Sentences with phrase «time they spend in school because»

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Choi thinks Korean teenagers, for example, may be particularly vulnerable to smartphone addiction because they spend a lot of time in school and in after - school tutoring programs.

He spent a few days in the hospital in March, and he has had to leave school early a few times because of fatigue.

This year was unique for me because I spent some time on the exhibit floor and many of the equipment and food companies were well educated on the movement to BIC and were interested in getting to know ways they can support schools.

Not because I don't want to believe that such «miracles» can happen, but because I've spent enough time immersed in this issue in my own district to know that there are many real world obstacles — notably labor costs, the lack of facilities and the cost of buying and storing fresh food — which make such miracles very hard to replicate in many school districts in America.

My kids eat a school lunch every day, they get a balanced, hot meal that even in the 15 minute lunch hour (including standing in line time) they can finish because they are not tracking down their lunch boxes, they are not opening containers and baggies and they are not spending time trying to trade out with their friends, because everyone has the same things....

«I swear the reason why my daughter is on Andrew [High School] freshman girls basketball team today is because of all the time she spent in the rec center's gym practicing,» said Suzette Dolingale of Tinley Park.

And then there are other kids that might need a little kick in the pants - a little more attention and urging them to think about schoolwork and completing homework, because it's a good thing now and then for a kid who isn't spending much time on school.

Tories wanted to rush through schools reforms as soon as they came to office because they were all too aware that much of their time in office would be spent cutting down trees — this, for them, was proof they'd be planting some too.

Because children spend much of their time in school, educational institutions can have a significant impact on diet through the foods and drinks they make available to students.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

Because youth spend a substantial amount of time in school, school wellness policies should include plans designed to increase outdoor activity.

«Because children spend much of their time in school, a school nurse is ideally positioned to help.

We are a better school because of the time they spent in our classrooms teaching all of us the beauty of paying attention to breath, to movement, and to each other.»

The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy / drama about an unusual high school student who underachieves in classes because he spends all of his time on extracurricular activities.

As the use of technology in schools grows rapidly — whether in blended - learning environments, for project - based learning, or just because it's the fad du jour — how much time students should spend learning on a computer is a point of contention.

Because I was going to be in India for roughly two weeks, I went through any network I had to say that I'd be available to spend some extra time and do some work with schools and teachers and students.

Because children spend so much time in schools, schools have become key spots for instilling in a generation of overweight, inactive youngsters the need for good nutrition and exercise.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

Which is why schools should look beyond training just core teachers because students don't spend all of their time in the class.

As the use of technology in schools grows rapidly — whether in blended - learning environments, for project - based learning, or just because it's the fad du jour — the amount of time students should spend learning on computers is a point of contention.

«We're blessed to have people who want to come in and spend time with us, so we have to be extremely flexible,» says McCauley, who sees flexibility as the school's responsibility, «because they are giving us a gift of time, and time is a precious, precious gift, and we value it.»

Because of this, teachers at my school carefully construct our literacy blocks to maximize the amount of time spent in shared reading and writing experiences throughout the day.

Because of changing military assignments, the maximum amount of time most children spend in one school is three years; the annual mobility rate is 35 percent.

A compatibility effect — some teachers, even though they've gone through all their training and have spent time in classrooms, discover initially that they don't feel very compatible with the teaching that they get to do, so that's a personal choice and not necessarily because of the lack of support of a school, if that's the case.

We wouldn't necessarily expect CTE students to show as much academic progress as their peers in traditional high schools because they are spending less of their time on academics!

«What we uncovered is that parents were inclined to discourage their children from studying because time spent in school was time not spent earning wages,» he says.

Along with advice on how to foster a more positive relationship between disengaged students and sports programs, the ASC suggests schools consider these strategies to work at building students» excitement and connection with sport: allowing students to spend the full school day in their sport uniform; inclusion of some form of novelty in the program; and, allow opportunity for versatile aspects to a sports program, because some students might prefer to spend the time concentrating on personal fitness, while others are more interested in the social aspect of PE.

But now we know that about one - third of recent DC high school graduates — 900 students — had no business receiving diplomas, and that they marched across the stage last Spring because some adults changed their grades or pushed them through the farce known as «credit recovery,» in which students can receive credit for a semester by spending a few hours over a week's time in front of a computer.

Just because people have spent a lot of time in school, doesn't make them professional educators.

Stronger charter school laws can help meet rural students» needs by allowing communities to innovate in ways that traditional districts can not because of regulatory constraints on hiring, spending, allocation of time, and class offerings.

