Sentences with phrase «said about the middle school»

«We picked Nashville, southeast Nashville because we felt like it was a great area of town for a lot of diversity,» Dickson said about the middle school's strategic location.

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«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

«We talk about how fun middle school was and we are trying get that kick back into the room,» Koshiyama said.

«They are enjoying the culture,» said He, about the experience at South Middle School.

► When parents were asked about the benefits that their middle school or high school aged child gets from playing sports, more than eight in ten say their child benefits a great deal or quite a bit in the following ways: physical health (88 %), it gives him / her something to do (83 %), or it helps him / her learn about discipline or dedication (81 %).

Larry Meyers, principal of Westchester Middle School, said his district resorted to fast foods about two years ago because «children would dump their lunches at the end of the period.»

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

New York Times review: ««The ugly and wonderful truth about middle school,» [Lahey] says, is that «failure is not an if proposition, it's a matter of when.»

We talked about it over dinner tonight and my middle school son said again, kids take veggies because the lunch lady tells them, but nobody eats them... this is wrong for so many reasons.

«There are real concerns about what's happening in Wadleigh Middle School,» said Polakow - Suransky.

Carl Pressley, the vice president of the PTA at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sSchool for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter schoolschool.

«I'm really voting against, instead of for, because I'm tired of the Town of Oyster Bay and Nassau County corruption and the sense of entitlement,» Taggart said as she was about to walk into the polls at Hicksville Middle School.

Liu, who addressed middle school students Friday about the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr., said he was opposed to the policy of closing schools deemed to be failing only to open new schools in their place.

Chandler said Corbett «created disruption and a somewhat intimidating environment» by raising concerns about absentee ballots loudly at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School polling site, while voting was still in progress.

De Blasio's plan is generally talked about in terms of providing universal pre-K, but he said expanding after - school programs to all middle school students is «an equally important part of my plan.»

Charland was the assistant principal for about seven years and had been principal of Franklin Middle School in the Kenmore - Town of Tonawanda School District, said Frontier Superintendent Richard Hughes.

«I'm very excited about the election today and looking forward to, hopefully, a celebration victory tonight,» Suozzi said as he cast his vote at the Glen Cove Middle School.

«I don't want to be here,» said Danny Perez, former principal of Nativity Mission Center middle school, «going through files and looking at pictures and thinking about what was here; what could have been here if we could have stayed; what more we could have done.»

Middle - schoolers who feel they can make their own decisions about exercising are more likely to see themselves as a person who exercises, which in turn makes them more likely to exercise, said Rod Dishman, a professor of kinesiology in the UGA College of Education.

But the authors noted that about 20 percent of middle school students and about 7 percent of high school students who had ever used e-cigarettes had never smoked regular cigarettes — meaning that some kids are introduced to the addictive drug nicotine through e-cigarettes, the authors said.

Thus, we get Rosamund Pike as a nice woman, living in the middle of nowhere, who is home - schooling her daughters one day, when her husband runs in and says that the Comanches are about to attack them.

«It's about time educators started getting the kind of pay that athletes do,» said Nancy Ondrasik, assistant principal at Beatty Warren Middle School in Warren, Pennsylvania.

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Following a decade spent teaching middle school at several progressive schools, Cerruti says he became intrigued by research, particularly uncovering new ideas about education and how kids think.

Two eighth graders who appeared in the film as sixth graders said facing bullies and getting lost were among their top concerns about middle school.

«Kids want to do a project that's real and engaging,» says Donna Cole, a middle school science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Pschool science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical PSchool, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Plates.

Such is the case with sixth - graders, who are usually nervous about starting middle school and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus thismiddle school and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus thisschool and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus thisMiddle School, which has 56 portables on its campus thisSchool, which has 56 portables on its campus this year.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

«Obviously, [the Middle East] is an important part of the world, and teachers always are faced with questions about it,» said a Wethersfield school administrator about why the district applied for the grant.

Pompa, who teaches geography at Flood Middle School, said the institute provided her with numerous resources to find answers for herself and her students about the Middle East and Islam.

Hear what school administrators, teachers, and students at a Georgia middle school have to say about the school's diverse population.

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 goal for us at King Middle School is to create opportunities for all kids to do representational work about their learning,» says David Grant, King's technology teaching strategist.

This parent, who has been supportive of Moskowitz and Success Academy, is planning to speak to her child's middle school principal about it — the very outcome Moskowitz says she wants to encourage — but she said she first needs to figure out how to approach it without getting upset.

«Here, I tell you what I want to learn about, and I do my work,» says Pereira, describing an experience that is a marked contrast to the time she spent in middle school.

«I used to have to tell my students about phenomena, or have them read; now I can show them,» says Jim Doane, a science teacher at Scarborough Middle School, in Scarborough, Maine.

The quest for a wellness center at the middle school began about 20 years ago when Cummings, then a physical education teacher at the school, said she began to re-think her role as a PE teacher.

After a decade of running a 1 - to - 1 laptop program at Sarah Banks Middle School, it's safe to say the educators there have learned many lessons about what makes such an initiative work.

Sonia Bolzon, Chair of Kalyra Communities, said the project came about by chance, when a visitor to Kalyra Woodcroft Aged Care asked if it would be possible to consider a middle school in the redevelopment plans.

At Belmont Middle School, Scrabble Club meetings draw about 35 students in fifth through eighth grades every week, said Charbeneau.

«I tell schools the reason you want to go through an accreditation process is it gives you a focused and organized way to develop an improvement process,» said Henry Cram, president of Middle States, who estimated that about 2 percent of reviewed schools do not earn the credential.

About 80 percent of teenagers in high school have witnessed drug dealing and drug use, and 31 percent of high school students and 9 percent of middle school students see such activity at least once a week, says a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.

«When we start in fifth grade, we're starting in the fourth quarter, down by a touchdown, and the two - minute warning has been given,» KIPP co-founder Mike Feinberg was fond of saying about running middle schools.

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.

«By promoting the development of the whole child throughout their culture, Butterfield Trail Middle School has changed the conversation about education,» said Delisle.

Given what we know about the cost of private schools and the demographics of Chicago's public schools (87 percent of students come from households below the poverty threshold), it's safe to say that the school reform movement hasn't converted many outside the upper middle class.

«This system doesn't make sense,» said John Simms, an Albuquerque middle - school social studies teacher who was rated effective, but who said his value - added score tells him nothing useful about how to improve.

Proponents said monitoring former English learners for four years instead of the current two years will provide important information about how well they perform in middle and high school and about how accurate the exit criteria are.

Screening data show that only 39 percent of ninth - graders read at or on grade level, «very much mirroring what we knew about our middle school students, says Annie Wolfe, secondary curriculum and development officer.

Miller says the company is still on track to be «in the middle of hiring» teachers by mid-March, but determining how many teachers the school needs has required very detailed information about students» interests.