Sentences with phrase «around schools like»

They came in with a vision and a plan that helped turn around schools like ours.

Before the Mastery charter school network decided to make its move into Camden, CEO Scott Gordon set his sights on turning around schools like the William F. Harrity Elementary School in southwest Philadelphia.

Nobody really bats an eyelid, but I do try not to wander around school like that.

Not exact matches

With challenges like denim walls and the temptation of donuts all around, Kate and Joey pull off an old - school - meets - new - beginnings vibe for this successful office makeover!

The boy, he learned, had never been to school — like the 67 million kids around the world without a chance at an education.

He likes to boast with a soft humble - braggy smile that during college he spent so much time playing speed rounds of chess (called «blitz») with the hustlers around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he nearly had to drop out of school.

It was like I was the new kid in school, except no one introduced me or showed me around.

The retailer has been buffeted by major structural shifts in an industry where electronics heavyweights JB Hi - Fi and Harvey Norman, and the rise of online players like Amazon and Kogan.com, have undermined the old - school Godfreys retailing model built around stand - alone stores.

If your business provides a service for other small businesses, like a business coach or consulting firm, you may want to build your promotions around when you know businesses are doing their annual budgeting, or around back to school timing and focus on continued learning.

Posting a bible quote and implying that it proves anything is like me posting a quote from a Harry Potter book and implying that proves people fly around on brooms playing quidditch or go to a school for wizards named Hogwarts.

Whether you like it or not christian schools, hospitals, and other such places are going to be around for ever.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Tried to talk with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting prayer and «God» out of the public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...

but please keep it to yourself, keep it out of schools and government, and don't prance it around like its truth just because you FEEL it is.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

From Rachel: When I think about what the «Christian» music industry was like back when Caedmon's Call was playing all around the country (when I was in high school / college) and what it is like today, it's really kind of mind - blowing.

I do look a bit like I was in a middle school food fight with oats all over my face, neck and chest; and the dogs are following me around smacking their lips, sniffing the air.

I didn't do the tour thing, driving around the country to check out each campus, I just looked them up online an applied to the ones that sounded like they had good biology related programs, which ended up being 12 - 15 schools if I remember correctly.

We ate around the coffee table, plates on our laps like good quarter - lifers, to the tune of high school anecdotes, a dachshund puppy (not mine) running around, and some classical music just audible beneath the chatter.

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

It works with local law enforcement to run PSA's during peak consumption times of their alcoholic beverage portfolio and provide programs like Street Smart for local schools to educate students on alcohol / drug abuse, texting while driving and all - around appropriate behavior.

With work, school and traveling on the weekends, I have been running around like a crazy person.

«To me, it's like walking around your high school,» McLean says.

Kolasinac was Bossing the left wing like the beefy kid who went around the school playground taking everyone's pocket money?.

Arrogant, treated people like crap around school and in the hallways.

They're juniors and seniors, mostly, at high schools around the Bay Area, wealthy enclaves like Pacifica, Calistoga, Orinda, and Mill Valley.

When Ozil took on SHREK and turned him around right, left and centre like a small school kid... The yellow card and the tomato red faced look on SHREK were just the icing.

During a school game, i had a defender running around like an headless chicken in front of me, he wouldn't listen to me, the goalkeeper, he would jump into tackles and the when he got beaten, I was always left exposed, those shots were like penalty kicks lol.

It's like I always tell him, «How can you go around telling kids to stay in school if you didn't stay yourself?»

I obviously still ran around the rough, dusty excuse of a football pitch that was my primary school play ground - like a recently decapitated Turkey - every break time.

He had finished third at the Welsh Schools Cross Country Championships but 82nd in the Inter-Counties Cross-Country Championships which, like the Mini Marathon, brings together the best athletes from around the UK and Northern Ireland.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

I think about the debates around how many AP courses a high school student should take or whether to apply to 8 schools or 10 and realize the luxury of worrying about problems like these.

Whether the initiation ritual revolves around doing silly things like dressing up in weird clothes during school or singing amusing songs at a school assembly, the activity should not be one that creates such anger and humiliation that the young student vow to get revenge.

If your kids aren't into rollercoasters, there are lots of lower key fun things to do like the Ford driving school (my kids insisted on attending lessons twice), watching the pirate water skiing show (giant Lego minifigs on water skis are quite entertaining), and roaming around Miniland USA (particularly the interactive parts).

Are there places you feel less comfortable talking about parenting, like your child's school, or around family?

Home education can truly be authentic because the learning revolves around every day living, and the topics don't need to be fabricated, like they often are in school.

But the bulk of my two conversations with Saidel centered around a new program launched by Chartwells last year, in partnership with a company called InHarvest, to bring more «intact whole grains» like farro and quinoa into schools.

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I'm not sure how sensitive these sensors are supposed to be, but if the general public's boobs move around as much as mine do, those bras are going to feel less like support and more like your first boyfriend after the middle school dance.

The reason that McMinnville Director Cindi Hiatt - Henry — and directors and managers just like her in schools around the country — rely on The Wellness Impact is simple: the report offers evidence - based strategies to improve school wellness, including the compelling case in favor of school breakfast.

We work with schools to encourage alternative breakfasts, like grab - n - go and other ways to move breakfast out of the cafeteria, to remove the barriers that exist — around stigma, transportation, and accessibility.

So I would give, there those things again you know, so it definitely helped to have people around that not necessarily would just agree with me, with that I could see that yes her child is a year older and she is still doing it like wait, her child just walked over to her and laid across her lap you know so all of those things that people kept saying, «Oh my god she's still breastfeeding, she will still be breastfeeding until high school» you know like, those things weren't important in that group because everyone was doing it so it definitely made life a lot easier just to see it just to be around people who are doing the same things that I was doing.

For kids, summer feels like it flies by, particularly when they are looking back on it as back - to - school time rolls around.

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While I feel I've made a lot of strides nationally on The Lunch Tray by bringing these issues to the fore and assisting readers around the country at their children's schools, at my own son's elementary school my principal has declined to make any modifications to practices like birthday cupcakes in the classroom.

But, unfortunately, barriers — like when and how school breakfast is served or stigma around needing it at all — are keeping too many kids from accessing it.

Kids like to eat what other kids are eating, whether around the family table, at school or at parties.

If we didn't like our public schools, we would look around.

Rosenworcel told stories of kids around the country going to diners and parking lots to access the internet service they need to complete school assignments — and how fixes like Wi - Fi on school buses could help those kids keep up with their classmates.