Sentences with phrase «kids kind of focused»

The arrival of our kids kind of focused the attention on these plans.»

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Studying under this kind of schedule helps your kid establish a focused mindset when it's time to crack open the books.

This kind of pressure and narrow focus isn't helping our kids become the resilient, capable, meaningful contributors we need in the 21st century.

If the SNA were really concerned with «advancing good nutrition» for kids, wouldn't they be more focused on promoting these kinds of strategies to their 55,000 members, and less eager to just dump the mandatory fruit and veg requirement into the trash bin?

We have been on focusing on all kinds of ocean themed activities for kids the past few weeks (like our Rocky Shore Small World with Ocean Playdough, our Fine Motor Octopus Craft and our Free Printable Beach Scavenger Hunt).

It's nice if they can spare more funds to their actors, but its kind of just sentimentality that makes people focus on just saving these few kids and ignoring not just everyone else in India, but the dozens of other minor characters in Slumdog.

I was trying to focus on back to school as a very positive time for kids and parents, and I think when you send that kind of message out right around back to school it's counterproductive.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&raKids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rakids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rakids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

Kindness Tops List of What Parents Hope to Teach Kids, Forum Poll Finds Toronto Star, 1/1/16» «If you focus on kids being kind and tuning into other people, and less on kids» day to day moods and how they're feeling, they're more likely to have better relationships,» [Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd] sKids, Forum Poll Finds Toronto Star, 1/1/16» «If you focus on kids being kind and tuning into other people, and less on kids» day to day moods and how they're feeling, they're more likely to have better relationships,» [Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd] skids being kind and tuning into other people, and less on kids» day to day moods and how they're feeling, they're more likely to have better relationships,» [Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd] skids» day to day moods and how they're feeling, they're more likely to have better relationships,» [Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd] said.

A universal and exclusive focus on low - achieving kids ignores the fact that different education strategies work best for different kinds of students.

Keeping in mind that test - based accountability mostly focuses on the level of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.

Smith: The people who run Justus and Uchechi's school believe that American public schools aren't focusing enough on helping kids learn these kinds of lessons.

... Groups like Education Minnesota, Educators 4 Excellence, Generation Next, ISAIAH and the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership are leading the way through effective organizing and a focus on social justice to make schools into the kinds of places that deserve to serve Minnesota's kids.

It automatically checks for spelling and grammar and that kind of stuff, which is nice because it actually allows me to talk about the writing rather than these minutiae of mechanics that, to me, aren't really the focus of tenth grade English... [But] it's sometimes hard... a kid quoted a bible [sic] verse... and his was a mess because it came up with so much because it was like «chapter 1.»

These kinds of 360 - degree changes, in which teachers, principals, parents and every single stakeholder have access to focused and meaningful Common Core training and professional development, can make all the difference for our kids.

Three of the new schools will be located in the Bronx: The New York Center for Autism Charter School Bronx is a replication of a school in Harlem, Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science will be the first charter high school of its kind in the city focusing on technical careers, and Brilla College Preparatory Charter School at Highbridge will use blended learning where kids will spend a quarter of their time on computers.

There have been slight murmurings that the upcoming Uncharted 3 may focus on some kind of familial relationship (or possible surprise twist) between Nathan and older partner - in - crime Sully, but my theory is Russell saw a screenshot or video or walked by his kid playing the game, noticed a young Nathan standing next to an older Sully, then immediately assumed the game was about father and son rogue artifact thieves.

Let's leave older gamers out of the equation for a minute and just focus on the kids who are asking their parents for this system, because that's the kind of situation this marketing is meant for.

Without exception, I found the courses taught by practitioners to be far more interesting — the focus wasn't on the principles derived from cases, or the progression of historical development of the law — but on real cases and the day to day issues that they faced — what kinds of cases come up most often, what procedural issues delay cases, and how to work around them, real life ethical issues of clients who lie, or don't pay, or harass their lawyers — which judge thinks (or decides) which way — how to help a client that won't do what they need to do to get their kids back (and not get too involved at the same time).