The CBITS program is a school - based intervention for
middle school and high school students who experience acute or chronic trauma; they may have witnessed or been the victim of community or school violence, accidents or injuries, physical abuse or domestic violence, or natural or man - made disasters.
Junior high /
middle school and high school students who have transition time between classes have multiple opportunities to be tardy each day.
Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) serves all New York City students from birth through age 26, including
middle school and high school students who are over the typical age for their grade level or who are behind in credits.
Not exact matches
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.»
We don't do a la carte lunch because that just stigmatizes the poorer
students who can't afford the a la carte selections; instead we offer many choices to our
middle and high school kids, all full meals
and all available to anyone.
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.
Hello Bettina, I am a teacher
who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk
students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our
middle and high school students.
I am a former
middle and high school teacher
who continues to mentor
students of those ages
and frequent the
schools often.
Our Youth to Youth Program, MIND YOUR MELON, takes
high school athletes
who have healed from concussions to speak to groups of
middle and high school students.
The price for a paid lunch, for the 60 % of Berkeley
students who don't qualify for free / reduced, is the
highest I have ever seen — $ 3.25 for elementary lunch, $ 3.75 for
middle school,
and $ 4.25 for
high school.
Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science
and Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated
high school courses...
and,
middle school students who are taking any of those courses for
high school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.
Middle school and high school students hung posters
and bottle hangers this week in the 12 out of 28 liquor retailers in Arlington Heights
who agreed to be part of a campaign against underage drinking.
And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of ti
And while the CDC reported that the percentage of
middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of ti
and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.
This year's event, which took place in Texas in February in conjunction with the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, brought 32 scientists into
middle and high school classrooms across Austin, Dallas
and Houston reaching more than 5,000
students — a significant jump from the 20 scientists
who participated in Boston in 2017.
Among those
middle and high school students who had the lowest levels of resilience, their ability to learn
and feel safe at
school was negatively affected many times.
In the new UCSF study, the researchers examined survey data from
middle and high school students who completed the National Youth Tobacco Survey in 2011
and 2012.
But the authors noted that about 20 percent of
middle school students and about 7 percent of
high school students who had ever used e-cigarettes had never smoked regular cigarettes — meaning that some kids are introduced to the addictive drug nicotine through e-cigarettes, the authors said.
In addition, exposure to pro-tobacco advertising was associated with the intention to smoke among U.S.
middle and high school students who reported never smoking.
Furthermore,
middle and high school students spend their
school day with multiple teachers
and adults, making it difficult to find a single adult
who can easily track their behavior
and report it accurately.
«Studies found that elementary
schools were pretty well taken care of with after -
school child care,
and high schools had such
high - caliber programs as youth - leadership development
and arts
and theater,» says Salmons,
who points out that
middle school students, meanwhile, were vastly underserved.
The graduation rate is only about 25 percent among
high - risk
high -
school students,
and currently only about 10 percent among
high - risk
middle -
school students, although some
who are still enrolled may yet graduate.
High - risk middle - and high - school students who transfer to their preferred school are less likely to be arrested and spend less time incarcerated, pointing to impact of school ch
High - risk
middle -
and high - school students who transfer to their preferred school are less likely to be arrested and spend less time incarcerated, pointing to impact of school ch
high -
school students who transfer to their preferred
school are less likely to be arrested
and spend less time incarcerated, pointing to impact of
school choice
(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.»
The study «Learn
and Serve» evaluated service learning program at 17
middle and high schools in the United States,
and found that
students who participated in service learning improved acceptance of cultural diversity, service leadership, civic attitudes
and volunteer behavior,
and reduced engagement in risky behaviors.
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Middle and High School Life Science Teachers - Teachers using NGSS or TEKS - Teachers
who want to increase
students engagement
and retention - Teachers not looking to reinvent the wheel Each bundle includes 5 resources including lab station activities, individual lessons, digital scavenger hunts, readings,
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This is particularly the case with
middle schools and high schools, serving as they do
students who might be four or five grade levels behind when they enter.
