Sentences with phrase «used by middle school»

I started hanging around the gangs, and I got wrapped up in them and in drug use by middle school.

Reliability and validity of a brief questionnaire to assess television viewing and computer use by middle school children

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-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

I used to get verbally bullied every day in middle school and high school, by kids that are half my size.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Experience the distinct teaching methods used by our dedicated faculty to bring challenging subject matters, such as nature studies in elementary school and platonic solids in middle school, to life.

And his call to cut spending by 20 percent — I would use examples of how that would impact middle class families, parents, what it would do to schools — I would make Carl defend all that.»

The health department says in the last ten years, use of tobacco products by High School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by Middle School students decreased by 54 %.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

Also needed are items used by middle and high school children, including 1» and 1 1/2» binders, ruled paper, scissors, pocket folders and scientific calculators.

Also needed are items used by middle and high school children, including 1» and 1 1/2» binders, filler binder paper, scissors, pocket folders, scientific calculators and blue and black pens.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

One innovative program to address these concerns is the «mentoring ladder» used at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, where postdocs mentor grad students, grad students mentor undergrads, undergrads mentor high school and middle school students, and everyone is mentored by (secondary and college) science teachers.

The assessment materials, used to measure students» understanding of the sciences in middle and early high school, will be amplified by Naiku, a Minnesota - based company whose assessment platform reaches teachers around the country, and a Canadian consortium that includes McGill University in Montreal.

A study by Murray Hill Middle School in Maryland investigates the effects of microgravity on microencapsulation, a process that could be used to help control the rate at which a drug is released in the body.

Using a major new data source — merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 — the researchers studied the relationships between birth weight and cognitive development by following more than 1.3 million children and nearly 15,000 pairs of twins from birth through middle school.

Lunches brought from home by elementary and middle school students are not measuring up to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) guidelines used for meals served in schools, according to a study published online by JAMA Pediaschool students are not measuring up to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) guidelines used for meals served in schools, according to a study published online by JAMA PediaSchool Lunch Program (NSLP) guidelines used for meals served in schools, according to a study published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

In 2014, e-cigarettes surpassed cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product by middle school and high school students, according to an annual U.S. survey.

By middle school she had learned ways to model — or represent using a computer program — how objects move and change over time.

While the pull - up has been used by everyone from middle - school gym teachers to Marine drill instructors to measure fitness, the fact is that many fit people, particularly women, can't do even one.

But when I used it in my middle school class a few years ago I knew something was up by the complete shocked silence and looks of terror on the kid's faces.

By middle school, Jose Luis Navarro was skipping class, getting into fights, and using drugs.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

The advisory system is used by nearly all the charter schools that serve middle or high school grades.

In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problems.

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reschool, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reSchool and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reSchool, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

The free resources, field - tested by teachers, are being used in middle school, high school, and college classes, building the pipeline of students interested in STEM careers.

The organization cited a 1950 world map at one elementary school, encyclopedias from 1966 in another, light fixtures in one classroom that leak water when it rains, and a 1920s - vintage alto saxophone used by a middle...

«We want to get a firm foundation at the elementary level and have the children grow into it, so that by middle school and high school, they are used to seeing dads in school,» Nolan noted.

Specifically, we ran a statistical model that used the last grade served by the school that a student attended in grade 3 to predict whether the student attended a middle school.

Specific strategies for middle school administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Princschool administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Princschool are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School PrincSchool Principals.

The School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and so on.

Here's hoping that plan starts by examining an important analysis by the Manhattan Institute's Charles Sahm from earlier this year, which catalogued the K — 2 curricula used in the city's 1,168 elementary and middle schools.

It has been in use for 18 months now, having started in Maths it was soon extended to English books and other subjects, and it has been taken on and used by other schools in our trust (including middle schools and secondary, not just primary).

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

However, this series has also been successfully used by both general education classes in both middle - and high - school, and, with modifications, can be used in the moderate - to - severe setting also.

Instead of using just one approach to stop bullying and better handle conflict, they are using several methods, including teaching elementary - aged students about tolerance and empathy through antibullying, curriculum - based programs sold to schools such as Side By Side and Second Step, and using the Step to Respect program in middle school.

The grant would have trained teachers to use a middle - school program called Connected Math, one of several, Hoven learned, that was funded by the Education and Human Resources Division of the NSF and based on standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

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Scratch is very versatile that way — while elementary students get a lot out of it, it's also used by middle and high school students to build projects with increased complexity.

This set of REVIEW QUBES is designed for middle school life science and can be used by groups of any size, from pairs of students all the way up to an entire class divided into teams.

Research by several other students is revealing that middle - school science students solve abstract problems more easily by thinking in terms of metaphors or models — for instance, by using a nail, a wire, and a battery as a model of how magnetism works.

The elementary - and middle - school math curricula used in Seattle schools are not part of the Discovering Mathematics series and are not published by Key Curriculum Press.

She used the popular children's book by Judith Viorst to get her middle school students talking about cause and effect.

When Casco Bay opened, it received a grant to purchase used laptops that had been returned by middle schools, such as Helen King Middle School, a few milesmiddle schools, such as Helen King Middle School, a few milesMiddle School, a few miles away.

Using an article about labor leader Cesar Chavez's grape boycott and hunger strike, these students at Stuart - Hobson Middle School are doing a «close read,» a skill prized by the new Common Core State Standards being put into practice in the District of Columbia.

Comparing Two Poe Classics Submitted by Alexis H. Groah, Daniel Morgan Middle School in Winchester, Virginia Students use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two classic stories of Edgar Allan Poe.