Sentences with phrase «youth in grades»

Thirty female youth in grades 6 — 8 (ages 12 — 15 years) and their parents were randomly assigned to either the intervention group (N = 22) or a wait list control group (N = 12).

The Oregon Sustainable Communities Program which is part of the Oregon 4 - H Latino Outreach Program focuses on the development, delivery, and evaluation of after - school / summer programs targeting Latino youth in grades 6 - 8.

Best Practices in STD / HIV and Pregnancy Prevention is a 10 - lesson curriculum that addresses the sexual health needs of youth in grades 8 - 12.

The Arts Education Directory provides information on local teaching artists and art organizations that provide arts education services to San Francisco youth in grades pre-K-12.

For programs serving youth in grades 9 - 12, one prominent program is the Mayor Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program, which we include in our capacity estimates.

A public charter school located in Milwaukee, it educates approximately 100 urban youth in grades 9 - 12.

Kentucky also brings up the rear among youth in grades 9 - 12 who use tobacco; according to 2011 CDC data, about 24 - percent of high school students smoke cigarettes.

Now in its sixth year, the program allows area youth in grades 6 - 11 to earn a 2018 - 2019 Mount Snow Season Pass, while learning about substance abuse prevention and engaging in community service.

Working with the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, Lowell Public Schools, Lowell National Historical Park, Community Teamwork, Inc., Girls, Inc. of Lowell, and the Lowell YWCA, Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary offers environmental education programming for Lowell youth in grades 5 - 12.

The survey of 13,454 youths in grades 7 through 12 was conducted by a team of researchers under the direction...

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CNN: Jeremy Lin emerges as emblem of burgeoning Asian - American Christianity Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

I was very judgemental in my youth, but without i would have gain little unless thru p@ssing grades... granted then i might have been what i wanted to be — History professor, with a degree in geo, bio, and bot — for those who can't follow that....

Wednesday: Mommy dental cleaning / bake double batch of pumpkin muffins (freeze most) / Mommy help in 2nd grade class / dance class / youth group / start blender corn bread

Craig Eastmond joined the Gunners at just 11 years old and was part of the Arsenal team that did the Youth Cup and Premier League Academy double in 2008 - 09, but as with many of our starlets never quite made the grade in the Premier League.

We offer camps, teams, and individual training for youth in 2nd to 8th grades.

The Orinda Youth Association (OYA) offers a variety of sports for children in Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade.

His eighth - grade year at New Haven, Campiotti and tight end Kyle Rachels, both stars on the Junior Buffaloes youth football team, were waterboys for Manteca's 13 - 2 NorCal runner - up season in 2013.

Having moved to Barca in 2005 to join their youth ranks before making the grade at senior level, it's no surprise that Thiago holds the Catalan giants and the city close to his heart, and in turn he has suggested that he would be open to the idea of a return further down the line.

Local youth football organizers in Minnesota say they are experiencing a 20 percent decline in registrations this year, citing increased awareness of the potential of serious injury and parents who are apparently picking other sports for their 3rd and 4th grade children.

Our first annual report on how well stakeholders are serving children and communities through youth sports offers grades, the latest data on participation rates, exclusive insights, and 50 + key developments in the past year.

Other west suburban museums to receive operating grants include: the Aurora Public Art Commission Gallery in Aurora, $ 9,640 for the creation of a brochure about the commission and the Aurora Outdoor Art and Science Walk; the Aurora Regional Fire Museum, $ 9,640 for a guide to help 3rd - and 4th - grade pupils better understand the exhibits; and the Bloomingdale Park District Museum, $ 9,640 for a series of adult and youth workshops to complement six major exhibitions on the museum's 2001 schedule.

Mount Snow's program for youth currently in grades 6 - 11 to earn a 2018 - 2019 Mount Snow Season Pass by attending two substance abuse prevention educational events with their parents and performing community service by participating in Green - Up Day.

The Arlington Heights Park District offers Penguins Boys Youth Lacrosse, a travel league for boys in first through eighth grade.

