Sentences with phrase «school class broken»

Song books no longer used, use of overhead projectors for songs, very little singing of familiar hymns, taped music, piano playing for maybe one song, no longer have a choir, altar removed, one strong Sunday School class broken up, to name a few things happening.

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A record - breaking 16 % of Stanford B - school's class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, exceeding the school's 12 % peak during the dot - com boom.

The Facebook COO and author of «Lean In» told Harvard Business School's class of 2012 in her Class Day speech that she almost missed her big break in class of 2012 in her Class Day speech that she almost missed her big break in Class Day speech that she almost missed her big break in life.

I started nursing school, newly clean, broken, emotional, enraged, but a great actress, so most folks just saw me as a people - pleasing smiler, desperate to make the top marks in class to prove to myself and others I was alright.

At the very least you're using the break from school to double up on her (already daunting) schedule of gymnastics and dance classes, supplemented with an ambitious summer reading list.

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.

Buffalo Grove — A 17 - year - old girl who had been attending a class Thursday at Buffalo Grove High School, 1100 W. Dundee Rd., told police someone took $ 150 from her purse when she left the purse unattended during a class break, police said.

The Chicago Park District is canceling all its regular swim classes during the public schools «spring break to make room for the seven one - hour sessions planned each day.

After - school and weekend classes, plus summer camps and school - break camps.

At a snack break, Jackie and her close friend, Stacey Kenefick, 11, talk over a spelling test from their 6th - grade special education class at MacArthur Elementary School, 1800 Chippendale Rd., Hoffman Estates.

Some schools don't allow phones at all, some use them as mini-computers to support research in the classrooms, others allow them only during lunch breaks and after classes.

«When Poor and Working Class New Yorkers are struggling to attend SUNY schools because of rising tuition, I find it insulting that Governor Cuomo would propose a plan that gives tax breaks to wealthy corporations simply for their proximity to a SUNY campus.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

«The Senate Republicans» «new tax» is an extension of the millionaires tax and they're saying they would rather give a tax break to millionaires than a tax cut to the middle class and more money to our schools,» he said.

The Kingston City School District returns to class for the 2014 - 15 school year next week, but what kind of changes will students see when they're all finished with summer School District returns to class for the 2014 - 15 school year next week, but what kind of changes will students see when they're all finished with summer school year next week, but what kind of changes will students see when they're all finished with summer break?

«Despite all the money that has been spent by Labour, schools taking disadvantaged children aren't getting the money they need to break this link by cutting class sizes and providing them with extra support,» he said.

«Social services is broken... The middle class is getting squeezed, there's no affordable housing here at all,» the former Roslyn school board member and restaurant owner said.

Despite breaking out a fresh piece of nicotine gum every half hour, I wanted to kill my boss, quit my job, skip my night - school class, and spend the rest of my life hiding under the covers.

«The idea is to orient your body to the ground so when you hit, there's a multistep process of hitting and shifting your body weight to break up that impact,» said Sgt. First Class Chuck Davidson, master trainer at the Army's Advanced Airborne School at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

This week I've had a week break from grad school, so it has been so nice to just kind of unplug a bit before starting back with two classes next week.

I am currently living in Lawrence, Kansas and take a few classes at the University of Kansas and this week was their spring break (I had to miss school last week because my family went early for ours).

Now that I'm not taking any more classes, my schedule is the same every day no matter the time of year, so I am not limited to taking breaks when the rest of the school does.

She submits applications to colleges in New York on the sly, with help from her dad while she rushes to complete her last year of high school and break free of her lower middle class bonds.

What if the next time you're taking a little break from class, you notice the whole school happens to be going underwater?

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

(Much to the delight of my class, the stick broke halfway through the school year.)

If PE programs have been cut from your school and you want to take a few minutes of class time to get the students» wiggles out and their blood flowing, check out this video series from Missouri organization Move to Learn, which offers 5 - minute, age - specific exercise break videos designed for classroom use, plus a database of more than 1,200 health - and activity - related lesson plans for all ages and subjects.

«In our school day, we build in two full movement classes during the day along with short movement bursts, what we call brain boosts, to break up classes and get kids active rather than having them sit for hours and hours straight.»

The dwindling number of school places, the increasing size of classes and the continued budget cuts that are stretching resources to breaking point are all important factors which limit our teachers» ability to provide the proper safeguarding for vulnerable children.

When Kevin Jones's advanced biology class arrived at Las Vegas High School, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on a recent Thursday morning, they discovered that vandals had broken into the school cafeteria the night bSchool, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on a recent Thursday morning, they discovered that vandals had broken into the school cafeteria the night bschool cafeteria the night before.

We took a break to visit the school's social studies fair in the gym, and I allowed the class to break out of line and wander on their own.

Students enrolled in the class don't break a sweat during the school day.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 19 - More about school, covering school rooms, prepositions, school subjects, break time and connectives.

As this year's summer break draws near, I recall my religious school rabbi, on the final class before each summer, recommending to his students that the summer should be used for three things: «Reading a good book, taking a long walk, and making a new friend.»

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

«The first day of school or a class — even the first few minutes — will make or break a teacher.»

Among them: requiring at least one art class for high school graduation; adding arts education standards to those the state is adopting in language arts, math, science, and social studies; and offering tax breaks to arts and entertainment companies that volunteer time, expertise, and other resources to schools.

Sarah Pearson, interim director of New Schools Network, said: «Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cuSchools Network, said: «Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cuschools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.

Kaitlyn Watson, a middle school English language arts teacher in North Carolina, has students build their own vocabulary lists from the context of their reading instead of generating whole - class lists for them, and then «they break down context clues and work toward their own applications of the words.»

Look at the most recent freshman class and break out high school grade - point averages by gender.

The trauma - informed school Fall - Hamilton Elementary in Nashville, for example, developed a practice that benefits teachers — called «tap - in / tap - out» — that lets teachers text a colleague to cover their class for a few minutes when they need a break from a tense situation.

For students up to the age of 15, this means they will be allowed to take their phones to and from school, but will not be permitted to use their devices during the classes, or even at lunch breaks.

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(1) Thirty minutes of additional moderate to vigorous physical activity on each school day — at least 15 minutes to be outside of break times, although class teachers customised timing of delivery and exact activities undertaken according to their class circumstances, supported by resources supplied as part of the study.

«Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.

One example is the School of One program in New York City in which the old model of one teacher handling 25 students at once in one classroom is broken up into a new model of each student being assigned each day to a large class, a tutor, a computer simulation, or a small group, whatever works best at that moment, until the student meets the learning objective.

«We are teachers, and we're busting our butts to prepare you for Miss Such - and - Such's class in that middle school so that when all hell is breaking loose, you'll be the one who's still learning.»

Sarah Pearson, NSN interim director, said: «Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.

Consider the interruptions in a traditional school day: breaks, transition periods, busy work, waiting for other students to catch up, teachers trying to quiet down the class.

If you are able to integrate this more into your class, the areas highlighted in the checklist can be used as «study questions» in which students break into small groups and discuss these issues in their school / district.