Sentences with phrase «middle school works»

The SEL approach to education in middle school worked well in the Hinsdale (District 181) schools.

A few simple tips to keep your child on track while tackling middle school work.

While widespread consensus may be hard to achieve on whether middle schools work for the students enrolled within them, most people can agree on one thing: Regardless of one's zip code, there is a healthy amount of trepidation around middle school and the middle school years.

Two teachers from Oneonta Middle School working with Arc Voyager at one of the training sessions offered by the Education Department at Hartwick College

Reports like Reading Next [1] and What Makes Middle Schools Work [2] highlight the benefits of collaboration for both students and teachers, while emerging research suggests that inquiry - based approaches empower teachers to advance their practice and student learning.

[2] Wilcox K. Campbell with J. Angelis, What Makes Middle Schools Work: A report on best practices in New York State middle schools (Albany, N.Y.: University at Albany, 2007).

Those schools» strategies will be studied for use across the district and Gra - Mar's former principal, Dr. Antoinette Williams, is now the executive director for middle schools working with schools districtwide.

At the middle school I work at, 7th grade teachers are on one «team» and 8th grade teachers on another.

Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School work on their laptops during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts June 20, 2008.

Activities include Lower Schoolers identifying emotions during morning meeting, Middle Schoolers working with test anxiety in advisory, and Upper Schoolers joining -LSB-...]

Alicia Sheehy is a Language Arts and Digital Literacy teacher at Faribault Middle School working with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

Not exact matches

His first science project in middle school was about how the wing works.

It's a marketplace of distraction, with all the charm of a middle - school cafeteria and comparable levels of useful work being done.

Though the pair were close in age and geography — they went to the same elementary and middle schools — they had never met before collaborating on this semi-biographical piece of work that has so resonated with audiences.

Also, the local University of Washington works to encourage middle - schoolers to get involved in the sciences with its camp, called Green Energy.

Alabama is trying to address this by reaching out to high schools and even middle schools to provide a path for work force training.

As they searched for an education - related idea, they were amazed to discover that while many companies were working on aggregating primary and middle schools into an online community, no one had yet wired together the nation's 20,000 high schools.

Unlike some MBA schools that have gone to a 12 - to 14 - month program, we have a work term in the middle.

Guerra, Cruz's middle school classmate, would occasionally run into Cruz between classes at Stoneman Douglas and at the Dollar Tree, where Cruz worked as a cashier.

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

I tried and tried to just suck it up and fulfill the lengthy list of expectations, but I just couldn't handle working sixty to seventy hours a week (especially not as a single mom trying to homeschool a middle schooler).

Don't do this in the middle of an awful work month, school finals, or any other major events (weddings, holidays), or you will set yourself up for failure.

What makes my back - to - school chaos particularly chaotic, is that I WORK at a school... so I have to go back 2 weeks earlier than most, scramble for additional childcare, and oh, publish an e-cookbook somewhere in the middle of all that chaos:) It's all getting done, slowly but surely.

When I was still in middle school (highschool), I used to work at a kind - of bakery (don't ask) called Bakker Bart.

When I was in middle school I used to to work at my uncle's deli during summers.

I work at a middle school and often eat my lunch while doing lunch duty!

I'd been in the habit of cooking since middle school — mostly because my mom hated doing it, and my dad, a grill - loving Filipino Texan, traveled for work.

I work at a middle school so I am an early riser during the school year (5 am).

He stuck with Grape - Nuts during our early elementary school years so Mom only needed to stop by the Lucky's down the street for the entire family's weekly groceries, but when I graduated to middle school, Dad started driving past Trader Joe's on his way home from work too.

Jamal studied game film of his brother, and he spent most of his middle - school years working out with him before John left to play football at Carson - Newman.

We are excited to be amongst some of the best running trails in the Bay Area, and a day camp format to accommodate the busy summer schedules of both our middle and high school campers as well as adults who would like to invest some educational energy into their running, but have a difficult time fitting it in between work and family commitments.

Having worked in a middle school for many years, I have seen many a substitute get run over and things rarely end well.

He was teaching phys ed at a Long Beach middle school when he decided to resume working with students with disabilities.

Also, it warrants mentioning that they are accomplishing this without a home gymnasium, borrowing gym space at Salesian High (where DeLuca works as the Dean of Students) and Helms Middle School.

This program works with Middle School Athletes (Ages 12 - 14) to prepare them for the next level.

Since entering the field in 1996, Dr. Sellwood has garnered a diverse professional background that includes working as an elementary and middle school counselor, college and regional center disabilities specialist, executive director of a non-profit organization in psychology, consulting psychologist at hospitals and in - patient medical facilities, and an academic Professor of Psychology at several graduate schools.

Prior to working as a researcher, Samantha taught at a non-profit, tuition - free middle school in Arizona and taught English in Spain.

If your child is doing more than 10 minutes or so per grade of homework in elementary school, an hour or so in middle school and 2 - 2 1/2 hours in high school then they are working past the point of homework providing any advantage.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

Both hubby and I work outside the house and we use cloth diapers so there was always the waking up in the middle of the night remembering that we didn't do the diapers and DS would not have any for school the next day!

Children are encouraged to contribute their best work and express their thoughts and feelings, but no grades are assigned until middle school.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

Three big requests were rejected out of hand (as expected): eliminating flavored milk, instituting salad bars and getting rid of a la carte sales — and much work needs to be done to improve HISD's middle and high school menu.

Maybe if Congress had worked more to find middle ground with the American Association of School Administrators, the lawmakers might have found more leverage and courage to push back on the food lobbyists.

When the new standards for more fruits and vegetables in school lunches were first implemented at the middle school where I worked at the time, there was an increase in kids who didn't want to eat all of their lunches.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Unique in its position as both a working farm and a wildlife sanctuary, Drumlin Farm has delivered environmental education programs to hundreds of thousands of elementary, middle, and high school students in Massachusetts.

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.

As a K - 8 principal, I found the students in my middle school struggling with work overload.