Sentences with phrase «turning middle school kids»

By defining science education the way we too often do, we are turning middle school kids off to real learning.

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Once the elementary school implementation was deemed a success, Beegle turned her attention to the middle and high school, rolling out the equipment in those cafeterias and acclimating the older kids to the new additions.

It turns out that for most major scientific concepts, kids come into the classroom — even in middle school — with a whole set of beliefs that are commonly at odds with what scientists, and their science teachers, know to be true.»

Second, if I'm in a group fitness class with my friends, I turn into the naughty distracted kid in middle school gym class, just wanting to goof off with my friends and not do what I'm supposed to be doing.

Phyllis Smith turns a one - dimensional and dithering marshmallow into an interesting study in the conflict between desire and convention, Henry Michael Higgins, is the dolphin - obsessed but otherwise disengaged principal, and they are supported by the usual gaggle of kids found in flicks set in a middle school, played by actors who avoid cutesiness and given a script that sets them up perfectly for the bald truth Elizabeth dumps on them with matter - of - fact disengagement in place of the usual cheery esteem - boost called for by curriculum and compassion.

Middle school is the last chance we have of turning some of our kids on to education.

Broadly speaking, the idea is that if more kids graduate from high school, and achieve higher scores on standardized tests, then more young people are likely to go to college, and, in turn, land jobs that can secure them spots in the middle class.

As a Gen X-er, I was forced to attend schools in the suburbs with middle - class white kids and, in turn, forced my kids to do the same.

Like the pimply, pipsqueak kid from middle school who came back from summer vacation with a black belt in karate, Subaru — with the help of its rally racing wing, Subaru Technica International, hence the STi name — turned this Impreza into a serious street fighter.

I'm thinking of the kid in middle school just discovering sci - fi who gets turned on to reading, science, or writing because he / she read my stories.

Once referred to as Scheherazade, she is known for her character driven, can't put down, page turning stories for middle school kids.