Sentences with phrase «just about the grades»

Your time at college is not just about the grades you can get and the career you will go on to have.

Not exact matches

They wouldn't let up on us about getting good grades just because we were working!

It looked like a paper towel»), bake and frost 24 cupcakes at 1 a.m. for the class party at 8 a.m., try to make sense of third - grade math (just no), or switch lanes on the BQE while three kids argue to the death about which of them likes cheese the most (seriously, and it's me),» writes Kate Levkoff on the site.

By 1998 he and Alvin were fighting about grades, school, phone bills, and just about everything else.

Just 90 days into a job it's hard to talk about legacy, but what's more important to me is that when you grade AMD, whether it's three years from now or five years from now, you grade it on that this was a fantastic set of assets that she turned into something special.

I just think some Christians are lazy and don't want to read more about the totality of scripture and delve deeper into interpretation... we prefer a grade 3 reading and comprehension level in many aspects of Christianity.

A simple read through a 3rd grade Biology text book educates one about evolution than the trash you just spewed.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

But it is not about trying hard, or just improving, to get the grade.

When I was in 5th grade, my class was all a-twitter about the (relatively local) Bengals getting ready to play the 49ers in the 1988 Super Bowl; mainly just to be contrary I decided to root for the other team and it just stuck.

The fact that we do not see too many very promising young players making the step up shows just how tough it is, but we could be about to see the latest Arsenal academy graduate who will make the grade in the shape of Reiss Nelson who put in a very impressive performance on the right flank as Arsenal beat Sydney FC in the first of the pre-season matches.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

My daughter is just about to finish 8th grade and my son, who just turned two, keeps us all on our toes.

RW: One staff member in a school told me about a little second grade girl who had just sat down and was taking her first bite of food, when the lunchroom monitor called out, «Everyone take your last bite.

Just after Nell's birth we had hired a hospital - grade double pump and our breastfeeding plan involved waking Nell for a breastfeed and supplementary «top up» every four hours (which took about an hour), expressing for 15 minutes after each feed and doing a ten - minute «power - pump» between feeds.

I was in 4th grade... days were so long and about this time of year, I could just smell summer coming.

Whether you were a child in grade school or a university student, summer meant freedom from study and responsibility, the opportunity to work a job and have plenty of disposable income at hand, or even just to laze about all summer enjoying your life of irresponsibility and freedom.

The professional grade attachments will help you get just about every surface clean.

You get just over an ounce of ceremonial - grade Matcha, or about 30 servings.

In grade six, when the curriculum started to get interesting and turn more logic - based, I started to pay attention and actually enjoyed just about every class — except history, which still had too much memory work.

We don't know what is going on above us, if there is a full or crescent Moon and how that affects us, we just worry about ourselves and we don't care about the world around us,» says Valentina Vio, 11th grade student at Hernando de Magallanes high school.

I've been to countless dermatologist, tried prescription grade facial washes and creams as well oral medication yet nothing helped.I'm so passionate about Juice Beauty products, I've told all my friends, 4 have already placed orders just because of my results!

Since I already have 40 years worth of scrapbooks already, and a lot of vintage Valentine's Day cards are already safely tucked behind the page protectors, and the rest are still waiting to be put in their proper places next to 3rd grade school pictures, 7th grade volleyball awards, and Middle School graduation certificates, I'm just not terribly sentimental about brand - new Valentine's Day cards.

I'm truly proud because she just mastered all here medicine exams with the best grades possible and before she will become the best doctor one will ever see (so sure about that, because she truly is a genius!)

It just works!I teach math everyday as a second grade teacher, and I got to thinking about it the other day like a very simple math equation.

Glad that you get another year with her, mine is just starting 1st grade next year and I'm already sad about it, that's like practically graduating, hehe.

Maybe it's because in grade school during November we would make a big cut out turkey and write what we were thankful for on the feathers, but there is something about the entire month of November (not just Thanksgiving) that reminds me to give thanks.