While each program may have its own method for tracking this, some suggestions are to develop relationships with the staff at the schools you serve, to speak with teachers or counselors about your youth, to request youth participants to bring in a copy of their report cards, a call home to parents, or having youth self - report if they have successfully moved on to the next grade level.

Also in 2007, Quinn's Middle School Task Force recommended «every middle - grade student have access to after - school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.»

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

For example, gang prevention programs targeting students in the 6th or 7th grade would be a good use of resources because most youth who join gangs begin in their early teenage years, and as early as ages 10 and 11.

Researchers examined youths» developing gender identity in survey responses from French adolescents over four years, starting in sixth grade and following them each year until ninth grade.

It relies on data on nearly 14,000 individuals from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which began tracking a nationally representative sample of youths in 1995 when they were in seventh through twelfth grades and 11 to 19 - years - old.

Leaders and youth gain access to research grade telescopes around the world including a 20 Meter Radio Telescope here in Green Bank!

Other than the green beer, today my only thoughts of St. Patty's Day are reminiscent of the days of my youth coloring in shamrock outlines in grade school and looking forward to receiving milk chocolate candies wrapped in metallic gold foil because, apparently, only children can make off with a leprechaun's gold without consequence!

Given that summer and grade - level transition times are high - risk periods for youth experimentation with alcohol, users will want to access CAMY's in - depth reports as well as fact sheets and suggestions on how to take action.

«We'd be hard - pressed to not have the Youth Frontiers program,» said Mandy Little, chemical education resource and ninth grade advisor for Irondale High School in New Brighton, Minnesota.

Citizen Schools records show improved attendance, grades, and career planning for youth involved in its programs.

Affirming Rogers» earlier point, the Globe article noted, «Middle schools were conceived in the 1970s and»80s as a nurturing bridge from early elementary grades to high school, but critics say they now more often resemble a swamp, where urban youth sink into educational failure.»

Older youths (those in grades 5 to 12) who have experienced trauma sometimes know their triggers — those sounds, sights, and experiences that spark negative emotions.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

This work is grounded in a coherent rationale and designates a series of indicators that demonstrate system - level, setting - level and individual - level practices to promote smooth transitions to early grades and growth across youth development outcomes for all children.

The researchers noted that another set of data indicate that the White - Black and White - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of youth.

Winners in four categories (6th — 8th grade students, 9th — 12th grade students, undergraduate students, and out - of - school youth) will be announced on June 6, 2012, and will be celebrated by senior White House and department officials.

Students in eighth grade English acted out scenes from Dreams From My Father, a memoir about Barack Obama's youth.

He's also spent time as a Teach for America teacher (3rd grade in Washington, D.C.); a nonprofit fundraiser, marketer, and lobbyist with College Summit; a summer consultant in FSG's youth and education practice; and in social marketing with PR firm Porter Novelli.

Previous to this, she was selected by Teach for America to join the NYC Corps of 2002, where she taught 6th grade for two years, initiated a number of programs for at - risk youth, served as the TFA School Leader at Community Intermediate School 232, and was the Sue Lehman regional finalist in the NYC corps.

G4C also runs a youth game design competition — the G4C Student Challenge — in New York City, Dallas and Pittsburgh for students in grades 6 - 12.

Registration is now open and a calendar of events is available for the EDGE, a comprehensive summer youth program for students entering grades 6 - 9, run by Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191 Community Education in partnership with Farmington, Lakeville and New Prague schools.

Under the narrowest target — providing subsidized OST programming capacity to children and youth in households at or below the poverty line — the District would still have a gap in summer programming of 12,200 slots for children in grade 8 and below.

However, youth in juvenile justice facilities typically have lower education levels, and one in three incarcerated youth have reading and math skills that are significantly lower than their grade level.

Under a goal of universal coverage for children and youth attending D.C. public schools, the District would need to subsidize 37,600 additional afterschool slots for children in pre-K through grade 8, and 12,400 additional afterschool slots for those in grades 9 - 12.

We, the members of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform, believe that youth in the middle grades are capable of learning and achieving at high lGrades Reform, believe that youth in the middle grades are capable of learning and achieving at high lgrades are capable of learning and achieving at high levels.