Sentences with phrase «middle and high school years»

Well - meaning parents push their children to succeed, middle and high school years are wrought with social and academic pressures, and the natural changes of adolescence can be confusing, frustrating, and overwhelming.

Students also learn basic keyboarding, computer literacy and internet safety — effectively setting the stage for more advanced technology use in the middle and high school years.

Lance Hindt, the Katy (Texas) school superintendent who has been dogged by decades - old claims that he bullied students during his middle and high school years, says he will retire on Jan. 1.

Such a partnership could allow students to gain college credits beginning in their middle and high school years to reduce college costs and be better prepared to be successful in college.

Chaminade prepares college - bound students throughout their middle and high school years in a rigorous program of academic excellence.

Amani Charter School exists because Debra and her husband, Charles Stern, realized that there is a wide achievement gap in Mount Vernon and that it becomes even more persistent in the middle and high school years.

Much of what many students must read in college is nonfiction — often complex and dense nonfiction — but their reading during their middle and high school years is usually heavily weighted toward fiction, often, as we discussed in chapter 1, insufficiently complex fiction.

Superintendent Jeffrey Young, Ed.D.» 88, says he proposed the move in December 2010 to level the academic and socioeconomic field of Cambridge students as they enter the middle and high school years.

«The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe ways in which developing student practitioners of the discipline of mathematics increasingly ought to engage with the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise throughout the elementary, middle and high school years.

This continued throughout his middle and high school years until one teacher, Mr. Minch, and a new class in graphics opened his eyes to the power of education.

Researchers are still somewhat baffled by gifted underachievement, which becomes more prevalent in the middle and high school years.

The middle and high school years are the most difficult times to be introverted, because when hundreds of kids are crammed together in a single building it can feel as if the only way to gain respect and friendship is through vivacity and visibility.

Acupuncture can help teens with occasional sports injuries, and help them navigate the everyday life stressors and demands of the middle and high school years.

I spent my middle and high school years convinced that I just didn't have the gift for math.

The authors compared job loss rates during middle and high school years with college attendance rates a few years later, at 19 years of age.

«This new study shows it is during the hectic middle and high school years — perhaps more than ever — that mothers must deliberately prioritize the regular receipt of «authentic connections» in their everyday lives.»

The middle and high school years can be an especially hard time as students receive less supervision.

The new award is recognizing middle and high schools this year and elementary schools in 2016.

Not exact matches

I got to sample a lot of food from the places that we lived or visited and during my middle school and high school years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I went to an international school.

After my awkward years of acne - riddled middle and most of high school, I'm finally learning more about skin care.

Throughout the years I coached CYO, middle school teams, high school and AAU teams.

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.

Coach Murray who has years of coaching and teaching experience with middle and high schoolers is excited to once again inspire and motivate young runners to reach their potential.

For the past six years she has helped families looking for the right fit in preschools, elementary schools, middle and high schools for their children.

Middle school and high school teachers especially appreciate notes of thanks at the holidays and at the end of the year and it's always nice to attach a candy bar or Starbucks gift card as a token of appreciation.

Your child with ADHD has successfully navigated the early school years and is beginning his or her journey through middle school and high school.

During my adolescent and teenage years I played on the middle school basketball team, but chose to go the musical route in high school and opted for band (both marching and concert band).

For over 30 years, Duke Youth Programs, hosted by Duke Continuing Education, has offered a wide range of intellectually stimulating and fun activities for middle and high school students.

I have two high schoolers and a middle schooler, and college applications are coming up in a year.

All coaches, including the middle school and high school coaches in that sport, should be encouraged to attend at least one meeting a year.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Dr. Andrew Peterson, University of Iowa team physician, says that injury rates are low and mostly predicated on long careers and repeated hits — not a few years of contact sports during middle or high school.

Your child's growth and development during the middle school years will set the stage for high school and beyond.

Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there, he served as a class and high school teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairpSchool; during his 26 years there, he served as a class and high school teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairpschool teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairpschool math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairperson.

Be sure your middle schooler establishes a strong academic footing and be sure to spend some time during middle school to talk about high school and to prepare your child for the final years of his or her education.

Over the last 24 years, Mrs. Harrison became involved in a number of volunteer activities, including the Girl Scouts, the First Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn's Women's Association, the Glen Ellyn Newcomers Club, Infant Welfare and the Parent - Teacher Associations at Westfield School, Glen Crest Middle School and Glenbard South High School.

However, almost all MPCS middle and high schools, and many elementary schools continued to sell these chips until this year.

Once kids hit their teen and tween years (mainly middle and high school), many begin to crave the company of like - minded peers.

Lunch will cost $ 1.15 next year in the elementary schools, $ 1.20 in the middle schools and $ 1.25 in the high schools.

By the end of the year, all 80 elementary schools will have them, and then they'll start piloting in the middle schools, followed by high schools.

According to their framework, high - level «non-cognitive» skills like resilience, curiosity, and academic tenacity that are essential to success in middle and high school are impossible for a child to obtain without first developing, in the early years of formal education, executive function, a capacity for self - awareness, and relationship skills.

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

In partnership with the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) and other institutions, Mass Audubon may offer teacher workshops at different times of year for elementary, middle, and high school educators.

Middle School and Early High School Years Parents are often worried or confused by changes in their teenagers.

So he instituted the middle school concept of team teaching to Hadley Junior High School in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of stuschool concept of team teaching to Hadley Junior High School in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of stuSchool in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of students.

The award process begins with each Innovation Zone (high school and feeder elementary and middle schools) selecting a Counselor of the Year.

We continue to do so even as we navigate the middle school days for my youngest and now are moving into the high school years for my oldest.

We faced the same problems with a la carte here in San Francisco, but this year we have been able to eliminate a la carte from all of our middle and high schools (it never existed at elementary.)

In his final two years at Unity, Knox also served as the middle school and high school Athletic Director.