Sentences with phrase «approaching the school in»

The Samsung Digital Classroom project approached my school in 2014 with an offer so outrageous that it seemed too good to be true.

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Whether the president's efforts to strike a better deal for America results in redemption or disaster, a Wharton School researcher recently uncovered evidence that it may have already altered how Americans — and American men in particular — approach negotiations.

We need to shift our approach from the old - school «outreach» model to an «in - reach» model, which actively cultivates and incorporates the thoughts of influencers and stakeholders in every facet of business, from product development to content co-creation to crisis communications.

Chris pointed out that this model should be used by every school in their approach to education.

In my years since school, I've realized the wisdom of that approach applies not just to journalism, but to business and marketing, too.

«You begin to see that Apple is approaching that ceiling in growth,» says Z. John Zhang, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive faculty director of the Penn - Wharton China Center.

But I will say that in school, I had some professors who took more of the bad cop approach.

In a steroid - tainted, reality - TV era, Jeter, the son of two Army veterans, continues to stand out because of his old - school approach: Never offer excuses or give less than maximum effort.

In Leyden's case, she mixes modern strategies with «old school marketing tactics,» incorporating direct mail, offline brand experiences, and activations as a way of completing that traditional «surround sound marketing approach.»

«In business school, you learn a Milton Friedman approach, where the most important job of a business is to maximize profit,» Keller says.

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

While the elective courses are at the core of Stanford's approach to entrepreneurship, another obvious edge the school has over others is its location in Silicon Valley.

Much of what every kid would ideally learn in school is, in part, a working familiarity with the same attitudes, approaches and outlooks that we try to instill in our aspiring 1871 entrepreneurs as a lasting part of their overall experience with us.

And that in turn affects how they approach challenges and succeed in early elementary school.

These young business - owners - in - the - making follow their own rules, often struggle in school, and approach tasks with an obsessive, almost addictive, quality.

Their structure shows the possibilities other schools can take to approach eSports, which has largely the same structure as traditional sports except that it does not reside in the athletic department.

Cayton's approach — he has lived in Nepal and melds Eastern and Western schools of thought — also rubbed her the wrong way.

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

However, during a presentation at the GameStop Expo in Las Vegas to promote the upcoming Xbox One console last week, a no - frills, old - school approach is exactly what Microsoft employed when confronted with a convention room full of passionate gamers.

However, many companies have approached this effort in very much the wrong way and are stuck in old - school, ineffective loyalty approaches.

Hsieh discussed his unorthodox approach to building Zappos — widely praised in corporate circles as a playful, innovative, and zany company with a fiercely loyal customer base — during a talk as part of a business school MBA elective course.

We had a similar approach on my tennis team in high school — we'd rather be lucky than good.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

The approach has proven so popular that some 300 other corporate partners have adopted it, helping launch 70 P - Tech schools in the U.S., Australia, and Morocco.

The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaSchool Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaschool completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.

Smith School of Business has been a pioneer in the important area of team - based learning and utilizes an approach that is far more sophisticated than that used in other MBA programs.

Hogg took a harder - edged approach in a recent Twitter confrontation with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who mocked Hogg and criticized him for «whining» after the high school senior shared news that he was rejected by several colleges.

Brian Lightman, leader of the ASCL head teachers» union, said schools faced «serious shortages» in maths and science teachers and called for a more co-ordinated approach to teacher recruitment.

I was pleased to see the PCs move away from that short - sighted approach during their final years in government and that the NDP has continued to invest in building the type of public infrastructure — schools, hospitals, roads and public transit — that Alberta's growing population will need.

The table above shows eight different approaches to paying off $ 53,000 in student loan debt at 6.3 percent interest (we're assuming that most of this debt is made up of higher - interest grad school loans, and that the borrower starts out earning $ 50,000 in adjusted gross income a year).

It is essential to understand that wet shaving as practiced in the U.S. consists of two distinct approaches — or «schools.»

I did not approach Christianity, in the beginning, the same way I approached high school math, history, biology, etc..

In this corner we have Professor Randall Thomas of Vanderbilt Law School who said this approach made sense because it «lends itself to allowing these nominees, if elected, to focus on independent decision - making and fulfilling their fiduciary obligations on behalf of shareholders.»

In view of his approach to solving the problems facing higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for academic disciplines.

I recall being at the business school in the 1980's and getting approached by some of the other students that were married and being questioned quite pointedly about why I was not a member of the Christian Business Association.

Dr. Anthony McRoy, lecturer in Islamics at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology, told the «News Hour» why he doesn't believe the programme will have a significant impact on the issue and would like to see a new approach introducted, he said: «the last government tried something against radicalisation after 7/7, and look how ineffective it's been»

My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to nonprofessionals who are in training to lead growth groups.

We must have, in the pulpit and in the school, and also in the home, definite, full, doctrinal and spiritual formation to give wisdom and fulfilment, but the whole tenor and atmosphere of the Church since the end of the Second Vatican Council means that a negative approach to other churches, other faiths, other people is now totally impossible.

On his return to England, Newman was approached by some Catholic parents and asked to found a school, along the lines of the traditional Public Schools but Catholic in character, and the result was the Oratory School, which still continues today and is the subject of Shrimpton's earlier work A Catholicschool, along the lines of the traditional Public Schools but Catholic in character, and the result was the Oratory School, which still continues today and is the subject of Shrimpton's earlier work A CatholicSchool, which still continues today and is the subject of Shrimpton's earlier work A Catholic Eton?

As a student of History of Religions School within NT studies, which remains largely Occidental in its approach and conclusions, I look for further inspiration from History of Religions scholars, particularly from the contributions made by Eliade to the study of religious dimensions of NT religion.

In some areas delinquent behavior by blacks in the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the quality of education is in jeopardIn some areas delinquent behavior by blacks in the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the quality of education is in jeopardin the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the quality of education is in jeopardin jeopardy.

A second approach is what one might call the topical and practical, that of the many popular encyclopedias, mostly in one volume, which aim at supplying quick and accessible guidance, on topics of current importance, for the undergraduate, high school, journalistic, and political reader.

Our innovative approach to curriculum means they'll be getting a real - world education that combines project - based assignments and industry - standard workflows, giving them working experience while they're still in school.

The church school should include approaches such as this so that potentially harmful feelings can be expressed in nondestructive ways and thus diminished or redirected.

She found that the term is extremely elusive and ambiguous in current psychological thought, but she was able to identify six major approaches by various schools of thought.

Yet approach it we must, in sermons, discussion groups, church - school classes, and every other available channel of instruction.

In the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he doeIn the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he doein all the things he does.

Here, too, there is some messiness: Dallas Seminary will approach the subject differently than will the Sacred Heart School of Theology, and the two of them will differ in turn from the approaches of McCormick Seminary or Harvard Divinity School.

The paradigm of Emmaus is so significant in this matter but often misused by catechists schooled in the approach of Our Faith Story to bolster up a false approach to catechetics and religious education.

The most common approach, she argues, has been to give RE a central place in the school curriculum.