Sentences with phrase «parents of middle school students»

As parents of middle school students, you are your child's biggest advocate.

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We organized a series of panel - style presentations by our student committee members for mostly middle school parents, whose children the proposal would have affected.

As a middle school educator, I find myself in conversations with parents who are convinced of the value of play, but are unsure what play might look like for a middle school student.

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.

Many of the factors that affect students during the middle school transition are beyond parents» control.

At 10 a.m., students and parents from Middle Village Preparatory Charter School rally outside the offices of the Brooklyn Diocese to urge leaders to drop a lawsuit that could evict the charter school from its space, 310 Prospect Park W., BroSchool rally outside the offices of the Brooklyn Diocese to urge leaders to drop a lawsuit that could evict the charter school from its space, 310 Prospect Park W., Broschool from its space, 310 Prospect Park W., Brooklyn.

A dramatic spike in the use of a particular type of electronic cigarette among middle and high school students has local parents, educators and activists, clamoring for action.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

Candidates for district CEC positions must be parents of a student enrolled in a district elementary or middle school, while candidates for the Citywide Council on High Schools must have a student in high school.

Parents whose children are enrolled in P.S. 122Q have been reaching out to my office to express their strong opposition to any change in the current policy of allowing current students to auto - articulate into the middle school G&T.

At the event, parents and principals thanked Senator Klein for securing $ 700,000 for the program which works to expand the education elementary and middle school students receive through extracurricular activities in a number of Bronx schools.

They also found that parental involvement in monitoring internet activity is low among this group with about a third of middle school and 17 % of high school students reporting that their parents monitor their internet.

In 24 elementary and middle schools in three eastern Massachusetts communities during the 2015 - 16 school year, the parents of all students in grades K - 8 were invited to enroll their children in the BOKS program and the study.

MINNEAPOLIS — A sex education teacher has drawn the ire of parents after taking middle school and high school students on a field trip to an adult novelty... Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with Tyler Barney, a high school student in Mt Juliet, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium - ion batteries when

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The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

Earlier in the year, I had our middle school Parent / Teacher conferences, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that 99 percent of my students (most of whom are Title I) have a computer in the home.

Organized by partnerships between school districts, nonprofit organizations, universities, and others, they provide a more diverse group of students with the enriching science, art, and community - based activities that middle - and upper - income parents can provide by paying for fee - based summer sessions.

Hull staff members said they are happy that A Day has done so much to allay the fears of new middle school students — and their parents.

Dear graduates of 2010, deans, administrators, faculty, staff, parents, friends, other students, acquaintances, and that guy in the back who mistook this for a free food event, I asked my middle school history teacher what I should say today.

Over lunch at a middle school conference, teachers told Jack C. Berckemeyer, director of member and affiliate services of the Association for Middle Level Education, formerly the National Middle School Association, about students who took an active role in leading the familiar parent - teacher confermiddle school conference, teachers told Jack C. Berckemeyer, director of member and affiliate services of the Association for Middle Level Education, formerly the National Middle School Association, about students who took an active role in leading the familiar parent - teacher conferschool conference, teachers told Jack C. Berckemeyer, director of member and affiliate services of the Association for Middle Level Education, formerly the National Middle School Association, about students who took an active role in leading the familiar parent - teacher conferMiddle Level Education, formerly the National Middle School Association, about students who took an active role in leading the familiar parent - teacher conferMiddle School Association, about students who took an active role in leading the familiar parent - teacher conferSchool Association, about students who took an active role in leading the familiar parent - teacher conferences.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

«This is an opportunity for tens of thousands of middle and high schools students, teachers, parents and community members across the country to begin or continue their involvement in youth activism,» said Doug Pietrzak, Ed.M.»

One of the first districts in New Mexico to switch over, the 558 - student Cimarron Municipal School District, changed to four - day weeks in 1973, and the schedule remains «overwhelmingly» popular with parents, said James Gallegos, principal of the Cimarron elementary and middle schools.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

Moran recently noticed that a parent had shared on Facebook a photo of Albemarle students who won an international robotics championship, and she jumped right in and commented, «I'm so proud that we have robotics teams in all of our high schools, and even our middle schools and elementary schools do a lot with robotics.»

