Sentences with phrase «learn about schools there»

Utah teachers travel to Finland to see what they can learn about schools there.

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This makes me wonder about the school she attended to obtain her Chaplain status... every graduate there must not be learning about salvation & how it is the ONLY WAY to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (James 3:3 - 6) If I were in her shoes, I would definately be leading each & every soul to the Lord, and prompting them to make their heart right with God.

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?»

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.

No... I actually began questioning Christianity and all religions when I was in elementary school and in history class while learning about the greek gods and their myths thought «Well... let's see... these people really believed in these gods and those stories... thought they really happened... but there was no evidence they did and we all know they're not real now... so what's different between that and Christianity and other religions?»

Moreover, people learn in different ways; there is no doubt about the desirability of designing schooling to be as individualized as possible.

But there's something about rediscovering an old sport (I swam competitively in high school) and learning a new one (until a few weeks ago, the only biking that I did was on New York's Citibikes) that I couldn't pass up.

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

Not a baby rookie now, but there are lots of rookie things I'd love to learn about with older kids: * Packing peanut - free school lunches * Getting dinner on the table every night (have loved this series) * Crafts that older sibling and younger sibling can do together

«We want to see them learning about important health issues, but I think they'll also figure out that when you get this little bundle of joy, there's a price to pay,» says Ray Carrell, president of Amundsen's local school council and the father of five daughters: three Amundsen alumnae and two current students.

Regardless of the grading system that your child's school uses to report on student learning, there are some universal truths about modern student report cards that every parent needs to know.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

If you're just starting to consider home education, or have recently taken your children out of school to educate them at home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your children to learn, whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around home education, whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».

If there's one thing we have learned about school breakfast, it's that there is no such thing as «one size fits all.»

Schools have a vital role to play in helping children learn about proper nutrition and how to make healthy eating choices, and all food sold or served at school should provide those healthy choices; there is no room for junk food at school!

There are many opportunities to learn about the school and its programs, including the Observation Mornings (held on the third Tuesday of each month from 9:00 — 10:30 am), Open Houses and Parent Education events.

It is about finding a psychological identity that is separate from parents — that they have a role in the family or at school, they know what that treasured and valued role is, and that they do feel accepted and loved but also a bit «separate», a bit ready to take a view on something... there is a shift toward the child having real opinions about the world, that may be different than the parent's view, and that in this view that the child has a continuous self and therefore can participate in learning.

No matter your age, there's always an opportunity to learn about the wonders of nature, whether it's taking a scheduled program, attending a school field trip, viewing an art exhibition, or exploring one of our wildlife sanctuaries on your own.

And there are many fun and effective ways to teach them how to eat that don't involve boring lectures about fat grams and food additives — like using fruit and veggies to learn shapes and colors, counting blueberries, or planting a school garden.

There are many online resources where you can learn more about programs like the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast program, as well as meal patterns and menu planning.

For one thing, medical school for pediatricians is a grueling 8 - 9 years - there is a lot to learn during that time and breastfeeding is only discussed for about half of one day.

In millions and millions of schools all across the world, there are untold numbers of students studying history, learning about the events of our past.

The city school board learned there is no consistency about what to do when a student refuses to take the tests.

But we didn't know it was about secularism, because in school we learn everything there is to know about Martin Luther King, but nothing about Martin Luther.

There are some courses available in these areas, but often one travels to a brewing school to learn about malting practice.

When I was in medical school, I spent a summer in an Indian Reservation in the Upper Peninsula [of] Michigan and went to University of Michigan, and there we did a survey of nutrition and found that half of the population, adult population, was diabetic and that really fascinated me; and I wondered why, and we also used some dietary assessment methods and found that actually we could learn a lot about what people were eating were some fairly simple ways of measuring diet; and so in some ways I have spent the rest of my career trying to unravel some of those questions.

Structure equals function: If there's one thing we all learned about proteins in high school biology, that would be it.

«As a beekeeper myself, I know that there's a lot to learn about how to manage modern hives,» explains Cross of the University's School of Environment, Natural Resources & Geography.

