Sentences with phrase «demands of school days»

Sometimes the demands of school days, homework, extracurricular activities and trying to have a social life can be overwhelming.

Im constantly struggling with the many demands of the school day, trying to fit in everything.

At a large high school like Jamaica, the demands of the school day make it nearly impossible to give these deeply troubled kids the kind of individual attention and support they need.

Setting New «Sub» Standards The demands of the school day are altering the role of substitute teachers as placeholders or baby sitters.

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In the days following the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students who witnessed the deaths of their peers traveled to the Florida State Capitol to demand stricter gun control laws.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

Gone are the days where parents micro-manage their kids and demand that they «clean their plates» or «have three more bites of broccoli» — that is considered old - school now, and as we now know, can perpetuate picky eating in kids and even spur on unhealthy eating habits later in life.

Santorum's comments came a day after protesters assembled at March for Our Lives events in Washington and across the country to demand gun control legislation in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm held a press conference with other elected officials and community members Thursday to demand that the Department of Education designate Diwali as a day off for public school students.

In each handover, Moskowitz demanded the DOE deliver the space clear of furniture and broom - swept by 5 p.m. on the last day of the school year, according to sources and emails obtained by DNAinfo New York.

I was irritable, in pain and there were days I wondered if I was going to survive under the immense demands of full - time school, two part - time jobs, volunteering at my church and trying to be a father and husband.

But with all of the demands of the classroom and the limited time in a school calendar, how do we pack all of the resources, strategies, and exemplars into only a handful of professional learning days?

Abstract: In response to growing demands to provide more real - life experiences for children during the school day that are based on improving critical thinking and increasing awareness and use of lifeskills, Life Vest Inside ™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) has designed a Kindness Curriculum.

Spending days crafting rules may seem impractical when increasing academic demands already are consuming every spare minute of the school day.

«Leading and managing in the multifaceted and dynamic environment of an urban school system is an incredible challenge that is complicated further by the heavy day - to - day demands of the job,» says Kim Clark, dean of HBS.

According to a discussion guide created to accompany 180 Days: Hartsville, «viewers will experience a year in the life of one Southern town's efforts to address the urgent demand for reform in American public schools.»

Take for example, the call for extending the school day; the development of a more demanding curriculum that better prepares students for a global, information - driven economy; building K - 12 and higher education collaboration such as in a K - 16 model, and providing alternative educational opportunities for high school students who feel they must go to work.

As many educators can attest at the end of a busy school day, teaching can be physically demanding.

BIMA has brought its Digital Day initiative to life in order to help meet this demand and encourage schools to educate their students on the vast amount of exciting digital career opportunities available to them.

The rising demand for school places means some pupils are attending a school far from home — sometimes with a lengthy morning commute, or working parents who find it difficult to pick the child up at the end of the school day.

Online now: A new generation of student activists demand to be heard; the cybersecurity challenges facing K - 12 schools and how they are responding; research update on the four - day school week; NSBA's 2018 Technology Innovation Showcase.

The new, centralized office couldn't keep up with the demands for the suspension hearings within the required five days of the incident and many violent students walked, in this case, sent back to their schools, reclaiming seats alongside their victims.

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

While I can't say that all of those concerns have melted away, listening to Donna Brazile reminded me of one of the simplest truths at the root of all of this: If the political process feels removed from the day - to - day life of schooling in this country, it's because there aren't enough of us reaching out to our lawmakers and demanding that they listen to our stories.

I have been dismissed by many students as an out - of - touch geezer who doesn't understand how much more is demanded of high school students these days.

However, demand and expectations for learning outside of the school day are on the rise, and there are still many students struggling to complete homework online, causing a challenging homework gap.

But every day I read so many inspiring stories of parents from around the country demanding better schools for their children.

Still, the attention his district has received is testament to the growing demand for examples of how high - tech classrooms actually function in the messy reality of an ordinary school day.

When Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy addressed a joint session of the Connecticut General Assembly ninety days ago to present his proposed state budget, he called for record cuts to Connecticut's public schools while demanding the legislature increase funding for charter schools by more than 25 percent.

It involved a thorough review of empirical research (see the Bibliography for a selection of supporting sources) and sought the input of researchers and more than 1,000 school and district leaders through surveys and focus groups to identify gaps among the 2008 Standards, the day - to - day work of education leaders and leadership demands of the future.

my sisters and I began demanding change and forcing it upon them when necessary... We were tired of a van service that only took students to a Catholic Church when none of us were Catholic, we demanded that they invite Nikki Giovanni as a guest speaker (and they did), we researched and slowly changed the face of some of the «required events», we invited teen black boys from Hartford to spend the day on campus (this made many nervous, including the security guards who would grow frustrated with their inability to curtail this), we grew tired of the school dances that invited other boarding schools and included a DJ that played other music so we invited kids from Hartford, including a DJ and began hosting our own parties... I never forgot who I was and the rich history of my ancestors...... I am thankful for my varying educational experiences for they have shaped the educator that I have become.

The gory details will continue to leak out in the coming days, but the strategy reached its zenith today when these education reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve their sSchool, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve their schoolschool.

On August 24, the day of the Board of Education meeting, ministers (above) held a press conference demanding the longer school days and year, while their supporters held up printed signs (above).

The Foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and through the effective use of additional learning time during the school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

This field - based clinical faculty member functions as the «human link joining the sometimes theoretical world of the university with the demands of day - to - day classroom practice in schools» (Morris, Price, & Armstrong, 1997, p. 55).

With many of our members working nights, days, overnights, in school, parents, etc. it was imperative that we made all of the content available «on demand».

Every day I read of another politician demanding that our schools teach financial literacy.

If the demands of daily dog grooming are not for you, or if your day is already taxed with work, school and family obligations, then select a shorthaired breed instead, such as a Labrador retriever.

Our travel dates are set by our kids» school vacation schedules these days and since much of Massachusetts has the week of President's Day off it creates a demand crunch to Florida around this time.

For busy people who are working during the day, getting into a driving school after work is demanding, thus, this method of teaching is an advantage for them since they can just go home and rest for awhile then they can start reading the manuals or watch the videos.

Because driving schools are in demand these days, there are lots of driving institutions that are wooing students to enroll with them.

On Feb. 23, ten days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Gov. Rick Scott released a Major Action Plan to address the demands of the hundreds of MSD students who have been calling for the government to make real policy change in light of this tragedy.

The town hall followed a day of school walkouts around the country to demand a ban on assault - style rifles like the one Cruz was able to buy when he was 18 years old.

Looking ahead: Promises of action, from the White House, Congress and Tallahassee were made in recent days, as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School demanded action.

On the day of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School athletic director Chris Hixon's funeral, students traveled to Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., to protest for the National Rifle Association's influence on legislators and demand a ban on assault weapons.

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And the challenges of balancing two households and the demands of school and work make day - to - day logistics very difficult.