It is a pretty good bet that just about any show that features adults and teens interacting The fire happened while Miranda was at Hendrix Elementary School and her fourth grade teacher wanted to help.

For Tully, Theron gained 50 pounds: she looks pregnant — the baby, Marlo's third, is born shortly into the film — and then she looks like a woman who has just given birth and is too exhausted, mentally and physically, what with a newborn and two grade - schoolers to take care of, to do a damn thing about «getting into shape.»

And, of course, movie fans (and just about everybody considers himself a movie fan) demand some kind of quantifiable scale of measurement — stars, thumbs, letter grades — to fool themselves into thinking this represents a definitive (and «objective») form of evaluation.

The story centers on August «Auggie» Pullman (Room's Jacob Tremblay), a 10 - year - old kid just about to enter fifth grade at his new prep school.

Coach Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) is just about voted «most - unpopular» when he locks his high school basketball team out of the gym and cancels all games, until the players improve their grade point average.

Just to remind them, here comes a prestige - grade action movie about refusing to negotiate with head - in - the - sand types.

I wasn't keen on grading every single assignment that students did, because I could find out just as much about their learning with a lot less paper.

Make an effort to show you care about them, not just their grades.

His wife, dinner, and watching the news — just in case a student randomly asked about Albania — were welcome distractions from grading those papers, he said.

Furthermore, there is language about «grade - level proficiency,» which is confusing, especially now that «proficient» in most states is really defined as «on track for college and career» — arguably a higher standard than just being on grade level.

Students here are full - time, online learners about to enter 6th grade, which means more world history and fewer animated activities, and a series of teachers to correspond with, rather than just one.

How about my son, who entered first grade last year as five - year - old, not because I'm a crazy, achievement - driven parent, but because we had just moved from New York to Massachusetts, which define cutoff ages differently?

Reading and talking about nonfiction — not just storybooks — helps younger children learn information and skills that they need for academic success in upper grades.

«The fourth - grade teachers at Symonds... were talking about doing pop - up books on energy, [because] we just completed a science unit on energy,» says Susan Grover.

The most recent CBI / Pearson Education and Skills Survey showed levels of awareness and understanding across business about the new grading system are growing, but just over a third of firms were wholly unaware of the reforms in England.

Game jams can work at most grade levels, and in just about any content area — the games students make are a tool to demonstrate their learning.

Another first grade teacher quoted a six - year old's response to learning about Ghana: «I knew they had tribes and stuff but I didn't know they had colleges and stores and cars, just like we do.»

Just before each unit we [other teachers in her grade level] sit down and we talk about what, what are the objectives, what do the students have to learn, what activities can we do to ensure... success of all that... we were doing a graphing activity and the students graphed and we [other teachers in her grade level] were discussing the graph out in the hallway and um, she happened to walk by and she just kind of sat down and joined us and so then I just asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understandJust before each unit we [other teachers in her grade level] sit down and we talk about what, what are the objectives, what do the students have to learn, what activities can we do to ensure... success of all that... we were doing a graphing activity and the students graphed and we [other teachers in her grade level] were discussing the graph out in the hallway and um, she happened to walk by and she just kind of sat down and joined us and so then I just asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understandjust kind of sat down and joined us and so then I just asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understandjust asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understanding.

This provides the teachers with topical hooks to enhance student engagement in the project learning, and it lets the students know the teachers care about their passions and not just their grades.

He says, «It's not just about getting good grades, but what I will face, what I want to do.»

Since boys are about a grade level behind girls in reading and writing and girls have just about closed the gap in mathematics and science, I'll focus on raising the achievement of boys.

Ask Dr. Shore About... Raising Your Child's Grades My son just brought home his report card and I was very disappointed.

Real personalizing of education, for example, would disrupt just about everything: from school architecture to teacher preparation, from state academic standards and grade - level class assignments to the scheduling of the period, the day, the week, and the year.