Controlling for key
student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores,
and the prior choice to enroll in a charter
middle school),
students who attend a charter
high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than
students who attend a traditional public
high school.
In the specific year when
students move to a
middle school (or to a junior
high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math
and English relative to that of their counterparts
who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary
school.
Moran recently noticed that a parent had shared on Facebook a photo of Albemarle
students who won an international robotics championship,
and she jumped right in
and commented, «I'm so proud that we have robotics teams in all of our
high schools,
and even our
middle schools and elementary
schools do a lot with robotics.»
Kronholz focused on
middle schoolers (which is also a shift — it used to be only
high school students who engaged in competitive tournaments), but elementary
school — age children also now participate in a variety of highly competitive
and organized afterschool activities.
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.
In addition,
students who leave KIPP are no more likely than those
who stay to be FRPL - eligible (both groups have
high eligibility rates) or to be in special education, whereas
students who leave comparison
middle schools are more likely than those
who stay to be FRPL - eligible
and to participate in special education programs.
Nor do the researchers find evidence that
students who attend
middle schools make larger achievement gains than their K - 8 peers in grades 9
and 10, by which time most Florida
students have entered
high school.
Chelsea Dale is the founder
and president of On Giants» Shoulders, a not - for - profit organization which advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating under - performing elementary
and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers,
schools,
and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished
high school students who appreciate the value of education.
The program, called On Giants» Shoulders, advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating underperforming elementary
and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers,
schools,
and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished
high school students who appreciate the value of education.
We also work with more than 900
middle school students who don't attend our charter
school and 1,080 Harlem
high schoolers.
His normally lackluster
middle and high school students,
who'd failed the course once already, were coming to class armed with strategies to topple colonial dictators.
According to a new study by Assistant Professor Martin West
and Guido Schwerdt of the University of Munich's Ifo Institute,
students who attend
middle schools are at risk of dropping out of
high school
In many communities, out - of -
school youth sports programs are available only for
students in elementary
and middle school, while
high school sports programs are often open only to those
who are good enough to «make the team.»
Once we'd designed the experiment, I needed to explain it to my team: the principals of our
high school and middle school,
and the
student teachers
who were involved.
The authors found that in the specific year when
students move to a
middle school (or to a junior
high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math
and English relative to that of their counterparts
who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary
school.
In - depth interviews with
students who became engaged in social
and environmental causes in
middle and high school showed that each was motivated to serve the greater good through an ability to empathize with individuals
and feel compassion for victimized, oppressed,
and marginalized groups.
The script, a lively Murder Mystery for a cast of twenty different characters is suitable for
Middle and High school students who are able to concentrate on building confidence in characterisation through this traditional, one location play.
We believe all
students would benefit from much more systematic exposure to the range of possible careers while in
middle and high school, even those
who know they are headed for a four - year university.
Andrea Guengerich Education Policy
and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience:
High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in
middle school, for low - income
students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the who
students who will be first - generation college
students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the who
students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented
Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the who
Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations
and the public
school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning
school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child
For example, Mizelle (1995) found that
students who stayed together with the same teachers through sixth, seventh,
and eighth grades
and experienced more hands - on, life - related learning activities, integrated instruction,
and cooperative learning groups were more successful in their transition to
high school than were
students from the same
school who had a more traditional
middle school experience.
In the same year, 89 percent, each, of
students in kindergarten through second grade,
and students in third through fifth grade, had a parent
who attended a scheduled meeting with a teacher, compared with 71 percent of
students in
middle school and 57 percent of
students in
high school.
Middle -
school students who won a charter lottery scored about 0.25 standard deviations (hereafter, σ)
higher on ELA
and 0.40 σ
higher in math, a result shown in column 2 of Table 4 (labeled «reduced form»).
Seeking to increase the number of
middle grade
students who are prepared for
high school and postsecondary success
Nuances of the data show that KIPP
schools aren't as successful in their first year as they are later,
and that KIPP
middle school students who go on to attend newer KIPP
high schools tend to show slight performance declines.