Sentences with phrase «schools and teachers over»

Many teaching and training systems are based on the school of hard knocks; many systems involve the deliberate use of corporal punishment — for incentive, or to assert the authority of school and teacher over the pupil.

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Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

Used in over 20,000 schools worldwide, Chalk.com solves the problems of lesson planning, assessment, and collaboration designed to ease teachers» pain, facilitate personalized education, and help drive student success.»

At the beginning, before the company had a web presence, the Frey brothers traveled relentlessly, jetting all over Southeast Asia, cold - calling schools and colleges that hired ESL teachers.

She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

Saying they've been pushed to their limit and are fed up, Oklahoma teachers are walking out over school spending cuts.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

All over the world teachers and schools are pushed to teach little children that all kinds of families are healthy, etc..

Our Archbishop has stated: If the provisions for contraceptives and abortions are not removed, the Archdiocese will no longer provide health insurance benefits to any of its employees, including over 1800 school teachers.

Regrettably, that assessment is likely correct, and Sunday School teachers the world over squirm a bit when it comes time to conclude the story of Noah's ark.

I'm going to believe you, a known liar, over my judaism professor, my rabbi, my parents and my sunday school teachers.

In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.

I have gone over the same problems in pastoral counseling and wandered through the same routine with budget planning, the same search for Sunday school teachers, I could lament that after all these years we don't seem to be making progress.

Over the years, I have pulled many of the Sunday school teachers and youth workers in my children's lives aside to ask them to treat my children like any other kid in the youth group.

The National Association of Teachers of RE accuses a third of community schools and over a third of academies in England of failing to meet their legal or contractual agreements to provide religious education for this key age group.

When I mentioned this to a friend of mine, who is a teacher in a non-denominational school, he suggested that I come over and have lunch with some of his pupils.

«I am angry that a man who was a violent, aggressive bully, a drunkard with an unhealthy interest in children, and that was obvious, was allowed to be a principal of a school, was allowed to be teacher in a school over a long number of years, allowed access to young boys.

My grade - school science teacher demonstrated the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar by mixing them in a test tube and placing a balloon over the top so it would inflate from the gas that formed.

By Joanne White Over 50,000 students Australia wide use the new (and free) Australian Organic Schools resources, and as a teacher — and someone who can now call herself a successful gardener — I highly recommend them to anyone who has always wanted to try gardening.

Between getting them back into the groove of school schedules and all that goes with that (earlier bedtimes, homework, etc.) and pulling together everything that their teachers needed, I felt ready to turn back the clock and do summer vacation all over again.

«It was always fun to come back to school and tell the teacher what we did over the weekend,» says Inger.

Suddenly, «Rockstar Charlie» is announced over the speakers to roars from the audience as the lights dim and cameras pop and an ESPN E60 film crew follows the lanky, former nursery school teacher turned model - boxer, somehow both as bouncy as Tigger and serene as a lullaby, throughout his ring entrance, preening before the crowd with his tats and Sid Vicious chain - and - lock necklace while models squeal out his name.

Finn attends an International School, with teachers and students from all over the world.

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaAnd like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaand orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.

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This workshop examines the tension that parents, students, and teachers often experience over issues such as homework, grades, and the culture of competition, and offers tools for creating a healthier school climate.

The pants are cute and it is odd to be afraid of them, and the little girl who was afraid of them will probably get over it soon and her mother and the school teachers should work with her about not being afraid of cartoons on leggings.

In elementary and middle schools, the end of the school year tends to bring with it a long string of outdoor games, field trips, and parties, as teachers let kids rejoice over having made it through to June (and try to keep them from getting so much spring fever that they actually gnaw through their desks in frustration).

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

Marianne is a highly experienced, trained Waldorf teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience in public and private Waldorf schools as well as experience as a Spanish - bilingual teacher in New York.

With over 160 private schools and over 40 public charter schools now in North America the need for trained Waldorf teachers continues to grow.

The launch of this new resource follows a national pilot with teachers, caterers and teaching assistants at over 30 schools and training providers.

Narrated by Michael Witri, woodwork teacher at the Green Meadow Waldorf School, and voice over professional.

In fact, according to many teachers, children are frequently falling out of their seats in school, running into walls, tripping over their own feet, and unable to pay attention.

Deborah completed a two - year post doctoral internship with Dr. Gordon Neufeld, is an award winning researcher, and has over 20 years experience as a teacher and counsellor working with leading institutions such as the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and the Vancouver School Board.

Lewis called the uproar over longer school days and teacher pay a «political issue» not driven by the new leadership at CPS.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

Over the last 24 years, Mrs. Harrison became involved in a number of volunteer activities, including the Girl Scouts, the First Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn's Women's Association, the Glen Ellyn Newcomers Club, Infant Welfare and the Parent - Teacher Associations at Westfield School, Glen Crest Middle School and Glenbard South High School.

Nobody — not your child's doctor, not her gym teacher, not the director of the school lunch program, not even your child herself — has as much control over what she eats and how she spends her time as you do.

The staff at the grade school didn't take her allergy very seriously though until a child died the next county over and then my child had a serious reaction to candy a teacher gave out at the end of the day as the kids were getting on the bus.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

The children get two meals a day during the school year, and staff and teachers have provided additional food to help these families over weekends and breaks.

Post Grad Dip in Play Therapy, Gillian trained in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and has worked as a primary school teacher for over 5 years.

Substitute teachers, custodians, school visitors, new kids, school forms with gendered checkboxes and restroom dilemmas on field trips — the question reappears over and over again in the gendered expectations of people and society: Are you a boy or girl?

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

The principal at this school and vice principal are wonderful and do not deserve to be demonized because this teacher got in trouble for going over the line.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

We had 23 schools participate with over 2,000 students, teachers and chaperones.