Sentences with phrase «before opening a student»

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Before the Perdue building opened this fall, business professors and students occupied an old elementary school, where the water fountains still stood at tyke height and where, rumor had it, a pack of squirrels seized their own office.

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

Shortly before it ends its student - only restriction and opens up to everyone over the age of 13, Facebook starts aggregating activity from each member's friends into a new feature called the News Feed.

Nikolas Cruz, a troubled 19 - year - old former student, has been charged with 17 counts of first - degree murder for allegedly opening fire with an AR - 15 on students minutes before the final bell rang.

PARKLAND, Fla. — A heavily armed 19 - year - old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.

The militants climbed the back wall of Bacha Khan campus in Charsadda, northwestern Pakistan, at around 9:30 am local time before opening fire on students and staff.

When I have tried to introduce the idea of the nontranslatable Qur» an to my Harvard students and Western friends, one of their typical reactions is to think that, like Roman Catholics and the Latin Mass before the Second Vatican Council, Muslims will also soon come to realize the necessity for translation, which will then open them up to higher criticism.

Having long before witnessed the power of stories to transform the attitudes of my students, I imagined that one of the Bible's most popular stories, Genesis I, could have the potential to reach a broad audience and open peoples» hearts to nature.

Abbott's experience serves to back up Viertel's observation that «if students have participated in growing the crops themselves in the school garden, they are much more open to trying new things they've never seen or heard of before.

The center is approximately 17,000 square feet with 10 classroom suites, a cafeteria, a resource room, a large activity gym for before and after school students, and four large play areas separated for age groups.They are open on weekdays from 6:00 am to 6:30 pm.

Some teachers report that before students even take off their backpacks they are picking up and opening their breakfast.

A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing «numerous» people, sending students running out into the streets and SWAT team members swarming in before authorities took him into custody.

«Whether that means bringing learning opportunities to the fingertips of our students, opening the doors of global commerce to our small businesses, or just getting news and weather updates before workers head in for the day, broadband access has become an important part of our lives.

In the program I am most familiar with, an adaptable, open - source program called LON - CAPA, students have a set number of tries to get the right answer before they are locked out.

Evolution is a difficult concept for many students at all levels, however, a study publishing on May 23 in the open access journal PLOS Biology has demonstrated a simple cost - free way to significantly improve students» understanding of evolution at the secondary level: teach genetics before you teach them evolution.

«Now that we've found these cells in the hippocampus, it opens up new areas for exploring treatment ideas that we didn't know existed before,» says the study's lead author Jessica Jimenez, PhD, an MD / PhD student at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons.

Before the latest funding, Feeney's most recent gift to the campus was to UCSF Global Health Sciences, enabling the October 2014 opening of Mission Hall, which houses global health researchers, scientists and students under the same roof for the first time.

«Now that we've found these cells in the hippocampus, it opens up new areas for exploring treatment ideas that we didn't know existed before,» said the study's lead author, Jessica Jimenez, an MD / PhD student at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons.

OPENING Sit in a circle and invite students to place their hands on their bellies before taking 3 Balloon Breaths.

New Students, please arrive at least 10 to 15 minutes before the start of class as we do not open the door after class has started.

Students need time to re-establish a sense of inner stillness and quietude in order to feel grounded, and they must feel safe before we ask them to open up and work hard.

Before I go into bank - related details on important things that you need in your life right now, there's one key fact to know: from now until 6/30, if you open a Student Checking Account at a Boiling Springs Savings Bank near you and deposit $ 20.15 or most, you'll get a $ 20.15 interest bonus deposit added to your account.

You'll have to get there hours before opening time though, and join a queue of hundreds of architecture students, photography enthusiasts, Pink Floyd fans, phallic symbol admirers, not to mention the usual scourge of tweeters and bloggers!

New research suggests today's college students aren't engaging in more sex and aren't more open to the idea of sex before marriage than those from earlier decades.

Amanda Rose Wilder's documentary about the attempt to open a «free school» (no enforced curriculum, virtually all rules co-created with students) in New Jersey was shot way back in 2007 and 2008, well before the recent controversies on college campuses involving everything from trigger warnings to microaggressions.

The redeveloped school is expected to open in January 2017, before an additional six months of work is carried out to demolish the old buildings and turn the original school site into communal areas such as gardens, fields and a sports facilities for the students.

Before the charter opened, all Moraine students were bused to schools in the nearby suburbs of Kettering and West Carrollton.

This is the third year that Clark staff and community members have gone door - to - door the week before school opens to urge students to come to school on opening day to start the year off right.

Ryan says although some working parents find the later school hours difficult, there is still the option of getting to school early because the grounds open at 9 am for students to catch up on work or spend time with friends before lessons.

After viewing the video, students might notice many different attributes — the path that Cannon Man takes, his height from the ground, his speed before and after his parachute opens.

Many schools are even finding ways to make students and parents feel welcome in the weeks before the opening - day bell.

The 52,000 - student district requested the report on schools» capacity to handle students with mental and behavior needs after a 14 - year - old opened fire at a school last August, wounding two teachers and two other students before killing himself.

As far as middle school, our kids have several wonderful opportunities to tour the school, ask existing middle school students questions and even a day to test opening their lockers and go through their class schedule before the first day (without hallways filled with upperclassmen).

She also encourages connections, as when students at two consolidating schools decided to meet before school opened.

Back - to - School Letters and Survival Kits Build Communication Many teachers and administrators have started introducing themselves to parents and students before school starts, or right at the opening bell.

The year before the first charter school opened, Boston Public Schools (BPS) enrolled just under 60,000 students.

The visits were conducted with each student before their new school opened in 1999, said Denis, adding, «Parents have asked us to consider doing visits each year.»

A student in one group would ask a question and, before I could open my mouth, a student from another group would get up, move to the group or student in need, and offer his or her help.

Before school opened, teachers mapped out the reading levels for each student and each grade in the school.

It might be helpful if introverted students come in before the opening day, and are clear about plans for changes in the schedule or events like a field trips.

Months before its doors even opened, the school began offering remedial classes to incoming students, but math and reading skills are still weak.

There is a centrality in the national conversation, a sense of opening in the educational world, and an explosion of new forms of learning for teachers and students that I think create possibilities that were not there before.

At Weatherly Heights Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama, a school - wide open house is set for the day before school opens; the open house gives students and parents a chance to meet the teacher.

To the new teacher who is struggling to get students settled at the beginning of class, he suggests the time - tested «do now,» a silent opening exercise in which the teacher writes an assignment on the board before students enter the classroom.

The guidelines were released in June, shortly before The Wall Street Journal published a front - page article detailing charges by students, parents, and teachers that numerous students at Taylor Allderdice High School had offered money for homework, stolen tests, or used open dictionaries in taking college - admission tests, among other allegations.

Before starting a unit on debating, the students staged a quick debate — complete with opening statements and rebuttals — about who would make a better presidential candidate, Johnny Knoxville of Jackass or Snooki from Jersey Shore.

Get his or her permission, dress comfortably, meet your student before school, and approach observation with a notebook and an open and curious mind.

Obviously the students don't know the question before they get it — when they opened up the question they were excited to have a go at it.

In fact, the legislation enabling most of these students and their schools to participate passed only three months before schools opened their doors that summer.

As educators, we know (or more importantly, have the ability to know) which students may struggle in high school well before the doors open each fall.