Sentences with phrase «starts at the middle school»

«Getting the best and the brightest to go into education starts at the middle school and high school level,» she said.

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He started trading stocks in middle school, but had decided by the time he started at UC Berkeley that he was more interested in creating a company than just investing in them.

Dozens of low - income middle schoolers at Baltimore's St. Ignatius Loyola Academy are getting a head start on money management, thanks to Legg Mason employees.

Hardaway started his coaching career at Lester Middle School and quickly took over at Memphis East when his top players moved on to the high school School and quickly took over at Memphis East when his top players moved on to the high school school level.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

I have done synchro since the second grade, though I really started to realize my love for the sport and my drive to excel at the end of middle school.

Mata started shooting hoops in middle school and, by midway through her sophomore year at Pioneer, she preferred hardwood to the green grass of futbol.

I mean, it had started harmlessly enough — a few kids with Princeton shirts in middle school, rumors of summer camps at Duke — but by the time senior year rolled around, competition was so fierce that people didn't even talk about where they were applying.

Also, some middle schools start at Sixth Grade and some start at Seventh.

At Francis W. Parker School, the prestigious Chicago K - 12 independent school, there is a heavy focus on community - building starting in middle sSchool, the prestigious Chicago K - 12 independent school, there is a heavy focus on community - building starting in middle sschool, there is a heavy focus on community - building starting in middle schoolschool.

When my middle daughter's teacher at her Montessori school started hinting that she would love to have tablecloths for the children to use at snack -LSB-...]

The eldest boy, a 15 - year - old, has become depressed and refuses to go to school altogether, while the middle child, a boy of 12, has started to get into trouble at school as his frustrations boil over.

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

My day started with a delicious grab - n - go breakfast Yogurt Parfait featuring blueberries, strawberries and bananas at Burke County Middle School, followed by a classroom Charlie Cart nutrition - cooking lesson.

One of the counties in our area switched middle school and high school start times — so that middle schoolers were starting school at 7:30 and home by 2:30; high schoolers were starting at 9:30 and home by 5.

It isn't until I pick my husband up from a rehearsal at a middle school one night that I start to feel better.

My mom also recently started Backpack Buddies at my middle school.

Beginning next week, the agency in question — D.C. Central Kitchen — will set up shop at Kelly Miller Middle School in Northeast Washington and get ready to start cooking meals for seven D.C. schools when classes resume Aug. 23.

When my middle daughter's teacher at her Montessori school started hinting that she would love to have tablecloths for the children to use at snack time, I stored it in my brain waiting to get the time to do it.

In response to a recent sampling event held at Orchard Park Middle School by HUMAN operator partners NFL player Jon Corto and his wife, Jen, reporter and doctor Peter Ostrow said of HUMAN's machines: ``... reading that LCD screen may encourage the kids to start reading labels, then they'll realize that the snacks they enjoy don't have to be loaded with fats, processed foods, and sugar.

-- At Middle School 80: As soon as the police left for lunch, Espada volunteers started leafleting within the poll site vicinity.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (middle) meets and speaks with children at New Lane Elementary school in Selden to mark the start of the Suffolk County School Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarschool in Selden to mark the start of the Suffolk County School Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarSchool Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarschool meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewardship.

In working with the DPW, we have allocated the funding and I am now pushing for work to start as soon as the school year ends to ensure that repairs are done prior to classes resuming at Frontier Middle School,» said Legislator school year ends to ensure that repairs are done prior to classes resuming at Frontier Middle School,» said Legislator School,» said Legislator Dixon.

In 2008, they eyed the building at 75 Morton St. as a potential site for a new middle school, and started rallying support from the community and local elected officials.

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.

Middle school students will start visiting colleges next fall, at an annual cost of $ 5 million annually to the city by 2018.

Among the students honored by Bove at West Seneca West Middle School on Wednesday was Julianna Owczarczak, an 8th grader who joins her peers and suggests that ending bullying starts with simply offering more respect for their peers.

State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia was at William S. Hackett Middle School Tuesday to welcome teachers, students and staff for the start of the schoolSchool Tuesday to welcome teachers, students and staff for the start of the schoolschool year.

Researchers saw these positive effects at the middle and end of the year, but not at the start of the school year.

Researchers measured cortisol levels by analyzing 7,000 samples of children's saliva; samples were collected at morning baseline, and after arts and homeroom classes on two different days at the start, middle, and end of the school year.

The researchers will next look at middle school students to see if the beneficial effects of Smart Start and More at Four continue.

Lead author Dr Nadja van Ginneken, who completed the research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Centre for Global Mental Health with funding from the Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD programme, said: «Many low - and middle - income countries have started to train primary care staff, and in particular lay and other community - based health workers, to deliver mental health care.

«However, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that fewer than 20 percent of public middle and high schools in the U.S. start at the recommended time,» Owens says.

I was in middle school, just starting to enjoy learning, and had a hard time dealing with the idea that a teacher who was supposed to go into space, then come back to share her experience with her classroom and other classrooms, now wasn't coming back at all.

In middle school I started to get much worse, probably due to stress; at the time, my brother was undergoing brain surgery.

Hi Mike, I'm nearly 19 and I've been skinny fat since at least my middle school days (and I just recently started college... yeah I know * sigh *).

A year after having my third baby, at my heaviest weight, and age 40, I started working with Maria, and now I have been in the middle of my healthy weight range and am wearing the same size jeans I did in high school and college.

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

The constant repetitive motions along with specializing at a younger age means the overuse injuries that we used to see in college and professional sports are starting to happen at the middle school and high school level.

Quinton Ma, a 22 - year - old marketing coordinator at Gawker Media, in New York City, started to drink VitaminWater as a middle schooler because it seemed like a healthy alternative to soda.

My daughter is starting high school next year and will be leaving me behind at the middle school.

«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.

Files Included with this Lesson • Teacher Notes and Resources • Quick Getting Started Tutorial for Students • Student Expectations, Project Instructions and Rubric • List of 12 easy project ideas to choose from Middle schoolers love this activity and many of my students have gone on to create other videos at home!

One middle school instructor makes students who are slow to pay attention responsible for handing out material or starting the discussion and focuses on them more at the start of a lesson.

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).

For example, this method would compare the test scores of students at a middle school that had a 7:30 start time from 1999 to 2003 to the scores of students at the same school when it had an 8:00 start time from 2004 to 2006.

My results indicate that delaying the start times of middle schools that currently open at 7:30 by one hour would increase math and reading scores by 2 to 3 percentile points, an impact that persists into at least the 10th grade.

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.

I started thinking about the time I worked at a local summer camp and how much I enjoyed being with upper middle school students.