Sentences with phrase «formative years growing»

Douglas Crichton was born on December 18, 1948 in Long Island, New York, but spent the majority of his formative years growing up in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The conversation turns to Fahad's formative years growing up playing PC games during the height of the shareware era with Doom, Ceaser, and the Apogee series of games that served to inspire him to develop games beyond what India was known for: Bollywood and cricket based games.

I remember a series of very formative years growing up, where Lenny Kravitz was a dominating force on what we didn't know at the time was the dying breath of commercial radio and televised...

A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Sasha - Ann comes to Rochester after spending her formative years growing up in Toronto, Canada.

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Although we grew up in the same family, our experiences related to money were very different during our formative years.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth Growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

Those four schools are whom current recruits have grown up with as the best during their most formative years.

I grew up in Oklahoma, and while my formative years skewed more toward the mid - to late - 1980s, when OU and Miami were running college football, my umbrella was only beginning to expand.

Being shorted sleep consistently during the formative growing years (up to age 21) can cause permanent rewiring of the brain structure.

So... after kids grow up without parents who inconvenience themselves by setting their kids» course through life in love in their formative years... what?

Akufo - Addo said that NEIP will enable new businesses to emerge and give them the space to grow by receiving «financing and business development services, to secure markets during the critical formative years, and to tap into a wide supply chain and network during their growth years, helping to create jobs at a widely distributed, national level.»

Though this picture never offers any easy answers, it certainly will nevertheless resonate with countless black gays who've survived similar abuse during formative years spent negotiating their way through a merciless, macho, inner - city gauntlet A decidedly - dystopic perspective of growing up gay in the «hood.

As a Gen - Xer who grew up in the pre-Internet era, I spent most of my formative years hanging out in record stores.

Grown in a lab, Morgan is as genderless as the keyboard I'm typing upon but those who've spent their formative years with it — including Rose Leslie's overly - empathetic behaviorist Amy Menser, Toby Jones» paternal mad scientist Dr. Simon Ziegler and Chris Sullivan's naively gentle technician — recognize her gender, identity and emotions as genuine.

The student population was 75 percent Hispanic / Latino, and the school was located in the neighborhood in which I grew up and spent much of my formative years.

2014 has concluded after a tremendous year of growth and accomplishment for the FastBridge (which grew from the former Formative Assessment System for Teachers, FAST) team and the FastBridge community of schools nationwide.

Having taught for four years, she had grown in her ability to design and implement formative assessments that anticipated high stakes summative assessments.

A lot of people talk about the value of formative assessment, but Carol Ann Tomlinson points out that, too often, it is reduced to a mechanism for raising end - of - year - test scores when it should be an ongoing exchange between a teacher and his or her students designed to help students grow.

«Educators, parents, students, and policymakers are voicing growing frustration with the current models of high - stakes assessments used across the United States, which rely too heavily on low - level end - of - year tests,» said Bryan Goodwin, president and CEO of McREL International, and co-author of the new white paper, Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability.

In this award - winning memoir in verse, Woodson shares her very personal story of becoming a writer and what it was like to grow up African American in a white majority world, with roots in the South but formative years in the urban Northeast.

The jury is far from in on this but there is a growing body of evidence indicating that spending too much time with electronic devices in the formative years can, quite literally, interfere with brain development in some areas.

Ian Hallett — Director of Hillsborough County Animal Services — discusses his formative years in Riverview, the sort of animals he grew up with and around, including becoming a staff vet tech at 16.

My exploration of Hyrule actually mirrored those formative years of growing up for me.

Growing up they were a staple of my formative gaming years, the turn - based action becoming engrained in my psyche.

From here on out my love for video games would only continue to grow and I'd spend most of formative years as a diehard Nintendo fanboy!

Growing up during World War II, she spent her formative years working at a parachute factory sewing military uniforms.

These often generative projects grow with time and require continuous input, resulting in performative acts as part of the work.As a Polish artist whose formative years were divided between communist Poland, refugee camps in Denmark, and post-unification Germany, the intersections of economic and political structures are integral to Wisniowski's practice.

Growing up the daughter of renowned artist Betye Saar and painter / conservator Richard Saar, played a crucial role in her formative years, as well as in the development of her artistic career.

Owanto is a British - Gabonese artist who grew up in Gabon, where she spent her formative years, and eventually moved to Europe.

I grew up close to the park and spent most of my formative teenage years learning valuable interpersonal, leadership, and guest service skills.

Before coming to our country he grew up in the misery of Glasgow in the years following Europe's 1939 - 45 war — that experience was certainly formative.»

When children grow up they often, but not always, use their formative childhood years as a blueprint of how life «should» be.

We can trace this passion for the learning about «living, surviving and thriving» in - group back to Joe's formative years, growing up in the Bronx NY, as the second child of eight siblings.