Sentences with phrase «young as middle school»

These are the students, some as young as middle school, who already know that they are education shopping, not hoping to be accepted as much as their lesser - achieving counterparts.

«It's designed to show students, even as young as middle school, that your actions now are going to impact your future,» Seldow says.

The Monuments Project: Giving students as young as middle school opportunities to do the real work of historians — and provide meaningful public service in the process — is the idea behind the Monuments Project.

But this is the way teams practice today as young as middle school basketball.

Not exact matches

At a young age, Gates showed an avid interest in computers, spending as much time as possible in his middle school's computer lab.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

His real name was George Pease Williams, but to ward off insensitive school - yard taunts as a young boy he constructed a more elegant middle name for himself, and this is how he was known for the rest of his life: George Huntston Williams (1914 - 2000).

As richly rewarding as hosting young stars of the game can be (many ruggers who've played at past KOTs have gone on to play for, and even Captain, our USA National teams), there's no greater joy than watching U-8s and U-10s blossom into feisty U-12s and eventually become skillful, competitive Middle SchoolerAs richly rewarding as hosting young stars of the game can be (many ruggers who've played at past KOTs have gone on to play for, and even Captain, our USA National teams), there's no greater joy than watching U-8s and U-10s blossom into feisty U-12s and eventually become skillful, competitive Middle Schooleras hosting young stars of the game can be (many ruggers who've played at past KOTs have gone on to play for, and even Captain, our USA National teams), there's no greater joy than watching U-8s and U-10s blossom into feisty U-12s and eventually become skillful, competitive Middle Schoolers!

First up on Sunday, Dec. 27 is the youth wrestlers featuring athletes as young as five - years - old up to middle school ages.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

The middle school years are often characterized as a stage of life to survive, to get through — jumping from the comfort of childhood into a roughly three - year storm of hormones, insecurity, and nagging, drowning in the frenetic angst of adolescence, frantically rowing to make it to the shore of young adulthood.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include middle - aged empty - nester divorcees who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

Most states require electives for high school and middle school students, and homeschooling parents can offer electives to younger children as well.

We have two books that are for all ages that I think middle schoolers would enjoy: • Feeding the Young Athlete (http://bit.ly/1y1gDiK) is a guide to nutrition for young players on what and when to eat, as well as how to hydrate, for maximum performYoung Athlete (http://bit.ly/1y1gDiK) is a guide to nutrition for young players on what and when to eat, as well as how to hydrate, for maximum performyoung players on what and when to eat, as well as how to hydrate, for maximum performance.

We continue to do so even as we navigate the middle school days for my youngest and now are moving into the high school years for my oldest.

New York Observer article on BP Adams celebrating the selection of Gwendolyn McNamara as this year's Doodle 4 Google's Young Arts Contest award winner at Community Roots Middle School in Downtown Brooklyn.

Much like his universal pre-kindergarten program, de Blasio's vast expansion of middle school after - school offerings allows more structured opportunity for young people as well as more assurance and opportunity for parents.

Among other issues, Senator Klein and the community voiced concerns that co-location of a high school with a middle school would be inappropriate, forcing children as young as 11 and as old as 18 to share the same facilities.

Dishman and colleagues at the University of South Carolina are now looking at ways to help kids identify with exercise at a younger age, so that by the time they reach middle school they are more likely to identify as someone who exercises.

By hosting hands - on demonstration sessions for middle and high school students, as well as sessions created in partnership with local Girl Scouts troupes, the EdCom introduces young people to the science of acoustics.

So, I had my year and a half of braces when I was younger, just as many other middle and high schoolers do.

Eastwood's film follows the three childhood friends (played, in their younger days, by William Jennings, Bryce Gheisar and Paul - Mikél Williams) as they buck against the authority of their Christian middle school and the teachers want to impose upon them an unnatural rigidity of thought and behavior.

But Dr. Shannon Vincent, principal of Trent Lott Middle School in Pascagoula, Mississippi, believes she is falling short as an educator if she does not engage young people in community service.

Barry Guillot, Christian's science teacher at Harry M. Hurst Middle School, in Destrehan, Louisiana, is as enthusiastic as his young student.

While these young adult books are typically middle school level, their resonant subject matter, complex characters, profound themes, vivid vocabulary, and historical contexts make them suitable as enriched reading for elementary students and as a bridge for high school freshmen.