«Fingerprinting on computers is invisible to most people but there are companies out there who are already using these techniques to learn more information about individuals, about their interests and their habits,» says Lachlan Kang, a Computer Science PhD student who is conducting this study as part of a wider project on privacy, within the University's Schools of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.

Most Medical schools don't teach about fungus and other problems — even though there are medical books written in the 1950s (earlier & later) that discuss fungus and how much they need to learn about it.

Check out Amy Stewart's expose Flower Confidential, volunteer on an urban farm, join a community garden, take a Soil Science or Food Justice class at Farm School NYC — there are so many ways to learn more about these topics.

Think back when you were in hig school and in chemistry class, did you learn about this there?

If there's one thing I learned at the Muse and the Marketplace writer's conference in Boston last weekend, it's that every story is, in its essence, The Odyssey (yes, the Homer one you read in high school), and has to be about a journey in which the protagonist (in the case of the following story, that would be me) yearns for something, sets out to find it, and ends up in a different place from where she started.

There are even correlations between how clean water in a community keeps issues like trafficking and child exploitation down because children aren't left at home by themselves sick or walking long distances by themselves to fetch water — they are in a school, learning and growing and dreaming about a thriving future.

The story begins with great potential as we come to learn about Mary (voiced by Ruby Barnhill) who is bored in the countryside while staying with her great aunt (Lynda Baron) because she arrived there a week early prior to the start of the new school year.

There is growing national discussion about the need to create a more expansive definition of learning to include all the ways that youth can access educational opportunities — not just through the traditional school model, but also through afterschool activities, time spent with the family, and increasingly, through interaction with digital media.

About one - third of the students in advantaged schools, and about half of those in disadvantaged schools, reported that in most or every class there was noise and disorder, students didn't listen to what the teacher said, and students found it difficult to lAbout one - third of the students in advantaged schools, and about half of those in disadvantaged schools, reported that in most or every class there was noise and disorder, students didn't listen to what the teacher said, and students found it difficult to labout half of those in disadvantaged schools, reported that in most or every class there was noise and disorder, students didn't listen to what the teacher said, and students found it difficult to learn.

He said: «Let me be clear: there is nothing wrong with children learning about their faith, whether it's at madrasas, Sunday schools or Jewish yeshivas.

There, the team spoke to Maria Papazoglou, Manager of the school's Learning Resource Centre, about her favourite books for reluctant readers in a secondary school setting.

I never had that and the jobs and routes to a career that I learned about in school were very small compared to what's actually out there.»

The site is sort of our gateway to all things youth at the NFL, and schools that want to be involved can go there, learn about all of our programs and download materials.

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«There is certainly a lot more to learn about time in schools, but I think the time to debate whether or not we should be trying this is definitely over,» Gabrieli said.

It's a joy to travel and learn about how other schools are making education work, and while there are many ways to make it work, sometimes you come across a site that clearly has gotten something right.

While we know that a balance is important, that young people want to be supported and that they want to feel connected to their school and to their teacher, there's much more that needs to be understood about this and we can do this both through administering questionnaires but probably better yet actually talking to teachers and young people and asking them specifically, in specific schools, in specific neighbourhoods: «What would make for a better relationship and a better environment where you would want to spend time, learn and also learn some good, positive behaviour skills?»

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

What harm is there in learning about the crisis in American education, or the challenges faced by disadvantaged children, or the antics of school boards and union leaders?

This year there is a desire to go bigger and better, extending this to showcase commercial rooftop solar, household solar and solar on schools, as well as solar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get involved.

Objective: to learn about what things you need to take to school Ma trousse — my pencil case Mon cartable — my school bag To conjugate avoir and être To learn colours and numbers To learn plurals of nouns To learn formation of feminine and plural of adjectives There are some translation exercises, an unscrambling exercise, spelling exercises.

«There are so many other issues that come into play... it's important when you think about schools not only to improve the teaching and learning, but also what impacts teaching and learning.»