Sentences with phrase «one of last school year»

My toddler's teacher at the end of last school year told me my little girl likes the challenge of opening things and to put things in containers that require figuring out how to open them.

At the end of the last school year I was given a large glass - faced fridge by one of the administrators.

He is replacing Jeff Eagan, who exited the post of business manager at the end of last school year.

You see, I have Wednesdays off and negotiated that at the beginning of last school year.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

At the end of last school year, my wife was picking up one of our kids when she saw one of our daughter's teachers.

«I have really noticed a change in what is on a student's tray now compared to the start of last school year, «Collins said, «Some students choose milk, bread, and fill the rest of their tray with a scrumptious salad and all the fixings.»

Howard said that although Mrs. Chantry retired at the end of the last school year, she worked as a substitute nurse as recently as four weeks ago.

As some schools struggled to follow the new guidelines at the beginning of the last school year, USDA relaxed some of the original requirements.

Before the start of last school year, she met with school counselors to find out what service programs the school already had in place and which potential community - service topics would be of greatest interest to the school's grade 6 - 8 students.

By the end of the last school year, I could write a personal letter to all the parents highlighting just where their children were based on the promotion standards and what areas they would have to work on in the pivotal fifth grade.

«At the end of the last school year, we looked at every student who started reading below grade level.

Kostka had a chance at the end of last school year to look at examples of what the project had already created.

About 800 teachers were in the ATR pool at the end of last school year.

We came together — teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and colleagues from across the district — multiple times over the course of last school year to answer this question.

At the beginning of last school year I was asked to sit in some interviews with my principal and a few other teachers.

That's data educators would have otherwise had by the end of last school year, not the beginning of this school year.

According to the district analysis of last school year's test scores, 83 percent of students at charter schools are economically disadvantaged and 19 percent are English learners.

Utah schools used SAGE testing for the first time at the end of last school year as a new way to assess student proficiency.

Just 13 percent of black third - graders are considered proficient in reading, for example, although that is up from 8 percent of last school year's third - graders.

Parents from half a dozen other schools across the city also spoke at the May board meeting — the last one of last school year — to praise improvements they had noticed in their schools.

Erin Middlewood, writing for The Progressive magazine, flew out to Seattle just before the end of the last school year.

And while 5.6 percent of the students in the district were absent for 10 percent of the last school year, that number was also cut in half from the year before.

When the current principal announced she was retiring at the end of the last school year, parents at Stearne banded together and secured over 500 signatures to retain Ramos as the school's new principal.

At the end of last school year, 86 percent of teachers said in a survey that classroom behavior and overall environment improved as a result of the program.

GPS spokeswoman Irene Mahoney - Paige said 193 teachers left at the end of last school year for retirement or other reasons.

Perry, who left Hartford's Capital Prep at the end of last school year and works as head of school for Capital Preparatory Schools Inc., said Combs approached him about starting a school several years ago.

According to the School Nutrition Association, over three - quarters of school districts had uncollected debt on their books at the end of the last school year.

NEGREET, La. — Shortly after the start of the last school year, Sharon Lane said it became a fight to get her son out of the house.

Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services Rydell Harrison said office discipline referrals for the district were down 24 percent, from 1,004 in the first semester of last school year to 759 for the first semester of this school year.

Cleveland, which for two years has had an SEL program from K - 5, did a survey of teachers at the end of last school year and 86 percent of them said that classroom behavior and overall environment improved as a result of the program.

At the end of the last school year, seventh and eighth grade students got to take home a paperback version of their choice for summer reading.

Not exact matches

She applied to The Flatiron School, and attended from September through December of last year learning web development at The Flatiron School.

«Last summer, about 40 percent of back - to - school searches were done on mobile devices, and already this year, mobile share is topping 50 percent,» Google said.

As CEO Evan Spiegel last year told graduates of USC's business school, concerning innovation: «Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

OFFICE school supply companies are experiencing huge growth despite the collapse last year of Wooldridges, with national stationery supplier OfficeMax Australia due to open a new distribution centre n

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.

For the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districts.

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

Most of the latter (75 % last year) come from outside of Canada, many througha partnership the school has with an ESLprovider.

Sales of school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more than US$ 80 billion in the U.S. last year.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

A recent Kaplan survey found that 39 % of some 288 business schools it surveyed now allow applicants to submit a GRE score, compared to 24 % last year.

In the last five years, 20 % of jobs have been cut in the district, three schools have been closed, the Journal reported.

Those last couple of years of high school, I kind of felt like I had to really overachieve, and I worked really hard and am still working really hard 25 years later.