Sentences with phrase «at elementary school children»

«In 1968, appalled by the lack of meaningful arts instruction at the elementary school her children attended, Asawa, together with art historian Sally Woodbridge, created Alvarado Arts Workshop to bring practicing artists into the schools.

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The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

However, if the child is still a full - time student at a secondary (or elementary) school at age 18, benefits will continue until the child graduates or until two months after the child becomes age 19, whichever is first.

Following the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead, Dick's suspended the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles.

Buffet is supporting a financial literacy effort aimed at children in elementary school.

(CNN)-- As he waited with parents who feared that their kids were among the 20 children killed at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, Rabbi Shaul Praver said the main thing he could do for parents was to merely be present.

9/11 — Ordinary people at work get attacked with planes Aurora - Ordinary people at a movie for entertainment Virgina Tech — Ordinary people at college to learn Newtown — Ordinary children in elementary school Boston — Ordinary athletes, their friends and family out to support them

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

He showed up at one of his children's elementary schools with cupcakes and gave her the surprise of her life.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Its Smash Smoothies are aimed at elementary school - aged children and combine fruit, Greek yogurt, vegetables, coconut milk and quinoa.

The four youngest of Nichole's seven children — Malik, Brian, a senior at Douglass, and two sisters in elementary and middle school — live in the home.

Tyler reads stories to elementary school children and, for the past two years, has been a date at An Evening of Dreams, a Sacramento event that gives special needs teens and young adults a full prom red - carpet experience.

My children's needs were more than adequately met by being at home with their father / grandmother (or later on preschool and then elementary school) during the 1/3 of the day that I wasn't with them.

Denise believes that the three most important things children should learn at elementary school are how to get along with others, how to read, and some numeracy.

There are so many millions of children who not only eat lunch at school but, even when I was in elementary school (I'm 28 now) we had a breakfast program where lower - income kids would eat breakfast at school too.

If you have a toddler, elementary school age child or even a tween or teen, you'll find activities to suit them at Beaches.

but if enough real food advocates step up and say «does it really make sense to serve candy and soda at an elementary school function» or «can we encourage parents to send non-food treats for bday celebrations» or better yet, «can you do what you do best and help my child learn to like fresh produce just like you taught him to read?»

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first feChildren's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fechildren arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

Another notable feature in both the proposed and final rules — one likely to be of special interest to elementary school parents — is a requirement that wellness policies set nutritional standards for foods and beverages that aren't sold but instead made available to children at school, such as offerings at classroom parties or treats given out by teachers as a reward.

«At the elementary school level we are doing some plate waste study to see what the children actually are eating, and in one school we are trying a nutrition program in grades K through 3 that uses colors to help children add nutritious foods of differrent food groups to their trays.»

As Janet Poppendieck noted in the Washington Post last week, many children who currently do not participate in the federal program get no lunch at all (4 percent of elementary students and 8 percent of high school students).

With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a daily look at child development focusing on your class's age group, you will get to know the first grader as he or she crosses the bridge into elementary school.

The competencies needed for a successful, purposeful, and joyful life in the 21st century are best cultivated through an education that fully meets and engages the developmental needs of children, which are fundamentally different in early childhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school — in other words, «the right thing at the right time.»

Mark Chaffin and his colleagues at the University of Oklahoma found that PCIT significantly reduced the recurrence of child maltreatment and related service costs among physically abusive families of elementary school children.

At my child's elementary school, this is accomplished by placing several meal carts in the hallways before the first bell rings.

[Ed Note: One of my fellow Houston Student Health Advisory Council members, Mary Lawton, once told me about a program she started at her children's elementary school which used «tasting stations» to expose kids to fruits and vegetables.

The Lanskis, both 28, have two children: Ivan, 5, who attends elementary school in Buffalo Grove and is learning chess at the center, and 9 - month - old Alyson.

According to the CDC, preschool - age children need at least 11 to 12 hours of sleep each day, elementary - school - age children need at least ten hours per day and teens should be sleeping nine or ten hours each night.

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.

Paper resolution trees are a staple with elementary school teachers, but that doesn't mean that moms can't use this craft with their children at home.

Children in elementary school who see different teachers throughout the day in an effort to individualize to skill level may be surprised to find themselves caught with too much work due at the same time.

Giving the best teacher gift isn't impossible if you know your child's teacher but if you're feeling stuck, here's a list of favorite gifts from the teachers at my kids» elementary school, my former colleagues, and from my experience in the classroom.

Concerns have been raised that elementary school children in particular might be prone to spread disease at salad bars because they are too short for the standard «sneeze guard» installed on most salad bars, or because they might use their hands instead of the serving utensils provided.

If your children are in different grades, it's a good idea to eat with them all, as the menu and service at the higher grades will be very different from those in elementary school.

That study, from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the Oregon Research Institute and the University of Oregon, used personality ratings from elementary school teachers in an ethnically diverse group of children in Hawaii back in the 1960s, comparing those personality ratings to videotaped interviews of 144 of those people 40 years later.

An inflatable slide collapsed during a field day at an Algonquin elementary school today, sending six children to hospitals with minor injuries, officials said.

«Some 4 - year - olds also have a best friend, but the meaning is definitely different than in elementary school,» says Dr. Kirsten Cullen Sharma, Psy.D., clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone's Child Study Center.

In a 2010 report to the USDA [PDF], Mathematica predicted that adopting a full range of improvements to make meals «healthier» would result in 5 percent of elementary school children dropping out of the program, and even more — 12 percent — at the secondary school level.

On campus, Chef Instructors helped schools launch an elementary school Salad Bar Host program that trains fifth and sixth graders to help younger children at the salad bar, and a high school Food Club for students who wish to take an active role in improving nutrition and food literacy at their school.

As for the nuts issue, as the parent of vegan elementary school children, I have to admit it would be nice to be able to send nuts in for snack (we are allowed to at lunch), but even if I couldn't, there are many other times during the day I can find an opportunity to give them an ounce or two of nuts — like breakfast, after school snack, dinner and dessert!

At my child's elementary school we have birthday cupcakes, however they are distributed to only the birthday child in their birthday month, and are mini sized.

Worse, my children's previous elementary school once promoted «family dinner night» at McDonalds, where the energetic teachers donned aprons and served fast food to the kids and their families to collect 10 % of profits from every transaction that night.

Last spring when Cristy Nolton, executive chef of the Graveyard Tavern in Atlanta, prepared radish and cucumber salad in the classroom for first - and second - graders at nearby Burgess - Peterson Academy, the children cleaned their plates, said Betty Jackson, a physical education teacher and wellness coordinator at the public elementary school.

Giving back is at the core of how Sam Ingram lives her life — and how she conducts herself as cafeteria manager at an elementary school where the children lovingly refer to her as «Mrs. Sam.»

Perhaps during the elementary school years your child came home and begged you to participate and volunteer at their school whenever you could be there.

Ghanaian children begin their education at the age of three or four starting from kindergarten (nursery school and preschool), then to elementary school (primary school), high school (junior high school and senior high school) and finally university.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

But over time — and especially after a deranged young man murdered 20 elementary school children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — Higgins said he came to realize that an absolute position opposing gun control was the wrong posschool children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — Higgins said he came to realize that an absolute position opposing gun control was the wrong posSchool in Newtown, Conn. — Higgins said he came to realize that an absolute position opposing gun control was the wrong position.