Sentences with phrase «middle school years when»

The same goes for quality after - school programming that stimulates them and keeps them off the streets during the pivotal middle school years when they are easily led into trouble.

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So children like Pineapple are already one to three years behind middle - class children when they enter public school.

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.

Over the past two years we have allowed our middle school student to choose when to do his homework and when to take breaks.

When your son transitions from grade school into middle school and then teen years, he might begin to clam up and quit talking, especially about critical topics, such as bullying, substance abuse, sex and more.

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.

When your child hits puberty or enters the middle school years, it's possible that you'll notice a change in his or her personality or attitude.

Cherokee County School Board members recently toured the new / replacement Dean Rusk Middle School, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, AugSchool Board members recently toured the new / replacement Dean Rusk Middle School, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, AugSchool, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, Augschool year begins on Monday, August 1.

Typically, kids get new toys during the holiday season, right in the middle of the school year when they often don't have time to play with them.

Owing to his father's later employment as a roving teacher, Miliband spent two spells living in Boston, Massachusetts, one year when he was seven and one middle school term when he was twelve.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

The family of a 12 - year - old Muslim middle school student has filed a $ 25 million federal lawsuit against the East Islip school district, claiming the seventh - grader's civil rights were violated when school officials forced him to sign a false confession saying he was a terrorist.

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

When I was 12, I moved with my family to the United States, where I went to middle school for 2 years.

One is information dissemination to be done not just when the child enters middle school but in earlier years so they know what is in store for them.

And while Ive grown up to see the truth behind most misguided convictions from my middle school years — for example, that a white, fringed - leather jacket is an asset to any wardrobe — I clung to the belief that a modest (OK, tiny) bust at least afforded me some leeway when it came to getting screened for breast cancer.

These take me back to Middle School when the band kids sold candy bars to raise money each year.

During the middle of the school year when family schedules are rushed and hectic, a nutritional breakfast can often be overlooked.

Think back to middle school: remember when Billy grew nine inches that one year and couldn't figure out how to use any of his limbs and he looked like a drunk baby giraffe in gym class?

The middle and high school years are the most difficult times to be introverted, because when hundreds of kids are crammed together in a single building it can feel as if the only way to gain respect and friendship is through vivacity and visibility.

Ny favorite holiday memory is when i was in middle school and I had the whole family together, it was the best time of the year.

So, I had my year and a half of braces when I was younger, just as many other middle and high schoolers do.

When I joined club mom over 16 years ago as a 23 year old recent college grad and newly minted middle school teacher, I didn't have any idea what I was doing.

And I blow dried it... but I do feel like my hair is playing nice these days after all those years in middle school and high school when it did NOT cooperate:)

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.

In this group, one lady from Cuba had her first boyfriend when she was only 13 years old at middle school.

As a middle schooler, when you pictured your upcoming years of high school, did you ever imagine suing your administration for discriminating against you and your friends?

Having survived their first year of middle school in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, they aren't quite so worried about the bell ringing, especially when they meet the new girl Holly Hills (Peyton List).

When I moved up to teach middle school, I started surveying my kids every year, as an in class assignment.

When a new Japanese family arrived in the middle of the school year, the origami instructors worked with the principal to encourage these children to sign up for their after - school class, where they could show off Japanese culture as experts while experiencing the comfort of using their own language in a classroom setting.

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.

D'Astoli — principal at Thomas Carr College (for secondary years 7 - 8, equivalent to a U.S. middle school) in Tarneit, Victoria, Australia — says: «What I look for when employing staff is the ability to inspire students with the importance of the learning.»

My family moved to Miami, Florida, when I was in my middle school years, and I lived out the rest of my childhood and adolescence there.

How do we motivate students to begin a new project when they are already tired by the middle of the school year?

«I brought the parent team idea with me when I became principal eleven years ago,» explained Chris Toy, of Freeport (Maine) Middle 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.

Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer effects at KIPP schools does not explain the large cumulative impacts on student achievement identified by prior studies.

She believes that it's in the middle - school years, when children are first deemed old enough to go home after school and look after themselves, that habits of being sedentary and overeating begin.

It's a five - day workshop for middle and high school teachers, and then four days of support during the year when you're teaching.

Researcher Andrew A. Zucker was designing a federally financed study of middle school science teaching two years ago when he came up against new U.S. Department of Education security rules that would have required him to undergo fingerprinting and an extensive background check.

The King Middle School of today was unrecognizable 22 years ago, when Mike McCarthy arrived to take over as principal.

When Maine's one - to - one laptop program for middle schools came along nine years later, King was primed to elevate its already innovative curriculum to a new level.

Although this enthusiasm has been a boon for world - language education, these offerings, already relatively slim in the U.S. when compared with other countries, actually slipped in recent years, particularly in the most critical elementary school and middle school years.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

Fewer than half the 5th graders who entered three new middle schools in fall 2003 are still enrolled this academic year, when...

When they calculate the simple correlation between income and math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (close to a year's worth of learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.

«Probably the worst technology - related experience of the year,» Kreul recalled, «was when our school e-mail system went down — right in the middle of several telecollaborative projects.

Thirty years of firsthand experience has taught me, at least, that when it comes to educating boys and girls in middle and high school, equity is essential — and separate makes the most sense.

When Nancy Mullen took over as principal at Matthew J. Kuss Middle School in Fall River, Massachusetts, three years ago, she found it a somber place.

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.