Sentences with phrase «middle schoolers in need»

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On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

Our middle son is a member of the Council, a worship leader and a Sunday school teacher, and out of respect for his need for space and because I knew there were a few people in the congregation for whom my transition would be a problem, I have stayed away.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

In middle school, more homework and big projects hijacked precious family weekends — just when my kids needed more sleep, more time to adjust to their rapidly changing brains, and more healthy time with friends, and when my husband and I needed some rest.

Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age - specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will - oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.

You don't need to keep records in middle school or junior high school, but certainly once you get to high school it's great to have an athletic resume.

As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?

The competencies needed for a successful, purposeful, and joyful life in the 21st century are best cultivated through an education that fully meets and engages the developmental needs of children, which are fundamentally different in early childhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school — in other words, «the right thing at the right time.»

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.

Keep in mind that babies need 12 - 14 hours of sleep and children need 9 - 10 + hours until they are in middle school.

It's quite another story if a typically - developing child in middle school or high school needs his parents to help him keep track of his schoolwork.

But just a few days later, I found myself making my second trip to the mall in two days because the oldest got a much - needed sweater for his private school interviews and the middle one was beside himself that I hadn't gotten him a sweater too.

Whether it be the husband in the group or the wife in the group (or even a young child in elementary school, middle school, or high - school), folding a cloth diaper can be folded by pretty - much anyone who has the ability and the things needed to fold other pieces of wash.

Stopping to take phone calls to chat with friends in the middle of school definitely doesn't work for the younger kids and their attention spans, nor can they really achieve what they need to without your full, undivided attention and support.

A student struggling with algebra in high school or middle school needs some gentle guidance in the right direction to avoid failing the class, bring up their grade, and maybe even actually enjoy math.

All schools need do is follow the lead of Berkeley and other school districts that understand that tons of sugar can not be good for kids in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

Complete implementation of the hot meals could take several years, because the district would need the kitchen facilities at Scullen Middle School, slated to open in fall 2001, and at two other new middle schools that are part of a $ 88.8 million referendum queMiddle School, slated to open in fall 2001, and at two other new middle schools that are part of a $ 88.8 million referendum quemiddle schools that are part of a $ 88.8 million referendum question.

The suggestions for no - waste lunch containers need to become trendy / cool / normal in middle to high school boys (American) who are too «embarrassed» to take a plastic tub with lunch in it.

While infants need nurturing from their caregivers, «what pushes middle - school students to concentrate and practice... is the unexpected experience of someone taking them seriously, believing in their abilities, and challenging them to improve themselves,» Tough writes.

Most recently, in May, the Comptroller's office released an analysis that revealed that after spending over $ 347 million on upgrading internet services, 45 percent of teachers said their schools» internet quality «did not meet their instructional needs,» a survey of middle school teachers found.

Hackett Middle School community engagement co-facilitator Barry Walston alluded to other factors that need to be addressed to build buy - in.

But, the area is troubled in other ways that need immediate attention, he said, citing the lack of a full - service bank within the district and the «black hole» in New York City education that is its middle schools.

Cable said he wanted to see renewed investment in adult education, speaking of both his parents» education at night schools during his childhood, but said new technical training courses were needed to retrain middle - aged workers whose jobs were coming under threat from automation.

The number of seats needed for middle schoolers over the next 4 years will grow to over 8,000 — nearly triple the enrollment in grades 5 - 8 today.

Five Success Academy elementary schools in Brooklyn still need permanent middle school space.

A class of North Carolina middle school students on a field trip began singing «The Star - Spangled Banner» in an outdoor area when one of the museum's security guards stopped them and said they needed a permit before they could sing in unison, an act that would be considered a public demonstration.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

The groups say in order to provide tax cuts for the middle and working classes, the wealthy and corporations need to pay more, and some of that money should be used to help the state's schools.

And I'm sure that the board, once it meets, will consider what the next steps are that we need to take to ensure that all of the 2,500 students plus the additional students that are in the pipeline from the elementary and middle schools actually have a safe, secure learning environment for 21st century work.»

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Further, the authors found that many high school students hold the same misconceptions as students in middle school, making the need for high - quality, diagnostic assessments a top priority for energy education.

Speaking today at a White House event honoring the nation's top elementary school teachers and scientist - mentors, President Barack Obama gave a stump - like speech about the need «to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.»

That is why she is reaching out to children at the middle school and high school level now to give them the mathematics tools they'll need to thrive in college.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Participants will examine their personal strengths, fears and cultural histories in relation to their role as a teacher, understand the needs of students and schools, learn classroom management techniques, write lesson plans and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga curriculum for primary, middle and high school students.

The jean jacket has come a long way from the one your mother bought you in middle school, and if you know how to wear it right, it's quite literally the * only * jacket you'll ever need.

Are you an «old school» art teacher who needs a cheap and easy way to get your middle school art students started in computer graphics?

Now that my son is in middle school — where communication from teachers is less than it was when he was in elementary school and more stuff is happening at school that I need to be aware of — I've identified a list of questions that draw out important information.

«Girls need support from the time they're in middle school all the way through college,» IGNITE's Cathi Rodgveller says.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

«This grant allows us to address a most critical need in Massachusetts schools — the teaching of mathematics at the middle school level,» said Merseth.

That means that our elementary and middle schools need to help many more students get ready for rigorous programs in high school — academically, socially, and otherwise.

Teachers need to be aware that sexting is prevalent in middle and high schools across the Nation.

Some of the most successful anti-poverty initiatives, like the Harlem Children's Zone or the KIPP schools, are designed around the premise that children raised in concentrated poverty need to be taught middle class norms.

«Middle school students still need their parents, even when they seem to be pushing them away,» Tara Fair, principal at Central Middle School in Edmond, Oklahoma, told Education school students still need their parents, even when they seem to be pushing them away,» Tara Fair, principal at Central Middle School in Edmond, Oklahoma, told Education School in Edmond, Oklahoma, told Education World.

It was not unusual for my middle school students to forget something they needed for their day in school — a lunch, a homework assignment, a book, a bus ticket (their heads if they weren't attached, goes the joke).

Teachers and parents from Lux Middle School, in Lincoln, Nebraska, talk about how technology can level the playing field for kids with special needs.

It's a common refrain from a cynical middle schooler in math class: «Why do we need to know this?»