Sentences with phrase «middle school kids on»

I'll also be working on two books, one for middle school kids on resilience to disasters and another, for adults, on ways to navigate the next 50 years with the fewest regrets.

I model and directly teach that to a room full of special needs middle school kids on a daily basis.

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Well, if you want to broaden it to an awareness of some manifestation of «cool Christianity,» I think that I started noticing it very early on... such as when I started getting into Christian rock in middle school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup,school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup,School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup, etc..

On another local level, try to find the time to become a Big Brother or Big Sister, or volunteer at an elementary or middle school to make sure kids have a good, reliable influence in their lives.

Note: I enjoyed this book in spite of the narration on audible - the narrator's tone sounded like a high class 40 year old rather than a middle school / high school kid.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

The Wapakoneta Middle School in Ohio has reportedly decided to pander to bigots given the parents of seventh graders the options to have their kids skip the lesson on Islam because «some topics are sensitive,» the principal said to Buzzfeed.

Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

Set Your Kids Free: 10 Things They Need to Be Able to Do on Their Own by Middle School (also posted as guest blog on Bonbon Break)

It was my middle daughter who first set me on a journey to feeding kids in schools.

Middle school can be tough on both parents and kids.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

My kids are independent and have learned to do their homework on their own.But I had to step in recently to help my middle - schooler with a term paper that needed a lot of help.

Like in France, with all elementary school kids (up to middle school) just being served what is on the menu for that day.

Just what should our early adolescent / middle school kids be able to do on their own?

Pick up kids from school, go on a middle school tour for my fourth grader (where my four - year - old complained for an hour about being bored) and then drop off both kids at dance.

I don't believe in forcing something on my kids, because if I did, they would end up bingeing on school lunches when they hit middle school.

There is a long two - hour lunch break in French schools, and while this makes the day longer (maybe too long) for the kids, on the other side, the children have a good break in the middle of the day to eat their lunch slowly and digest afterwards in the recess area (French law states that children must sit at the table for a minimum of 30 minutes).

I was entertained by the menus on this season's kid episode, disappointed that they were serving a middle school audience.

Whether it's first grade or off to middle school, the start of the new school year comes with some stress on kids and parents alike.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification efSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification efschools amid a diversification effort...

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

Already, at 34 minutes per log - in, our kids are doing more science on Whyville than they're doing in middle school.

«Waimea Middle School really resonated because the impact it would have on the kids and it's a part of the community we don't get to interact with very often.»

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

I rather fill it and there's interesting data that says kids who spend more time on the social and emotional aspects when they're younger, they're actually academically delayed in middle school and then they kick everyone's ass...

Well my friends, who knew that a) pretty much the entire catalog of full episodes of Wild Kingdom are available on YouTube, and b) middle school kids in the year 2016 are also utterly enthralled by it?

We are lucky enough to have a full - time nanny who keeps the kids during the day, though we're even luckier to be able to take our daughter to ballet in the middle of the afternoon, pick her up from school and take a midday pause and go on a walk with William.

But when I used it in my middle school class a few years ago I knew something was up by the complete shocked silence and looks of terror on the kid's faces.

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Phyllis Smith turns a one - dimensional and dithering marshmallow into an interesting study in the conflict between desire and convention, Henry Michael Higgins, is the dolphin - obsessed but otherwise disengaged principal, and they are supported by the usual gaggle of kids found in flicks set in a middle school, played by actors who avoid cutesiness and given a script that sets them up perfectly for the bald truth Elizabeth dumps on them with matter - of - fact disengagement in place of the usual cheery esteem - boost called for by curriculum and compassion.

On the surface, Lady Bird tells the story of an angsty teen desperate to escape her middle - class life in a dull California town, where she's forced to put up with the politics of Catholic school — the rich kids, the strict rules, the repressed sexuality.

As a kid who went through middle school with the help of Teen Titans, which featured Cyborg, I am very excited to see the character of Cyborg brought to life on screen.

While the R - rated «12 Years a Slave» would be a perfect eye - opener for kids now in middle school or high school, one wonders how many parents would want their young ones to encounter what was going on in our freedom - loving nation during some of its most savage years.

Middle School is very much on the order of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: fairly harmless entertainment that will play best with very young and easily amused viewers.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

When telling adults that I was getting on a plane with middle schoolers to take them across the country to the mountains of southern Arizona, many asked the same worried questions: «How many kids are going?

If the climate allows, consider letting kids in mobile classrooms eat outdoors for lunch, either at cafe or picnic tables (following the example of Loggers» Run Middle School, mentioned above) or on blankets.

The only film that I remember capturing kids and educators in the inner city as effectively was season four of the great TV series The Wire, which focused on a middle school.

Making STEM a Part of Everyday Life U.S. News & World Report, 5/6/14» «How do we, starting in the middle grades, give kids more exposure to the world on a systematic basis, so that by the time they arrive in high school, they are in a position to know how their interests and strengths align with careers so they can make intelligent choices about their career pathways?»

Other lessons on the topic for elementary school, middle school, and high school students can be found at These Kids Mean Busines $.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Middle school especially is a time when friendships take on a very heightened role for kids, but they're also becoming more independent.

And in middle and high school, you'd continue this approach with separate tracks: «challenge» or «honors» for the top kids, «regular» or «on - level» for the average ones, and «remedial» for the slowest.

Finally, ask yourself whether the collegiate version of U.S. history — warts and all, with emphasis on the warts — is what you want kids to learn about the nation's past while in elementary, middle, and high school.

So my suggestion to you is focusing on teaching middle school kids the concepts that will naturally engage them, because they're meaningful right now.

But we don't have enough of them — and we almost never provide their equivalent for elementary - and middle - school students, which would do much to launch more high - ability poor kids on a trajectory to success.

«Middle school kids learn best by being actively engaged in their work, and hands - on collaborative projects are especially engaging to them,» Bill Ivey observed.