Sentences with phrase «larger middle school setting»

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The Big Picture Over the last year, Making Caring Common (MCC) set out to investigate gender bias in young people, conducting a large study of roughly 19,800 middle and high school students from a diverse...

Facing a dilapidated set of facilities that discouraged academic improvement and scared off middle - class parents, Vallas and the equally ambitious Chico, who recently announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate, embarked on a $ 2.5 billion school construction and renovation program that was at one point the largest building project in the nation, according to Vallas.

The criteria are set up, and students are rewarded district - wide at the trimester in the elementary level and at semester end in high school and middle school, as well as a year - end drawing for larger prizes.»

As I seem to be spending much of this semester investigating effective writing instruction, setting up a writing center at my middle school where I broadcast some of these instructional practices into the larger school culture has an immense appeal.

One - size - fits - all models of professional development for principals (widespread throughout the United States), are unlikely to work well in complex and difficult high school settings (the same point holds for some larger middle schools).

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

The nearly $ 637 million spending plan is set to fund pay raises for most school employees, but does call for slightly larger class sizes at both the elementary and middle school levels.

The change in the school context has a large impact on the nature of the peer group, as the typical middle school or junior high school peer group involves a very large and diverse set of peers.