Sentences with phrase «school debate team in»

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He began coming out of his shell in high school, joining a debate team.

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

The debate tournament segment of the class was probably the one that formed me most — it caused me to join Pacilio's debate team for a couple years, and it was the first, and probably last, time that I and my peers were treated to full - throated political discourse in the public school classroom.

Morgan had the opportunity to go to overnight camps for a week or more, to participate in after school activities, go to Prom and Homecoming, participate in the Forensics (Speech / Debate) team with overnight trips, play piano as the accompanist for the high school Jazz Choir, mountain bike... basically, he was a real boy!

Success Academy is committed to removing such barriers: 850 middle and high school scholars participate in the network's debate program, in elective classes and competitive teams.

Tajaih was joined at the tournament by another member of the Success Academy high school debate team, senior Aida Bathily, who also made the quarter finals and finished sixth overall in the tournament.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

I clearly remember the day in the ninth grade that a classmate accosted me in the hallway of my junior high to recruit me for the high school debate team.

Los Angeles About Blog Heather Wolpert - Gawron is an award - winning middle school teacher and coach of one of the largest middle school Speech & Debate teams in the country.

The Great Debaters (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, brief sexuality, and the depiction of violence and disturbing images) Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Forest Whitaker and Kimberly Elise in this fact - based drama, set in 1935, about a professor at a small black college who inspired students to form the school's first debate team and to challenge Harvard for the national championship.

In the fall of 1990, I somewhat reluctantly joined my high school debate team.

Thanks in large part to the World Wide Web, the number of debate teams from low - income and rural schools has increased dramatically.

«I also helped coach a debate team in the school.

An assortment of students, all poor and black, join the debate team at Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri.

He sees hope that a revolution will occur, as Jonathan Kozol predicted in a visit to Central, after the affluent white oppressors in privileged schools are enlightened by their encounters with the rapping Kansas City debate team.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

They want gifted - and - talented programs in elementary school, lots of «honors» and Advanced Placement options in secondary school, and high - octane enrichment activities like orchestra, debate club, and chess teams.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

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He is also actively involved in policy debates, contributing to the Obama Administration's transition team on the measurement of school performance; advising the administration on college performance measures; and testifying in the U.S. Senate about the TRIO college access programs.

Some specific ways your donation contributes to closing the achievement gap include: ensuring that all Brooke eighth graders participate in an annual experiential learning experience in Washington, D.C., purchasing books for every middle school student who participates in Brooke Book Club with Boston professionals, support for Brooke High's Debate Team, assistance with the costs of college text - books for our alumni, and much more!

He began his career as a French teacher and speech and debate team founder and coach in the Washington, D.C. public schools.

In schools across the world, and especially in urban schools, debate teams are becoming popular agaiIn schools across the world, and especially in urban schools, debate teams are becoming popular agaiin urban schools, debate teams are becoming popular again.

Heather Wolpert - Gawron is an award - winning middle school teacher, the coach of one of the largest middle school Speech & Debate teams in the country, and an enthusiastic curriculum design geek.

They have technology that works and books in their libraries, and after - school programs and field trips and choirs and a debate team.»

But so much of this debate is about the rhetoric rather than the reality - and head teachers have been bristling at the language of threats to send in teams of new leaders to «failing and coasting schools».

This year's course ended on 22 March 2016 in a closely fought debate, with the team from St Stephen's CE Primary School (Shepherd's Bush) narrowly clinching the title of «2016 Primary Debating Champions!.»

As debate continues over an education reform model for Nashville's public schools, two local groups have teamed up to offer an event that will highlight the reform experience of the Recovery School District in New Orleans.

Not coincidentally, Clinton also seemingly proposed a federal SWAT team for low - performing schools in the Democratic debate in Detroit this spring.

Experience including directing plays at a local school, volunteering to lead acting classes in your community, or coaching a youth debate team can help your candidacy.

The Latin Policy Debate team began during the 2016 - 2017 school year with two sixth grade students in the novice division.

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In February 2014, the Beaver, Utah, High School speech and debate team was traveling to Berkeley, Calif., on a bus whose operation was under the control of Gene Brady, the owner of Serv - A-Bus.

And yet, too often, the principles that guided us in primary and secondary school — principles like «there is no I in team,» and «it is attitude, not aptitude» — can become lost in philosophical debates or buried in a competition for resources.

Charlie was in the school choir and on the competitive debate team.

Mr. Singh explained that his interest in law started when he was on his high school debate team, noting he enjoyed the strategy and competition of debate.

The following year we debated the future of the legal profession in light of Richard Susskind's book The End of Lawyers, and despite being teamed up with the inestimable intellect of UVic law school dean Donna Greschner, and the two of us giving away free dinosaur toys to all the attendees in an attempt to bribe them, we were trounced by University of British Columbia law dean Mary Anne Bobinski and her partner in crime, litigator, rock star and Paul McCartney's good friend, Michal Bain (who tires of being described as the «Bain» of my existence).

Her creative writings often gained recognition and accolades in various competitions while her leadership and knack for public speaking as a member of her high school debate team resulted in her placing at national tournaments.

However, you could respond that you were on the debate team in college, excelled at presentations as part of group projects in school, gave a talk at a volunteer dinner, or won a marketing competition as an undergraduate.

We met and became friends in college where we competed on the school's debate team and graduated from the same program with a degree in Political Economy.

In high school, I was a star on the debate team.

Before joining All Our Kin, Natalie was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at a foreign language high school in Bulgaria, where she taught students in grades eight through twelve and coached a speech and debate team.