Sentences with phrase «kind of school where»

The TV ads pitch a new kind of school where the power of the Internet allows gifted and struggling students alike to «work at the level that's just right for them» and thrive with one - on - one attention from teachers connecting through cyberspace.

If these sound like the kinds of schools where you'd like to teach, that's exactly the point.

They are the kinds of schools where bold artwork lines the hallways.

Let's be frank: Whitney is obviously an extreme example of the kinds of schools where students come from struggling families and communities.

Not exact matches

In an interview at Y Combinator's Startup School this weekend Zuckerberg sounded disillusioned with Silicon Valley, but in 2005 he was starry - eyed about the place: «Palo Alto is kind of this mythical place where you know, all the start - ups come from,» he said.

Code continued: «This is kind of one of those instances where we needed to step and help one of our flagship schools... secure a five - star caliber kid.

It is exactly the kind of question that Chief Justice Rehnquist raised in U.S. v. Lopez in 1995, where the question was put as to whether the federal government may ban the use of guns near schools.

And if he didn't go to school there he wouldn't be connected to the bankers in Charlotte and be able to get the kind of job where he would make a lot of money.

The theological school is the center where both types of intellectual activity are carried on: the kind that, supported by other actions, moves directly toward the objects of the Church's love and the kind that supports the other movements toward those objects.

When I was a kid I went to the kind of elementary school where there was no homework, no tests, no report cards, no grades (are you still with me?)

Chase had a cookie walk fundraiser with his school where each parent makes about 60 cookies to add to a room full of tables filled with every kind of cookie one could imagine.

And by old school, we mean the kinds of places where the chef's tattoos are from 20th - century wars, there's likely a «chops and steaks» section on the menu, and waiters wear red tuxedos without irony.

He visits high schools to tell his heroic tale and, training to the point where he needs to be kicked out of the gym, uses his boxing as a kind of mission as «the Lord's foot soldier.»

I went to several «alumni» games (and even got Earl Morral's autograph), saw the original Zeke the Wonder Dog, enjoyed the alumni band days where they led HS Bands (to replace the students in games before school started), met all kinds of former Spartans during tailgate times, totally enjoyed the pre pre game MSU band marches, loved the band before game, at halftime, and post game.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

I love your post, you have described exactly how I feel at the moment.My older 4 children went to our local school, but now my son has just turned 5 and will attend kinder next year I am really considering homeschooling.I just have this niggling feeling in the back of my mind that our local school is just not right for him.I understand completely where you are coming from.I'm going to check out your other post and my options too.Good luck with your decision.

It's kind of like the middle school dance, where no one really knows what to do or where to put their hands.

But you add that kind of limited coping skill up, and it really doesn't matter where you've gone to school.

This kind of down time where you can really connect with each other is SO important; particularly during the CRAZY BUSY school year!

But Moss» s reporting has shown that school food officials have found the bad kind of E. coli in the material where they least expected — the trimmings.

As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?

Isis has «sling school» where you can try out all of their slings and, if they don't have a class available, I found their staff to be very helpful in trying on and advising on every kind of sling available.

That kind of integration with the curriculum is far more feasible in a universal free program where eating school lunch becomes the norm.

I had a butterfly assignment in the first grade while attending Ivy Hill School where we had the chance to raise butterflies and it kind of stuck with me as something really interesting.»

When teachers and schools are able to convey both of those messages at the same time, that you belong here and this is a place where you are welcome, but also that I have high expectations for your ability to achieve things, and I'm going to give you the right kind of help and support for you to breach those high expectations, those two toolboxes combine to be what is most motivating and inspiring to kids.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Modern tech means that our county has an online payment system where students can «bank» school lunch money and debit the system based on how many lunches they buy, which is kind of neat!

They were really asking for all kinds of details - where she went to school in Zambia, proof of her father's British citizenship - it went on and on.

Any kind of educational context where international scientists are present and people have more time to talk — summer schools, seminars, or workshops, for example — are good places to make contact with potential mentors abroad, Žagrović says.

«It was kind of fun being at a medical school and known as the weird guy who worked with dogs,» says Modiano, who is now a professor of comparative oncology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and the Masonic Cancer Center, where his research focuses on immunology, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, and applications of gene therapy.

In the second high - quality trial of its kind, published in PLOS ONE, the researchers found an entirely different result to an earlier study carried out in 2012, where omega - 3 supplements were found to have a beneficial effect on the reading ability and working memory of school children with learning needs such as ADHD.

It's kind of like a stereotypical high school movie where the nerds all sit at one table and the jocks all sit at another and generally hate each other.

There's like that that bodybuilder's school of thought where you're weighing everything and measuring everything, but then there's kind of my — my approach is a little bit more practical when it comes to this stuff, is just have a good idea of what you're eating.

And if you wonder what kind of school was that, where you discussed food during a math class, well that was our math teacher; she would have, from time to time, a nice 10 minutes discussion with us, (math unrelated), to make us think, to open our minds.

When you teach them to be kind and not to bully and things like that which is part of the curriculum at my kids» school what you end up with is just a different vibe where literally you'll see a 10 year old happily helping a 5 year old do something and it's built in that helping helps.

It kind of felt like the first day at a new school, where you know no one... and chances are everyone will be sizing you up and judging you.

This is the kind of show where the audience attempts to outdress the models on the catwalk but even a Balenciaga spandex total look could not outdo guests, including, Snoop Dog's fashion designer son Cordell Broadus, who managed to score a pair of sneaker boots from Public School's sell out Air Jordan collaboration.

If Irons» roles in Dead Ringers and M. Butterfly provide a roundabout link to Cronenberg, so does a med - school scene where the skin of a cadaver's head is peeled away in a kind of metaphor for society's thin surface.

It's the kind of place where a drifter (Christopher Abbott) might stay, a high school kid (Odessa Young) might take a part - time job, a new widow (Rosemary DeWitt) might find comfort or a femme fatale (Imogen Poots) might find danger.

It's the kind of movie where a school administrator (Tonya Pinkins) finally gets incontrovertible proof of Christina's molestation by watching her dance.

I want this kind of learning to be a daily reality for the students in the schools where I work.

In Massachusetts and Virginia, where students are tested in key grades and will soon need to pass exit exams to graduate from high school, Cassandras predicted all kinds of pernicious results.

He does two kinds of schools: high schools that are tech related, where the kids are engaged in projected based learning and discovery, and that have deeply embedded partnerships with local industry; and also schools that are K — 8 flex programs, in which students attend school two days a week, work from home two days a week, and one day is an enrichment day.

For middle and high school teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to paschool teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to paSchool Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to parents.

«Five people in my family didn't even finish elementary school because it was just so hard, it was just so difficult to have that kind of access to school,» he says, as he glances up at the building, where his youngest sister, Minnie Wilson Early, currently teaches.

You have to wonder, however, if the same will be true at a school like Hyde, where character is understood as a kind of antidote to excessive academicism.

Bullying behaviour of any kind, inside or outside the school environment, refers not to a single event but to a relational pattern repeated over time where social dominance is gained through the negative use of power to harm (Crothers & Levinson, 2004; Smith, 2004; Smorti et al., 2003).

I know that if we're going to transform our schools into the kinds of learning places where our children will thrive we need to attend to the culture of the adults who work in schools.

The introduction of MUGAS and more recently Smooga's, smart moveable multi ‑ use games areas, has helped schools provide discrete areas for sports of all kinds and are proving to be a huge asset where space is restricted.

My argument here is that a «diverse provider» environment (where an area has an array of operators running an array of schools) allows for a very different kind of accountability system.