Smile tells the story of Raina, as she handles the many stresses of being an adolescent like fitting in, friendships, middle school, younger sisters, and just being you.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

Teams of «warriors» in sixth through eighth grade at Adams Middle School in Tampa, Florida, read and discuss young adult novels as part of the school's annual «Extreme Read.&School in Tampa, Florida, read and discuss young adult novels as part of the school's annual «Extreme Read.&school's annual «Extreme Read.»

The young teenagers don't act up as much as they do in stand - alone middle schools.

In describing middle schools as ineffective without addressing the variability represented among schools with those two words on the sign out front, the authors use a broad brush — some would argue a bucket of mud — to splatter aspersions on every school that educates young adolescents within a distinct structure.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has allocated $ 100,000 for a project designed to let elementary - and middle - school students perform as young scientists in assessing real - world environmental or energy problems.

Superintendent Jeffrey Young, Ed.D.» 88, says he proposed the move in December 2010 to level the academic and socioeconomic field of Cambridge students as they enter the middle and high school years.

«As a K - 8 school, we have students in our middle school act as peer mediators for our younger children.&raquAs a K - 8 school, we have students in our middle school act as peer mediators for our younger children.&raquas peer mediators for our younger children.»

The achievement drops we observe as students move to both middle and high schools suggest that moving from one school to another (or simply being in the youngest grade in a school) adversely affects student performance.

Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1867, St. Mary's Academy continues as a private Catholic college preparatory co-educational elementary and a middle / high school for young women.

Inspired by his stint as a middle school math tutor, Henry shifted his career to the classroom to serve as a «role model and symbol of hope» for other young African - American students and to show all young students that they can excel in math and science.

Rushed APPR plans reviewed by law school students and supervised by a young, former Teach For America grad now Fellow, led to disastrous results such as those of Syracuse, where 40 % of the teachers were rated below effective and no elementary or middle school teacher was found to be highly effective.

First, acknowledging that middle level students (age 10 - 14) learn differently than their elementary and high school friends and siblings, they began by reviewing the developmental research on young adolescents and taking those unique learning needs as a starting point for planning changes in classroom instruction, increasing electives, providing intervention, reviewing their discipline procedures, and attending to the social and emotional needs, a key to success with middle level student success.

Or maybe for middle and high schools, it's because they think younger teachers will understand more about what it's like to be a teenager or tween than older teachers, because it hasn't been as long since they were teenagers themselves.

The American Red Cross's Partners for Youth program matches a major service organization with Philadelphia middle schools to provide an opportunity for young adolescents to explore goals, values, and community needs as they engage in...

He began his work in the middle grades as a young adolescent at Lynnhaven Junior High School in Virginia Beach, trying to fit in with other kids while also playing tuba in the marching and concert bands.

Comprehensive induction programs have strong implications for middle level schools — grade 5 to grade 9 — where teachers often lack the specific preparation and experience for their role as a teacher of young adolescents (Jackson & Davis, 2000).

• A cooperative effort here, as the young artists of the Ghent Middle School Art Club worked with Studio Assistants on this mosaic.

The new version is perfect for modern and old - fashioned mothers as the author expanded it with child - raising suggestions on how to deal grade school kids, middle - schoolers and young teens, in addition to the advice on dealing with babies and toddlers.

The Seattle Social Development Project — a program directed toward improving child social and emotional functioning across elementary school into early middle school — was found to have an effect on outcomes extending into young adulthood, covering areas of mental and emotional health, as well as reduced crime and substance use.

As a very general rule, young children need much more frequent access to parents, while middle school children and older may enjoy and tolerate longer stays with each parent.

Study components have included: focus groups with adolescents; school - based surveys and anthropometric measurements with middle school and high school students; interviews and surveys with parents; a five - year longitudinal follow - up as the EAT - I cohort transitioned to high school and early young adulthood, and a 10 - year longitudinal follow - up as the same EAT - I cohort transitioned to early and middle young adulthood.

She offers counseling for individuals, children (Elementary School aged), adolescents (Middle School and High School aged), young adults, adults, older adults, couples and families, military service members and their families, as well as consultation for church leaders and congregations.

So, do these skills evolve over time, or are we looking at completely different skills as young people advance from elementary to middle to high school and beyond?

Coats isn't remotely surprised at the big difference his middle school cast has made with this play: «So many people shortchange middle school students, assuming they aren't yet old enough to act as young leaders or discover their full potential.