Sentences with phrase «other schools learned»

There are also some examples of how other schools learned about the families in their school community.

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In school, diversity in the classroom means more learning from each other, having creative discussions and building wider networks.
New Jersey recently created a School Safety Specialist Academy and Dr. McCormick says she is open to other states coming to learn about their program.
A hybrid of «Oakland» and «Amsterdam,» the organization is much more than a school, it's a movement, replete with a museum, club, and other amenities that make it prime for learning.
Among other things, in school I learned about thermodynamics and how refrigeration works.
The Silicon Valley crowd schools the college students on learning from failure, developing a great product, and starting a company, among other things.
Edelman, who teaches in the Negotiation, Organizations & Market unit of the school, was apparently irked to learn that the restaurant's menu on its website hadn't been updated to reflect the prices he was charged for shredded chicken with spicy garlic sauce, stir fried chicken and other dishes.
A peer group gives you insider access to insights learned from other business leaders that you can go to school on and use for your own benefit.
In fact, Arnold's research demonstrates that students who truly enjoy learning the most often struggle in school, where students must balance attention given to subjects about which they're truly passionate with the demands of their other coursework.
«Attending school open houses, observing classrooms, and talking with other local parents are all good ways to learn about local schools,» Reardon added, stressing that numbers alone are never enough to judge a school.
Though the Ivies are notoriously tough to get into — their regular - admission acceptance rates range from 5.2 % to 13.96 % — you might be surprised to learn that other schools have even lower acceptance rates.
Kallos and Dallinger had already rented a space and racked up other expenses when they learned the government bureau that oversees postsecondary education would not be licensing new schools for six months.
If I were a young person again, I would go to a school outside North America and learn more about other cultures.
After observing that students become 26 percent more likely to eat vegetables served in the nearly 350 schools where Musk's Learning Gardens allowed students to grow their own produce, Musk was satisfied, and the project attracted interest from other underserved communities and donors.
Employees and spouses alike can pursue high school equivalency degrees (G.E.D.'s) and other educational goals at the company's expense; children and grandchildren who need help for supplementary tutoring get it at a Sylvan or Huntington Learning Center.
If you went to business school, you probably learned to start a marketing strategy by analyzing your target market and competitors, then decided either to build on what's been successful for others or try something completely different to stand out.
Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.
School spirit revelry and other amusing diversions are ever present, but we've learned from our youthful errors and we're studying hard for final exams.
Like schools with physical classrooms, here you'll find field - tested professors to learn from, other working adult students to relate to, and academic and career coaches to guide you.
Smith School of Business has been a pioneer in the important area of team - based learning and utilizes an approach that is far more sophisticated than that used in other MBA programs.
If your business provides a service for other small businesses, like a business coach or consulting firm, you may want to build your promotions around when you know businesses are doing their annual budgeting, or around back to school timing and focus on continued learning.
Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.
Suggesting that if their kids learn about Christianity in school they should be equally exposed to information on other religions 4.
You must have not learned that in school that emotional Maturity is defined as: the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.
Don't take school time from other students who are there to learn.
In this world, so full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the human being, let us learn true freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others by our lives that we are free and how beautiful it is to be truly free with the true freedom of God's children.»
And while these issues can not be discussed without considering other deeply troubling problems such as mental health treatment and school security, they need to be discussed if our country is going to move any closer to authentically providing our children with safe spaces to learn.
She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).
Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.
How do practices other than those of explicit teaching and learning nonetheless conceptually form persons in the micro-culture that is the school?
FACT: kids and teachers alike are free to pray in school as much as they want, AS LONG AS THEY»RE NOT FORCING OTHERS INTO IT and AS LONG AS THEY»RE NOT DISRUPTING THE LEARNING PROCESS.
We all learned that early on in school — along with how to behave and get along with others.
Students of old school, hard news, print journalism learn a writing method known as the «inverted pyramid,» in which the raw facts are presented up front, and are given the most real estate, with all the other information and background details trailing off behind them.
Kids get enough days off during other breaks and its better for them to stay in school and learn.
They learned this from their families and schools and their long history with the church and other institutions.
Schools must realize that some other priority or time commitment will have to give way for this new learning to take place.
Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.
Colin Diamond at Birmingham City Council claimed church lessons and other places of informal places of learning should be regulated in a similar way to formal schools, to manage children's exposure to «non-mainstream societal values».
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?»
Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.
Religion should be taught in schools just as learning about other countries should be taught.
When CNN and other media sources get behind a movement, and when people grow up in a «Christian» home learning two Worldviews (moral relativism and love means affirmation from TV and schools vs. biblical Christianity from the Church) you get the confused Rob Bell and the generation he has influenced through his books and videos.
When they are in high school they should learn more sophisticated aspects of the media: who's in control, how the power is exercised, how advertising and profits affects what is covered in the news and what is said in all programs, how our violence affects us and how our media imperialism affects other people.
In other words, we do not want our people to assume that once they have attended the parish adult school they are then in the position of having learned all there is to learn.
I learned quickly at the Divinity School that full respect was reserved chiefly for the mainline Protestant churches of the old New England kind, including Congregationalists, Anglicans, Unitarians, and Presbyterians, with considerable respect also for the mainstream Lutherans (less so for the Missouri Synod) and some Methodists, but very little for the Baptists and those others from «the left wing of the Reformation.»
Homeschoolers — ever the braver and more innovative of the two sets — have traveled farther down this road, but I'm guessing that fiscal constraint and frustration with disappointing educational results may lead brick - and - mortar school leaders to start living dangerously, too, and realize that each group has something to learn from the other.
As they grow, children encounter many large and small crises both expected and unexpected: birth itself, weaning, toilet training, separation from parents, illness, accidents, the birth of a brother or sister, bad dreams, starting school, learning to read, making friends, adolescence — these and many other experiences provide the potential for problems of varying intensity.
One is the world that began in my childhood: a world of ideas and values learned at home and in Sunday school; and the other is the world I live in now.
If the home is a demanding school of love, the children will learn many other things too.
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