Sentences with phrase «kids and teachers who»

Bill Gates, the soft - spoken philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO, was on the attack today, complaining about schools that don't teach kids and teachers who get raises anyhow.

-- Kids and teachers who did make it to school said classrooms were practically empty, and they spent the day watching movies and doing busy work but no schoolwork.

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«But all it takes is a couple of dedicated teachers with a little support and guidance to run important research programs that can produce winners in this competition and more importantly kids who are going to go on to become scientists and change the world.»

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

Contrast that with the average teacher, who peppers kids with 300 to 600 questions a day and waits an average of one second for each reply, and you have a recipe for what I call the «Global Questioning Crisis.»

He's hit the nail on the head, about making our kids safe in school, arming teachers who are qualified and having law enforcement on the premises.»

«Someone could have approached a faculty member, a guidance counselor, a teacher and said, «This kid gets bullied a lot, someone should do something,»» said student Manolo Alvarez, 17, who had history class with Cruz.

Retired Broward teacher Joe Carrier taught a woodworking class at Cross Creek while Cruz attended the school, and remembers Cruz as «a quiet kid» who kept to himself and appeared to be «mildly autistic.»

She was an academic - turned stay - at - home - mom writing a dissertation, and I was a full - time teacher - mom driving 45 minutes to and from work with 2 young kids, one who puked regularly out of carsickness.

Several quarterbacks have admitted that doctoring footballs is to them what sneaking candy bars into a movie theater is to you, and the Colts are being treated like the kid who snitches to the teacher and ruins the fun for everyone.

So compelling, in fact, that almost on the spur of the moment you turned your back on the fishing business, left your wife and kids who were perplexed if not put out at your departure, and went off with the wandering teacher.

«When we were young and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could, by pouring their derision upon everything they did, exposing every weakness no matter how carefully hid by the kid.

Not because I don't think Christianity is true and the kids, like all sinners, need to know the truth, but because teachers who don't know all the basics about the Bible would mess it up or if they were an atheist being forced to teach it would probably spread their bias and teach things wrongly on purpose.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

Anyone who says women can't be teachers at all is betraying the fact that on some level, they don't think women and kids are as important as men are.

As a mother myself, wholefoods chef, and former English teacher who's spent years helping kids grow academically, I've created a book that I hope will inspire and help families make better food choices.

I finally know what to give my kids» teacher and our super-helpful neighbours who eat gluten - free this Christmas!!

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

Parents and / or teachers of students in grades 1 - 3 who would like to participate in the program can visit the «Just for Kids» section on www.idahopotato.com.

There will come a day that these students will think back to the time that their very cool (who are we kidding, coolest) teacher offered to hold class outside and they declined.

Team Dragon's teachers are coaches who have played a lot of soccer and love working with kids as they start on their soccer journey.

Penny, a New Zealand mother of two who blogs at Walking Upside Down, reinforced the point when she mentioned her son's kindergarten teacher told her she once took a class to farm growing cabbages and the kids asked, «Who put them there?&raqwho blogs at Walking Upside Down, reinforced the point when she mentioned her son's kindergarten teacher told her she once took a class to farm growing cabbages and the kids asked, «Who put them there?&raqWho put them there?»

There is a special place in hell for people who prey on kids — especially when coming from the trusted and revered role as a teacher.

Thank God for gifted teachers who cherish the kids that need a little extra help, and just shower them with love.

This kid gets raised, parented, by almost every adult around her - her fabulous pre-k teacher, her aunts and uncles who discipline her as well as entertain her, her grandparents, me, her favorite sitters, her best friends» parents.

After chatting with the owner, Marta, who originally hails from Poland and now calls Schaumburg her home, it's evident that she is quite busy (she also is the owner and teacher of a Polish school), but also quite passionate about providing a fun and safe place for kids to play.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

One woman who had seemed defiant and tough in junior high apologized to the PE teacher, telling her that she hadn't meant to be the teacher's «nemesis» but in fact was a military kid who got moved around a lot.

In contrast, teachers were more controlling, had lower expectations, got angry more often, and showed less nurturing toward the children with difficult attachments — and who, sadly, had a greater need than the securely attached kids for kindness from adults.

Firstly, he is a very messy eater so the unpeeled, uncut fruit makes a huge mess when he eats it — and teachers who are on duty are in charge of cleaning up the tables when the kids were done!

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

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There's nothing I'd rather see than educational policymaking put back into the hands of the people who are most likely to treat kids as individual human beings — that is, their parents and teachers, preferably at as local a level as possible.

But she found a way to embrace it, and with her husband, Ed, who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is a board - certified science teacher, they are helping every kid they encounter love science, too.

My amazing teacher writes to the mayor of Taiwan and gets a list of kids who would like to be penpals to kids in my class.

Unsurprisingly, the results of the study revealed that both teachers and mothers caring for their children reported that kids who were poor sleepers in the toddler years had more behavioral problems than those who slept longer.

«Increasingly teachers who are on the front line say that it's very important to teach kids to be more socially and emotionally competent,» says Roger P. Weissberg, chief knowledge officer of the Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), which promotes the concept and the term nationwide.

And those kids are the ones who, often if you're the teacher, are the ones who are most like a handful,» he says.

They found that moms who reported being more supportive also rated their children as more socially skilled, but teachers said these kids had fewer socioemotional skills and more problem behaviors.

We are a local group of parents, students, teachers, principals, nutritionists, policymakers, anti-hunger advocates, and community members who want our kids to have good food in our schools.

Try and keep emotion out of it; parents need to have fact - based knowledge from their child's doctors, specialists, special education experts, parents of kids with similar special needs, attorneys, teachers, and anyone else who can provide information.

Working mothers are thankful for their kids» teachers, the neighbors, the babysitter and the many other people in their support system who keep their lives manageable.

As Kevin Concannon, the USDA's Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services recently told me, «A quality and nutritious school meal program can insure that all of the investments we're making in the buildings, in the materials, and in the teachers will pay off because there's lots of evidence showing that kids who eat healthier will learn better.»

Tough presents examples of low - income kids who have had the opportunity through mentoring programs, family members or discerning teachers to pause and look inward to shape and reshape their character.

If my daughter were posting such things on the internet i would consider keeping her home and not entrusting her to a few teachers who have to chaperon a large number of kids on a trip to a large city as being diligent and careful.

First of all, this teacher takes kids from low - income, low - achieving environments and turns them into high - performance players who can take on anybody in the United States.

You want to surround your child with coaches and teachers who get that, who understand the need for kids this age to spread their wings and try out new activities.

According to Whole Kids Foundation, a non-profit organization established by Whole Foods Market, teachers who are given access to nutrition and health education are equipped to be stronger advocates for school wellness policies and apply them to class lessons, celebrations and activities.

Even more gratifying is hearing from parents and teachers who've told me how much their kids liked watching it — and that they clearly understood the message about healthful eating.

As part of the week leading up to that, during one circle time, Mikey's teachers taught them about sickness and health, and asked the kids what they would do to help another child who was seriously ill.