«Getting out of the office and seeing what's going on in the school is very important to the welfare of everybody — the students, the parents, and the staff,» said Dee Anna Manitzas, principal at the Accelerated Learning Middle School, in San Anschool is very important to the welfare of everybody — the students, the parents, and the staff,» said Dee Anna Manitzas, principal at the Accelerated Learning Middle School, in San AnSchool, in San Antonio.

Marcy Cooper, a principal at Southern Middle School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary leave.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

Several years ago, a group of parents in Silicon Valley came together to reimagine the middle and high school experience, with the goal of radically improving student readiness for college and for life after school.

The survey — which included interviews with 1,000 teenagers and 829 parents — found that 62 percent of high school students and 23 percent of middle school students reported attending schools where illegal drugs are readily available.

Some middle school students may chafe under the kind of supervision that comes with close personal connections between teachers, parents, and them.

All Philip Moore wanted was for the parents here at T.R. Smedberg Middle School to talk about the achievement gaps that separate many of his students.

A survey of 725 middle and high school teachers, and 600 parents of students in those grades, found high levels of frustration among teachers regarding discipline issues.

Lest anyone doubt the reach of America's after - school woes — more than 14 million K - 12 students, including 40,000 kindergartners and almost 4 million middle school students, take care of themselves after school — it appears even the economy is suffering: A new study by Catalyst and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, shows that the workplace productivity of U.S. parents suffers when they are worried about what their kids are doing after school.

50 percent of the middle and high school teachers said they report student grades to parents online or via e-mail.

Science is our middle name British Science Week offers a number of ways for schools and colleges to get involved in a national science celebration, from small - scale activities held during a lesson to all - day events that involve not just the students, but parents and the rest of the community as well.

Their analysis of student achievement in New York City middle schools confirms parents» conclusion that children learn more if they stay in an elementary - school setting through grade 8 than if they move to a stand - alone middle school.

Parental involvement in education during middle school: Perspectives of ethnically diverse parents, teachers, and students.

An introductory letter outlining the expectations and procedures can help quell some of the nervousness of students and parents, said Max W. Fischer, a seventh grade team leader at Edgewood Middle School in Wooster, Ohio.

In the same year, 89 percent, each, of students in kindergarten through second grade, and students in third through fifth grade, had a parent who attended a scheduled meeting with a teacher, compared with 71 percent of students in middle school and 57 percent of students in high school.

One way to educate families about the importance of the 9th - grade transition might be to require that students and their parents are given information on colleges» entrance expectations - minimum coursework requirements, GPA, etc. - preferably as early as the middle grades, if not earlier, but absolutely at the beginning of high school.

Parents may be invited to participate in a conference (preferably at the middle school) with their child and the high school counselor to discuss course work and schedules, visit the high school with their child in the spring or in the fall, spend a day at the high school to help them understand what their child's life will be like, and help design and facilitate some of the articulation activities for students.

This Digest discusses how educators can ease students» transition into high school by providing challenging and supportive middle school environments and by designing transition programs that address the needs of students and their parents and that facilitate communication between middle school and high school educators.

In 2012, more than 90 percent of students in kindergarten through fifth grade had a parent who attended a meeting with their teachers, compared with 87 percent of middle - school students, and 79 percent of ninth - through twelfth - grade students.

In an Oct. 29 opinion, the Maryland Court of Appeals said school counselors in Montgomery County may have breached a common - law duty when they failed to inform the parents of a 13 - year - old middle school student that the child had threatened suicide in 1988.

After Lynchburg (Virginia) City Public Schools officials learned in fall 2007 that a middle - school student had MRSA, school officials cleaned desks and common areas and alerted parents about the causes of the infection and ways to stop transmission, said Anne Bond - Gentry, the districts coordinator of student services.

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