Now, if you promise not to tell anybody, I will let you in on a little secret: I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school.
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So I became class president in middle school and went on to attend Lowell High School in San Francisco where I continuously was challenged academically, yet given a solid foundation for a commitment to lifelong learning.
The news, and so I grew up - there was a point in my life, like in middle school, where I just wanted to fit in and I just didn't want to be an Arab because I thought, you know, it was a terrible thing.
"I once challenged a group of middle-school students to name a subject of interest to them, and I told them I could put up an image that would show their connection to the story, " he recalled.
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You tell me how I can make those middle-school sixth-graders out there eat green beets.
This fact, which I proclaimed upon arrival in middle school, was a source of considerable mirth for the powerful few who dictated the social tide.
Not that I was deprived of the Christmas spirit years after I was told by my middle school crew that there was no such thing as Santa.
In middle school, I had a dollhouse.
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Since my middle school years, I've been asked this question more than any other.
So in sixth grade I played goalie for my Princeton middle school team.
As a future middle school teacher, I aim to empower my students to become champions of change as well.
This was a group of middle school girls, so I thought it might be difficult to engage them in conversation.
Using middle school investigative tactics, I figured out I had snubbed the slanderer at lunch the day before, and the note had been her revenge.
In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.
When my son entered his new middle school my wife and I were faced with a very an ethical situation common to parents today: do we bow down to the evil forces of society, technology and popular culture and get him a cell phone?
Now, we are recognizing the need for a math program that allows our most advanced middle school students to push into and beyond Algebra I.
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And of course, I want to thank all the students from the Lincoln Multicultural Middle School -- where are my students? (Applause.) Thank you all for joining us.
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When I took over as principal in 2000, it was the worst middle school in Oakland.
Last Saturday, I delivered the keynote address at a naturalization ceremony held at Kenmore Middle School in Virginia.
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I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.
After the conversation, I tried to imagine what it would be like to teach English to ninety-four middle-school kids in a remote Yangtze village.
It gave me the confidence to work as a middle school science teacher in a Mexican barrio in San Diego, California even though I had no formal education training or experience with the culture.
NGLC, an initiative dedicated to improving college readiness and completion, has now completed its third wave of investments focused on breakthrough models (here is what I wrote about their last announcement) and in the K-12 middle and high school arena, has funded 20 school models that, together, showcase a promising mixture of projects.
Within several weeks I decided to try a pilot project with a school where the Rotary Club had strong relationships, Bell Middle School.
As a middle school English teacher, most of my reading material lies in the land of YA fiction (I must admit, I LOVE the likes of Eragon, Inkheart, and of course, Harry Potter).
"I thought we would have the community behind us, " said Randy Reason, coach of Oxford's middle-school football team and one of the residents who has backed the loan.
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