Sentences with phrase «as students head»

Supporters hold signs as students head back to classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun - Sentinel via AP)

As students head back to classes, this is a good time for families to talk about cell phones and distracted driving.

Now, as students head home for the holidays, organizers are celebrating some significant early victories and looking forward to a busy spring semester.

As students head off to school, we can all jump on the book - reading band wagon...

As students head back for the start of school, teachers and administrators have something new on their minds: The Common Core, a set of educational standards that are being rolled out in 45 states.

As students head back to school, the Obama administration is using executive power in an unprecedented move to circumvent a congressional standstill on No Child Left Behind, arguing that the federal education law thwarts states» distinct policymaking abilities.

As students head back to schools across the country for a new academic year, The Washington Post has compiled a survival guide for navigating what is an exciting time for children, parents, teachers and those heading off to college.

As students head back to school, this toolkit calls for using absenteeism records from past years and from the first month of school to connect the most at - risk students to personal relationships and positive supports that motivate them to show up to class every day.

The New York State Police is launching a campaign to raise awareness about campus sexual assault as students head to college for the fall semester, with billboards and a public service radio announcement.

As students head back to school for a new year of learning challenges, school nutrition professionals also have the opportunity to learn some new tricks thanks to a fresh schedule of webinars from our... Continue reading →

As your students headed back to school this fall, more than 16 million children in this country struggled with hunger.

Not exact matches

Others have experimented with the Kinect as a 3 - D camera, and an MIT student has built a robot with a Kinect for a head that can see its environment and obey verbal commands.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

«I think it's something Canadians are going to have to get their heads around, something that employees need to think about when it comes to the type of skills they need to acquire, and something for students to think about as well,» he says.

Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

Tom Perriello, head of the Democratic - aligned Center for American Progress Action Fund, says that Obama has to take his case directly and intensely to the American people, much as he did with student - loan reform.

As students streamed away from the school building, some ran while others walked quickly in orderly lines with their hands on or above their heads.

As well as prohibiting students from wearing any type of religious head covering, the uniform policy states boys must also have short haiAs well as prohibiting students from wearing any type of religious head covering, the uniform policy states boys must also have short haias prohibiting students from wearing any type of religious head covering, the uniform policy states boys must also have short hair.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

Newman set up houses of residence — mini-colleges — each headed by an academic who would act as his students» tutor and pastoral mentor.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

Head to elite liberal arts colleges, such as Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Bowdoin, and Middlebury, and you'll find full dedication from the administration, faculty, staff, and students.

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon student - athletes under his charge.»

How many innocents were s - old to the American troops as a Qda and tlbn fig - hters when many were just students or traders all beings (Afghanis and foreign Arabs or non Arabs) all were handed over against cash per head..!?

He sensed which way our discipline was headed, pushed forward as far as he himself could, and encouraged many students and colleagues in the relatively short time he had.

As for the text of the Gospel, students now have the advantage of Erwin Nestle's new edition (the seventeenth, 1941) with its full apparatus of variant readings, handy size, and low price; S. C. E. Legg's full — if not always accurate — apparatus in the new «Oxford Tischendorf» (1935); and F. L. Cross's edition of Hans Lietzmann's edition of A. Huck, A Synopsis of the First Three Gospels (ninth edition, with Introduction in English, section headings in German and English, text and apparatus in Greek, 1936).

With Potts's help, he soon became head of the English department at the newly formed Stowe School in Buckinghamshire; his students there remembered him as a dapper, intelligent, and sympathetic teacher, albeit one capable of severity and even of cruelty.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

The National Safety Council offers tips on how to keep your student safe and sound as they head back to school this fall.

Florida defensive coordinator Geoff Collins is now Temple's head coach and asked that we name them specifically: student assistants Jacob Gabriel and Kane Ivus - Osthus, known in Gainesville as «DJ Dollaz» and «El Diablo» (respectively).

In 1956 when Fletcher was called in as head football coach, the school was called Northern Illinois State College, had an undergraduate enrollment of 3,676 students (a majority of them coeds) and a football team that had won six games and lost 29 in four seasons.

This award is for a certified head coach whose qualities as a leader and motivator embody NorCal's mission to provide student - athletes with the stellar, supportive and positive coaching and camaraderie to help them achieve their goals.

The Coach of the Year Award acknowledges head coaches whose qualities as a leader and motivator embody NICA's mission to provide student - athletes with the coaching and camaraderie to help them achieve both competitive and non-competitive goals in a safe and enjoyable manner.

«As a school we have been attending for several years now and hope to continue giving our students such a wonderful experience of this majestic match for years to come» — Martyn Bagwell (Head of PE at St Osmunds Middle School)

Kristine Marbell - Pierre researched «autonomy - supportive parenting» as a graduate student at Clark University, and she is now the Head of Guidance and Counseling at The Ghana International School in Ghana.

The policy requires that student's coach or person serving as a referee remove a student be removed from practice or competition if they exhibit signs, symptoms, or behaviors consistent with having sustained a concussion or head injury.

The student starts the day at 6:15 a.m.; takes classes such as AP calculus, honors Spanish, biology and art history from 7:50 a.m. to 3 p.m. (breaking for a student council meeting at lunch); heads to a service club meeting after school; and then goes to a two - hour swim practice before heading home at 6:45 p.m. for a shower, dinner and three to four hours of homework.

The policy must (1) provide information concerning the nature and risk of injuries to the head, including risks of continuing to play after sustaining an injury and (2) require that if a student sustains or is suspected of sustaining an injury to the head while participating in an interscholastic activity or event they must be immediately removed and return to the activity only after being medically cleared in writing by a health care provider (as defined in the statute).

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

She taught at Hersey for 10 years, was a supervisor of student teachers for the district for about three years and returned to Hersey as a division head from 1999 to 2002.

To promote the prevention of, recognition of, and appropriate responses to TBI, CDC has developed the Heads Up initiative, a program that provides concussion and mild TBI education to specific audiences such as health - care providers, coaches, athletic trainers, school nurses, teachers, counselors, parents, and student athletes.

An easy, two - minute vision test administered on the sidelines after a young athlete has hit his or her head can help to reliably determine whether the athlete has sustained a concussion, according to a new study of student athletes, some as young as 5.

As the premier doula certifying agency, DONA International sets a standard for the certification process that will allow student doulas to explore the world of doula work from the heart, head, and hands.

First Lady Michelle Obama talks to Head Start students during lunch as she visits New Hampshire Estates Elementary School on May 19, 2010 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.

Stephen Amoah, was among the huge number of various groups in the Asante region such as, the Ashanti Youth Association, Kumasi Youth Association and Asante Students Union, as well as a retinue of chiefs, politicians and heads of the security services, who had lined up at the airport to welcome Otumfuo.

Students will show their displeasure at cuts and tuition fees in a symbolic act of protest later today, as demonstrators head to Conservative offices in North London.

He held his head slightly above the ground as he and about 200 students from the Leadership and Public Service High School in Lower Manhattan participated in a «die - in.»