Sentences with phrase «from classmates on»

Receiving thoughtful feedback from classmates on video presentations, math work, and other assignments can be a great motivator.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine started out with racksandstands.com in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens of niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl in Wayfair T - shirts to help market the new name).

I saw a wonderful example of this principle on Monday when five teams of my «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College tried to convince their skeptical classmates to buy from their businesses.

My first business, when I was in high school, was selling a toy that I had imported from Greece on a holiday to my classmates at school when I was about 13.

He was also wanted them to put skin in the game by investing in CDL companies they liked, though he made a handful of exceptions for entrepreneurs whose companies hadn't yet paid out from a sale or IPO, such as Geordie Rose, a former UBC classmate who had gone on to co-found quantum - computer maker D - Wave Systems.

We first meet Charlotte Simmons on the eve of her departure from Sparta, North Carolina, where, as a gifted student, she had felt rather isolated from (and superior to) her high school classmates.

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Elementary children in the Church can sometimes embrace their parents views and be much more dogmatic about them, so I would be very on guard for a potential negative comments from classmates and would want the leader to cut off any kind of negative peer response as quickly as possible.

If you think Emily «s story is unimaginable,, 2 weeks ago my girlfriends brother basically brought home $ 5339 workin a twenty hour week from home and there classmate's step - sister «s neighbour done this for 6 months and brought home over $ 5339 in their spare time on - line.

On Valentine's Day, we set the boxes on top of our desks to collect valentine cards from our classmateOn Valentine's Day, we set the boxes on top of our desks to collect valentine cards from our classmateon top of our desks to collect valentine cards from our classmates.

-- Boy gets detention for sharing lunch with hungry classmate — It's not easy being overweight and on benefits, says 25 stone mother - of - two who wants MORE money from the government to help her diet — Drink Soda?

As a freshman at University, Dunleavy started on the varsity and became close with the team's sixth man, classmate Fred Bell, a scholarship kid from Milwaukee.

Later, as a student in ROTC, I spent three years on the color guard, skipping tailgates to present the colors at windswept Big Ten football games, where my drunken classmates watched from the stands.

Aside from fantasizing about seizing the Ginty from his bag and using it to commit parricide; aside from spending the weekend concealing my politics from my dad's gin - blossomed, tartan - blazered classmates; other than being treated by my wife, Laura, upon my return, like a man who had blown two weeks wages on a drinking and gambling binge, I could not have had a better time.

One week later, your child's classmate puts out the word during recess that he will be passing out birthday cupcakes to all comers from his class on the sidewalk 10 feet past the school grounds boundary.

Two days ago it seemed sure that the worst homework assignment of the year would be the «go on a date with a classmate and act ladylike» assignment from a Utah Financial Literacy class, but the week isn't even out yet, and a Pennsylvania math teacher is joining the competition with a high school math problem about sexual assault.

As a parent, it's tough having to deal with keeping him safe from everything from a classmate eating a peanut butter sandwich while sitting next to him or the friendly child on the playground who just wants to share her cookie that may be loaded with your child's food allergies.

The harder point of view came from sitting in that classroom on the South Side of Chicago with Kewauna and her classmates.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

As the sound of students coming back from lunch filled the hallways, Caroline Skahen, a fifth - grader at Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School and her classmates were in the computer lab, quietly focused on their screens.

He and more than 80 classmates from Georgetown Prepatory School, including New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, signed a letter urging the Senate to act quickly on the nominee.

BY ANDY HUMM Abel Cedeno, 18, the bullied gay Bronx student who said he defended himself with a knife against an attack from classmate Matthew McCree September 27 in front of their fellow students and two teachers, testified in his own defense on Tuesday morning before a Bronx grand jury, and the second - degree murder charge -LSB-...]

On a single day in 1975, a medical school student named Harry Ostrer and a classmate drew blood from 500 people in Riverdale, New York.

I was constantly paranoid that my classmates were staring at me, so all of the stress from that — on top of my academic worries like final exams — was taking its toll.

Compared to non-meditating classmates, students at a California university retained more information from lectures and scored better on quizzes when they had meditated before class.

From buying supplies and stalking classmates» social media to stocking up on staple wardrobe items, there's so much to be done before getting back into the swing of things.

Description: Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) finds a shoe box of cassette tapes from Hannah (Katherine Langford), a classmate he had a crush on that had committed suicide two weeks ago.

Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) finds a shoe box of cassette tapes from Hannah (Katherine Langford), a classmate he had a crush on that had committed suicide two weeks ago.

When she fails to attain simpatico with her caustic roomie and boring classmates, Tracy and crush Tony (Matthew Shear) bond over rejection from the elitist literary society they both had their hearts set on.

They were two small Jewish kids forever being picked on by their bigger classmates, and magic both forged their friendship and saved them from more serious bullying.

This sequel to the 1999 hit that aspired to be the new PORKY»S — but was really the new FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH — finds the Michigan teens back from college on their first summer break: well - meaning mope Jim (Jason Biggs); sensitive jock Oz (Chris Klein); sophisticate - wannabe Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), who remains obsessed with a classmate's randy mother following their fling in the first film; and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), the nice, regular guy audiences are meant to identify with.

Sitting alone in a diner, alienated from her classmates, feeling desperate (if we weren't clear on this, Paul McCartney's «No More Lonely Nights» helpfully plays on the soundtrack), Tracy is driven to phone the one non-Barnard person she knows in New York.

One of the comic grace notes in this feud involves Max's friendship with Dirk Calloway (Mason Gamble), a much younger classmate at Rushmore, who spies Herman emerging from Rosemary's house, blocks his car when he's leaving, announces, «I know about you and the teacher,» and spits with fury on the hood of Herman's car.

Meanwhile, Liam (Christian Isaiah) discovers just how different the Gallaghers are from the families of his rich classmates as Frank schools him on «sticking it to the man.»

L.A. college student Jacob (Anton Yelchin) receives a declaration of feelings from abroad British classmate Anna (Felicity Jones) on the windshield of his car.

A Wrinkle in Time (PG for peril and mature themes) Ava DuVernay adapted this coming - of - age fantasy from Madeleine L'Engle's children's novel of the same name revolving around a young girl (Storm Reid) who, accompanied by a classmate (Levi Miller), her little brother (Deric McCabe) and three astral travelers (Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon), embarks on an epic quest to a distant planet in search of her missing scientist father (Chris Pine) With Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Pena and Zach Galifianakis.

Director Colin Trevorrow (working from a script by Gregg Hurwitz), who put himself on the map with «Jurassic World,» turns the movie's first half into an affecting character study as Henry and his mother wrestle with the issue of how to deal with suspected child abuse involving a next - door girl classmate (Maddie Ziegler) and her sinister stepfather (Dean Norris).

Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel make their directing debut from a script they wrote themselves, and they've weaved a fun, darker comedy that doesn't just rely on Dan's emotional and sexual attraction to a classmate he admires for seemingly having the life of which he could only dream.

Students write an idea or quote from their reading on the wall and then read and respond in writing to the remarks placed on the wall by their classmates, drawing connections and asking questions.

It was clear to me and my classmates 40 years ago, as we gazed out the window during English class in our all - boys high school (a Catholic seminary) and watched the teenage kids from town «making out» on a stone wall; at least it was clear to Father Ignatius, who would threaten a «bastinado with salt rubbed in the wounds» if we didn't focus on the sentence that needed diagramming.

So it's the powerful socialising effect, the fact that — and there is some literature on this as well that I was able to find — children take cues from their teachers about [the extent] to which their classmates should be liked or disliked.

The paper also cites PISA data from 2012 showing girls studying physics «had lower confidence than their male classmates, despite tests revealing no difference in academic performance; and that students confidence in their maths abilities were more likely to embark on STEM careers».

They read with each other's jobs in mind, as they were encouraged to continually pause, discuss the book through the lens of their individual tasks, and take notes on what they learned from classmates.

Arriving late to school can also mean that students miss out on activities designed to build connections with their peers, potentially impacting their social interactions and creating a greater sense of alienation from their classmates.

If a student is caught copying an assignment from a classmate, you might have the student redo the assignment and average the grade on the second assignment with a zero on the first version.

Devoted to a field of education that often goes overlooked, Jin was used to working on his own, but he says he found inspiration from his Ed School classmates, who reminded him of the importance of advocating for teachers and students who were often neglected.

In the 2008 - 2009 academic year, children were suspended from school on over 80,000 occasions for attacking teachers and classmates — a chilling statistic that has sadly been brought home by this year's latest event while clearly demonstrating the key preventative role that CCTV in schools can play.

And several proposals (such as the one from the Teach Plus Teaching Fellows, and another from Samantha Semrow and her fellow Harvard classmates) suggest including additional data on schools» report cards, but not using them to determine school grades.