Give a Summer, a Boston based education nonprofit, released a report today on its research into what middle school
students do over the summer, what they want to do, and what stands in their way.
Not exact matches
It used to be that
students could only
do the internship
over the
summer months; we're now offering MBA classes through the
summer, so you can
do the internship in the
summer, fall or winter.
The Neuroscience department awards its outstanding
students with the opportunity to
do serious lab research
over the
Summer.
In addition, tell
students a few personal things about yourself; for example, your likes and dislikes, what you
did over the
summer, and your hobbies.
After receiving questions about what their gifted child could
do over the
summer ~ I proposed the idea of having my
students continue their independent research or create new research projects to work on during the summertime.
Back in February, I posed a question in response to @pennykittle «s Twitter post to @plthomasEdD regarding
summer reading assignments, and his answer has helped shape what we are going to ask our
students to
do over the
summer:
Many schools have their custodians
do a deep cleaning
over the
summer since there are no
students or staff in the way.
We now have
over 30
students going on a multi-adventure expedition to Norway in the
summer,
over 100
students doing Duke of Edinburgh (including every one of our most vulnerable
students), we've won grants to create a Bushcraft Area within the school and the school has started a Combined Cadet Force.
Students can lose the equivalent of up to two months of grade - level math and science skills
over the
summer if they don't keep their brains active, according to Project Lead the Way.
Given the evidence that
students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically
over the
summer while other
students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income
students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve
student achievement.
By Joshua Brown At the beginning of every school year, my
students ask me what I
did over summer vacation.
Students who don't read
over the
summer can potentially lose more than two months of reading achievement?
For example,
students who
do not read
over the
summer months can lose the skills...
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There are no set deadlines but we
do have pace charts that can help
students finish the course in a specific timeframe (1 semester, 2 semesters,
over the
summer, etc.).
Canadian School Libraries is looking for input from school libraries / librarians across the country: How
do you plan on keeping your
students engaged in reading, thinking, and making
over the
summer?
We are often asked what effective educators
do over the
summer to prepare themselves, their teachers, and their
students for the coming school year.
Second - grade teacher Vickie Boudouris goes
over a work sheet her
students were
doing in an English Language Learner
summer school class at the Cordova Villa Elementary School, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 in Rancho Cordova, Calif..
With many
students doing some form of work placement
over the
summer, Suzanne Collier of bookcareers.com shares her top ten tips for making the most of it.
With research finding that children who
do not read
over the
summer may lose up to three months of reading progress, it's important to encourage your
students to pick up a few books during the hot months ahead.
I
did this for 3
summers and continued even after I found a job to solely help pay off my
students loans -
over $ 25k worth.
Did you know that there are ways for you to earn extra money throughout the
summer to put towards your
student loans to help you avoid being one of the
students with
over $ 37,000 of
student loan debt?
One of my
students at Bolton, James Drake, asked me
over the
Summer before he took that particular course what he could
do to prepare for the Game Narrative module: I told him to read a book or a play.
The Norwegian School of IT in Oslo has an interesting proposition for
students looking for something fun and productive to
do over the
Summer, and they are extending an invitation to the Danish games community.
One of my Pace University communication
students, Martin Totlandt, spent much of the
summer in South Africa and filed this «Your Dot» dispatch about the controversy
over the process of chumming — luring sharks with a fishy, bloody brew spooned overboard — something
done both for science and for adventure tourism cage diving operations.
A few thoughts as the month clicks
over and we start counting down to September and the return of our
students — something I'm looking forward to even though it doesn't look likely that I will finish everything I had intended to
do over the
summer.
If you want to
do public interest work this
summer but haven't been able to figure out how to pay for it, look no further: The Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI)'s Law
Student Internship Program is open to all 1L and 2L law
students from across the country who are interested in working with legal service agencies in Illinois
over the
summer.
People at the center vetted the information, and, in the
summer of 2006, the center, with Protess's blessing, turned
over the
students» findings to the office of the Cook County state's attorney, Dick Devine — «the way we've
done with all our investigations,» Protess says.
First, the
students» experience in writing a full, complex memo assignment provides a relevant reference point for showing the differences between the structure and complexity of a traditional, formal memo and the more limited analysis of the procedurally focused e - memo.122 Second, some
students will be emailing with potential
summer employers or
doing short internships
over winter break, and the exercise allows them to practice effective and professional email skills right before applying them in a real - world setting.
But I
do know that poor
students need to find as much income
over the
summer as possible, making these mini-jobs relatively unattractive.
Even though
summer doesn't officially start until June 21, most schools are out, the weather is warm and a sense of freedom washed
over the majority of
students across the nation.