Sentences with phrase «talk about school while»

Make a visit to school and take pictures of the teachers and environment so your child can remember and talk about school while at home.

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(I talked about them a lot while I was in grad school, and may or may not have been responsible for converting my entire class into eating there regularly.

He roots for the Maple Leafs and supports the Raptors and recently became an ambassador for the National Bank of Canada, but would just as easily fit in at a California beach playing frisbee while talking to his high school buddies about midterms as he does in a toque or on a tennis court.

I've been overwhelmed with all of the options (I do better with limited choices) and, while I haven't actually visited any of the schools in person yet (I have talked with some moms about where they are sending their kids), I haven't felt peaceful about the whole process.

Parents report kids who are eager to get to school in the morning, while kids who have access to breakfast - in - the - classroom talk about how much they enjoy the atmosphere BIC creates.

While many choose to go back to school, or talk to their current bosses about working from home, a growing number of moms are turning to the business of homemade crafts.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

The Sound of Music is a good way to introduce a discussion about WWII with school - age kids, while the Wizard of OZ is perfect for talking about appreciating the people in your life.

At Wahluke School District in central Washington, Fresh Food in Schools partner Joan Qazi helped to bring Cloudview Ecofarm to Mattawa Elementary, where farmers conducted a tasting of their sweet heirloom and cherry tomatoes while talking to students about farming.

Make lunch while they eat breakfast and talk about the upcomimg day (remember gymnastics is tonight so do as much homework at the sitters after school)

We talked a while back on TLT about one intrepid principal's attempt to prevent students from buying junk food at businesses near her school campus.

While it's expected that moms will share photos of their kids on social media, it's because of social media that so many moms today are trying to get the perfect shots, and I'm not talking about those posed school pictures; I'm talking about pictures of their kids playing at the park, sleeping or pretty much everything else.

Cuomo can't avoid getting tainted by the Manhattan federal court trial because «they are going to be talking about actions taken while Mr. Percoco was employed by the campaign and in state government,» said Albany Law School professor Christine Chung.

He also provided specifics for a few things he's been talking about for a while, like education — he wants to increase school aid by about a billion dollars — but especially homelessness, an issue he's been sparring about with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

He talks about more rigorous standards and evaluations for teachers and students, even while the charter schools he champions function without any effective oversight.

While not working on satellite devices, she visits schools, taking younger children on a computer - simulated «Tour of the Universe» and talking to older ones about the highlights of her career in science.

Her friends are now enemies, and they do things like knock things off her desk when the teacher isn't looking to embarrass her in front of the class, whisper about her (while looking right at her) at the lunch table, and start group texts about her that the kids talk about at school.

While I try to take my mind off of the hard stuff, we are taking the easy way out and talking about back to school styles!

In one key scene between the two, Milo talks about how their father (who not - coincidentally ended his own life by jumping off a bridge many years ago) once told him when he was a boy that the kids who were popular in high school were only going to see their lives go downhill from there while Milo would flourish once he was able to step out into the real world — the heartbreak comes when Milo, holding back tears, states that he was the one it never got better for.

By the time he picks up his adorable and precocious niece from school and drives her around while she talks about the trouble she's having making a short film for her class under Iran's expansive media guidelines, the intent is clear.

Additionally, while it is important to talk about what we are doing in schools that criminalizes our black and brown youth, it is equally important to talk about what is happening in the schools of those who took their lives.

Do not expect that students only will talk about the lesson, class assignment, project, or other school related topics while you sit back at your desk doing paperwork or grading.

While we know that a balance is important, that young people want to be supported and that they want to feel connected to their school and to their teacher, there's much more that needs to be understood about this and we can do this both through administering questionnaires but probably better yet actually talking to teachers and young people and asking them specifically, in specific schools, in specific neighbourhoods: «What would make for a better relationship and a better environment where you would want to spend time, learn and also learn some good, positive behaviour skills?»

Will Richardson talks about blogging in schools and we hear about a student's blog that she did while serving as a page for the Virginia House of Delegates.

