Sentences with phrase «sail school of»

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He's a sundial aficionado, whose love for the heavens has taken him to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and sailing in the North Atlantic, where he earned his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and Navisailing in the North Atlantic, where he earned his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and NaviSailing and Navigation.

Melville was not a systematically educated man: though backward in his early schooling, he taught himself literature by devouring haphazard naval libraries during the four years of his sailing adventure.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

For instance, the school grounds include a Forbidden Forest and a deep, mysterious lake across which arriving students must sail in the dead of night.

Although I never met Brittanie Cecil, and I've never been to Columbus, Ohio, I can not begin to express the grief that wells up inside my heart whenever I see the school photograph of the little teenager, on the cusp of adolescence, her blonde hair pulled back into a ribbon, and her blue eyes sparkling at the prospect of all those summer pool parties, those early - fall hayrides, her prom, her high school graduation with the cap and gown sailing high into a sky as wide and full as her hopes and dreams.

In high school he assembled files of clippings on transatlantic voyages and sailing craft.

A few kids had seemed to sail through with equanimity — they ran the student council at school and collected maple syrup at home — but even then, there were hints of malaise.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago owns the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club at 20 Marine Drive in Wilmette, and leases the building to Sheridan Shore, which runs the yacht club and sailing school on the property.

Before we know it, our kids will be out of school and we will be sailing through summer vacations and activities.

One portion of the district proposal that's expected to sail through is the closing of a school.

At the beginning of graduate school, you're often part of a large student cohort, but as you move forward, you get to the point when you are essentially sailing off on your own.

When deployed, the sail is square in shape with each side about the length of a school bus, and harnesses solar energy to use as propulsion to move through space.

When fully deployed, NEA Scout's solar sail is the length of a school bus.

Standing on the banks of the Beaverkill River near her fabled fishing school in New York's Catskill Mountains, she raises and points the tip of an 8 1/2 - foot rod just over her shoulder, gives a sudden backward snap of the wrist and sends 40 feet of line sailing straight back behind her.

In 1983, Lyman Page, who had been out of school for 5 years and had spent 2 years sailing around the world, walked into Weiss's lab and asked whether he could work for him.

A shiny aluminum cylinder about the size of a school bus, flanked on either side by solar - power arrays that look like rectangular elephant ears, the Hubble is now sailing toward completion of its 14th year in orbit.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Patrick Moore is dedicated to an old school pursuit of the sporting life, breaking a sweat in competitive activities like golf, sailing, ultimate frisbee, clay pigeon shooting, and volleyball.

Shrek (the roguish brogue of Mike Myers), accompanied by his faithful Donkey and Puss in Boots, sets sail to find Fiona's half - brother Artie (voice of Justin Timberlake), geek - princeling at the medieval version of the high school in The OC.

The death of the king leaves Shrek as the reluctant heir to the throne, and the ogre sails off to find a replacement in the person of Artie, a prep - school bully magnet with the voice of Justin Timberlake.

Soul of a Woman is a final set of genre - perfect old - school soul: brisk rumba - soul in «Sail On,» hand - clapping neo-Motown in «Rumors,» a girl - group slow dance topped with hovering strings in «When I Saw Your Face.»

Those who set sail with the latter will receive a boatload of bonus extras, such as the featurettes Poseidon: A Ship on a Soundstage (explaining the complexities of making this modern adventure movie), A Shipmate's Diary (following a film - school intern's experiences on the set) and Poseidon: Upside Down (a look at the unique set - design).

Author Bio Andy Swain is the Managing Director of SAS Shelters, who are a family run business with over 50 years of experience in the design, manufacture and installation of school building products such as school canopies, sail shades and shelters.

They will argue that it makes more sense to set sail for the new standards now, to allow teachers and schools to begin preparing for the higher expectations of the Common Core.

Former AS - 1 principal Ron Snyder initially connected the school to the center through a pond - boat project, where students applied the technique of lofting to create small models of sailing yachts.

It's unfair and unnecessary to risk confusing children with topics — sailing, BMX racing, snowshoeing — that low - income urban children, in particular, are likely to know little about and have no out - of - school experience with.

First, Moskowitz doesn't give much credit to a number of «environmental» circumstances that put a lot of wind in her (and her schools») sails.

The SAIL initiative is an exciting way to enable a professional learning team to extend beyond the boundaries of an individual school campus, enabling those interested in pursuing a shared improvement agenda to work collegially for the benefit of their students.

Linking up with teachers from other schools and systems through online networks like SAIL can unlock a wealth of new ideas, activities, strategies and support, with students reaping the benefits.»

In the UK, the weather can often be a barrier to taking children outdoors for regular lessons and it may be that the addition of a school canopy or shade sail, may be just the thing to make sure that your school is not depending on the British weather to get the children in the fresh air.

After fifth grade, McNeely recalls sailing free until she hit eighth grade, and Mr. Robinson became assistant principal of the K - 12 school she attended.

These can take the shape of Umbrella style shelters, Tepees, Shade Sails or steel and polycarbonate school canopies.

To estimate the effects of states» adoption and implementation of college - and career - readiness standards and aligned assessments on student outcomes, C - SAIL is analyzing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

C - SAIL research reported on this website was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C150007 to the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.

In this capacity, SAILS Compass, Inc. will establish policies and procedures for the operation of the school, establish a foundation to raise money and develop programs that will further its mission of serving youth - at - risk in the Sparta Area.

C - SAIL is directed by Andy Porter, and includes a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, American Institutes for Research, and Vanderbilt University.

The Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support (SAILS) program, known as TN SAILS, began as a collaborative effort between a single community college and the local high school, designed to increase the number of students who are college ready in mathematics so that they can enter directly into credit - bearing postsecondary coursework.

More than 100 students at five high schools participated in the pilot TN SAILS English program in 2015 — 16, with 98 percent of students successfully completing it.

By the end of the 2016 — 17 school year, TN SAILS will have reached more than 50,000 students in Tennessee.

The TN SAILS curriculum was co-designed by K — 12 and Chattanooga State Community College educators to embed Tennessee Board of Regents Learning Support competencies into the high school senior year math and English courses, ensuring alignment.

The first half of the school year hasn't been smooth sailing for JPS with an audit that resulted in probation, a rejected corrective action plan to get off probation, a failing grade as a district and the abrupt departure of former superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray.

The result of that is that she will probably sail into her first ever job actually connected to public schools on the backs of law makers who owe her.

Andy Porter, of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, is the director of C - SAIL and recently spoke with James Benson, the IES project officer for the center.

As states explore new approaches to school accountability, C - SAIL has interviewed dozens of state officials and found a popular new mantra in state departments of education: Accountability should now be «supportive, not punitive.»

The NHSC's ruling today takes some wind out of the sails of the Florida School Boards Association (FSBA), which is inexplicably suing the Sunshine State over its more - than - decade - old scholarship tax credit law, in a complaint that mirrors the legal reasoning of the NH petitioners.

There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.

It is not that only University of College students get homework writing, even school goers have to sail on the same boat.

The days of hoping to just sail through high school and then «buckle down» in college are long gone, as the competition is fierce right from the start.

If a teenage driver can make it through high school and the first years of college without having any significant automobile accidents or moving violations, such as speeding tickets for DUIs, then it should be smooth sailing.

The problem is... I now owe + $ 20,000 in school loans because I tapped out my GI Bill my last year at Full Sail, all because the Art Institute of Seattle lost $ 7,000 of my tuition and told me to leave!