Sentences with phrase «childrens schoolhouse»

But priced at $ 599, I knew I had better start looking for something comparable (but priced waaay lower) at the local flea.Finally, after some intense searching, I spotted this antique childrens schoolhouse... [Read More...]

BUT, we did have our regular camera with us, so we did manage to get a still shot of the vintage childrens schoolhouse table we got from a junk shop in Savannah...

Finally, after some intense searching, I spotted this antique childrens schoolhouse table for $ 125.

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Schoolhouse nutrition would be addressed by pushing for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and the administration is requesting $ 10 billion over 10 years to improve school meals.

I've just been sent a new report on the current status of marketing foods and beverages to children at school: Promoting Consumption at School: Health Threats Associated with Schoolhouse Commercialism.

She also created the yoga app, Snooze Yoga, and a pioneering yoga curriculum for children and teens, Super Yogis» Schoolhouse.

The actual Chubbuck did puppet shows for children; if Christine's over-the-top imagining of such activities was even partly true (it plays more like cringeworthy self - therapy), she'd never be allowed anywhere near a schoolhouse.

Along the way, Spike even makes time for righteous mischief: A priceless scene of former Alabama Governor George Wallace, once so rabidly segregationist that he personally tried to block black children from entering schoolhouses, now testifying to his concern for black children and showing off a black assistant he calls his «best friend.»

This resource from Digital Schoolhouse is one of two resources for a history presentation about what it was like for children in World War 2.

Today, residents of these remote towns often scrape by on subsistence farming and fishing, and children in the area can find themselves several hours — or days — boat ride from the nearest town with a schoolhouse.

Coined by conservative George Will in a January, 2002, column (Waiting for Real Education Reform), the 9/91 factor points out that from birth to age nineteen, ninety - one percent of a child's life is spent outside the boundaries of the schoolhouse.

At the time Quasset was an operating one - room schoolhouse, children ages 4 up to eighth grade would have attended, so they all would have been doing different work at the same time.

Now we have nine judges — the U.S. Supreme Court — assigned the task of deciding whether and how the nation's schools may (or may not) recognize the race of the children at the schoolhouse door.

«The Spirit of the One - Room Schoolhouse,» reads another: why do we have age - segregated classes, where the group is expected to progress at the same rate through the same material, when children learn at different rates and in different ways?

That's not how it worked in the one - room schoolhouses of yesteryear, and it's oblivious to the many ways that children differ from each other, the ways their modes and rates of learning differ, how widely their starting achievement levels differ, and how their interests, brains, and outside circumstances often cause them to learn different subjects at unequal speeds — and to move faster and slower, deeper or shallower, at different points in their lives, even at different points within a «school year.»

At the Digital Schoolhouse Back2School panel debate in September, one of the recurring themes was that teachers and students alike agreed that children arrive at secondary school having learned very little about computers and programming.

The partnership with the Digital Schoolhouse Programme is particularly exciting as it aims to engage the next generation of school children, and their teachers, with the new computing curriculum.»

Shahneila Saeed, Director of Digital Schoolhouse said: «There is a real need to engage with children from a young age in order to build more awareness around career opportunities before they make their decisions.

The winning team, Cryptonite, commented on their victory, saying: «It's been amazing that Digital Schoolhouse have given a platform for children like us around the country to come together and have this experience.»

But, it says, states need to do far more to get homeless children to the schoolhouse door.

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

Here are a few action educators must take outside the schoolhouse even as they continue to help children in their schools:

As public schools have evolved from one - room schoolhouses to large districts with thousands of children, the tasks expected of teachers each...

As public schools have evolved from one - room schoolhouses to large districts with thousands of children, the tasks expected of teachers each day have changed as well.

«When Gov. John Bel Edwards stands in front of the schoolhouse door to block lower - income children from exercising educational choice, he does it with bravado.»

Wolves at the Schoolhouse Door chronicled a national crisis of inadequate and deficient school facilities, and served as a wake - up call that America was educating its children in buildings that were not conducive to learning and potentially dangerous.

«The NAACP, a proud organization with a historic legacy of expanding opportunity for communities of color, now itself stands in the schoolhouse door, seeking to deny life - changing educational opportunities to millions of children whose parents and families desperately seek alternatives to schools that have failed them for too long.»

Some parents have a notion that they can drop off their child at the schoolhouse door, and behold, 12 years later, they will be able to pick up a perfect specimen of a human being — well - rounded, academically proficient, emotionally sound, physically fit and ready to meet the next phase of life.

Since children spend most of their time — and do much of their learning and developing — outside of the classroom, what happens beyond the schoolhouse obviously shapes how they fare in class.

The story of American public education has generally been one of continuing progress, as girls, children of color, and children with disabilities (among others) have redeemed their constitutional right to push through the schoolhouse gate.

The future looks bright for parents who want to send their children to great schools and to make the schoolhouse the center of innovation, creativity and character development in our communities.

We create an expectation in the schoolhouse that teachers will observe and critique each other's work, deconstruct lessons and evidence to understand how children accomplish particular things - so the classroom and schoolhouse are the subject of ongoing, public inquiry.

The path to literacy doesn't begin when children enter the schoolhouse door.

We have small rural schoolhouses with children in mixed - grade groupings, sprawling suburban schools with Ivy League - worthy campuses and facilities, and historic urban schools in our nation's biggest cities...

This one was called the Schoolhouse Blizzard or the Children's Blizzard (among other similar names), because the snow fell during the...

Sugarcane Academy begins as the tale of a one - room schoolhouse created to educate children who were forced to flee as Hurricane Katrina approached.

The therapy dogs of Nellie's Schoolhouse have helped children cope with autism, depression and anxiety.

Originally built for the owners» children to attend correspondence school, the Old Schoolhouse offers now self - catering accommodation with kitchenette and bathroom.

«Personal racism no longer comes in the form of white southern sheriffs and governors blocking black children from schoolhouse doors.

Through this grant, SchoolHouse Connection will create and evaluate models that will increase the enrollment of young children experiencing homelessness enrolled in child care, Head Start and preschool programs.

SchoolHouse Connection is excited to collaborate with Sesame Workshop on this initiative and urges all professionals who work with children and families experiencing homelessness — school district liaisons, state coordinators, family and youth service providers, early care and education programs, institutions of higher education — to explore and share the Sesame trauma resources.

Many grew up with outhouses and walked to one - room schoolhouses as children.