Sentences with phrase «very first school year»

We've been having a lot of fun back to school shopping and getting everything ready to go for his very first school year!

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It is very possible that the people killed in the last few years as the result of «school shootings» may in fact be the first victims / results of this experiment.

The difference is I lived in a very religious setting when I was young, went to a private school, and what I said was from first hand experience over 11 years with hundreds perhaps thousands of children going through the same thing.

All three of those have multiple schools that have won section titles in recent years, have multiple schools that have finished very high in the state rankings and have multiple schools which have had players named all - state first team and / or taken high in the MLB Draft.

I'm 41 years old, and last year i got a disillusionment from someone who was extremely abusive and cruel to me that i was in a relationship with for thirteen years, before that i was not very wise in matters of dating, but that was my first relationship since high school.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

The teen years are full of a lot of firsts that can make parents very nervous — the first high school party, the first time out after dark, the first kiss, and the first love.

Bonnie has been with Berkeley Rose Waldorf School from the very first year the school stSchool from the very first year the school stschool started.

We are really in a transformative moment here in school meals; this is the first serious upgrade in nutrition standards in over 15 years, and the first real increase in the reimbursement rate for a very long time.

Try to start the year off on a positive note, so that your tween puts his best foot forward on that very first day of school.

O'Leary says that her daughter Jean's first year of school was very stressful for her.

Then I observed that many home schooling parents move very strongly toward hands - on activities for their children over the first few years of home schooling.

Very near to the beginning of the year in a Waldorf School we celebrate our first festival.

With the new school year right around the corner, there are many parents getting ready to send their little ones to school for the very first time.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

Over the years, the program has expanded a great deal, and very quickly, in both public schools and charter schools, but it is not so clear that the same number of teachers who are prepared to implement the program are available now as there were during the first years the program was established in public schools.

It doesn't have the best reputation «cause it is considered to be a bit simple, that is, you know, we teach it to either, you know, advanced high school students or, you know, if you take it in first year university it would be near the beginning of the semester, because it really is not meant to be a very difficult play compared to Hamlet or certainly King Lear.

Although I spent the first 17 years of my life in a black world — the segregated communities and schools of Birmingham, Alabama — I've spent the past 38 years under very different circumstances.

Throughout college and graduate school, Amelia Poplawski learned very efficiently from her textbooks and lectures, so the first - year student in Penn State College of Medicine's physician assistant program was surprised when a tool she had never heard of — team - based learning — enhanced her studying.

Last year, MUIH was very pleased to announce that we are opening the first School of Naturopathic Medicine in the mid-Atlantic region.

This happened to me last year when I tried a popular party mix for the very first time at one of my kid's school events.

I'm a first year law student at a fairly well ranked and very locally respected school.

I always tried to wear my very best outfit on the first day of school because I wanted to set my own precedent as the new school year started.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

My first job out of High School was at St Paul and over the next 5 years Iearned so very much.

I got back from school (freshman year), touched up a few things here and there, and made the very first post of the site:

Offering crucial support to schools working through the process, the institute was oversubscribed in its very first year.

The Kozol text that struck me the most was Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools that had been published in 1967 and was a narrative about Kozols first year teaching in that same very section of Boston - Roxbury.

Reexamining the published research in light of the new standards, however, they found that the use of leveled text beyond the very first years of primary school yielded no achievement gains in students.

«You know, the educators in the prior - to - school settings and then first years of school, they're working within very different curricular and learning framework structures so opportunities for collaboration of learning experiences might not be feasible.

As someone that taught for 33 1/2 years, the very first FULL day of vacation was always the beginning of possibilities of things to do that I didn't get to do during the school year.

That may explain why, on the very first day of the school year, the students begin by reading and discussing the standards, and then turn to their main activity of circling and looking up words.

The AFT fails to note, however, that most charters are very new schools; 14 percent of the nearly 2,400 charter schools operating in the 2001 - ’02 school year were in their first year, and another 23 percent were in their second year.

Maria Melchiorre, Head of Languages at St Mark's Anglican Community School in Perth's northern suburbs, enrolled students in the ALC program in its very first year and has continued to enrol students of French, Japanese, Indonesian and German every year since.

But Summit has reported first - year results for SLP partner schools: Growth on the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP) exceeded national averages in reading and, very slightly, in math.

Perhaps the DOE could continue to authorize charter schools that specifically serve children with disabilities; the very first one will open next year.

Administrators can cultivate their resilience by being life - long learners and applying some of the very things they were taught in their first years of school.

The concept of inviting parents to school on the very first day of the school year is growing in popularity.

Estonia has famously made computing a really important part of its curriculum from the very first year of school.

The Great British Make Off aims to show that English schools have a subject in its curriculum (we were the first country in the world to introduce it 25 years ago), that is being looked at enviously by countries around the world and especially in the Far East at the very time we are at risk of losing it.

So many school stories on the first day of a new year — some of them good, many pro forma, very few breaking through #edjourn

Dr. Cruz also took steps in her first year to begin to break down the organizational culture of autonomous schools and autonomous units, noting: «When I walked into this district again, it was very fragmented.

(Hanover, MD, October 3, 2012) Twenty years ago the nation's very first chartered school opened its doors in St. Paul, Minnesota.

«I don't think we're going to learn a lot by looking at states with only six charter schools that started last year,» she says, noting that in their first year or two, charter schools can be «oddball» places, operating out of makeshift facilities and populated by students whose parents are either very experimental or desperate to improve their child's failing performance.

More than 150 principals and administrators from more than 30 Ohio districts and school providers graduated from the program, 60 in the first year, and nearly 90 % of program participants rated LBL Ohio as effective or very effective

Last year Dawn attended her first 7 Mindsets Universityand afterwards returned to Casa Grande with some very big ideas for how to take the Mindsets deeper into her school and community framework for social emotional learning

By the same token, we can't judge our schools solely by how well students perform on assessments in the very first year of such a sweeping new initiative as the Common Core.

We recommend that states adopt this particular definition for two critical reasons: first, it has a proven ability to identify students who are at very high risk of academic failure due to absences; and, second, using it will allow for comparisons across states and districts nationwide, even if the lengths of their school years differ.

«We can not thrive in a knowledge - based marketplace if 45 percent of our high - school students can not do math and 39 percent can not do science at the very basic level,» said Gist, who is in her first year as commissioner of elementary and secondary education.

From our very first year in the Volksschule or elementary school, we received daily doses of Nazism.