Sentences with phrase «middle years students»

She teaches primary and middle years students (Prep to year 9) and has taught in PYP and mainstream schools.

We started with a classic research question («How do teachers motivate and engage middle year students in mathematics?»)

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Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

A few years ago, she and her team took 373 middle school students, and identified those who exhibited fixed mindsets and those who exhibited growth mindsets.

In 1968, my middle year at Trinity College, there were student riots and revolts all over, including in Dublin.

For primary and middle students (8 — 14 years), it's all about educational fun.

It has over 110,000 students involved and it's specifically written for primary and middle school students (8 — 14 years of age).

Long is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia and St. Anne's Belfield School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the state.

Before Marcus arrived as a student in 2010, the football team had been middling, winning seven, sometimes six, games a year and failing to consistently draw the region's finest recruits.

The high schools battle each other to attract students and athletes from the Catholic elementary and middle schools for years before any of those kids will have the opportunity to don their colors in the Holy Bowl.

«As a school we have been attending for several years now and hope to continue giving our students such a wonderful experience of this majestic match for years to come» — Martyn Bagwell (Head of PE at St Osmunds Middle School)

The Riverdale School in Long Island City is some seriously hot water after one of their students, 14 - year - old Avonte Oquendo, ran off of campus in the middle of the school day.

In middle school I had been placed in an accelerated algebra class with a dozen other kids under the assumption that we would all be able to thrive in advanced courses designed for students two years our senior.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

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

Before that she was a teacher in the Redwood City School District (Redwood City, CA) for 25 years — mostly English and Language Arts to mostly middle school students.

By providing a tasting to families before the start of the school year, the district hopes to build support for the «envelope - pushing» items and win over even the pickiest elementary and middle school students, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director.

For over 30 years, Duke Youth Programs, hosted by Duke Continuing Education, has offered a wide range of intellectually stimulating and fun activities for middle and high school students.

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.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

Your tween may be looking forward to attending middle school this year, and that's good news because middle school offers a lot of change and opportunity for students — lockers, extracurricular activities, and new friends, and teachers.

As the students enter their middle school years, they also develop skills and values in team sports, musical ensembles and community service.

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

Middle school students have the opportunity to join a variety of sports teams throughout the year.

Bullying behavior tends to peak during the middle school years, and many students who are bullied are so embarrassed that they refuse to tell an adult.

For Evie Hess, school cafeteria manager in Sailorway Middle School in Vermilion Local Schools, OH, her dedication to students was marked with a regional Manager of the Year award!

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

The middle and high school years can be an especially hard time as students receive less supervision.

In Erie, PA, students at twelve elementary schools and one middle school will be receiving breakfast - in - the - classroom (BIC) for the 2014 - 15 school year; breakfast is already being served in five of those elementary schools, as well as the middle school.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

So he instituted the middle school concept of team teaching to Hadley Junior High School in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of students.

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, August 1.

He was then able to work with the students at his chosen middle school for an entire school year — teaching and learning, and experiencing what school lunch struggles are like on the ground.

But a three - year study of students in 12 middle schools determined that kids did accept the changes to their cafeteria trays.

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Klug said Wadleigh's middle school students didn't have physical education last year and lost their only guidance counselor and math coach because of budget cuts.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

He also pledged that his office would commit $ 10 million to renovating the Orchard Beach Pavilion and launch a Bronx Youth Corps this year, which would consist of middle and high school students working to clean up and beautify Bronx neighborhoods.

And beginning this year, all middle school students will be brought to college campuses to take tours.

And, they don't want illegal immigrants getting free college tuition while middle - class families get nothing but student loans that will take them years to repay.»

At a state Assembly hearing on receivership, held, ironically, just after my visit, experienced educators and sociologists also testified that it takes more than a year or two to break the cycle of poverty and truly help students climb the ladder of success out of poverty and into the middle class.

The health department says in the last ten years, use of tobacco products by High School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by Middle School students decreased by 54 %.

The Excelsior Scholarship, rolled out by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last year, offers free tuition to middle - class students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York.

The marquee point in what Cuomo calls the «Middle Class Recovery Act» is an expansion of college tuition subsidies that the governor says will make it «free» for students from families making less than $ 125,000 a year.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

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.

MORIAH Moriah Central School students have collected and sent new slippers and socks to soldiers deployed in the Middle East for the past three years.

In an unrelated incident, a 13 - year - old Westbury Middle School student was arrested Monday after making an Internet threat to kill two female classmates, according to Nassau County police.