Sentences with phrase «of schools banding»

Martha Bruckner and Ann Mausbach describe how their community - wide effort lifted graduation rates, and Christine Campbell (online) tells how a portfolio of schools banding together to improve one another is working effectively.

In the days after 17 students and teachers were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, alumni of the school banded together a Facebook group.

He'll be spending most of his Sunday at some sort of school band spectacular.

Not exact matches

Isaac was a member of the band long before he went off to acting school at Julliard.

«My sophomore year of high school our band was supposed to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

After graduating from high school (he played percussion in the marching band), Surace earned an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and began his career working for large companies: IBM, Seiko Epson, and National Semiconductor, which relocated him to Silicon Valley.

She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

After the school band played and Joel spoke, this young girl came up to me with her new saxophone and said, «Thank you for thinking I'm worthy of an instrument like this.»

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

Brandon Flowers of the band The Killers lived in Nephi for a few years and attended junior high school there.

Teachers (about 13,000 of them), plus administrators, nurses, janitors, school bus drivers, band directors, guidance counselors, psychologists, secretaries, business managers, basketball coaches, and more — many, many more.

While the nasty publicity had the potential to end New Found Glory — «it was almost done and gone,» Pundik recalls — its remaining members quickly decided that the band, founded in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1997, was worth saving.

The band also maintains a prep school persona (they met while attending Columbia University) that, combined with their summertime pop sound makes them one of the most unique acts to come along in a long time.

In high school I was a huge Pearl Jam fan, but after becoming a Christian, the realization of the band's stand on abortion and other moral issues quickly dulled their luster.

«A New Hope» is a brutally dark anthem about the days after Columbine, only a few short blocks from the bands practice studio, and it is disclosure into the thoughts of high school students.

But, as someone who attended Cornerstone, Isaac remained involved in music: Throughout high school, he played in a variety of punk and ska bands.

Nothing like a picture of the little tykes from Jack Black's band in School of Rock all grown up to help you reflect on the relentless passage of time and...

I used to pitch in high school, and I was also the lead singer of an incredible music band.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

At my 20th high school reunion I ran into the class bully who knocked out one of my teeth simply because I was in the band.

But, as noted, this band of «realists» is itself divided into two distinctive schools or sub-traditions.

I am somehow claiming to backup all my comments with an implied knowledge of religion and faith, but most likely the last class I took on religion was in high school and even then I was too busy writing the names of bands like Wynger on my Trapper - keeper to have been paying attention.

The band that dominated your high school life sold 186,000 «equivalent albums» — adjusted to take streaming songs and full albums into account — of their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this yeaof their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this yeaOf that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this year.

Studying the reaction to the Columbine High School shootings, this University of Southern California sociologist describes how Americans quickly traced the rampage to the lyrics and video of a song by the band Pearl Jam.

In Long Island City, Queens, a worship band sets up sound equipment in a rented elementary school auditorium while the congregation of Trinity Grace Church's local parish files in.

Recalling Protestant emphasis on the «priesthood of the people,» Taylor called for a lay ministry which would include: (1) a «Sunday - school army,» (2) Christian associations, (3) the utilization of the «great multitude of women who publish the Word in home and school, mission - bands and temperance unions, and the thousand forms of woman's work for women and for the church,» and (4) the use of the «600,000 youth from Christian Endeavor Societies.

Take earlier Genesis or a good deal of the music of the band Kansas — Kerry Livgren teaches Sunday School and Smokin» Dave Hope, the bassist, is an Anglican minister in (get this!)

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Two minutes into his solo, the Williamstown High School band joined in, marching in formation through the crowd of 7,000 people who had come to bear witness to the ribbon - cutting of Ark Encounter, a Christian theme park featuring a replica of Noah's ark built using the dimensions God gave to Noah in Genesis 6.

But Croce did not «go to the people,» did not wish to become a «national» element (just as the men of the Renaissance — unlike the Lutherans and Calvinists — were not «national» elements), did not wish to create a band of disciples who... could have popularized his philosophy and tried to make it into an educative element, starting in the primary school (and hence educative for the simple worker or peasant, i.e., for the simple man of the people).

Though members of this band often worked in different parts of the nation, they kept in contact and agreed to attend a theological school someday.

Powerlifting is apparently a really great conversation topic, and they really liked the name of our med school band (The Vagal Tones)!

Echoes of the high school marching band and football team make their way through our windows in the early hours of the morning.

Old shirts from high school band, free over-sized t - shirts from radio stations and organizations I know nothing about, the horribly outdated pants I bought 8 years ago that still fit so I can't justify getting rid of them — nothing is safe.

We don't go to the festival very often now but my husband still has many fond memories of being in the parade and performing at it with his high school punk band.

It might sound suspiciously like «educational fun,» something we learned in school to be wary of, but still: Chipotle manages to book enough eager bands that enough folks turn out hoping for free burritos and it works.

Though, I don't mind attending college or high school games because of the marching band halftime shows!

«Wyoming and Central Michigan each played a fantastic game, and I have no doubt they were fueled by the support of their schools who sent marching bands and cheerleaders, as well as the thousands of dedicated fans who weathered the cold to cheer on their teams.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

He stands at the top of his class academically and is the president of the student council, the first trombonist in the school band, a prize - winning orator and perhaps the world's tallest altar boy.

The drums of the high school marching band beating steady, the speakers of NFL stadiums pumping out top - 40 hits.

Any other coach but Adolph Rupp would have been satisfied with an 18 - 7 record, but The Baron, audibly piqued because Kentucky wasn't tournament - bound for the first time in seven years, took occasion to blame his troubles on 1) the school band, which stopped tooting for the Wildcats after midyear exams left most of its members on probation; 2) student fans, who were absent in droves for the final game; 3) the lack of a more intensive recruiting program.

After the third round Daly went to a high school gym and played in two full - court basketball games with members of the band and Tour players Brad Faxon, Billy Andrade, Woody Austin and Jim McGovern, got back to the hotel in time to see Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson and finished the night by attending a Vince Gill concert.

The Durham High School marching band lent some pomp to the circumstance, and Chaves was made honorary mayor of Durham.

Heck, I was in a ska band in middle school and we did a cover of «Changes» by Bruce Hornsby.

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.

I am not criticizing the decision to get rid of the Chief, but the fallout is reflected in the band, uniforms, game day traditions, and «old school die hard fan» interest.

Four communities have a hand in Pascack Valley — Hillsdale, Woodcliff Lake, Montvale and Rivervale; they banded together in 1955 to build a high school of their own.

a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.