Sentences with phrase «school exercise in»

Is a referendum on Trinity Western University's law school an exercise in democracy or a failure of leadership by the benchers of the Law Society of British Columbia?

What came to her mind was an elementary - school exercise in which she was asked to write about her most embarrassing moment.

Visitors can view Washington's school exercises in geometry from 1745, his speech to the Indians at Logstown in 1753 asking that they act as guides for his journey to the French Commandant, and the 1777 recruiting instructions for enlisting soldiers for the United States Army just to name a few.

Not exact matches

But then again, I guess not learning French properly in high school was me exercising my choice as a consumer, right?

Not if you want to satisfy serial - entrepreneur turned professor Steve Blank, who suggested this exercise recently in a Kauffman Founders School video.

In truth, most so - called curriculum overhauls are cosmetic marketing exercises intended to show that a school is adapting to the changing needs and demands of business.

«Aerobic exercise is the key for your head, just as it is for your heart,» write the authors of an article in the Harvard Medical School blog «Mind and Mood.»

As Harvard Business School lecturers John Neffinger and Matthew Kohutobserve observe in their book, «Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential,» when a discussion becomes an argument, it's no longer an exercise in logic and reasoning.

For him, that means dedicating time to doing things that he cares about — liking dropping his kids off at school, watching shows with them at the end of the day, and carving out time in the day to exercise and think about the big picture.

It is essentially a cheerleading exercise for private schools, funded by advertising from private schools, so you'll find no news in this report.

YogaFit is the largest yoga fitness education school in the world with more than 200,000 instructors trained on six continents specifically designed for presentation in health clubs, fitness facilities or other group exercise locations.

Brooke: I went to school and played college softball at Tennessee Technological University and majored in exercise science and physical wellness, with a concentration in teaching.

But then some business school professor would probably be rude enough to bring up the fact that if 225 million orangutans had engaged in a similar exercise, the results would be much the same... I would argue, however, that there are some important differences in the examples I am going to present.

Schools respect the religious liberty of students in prohibiting religious exercises.

Now a thought experiment and an invitation: The experiment is one more utopian exercise in sketching what makes a theological school theological and what makes a theological school a school.

What there is is finding other ways of exercising that call: interim pastor, parish associate, stated supply, teaching church school, worshiping always, serving on presbytery committees, being volunteers in mission, and by being a participant as an «honorary layperson» in the ongoing life of a congregation — all these and more are ways by which we respond to the enduring calling by God through the church.

The Supreme Court gave a boost to their conviction that secularism is a genuine competing faith in the ruling in the 1961 Torcaso case, in which «Secular Humanism» was identified as a religion, and in Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in the 1963 Schempp case, which referred to a refusal to permit religious exercises in schools as not «the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.»

By striking down religious exercises in the public schools on the grounds that they were an establishment of religion and therefore in violation of the First Amendment.

People who participate in the «opening exercises» of the Sunday School learn an ethos.

If there is anything that gets his goat more than parental choice, it is choice that can be exercised in religious schools.

When they are in high school they should learn more sophisticated aspects of the media: who's in control, how the power is exercised, how advertising and profits affects what is covered in the news and what is said in all programs, how our violence affects us and how our media imperialism affects other people.

St Clare's Catholic primary school and Calderwood Lodge Jewish primary school will share the same building in an ambitious plan conceived by East Renfrewshire education authority in 2013, describing it as an exercise in common sense.

Some see the issue in communism, some in devotional exercises in public schools, some in concern over pornography, some in issues of social justice.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

Niebuhr insists that both poles are thorough - goingly theoretical: «Whether its function as the exercise of the intellectual love of God and man or as the illumination of other church activities is stressed, in either case the work of the school is theoretical».

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

«They tend in consequence to neglect the first function of a theological school — the exercise of the intellectual love of God and neighbor».

