Sentences with phrase «school hours as»

DENVER — A Colorado school superintendent said Friday he will keep disciplining students by placing them in isolated, 4 - by -6-foot rooms to study during school hours as an alternative to expulsion and as a way to reduce a high dropout rate.

The teachers generally tended to export the reviews out of school hours as a result.

The number of 16 - and 17 - year - old drivers involved in fatal car crashes is roughly the same during weekday after - school hours as on weekend nights, says a report by the American Automobile Association.

Our emphasis is making those after - school hours as productive as possible.

Meanwhile, the television drones on during school hours as well as leisure time, thanks to Channel One.

Not exact matches

Professor Michael Lenox, from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, has created a seven - hour video course designed to help entrepreneurs understand competitive markets, analyze structure and capabilities, as well as how to determine competitive positioning.

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

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.

Holland's eager yet awkward Parker delivers big laughs as he navigates the many offerings in his high - tech suit from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), tries (and fails) to make a meaningful connection with Stark's assistant Happy (Jon Favreau) by calling and texting at all hours, and debates a high school crush with his virtual assistant, Karen.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

He showed us into the interior, and then, for more than two hours, Rogers schooled us on the ins and outs of trailer hitching and unhitching, as well as plugging in electric, water, and — most important and grossest of all — waste.

«As a result, being forced to rise the next day at 6 a.m. for school or college means teens find it hard to get the eight to ten hours sleep that they need.»

As an employer, if I knew you worked even just 20 hours a week while in school I would be impressed.

Stoneman Douglas sophomore Daniel Bishop said he huddled in a corner for 2 1/2 hours as bullets flew in his school last week.

Another example: you may think I am a nutjob for attending church, and that my church is full of nutjobs, but that church as given hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well of many hours of time, to improve lives from the school across the street to those in Haiti and Indonesia.

I would lean against the side of the tub into Brian's arms for the contractions (he thanked his high school football coach often for teaching him a good three - point stance as he maintained it for almost 2 hours!).

Marichuy, when I first bought my house and only had one pet, something used to sit on the edge of my bed as I took a catnap when I didn't have to rush off to school after working 8 hours.

As a fitting final touch, discipline is often enforced by the «punishment» of being required to remain in school after hours.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

Speaking on Premier's «News Hour», Katrina Lee, who worked with Sister Philomene at the Catholic Diocese in Sydney said: «she did a lot of good work for the Archdiocese of Sydney in renewal and pastoral planning, as well as teaching at the school.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Thus, if a single mother works to support her family and must leave her children unattended for a few hours after school, it could be construed as neglect and must be reported.

I tried and tried to just suck it up and fulfill the lengthy list of expectations, but I just couldn't handle working sixty to seventy hours a week (especially not as a single mom trying to homeschool a middle schooler).

Sunday school, once billed by Life magazine (nonsurviving in its original form) as «the most wasted hour of the week,» remains an hour with which creative elders can work.

He said his wife, Trudy, could also increase her hours at the local primary school where she works as an integration aide.

Inspired by his brother, Damon, who finished his career in»95 as the Huskies» alltime passing leader and who is now in the Miami Dolphins» camp, and inspired by his father, Mike, a renowned high school football coach at Puyallup High, 30 miles south of Seattle, Brock spent hours throwing spirals every day after school.

Last summer he attended team workouts and summer - school classes (he's a communication major and a PAC - 10 All - Academic honorable mention) and then worked a five - hour shift as a sous chef at a Long Beach restaurant, where he honed his modest Spanish - speaking skills with Latino busboys.

Hailing from an hour south of campus, he's been the head coach at the school since 2005, was an assistant there for all but five years since 1990, and spent the four years before that as an OSU quarterback.

From humble beginnings walking for 18 straight hours on a high school track, Jesse Casta √ ± eda, here before Red Rock Cliff in New Mexico, has set world records and gained renown as a formidable perambulator

-- went to a school in southwest England where football was considered Not For Girls, and as such grew up having had precisely one hour of coaching in the national game.

Nonetheless, the importation of big names such as Thierry Henry, Rafael Marquez and Marco Di Vaio kept me glued to my television sets to watch the North American league in the late hours of the night, between one coffee and another, a few hours before school, and now work.

The school is not as far as downtown but some mornings it takes over an hour to get them to school.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familySchool: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

It's also important to understand what the expectations are for you as the caregiver, including whether you are expected to attend therapy and whether it is during school or after school hours.

My ex spouse and I agreed that, because my work was an hour away from our pre-divorce home, I would move out and our girls would stay with him so as to not change school districts.

It said sales of «relatively non-nutritious foods «such as soft drinks and candy should be banned from campus during school hours.

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

For certification as a school nurse - teacher, a candidate must possess a bachelor's degree, have completed six semester hours of professional education courses, hold a registered nursing license in the state of New York, have participated in the child abuse identification and school violence prevention workshops, and have fingerprint clearance.

The student starts the day at 6:15 a.m.; takes classes such as AP calculus, honors Spanish, biology and art history from 7:50 a.m. to 3 p.m. (breaking for a student council meeting at lunch); heads to a service club meeting after school; and then goes to a two - hour swim practice before heading home at 6:45 p.m. for a shower, dinner and three to four hours of homework.

Working parents are often scrambling for childcare while kids are off school and trying to fit in as much family entertainment into the off hours as possible.

Offered by our local botanical garden as part of its new School Outreach program, the hour - long class, taught by Tammy Hood, was hands - on and interactive.

E.g., I was surprised to learn that many high schools here in Houston have a single lunch hour for thousands of kids and this is one reason schools are turning a blind eye to the illegal junk food sold on campus as fundraisers.

I was a little nervous as I've never really left the kids anywhere other than school and nursery so the thought of kids club for a week even if only a few hours a day was a little daunting for me.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and district administrators who have attacked Chicago as having the shortest school day among the nation's 10 largest cities have begun touting this as an accomplishment: CPS officials say the 7.5 - hour day will tie Chicago with Philadelphia as «the leader among the largest cities in instructional time» for...

Christie - Mizell began the research thinking that mothers» work hours — since mothers overwhelmingly are the ones to care for and monitor children — would be more likely to have an impact on whether children exhibited bullying behavior such as being cruel to others, being disobedient at school, hanging around kids who get in trouble, having a very strong temper and not being sorry for misbehaving.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

As millions of children across the U.S. end their summer vacations and head back to school, parents are getting ready to ease their kids back into the school - year routine of homework, extracurricular activities and going to bed at a reasonable hour.

Heat food till it reaches 165, pack it in a thermos and your good for 4 hours, pack a school lunch with ice, it will be just as good just as long.

I feel like since kids don't choose to go to school, they shouldn't be forced to go for as many hours as adults can squeeze into the day and year.