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Mindful Schools

Focus, concentration, impulse control. These are skills that need to be honed in school. Teachers, parents and coaches ask our kids to focus and...

Empower middle schoolers to help

The closer the end of the school year gets, the more stressed teachers get. And the more stressed the teachers get, the more stressed the kids are....

Failure may be the only option

Bay Area schools, including Horace Mann Middle School in San Francisco, were put on the state's five percent lowest-achieving schools list this...

Race: Are we so different?

How do we talk to middle schoolers about race? The current exhibit, “RACE: Are we so different?” at the Laurence Hall of Science in...

Catcher in the Rye, author J.D. Salinger dies

J. D. Salinger, author of “The Cather in the Rye” and other stories of youth angst, died today of natural causes in his home in New...

Middle school highlights around the Bay

http://portal.sfusd.edu Horace Mann Middle School students get a chance to talk to career professionals on Wed. Jan 27th from 8:30-11:30....

Oakland charter school to be nationally recognized

The American Indian Public Charter Middle School in Oakland has about 200 students from a range of racial backgrounds. 35% of the 6-9th graders are...

SPARK middle school apprenticeships makes dreams come true

Every kid has a dream. The trick is empowering each child to live it. This is what the San Francisco based non-profit group SPARK tries to do every...