Sentences with phrase «middle or high school about»

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When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

O'Malley has been writing, not about college professors or committed adult Christians (or about those, like myself, who are faithful readers of First Things), but about teenagers» American high school students, primarily those from middle «class and affluent families, who are the objects of Catholic «catechesis.»

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.

Your child may be heading to middle school, but he or she is already beginning to think about high school and all the fun that comes with it.

► When parents were asked about the benefits that their middle school or high school aged child gets from playing sports, more than eight in ten say their child benefits a great deal or quite a bit in the following ways: physical health (88 %), it gives him / her something to do (83 %), or it helps him / her learn about discipline or dedication (81 %).

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

In January 2012, the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health asked a national sample of parents of children in middle or high school (age 12 - 17 years) about participation in and costs of school sports.

Even if it is Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf (the soundtrack certainly took me back to the»80s and high school, but I didn't get all nostalgic or middle - aged about it).

An Incomplete Education: Trained for the elementary or high school grades, middle school teachers often lack knowledge about subject matter and young adolescents.

(p. 22) On later earnings they find: «Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.»

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

If so, then I would try and learn as much as I could about the school (whether elementary, middle or high) as I could.

We could have far more focused discussions about Common Core's standards or teacher quality if we distinguished K - 6 / 8 from high school, and elementary / middle school teachers from high school teachers.

The Class Size Matters advocacy group has also compiled data showing that about 40 percent of elementary and middle schools in the Renewal program — and nearly all of the high schools — have some classes with 30 or more students in them.

Richard Weissbourd, a boomer - age senior lecturer at Harvard's Education Department, is the lead author of a recent report that suggests misogyny and sexual harassment are «pervasive» among young people, yet few parents are talking to them about it and neither are high schools or middle schools.

Improving Schoolwide Numeracy A discussion with Judith Richardson, the author of Making the Mathematics Curriculum Count, about improving mathematical literacy, or numeracy, at the middle and high school levels.

One difference between high - achieving school districts and those that fall somewhere in the middle or are considered struggling is that staff members in schools that excel maintain lively conversations about educational shifts and solutions, while struggling schools tend to focus on problems.

Or maybe for middle and high schools, it's because they think younger teachers will understand more about what it's like to be a teenager or tween than older teachers, because it hasn't been as long since they were teenagers themselveOr maybe for middle and high schools, it's because they think younger teachers will understand more about what it's like to be a teenager or tween than older teachers, because it hasn't been as long since they were teenagers themselveor tween than older teachers, because it hasn't been as long since they were teenagers themselves.

Initiating RTI in a middle or high school setting can be accomplished by thinking both simply and systemically about common issues and challenges.

Learn about NASSP Breakthrough Schools program, which recognizes middle level and high schools that serve large numbers of students in poverty and are high achieving or dramatically improving student achieSchools program, which recognizes middle level and high schools that serve large numbers of students in poverty and are high achieving or dramatically improving student achieschools that serve large numbers of students in poverty and are high achieving or dramatically improving student achievement.

As the oldest teacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend college.68

Interested in finding out more about either of our middle schools or plans for our high school?

More than a dozen national or regional organizations exist to provide guidance and lesson plans to high - school and middle - school teachers interested in teaching students about social justice......

Interview 5 teachers or school leaders at high - performing middle schools in the District about the goals, structure, and content of their BTSN, as well as their attendance outreach.

And none of the people who worked on his team to write the Common Core Language Arts Standards for K - 12 were elementary, middle or high school teachers; none were researchers about teaching and learning; none were college professors of education or English.

I worry about the level of care it's realistically possible to show a kid as he or she progresses through middle and high school.

For additional information about enrollment, please select the grade level: Middle School (Grades 6 - 8) or High School (Grades 9 - 12).

Traditionally, content - area focused teachers, particularly in middle or high school, have not been trained to teach students how to access rigorous texts, including which disciplinary - specific strategies to use, how to break down and think about disciplinary text, or how to grapple with difficult questions while reading closely.

For more information about Brashier Middle College Charter High School or any of our school policies, please contaSchool or any of our school policies, please contaschool policies, please contact us.

Black and Latino students, on the other hand, have often never heard about the exam or have been told by their middle school guidance counselors that specialized high schools «[aren't] for our kids» (Santos).

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.

«It's so critical that every lawyer think about spending an hour or two in an elementary, middle or high school,» Bass said in a statement provided to the ABA Journal.

As you talk about your high school GPA I'm recalling when I was in grade school or middle school.

If you are passionate about sharing your love of history with others, consider becoming a high school or middle school history or social studies teacher.

Highlights Self - starter Outgoing personality Strong attention to detail Reliable and considerate Ability to maintain confidentiality Experience on high school planning committee Volunteer leader in church youth group Working knowledge of Spanish Fluent in Microsoft Office and Google Docs Graduated with honors Willingness to learn Passionate about helping youth Experience Youth Leader 10/1/2014 — Current Calvary Church — Portland, OR Help lead middle school youth group.

The transition to adolescence and the emergence of problem behavior The transition into adolescence has been defined by physical changes of puberty, school changes from an elementary to a middle or junior high school environment, cognitive changes with increased ability to understand cause and effect and think about the future, and changes in family relationships as adolescents seek more independence from parental supervision.

11 Essential Things to Know Before Adopting Siblings Davenport (2015) Creating a Family Lists seven recommendations to keep in mind when adopting a middle school or high school teen, such as learning as much as you can about issues facing children who are older at adoption.

Several of my young clients have recently expressed apprehension about going to a new school — particularly those entering middle or high school for the first time.

When you're going into middle school or high school, you're usually going from being the oldest in your grade level, with a solid group of friends, to being the youngest, and many times less savvy about the new social scene.

In the classrooms of the Urban Promise Academy in East Oakland, a summer campus for Aim High, 6th - graders sat on desk tops or stood leaning against desks in a circle and took turns reading anonymously submitted questions about middle school life — questions written down on white - lined paper and balled up.

Let's face it, we may be talking about the same people who were giving you wedgies in Middle School or competing with you for prom dates in High School.