Sentences with phrase «sure the school actually»

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The experience of many interested observers is that most young people who go to a secondary Catholic school are not sure what a sacrament actually is or does and would find it hard to name them.

I had one actually ask for a fresh juice before school this morning... am sure he'd be diggin this smoothie combo.

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

I can only imagine how much more challenging it can be as they get older and are eating school lunches, with no teacher reporting back about how much was consumed or making sure to send home the containers from home lunches so Mom and Dad can see what actually went into the kids» stomachs.

And I'm sure that the board, once it meets, will consider what the next steps are that we need to take to ensure that all of the 2,500 students plus the additional students that are in the pipeline from the elementary and middle schools actually have a safe, secure learning environment for 21st century work.»

Again, we have to make sure that the reforms and the changes are ones that are sustainable and actually really alleviate some of the problems that are existing in our schools.»

He and undergraduate and graduate student co-authors then individually sourced and read reports for each event to make sure it was actually an incident of gun violence at a school.

Unfortunately, this led to some sleepless nights in high school and college as I stayed up all night studying or making sure a report was perfect, but over time, I've learned to harness my perfectionism and love of systems to actually save time rather than take time.

but I live in Florida, on an island that hasn't seen snow since 1989 and they closed school yesterday because -LCB- well actually I'm not really sure why -RCB-..

The dialogue sparkles — in what's sure to become a classic line, Jennifer is described as «actually evil, not high school evil.»

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

«It's actually really very simple, it's the type of thing that many schools of course already do but we are wanting to make sure that in every school in every classroom every child gets the chance to be proven as meeting the type of standards of learning you'd expect.

«If you had an elective program at Year 9 or 10 and they could choose four subjects, but as a school you want them to do one art subject, one technology subject and one humanities subject, we can actually write rules to make sure they choose one of each,» Moira says.

We also spend a considerable amount of taxpayer funding on our schools, and we should be sure we're getting a good return on our investment and our schools are actually effective in teaching students the skills they need to be successful members of society.

Yet he noted resignedly that, for all the law's assurances, all his state's resources, and all the experts he'd consulted, he wasn't sure we actually knew how to turn around troubled schools.

#ukedchat summary & archive «David Cameron said, There are some things that actually we really have to make sure young people are taught — sometimes it can be boring, learning arithmetic and your spelling can be boring, but it's absolutely essential as its part of life — Should any learning in school be boring?»

Project teams are engaged to support the school up to three years post completion to make sure everything works as it should, and that the energy and environmental performance targets, promised at the outset, are actually met.

Every once in a while, when visiting a successful school, you see something that makes your jaw drop, something so extraordinary, you have to stop and make sure what you saw is actually what it appears to be.

Doing so would have a number of positive benefits, including 1) making sure that the taxpayer dollars devoted to this purpose are being spent on those most able to benefit, 2) encouraging students to work harder during high school to prepare themselves for college, and 3) increasing what students actually learn as opposed to the amount of seat time they acquire.

Maybe his time, given his varying roles, would be better spent a. Getting his Trust to produce a detailed case - study with a breakdown of all the cost - savings made, for other schools to scrutinise and benchmark against... and b. actually making sure that the folk setting up his much trumpeted «national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers» do a better job.

For decades, we threw money at education without making sure our schools were actually improving, or whether we were giving teachers the tools they need, or whether our taxpayer dollars were being used effectively.

With new Common Core initiatives, impending new tests, controversies surrounding teacher evaluation, tightening financial realities, and a plethora of competing reform agendas devised without input from those who actually work in schools, we were not sure how educators would respond.

«So all the things that principals do in terms of setting that culture at the school is essential for making sure that teachers want to be there and that they can actually really be effective in terms of teaching the students.

That is that day schools deserve to have a level of services and I think a number of school districts have not provided the proper level of services, whether that's health care or services for students with disabilities or the like; and I think that we actually do have to make sure that districts are providing the required services under the law of the State of Connecticut.

We want to make sure that the new seats we advocate for are actually created in the communities with the greatest need and demand for better school options.

Moving forward, we want to make sure that any new school expansion we support or encourage (be it district, charter public or private) are in areas where the need is greatest, and that the schools are actually providing programs and opportunities that meet the needs of their unique student population.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

What effort does the school make to actually make sure that teachers when they enter a school have access to the best teachers, to the best kind of professional resources?

I would argue that if the goal is to provide more instruction that taps into students» individual needs and personal interests, then school and district leaders should focus on doing specific things that might actually move the needle, such as making sure: 1) that teachers know their students well; 2) that they assess student learning carefully; 3) that they provide students with rich and diverse materials in a range of media, and 4) that student and teacher assignments are flexible.

The Division of Non-Public Education does not seem to have much recourse in making sure that private schools are actually private schools and not home schools.

Peterson's not so sure they can actually tease those two things — student body composition and school quality — apart.

A coalition of «education reformers» and corporate executives in Fairfield Country are spending a record amount of money to convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their interest to VOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schools.

«Yet when we invite police officers into the schools, we don't have any of those accountability measures to make sure that they are actually making students safer.»

The card company will like to verify the information you have provided in order to be sure that you are actually a student of the school.

I'm actually not even sure how some of my classmates were able to afford to go to interviews during school.

Before you actually go ahead and enroll your dog, make sure that the training school is nationally recognized.

Sure, there's a plot — involving the shinobi girls being sucked into another dimension to compete against rival schools in a series of summer - themed challenges — but really, most of this only serves as an excuse for a) the ladies» clothes to start flying off, and b) to set up dialogue with goofy jokes that are so obvious it's actually kind of of painful.

Do you think that it will actually cook a marshmallow or hersheys bar for a science experiment at school because i am not sure that it will work.

You might have gone to law school to escape the numbers, which is fine, but then make sure you're paying somebody to actually do this for you.

Even if I could lecture to you on what a law school exam is, it is so much easier — and I can only be sure you truly understand what it is — if you actually are somewhat prepared for one and take it.

Not every traffic school is DMV approved so it is imperative to make sure the comedy traffic school that you are considering is actually approved by the DMV in your county or state.

So, if your online traffic school is supposed to take 6 hours to complete, a course timer will make sure you actually spend that much time on the course.

First of all, you need to make sure you sign up for an online traffic school that has actually been certified in the state of California.

Just make sure you sign up for traffic school or defensive driving and not the insurance discount course or drivers ed (unless those are the courses you actually want to take, obviously).

This would actually be the part where a written insurance policy of the Driving School is going to be signed but make sure all the coverage would be included should the teen starts enrolment.

Before choosing a private school, drivers will want to get as many pre-hire letters as possible, and also make sure that their companies of choice actually hire from that school.

Do your research on your traffic school and if your insurance company accepts reductions in rates from traffic school attendance, make sure the schools you're looking at actually appear on this list.

And now is when you can actually start doing things that will help make sure your resume is solid when you leave school.

To make the skills section of your resume more convincing, you can use the required school bus driver skills given above with modification where necessary to suit your personality, but make sure you actually have the qualities to avoid giving false information to prospective employers.

I am sure that when this issue is mentioned there are probably a lot of schools and principals who thumb their mose at the use of this method, saying instead that it is not a valuable use of time or that it could actually be rewarding bad behavior.