Sentences with phrase «turning points schools»

This guide details the fundamental characteristics of the young adolescent learner and explains how Turning Points schools work to meet the needs of these students.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed at the Turning Point School as part of the 2014 - 2015 Parent Speaker Series.

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«The gift date itself on average represents a turning point in the stock's trajectory, with company prices moving lower in the months after a gift is made,» David Yermack, a professor of finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, wrote in a 2008 article in the Journal of Financial Economics.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Ultimately it all still comes down to that turning point when I was in school and I moved to the front of the house.

Geographically speaking, Nielsen, who's the director of the school's Business Startup Center, has a point: Ten minutes to the north of campus is the much - buzzed about Downtown Project, an effort into which Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has poured $ 350 million of his own money to turn Vegas into a start - up oasis.

CROWN POINT, Ind. — Police departments in northwestern Indiana are turning to key fobs to electronically unlock doors at local schools so officers can quickly enter during emergencies.

John R. Brokhoff's As One with Authority (1989) is a pointed rejoinder to Craddock's As One Without Authority (197 I) Brokhoff an old - fashioned Lutheran who was Craddock's predecessor at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, exalts the sacrament of the Word (he believes sermons should be longer) and turns back liturgical renewal (Eucharist once a month is plenty) The Word is not something overheard but something overwhelming.

The turning point for them came when Democratic politicians began to support busing programs that would have taken their son, Greg, miles away from the neighborhood school one - and - a-half blocks from their home in Warren, Michigan.

Piper side - stepped the main issue between the two camps: from an Old - School perspective the New Calvinism smacks of the evangelical revivalism of a D. L. Moody, or, more to the point, the baseball - player - turned - evangelist Billy Sunday (insert Mark Driscoll reference here).

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).

I haven't really been in a three - point stance since my senior year in high school (my 20th anniversary is this year), and I was never fast enough to turn the corner with the ball in my hands.

And # 2 the apparel companies have created their own market, they know what avenues to use — twitter, instagram, etc. to build up «excitement» and then point to all the recruits who love it, which in turn is a second reason for schools to get on board with it.

But I worry that if I leave my children to cry it out, then they will not see the point in reaching out to us if they have problems later in life and could try to deal with serious issues like bullying, drug addictions, teenage pregnancy, gambling problems, or flunking out of school on their own or turn to peers.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

Turning to that last point, the six cents increase, it remains to be seen what can be achieved by school districts with the additional funding.

Optimize your physical status by going to bed earlier, increasing rest times on off days, getting moderate exercise (increases Prolactin levels which in turn increase milk supply), and consume adequate fluids (many busy moms do not take the time to drink enough, so make it a point to have something nearby that you can sip throughout your work / school day).

For kids who attended daycare or preschool, kindergarten is still a major turning point, because your child will be given more responsibilities and independence in school.

A difference of 3.16 points was measurable through 15 years.17 A casual observation regarding reactions to such data demonstrates anger in individual mothers who protest that their bottle - fed infants turned out fine and went to college and graduate school.

I also deducted points for using cut fruit like this because it has not been acidulated (a common failing in school food) and will turn brown quickly as well.

At one point I had three children doing school on one computer and they were able to take turns and finish before dinner without a problem.

The candidate the dem should consider is that west point grad and former diplomatic officer turned school teacher who may be able to talk progressive but also give off the Democratic version of a Chris Gibson vibe.

But to my mind, the turning point was a single damaging tabloid story - about him living while separated from his wife with an ex-con pal from law school who recently pleaded guilty to a mortgage scam with a weird S&M link - that seemed to spook Levy so much that he basically recoiled from the press.

Gresham says before that, the household telephone line was frequently turned off for lack of money, something that humiliated him when a teacher pointed it out once in school.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

Donohue pointed out that eliminating 400 beds in the mental health system, turning violent youth over to non existent programs in New York City, shortchanging localities and some hocus - pocus with the school funding formula will not improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, said it's a turning point in what has become a battle between schools, teachers, parents and New York's elected leaders over standardized testing and its effects.

The award marked «a turning point, where I was getting a sense that I was doing more than surviving and starting to actually thrive at school,» she says.

The turning point came in 1996 when antitrust litigation against the American Bar Association forced it to accredit for - profit law schools, wrote co-authors Gruppuso, Dr. Eli Adashi, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and former dean of medicine and biological sciences, and current Brown medical student Gopika Krishna.

Over at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Alessio Fasano's discovery of zonulin, an endogenous molecule, marked a turning point in our scientific understanding of autoimmune disease [3].

That's what really turned me on to the Integrative Nutrition school to the point where I'm really committed to being here every year, because I judge the fruit tree by the fruit that it bears.

Turns out school dress codes weren't as stupid as I thought (to a point, I mean no collar bone showing..

This tiny Catholic school for women dominated the sport at a turning point in history, and this plucky, old - fashioned sports drama sets the scene and tells the tale with a lot of heart and a dash of wit.

A woman briefly mentions «growing breasts» as a turning point in grade school.

Children from the slum who wander past after school point excitedly at the pictures, whispering, «That's Sunny meeting the Rock,» referring to the WWE wrestler - turned - actor, Dwayne Johnson.

Turning point occurs when an exclusive Manhattan prep school recruits Jamal for his basketball talent and his academic achievement, and he seeks Forrester's help in dealing with the new environment, becomes a reluctant hero and Jamal gradually becomes committed not only to his own writing, but to cracking Forrester's shell.

I cringed at your turn in Zoolander, shrugged off your appearance in Old School, and was apparently one of the few people on the planet who missed the point of Elf.

It does take an odd turn at one point, transforming into an after - school special.

That action, on April 11, 1965, was a watershed in the evolution of the federal role in American schooling, a turning point both in sheer dollars — by some estimates, federal K - 12 spending tripled between 1964 and 1966 — and influence on districts nationwide.

Concurrent with my efforts to turn kids away from viewing discussion as an exercise in point - scoring, I was involved with contract negotiation between our teachers» association and the school district.

At this point Parker's trustees turned to two retired school veterans on the board (the authors of this essay) to act together, pro bono, as the principal.

Local school officials, in turn, are admonishing members of the legislature for the shortfall, while lawmakers are blaming the state school board, and school board members are pointing to faulty data.

During school visits and other public events, the president turned to his education agenda — school construction, hiring new teachers, and violence prevention — as scrutiny of his relationship with former intern Monica S. Lewinsky and alleged related misconduct reached a critical new point.

He called the results a turning point that demonstrated the political power of charter school backers as well as others who are seeking more high - quality learning opportunities for local students.

That year marked a new turning point, with evaluations of local schools rising once again in both the PDK and EdNext polls.

But as Reville and others pointed out, schools alone can't turn things around for all kids.

«Exclusion often marks a turning point during an ongoing difficult time for the child, parent and those trying to support the child in school.»

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

A sixth grade teacher's class created power points about their school which were sent to Ghana; in turn the Ghanaian students made similar presentations to send to Weymouth.

Bill Kurtz, founding head of the school, believes that was a turning point.