Sentences with phrase «middle of the last school year»

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

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My baby is in his last year of middle school and it just seems so hard to believe.

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.

Amy from Livin» On The Road: «Last year, we had to walk to this tiny little country school in the middle of nowhere in the Aussie desert where we were staying for three months.

Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can read all about how my daughter, now in middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a school lottery.

Last school year — his first in middle school — was a bit of an adjustment for both of us, but after a few months a basic set of rules began to coalesce.

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.

She has taught middle school English for the last 10 years and is passionate about instilling a love of writing and literature in the hearts of young learners.

In my experience — meaning traveling the country for the last year and reporting on school food on a daily basis — everywhere you see these kinds of success stories there's a professional chef standing squarely in the middle.

Klug said Wadleigh's middle school students didn't have physical education last year and lost their only guidance counselor and math coach because of budget cuts.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

The health department says in the last ten years, use of tobacco products by High School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by Middle School students decreased by 54 %.

Arts instruction in at least one discipline is up across all elementary and middle schools, the report found, though the number of high schools offering at least three disciplines declined by two percent over the last year.

Silver was referring to the Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, which moved from the East Village to 26 Broadway last year, and the former Greenwich Village Middle School, which moved in this year and became the Lower Manhattan Community Middle School.

My baby is in his last year of middle school and it just seems so hard to believe.

Its staffers were informed in early April 2006 that Elle Girl (USA)'s last issue would be its June / July 2006 Summer Issue, while they were already in the middle of working on the August 2006 issue, which is traditionally the largest issue of the year — covering fall fashion and back - to - school topics.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

As Kayla, Fisher guides us through the frightening halls and classrooms of her middle school during the last few days of her eighth grade year — and all of the fears, regrets and hopes that come with graduation.

She submits applications to colleges in New York on the sly, with help from her dad while she rushes to complete her last year of high school and break free of her lower middle class bonds.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

Marking the directorial debut of YouTube star - turned - professional comedian Bo Burnham, the film throws us right into the middle of the final week of the last year of middle school for Kayla Day (played spectacularly by Elsie Fisher).

The board voted unanimously last month to provide an alternative to the existing plan for 75 hours of mandated student service over the middle - and high - school years.

Last year for National Poetry Month, I wrote a blog post about integrating a poem into the opening routine of my English class at Holicong Middle School, in Pennsylvania.

T - Shirt Memories When Donna Thomas, a teacher at Heritage Prep Middle School in Orlando, Florida, was teaching first grade, she had each of her students bring a white T - shirt to school on one of the last days of theSchool in Orlando, Florida, was teaching first grade, she had each of her students bring a white T - shirt to school on one of the last days of theschool on one of the last days of the year.

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...

The county council has a successful track record in school planning, and last year 96 per cent of Hertfordshire applicants were offered a place at one of their four ranked primary, junior or middle schools, with 83 per cent gaining their first preference.

Our school is mid-pivot in technology — we're in our second year of a middle school 1:2 iPad program, our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and our last year of two PC labs for the students to use (next year we'll have only one lab).

Gov. Bush's recommendation to the legislature builds on last year's Middle Grades Reform Act, which provided hundreds of new reading coaches in middle schools across the Middle Grades Reform Act, which provided hundreds of new reading coaches in middle schools across the middle schools across the state.

Eighth graders at Fairbanks Middle School in Milford Center, Ohio, for example, spent most of last year contacting and interviewing World War II veterans from Union County, Ohio.

Our tour guide was a forty - year veteran teacher named Charles Cassar, who couldn't wait to show us the rehearsal spaces, dance studios, and the high school's two magnificent theatres — all of it in the last place you'd look for them, smack in the middle of a blue - collar refinery town that took the hardest blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

KIPP schools replace fewer of these students in the last two years of middle school, however, and, compared to district schools, KIPP schools tend to replace those who leave with higher - achieving students.

Michael Geisen, an Oregon middle school teacher and a former forester, was named the 2008 National Teacher of the Year last week at the White House.

A health - food pilot program launched last year at San Francisco's Aptos Middle School, which used to sell «all kinds of junk food,» according to PTA representative Caroline Grannan, has turned out to be a financial — and nutritional — success.

More than half of last year's speakers had attended Swartz Creek Middle School as students and wanted to show their appreciation by giving back.

Within the last five years, Mason has witnessed an infusion of literacy coaches and reading specialists into middle schools.

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.

Last year, Lakeside Middle School, in Millville, New Jersey, received disturbing news: It had been added to the state's list of «persistently dangerous» schools.

In 2000, the last year in which middle and high schools were selected, the achievement of Blue Ribbon schools was worse.

NMSA's Vision of Middle School Excellence Late last year, the National Middle School Association released 14 recommendations for dramatically improving middle scMiddle School Excellence Late last year, the National Middle School Association released 14 recommendations for dramatically improving middle scMiddle School Association released 14 recommendations for dramatically improving middle scmiddle schools.

Over the last 50 years, the middle school model has not produced any of its promised results.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

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.

Sometime last year, while walking the hallway of my school district's middle school, I was pulled aside by one of our veteran teachers, who seemed agitated.

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested John Garris, who had been serving a 45 - year sentence for murder and robbery in Baltimore when he escaped last June, in a county middle - school science class this month after a fingerprint check revealed his criminal history.

By last summer, the 40 - year - old former IBM executive was becoming increasingly disenchanted with Camp Creek Middle School, the 988 - student school her elder son Chaz attended in this small city on the outskirts of AtSchool, the 988 - student school her elder son Chaz attended in this small city on the outskirts of Atschool her elder son Chaz attended in this small city on the outskirts of Atlanta.

Gov. Gray Davis of California called last week for adding six weeks to the school year for middle school students, saying the extra time for academics would help students more successfully bridge the years between elementary and high school.

The ACLU filed a federal suit last year against the Vermilion Parish school district on behalf of an unnamed parent whose daughters were placed in single - sex classes at Rene A. Rost Middle Sschool district on behalf of an unnamed parent whose daughters were placed in single - sex classes at Rene A. Rost Middle SchoolSchool.

In my last year in office, we initiated the next steps of middle - school reform by requiring students to complete three credits each in language arts, math, science, and social studies before they move to high school.

Test scores have improved, but last year, the school's passing rate was less than half the rate of the city's top charter middle schools.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.