from school, go on a middle school tour for my fourth grader (where my four - year - old complained for an hour about being bored) and then drop off both kids at dance.

While I try and stay so far away from our middle school cafeteria and feel so lucky that my kids have no desire to buy anything from any line there — a few points that makes this all worse.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

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 fair will accept submissions from students around the world in three age categories, covering kids from middle through high school.

It reminds me of the movie Clueless, the emo kids from middle school, and the plaid skirt I wore in high school.

I also keep it simple with pencil boxes, pens, tons of loose leaf paper, and a USB (which is now a must for middle schoolers), folders to keep the kids organized, glue sticks for projects, white - out for the older kids who are now using pens, new washable crayons and markers, tons of Ziploc bags that I use for everything from snacks to storing jewelry.

We are lucky enough to have a full - time nanny who keeps the kids during the day, though we're even luckier to be able to take our daughter to ballet in the middle of the afternoon, pick her up from school and take a midday pause and go on a walk with William.

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.

«Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

BLACK - ISH (formerly UNTITLED ANTHONY ANDERSON / KENYA BARRIS; single camera) PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Kenya Barris (w, ep), Anthony Anderson (ep), Larry Wilmore (ep), Laurence Fishburne (ep), Helen Sugland (ep), Tom Russo (ep), Peter Principato (ep), Paul Young (ep), Brian Dobbins (ep), James Griffiths (d) LOGLINE: An upper - middle class black man struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

Adults who haven't forgotten the fears and traumas of middle school will no doubt get a few hearty chuckles from director Thor Freudenthal's adaptation of Jeff Kinney's popular «Novel in Cartoons,» but make no mistake, this one's primarily for the kids.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.&raFrom its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.&rafrom voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

«Which is all the more sad, because service - learning is the type of pedagogy middle school kids benefit most from,» he said.

Such frivolous charges are intended to distract from what TCS policies actually do: provide taxpayers with an incentive to help low - and middle - income families choose schools that work for their kids.

39 School distributes backpacks of food to hungry kids; middle - schoolers overuse of energy drinks concerns teachers; student leaders can discourage peers from smoking; at - risk kids sent to time - in» to exercise.

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

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.

Anthony Orsini, a middle school principal from Ridgewood, NJ, talked about the media frenzy surrounding his memo to parents advising them to keep their kids away from social - networking sites.

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

From working with middle school kids, I knew how much they like gaming and I thought it would be great for them to play games while working out, said Joe Gorman, Waterbury's supervisor of health, physical education, and athletics.

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,»).

Some feedback from a middle school teacher indicated that the program provided something special for her kids which was so important, especially for the less motivated ones, because it gave them something to look forward to every week.

«We are saving 90 of our kids that we used to lose every year when they moved from our middle schools to our large 1,700 - student high school.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

Because the purpose of Title 1 is to provide additional support for children from poor and minority backgrounds, any use of the subsidies for general school operations (including for kids from the middle class) is a violation of federal law.

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..

Under his leadership, KIPP: MA has grown from operating one middle school in Lynn serving nearly 370 kids and families in grades 5 - 8 to a network of 4 schools in Lynn and Boston currently serving over 850 kids and families in kindergarten and grades 5 - 12.

Three teacher leaders from each participating elementary school and middle school and four teacher leaders from each participating high school will form the kid - friendly communities of practice.

In this activity meant for kids from elementary through middle school, students practice what to say and how to break the ice as a way of getting to know others when beginning a new friendship.

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.

Broadly speaking, the idea is that if more kids graduate from high school, and achieve higher scores on standardized tests, then more young people are likely to go to college, and, in turn, land jobs that can secure them spots in the middle class.

The program was launched after parents expressed concern about their kids moving from the smaller, safer elementary school to the much larger middle school.

Jennifer, middle school kids love to hear their teachers read fiction (in general), and they can benefit from that practice.