Sentences with phrase «fewer visits to the school»

Eating breakfast at school results in fewer visits to the school nurse, improves children's diets, and helps build healthy habits.

Alex Ashbrook, director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, called in - classroom breakfast a possible «magic bullet of school reform» because some studies link a good breakfast to increased test scores and fewer visits to the school nurse.

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A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

A few years ago, when I was visiting Mangalore, one of my dear school friends invited me to her home.

I often visited my grandparents, who lived only a few blocks from us, to play with their dog after school.

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During visits to several CPS schools over the last few months, the Tribune heard many accounts of students throwing away their lunches.

Give your son time to adjust by visiting a new school or babysitter's house together a few times.

Ripley's Aquarium of Canada During the long weekend in September, my family and I headed to Toronto for back to school shopping, take in a Blue Jay's game, and to visit a few attractions such as the Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, the largest indoor aquarium in Canada.

«Beyond the cost of formula, research shows the health benefits for mom and baby translate to fewer days out of the office and school, fewer insurance claims, fewer doctors» visits,» she adds.

Come and visit me over at ourfeminist -LCB- play -RCB- school and I will show you how to make a few toys for your own lovely kiddos just in time for the holidays!

A few weeks ago, we were fortunate to have New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña visit our World of Creative Experiences Center, which serves PAL's youngest, ages 3 - 5 years.

Guess what, if news begin to fly all over about the failure of this programme it definitely not be without mention of your «prestigious name» and well, if my brother was the one, I will advise he does a few things, paramount will be to visit some of the schools to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the cases and if found to be true, politely communicate to the government his decision to «pull out» of this quagmire.

Last September, Julius E. was among the few selected to meet with Pope Francis during the pontiff's visit uptown to Our Lady Queen of Angels School.

Citi News «visit to one of the notable private high schools in Kumasi, the Mighty Royal Senior High School, showed that it has received fewer first - year students for this academic year.

When the mobile school moves out of Soweto in a few weeks» time, it will pave the way for its visits to each area with media announcements and posters.

In the past few years, another way that Kirschstein demonstrated her devotion to that future was by multiple visits, as part of an NIH outreach program for minority youngsters, to an elementary school in a low - income area of Washington, D.C., to talk about science with the students there.

We would leave Chicago to visit for a few days, usually during spring break from school.

In 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier chiSchool became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier chischool in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier children.

We did a lot of traveling to Cleveland and Buffalo last week to visit our families and had a few days at home before heading back to school on Tuesday.

The few moments he has to get out of the house — and visit Sacramento's sad gay bar with high school pal Gabe (John Early, a scream)-- allow him to complain about his state of flux.

Similarly, it was helpful if my son could visit his new classroom prior to the end of the previous year if possible, or if not at least a few days before the new school year started.

A few days after the data - day review, I visited Powell Elementary, a district school in northeast D.C., for a learning walk on peer - group feedback, or how to get teachers to help one another figure out how to reteach a troublesome lesson.

The Student Interaction Plan, which was designed to encourage visits once a month between students in majority black schools and majority white schools, was only implemented for a few years (with minimal participation), and was cut entirely from the budget in 1994.

He was also able to visit some very remote schools and says he was amazed that while we often complain about not having access to wifi for a day, schools in remote India are doing great things with few resources.

Over the last few months, the school has hosted visits by several experts who have spoken to staff and students about the importance of STEM learning.

Gilbert is outreach manager at Guide Dogs for the Blind, based in nearby San Rafael, and, a few months before her visit to Bacich with her German shepherd guide, Hedda, she teamed up with the school's third - grade teachers, and with the Marin County Office of Education, to help introduce materials from Guide Dogs for the Blind — and from the National Federation for the Blind's Braille Is Beautiful program — into school curriculum.

A few years ago our yellow top bins were also being used by some students as food bins, but since our visits to the recycling depot as well as work within the school, (much of this by the students themselves, teaching others) this is no longer a problem.»

We are sympathetic to the procedure once prevalent in England: schools were assessed by individuals or groups — dubbed «inspectors» — that came to visit the campus for a few days, looked widely and listened carefully, and wrote up their impressions and recommendations.

She does find time a few days a week to visit schools.

These efforts stand in stark contrast to the first two hundred years of the Republic, when villages relied on local ministers, elders, or farmers with extra time in the winter to visit the schools, many of which operated for only a few months of the year.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.

Astor and his colleagues have visited a few of the schools where academic gains led to improvements in school climate, and what they have noticed are principals who prioritize academics without neglecting emotional and behavioral issues.

As a movement, knowledge - rich schooling has the potential to promote excellence, inspire passion, and enhance educational equity — particularly for children from homes with limited access to books and fewer opportunities than their more affluent peers to travel or visit museums.

This work will be fundamentally about the steady effort and the daily actions of teachers and educators such as those who empowered the high school students who visited us from China a few weeks ago and of those of you who partnered with those teachers to create new forms of learning from action for their students.

While the national average for weekly visits to the school library / media center is about one visit per week per student (or 100 visits per 100 students), fewer of the poorest students and students in special education and alternative schools visit each week — 80 out of 100 students.

Nurses at green schools have reported fewer clinic visits, fewer complaints of eye - nose - throat irritation, and fewer asthma - related incidents, all of which contribute to improved student health and decreased absenteeism.

DeVos has «not been shy about avoiding the media,» noted a recent AP article, citing lack of public announcement of her first school visit and her refusal to allow those who showed up anyway to join her on the school tour: «DeVos does not take reporters» questions after speeches and her few interviews were with conservative news outlets.»

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During a visit to Raisbeck Aviation High School on Thursday, Randy Dorn, the state's top schools official, asked a few students their names, grade levels and where they were from.

So on Veteran's Day I went to visit a school that had few veteran teachers.

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For all too many schools, back to school night has devolved into just another poorly attended event where the parents of a few high achieving students visit with teachers.

Following a few uncomfortable visits to schools that drew protestors, Secretary DeVos has not captured many headlines except for people following various higher education issues.

California's top education official sought Tuesday to counter federal criticism of the state's reluctance to use student test scores to evaluate teachers, paying a visit to Long Beach to highlight one of the few California school districts to make extensive use of such data.

A few years ago, Jindal visited a charter school run by one of the Navis litigants to proclaim the Common Core's importance.

Even if parents have only a few alternatives in their local community, in addition to visiting those schools, understanding the underlying differences between alternatives can inform their selection.

In the first six weeks of the 2016 school year, DISD teachers and staff conducted 1,576 relationship - building home visits, which led to increased empathy and compassion, increased communication, fewer discipline referrals, more engaged students, stronger feelings of connection between teachers and students, and increased trust all around.

In the meantime, I'm going to include a few more highlights from my school visits in San Diego in this month's message before moving on to other regions of the state.

For the past few years, I have researched and visited innovative government - funded schools in the United Kingdom that use personalized approaches to learning.