Sentences with phrase «learning at a school where»

It was a hard decision to make, but it was better to make it in high school than to stretch out the drama, up the ante on the tension, or in the worst case scenario: to burn out and to lose my passion for learning at a school where I really didn't belong.

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The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

The co-founder of Evolution Martial Arts, a Parkland, Florida, karate school, would soon learn that more than 20 of her customers were under lockdown at the local high school, where a shooter had opened fire and slaughtered several students.

Her first job was as an English teacher in Bangkok, Thailand where she taught 140 energetic third and fourth graders at a full inclusion school and learned the art of improvisation.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Even though we know that their domestic family is the first place where they should learn the faith, in truth many only really begin to learn it, if at all, in the Catholic School which is increasingly having to b e in loco parentisi n a unique way and which links the child to the widerChurch family through the parish.

But Marta loved school and wanted to continue her education, so with the help of a teacher, she moved to the city where she learned a trade by day and attended school at night.

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.

The third floor also plays host to La Centrale's culinary school, designed to connect visitors with Italian chefs in a friendly and educational environment where they can learn how to prepare authentic Italian meals at home.

At the Carl Curtis School in Beverly Hills, where Kiki is now a fifth - grader, the boy learned a popular game called Chinese handball.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Co-Founder of Challenge Success and a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.

Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.

Polk County Public Schools have lot of great programming, including breakfast - in - the - classroom (Polk County received Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in SY 2012 - 13) and a «What's That Wednesday» program where students learn about new foods; additionally, Polk has implemented CEP at 109 sites which has had a positive impact on participation.

«Stimulating your child's brain during this time and providing situations where they can explore helps them to learn things that get them in touch with their environment,» says child and adolescent psychologist Robert Myers, Ph.D., founder of the Child Development Institute and assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

Though things aren't perfect at either school, I'm pleased with where both of my children are and the things they're learning.

If you'd like to learn more, stop by the ABC's of Nature homepage over at School Time Snippets to read all about Kristina's vision for the series and check out where all the letters can be found.

Such factors include the availability of food and beverages that compete with school meals, the frequency of offering fruit and vegetables at lunch, and the amount of time students have to eat lunch.6 - 8 The more an environment consistently promotes healthy behavior, the greater the likelihood that such behavior will occur.9 The goal of the 2010 HHFKA is to foster a healthy school food environment and promote lifelong healthy eating behaviors among children.4 Keys to its success include assurance of the provision of healthy food in schools and an environment where healthy food preferences can be learned, expressed, and reassessed.1

Our engaging online courses give you a front row seat in Chef Ann Cooper's classroom, where you can learn directly from a leader in school food change on how to transition school meal programs to scratch - cooked operations that provide real, healthy food to kids at school every day.

If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrSchool students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrschool, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

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Where are they supposed to learn good life habits if not at school??

As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, where he learned biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the Third Grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School, and taught that block for fifteen years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor LSchool, and taught that block for fifteen years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lschool outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

So it's all that much more upsetting to have it happening at school, where kids should learn about how to be healthy — not develop a messed - up relationship with food.

The evening opened with brief remarks from Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who presented a humanistic philosophy toward public education at sharp odds with prevailing notions that schools today are workplaces where students apply themselves to learn skills needed to passSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who presented a humanistic philosophy toward public education at sharp odds with prevailing notions that schools today are workplaces where students apply themselves to learn skills needed to passschools today are workplaces where students apply themselves to learn skills needed to pass tests.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

John Kress, public health advisor at HRSA, explains that «the key issue is for schools of public health to partner with the public health workforce... in learning projects to build skills and competencies where there's a deficiency, using modern technology.»

«Imagine trying to learn in an environment where you are not allowed to make a mistake,» says Frank Bova, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Florida medical school.

«Games are effective because they can be used for situated learning, where a player can be placed into a simulation of a real - world situation and see the impact of his or her actions over time,» said Scott Nicholson, an associate professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies.

Crane continued this work after graduate school in a fellowship at California Institute of Technology, where he combined his background in crystallography with spectroscopic methods and also learned how to use photochemical techniques to initiate electron transfer reactions.

She is a graduate and ongoing scholar at the Orphan Wisdom School where she learns to compassionately support both living deeply and dying well.

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.

She later spent three years at Stonar School, Atworth, where she learnt to play the violin and was called «Romster», then two years at the City of London School for Girls, with theatre studies as one of her subjects.

Both films follow a group of students (in 1980, Maureen Teefy, Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, and Barry Miller are the stand outs, in 2009, it's Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Walter Perez, and Paul Iacono) through their four years at a prestigious New York performance arts school where they learn to act, sing and dance.

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«The film is an ode to the women who raised me; my mom, my sisters, the girls I was in love with or looked up to at school and in the punk rock scene where I really learned about the world,» Mills has said of his latest.

«The film is an ode to the women who raised me; my mom, my sisters, the girls I was in love with or looked up to at school and in the punk rock scene where I really learned about the world,» Mills told Variety.

Interestingly, Miles, like his character Andrew Neyman, also plays the drums having previously performed in a band at his church youth - group during high school, where he also learned to play the saxophone.

The movie takes place in 1983 at a boys» boarding school in Yorkshire, where the grasping headmaster (Clive Merrison) is delighted to learn that eight young history scholars in the sixth form (equivalent to high school seniors) have scored exceptionally well on their A-Level exams (equivalent to the SATs) and may distinguish the school by getting into Oxford or Cambridge.

For the uninitiated, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is in his fourth year at Hogwart's boarding school, where British children gifted with magic learn to channel their skills in the arts of wizardry.

The new generation of low cost portable devices can be purchased by schools, part funded by parents and used by all children for when and where they want to learn i.e. at home, in the classroom, in the after school club and at the child - minders».

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

Currently, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, where he recently obtained a Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design Program, Schneider focuses on how emerging technologies can help educators design better learning envirLearning Sciences and Technology Design Program, Schneider focuses on how emerging technologies can help educators design better learning envirlearning environments.

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority students.

For juniors at Casco Bay High School in Portland, Maine, learning about social policy took them to a part of the city where few people want to go, to meet residents that most people don't even give a second look.

This report examines attempts to clarify the definition of personalized learning, looks at where this educational movement is heading, and provides evaluations of how personalized learning efforts are currently playing out in schools.

The buses will be used at the outdoor adventure school where Year 9 students spend up to 10 weeks at a time exploring pursuits such as surfing, hiking, kayaking and mountain biking, while learning self - reliance and leadership skills.

My teens had experiences where they were encouraged to construct their learning and establish academic criteria — for example, Innovation Days at their high school.

This, together with the major problem of recruiting teachers, which has been particularly bad in areas where housing costs are high, is forcing schools to look at different models for teaching and learning.