Sentences with phrase «people learn about the school»

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But as I told my editor, Stacy Jones, after spending a few hours watching videos and learning more about the people who believe in the school, I feel like I have new friends in Jerusalem.

If I were a young person again, I would go to a school outside North America and learn more about other cultures.

All people should have to take a finance program in school or Something to learn about credit cards and just money trouble awareness.

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

In school is where people of all ages go to learn about reality.

The survey aligned such ignorance with anti-Semitism, but it is entirely possible that people far from Europe and with little education simply hadn't learned about the Holocaust in school or in the media — innocently so.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

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?»

Christian faith is not inherited; each generation, each individual, must learn faith anew.11 Recent Protestant innovations in membership procedures and sacramental practices are only the logical extension of long - dysfunctional assumptions about the faith formation of persons in the home, in Sunday School, and in the church.

Often persons who are not Christians, or who are Christians in only a nominal sense, will be happy to avail themselves of the opportunity to learn something about Christianity through attendance at such schools.

Moreover, people learn in different ways; there is no doubt about the desirability of designing schooling to be as individualized as possible.

Yes, they contribute to school spirit, but mostly they're about giving kids an opportunity to learn what it means to be on a team, to work hard for a goal, to accept roles and to grow as a person through the inevitable ups and downs of a season.

F1 says 100,000 people attended the event throughout the day, which kicked off with an innovation showcase in Trafalgar Square — where schools and fans visited to learn about how cool the sport is.

In his 2015 book Transforming Schools, Lenz addressed the class concerns that many people have about the deeper - learning approach.

I look back at all of the conflicts we had with schools over the years (things like treating our children respectfully, struggling to provide healthy food choices, uhg) and I am ashamed to admit that my fear and ignorance about HS allowed me to justify sending my children off everyday to deal with people and situations that were not positive learning experiences for them, but often humiliating or dis - empowering.

People are very passionate about this neighborhood school and don't understand my decision but the charter school just lines up better with my daughter and her academic learning style.

Through videos, presentations, infographics and more, learn about Chef Ann and school food reform — including the issues, the solutions, and people making real change.

«Learning best practices from other people, talking to vendors, hearing ideas from other people about what worked — and what didn't — at their schools, Tara will be all about that in San Antonio,» said Livesay.

When Vicksburg Warren School District's Director of Child Nutrition Laura Bounds learned about the School Nutrition Hero Award one person immediately came to mind as the perfect nominee — cafeteria manager Sandy Hearn.

People generally expressed concern about the food dye issue as well as other aspects of our food supply which may be unsafe, and I shared with the group some resources I've recently learned about — first, a link to Natural Candy Store.com (which, coincidentally, I found out about from Jenna herself via Twitter) as well as a mobile phone app created by CSPI to help consumers sort through additives on food labels (shared with me by a TLT reader and fellow Houston School Health Advisory Council Member — thanks, Mike!)

School PE provision could make good use of the visual in developing young people's learning about the body and in their imagining of who they want to become.

This perception needs to be addressed and challenged in school physical education (PE) according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which shows how school provision could make use of visual approaches in developing young people's critical learning about the body.

The news was still leading with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed and I had taken up his offer to learn more about firearms, which was on my to - do list.

I went to Catholic school all my life and the one thing I learned in Catholic school is about slavery, the Holocaust, the conquest and the massacre of the indigenous people in the Americas.

When I was in medical school, I spent a summer in an Indian Reservation in the Upper Peninsula [of] Michigan and went to University of Michigan, and there we did a survey of nutrition and found that half of the population, adult population, was diabetic and that really fascinated me; and I wondered why, and we also used some dietary assessment methods and found that actually we could learn a lot about what people were eating were some fairly simple ways of measuring diet; and so in some ways I have spent the rest of my career trying to unravel some of those questions.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

People who had not learned about the DNA helix at school.

«I found these shows fascinating and couldn't understand why some people didn't share my enthusiasm, so I used to try and explain things to them — what I had learned at school and, later on, stuff about microbes and disease.»

«Fingerprinting on computers is invisible to most people but there are companies out there who are already using these techniques to learn more information about individuals, about their interests and their habits,» says Lachlan Kang, a Computer Science PhD student who is conducting this study as part of a wider project on privacy, within the University's Schools of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.

«Motivating more young people to take an interest in understanding and learning science at school is important not only because science careers are exciting and rewarding, but also because young people need to know about how science and technology is changing our world - their world!

I think that they should just leave Pluto as a planet because now we are going to have to learn about the new planets, and all the people who finished school already don't have to.

We've long known that the basic constituents of nature are far more numerous and varied than the protons, neutrons and electrons that many people first learned about in high school.

I was raised in the old school values... Be a gentleman first and always respect a woman... I'm very open minded to everything and enjoy learning new things about people, places, and even things to do...

In the course of life, in the early ages of going to school, you tend to meet persons of different characteristics and you start learning about other people with whom you live with.

For juniors at Casco Bay High School in Portland, Maine, learning about social policy took them to a part of the city where few people want to go, to meet residents that most people don't even give a second look.

Middle school students create their own 3D virtual worlds and learn lessons about communication, collaboration, and digital citizenship through the first - person sandbox - style game called Minecraft.

Learn about programs and share ideas to support at - risk students and keep all young people in school.

The very nature of a librarian's service role within the school and community, helping students learn in any and all subjects, and using the best tools for the job, makes them the perfect person to ask about what tools are the most efficient, as they can provide training and guidance.

While we know that a balance is important, that young people want to be supported and that they want to feel connected to their school and to their teacher, there's much more that needs to be understood about this and we can do this both through administering questionnaires but probably better yet actually talking to teachers and young people and asking them specifically, in specific schools, in specific neighbourhoods: «What would make for a better relationship and a better environment where you would want to spend time, learn and also learn some good, positive behaviour skills?»

Have students learn about people like Frederick Douglass and other great Americans, and present their best speeches before a wider school audience.

Perhaps Michele Pierce puts it best when she explains what really underlies the learning at Harriet Tubman: «This school works because the people here care a lot about it.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

We will also learn a lot about what schools and teachers in different countries are doing to promote the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that make people globally competent.»

This year there is a desire to go bigger and better, extending this to showcase commercial rooftop solar, household solar and solar on schools, as well as solar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get involved.

«We know from previous research that young people who have learned about body confidence at school feel better about their bodies.

Transport your class to eco-projects in Africa, visit schools in South America or learn about village life in Asia, and find out about what daily life is like for people living in the developing world.

To the people who knew CES best, its impact has been profound: «I think everything I know about teaching and learning in school has come from working with people out of the CES tradition, including the teaching staff we have here [at Federal Hocking],» said Wood.

According to the survey, many people felt they would have benefited from learning more about politics at school.

While improvements in access to education has meant young people in Kenya are better educated than ever before, 67 % of young Kenyans between the ages of 15 and 24 are thought to be out of work and millions more enter unstable employment each year.i The mismatch between what is learnt at school and the skills required in the 21st century labour market, along with a lack of access to information about jobsii, are among the most frequently cited causes of youth unemployment.