Sentences with phrase «school day by»

Programs also shortened the school day by cutting 18,000 hours nationwide.

We teach self - awareness, self - regulation, conflict resolution and reflective decision making skills throughout the school day by taking the time with students to model behaviors, use self and other affirming language, and make positive choices.

Primary schools may reduce the school day by an hour for children in their first 2 years at primary school (commonly called junior infants and senior infants) and in their third year at primary school (commonly called first class).

States could incentivize a longer school day by compensating teachers who want to work longer hours and by increasing requirements on public schools» instructional hours.

Let your students know that it's cool to attend school every day by presenting them with this perfect attendance award that I designed with a skateboard theme.

The best opportunities should be integrated with the regular school day by connecting with the academic program students already participate in.1, 2, 3, 4 School staff should align any program with what is going on in the school.

She advocates teaching every student throughout the school day by using good design tools.

The Massachusetts Department of Education conducted a study in 2006 - 07 and found that increasing the school day by 25 percent resulted in an improvement in test scores of 5 - 10 percent.

The move will increase the overall school day by 15 minutes, although teaching time will increase more.

Shortly after she became principal in 2013, Holman instituted additional learning time during the school day by scheduling classes in 85 - minute blocks, double the time allotted in other Tulsa schools.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Emanuel won a concession lengthening the school day by 90 minutes; union negotiators offset that increase by securing six half - days for teachers.

Making school breakfast a seamless part of the school day by serving it after the bell can also have a huge impact on classrooms.

A new afterschool program extends the school day by three hours for about one - sixth of the school's 600 students.

Ferryway is a K - 8 school in its fourth year of Expanded Learning Time (ELT), a grant program overseen by the Massachusetts Department of Education that extends the school day by at least 300 hours.

In response, the Battle Creek Public Schools district has developed a plan to lengthen the school day by 50 minutes and delay start times from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. (Editorial, Longer school day makes sense (Nov. 22, 2011) BattleCreekEnquirer.com.)

My childrens academy school has extended the school day by twenty five minutes which has not added any extra lesson as they have just added a form time at the end of the day.

It will also build on plans to make a longer school day by providing new facilities or improving existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided.

An academy chain has dropped its plans to extend the school day by 45 minutes, following protests from parents and teachers.

Create Time We all know there are only 24 hours in a day ~ but we can add time to the school day by offering enrichment programs and activities before and after school hours and during recess and lunch.

For example, Scott Frauenheim shared how Distinctive Schools created an unprecedented chunk of time for peer - to - peer learning during the school day by working with a scheduling expert to update where time gets allocated each day.

After Hackett was put on the list of persistently struggling schools, educators there extended the school day by 42 minutes to include a daily enrichment period for students to meet with teachers.

Instead of shuttering failing schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $ 150 million plan Monday for boosting the struggling programs, extending the school day by an hour, adding summer learning opportunities and increasing professional development.

Today, nearly 300,000 pupils are served one hot meal per school day by over 3000 food vendors.

I get it that this would likely mean extending the school day by 10 or 15 minutes, and that costs money because then the staff need to be paid for a longer day, but this is the dream wish list, right?

School personnel can assist students with health and wellness needs during the school day by following these four helpful tips.

Maybe they're just sometimes tired of rehashing the school day by the time you get home.

Instead of listening to the radio — which normally repeats the same songs over and over again anyway — opt to relive your high school days by listening to a few history - based podcasts in your car.

The scary - bad reality show that ensues has Alice regaling viewers with long minutes of her eating an iced meatloaf cake, opining about oral sex and wreaking vengeance on mean girls from her high - school days by re-enacting scenarios with hired actors.

The Martin Luther King School in Boston and nine other Massachusetts public schools used a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education to expand their school days by at least two hours.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

The money can be used to restore school days by districts that shortened their instructional year.

Recreate your high school days by taking your date to the ice or roller skating rink.

Not exact matches

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

I challenged his thought process by asking him to try and help someone else at school the next day.

I made sure to mention BYU, knowing that David Neeleman is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and has ties to the school, which is run by the LDS Church.

At Code School, we do this by setting aside one day every month where we encourage our employees to work on anything that makes them better at their job.

Anderson was teased terribly at school and harassed by students and a hateful headmaster, and he considered those some of the darkest days of his life.

One example: Old - school fluorescent lighting could be replaced by LED lights that can easily change color throughout the day to reflect subtle changes in the sky outside, like those lights on many airliners now that simulate dawn, midday, and dusk for long - distance travelers.

Dick's chief Ed Stack says his decision to stop selling assault - style rifles was motivated by the deadly Valentine's Day Florida school shooting.

Saloner, citing the wrongful termination lawsuit by a former professor who alleges the dean railroaded him out of the business school while sleeping with his wife, announced his resignation last month, on the same day Poets & Quants published a lengthy expose based on the lawsuit and the professors» divorce.

On the second day of South by Southwest Interactive hoards of hungover techies and early birds streamed into the Hilton Austin to hear marketing expert and Wharton School professor Jonah Berger.

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

An analysis of the five deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history reveals that shares of those three companies traded down from the day of the incident to one week later, but not by as much as they are reacting now to the high school shooting in Florida.

But that is the case for Jakob Sperry, who along with six other young inventors recently presented their work at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering as part of Kid Inventor's Day, an event hosted by 3 - D design and engineering software maker Autodesk.

Atticus is speaking specifically about Scout's young, inexperienced teacher, who on the first day of school, found herself flustered by the habits and manners of the children of Maycomb, Alabama.

In keeping with McArdle family tradition, I was duly dispatched at the tender age of 8 by my stoic father and weeping mother to a British boarding school, there to learn independence and gentlemanly conduct in a setting unchanged since the glory days of the Empire.

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

The need for achievability is reinforced by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile's findings on the power of progress: When Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries of employees from a variety of industries, she found that 76 % of people reported that their best days involved making progress toward goals.

The court hearing came on the day that the Broward Sheriff's Office released video taken by officers» body cameras as Zachard Cruz was arrested Monday at the school.