Sentences with phrase «conversation about the school day»

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His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

I have conversations with «ordinary Americans» all the time, and I find their opinions about the school meals served in the very school where they send their kids, or where some even teach, to be out of touch with the foods, the variety and the quality of those foods, offered each day.

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One of the best things about your child starting school is that now you can have little conversations with them about their day.

So, right there, with my middle schoolers (who are God's nosiest creatures) listening in, I had a total fake, upbeat conversation with Bean about how silly Gus was being and how I was sure he was just going to sit around watching TV and eating peanuts all day long while we were gone.

Encourage general conversation with open ended questions like, «What was a good thing about your day at school?»

From the first day of school, make sure your child knows there will be a real conversation about school every evening — not just a half - hearted attempt at discussion and one - word answers.

De Blasio had a «productive conversation» with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Monday, four days after federal agents visited a Queens public school to inquire about a student.

Mayor de Blasio had a «productive conversation» with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Monday, four days after federal agents visited a Queens public school to inquire about a student.

A conversation with Drew Day, research associate with the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and the Duke Global Health Institute, about a new study suggesting ground ozone levels may have serious consequences for heart health.

Parents were sent an average of 30 texts over one school year, with content ranging from dates of upcoming tests and warnings about missed homework, to conversation prompts on what their child had learnt that day.

As national conversations turn toward reframing the traditional school day and year, there remains much to be gleaned from 10 years of research and evaluation about what works to support student learning and success.

The Labor Day uproar over President Barack Obama's announcement that he would give a pep talk encouraging students to work hard and stay in school demonstrates the need for a new and more respectful conversation about education in the United States.

Regardless of your students» age, take advantage of the first few days of school to include them in conversations about class expectations.

We had conversations about Frankenstein beyond the school day.

Back in the US it's hiring season in the independent school world and I have spent the past four days engaged in non-stop conversations with Finnish and US educators about our work as instructional leaders, connected educators, and life - long learners.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

By Barney Blakeney The Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has reinvigorated the conversation about gun violence on a national scale.

Finland's high - achieving public school system is now part of the conversation about U.S. education reform these days.

The conversation ran the gamut from school closures to student safety to Rick Santorum's allegation of «snobbishness» about Barack Obama's college attainment goals, but chatter about the role of standardized testing data in education ruled the day.

Superintendent Contreras spoke with Syracuse University Professor and WRVO radio host Grant Reeher on The Campbell Conversation about her first 100 Days as Superintendent of the Syracuse City Schools.

I spoke with the principals assembled by NAESP about their hopes for the implications for the new law, and the conversation touched on topics as wide - ranging as funding equity, fair pay for teachers, and supports for English - language learners, as well as the concept of more uninterrupted time to focus on instruction that Campbell, who is a former principal, asserts is currently missing from most school days.

The formal observation became the impetus for a conversation about embedding better literacy practices throughout the school day.

I think it is time for an honest conversation about the challenges public schools face every day, -LSB-...]

In the first of the two extended conversations that comprise How I Became a Painter, Winkfield (born 1944) reminisces about his student days in Leeds and London in the 1960s, and his early activities as an artist, writer, editor and translator; the second conversation focuses on Winkfield's life after he moved to New York City in 1969, including his decisive return to painting (prompted by the notorious survey of Richard Tuttle's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975) and his various collaborations with poets of the New York School.

Tust said walking to school «starts that conversation about why would we not want to drive to school every day?

With Safer Internet Day, the UK Safer Internet Centre is working with hundreds of other organisations to encourage more conversations at school and at home about young people's online lives and how their actions online can affect relationships, empowering young people to use digital technology wisely.

But there is a time of the day when I do nt know what to do or how to approach to my middle son JP of 6 years a very stong - willing boy because I know he is kind of challenging me, and the worst thing is that my little girl is starting to do the same and that time is mealtime, in Mexico we have «lunch» with the family at 2:00 pm when they come back from school and that is his worst time for JP and even when I try to prevent the explosion cooking his favorite meal, start a conversation about the school, how was their day and give him a little bit more of the attention I feel he is trying to get, he «sits» on the table and starts saying silly things or calling names to his brother LM 9 (with the one I've always had a hard time «making» him to eat and my attention «was» always on him because he eats just a few things and in a very little portion, he is very thin, etc.etc.