Sentences with phrase «half hours every school day»

This is just what I needed to get off on the right foot for our first time packing «lunches» — really it's just a snack for his 2 hour school day.

Raise Your Hand's director Wendy Katten, who assembled the coalition of 16 parent and community groups to oppose Emanuel's initial 7 1/2 hour school day proposal, said that while the mayor shortened his proposal to 7 hours the group plans to keep pressing for more arts, music and foreign language programs...

• Conservative MPs have proposed various ideas for possible inclusion in the party's 2015 manifesto, including a right for ministers to appoint senior Whitehall officials, a 10 - hour school day, better energy saving and regionalised benefit levels.

After the regular six - to eight - hour school day, many children attend extra classes at private schools and devote long hours to homework in the evening.

In Finland, every hour of teaching is punctuated by a 15 - minute break (in contrast, my students have a single 25 minute break, for lunch, in a nearly 7 - hour school day).

Schools have a 7.5 - hour school day; a 191 - day school year; and a hybrid year - round calendar that shortens the summer to just five weeks.

The company also mandates an eight - hour school day, as well as a longer school year.

The two principals Education World interviewed, David Levin of KIPP and Ann Wiener of Crossroads, work 11 or more hours each school day.

In Shanghai, for instance, many students endure 10 - to 12 - hour school days, in addition to attending private tutoring sessions and school on Saturdays.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

Some students work in the classroom computer lab for a full 8 - hour school day, while others participate in a hybrid program that includes traditional classroom learning as well as lab time.

KIPP combines several methods - up to 9 1/2 - hour school days, required three - week summer school, regular Saturday sessions, close teacher cooperation, regular parental contacts, consistent methods of punishment and reward, and keen attention to test results - that each have proved to be effective in isolation.

Doug McCurry, director of the nonprofit organization, said Amistad Academy in New Haven assesses student progress every six weeks, operates a 9-1/2 - hour school day, recruits the best teachers and runs a «disciplined, achievement - oriented school culture.»

Many education experts wonder if KIPP will be able to find enough principals and teachers with the energy and dedication to work 9 1/2 - hour school days, plus every other Saturday and three - week summer sessions.

Nine - hour school days and an extended school year.

Changes to the existing education system to provide greater flexibility: Under the Act, student learning time in core academic subjects increased to a mandatory six and a half hours each school day (recess and study hall no longer counted).

That amounts to two hours every school day of uninterrupted focus on reading.

Students experiencing various levels of abusive relationships resulting in assignment to an RTC, do not lend themselves to a traditional seven hour school day in a classroom.

Middle schools operated by the respected Knowledge Is Power Program, for example, run a highly regimented program during their 9.5 - hour school days and longer school year.

I see learning extended beyond our 7 - hour school day.

I had one - on - one help offered to me five days a week beyond the limitations of a six hour school day.

Michelle promised she would check and found that New Trier Township does not mandate a 7.5 hour school day for any of its schools.

Parent Michelle Bever challenged Todd's assertion that other school districts have a 7.5 hour school day.

Instruction and supervision of school aged children.Must have availability to work 2 - 8 hours each school day...

Not exact matches

And there's always the most old - school fix of all — simply seize control of your schedule and guiltlessly do nothing for an hour, a day, or even a week to get away from all those grocery lists and presentations, giving your creativity space to run wild.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

Can you handle eight hours at the office, school at night, and multiple legs of New York City public transportation travel all in the same day?

Every single day, from when he was a kid, he was in the pool from 5 am for hours before school.

«As a result, being forced to rise the next day at 6 a.m. for school or college means teens find it hard to get the eight to ten hours sleep that they need.»

For the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there's a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful.

«We go to school and are taught reading, writing and arithmetic for [however many] hours a day and then taught that getting a good grade is better than getting a bad grade.»

A day before her 17th birthday this year, Alexis came home from school and told her mom she wanted to join the U.S. Army and she had an appointment with a military recruiter in an hour.

His patrons were almost all from a school that was located just down the road, where children and teachers would come for their lunch hour or to get a snack after class had ended for the day.

A survey by PwC about future workforce trends found that 63 percent of respondents believe the old - school eight - hour workday may soon become obsolete.What's more, the survey found, 48 percent of employees who worked from home at least one day a week were more likely to rate their jobs a «10» on a scale of one to 10.

This idea originated with Bernard B. Kerik, a former NYC police commissioner, who tweeted his theory on February 15 — two days earlier, and less than 24 hours after the school shooting that left 17 people dead.

Whenever I got yelled at by a client or boss or had to travel thousands of miles for a one hour long meeting, I'd remember back to my high school days and smile.

Of course they are gonna use rooms after school day hours and weekends.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

If high school kids are willing to go spend an hour each day being taught those things, I can't imagine why anyone would think that's a bad thing.

While mainline publishers of religious books and church - school curricula have been virtually silent on the subject, there are currently in print more than 350 books challenging evolutionary science and advocating a «creation science» based on six 24 - hour days of creation, a «young - earth» dating, and a worldwide «flood geology.»

Theodore Forstmann is right that additional school days, longer school hours, smaller classes, and higher teacher salaries are not answers to the crisis in education.

The day time hours are the work hours, the wipe - up - the - floor - for - the - thousandth - time hours, the diapers and laundry and nursing and working and cleaning and cooking and feeding and schooling, and the laughter hours.

I was one of two Muslims in my school and every day when the rest of the kids in my class went to the cafeteria for lunch, we would head to the computer lab to play Oregon Trail or Where in the World is Carmen San Diego for an hour.

«You put children in school eight hours a day five days a week, and then you expect them to come out of that with an Islamic personality and Islamic values?

It doesn't necessarily mean that a person is saved just because they quote Scripture, attend church, tithe, and raise their hands when singing praises to God, attend a Bible study, prays for an hour every day, teaches a Sunday school class and volunteers at the food bank.

I'm not a right winger; I received this email to pray for Romney from a high school friend I have not seen in 55 years; she is not a Mormon; I'm Catholic, I forwarded it to every Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Catholic, Jew, 7th Day Adventist, and all other Christians and some who do not have a religion who I know will pray every hour of the day that we get that good for nothing socialist who is destroying American out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Prayers do come trDay Adventist, and all other Christians and some who do not have a religion who I know will pray every hour of the day that we get that good for nothing socialist who is destroying American out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Prayers do come trday that we get that good for nothing socialist who is destroying American out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Prayers do come true.

This little trick is helpful when you have a chunk of time earlier in the day to work on dinner, since focusing on meal prep at «the witching hour» (AKA, 5:00 p.m. at our house) sometimes feels next to impossible between after school activities, homework, sibling bickering, and end - of - day toddler meltdowns.

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

It's easy enough to get your apple a day, since they are easily taken along to work or school, and make a handy snack that can hold you over a few hours until your next meal.

But with the days getting busier, and my to - do list getting longer and longer by the hour, it is hard to find time to make healthy snacks for the school year.