Sentences with phrase «motivate middle school children»

I teach at UCLA Writers Program and work with The Young Writers Conference, a program that helps motivate middle school children to explore the power of words.

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The Waldorf School of Garden City considers the whole child in the application process, though we expect applicants in middle school and beyond to be proven and motiSchool of Garden City considers the whole child in the application process, though we expect applicants in middle school and beyond to be proven and motischool and beyond to be proven and motivated.

By one estimate, a middle - school child who is an avid reader might read nearly 10 million words in a year, compared with 100,000 for the least motivated middle - school reader.

Students learn in traditional, multi-age classrooms from Children's House (pre-kindergarten) through E2 (4th / 5th grades); middle school classrooms continue the spirit of self - motivated independence outside of the Montessori framework.

The parents who mailed in all those applications believe that the new Wayne school will have a more motivated staff than most city schools (300 teachers applied for 14 jobs), that it will benefit from its association with the university, that it will be a magnet for philanthropy (before opening it had attracted $ 575,000 in corporate donations), that it will be smaller (city middle schools have 600 to 1,000 students) and have smaller classes (25 students versus 35 for city middle schools), and that it will demand more from their children.