Sentences with phrase «good school focuses»

A good school focuses on teaching and lets nothing get in the way.

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He left vowing to forget about the nursery and to focus instead on having the best music school in the city.

Snyder said he will focus on strengthening SOM's faculty, student quality and reputation, as well as integrating the school into the rest of the Yale community.

«Spider - Man: Homecoming» leaves out the radioactive spider bite, the death of Parker's uncle Ben, and focuses heavily on the difficulty that comes with trying to build confidence while still in high school, and is all the better for it.

Focus on getting good grades and taking advantage of the school's resources and opportunities.

That said, back - to - school was good for Google, whose cheap internet - focused Chromebook laptops «had another banner quarter in the K - 12 market,» says IDC, though it doesn't provide specific figures.

More students are accepting internships in these fields as well, as the school has offered more «industry focus» programs that expose students to careers in niche finance sectors, Fitch said.

«I would like my legacy to be represented in the fact that no one inside of McDonough doubts that we are a premier school, and every day we wake up and behave that way, not with arrogance but with a focus on being the best.»

«If we were smart, not only would we be focusing on encouraging the best technologists in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world wants to come to live.

Perhaps a good place to start is by focusing on 10 students in your local high school, with the goal of increasing their chances of graduating.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

Using Micro Focus technology, the school network supports diverse platforms and workstations as well.

Evans says: «All schools should be properly focused on delivering the best education possible, rather than trying to instil religious beliefs in children.»

To the contrary, the proposal urges that the best way to affirm any school's theological identity is through study focused on as a wide theological and social - cultural diversity of Christian congregations as possible.

14 In philosophy the empirical and naturalistic school (John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer) as well as the idealistic (Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet) focused their attention on the problems of the nature and development of society.

I wish the schools would focus on teaching children math, science and other things required to make our society better, rather than focussing on this non-issue.

I was supposed to be a good Christian girl, focused on peace, patience, gentleness and self - control — all that fruit of the Spirit we dutifully memorized in Sunday School.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

[6] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, surely it would be better — to make yet another counterproposal — to focus study on the Word of God that not only calls congregations into being and nurtures them but also judges and corrects them.

[4] If a theological school wants more truly to understand God, surely it would be better — to make a counterproposal — to focus its study on that greater tradition than on individual congregations within it.

[5] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, if truth is really the issue, surely it would be better to focus study on the foundations that justify our getting involved in a congregation in the first place.

The theological school, for its part, would assume responsibility for course work that studies Christian congregations in all their variety, as well as course work that focuses on models of practice, thus cultivating students» capacities to reflect on ministerial practice (cf. 121 - 25).

With little effort you've created a balanced lunch filled with fibre, healthy fats and protein that can be transported to school or the office, and will keep everyone satisfied and focused well into the afternoon.

I actually needed to take a few weeks brake from the blog because I wanted to catch up with things in school as well as focus as to what would be next for the blog as far as recipes are concerned.

Start focusing on what you can eat with this informative guide packed with step - by - step advice to help you keep living your life the way you're used to, including tips on how to stock your kitchen and pack school lunches, as well as advice for hosting parties, preparing meals, modifying recipes, planning for gluten - free travel, and making sure your child eats safely wherever they go.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

This camp will focus on individual basketball fundamentals as well as team concepts that have made Bishop O'Dowd High School a perennial league, North Coast Section, and State playoff champion.

These teams focus on development and learning skills to put the players in the best position to compete for a spot on the 14U team or prepare for next season's high school baseball team.

The juniors programs focus on preparing athletes for high school and collegiate play, as well as tournament play.

With Stowell, learning quirky and mundane tidbits about her felt like a refreshing distraction from the elephant in the room: she wrote homework questions, despite wanting to avoid homework in high school; she was part of a lab group that focused on eating competitions; she had a nail polish collection; she loved watching terrible movies; she used to play rugby, realized she wasn't good at it, and then switched to ultimate frisbee.

Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

We all want our kids to do well in school and to master certain skills and concepts, but our largely singular focus on academic achievement has resulted in a lack of attention to other components of a successful life — the ability to be independent, adaptable, ethical, and engaged critical thinkers.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

But now we need to focus on the reality of our kids starting a new year, maybe a new school, and how we'd like to tweak this year to make it better than last year.

Late last month, two well - respected and innovative school food organizations — FoodCorps and School Food Focus — announced their plan to school food organizations — FoodCorps and School Food Focus — announced their plan to School Food Focus — announced their plan to merge.

Teachers at Waldorf schools are trained to focus on the individual child as well as the group.

They fuel the body and the brain, helping children better focus in school.

At Chase Side Primary School in Enfield, I needed fuel to play kiss chase with Justine Willis (well, I am sure it was with others, but Justine was the main focus of the game) and to play football.

Crucially, there is also focus on highlighting what has worked well in other schools, in order to help participants identify some of the practical steps they can take to improve the food culture in their own school.

First, I could not solely focus my research on mathematics instruction; because the education I witnessed was so integrated and was indicative of best practices, I changed the study to be part of a growing body of knowledge on school restructuring and reform.

After doing that for seven years, Iris returned to Argentina and opened a children's program that focused on music and arts and crafts as well as teaching music at several schools.

Bettina Siegel said: Huffington Post highlights 10 «best school lunches» in America, focusing on farm - to - school programs.

The best way to help your child achieve in school, though, is to reward the child's effort rather than focusing on these outcomes.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skiWell, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skiwell that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Kicking things off in the summer months when local produce was bountiful, Lundt and Youngbauer have decided to make local procurement a focus for the 2016 - 2017 school year as well.

Watkins is keeping her focus on school nutrition for now as she conducts a survey on best practices for serving milk outside the cafeteria.

But the good news is that most preschoolers will become calmer and more focused by the time they reach the early school years.

This difficult, but forward - thinking, reorganization, which was completed in January 2010, allowed for a leaner, yet stronger Sunbridge to emerge, one with a highly - keened focus of serving the Waldorf school movement through well - regarded, low - residency teacher education programs and a comprehensive roster of short - term courses and workshops.