She sat on her hands for 20 minutes while her mother talked to this man about all the problems Gillian was having at school: She was disturbing people, and her homework was always late, and so on.

While we talk about 21st - century knowledge and skill sets, we must also ensure that students understand how much their school cares about them as individuals.

And on the BBC, where she is a frequent guest, she has talked about genocide, provocative photos of women in the media, and another controversial figure in her country: Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot while on her way to school and eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

However, while I was clearing my credential, working with mentor teachers to reflect on my practice, and finding out how real students differed from theoretical ones, I also spent long hours after school with the speech and debate team reading philosophy and theory and talking about innovative alternatives for national defense, natural resource allocation, and, of course, education.

While the premise of this convening was the enormous edtech conference, ISTE, I spent less time talking about tech tools and awesome apps and more time talking about equity, school -LSB-...]

So, while we've talked to some schools that are sincere in their concerns about the regulations, many more simply did not want certain types of children in their schools.

But while she says the Greene County school districts have made an effort to talk to parents about the new standards, she says she's not sure if the public understands the changes happening in Indiana schools.

While it failed to «change the mindset» of the American people on education, he takes some comfort in the fact that the candidates talked about «standards, a longer school day, a longer school year in some cases, better teaching, and incentive compensation and charter schools.»

(While access to trend data is increasing, however, district and school personnel were more apt to talk about its availability and potential than its use).

(New International Version) A while back I was talking with a friend about school problems, and she surprised me by saying «America doesn't love its children!»

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, told Schools Week that while social media is a useful way for a school to talk to parents about news and events, and respond to queries and concerns, his organisation does not see «any scope for using it to monitor a school from afar&rSchool and College Leaders, told Schools Week that while social media is a useful way for a school to talk to parents about news and events, and respond to queries and concerns, his organisation does not see «any scope for using it to monitor a school from afar&rschool to talk to parents about news and events, and respond to queries and concerns, his organisation does not see «any scope for using it to monitor a school from afar&rschool from afar».

Obama went to Graham Road Elementary School last week to talk about «Race to the Top,» and while he was there, to have a talk with sixth graders.

Parent Keeley McSweeney also talks about the impact this has had on the schooling of her children while Tower Hamlets Labour councillor Joshua Peck says the council failed to respond to the need for schools.

---- While we often talk about how Denver schools need improvement, we also happily acknowledge that there are incredible developments underway.

But while Mayor Bill de Blasio pontificates about the NYC he wants to see — and why you should want it, too, or else you're a terrible person — New York School Talk (NYST) got a sense of what really matters to NYC parents, based on which blog posts generated the most traffic.

While they are happy to talk about school autonomy, the reality is that the MAT system allows this to disappear.

When I talk about the long hours, for example, what I mean is that, over the course of four years, my school's administration steadily expanded the workload and workday while barely adjusting salaries.

«We're talking about diminished resources for students in our neighborhood public schools while private voucher schools essentially get a blank check at taxpayer expense with zero accountability.»

A while back there was policy talk about the need to work with these schools.

To boost math achievement, a PTO might organize or assist with a school math night, where children play games that reinforce math skills while teachers talk with parents about academic standards and provide tools for helping children with math at home.

In the original inquiry project in which I was the staff developer, while we brought the teachers in a particular school together every two weeks to talk about issues of common interest, we also worked closely with individual teachers as they pursued their particular interests in their classroom.

While schools across the country are talking about making this shift back to kindergarten «the way it used to be,» it's still rare for a whole district to focus so much energy on actually making such a change, says Ritchie.

While Malloy shied away from talking about education, his corporate - funded education reform supporters were much more vocal, holding a press conference yesterday calling for, among other things, more charter schools.

While the independent school community is still figuring out how best to use the Edcamp model to broadly serve the needs of independent school educators, Gow says that the core idea of Edcamp — as an unconference where educators get together to decide what to talk about — has caught on in other venues.

While school leaders talk a lot about student - centered learning, not many of them actually ask students what they like to do for fun on the weekends, what kind of hobbies they have or what they're interested in, Fleming said.