Sentences with phrase «school turn based»

These days, an RPG can be many different things, from a hardcore action adventure to an old school turn based game, picture perfect to pixelated.

Despite these claims, Tokyo RPG Factory shows that with its old - school turn based battle system and typical RPG adventure tropes, I Am Setsuna proves that it still has what it takes to contend with the big boys.

I loved the first one partly because it was an old an school turn based game.

Not exact matches

Launched by Hossain, a Harvard Business School - trained banker - turned - entrepreneur, in June 2011, the comapny is based in Washington, D.C. Catch them at the SXSW Accelerator demo on March 11 at 5 p.m.

It turns out that many of them — at least the ones based in New York City — went into finance from one of 10 schools.

Debt relief, or income - based repayment plans, offer a safety net for individuals who want to start new companies, which sounds ideal for those coming out of school or those looking to turn over a new leaf later in life.

CEIBS dean John Quelch explains how he plans to turn the relatively young Shanghai - based business school into a research powerhouse.

I will turn a blind eye to what others choose to feed their kids on an individual basis, but if there is some policy at the school that demands that what another parent sends must be served to my child, then there needs to be some kind of standard to which those offerings are held.

Today I'm turning The Lunch Tray over to Rochelle Davis, President and CEO of Chicago - based Healthy Schools Campaign.

Adopting the older child may also make it easier on certain families who must work as the child can then be placed in a school - based program during the day while the parents maintain their jobs which, in turn minimizes daycare.

My feeling about milk in schools, as shared by many TLT readers (judging from this morning's discussion on the Facebook page and in comments on the blog), is that milk does have a place on lunch trays, but not to the exclusion of other beverages like water (which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get into cafeterias) and plant - based milks for those who drink them.

Those employers, primarily large businesses and law firms, provide much of the school's financial resources which in turn enables the school to modify tuition based on financial need and students pay as little as $ 100 per month.

Kingston City School District officials have long mulled turning the vacant Frank L. Meagher Elementary School into a new base

But Wednesday evening attention turns to the resolution before the school board calling for the removal of Paladino based on what many consider his egregious and racist comments against President Obama and the First Lady.

She, in turn, came to graduate school believing, on the basis of the awards she had won in high school, that she had the makings of an outstanding chemist.

Turns out, making a new friend when you're no longer in a school - based setting is actually a lot like dating.

Brashear petitions for two years to get into the diving school only to be foiled at every turn by a base commander (Hal Holbrook) who feels the only place in his Navy for a nonwhite, is as a cook.

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is a great JRPG with a nice plot, an enjoyable, old school turn - based battle system, beautiful art direction and a design that grants you the opportunity to catch many Digimons.

John C. Reilly is an eccentric high school vice-principal in «Terri» (Fox), an indie comedy with Sundance credentials, Rhys Ifans plays «Mr. Nice» (MPI), based on the crazed true story of a wildly successful British marijuana smuggler, and «Beautiful Boy» (Anchor Bay) stars Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as separated parents who turn to each other in shared grief.

Does the old - school, turn based gameplay suit their signature sarcastic style?

Instead of old - school, turn - based warfare between gangs of evil wizards and noble warriors, Clash of Heroes took a hard left turn into Japanese puzzle game territory.

The Quiet Ones leaps off from that premise — and markets itself with a «based on true events» pitch line — but after several screenwriters took their turns at the story, it ultimately veers far afield: University professor Joseph Coupland (played with a perfect blend intellectual arrogance and charismatic follow - me guruism by Jared Harris of Mad Men), brilliant but bristling at the restrictive old - school attitudes toward his groundbreaking case study, removes his star subject Jane Harper (Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke) to a deserted, dilapidated country estate to be studied by his collegiate team, including a randy post-Mod couple (Erin Richards and Rory Fleck - Byrne) and soft - spoken cameraman Brian (Sam Clafin of The Hunger Games).

Most old school fans of Final Fantasy VII are worried, and justly so, that Square Enix is all amped up to blow a hole in the tried - and - true active time turn based battle system of the original.

It's an old school dungeon crawler with turn - based combat, lots of level - grinding, and constant backtracking.

