Sentences with phrase «very kind of schools»

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And I kind of liked him and he's a very personable guy and kind of old school.

However, many schools have on campus security and are very protective of those records, which would be very enlightening in a study of this kind.

While people learn to speak very early, and mostly in psychologically favorable conditions, learning to write forms an important part of authoritarian socialization by the school («good writing» as a kind of breaking - in).

I learned quickly at the Divinity School that full respect was reserved chiefly for the mainline Protestant churches of the old New England kind, including Congregationalists, Anglicans, Unitarians, and Presbyterians, with considerable respect also for the mainstream Lutherans (less so for the Missouri Synod) and some Methodists, but very little for the Baptists and those others from «the left wing of the Reformation.»

While I'm very sympathetic to Dreher's hope (I teach at a school that advertises itself as Christian), I see something problematic in a kind of greenhouse theory of conservative education in which students are reared and taught within an engineered, not - in - the - world atmosphere.

I know, scalloped potatoes don't really sound very good... kind of like grade school cafeteria food.

«That performance was kind of like in Old School, when Will Ferrell answers the very difficult debate question, and everyone's like, «Wow, that was amazing,» and he's like, «Whoa, what happened?

He's not the first one of his kind, and there have been coaches like that who have gone on to do very poorly at big schools.

a) Illinois was in a very awkward position to begin with - Lovie was replacing a glorified interim coach while Herm is replacing a coach people were kind of shocked got fired in the first place b) Timing aside, Smith's hire wasn't all that unconventional - while not as prevalent as up - and - comers or hot coordinators, recent NFL coaches with some kind of connection to the school / area is probably the fourth biggest source of college coaches after retreads.

All kinds of sources agree that reading aloud to your child is very important for preparing them — not only for reading on their own, but also for school in general.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

6 months after we were in the relationship he got a job in a supermarket as security guard, but here in my country that does nt really makes a lot, its like almost $ 300 dollars per month, i make 600 up to 800 per month, by taking calls in a call center, he never went to college he only graduated highschool, im in law school right now... from the very beginning since i knew he did nt have a job or was making money he could spend, if i had money i would invite him out to dinner, or to the movies or whatever and it was me paying for it which i did nt mind, he is not the kind of men who buys flower, or invite u to the movies, or out, he rather visit me at home and watch a movie in netflix and thats it, we have made plans to go out, but none of them works out, something always happen, and the day it may happen, i say no, just because i think i will have to pay for the date..

I'm currently completely failing in my mission to be Superwoman, the combination of a job, three very busy children, helping at school, a husband who seems to be away a lot and trying to maintain some kind of life away from my computer is taking it's toll.

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

Our competitive structure in schools does very little to promote these kinds of skills.

Isis has «sling school» where you can try out all of their slings and, if they don't have a class available, I found their staff to be very helpful in trying on and advising on every kind of sling available.

But I think it's very important that schools encourage across gender lines all kinds of children to be leaders and give them opportunities to showcase their talents, whether in a single - gender school or a co-ed school.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

It's very common that one twin will have a preference of the foods that they like while the other are the more of the kind of I will called the other one [inaudible] I don't know if I'm the only one who thought them would be old school but that's what I think of.

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

Though many different kinds of kids will do well at such a program, Ms. Raymer says play - based schools tend to be good for «the very young, the energetic and those whose attention spans are still in development.»

The problem was the kind of literature that was being used in some schools and distributed to very young children that was seen to promote homosexuality... I thought, rightly or wrongly, that there was a problem in those days.

«But I am also very cognizant on a daily basis of the kind of pressures our schools, our students, our teachers are under because of Common Core and these other tremendous sea changes that are being implemented in our schools,» she said.

But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.

«When we look at the present day, we have a very high fidelity timeline over the last about 500 million years of what's happened on Earth, and we have a pretty good understanding that plate tectonics and volcanism and all these kinds of processes have happened more or less the same way over the last couple of billion years,» says Lindy Elkins - Tanton, director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

Less than 50 percent of surveyed teens found it «very believable» that cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, according to a first - of - its - kind UNC School of Medicine study.

«This is the very first evidence of this kind of chemical crypsis from diet in a vertebrate,» said Rohan Brooker, a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

I am blessed to stay home with my kids (4 and 7) but I am kind of «over it» and wanting to find a VERY part time job next year when my littlest is in school 5 days a week.

ahaha But very cute, gives a super school girl kind of vibe.

I'm a very loving, caring, passionate real down to earth laid back kinda guy I love music certainly Jazz R&B and blues old school music love having fun all kinds of things but first and foremost I love my lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom is the head of my life my world.

I'm a fun loving Jokester kind of guy, with a good bit of a sweet side;) But I'm also Very capable of being serious and can actually be rather edgy too... I Love having Style, and I'm currently at school studying Theater, while at the same time exploring all kids of art!

Kelly Fremon Craig's film eschews the kind of glossy veneer that so often coats current high school - based offerings, instead opting to deliver a charmingly flawed lead character who is thrust into some very relatable situations.

Eastwood starts by showing their younger selves, the circumstances in which they grew up (including being in a Christian school, which the script goes WAY out of its way to emphasize) including their ups and downs as kids, their mothers trying to raise them alone (who are VERY Christian) and their growth as millennials (a generation Eastwood has not had kind words for in recent years).

A: Meaning as a working - class guy who left school very young but had artistic sensibilities, and kind of feeling like there was no avenue for someone like me.

Hyde may have had very little effect on the kids» cognitive development, but it still had a great effect on the kind of behaviors — self - discipline, steady work habits, respect for others — that lead to success in school.

My argument here is that a «diverse provider» environment (where an area has an array of operators running an array of schools) allows for a very different kind of accountability system.

This is very rarely the same thing as the more generalized kind of advice you get in your education classes, but specific to the needs and vision of the school.

In Korea, where popular teachers become millionaires by broadcasting their lectures online, schools and families are only very slowly warming up to other kinds of online learning.

I was trying to focus on back to school as a very positive time for kids and parents, and I think when you send that kind of message out right around back to school it's counterproductive.

«Given the inward focus of the program, I was uncertain if there would be an audience for this kind of leadership development, particularly during these tight economic times when school districts, colleges, and universities are all looking very carefully at every dime they spend,» Zolner says.

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

One is that London is better at assimilating and educating those kind of children, it has got a very diverse population and its schools in recent years have got quite good, and maybe London for one reason or another is a better environment for those kids to thrive.

School choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and WiscSchool choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and Wiscschool choice programs in Louisiana and Wisconsin.

Whether it is a) very easy, b) kind of easy, c) kind of hard, or d) very hard for kids in the school to make friends with kids in different groups.

Six months since the shootings in Newtown, how schools protect students from shootings and disasters of any kind remains very much in the spotlight.

The principal begins by having people articulate in very specific terms the kinds of behaviors and commitments they think are necessary to move their school forward.

So, we'll find schools where leaders are very much focused around accountability data that they're developing... that are administered from the outside, and that provides one kind of frame, but that accountability frame tends not to be useful for instructional improvement.

We don't know a lot about what kind of school will work for which kids under which circumstances — there are all these different kinds of community schools out there — so these research challenges are very important as well.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»