Sentences with phrase «about learning about schools»

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New Jersey recently created a School Safety Specialist Academy and Dr. McCormick says she is open to other states coming to learn about their program.

On this podcast episode of «School of Greatness,» be prepared to learn something about yourself and the power you have to change the world.

Then, in his senior year of high school, he lost 70 pounds in six months: «I was fortunate enough to learn about nutrition,» he says.

The airplane will fly around the world, making virtual command centers available for school kids, getting them excited about science and math learning.

«We started talking about doing a school bus,» Spade remembers, «because obviously it's Warby, it's glasses, we're celebrating the literary life and learning.»

Among other things, in school I learned about thermodynamics and how refrigeration works.

While waiting in the maelstrom of NYC's Penn Station, I run through what I've learned about him: where he went to school, where his sister - in - law works, and how much cash he donated to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign ($ 6,900).

Bill Gates knows a thing or two about some of engineering's most complex concepts, but the Microsoft co-founder recently learned an important lesson from an elementary school teacher.

Among kids currently ages 8 to 14, 65 percent say they learn more about money from their parents than they do at school, according to a T. Rowe Price survey released last month.

To learn about the state of financing for women - owned ventures, I spoke with Vonda White, serial entrepreneur and founder of Camp Pillsbury, a Minnesota - based boarding school that White acquired after overcoming all the hurdles associated with securing business funding.

I was in school learning about advertising - I really became entrenched in media at school.

Whether it's joining a scouting troop, participating in sports or joining the school band, children learn valuable lessons about teamwork through these activities.

They shared «21 Surprising Facts» about Elizabeth Holmes, which included information about what she wore to the office (a black turtleneck, like her hero Steve Jobs) and what she learned in high school (Mandarin).

In fact, Arnold's research demonstrates that students who truly enjoy learning the most often struggle in school, where students must balance attention given to subjects about which they're truly passionate with the demands of their other coursework.

Be sure to do your due diligence about each potential school's learning philosophy and evaluate which learning style is right for you.

But as I told my editor, Stacy Jones, after spending a few hours watching videos and learning more about the people who believe in the school, I feel like I have new friends in Jerusalem.

Among them: intensive community gardens that provide a therapeutic space where members are taught how to grow their own vegetables; programs that teach young mothers about proper nutrition; workshops where local residents learn about food security and receive public - speaking training; and after - school classes where tweens whip up healthy meals.

As you can imagine, we learned quite a few fun things about each half of the power couple during the revealing exchange, which took place at Betsy Layne High School in Eastern Kentucky.

Of that group, 65 percent attributed this belief to discussions they've had with their parents about saving and 41 percent credited having learned about the economic recession in school.

They include IBM, which is helping urban high schools close the STEM skills gap, and 23andMe, which is empowering consumers to learn about their genetic risks — and the lifestyle choices they can make, in some cases, to lower them.

«Attending school open houses, observing classrooms, and talking with other local parents are all good ways to learn about local schools,» Reardon added, stressing that numbers alone are never enough to judge a school.

He learned about West Africa's counterfeit drug epidemic while at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College; his Ph.D. research eventually yielded an embryonic version of the MPA service.

Twenty - year - old Christian Lunny was in high school when he co-founded ad agency Dash with a pal, so he's had to learn to quash concerns about his age and experience.

After learning about Casino Gaming School in 1994 from a faxed advertisement, Zimmer asked Kallos to send him candidates for six openings at O'Shea's, a small downtown operation he was running at the time.

So I enrolled in a tourist high school because I wanted to be educated as a cook, a waiter, have front desk skills, and learn about hotel management.

If I were a young person again, I would go to a school outside North America and learn more about other cultures.

Andy Dunn, CEO of Bonobos, the clothing brand which he cofounded in 2007, recently spoke with the Stanford Graduatue School of Business web site about the lessons he's learned at the helm.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

The school is already weighing in on important conversations about education, like whether multigrade classrooms enhance learning.

Collaborating with local schools gets kids selling, learning about and loving plants.

They're mired in dated misconceptions about employee development or they base their assessments on clunky, old - school learning management systems.

That means schools might want to think long and hard about how they schedule gym classes, and professionals should be thoughtful about how they order periods of learning with a bout at SoulCycle or a trip to the local running path.

In case of any doubt, Wired also learned that, while at Harvard graduate school (right before dropping out to join Google) Damore wrote and performed in a skit about «Microtubule Jerking» and the women who helped with it.

What it's about: A musical about a couple of teens falling in love over summer break and then learning they go to the same high school.

Forget about business school: With the unlimited resources available today, it's possible to learn anything — and experience is truly the best teacher.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

«In China, we see parents very passionate about their kids» education and we have already seen a lot of after - school learning centers import our robots,» Vikas Gupta said.

And as the kids head back to class for another school year, it made me think about all of the valuable lessons that I learned as a boy that continue to resonate and apply to my daily routine.

Honestly, it sometimes seems like everything we learn in years of schooling and training is boiled down into a series of broad stroke rules about how much you should save, spend on a house, set aside for taxes and on and on.

Learning about finances should begin with students in elementary schools and later at the high school level!

We go to an amazing school that's been giving us so many opportunities to learn about government, to learn about policy, to learn about social issues.

All people should have to take a finance program in school or Something to learn about credit cards and just money trouble awareness.

Well, the onus is on you, the parent, because you can't count on them learning about money matters in school, said Thomas Henske, a certified financial planner and partner at Lenox Advisors.

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The Corporate Partner Panel is a unique opportunity for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) to learn firsthand about securing business with such local corporations and public entities as Ecolab, Minneapolis Public School District, University of Minnesota, and Xcel Energy.

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Follow up by learning about the various repayment programs available after leaving school, as well as the options for repayment reprieve if and when it is needed.

I hadn't taken any personal finance classes, read any investing books, and surely didn't learn anything about managing money in high school or college.

While a broad movement rightly seeks to make financial education part of every school's curriculum, kids most trust their parents when it comes to learning about money.

Children from the local school and community were engaged throughout the entire Build Day playing games, learning about the environment and being active.