Sentences with phrase «start at the elementary school»

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Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

I am currently trying to start a program at my daughter's elementary school to give the unused food to charity.

Our 2 year old starts in the Fall at a lovely Waldorf preschool, and right next door to it is the elementary school, and our 4 year old starts a special summer program in a few weeks to help introduce the little ones to the big school without all the older kids there.

Ten years prior to her arrival at the district, her predecessor had already started implementing salad bars in their elementary schools.

The loss of federal funds has stung city school officials, who started the program with the idea that they would get federal money to help pay for the free meals, which are being served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various elementary schools during the strike.

[Ed Note: One of my fellow Houston Student Health Advisory Council members, Mary Lawton, once told me about a program she started at her children's elementary school which used «tasting stations» to expose kids to fruits and vegetables.

Just like Wes, when T turned 3 he started preschool at the local elementary school.

A typical day at an indoor ice rink starts with figure skating lessons for elementary and high school students.

Girls start growing at a fast pace in late elementary school and...

She was moving from a preschool with a flexible start time to an elementary school where the bell rang at 7:50 a.m. sharp.

Arlington Heights — Pupils attending School District 59 elementary schools will have the opportunity to enjoy a nutritious hot lunch through a federal program that will begin at the start of the 1994 - 95 schoolSchool District 59 elementary schools will have the opportunity to enjoy a nutritious hot lunch through a federal program that will begin at the start of the 1994 - 95 schoolschool year.

Whether kids are just starting kindergarten or entering their last year of elementary school, there are many good reasons for parents to volunteer at school.

After spending a few years at the high school level she transferred to elementary, and that's when she joined SNA and started going to meetings.

When Dodge first got started with school foodservice it was part - time at an elementary school, but she was quickly given the opportunity to take on more responsibility.

One of our big things last year was the Pedometer Challenge, with a goal of 10,000 steps a day, and it started with employees but made it to the student level — at the elementary level it prompted some schools to form walking clubs, where students were able to do a lap around the park and walk back to school.

A 2007 study by the Virginia - based School Nutrition Association suggests a fifth of elementary and 16 percent of high school schools start lunch at 10:30 a.m.; an additional 8 percent of high schools start even eaSchool Nutrition Association suggests a fifth of elementary and 16 percent of high school schools start lunch at 10:30 a.m.; an additional 8 percent of high schools start even easchool schools start lunch at 10:30 a.m.; an additional 8 percent of high schools start even earlier.

At the start of the 2012 — 2013 school year, the district raised the price of elementary school lunches by 65 cents to $ 2, although it could have raised the price incrementally over several years instead.

Ghanaian children begin their education at the age of three or four starting from kindergarten (nursery school and preschool), then to elementary school (primary school), high school (junior high school and senior high school) and finally university.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Voting got off to a late start Tuesday in the Kingston school district because ballots were not delivered to polling places at district elementary schools in advance of the scheduled 7 a.

The center is hoping to start a club for elementary kids at the schools.

«But basically what they did is they changed the starting and ending time at two elementary schools from being early schools, that start at 8» o'clock to schools that starts at 9» o'clock — the kids then would get out an hour later — they did so without the knowledge of the parents, the consent of the teachers or anybody,» Rumore remarked in a WBFO interview.

«I've wanted to be a geologist since the fourth grade,» she says, «starting with the «rock hound» program at my elementary school.

Researchers asked whether the state's Smart Start and More at Four programs provided long - lasting benefits for children, or if previously seen positive results diminished by the end of elementary school.

«The impacts of both Smart Start and More at Four on children persist across the entire elementary school period,» said the study's lead author Kenneth A. Dodge, founding director of the center, William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.

Additionally, both Smart Start and More at Four reduced the probability of students being held back during elementary school.

Speech is often a problem; most Down syndrome children at the age of five or six — just before starting elementary school — are only beginning to speak in two - or three - word sentences.

Compared to youngsters who stayed at home until they started school, babies who attended large - group child care before age 2 1/2 came down with more respiratory bugs and ear infections during their early preschool years (before 3 1/2), but fewer respiratory and ear infections once they started elementary school.

Babies who attend large - group child - care centers before they are 2 1/2 years of age do get more respiratory and ear infections than those cared for at home, but they are less likely to come down with these ailments once they start elementary school, according to the study.

Those who attended large day - care centers after age 2 1/2 did not receive the same protection against illness during their elementary school years as their counterparts who started group day care at younger ages, the new study showed.

They suggest elementary school start at 8:30, middle and high school at 10 a.m., and university classes at 11 a.m.

In fact, paying elementary age children to read books did as much to boost their ability as more popular approaches such as smaller class size, Head Start, and bonuses to teachers for working in at - risk schools, the study determined — and was much cheaper, too.

When the 150 participants in the program, which originated at South Carolina's Clemson University, finally start working, they will double the number of black men teaching in the state's elementary schools.

However, elementary schools start much later than middle schools (more than half of elementary schools begin at 9:15, and almost all of the rest begin at 8:15).

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

If elementary students are not affected by later start times, as my data suggest (albeit not definitively), it may be possible to increase test scores for middle school students at no cost by having elementary schools start first.

Wellness News Study: Students Drinking by Sixth Grade A study of more than 4,000 sixth - graders in Chicago schools showing that 17 percent already had tried alcohol suggests that education programs need to start at the elementary level, researchers said.

Started in 1991 at an elementary school in Parma, Michigan, the program «goes back to what credit unions are all about, the social mission of taking care of the underserved,» says CEO John Crist.

This was especially helpful when she previously worked at one of the elementary schools in the district as an adjustment counselor and started to work with a second - grader who was transitioning.

Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater and Admiral James M. Loy, the commandant of the Coast Guard, teamed up with officials from First Book to hand out about 80 brand - new books to students in Head Start and kindergarten at a local elementary school.

When Kristin Huff first started having problems with her schoolwork at the age of 6, teachers at her Wichita, Kan., elementary school labeled her «learning disabled» and placed her in a special - education program.

Soon after, and as part of a broader school - board decision to expand school - choice options, the district launched a science and technology middle school, a dual - language immersion elementary, an all - digital high school, an arts - centered grade school, a virtual school starting at grade 3, and more.

«Although many parents and teachers are aware of the benefits and value of a solid music education, and research tells us it's more important than ever to start at a young age, music is rarely part of the daily schedule in most elementary schools.»

For instance, at the start of the school year, an elementary school teacher might want to identify students» strengths and weaknesses among the eight intelligences.

The evaluation findings are very similar to those from the Head Start Impact Study, i.e., outcomes favoring the program group at the end of the pre-k year, but no differences later in elementary school.

To facilitate a better connection between elementary schools and the high schools they feed into, the Vallas administration started to focus on literacy skills at the early grades.

Students at KIPP Lanning Square Primary can start in our pre-K program and continue with us through elementary, middle, and high school.

• Core Knowledge, a rigorous English language arts curriculum aimed at elementary children; the district plans to pilot the curriculum in K - 3 at Audubon and Willard elementary schools starting this fall to become more familiar with it.

The article also reports on some recent research at Penn State University which points to the importance of good SEL skills starting in elementary school.

«Getting our parents involved with the school is integral to getting our children college - bound, and as we see here, it starts at the elementary level.»