Sentences with phrase «school focused just»

Some schools focus just on «bubble» students — those who are right on the verge of passing their standardized tests.

Not exact matches

I was finishing up my MBA at Schulich School of Business at York University with a focus on sustainability and responsible business, and a background in environmental science, and that really just synched up with how Pangaea was looking to grow their team.

Harvard Business School did a study: If you invested a dollar 20 years ago in a select portfolio of public companies focused just on growing their businesses, that dollar would've grown to $ 14.46.

Zink, in St. Louis, said their event will focus not just on school shootings, but the violence that punctuates life for some teenagers in places like east St. Louis.

This silly article just paints a big red target on these schools for the right wing religious zealots to focus on.

And while we love 4.0 GPAs in admissions, we also want to see that you are engaged in your community (school, family, neighborhood) and not just solely focused on the books.

We need to identify criteria by which to judge which groups belong within the circle of Christian congregations so that we can tell concretely just what it is that we recommend theological schools select to focus their studies.

That doesn't just penalize the player, it penalizes the whole team (and the athletic department and the school and the community), so it makes sense to deliver a punishment that focuses on the individual rather than a punishment that impacts the group.

Kristi: I actually took a lot of heat a while back for not just defending milk but defending the dreaded flavored milk — or at least questioning why school food reformers were so focused on flavored milk versus versus many other, worse problems in the school lunch program.

Whether they learn the entire high school program, or just the final year courses to prove previously acquired learning, or even challenge the leaving or entrance (SAT) exams, children that are motivated are serious, focused learners and nothing will stop them.

For instance, with two dual - language Vietnamese schools in the district now, Tanner and her team added banh mi and pho to the menu served at all the schools, not just the two with a focus on that language and culture.

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

Kids who aren't sleeping enough just will not have the ability to focus on, or even care about, their school work.

I hope we will be able to do that some day, but for right now, any school system can improve their food by just focusing on getting rid of the worst ingredients.

Many schools just focus on stopping bad behavior via behavior modification programs and practices.

Focuses on the energy change and logistics of having a child in elementary school, and includes creating and teaching your child to manage their own routines, dealing with the wider exposure to other kids and families, talking about difficult topics, and just managing all the paper, meetings, and stuff elementary school brings.

When we have «meet the teacher» before school (usually 15 minutes to chat with the teacher the week before school), I have begged another mom to just watch my daughter / son run up and down the hallways while I actually focus on the other child.

«I think the primary focus that we're looking at right now and I just had three or four meetings on the last couple of days on school security,» he told reporters Wednesday.

Business Council President Heather Briccetti, in a statement says: «It is ironic and troubling that just days into the school year the teacher's union is asking its members to spend their energy trying to repress opposing views rather than focus on fixing the crisis in our schools.»

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

Cable's return with a 52 % share of the vote was just reward for a hugely positive campaign which focused on cuts to local schools, the state of the NHS and the Tories broken promise on Heathrow expansion.

If May really wants to help working class kids she should focus her attention on improving standards at all schools, not just the ones which educate a select few.

It's just that, we've been hyper focused on making sure we do all we can for the communities that have been affected [by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shooting].»

At an Albany press conference later that month, Nixon called his focus on transparency a «classic stall tactic,» and said, «Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working - class.»

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins pointed to a $ 9 - billion shortfall owed to schools from a court - mandated Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement and asked why the Governor focused just on Teachers.

Bloomberg has just three years left on his mayoral term, and the focus is expected to stay on items such as boosting charter schools and working toward accountability measures.

Focus on the Good While high school sweethearts typically meet, fall in love and dissolve before their brains are fully developed — somewhere in their mid - to late 20s — I met Ben just as my brain's frontal lobes were reaching maturity.

In rushing to meet a tight deadline set by NIH, Snow said her panel also avoided examining how literacy is acquired, both at school and in informal settings, and focused just on adult literacy.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

«The recommendation for counselors would be to learn more about the high school and background a student is coming from instead of just present, college - focused factors or personal factors.

And so I just - I think it's so important that we focus a lot of our efforts on making sure that, you know, that food tastes great for those kids so that they learn that what - that the foods that they're getting in school not only tastes good and will fill them up, but will also make them feel good in the afternoon, after lunch and, you know, the next day as they're trying to get through their classes.

Being rather pressed for time (I fear this will be somewhat on repeat mode from hereon since the new school year begins in just a scant few days), I will be focusing on clothes today.

I'm excited to get a little break from school so I can just focus on work and blogging.

If so, forget about what people look like, where they went to school, etc. and just focus on finding someone who shares this interest.

Hi my name is Miel I just moved to LA to pursue my music and modeling career... its been really hard trying to stay above water here being its so expensive... I just want to be able to finish school and focus on my dreams without the finacial stress...

Seeing that his father's advice didn't work, he consulted his mother, who said: «Just focus on school and study.

I'm really just looking for friends not tryna be wit nobody cause im focusing on my son and school.

If you still want something more in 2 or 3 years I'd say go for it but for now just focus on school, friends, ect.

God's Pocket wants to be from the same school of dark comedy that the likes of the Coen Brothers or Spike Jonze do so well but Slattery can't pinpoint a focus on a film that is filled with too many subplots and bit part players that just don't get enough to do in the picture.

Featuring a new cast of faces, the film focuses on high school student Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), who just can't stop himself from tearing up the pavement.

Based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, Ghost World focuses on two best friends, Enid and Rebecca (Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson) who have just graduated from high school and are the only students from their graduating class not heading on to college.

There is a growing movement of schools taking ownership at a local level to interpret how we teach, rather than focusing just on what we teach.

It's just that for the past two years, working with a group of 12 - and 13 - year - olds, we began to explore how our experience of school could be transformed by focusing on things like collaborative and cooperative interactions, critical thinking, creativity, and alternative forms of communication.

If only to keep things manageable, I'm just thinking about the small strange inhabited by those of us focused on schooling and expanding opportunity for our nation's youth.

«The government should be focusing on ensuring an excellent education for all children, not just the few who get through the grammar school gates.»

No school can afford to have a head of e-learning concentrating on pedagogy and have an IT director focusing on the operational, commercial and business side; that's two senior SLT roles that just aren't affordable.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

Children's Book Week celebrates reading for enjoyment in schools and encourages educators to make time to read for fun and not just focus on literacy testing.

By focusing not just on the learning model at hand for students in these schools but also their business and scaling models, NGLC seeks to remedy that.

First, in its rehearsal of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins of the education system but on teaching as the very core of what happens in schools and thus of school reform.