In this teen comedy, which is loosely based on the novel «The Scarlet Letter» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emma Stone plays Olive, a high school senior who's been a pretty anonymous pupil at a California high school until an overheard misunderstanding turns her into a social pariah.

What's the Fuss: Based on the Nick McDonell novel of the same name, Twelve follows a high school dropout - turned - drug dealer (Chace Crawford) in New York's Upper East Side.

Two - time Independent Spirit Award - winner Mike White (Pitch Perfect 3, The School of Rock) turned in the script based on Applegate's award - winning book.

Vanessa Hudgens leaves behind her High School Musical image and turns in a stunning and transformative performance in writer / director Ronald Krauss» drama, Gim me Shelter, based on the courageous, true - life story of Agnes «Apple» Bailey (Hudgens).

Whether it's a simple arrangement between colleagues to observe each other in action, or a more formal approach like teacher rounds (an iterative, inquiry - based cycle of observations between larger teacher teams), schools are turning teachers into lieutenants of their own learning.

The assessment data provide the basis for an annual review of the school's programs which, in turn, leads to an improvement plan for the following year.

«So this is improvement in writing, in reading and numeracy off of a high base, but the writing results are of course really a worry and I'll be talking to state and territory ministers as part of our school reforms about how we can turn that around.»

When you work at a competency - based school, your second response is, «And we'll turn it into a chemistry credit!»

That in turn creates the basis for further united action within the school, particularly to the extent it is linked to knowing the students well, and hence developing a more personalised teaching and learning approach to ensure their needs are met.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

The Roman Catholic Church says the cap prevents it from opening new free schools — because it is against its religious rules to turn away Catholics on the basis of their faith.

As I recently heard Susan Patrick, head of iNACOL, explain, competency - based assessment has huge implications for accountability 3.0: in competency - based systems we will hopefully have more and deeper evidence of student learning by which we can in turn assess school and providers efficacy and hold them accountable for their students» track record.

Albert S. Weiss, the principal of Milwaukee's 20th Street Elementary School, remembers the time before his school initiated its effective - schools program as one in which teachers were so discouraged that they had stopped expecting students to turn in homework on a regular School, remembers the time before his school initiated its effective - schools program as one in which teachers were so discouraged that they had stopped expecting students to turn in homework on a regular school initiated its effective - schools program as one in which teachers were so discouraged that they had stopped expecting students to turn in homework on a regular basis.

What the school is trying to do is give us some sort of basis, so that when we have a time of sadness or grief, we can deal with it constructively rather than turn to false comforts of drugs and alcohol.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Each school was given a grade based on a comparison between its actual scores and its predicted scores, which in turn were based on its students» socioeconomic backgrounds.

School 21 bases their students» speeches on the Ignite model (which in turn is based on the TED Talk model)-- a five - minute, no - notes speech with 20 slides changing every 15 seconds behind the speaker.

This may result in a primary school child exploring the grounds of their school or local copse, before undertaking an outdoor based residential, leading to a self planned outdoor experience such as Duke of Edinburgh's award, in turn supporting progression into an international expedition, for example.

For example, the RSD and DOE have strict test - based requirements for charter contract renewal; 45 schools have been closed, merged, or turned over to other operators since 2007.

See how Hood River connects to community members as a part of place - based learning, and learn how this school has turned itself into a community hub.

At Hood River Middle School, place - based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local geography, culture, history, and economy into classroom lessons.

Some Chicago high schools are turning to innovative programs — such as intensified math and competency - based learning — to address the «high school challenge.»

To conduct that investigation, we turned once again to Dr. David Stuit of Basis Policy Research who had previously done a fine piece of work for us (Are Bad Schools Immortal?

And governor - turned - education reformer Jeb Bush wants the entire country to emulate Florida's model of charters, vouchers, standards, school - based accountability, better data, and a limited form of merit pay.

To examine the correspondence of citizen perceptions of school quality and measures of test - score growth, we turn to our representative sample of residents of Florida, where the state accountability system evaluates schools based on both test - score levels and test - score growth.