Sentences with phrase «several schools talked»

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Over the past several weeks, there has been a lot of talk about investors ridding themselves of their shares in gun manufacturers and retailers after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla..

With her own children grown up and left home, she became «Auntie Faith» to several generations of boys from the John Fisher School, attending the weekly meetings of the Faith group and providing toast and tea after the talks.

Paying off all the delinquent accounts at a school is well beyond the means of most people, but I've seen several friends talk about calling their school districts to see if there's any way they can help by paying off the balances of one or two, or making contributions towards kids» account balances.

Talks were held over the past several weeks, with school board member Kevin Connor as the school district's representative.

Indeed, I learned of one Rhode Island school that several years ago actually experienced three choking incidents in a single month, leading the school to adopt a controversial «no talking» policy in the cafeteria.

The report talks about several closed school buildings in the region that have been repurposed to become community centers, and village halls.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Budget Talks, and officially closing three schools The North Rockland Central School met for a Committee of the Whole Board Workshop Session of the Board of Education Tuesday night in the North Rockland Administration Building to discuss next year's budget and vote to officially close several schools.

City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina was among several city officials who traveled to Albany to talk with lawmakers as the session's end drew near.

Several days after the birth of their premature babies, Lahav, of Harvard Medical School, asked 12 mothers to record themselves singing, reading and talking.

I have attended several conferences during my graduate school career and have presented data, but this was my first opportunity to give a talk, rather than present a poster.

Jennifer R. Grandis, a professor of otolaryngology and pharmacology and chemical biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a senior author of one of the Science papers, bemoaned the dearth of genetic information about head and neck cancer several years ago at a conference where Garraway had given a talk about the genomic landscape of melanoma.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

Education World talked with administrators in several districts who use everything from fines to rewards to keep kids in school.

Schools That Can is in talks with several to find ways to provide low - income students with online and classroom courses plus in - person coaching, possibly by graduate assistants.

This week, Paul talks to Charles Barone, the director of policy at Democrats for Education Reform, about the House Appropriation Committee's decision to drop several of Donald Trump's proposals to broaden school choice.

Several mothers talked about the high levels of fighting, violence, and truancy in their children's schools, but still had children in the same school for years.

Inspired by their talk, here are several suggestions to consider for improving communications so more families and school and community members have access.

Several observers have noted that KIPP and other high - achieving charter schools appear to simulate the religious rituals of Catholic schools but replace religious rhetoric with talk of secular success and achievement.

Pollock is the author of several books on race talk in schools, including the forthcoming «Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About — and To — Students Every Day.»

In talking to several of my colleagues who are still teaching in APS traditional schools, they love the guidance and leadership of our current Chief Schools Officer and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Donyall schools, they love the guidance and leadership of our current Chief Schools Officer and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Donyall Schools Officer and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Donyall Dickey.

We will have several sessions focused on advocacy tips and techniques including a panel of school board members who will talk about how they advocate for their schools with lawmakers.

Morgan County Sheriff's deputies aren't investigating any specific cases at the school right now, but they said several different groups of students have been heard talking about sexting more than usual.

Leaders talked lawsuits, school closures and even outright defiance of the takeover plan, which could allow for - profit charter management companies to seize control of several low - performing, public schools in the coming years.

I have talked to a several people who work in private schools, both religious and non-religious, and many of them feel that a lot of this drop has to do with charter schools.

But they know not to talk about substantive education issues that affect these children like the one reported by the Civil Rights Project: «Based on evidence from several important measures of segregation, the Civil Rights Project stands by its strong contention that re-segregation has occurred, and that African - American and Latino students are experiencing more isolation in schools than they were a generation ago — and further, that this segregation is deeply linked to unequal educational opportunities.»

In this role, Donalyn travels to conferences and schools as a reading ambassador, sits on several Scholastic advisory boards, and hosts the web - based teaching tips and book talk show — The Book Whisperer: Back to the Books.

It may also be a good idea to examine school report cards for the last several years and talk to the principal if test scores have declined or if one subject / section of the test leads to dramatically higher results than others.

In my work in the education technology sector over the past several years, I've had the chance to talk with many school leaders across the globe about using data effectively to manage teacher performance.

After visiting several American Montessori schools, talking to American proponents of the method, and meeting with Montessori herself, he concluded that her methods were built upon faulty science and that she was misunderstanding child development (Whitescarver and Cossentino, 2008).

We set up a personal account page for you on our site where you can do several things — talk with your writer, contact our customer support department, track the progress being made on your paper, add any additional details you may have forgotten, receive your finished paper, approve it, and then download it for printing out or for uploading it to your course assignment dashboard at your school.

I have several plans for promoting my book (which is the first of at least four more in a series) including radio talk shows, multiple press releases, newspaper articles and interview, give away photo ops at hospitals, libraries, schools, and other educational organizations.

Kerry spent half her life talking about writing a novel, then several years at Candis magazine reviewing other people's but it wasn't until she took some online courses with the UCLA that the dream started to morph into reality when her debut, The School Gate Survival Guide, was picked up by HarperCollins.

Hundreds of students from several high schools in Oakland and San Francisco are going to be reading books from the Kindle Library, taking their Kindles home, writing reviews, and talking about the books they've read.

I grew up in San Francisco, and I was a high school student in the late 1970's and early 1980's I also volunteered at the San Francisco SPCA during that timeframe, and I talked to Mr. Avanzino several times while working in the kennels.

For example, they reportedly stopped giving humane education talks at schools after a few months because they decided it was a relatively ineffective intervention, and stopped publishing an online magazine once they thought that it would be more efficient to direct readers to their website.137 They also report that they have changed the focus of several programs in response to new information.

He was teaching in the graduate school and I was able to talk to him several times.

In this episode of the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we talk with pioneering animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, author of four books about animal rights, and lecturer at several law schools.

A total of 17 law schools from across Canada came together in a talking circle format rather than an adversarial process to discuss and negotiate on several issues raised by the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

After researching several and talking to them, I settled on Dollar Driving School.

I've talked to several school psychologists lately and they have only a very few minutes to discuss anything.