Sentences with phrase «parents leave the meetings»

Parents leave the meetings with games and other activities they can use at home to reinforce classroom learning.

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«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

They taught me too that our biggest questions, our deepest desires and fears and joys, often meet us in the quotidian challenges of marriage, parenting and home life — at the 3 a.m. feeding, in the tantrum at Costco, amidst piles of dirty laundry, at the community playground, in the bouquet of weeds left carefully on your pillow.

When Andre took her home to meet his parents, the six - foot Shields left the room for a moment and Andre, who's 5» 11», asked proudly, «Isn't she wonderful?»

The regulations are due to come into force on 1 December 2014, and the options to use the new Shared Parental Leave rights will apply for parents who meet the eligibility criteria, where a baby is due to be born on or after 5 April 2015, or for children who are placed for adoption on or after that date.

Each parent will need to meet the qualifying criteria for leave and / or pay in their own right.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

According to Gragnani, who was accompanied at the board meeting by his parents, Don and Donna Gragnani, the kids found a spot at Dundee - Crown High School in Carpentersville, but a hostile crowd of local kids forced them to leave, throwing rocks and bottles at them.

If it's okay for animals to leave their young to their own devices in order to meet their needs, human parents need to be told this is ok too (within reason - I would never advocate leaving a baby or child on its own at home, for example).

Meeting a group of smart moms, sharing ideas, hearing new approaches to parenting and leaving with a network of resources was hands down worth juggling my hectic schedule for any day.

In fact, according to many teachers and parents I meet many children» birthday parties are creating rifts between children, leading to alienation for those left off the party list.

meeting a baby's need to be fed becuase it is hungry or comforting it when it is distressed is fine in my book... but when a two year old pitches a fit at nap or bed time and crys till mommy or daddy come to check on them, then settles down but refuses to fall asleep, followed by wailing as soon as the parent leaves the room... now that calls for some «letting them cry it out».

A while back, Lisa left a comment on The Lunch Tray's Facebook page about the difficulties she sometimes faces in providing healthful food to kids — meeting the often conflicting agendas of parents while pleasing kids who may be used to junk food.

They will either have to be met in some other way or will possibly cause damage to the relationship between parent and child, or just leave the child feeling that his or her needs are not important.

I've never met a parent that didn't experience their child growing up and leaving various stages as bittersweet.

At 5:45, parents will leave their children with our teaching staff to meet the program supervisors in the multi-purpose room for a thirty - minute informational question and answer period.

I left the weapon in that vehicle as my wife and I felt uncomfortable taking it into an area church for a required meeting with other Onondaga County Foster Parent Program volunteers — c learly not an appropriate venue to be carrying a weapon of any kind.»

ALBANY — The state Board of Regents chancellor, confronted Monday by anxious Long Island parents at the panel's meeting, assured them she will look into complaints that more teenagers are at risk of leaving high school without diplomas.

The parents of Ramarley Graham, Constance Malcolm, left, and Frank Graham, right, with their lawyer, Royce Russell, after a meeting on Tuesday with Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The days filled up with school visits, speeches, reports, and meetings with parents, farmers, and workers — an exhausting commitment to public service that left little time for his parents, with whom he shared a house.

And then my work week started with a 6 - hour meeting, took off 2 days from work to spend some time with my parents before they left, and said goodbye to them yesterday.

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One of the film's key scenes shows the village assembly in Hirut's area carefully debating her case, and when Meaza attempts to leave a meeting with Hirut's parents without staying for a meal, she is brought up short by a mother who insists, «you must not forget our culture.»

And, what's worse, her parents go to California and leave her with an aunt (Heather Graham) she's never even met.

While this second sequel to Meet the Parents features the same comedy of embarrassment and vulgarity as its predecessors, it also takes a strange sideways step into machismo that leaves it feeling rather joyless.As their...

In this remake, we meet Peter Parker as a boy, when his parents have to leave him with his Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen), and are either killed or go into hiding.

Unfortunately, she quickly became pregnant, and the two struggled to make ends meet; shocked and dismayed, their parents refused to provide any support, so they were left on their own to survive.

Michelle A. Rhee, left, the chancellor of the District of Columbia's public schools, talks to angry parents last week after a meeting to gather community reaction to a plan for closing some schools.

Because dissatisfied parents can leave and take their money with them, schools of choice have a powerful incentive to meet their needs.

About 100 protesters and angry parents led by local officials of the NAACP stormed the Minneapolis school board's final meeting of the year last week, prompting board members to leave the meeting with their business unfinished.

This leaves large gaps in our understanding of how well schools are meeting both the broader needs of students and the expectations of policy - makers, parents, and the public.

The best form of accountability is directly to parents who are empowered to choose the education providers that meet their children's needs — and leave those that do not.

As a Nashville Rise advocate, her goal is to ensure every child's educational needs are met through empowering the child's parents and leaving them feeling confident enough to elevate their voices around advocating for change.

Lead parent organizer Amabilia Villeda, left, 41, and fellow parents meet at a park nearby 24th Street Elementary School, where parents are becoming among the first in the nation to force a major overhaul through California's «parent trigger» law.

Hours of back - to - back meetings can leave teachers hungry and low on energy, so it's common for parent groups to provide snacks or meals.

The additional letter tells parents that nearly every school in Washington won't meet the No Child Left Behind requirements this year, and that the 28 superintendents are «proud of the significant academic progress our students are making.»

She said parents were previously told the trust had passed an application from the school to leave to the government, but that it denied doing so during the meeting with Quinn.

Parents often work multiple jobs to make ends meet, leaving children unsupervised.

All of my responsibilities — meeting the needs of the parent community, supporting students, serving as the instructional leader, taking care of building management — were left to flounder because my primary concern was making sure one classroom was safe and functional.

Historically low student achievement and worsening school performance in meeting federal No Child Left Behindrequirements prompted parents, educators and four former governors to level criticism at the Hawaii State Board of Education.

By requiring parents to forfeit their rights, voucher programs leave families with no assurance or guarantee that their children will receive the services and supports they need to meet grade - level academic standards.

We meet Anastasia, her parents, and their pet guinea pig, Muffy, who has been known to hold a grudge and leave behind «revenge - poo.»

Traditionally, we would meet with a parent or family, talk about goals and issues then leave the family, head back to the office and record what was discussed in lengthy progress notes.

As there is no excuse for any pet parent to leave waste behind, retailers also have a responsibility to ensure all customers are able to find pick - up solutions to meet their specific needs.

Moreover, parents would have the opportunity to set up a bank of up to 10 days of leave from their unused benefits to use to meet the needs of the child within three years of birth or adoption.

Young fathers today want to coach the soccer team after work; attend the afternoon parent teacher meetings and read to their children at night — all things that my father left to my mother to handle so that he could relax in the evening after a hard day at work.

If your goal for the life insurance policy is to protect an inheritance, maybe a home that your parents are leaving to you, you'll need to look at larger death benefit options, which may reduce the types of policies that will meet your needs.