Sentences with phrase «more kids in each class»

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Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I simply pointed out that our kids learned a more important lesson than the downside consequence of their expecting to always sit in business class (which isn't going to happen!).

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

If you call persecution hearing or seeing one of the few atheists in America make a claim that your God doesn't exist, what would you call it if they tried to add «God doesn't exist» to our coins, tried to get your kid's to stand still each morning at the start of class for a moment of silence in honor of Darwin or Dawkins, tried to get more tax dollars to support their work of spreading the good news that there is no God and demanded that our President must be Atheist to get elected.

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

But AW needs to buy 4 more players we had MD go in jan MA MF TR CJ out for a year DW out for a year and more and then he says we need 2 - 3 in sorry we need to buy a captain we need class up front that can put 25 in the net coz O G just don't cut it at all sorry 4 months and yet he still played him but left T W on the bench when you say to the kid now go prove yourself.

33 attempts at goal 75 % possession and lose comfortably it can only happen to arsenal it would be funny if not so tragic and I'm for one not buying the reason we lost is because of De Gea it's as much poor finishing as it is great goal keeping more aggression with the chances and you score I don't care who's in goal just smash it doesn't have to look pretty and I don't have to say very much about the defending it's schoolboy stuff all this talk about koscielny (bosscielny) never got that isn't physical enough to be an Adams or Campbell gets muscled off the ball far too often he's a good player don't get me wrong but he ain't world class and definitely isn't a leader I'd replace that whole back line and drop xhaka and ramsey for new signings yeah ramsey set up a nice goal but that kid can not hit water if he fell out of a boat his shooting is awful always sky's them very frustrating player.

More kids in a team crying out of peak level world class players

One class is available for kids ages 5 - 6 Feb. 26, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., and another more in - depth class for ages 7 - 9, 10:30 a.m. - noon.

A later start time would make it easier on parents who are dragging their kids out of bed every morning and hopefully make the students more alert and not so zoned out in their morning classes.

Research shows that kids who get fed are sick less, pay more attention in class, and even do better on standardized achievement tests.

Between music classes, gymnastic lessons, soccer teams and all the gadgets that kids seem to have these days, raising a child has gotten more expensive than it's ever been in the past.

My Gym Children's Fitness Center offers loosely - based gymnastics classes and birthday parties that develop kids» strength, agility, flexibility, social skills, and more in a non-competitive, nurturing environment!

Hungry kids not only struggle to learn, he pointed out, but are more likely to be disruptive in class, which hampers all kids» learning.

Addressing the high cost of diapers for low - income families can help to take one more burden off those families as they strive to reach the middle class, and give the next generation the great start in life that all kids deserve.

Maybe the kids love workbooks and online classes - well, it's possible you'll have a lot more time in your day to do other things if you choose to homeschool this way.

If your kid needs a little more of a release, try a team sport like soccer or join a YMCA and enroll in a gymnastics or martial arts class.

Or at least there are no obese kids in my daughter's class — and I haven't even seem more than maybe one at the whole school.)

In order to get to academic success, kids have to feel comfortable doing so many other more important things at this age like being okay when you leave the house, saying hello to the new kid in the class, feeling comfortable in a body that's growing rapidly, falling asleep peacefully at nighIn order to get to academic success, kids have to feel comfortable doing so many other more important things at this age like being okay when you leave the house, saying hello to the new kid in the class, feeling comfortable in a body that's growing rapidly, falling asleep peacefully at nighin the class, feeling comfortable in a body that's growing rapidly, falling asleep peacefully at nighin a body that's growing rapidly, falling asleep peacefully at night.

You can take more home ec type classes if you have room in your schedule, but many kids do not.

Elected officials are calling on NYC to test all pre-K kids for gifted classes in order to enroll more students in the elite programs.

Competing in an American Parliamentary Debate Association tournament late last month at Smith College, the Cardozo law student launched into an impassioned plea for the teaching of masturbation in sex - ed classes, outlining his plan to extend a helping hand to frustrated kids and touching on more general themes in the field («a friend of mine just got chlamydia,» he says in an aside at one point).

No kid should be going to a fourth grade class where there are more than twenty kids in that class.

And «working with kids on science - text reading, in science class, is much more successful» than trying to do it in language arts classes, she says.

It's way more fun and effective to acknowledge all the successes in kids» yoga class than to redirect the challenges.

From the birthdays of every kid in their class at school, to Valentine's Day, Halloween, Easter, etc., there are more than enough opportunities for kids to get the message that fun and celebration = unhealthy tasty sweet foods.

Once you quit, you'll find it more amusing that tobacco soup smells like s ** t. Or at least that's what kids at a Washington state elementary school said when Teens Against Tobacco Use visited their class in 2008 and mixed up a concoction of cigarette ingredients.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

In fact, I think that my kids have more fun on Valentine's Day than my husband and I. Between class -LSB-...]

There were tears when looking out the window, there were cheers when professors bailed on class, and there were cries of anguish as Ivy League kids unsuccessfully attempted to skate down Locust Walk in rubber wellies (not one of the more brilliant ideas).

In some classes, kids listen to teachers talk about reading far more than they actually read themselves, while in other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosinIn some classes, kids listen to teachers talk about reading far more than they actually read themselves, while in other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosinin other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosing.

Darrow, who displays Citizen Schools applications in his classes, says, «Once kids are enrolled, they take school more seriously.»

And they showed more of a reluctance than the other kids did in terms of labelling themselves as «class clown», and it could be labelling in general — we just looked at that one label, I'm not sure.

Needless to say, it was a huge success, and many of them send me messages even today about how engaging and interactive it was, but more importantly, about how they are trying the same thing with their kids in class.

When you see how the kids embrace these lessons, hear them tell how art helps them remember concepts better, and learn about the improvements teachers have noted in student understanding and retention, it makes you wonder why more schools aren't integrating the arts in every class.

Suspension only works when kids care more about being in class than being out.

So not only do kids write more in math class to get more female verbals in, and get the parity there for girls, but they also teach math in strands, so you have five, six, seven things going on at once to get to a conclusion.

Since its inception, Kids Up Front has taught more than 350 six - week class series in 14 major cities throughout the United States and served more than 4,400 participants with a graduation rate of 90 percent.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of EducatioIn some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Educatioin the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

In a 2006 article for Education Next, «Not Your Father's PE,» economists John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer, and David Newhouse wrote «requiring more PE seems like a logical response to the childhood obesity epidemic, but will mandating more time in gym classes actually result in more exercise for kids?&raquIn a 2006 article for Education Next, «Not Your Father's PE,» economists John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer, and David Newhouse wrote «requiring more PE seems like a logical response to the childhood obesity epidemic, but will mandating more time in gym classes actually result in more exercise for kids?&raquin gym classes actually result in more exercise for kids?&raquin more exercise for kids?»

A study that was published in Ed Next in 2006 found that mandating more time in PE classes does not always result in more exercise for kids.

There's One in Every Class «Anyone who's been teaching for more than 45 minutes has been warned about exhibiting favoritism in the classroom And yet I believe the focus on favoritism eclipses another equally crucial pedagogical issueThe question is this: What can be done when you have The Kid you can't stand?»

What's more, the message is clear: when we visit your classes and the kids are not in groups, you have one strike against you.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education World.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

I've found that incorporating any form of movement, even in two - minute spurts, helps kids stay focused, engage more in their learning, and remember academic things because they're also remembering when we had a dance party in the middle of class.

Each of these responses are representative of the responses of many kids, suggesting the potential for using this experience as a lead - in to further exploration of Hamilton and the other founding fathers in Social Studies classes, and also encouraging kids to become more involved in theater.