Sentences with phrase «learn about schools at»

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Among kids currently ages 8 to 14, 65 percent say they learn more about money from their parents than they do at school, according to a T. Rowe Price survey released last month.

I was in school learning about advertising - I really became entrenched in media at school.

As you can imagine, we learned quite a few fun things about each half of the power couple during the revealing exchange, which took place at Betsy Layne High School in Eastern Kentucky.

He learned about West Africa's counterfeit drug epidemic while at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College; his Ph.D. research eventually yielded an embryonic version of the MPA service.

After learning about Casino Gaming School in 1994 from a faxed advertisement, Zimmer asked Kallos to send him candidates for six openings at O'Shea's, a small downtown operation he was running at the time.

Andy Dunn, CEO of Bonobos, the clothing brand which he cofounded in 2007, recently spoke with the Stanford Graduatue School of Business web site about the lessons he's learned at the helm.

That means schools might want to think long and hard about how they schedule gym classes, and professionals should be thoughtful about how they order periods of learning with a bout at SoulCycle or a trip to the local running path.

In case of any doubt, Wired also learned that, while at Harvard graduate school (right before dropping out to join Google) Damore wrote and performed in a skit about «Microtubule Jerking» and the women who helped with it.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

Learning about finances should begin with students in elementary schools and later at the high school level!

Well, the onus is on you, the parent, because you can't count on them learning about money matters in school, said Thomas Henske, a certified financial planner and partner at Lenox Advisors.

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Interested in learning more about the PhD program at the Rotman School of Management?

Otherwise, you will end up learning about your cognitive shortcomings the hard way: at the Wall Street campus of the School of Hard Knocks.

John Crescitelli, a doctor with a 15 - year - old daughter at the school, learned about the shooting at work.

The trouble is, Faith's starting to ask for tee - shirts from schools I haven't visited recently — schools she reads about, or sees when we watch a basketball game, or learns about when a faculty member stops by for dinner at our apartment.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches a good deal less about etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon Elementary School in the «60s, but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most places.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

Using the theories of Einstein and others, Guth points out that at extremely high energies, there are forms of matter that upend everything we learned about gravity in high school.

When Sunday School and worship are held at the same time, this tells members that either learning about Christian faith or the importance of worship and the sacraments to Christians is optional.

Often persons who are not Christians, or who are Christians in only a nominal sense, will be happy to avail themselves of the opportunity to learn something about Christianity through attendance at such schools.

Equally vital is the message we give them about where our food comes from, concepts of animal welfare, sustainability, healthy eating and environmental responsibility — and where better to learn this than at school?

This is why we at OAL run an open cooking school where you can refresh your knowledge about Steam Infusion and learn how to write recipes or create new and exciting products.

Delta Educational Vineyard Takes Shape Students at Clarksburg's Delta High School and Clarksburg Middle School now have the opportunity to get hands - on experience growing grapes as they learn about viticulture and employment opportunities in the region's leading agricultural industry...

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While playing in the sandbox at recess or nature walks for science time would seem to be obvious choices, it was fun to learn that my preschooler's favorite thing about school is LUNCH!

He has been learning so much about gardening and pumpkins at school and low and behold — the roasting began!

I learned a little bit about raw foods in 2009 while I was attending the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and it was interesting enough that I signed up for a raw «cooking» class at the local adult school.

With Stowell, learning quirky and mundane tidbits about her felt like a refreshing distraction from the elephant in the room: she wrote homework questions, despite wanting to avoid homework in high school; she was part of a lab group that focused on eating competitions; she had a nail polish collection; she loved watching terrible movies; she used to play rugby, realized she wasn't good at it, and then switched to ultimate frisbee.

I really tuned in to learn about Sam Darnold's Mom I hope ESPN does one of there 30 for 30 documentaries on her so I can learn more about her career as a Middle school PE teacher I learned Darnold is a combination of Russell Wilson, Abraham Lincoln, Carrot top, and and the Messiah Oh and he is really competitive on the field and cool California on the sidelines I really felt bad for U$ C missing their top receiver and running back and had to suffer with a 5 star top whatever replacement while we were out our top playmaker and running back and at RB we have a walk - on who just got a scholy

«At first, it was probably the location, but I liked it even more when I learned more about the school and the program.»

I look back at all of the conflicts we had with schools over the years (things like treating our children respectfully, struggling to provide healthy food choices, uhg) and I am ashamed to admit that my fear and ignorance about HS allowed me to justify sending my children off everyday to deal with people and situations that were not positive learning experiences for them, but often humiliating or dis - empowering.

They're also planning May 19 rally at the Wake County Commons Building, located at 4011 Carya Drive, in Raleigh, for the public to learn about the benefits of school - based health centers.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Since the inception of our project in 2003, we have learned a lot about what makes an effective school team and the general progression that teams go through as they create changes to reduce student stress and increase health and engagement at their school sites.

Please join us for our next Visiting Day on Friday, June 22, 2018 at the Marin Waldorf School, and learn more about what it means to become a Waldorf teacher!

It's a blast to give high - fives, participate with your kids and other kids in their day, and learn about what happens at school.

Talk to your child's teacher to learn more about who they hang out with at school.

Sometimes that will mean letting your child learn to sort something out herself instead of running to her rescue every time, whether sleep training a baby or listening to a child talk about a mean girl at school.

She hoped to learn about how top students view their high school experience, and spent a year shadowing five high - achieving students at a top public high school (local, but unnamed).

And since many kids aren't being educated about food at home, the school setting can play a very important role in helping children learn to love the stuff that will love them back.

Editorial: Healthier NJ school lunch menus provide nutrition instruction in cafeteria (NJ.com, September 10, 2012): Healthier school food isn't just about healthier for its own sake, but to help keep kids learning, even at lunch.

We are lucky that the school my daughters attend, host workshops to teach parents more about the ways and things their children learn at school.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

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Elementary school students learned about honey bees at Southern Belle Farm and about strawberries at Rock Ranch.