Sentences with phrase «over a classroom at»

An addition to the building put the old office space in a spot that was inconvenient to the school's new natural entrance, so Stone took over a classroom at the front of the building and converted it into the school's main office.

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Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

At age 20, sitting in a college classroom in Georgia, Jim Scott leaned over to the guy next to him and whispered, «Rich, do you understand any of this stuff?»

A meaningful carbon tax would add a few cents a litre at the pumps, but I suspect many Albertans would pick that option over broad - based tax increases, jam - packed classrooms, or shuttered operating rooms.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» he wrote.

She peered inside a classroom and saw blood all over, with at least one body on the floor.

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

We are asking them in our dorm rooms, at our kitchen tables, over coffee, in classrooms, at Bible studies, at church, in our journals, in our hearts, and in thousands upon thousands of tearful, faithful prayers each night.

And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

Here's what she told me: At kindergarten orientation the teacher went over classroom stuff and passed around... [Continue reading]

Cafeteria staff handles the morning meal delivery at 8 a.m., and then returns to the cafeteria to begin breakfast prep for the next day; by the time breakfast is over — around 8:20 a.m. — breakfast for the next day is complete, and it's time to pick up the breakfast equipment from the classrooms.

He is an educator with over thirty years of classroom experience (currently his fourth class at the Washington Waldorf School) and a teacher of teachers.

For over 15 years, Jennifer has been a classroom teacher in both MA and NJ, a math specialist / coach and most currently is the Lower School Math Coordinator at The Peck School in Morristown, NJ.

While that «live - and - let - live argument» doesn't fly with me when it comes to truly non-nutritive foods like sugary birthday treats in the classroom or junk food in cafeterias, I think there's enough evidence (or at least controversy) over the nutritive value of milk that I'd keep it available.

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

If you find one that come sin panels they can easily be placed in the grass at a park, ball game, classroom, at the beach or pool and inside the living room of Dear Aunt Margaret who has breakables all over the home.

Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.

At the same time, state officials this year sought to reduce the amount of time spent testing students in the classroom amid concerns over student stress.

But little Ed, though his face had turned just as pale as he was before sitting his Year 2 SATs (well, before Master Gove turned them into SPATs), wasn't going to let nasty Flashman and his unusually content - looking band of bad boys sitting at the back of the classroom get away with these «double standards», reminding him of when «he gave a tax cut to his Christmas card list» (and ran out of glitter glue), and how «he brought Andy Coulson into Downing Street» (who was promptly sick all over the floor).

Over 450 pupils of the Dagbasu primary school at Wallembelle in the Sisala East District of the Upper West Region, are forced to study under trees because they have no classrooms.

According to prosecutors, Lisa made $ 90,000 a year over 3 years for 19 days in the classroom, never for more than 3 hours at a time, and all part of a shell operation to bribe Joseph.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

But Nadeau, a Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut, with a passion for science education, has run into trouble over how to make his research on Daphnia magna water fleas relevant to educators in the classroom.

Over the period of our funding SPECIFIC has demonstrated their Buildings as Power Stations technology in a number of situations culminating recently in the award - winning classroom at Swansea University's new Bay Campus.

In 2012 over 3,026 high school and middle school students and 265 teachers participated in BTI programs including summer institutes, workshops, classroom experiments and activities as well as presentations and tour at BTI.

She looks at the classroom board, her eyes moving slowly over the words of a problem that her teacher projected there as the students came in from recess and sat down for their math lesson:

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

On a larger scale, the Fresno Unified School District — the fourth - largest school district in California, with more than 73,000 students — recently completed a large retrofit project in 984 portable classrooms at 84 school sites, designed to save the district over $ 365,000 in annual electricity costs.

It is not likely that the district - level folks are going to begin to hand over any more control to schools, but there is room for more authentic, ongoing talk at all levels of the organization about what is working in schools and classrooms.

She has been a classroom teacher for over 25 years and currently teaches third grade at a private independent school in Atlanta.

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a «flipped classroom» that allows blended learning — online lectures can happen at home and project - based learning can happen during school.

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

Short term rental agreements are available although we have classrooms at schools that are still being rented over 10 years after we supplied them.

After being a classroom teacher and a content - area teacher (math and science) at the early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels for over 10 years, I wanted to specialize and gain expertise in an area that I was passionate about: literacy.

I'm not suggesting that you be the sergeant - at - arms; instead try something to interrupt the meeting chatter, like, «I'd like to put on the table a request for someone to look over my lesson plans and then later come into my classroom to observe me teach the next unit we planned.»

While HGSE master's and doctoral students were busy wrapping up final projects and making plans for commencement this past May, many in the HGSE faculty were preparing for a whole new set of students to take over the classrooms of Appian Way through their engagement with Professional Education at HGSE.

As I could see at the Forum, when teachers feel a sense of ownership over their classrooms, when students feel a sense of ownership over their learning, that is when productive learning takes place.

When those teachers pass the tests and take over their own classrooms, they enter an induction phase that can last from one to three years and is financed by the state at $ 2,000 per teacher per year.

The great tragedy of the faux «debate» over Common Core is that some of the people most ideally suited to wisely guide its implementation — Stotsky, for instance — have opted instead to endlessly re-litigate the standards, at incalculable cost to students in classrooms today.

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

In hallways all over the school, HGSE volunteers, some on knees, some at tables, others on ladders, painted murals, posters, and signs in visual aid to lessons taught in nearby classrooms — a fish mural, a music mural, a water - cycle mural — so that walking a hallway is like flipping through an illustrated textbook.

END OF THE YEAR LETTER TO MY STUDENTS: Dear Students: After 33 1/2 years of teaching at HCS and having had more than 2000 students sit in my social studies classroom over these many years ~ I have decided to retire from teaching at the end of this school year in June.

In fact, Vigdor explains, «the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.»

I was watching one class over an entire year and at the first semester the teacher had the camera at the back of the classroom, so the television at the back of the classroom behind her 27 or so students.

We've heard over and over again that teachers, who are encouraged to utilize parent volunteers, are sometimes at a loss for what to do with that volunteer once he or she is in the classroom.

But the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.

Delisle pointed out that educators often lose sight of creating well - rounded students because they are busy fighting over accountability and who is at fault in the classroom.

Over the past decade, school districts across the country have invested billions in creating wired classrooms and schools, with significant financial and moral support from government at all levels.