Sentences with phrase «local middle school students»

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is concluding a series of exhibitions featuring collaborations between Pratt Institute's Architecture and Art and Design Education Departments and local middle school students with a final show, Reclaim Works,...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is concluding a series of exhibitions featuring collaborations between Pratt Institute's Architecture and Art and Design Education Departments and local middle school students with a final show, Reclaim Works, which runs through June 30.

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Most schools have, Red Cross Clubs are available in middle and high schools, allowing students to learn leadership skills while participating at local American Red Cross chapter events and on related projects.

«I would like to create a mentorship program in East Los Angeles so that undergraduate students from local universities could partner with poorly resourced middle schools and high schools to mentor students and coach them in college preparation.

For example, if you were to open a school catering to students in a provincial area in the Middle East, but then fail to hire any local talent either as educators or administration, your school would fail to represent the community it serves.

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

(Wellesley, Massachusetts) A Wellesley Middle School field trip to a local mosque has sparked controversy in the affluent community west of Boston after a video surfaced showing some of the students praying inside the hall.

Dryden, NY - On Monday, Dryden Middle School hosted their first Health and Wellness Day, with local businesses coming together to engage students -LSB-...]

Middle school students interviewed farmers to create the «Ag Hall of Fame» in their school to honor local farmers.

In Crystal Lake, the city, Park District and local schools have created a program that allows some middle - school students to act as helpers at neighborhood elementary schools.

For Evie Hess, school cafeteria manager in Sailorway Middle School in Vermilion Local Schools, OH, her dedication to students was marked with a regional Manager of the Year school cafeteria manager in Sailorway Middle School in Vermilion Local Schools, OH, her dedication to students was marked with a regional Manager of the Year School in Vermilion Local Schools, OH, her dedication to students was marked with a regional Manager of the Year award!

A dramatic spike in the use of a particular type of electronic cigarette among middle and high school students has local parents, educators and activists, clamoring for action.

That means that details remain elusive on the status of, among other things, expanding ride - hailing outside of New York City, offering free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for middle - class students, and requiring local governments to come up with shared services plans.

NEW YORK — A new sex - education mandate in New York City could have middle - school students visiting local pharmacies to catalogue condom brands, among other problematic assignments.

Students at the Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School in central New York are learning computer coding through a program developed by a local nonprofit.

Only 17 percent of local elementary and middle school students met the grade level standard for ELA (English Language Arts), while just 22 percent met the standard in math.

Three Waggoner Center graduate students provide evidence - based, harm reduction education to local middle - and high - school students.

In addition to Project BioEYES, the program has expanded to include a new project called Your Watershed, Your Backyard, in which middle - school students grow zebrafish embryos in water samples from their own local watershed to test the effects of pollution.

The Weizmann Institute of Science had created an introductory chemistry class for the local middle school in Rehovot, Israel, where Joshua - Tor was a student.

By hosting hands - on demonstration sessions for middle and high school students, as well as sessions created in partnership with local Girl Scouts troupes, the EdCom introduces young people to the science of acoustics.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

I had been invited to see a set of culminating presentations of collaborative research projects by college students and alternative - education students from a local middle school.

If teachers and students at F. H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington, Vermont, want to know the week's lunch menu, activities» schedule, or weather forecast, or if they want to find out how heavy student backpacks should be, all they have to do is tune in to their (very) local news.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

I started thinking about the time I worked at a local summer camp and how much I enjoyed being with upper middle school students.

In our PBS film Not In Our Town: Class Actions, middle school students take the lead in educating their peers and their teachers in a NIOS anti-bullying initiative that reached 50,000 students following two suicides of local youth in Lancaster, California.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

Middle - school students make sense of local history while creating an award - winning documentary in an Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative class.

PASA's Club AfterZone, located in Providence middle schools, gives students the flexibility to alternate their on - site enrichment activities with an additional «learning time» session, during which students receive individual help on schoolwork from volunteers, many of whom are students at local colleges.

Like some 1,000 other middle school students from the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island boroughs of New York City, the 7th grader is involved with a local program called Election Connection.

Contrast this with the local school where class sizes are notoriously large and there has been a «white flight» of middle class students out of this school to private schools in the last few years.

Lincroft Academy in Oakley, part of Sharnbrook Academy Federation, became a school for students aged 11 to 16 this term, changing from Lincroft Middle School as part of the local authority's move to a two - tier education sschool for students aged 11 to 16 this term, changing from Lincroft Middle School as part of the local authority's move to a two - tier education sSchool as part of the local authority's move to a two - tier education system.

At Sutter Middle School, teacher Monica Sigala's language arts students were learning to perfect the art of letter writing while simultaneously reading about the contributions of farmworker advocate (and local hero) César Chávez.

The Stanford University School of Education continues to examine the issue of student stress through research and conferences with local middle and high schools, and has held conferences on student stress.

Earlier this year, students at S&S Middle School in Sadler, Texas, learned about that connection when they planned a fundraiser for a local charity.

At Hood River Middle School, place - based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local geography, culture, history, and economy into classroom lessons.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

Using detailed student - level data to compare what sorts of students enter KIPP as compared to public schools in the neighborhood, and what kinds of students replace those who leave, authors find, on average, that KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools.

Most recently, Moskowitz issued a high - profile rejection of a city plan to house new students from six middle - school programs in two sites, which she and local newspaper editorial boards criticized as an unstable, temporary fix that would force families to travel too far to school.

While a student at San Fernando High School, she worked at a local middle school helping students improve their reading skills and grow their reading lSchool, she worked at a local middle school helping students improve their reading skills and grow their reading lschool helping students improve their reading skills and grow their reading levels.

In a unique proposal that builds on the Local School Choice model embraced by UTLA and LAUSD, E4E - LA members recommend a rational middle ground: 20 % of student growth data results based on state - approved tests and 20 % from Local School Choice Assessments that schools would select or develop and the district would approve.

In Wichita, Kansas, a group of middle and high school students once worked through a local youth service agency called Hope Street to create safer, more

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

Robert Lee, Ph.D., superintendent of Kenston Local School District, has announced that beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cSchool District, has announced that beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cschool year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cschool start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the change.

In 2015, for instance, the Skills for Success grant program supported local educational agencies and their partners in developing programs and practices that promoted positive learning mindsets among middle - grade students.37 The winning entities included Chicago Public Schools, KIPP, Long Beach Unified School District, and Los Angeles Unified School District.38

In a high - poverty, urban middle school in Mississippi, the principal has partnered with local businesses to develop a community garden that students work in to grow fresh vegetables they can take home — and good deeds can earn them credit for supplies at the school store.

In Wichita, Kansas, a group of middle and high school students once worked through a local youth service agency called Hope Street to create safer, more effective schools for students in their community.