Today the State is closing down the state primary schools for the poor, and they are not interested in aiding private agencies to conduct such schools, because they see it as a costly exercise in social welfare which reduces money for investment in hi - tech development aimed at economic growth.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

In fact a common exercise in elementary schools is to ask children to draw up their genealogical trees, because this exercise allows the child to situate himself in relation to his father and his mother and thus also in relation to the rest of societIn fact a common exercise in elementary schools is to ask children to draw up their genealogical trees, because this exercise allows the child to situate himself in relation to his father and his mother and thus also in relation to the rest of societin elementary schools is to ask children to draw up their genealogical trees, because this exercise allows the child to situate himself in relation to his father and his mother and thus also in relation to the rest of societin relation to his father and his mother and thus also in relation to the rest of societin relation to the rest of society.

Meanwhile I exercised more than five times a week (at this point in my life I went to a sports school).

Three - mile run at 6 a.m., weights at 6:30, shower, rush to the gym to teach, dash to the lecture hall to take the exercise - physiology and sports - administration classes, sprint back to the gym to coach a 2 1/2 - hour practice, hop in the car to go scout a local high school player, burn rubber back to the gym for two hours of basketball and sprints, shower again and hightail it home by midnight to study for the biomechanics midterm.

Research has shown that the kind of stretching routine most of us have been doing since we were in grade school (holding a stretch for 20 or 30 seconds, supposedly to prepare muscles for exercise, or static stretching) not only fails to do what it is supposed to do but may actually weaken muscles and hurt athletic performance.

Generally speaking, after the morning school runs, there is always some housework to do and I might fit in a bit of exercise, though that used to be a much more frequent occurrence than it is now!

In 1999, only 17.2 % of the PPE forms in one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHAIn 1999, only 17.2 % of the PPE forms in one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHAin one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHA);

When a child's executive functions aren't fully developed, those school days, with their complicated directions and constant distractions, become a never - ending exercise in frustration.

«We're hoping to educate parents, coaches, school administrators, employers, athletic trainers and other health care professionals and those who exercise or work in the cold about what can be done to prevent these types of serious injuries.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

When your child hits grade school, you're left with a narrow window of time in late afternoon when you or her after - school child care provider can encourage your child to exercise.

Volume XVI, Number 2 Science and the Humanities; The Great Rift in Modern Consciousness — Douglas Sloan What Stands Behind a Waldorf School — David Mitchell On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Task of the College of Teachers — Roberto Trostli The Plight of Early Childhood Education in the U.S. — Joan Almon The Art of Knowing — Jonathan Code Painting from a Palette Entirely Different — Johannes Kiersch Authenticity in Education — Elan: Leibner Soul Breathing Exercises — Dennis Klocek

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

These include getting proper nutrition (eating three meals a day and two nutritious snacks, limiting high sugar and high fat foods, eating fruits, vegetables, lean meats and low fat dairy products, including 4 servings of milk, cheese or yogurt to meet his calcium needs), regular exercise, adequate sleep (nine hours each night), and participation in extracurricular activities at school and in the community.

Kate: I agree there's an age at which we can expect kids to exercise their own judgment, bolstered by messages at home, though I still object at any grade level to the infiltration in schools of Big Food corporate interests, the sale of junk by the school itself, etc..

Some school systems in the U.S. have made health-wise changes without sacrificing cost - effectiveness, so it can be done... but much thought and care must be exercised.

Studies show that students perform better in school when they eat and exercise right.

Optimize your physical status by going to bed earlier, increasing rest times on off days, getting moderate exercise (increases Prolactin levels which in turn increase milk supply), and consume adequate fluids (many busy moms do not take the time to drink enough, so make it a point to have something nearby that you can sip throughout your work / school day).

«We're supposed to do hard work; that's what makes us strong,» she said during a recent after - school exercise program at Pershing Elementary School in Jschool exercise program at Pershing Elementary School in JSchool in Joliet.

Although no hard data yet exists, some studies suggest kids who eat healthy and exercise do better in school, Edwards said.

Sixty - seven student ambassadors and fifty program advisors from across the country gathered together, where for five days they participated in fun, team - building exercises, leadership activities, and brainstorming sessions on how to keep schools active and healthy.

Keeping track of your child's school activities, setting up a consistent routine, ensuring that they have enough rest, and making sure that they are getting exercise are simple tips that will help them to excel in school.