Sentences with phrase «story about your achievements»

As the New Haven Independent explains in their story about Achievement First, «The «100 percent» figure does not give the full picture for the whole group of kids who entered Amistad four years ago.

According to a September Hartford Courant story about Achievement First — Hartford's newly opened high school, «Rolling one's eyes at a teacher will get a freshman sent to the school's Reorientation Room, where Dean of School Culture Peter Uwalaka said «' they get the extra culture they need.

If you could make a short story about your achievements, the reader will like it, and you will be easily remembered.

Even if you have a lot of powerful stories about your achievements, taper them so that they become less detailed the further you go back in time.

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Small - business owners often spend too much time talking about the story behind their product and the difficulties they went through developing their business rather than homing in on their milestones and achievements.

James goes into detail about his book, the amazing stories from his personal interviews with ordinary people with extraordinary achievements, and some ways of acquiring knowledge and applying it to your life and start winning yourself.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

There is always the danger of distortion in relating stories about one's church, accentuating the achievements and minimizing the failures.

Sharing non-school nutrition stories about your school or district: student and staff achievements, special events, and sports news.

The theme of these songs will primarily be about the stories of the black people, their struggle, what they stood for and their achievements.

Read and submit stories about our classmates from Hoosick Falls High School, post achievements and news about our alumni, and post photos of our fellow Panthers.

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The intervention, short numerical story problems delivered through an iPad app, significantly increased children's math achievement across the school year compared to a reading (control) group, especially for children whose parents are habitually anxious about math.

One of the best things about it is a simple one: It feels like a story and an achievement unto itself.

This cohesiveness is a remarkable achievement for a film that compresses a life story into three episodic segments, each running about 40 minutes.

While The Danish Girl chronicles Einar's mental and physical transformation into Lili Elbe, its real achievement is dramatizing a love story between two people who genuinely care about each other.

There he finds a prominent character from his father's stories, and learns much about the real Edward Bloom's achievements and failures.

The fear I had going into Stronger, the film about Bauman's recovery starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was that it would cram this genuinely wrenching material into the Hollywood «based on a true story» formula, resulting in a three - act movie of tragedy, love, and stirring achievement that exists primarily as a showcase for an Oscar campaign.

Then 2017 DGA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series Award nominees: Kyra Sedgwick (Story of a Girl) and Jean - Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies) spoke about the making of their films in a conversation moderated by DGA Movies for Television Committee Chair Mike Robe.

In a groundbreaking achievement, director Richard Linklater has created cinema history by filming over the span of twelve years the same cast to tell a story about a six - year - old boy growing up in Texas.

There are innumerable movies based on true stories about real people who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles with determination, vision, and talent to accomplish extraordinary achievements in sports, the arts, and shaping public policy.

Read more stories from The Achievement Alliance about successful schools in the Education World feature Turnaround Tales.

Statistics tell only part of the story about what states are doing to improve public education and raise student achievement.

Indeed, it's one thing to think, rather generically, about the achievement gap between races and socio - economic groups, but as I saw up close and personal in that sixth - grade classroom yesterday and as Mike makes vividly clear in his Ed Next story, our relatively recent headlong rush to celebrate diversity — and integration and «mainstreaming» — has brought with it new achievement gap challenges.

The articles below from Education World's archive share stories about how data can be used to raise student achievement, plus practical tips for building your data - handling skills.

The articles in this archive share stories about how data can be used to raise student achievement, plus practical tips for building your data - management skills.

The Boston success story is about raising student achievement.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

She manages to skillfully weave personal observations, research citations, and understated British humor into a powerful story about the role education systems play in shaping — and reflecting — national culture and achievement.

Increasingly in recent years I've heard stories about students in independent schools and wealthy suburban schools who are strung - out achievement junkies and about parents who drive them relentlessly.

Imagine if we talked with the same conviction about stories like Montgomery County ~ Maryland or other districts like Union City ~ New Jersey ~ Cincinnati ~ Ohio or Springfield ~ Massachusetts - examples where professionals collaborated at the local level to raise the achievement scores and performance of all students as market - oriented reformers do about their success stories.

@dccousnelor 72 - I don't have any problem talking about Rhee's «lie» on her resume... Frankly, it's a non-issue... there's research that shows 85 % of people exaggerate on their resume... who cares if she moved achievement from 13 % -50 % or 13 % to 90 %... the truth is Rhee may have been a good teacher and she may not have been... the taping of the students» mouth was certainly not a good story to tell... so, I don't know...

Leonie did some quick research and discovered that there were blog posts and even web sites complaining about the pineapple story, which had been used on a number of state tests including the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT).

Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «choice» and «achievement,» the real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!

In a must read story on today's The Naked City Blog, Daniel Denvir writes that «the remaining schools would get chopped up into «achievement networks» where public or private groups compete to manage about 25 schools, and the central office would be chopped down to a skeleton crew of about 200.

«The continuing story is that only about 40 percent of our students are on track and there still remain huge achievement gaps,» state school board President Andrew Smarick was quoted by The Baltimore Sun, when the PARCC scores were first released over the summer.

Then, after a short story about how Common Core began with «an impromptu discussion about common achievement standards among states,» Luna's Chief of Staff, Luci Willits, introduced Rules Governing Thoroughness; Common Core Standards (Docket # 08-0203-1003).

Let's face it: it's not always positive stories we hear in the news about school foods and physical education, our kids» health and how our academic achievements stack up against those of our global competitors.

We've shared some amazing stories about student achievement, Common Core, and many others.

Read not only what is becoming a too familiar story, but also her perspective about whether she is the only one who is «adding value» (and I use that term very loosely here) to her students» learning and achievement.

Watch as the dynamic Luctricia Lewis, an eighth grade English Language Arts teacher at Westside Achievement Middle School, shares her story about why she chooses to achieve with the Achievement Schools in Frayser.

Over the summer, the Post ran a pair of stories raising questions about the system's achievement gaps and student suspension rates.

In the end, teens (in general) don't read research studies; their own reasons for reading over the summer are more likely to be about good stories than about achievement gaps.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.

Writing a biography is not just about pointing out the person's achievements, but it is also about adding a personal touch to their life's story, so that a reader can get an idea of the character's personality.

Wherever you draw the line between fiction and nonfiction, remember the basic rules of good citizenship: Do not re-create incidents and characters who never existed; do not write to do harm to innocent victims; do not forget your own story, but while considering your struggle and the heights of your achievements, think repeatedly about how your story will affect and relate to your reader.

All this transforms into this epic quest where you begin by taking Link to Hyrule and from there everything starts to twist and turn and you learn about this epic story of Twilight Princess that is really quite an achievement in itself.

I found myself plunging through the entire story mode where I rattled off Xbox Achievement after Xbox Achievement in just about an hour.