Gibb had previously said parents shouldn't be able to take their children on holiday during term time because «abundant academic evidence» showed time spent in school was «one of the single strongest determinants of academic success».

But «I don't spend a lot of time on vouchers or even tax credits because I think charters are a faster way to get great schools in the hands of parents.»

RTTT has cash - strapped school systems engaged in wasteful «jumping through government orchestrated hoops»... How many school systems spent untold time vying for this RTTT money only to be denied it anyway because they weren't pro charter, or weren't in favor of linking student test scores to teacher evaluations?

ExpandED Schools works to build education enrichment into an expanded school day because extra time spent in engaging learning activities leads to better outcomes in school and beyond.

In regards to Proposition One, The School Bond, we can continue to kick the can down the road because there will always be something wrong with any plan; «not enough time,» «not enough public input,» «my fifth - grader can't walk to school and has to ride a bus,» «why are we spending money on athletics,» or we can do the right thing and spend $ 10 / School Bond, we can continue to kick the can down the road because there will always be something wrong with any plan; «not enough time,» «not enough public input,» «my fifth - grader can't walk to school and has to ride a bus,» «why are we spending money on athletics,» or we can do the right thing and spend $ 10 / school and has to ride a bus,» «why are we spending money on athletics,» or we can do the right thing and spend $ 10 / month.

«I've spent time in hundreds of different school models, if not a thousand, just given the roles I've had in education over the years, and I think you can become kind of numb or just comfortable with the status quo of classrooms in which kids aren't engaged, and the teachers have lost their mojo or love for teaching because they're given a scripted curriculum from their district that they have to follow, and they have no ability to be entrepreneurial or creative.»

It says that in the past five years, 56 charter schools in South Florida have closed because of mismanagement and / or other issues, and that «a handful» of them «owe a total of at least $ 1 million in public education money to local school districts» but because districts have a hard time documenting spending, the amount could be much higher.

«This forced academisation programme is wrongheaded of itself, but in the context of the very tough and difficult decisions that headteachers are facing it is making their job impossible because they are going to have to spend time and money engaging lawyers and consultants to change their [school's] legal status.»

Please note, however, that you will have a difficult time finding Swift's essay in school libraries that have been aligned to the Common Core because the proponents of the Common Core seem to think that so - called non-fiction is more important than fiction... which is why I am spending much of my time running between libraries and book stores moving George Orwell's 1984 from the fiction to the non-fiction section.

There, it was argued that firing teachers solely based on the amount of time that they've spent in the system was wrong because it gutted schools in poorer neighborhoods, thus denying the children there the right of a stable education, or some such.

But every student at the middle school where I worked till my retirement in 2009 knows, because the school spent more time acknowledging that day — «Transgender Day of Remembrance» — than Veteran's Day, November 11th.

[58] Specifically, ELL students are better served at KIPP schools because of their extended school days, extra services (such as tutors), additional time spent with ELL students, and the CMO's focus on serving underserved students in poverty, many of whom are ELL students.

In a wonderfully direct teenage voice, both passionate and vulnerable, tall, handsome, high - school senior Kevin tells how he spends his time dodging girls because he knows he's gay.

Because we homeschooled for the last 5 or 6 years, I've gotten to spend a lot more time with her than I would if she'd been in public school, and I'm really going to miss her.

I spent essentially my entire 20s in school, and I confess I didn't do much investing, at least in a classic sense, while I was in school mostly because I was either broke or worse than broke most of the time.

Now I've been in vacation since December and nobody from my school has never invited me to nothing, I've spent a month only playing Smash Wii U, watching Adventure Time and talking with you guys here, because you all make me feel less depressed.

That said, I'm not going to throw in the towel and think that Sega has spent all this time appealing to our nostalgia and carefully crafting this gorgeous looking game just for us old - school fans to turn our back on them because we don't agree with some stylistic changes.

Now most lawyers go to law school, but there are advantages to going the more old - fashioned route: avoiding the high cost of law school and, arguably, getting more on - the - ground experience than you'd get in a law school classroom because you'll be spending your time shadowing a working lawyer.

Joseph's lecture detailed his time spent at a residential school, where he had difficulty learning not because he didn't want to but because, in his early years, a teacher beat him to the point where his hearing was so severely damaged that it was physically challenging to pay attention in class.

This is great for Julie because with her buys schedule she doesn't need to spend time driving to a school and spending hours in a classroom.