Sentences with phrase «parents at an evening event»

April 8, 2011 Valley Christian High School, San Jose, CA I spoke about film criticism to high school students in a media communications class, and then presented my «Through a Screen Darkly» lecture to students and parents at an evening event.

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The issue has even cropped up in the presidential race, after GOP hopeful Carly Fiorina angered the parents of several preschoolers after she had them sit beside her as she delivered a speech at a pro-life event.

I hope you are out enjoying it, even if it's at a kid's sporting event which, let's be honest, is basically the weekends of parents.

At just about every event here, there is a booth for BF, and often for AP parenting, and even NCB / HB MWs.

And yes, I get it that we don't let kids make decisions about the most important things in life; on the other hand, we didn't have a whole lot of support from school admins, or even from parents (who relied on the sale of soda and junk at school events to fund enrichment programs) at that time to eliminate junk from schools.

They have the power to send information home in students» backpacks and, even more importantly, to instruct school principals, counselors, and teachers to give parents information about these options at school - sponsored events such as back - to - school night and during parent / teacher conferences.

In my view it is enormously valuable to have a teacher within the school itself to coordinate rehearsals and events, liaise with other staff, follow up on children who have missed lessons (finding out if there is an underlying financial or family problem of some sort), meet with parents at the regular parents» evenings, arrange for permission slips for an event, work with the drama specialist / enthusiast on plans for a musical.

Design the programming so formal presentations are made in a variety of classes, at in - school assemblies and gatherings, and at evening events for parents and the larger community.

Through the «Parent Portal», guardians with a child attending Stephen Gaynor can login and immediately see their child's academic progress, take a look at their in school and after school calendar, RSVP to events, and even speak with other parents who have children in the same class.

This is delivered by intervention at options events, parents» evenings, tutors programme and by providing support materials to teachers.

«I want to thank everyone for joining us at this important event this evening and thank the parents, teachers, civic and government leaders that advocate for educational equity daily.»

Our principals also frequently meet with parents at open evenings and other events, and most schools operate a school council to encourage students to take an active part in their own education.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Going through a traumatic life event such as the divorce of parents puts your teen at even more risk.

Other parents in the BRIDGES program have even commented on how active Mr. Parker is at attending events and activities and supporting his daughter.

It is unbelievably sad when even grown children dread these events because they think they can't have both of their parents present at these important events because the parents have not healed and moved on from the divorce.

The principal and the teachers are always present at the evening school sponsored events talking to parents and students.