Sentences with phrase «voice in school by»

These anecdotes illustrate various approaches to engaging student voice in school by exploring the applications of engaging students throughout education in dozens of diverse schools.

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First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).

By the time I graduated high school, I had over 10,000 daily readers and had positioned myself as a powerful voice in the world of competitive gaming.

It was given life at this time in 2013 by WEConnect International and Vital Voices Global Partnership in collaboration with Accenture, The Boeing Company, Cherie Blair Foundation, The Coca - Cola Company, DLA Piper, EY, ExxonMobil, Freeport, Goldman Sachs, IBM, ICRW, IDB, Intel, Johnson Controls, Marriott International, McLarty Global Fellows, Pfizer Inc., RBS, Rockefeller Foundation, TechnoServe, Thunderbird School, U.S. Department of State, and Walmart.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

Although I had a personal interest in listening to other voices, none of my graduate school courses had required a text by a woman or by a person of color.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

So, this morning, at 4:45 am as I was driving to school, imagine my surprise when I HEARD YOUR VOICE announced over the radio on WBEZ here in Chicago, being interviewed by one of my morning - commute - buddies at NPR.

And it's deeply disheartening, in my opinion, that the SNA — arguably one of the most influential voices on school food issues — is not leading the charge to obtain this funding but is instead essentially throwing in the towel by advocating a return to the old school food rules on fruits and vegetables.

The charm of this story is that we clearly hear Aidan's voice throughout and come to love this short, skinny rising 10th grader who struggles at school, likes to eat hot dogs at Snoopy's with his grandfather in downtown Raleigh and is teased relentlessly by his sisters.

No, here in Texas, it's the muffled voice of the announcer on the high - school stadium's PA system, with the play - by - play action of the football game.

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Hosted by Healthy Schools Campaign, Cooking Up Change is a dynamic culinary competition that puts student voices front - and - center in the national conversation about school food.

As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

«It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.»

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

Exactly two years after the abduction of over 200 school girls from Government Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, on Thursday marched to the Aso Villa, lending a voice to the clamor for their release, DAILY POST reschool girls from Government Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, on Thursday marched to the Aso Villa, lending a voice to the clamor for their release, DAILY POST reSchool in Chibok town, Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, on Thursday marched to the Aso Villa, lending a voice to the clamor for their release, DAILY POST reports.

The proposals would also strengthen the role of School Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of princSchool Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of princschool budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of principals.

WNY teachers, School Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education aSchool Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education aschool aid to his controversial education agenda.

Raising her voice and even slapping her hand on the table for emphasis, Arroyo was angered by what she saw as a lack of assistance for bilingual students and their families in city schools.

School districts and local governments have voiced concerns that a 2 percent cap as proposed by Cuomo — and approved by the Republican - led Senate in January — would be too difficult to live within because of required spending for debt, health care administration and distribution and pensions.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

It's quickly followed by «how not to pluck your eyebrows in high school», «how not to talk to boys in your Road - Runner voice» and so on and so forth.

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

Shrek (the roguish brogue of Mike Myers), accompanied by his faithful Donkey and Puss in Boots, sets sail to find Fiona's half - brother Artie (voice of Justin Timberlake), geek - princeling at the medieval version of the high school in The OC.

Traveling to the land of Worcestershire with his sidekicks, Donkey (voice by Eddie Murphy) and Puss - In - Boots (voice by Antonio Banderas), Shrek plucks the reluctant, tormented teenager out of high school and packs him back to the palace.

Shrek (along with cat and donkey) is in the hinterlands looking for the king's distant cousin, Arthur, voiced by Justin Timberlake and presented here as a medieval high school misfit with confidence problems.

Heder scored better on all fronts by voicing Reginald «Skull» Skulinski in the Steven Spielberg - produced, CG - animated family film Monster House, a spooky and funny romp about a home that begins devouring trick - or - treaters, and the three youngsters who set out to stop it.The November 2006 release School for Scoundrels returned Heder to live - action material.

There are no new ideas, no very funny new characters, but one frankly unfunny new character: a retired Merlin - wizard figure, voiced by Eric Idle, who used to teach spells in high school.

There's an extended appearance by Mike Tyson (in a celeb cameo like James Carville's in Old School), who is scary even with his Tweety Bird voice.

Her parents Tadji and Ebi (voiced by Catherine Denueve and Simon Abkarian) they ship her at age 14 to a boarding school in Vienna, where again her sharp tongue results in expulsions from schools and residences, and she ultimately begs to return to Tehran for college.

By this point winning more notice for her off - screen role as an arbiter of fashion and old - school Hollywood glamour than for her on - screen acting work, Stone next lent her voice to the animated Antz in 1998.

The pair join the «Oozma Kappa» fraternity so they can take part in the school's annual Scare Games, headed by Dean Hardscrabble (voiced by Helen Mirren).

It's there that we first meet the otherwise unnamed Little Girl (voiced by Mackenzie Foy), who lives with her single mom (Rachel McAdams) in cookie - cutter suburbia and spends every waking moment preparing for her entrance into a highly competitive prep school where students are stripped of the vestiges of childhood and molded into serious - minded, pint - sized adults.

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

On their first day in their new school, Alvin (voice by Justin Long), Simon (voice by Matthew Gray Gubler) and Theodore (voice by Jesse McCartney) are party to plenty of adolescent antics involving swirlies, wedgies and other forms of rough play.

The stars of those books (and ten others) are grade schoolers and best buddies, George Beard (voiced by Kevin Hart, «Ride Along 2») and Harold Hutchins (voiced by Thomas Middleditch, «The Bronze»), from Ohio's Jerome Horowitz Elementary School (who knew that Curly Howard from «The Three Stooges» would have a grammar school named after him in the MidSchool (who knew that Curly Howard from «The Three Stooges» would have a grammar school named after him in the Midschool named after him in the Midwest?)

The protagonist, Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal), is a three - toed, one - eyed green Nerf ball of a creature that could never find a friend in grade school.

The story begins with great potential as we come to learn about Mary (voiced by Ruby Barnhill) who is bored in the countryside while staying with her great aunt (Lynda Baron) because she arrived there a week early prior to the start of the new school year.

The diffident character is particularly haunted by her experiences during fifth grade (Ashley Eckstein voices the younger Taeko), a period when she seemed ill - fitting in her family as well as at school.

«Mary and the Witch's Flower,» a tale of a little girl (voiced by Ruby Barnhill in the dubbed version I saw; a subtitled version is also screening) who is transported to a school for witches, might seem to be following another, Hogwarts - ish path.

Packed with action but seen from the inside out, My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is about friends overcoming their differences and having each other's backs in times of crisis, and its marvelously complex characters are voiced by Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, and John Cameron Mitchell.

In Deadpool, Deadpool observes that there are only ever two X-Men at Professor Xavier's school, Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), and speculates that it's almost as if Fox doesn't have enough money for more X-Men cameos.

In the film, Mary (voiced by Hana Sugisaki and Ruby Barnhill) finds herself in a bit of a mess when she ventures into a forest during a thick fog and finds a flower that gives her temporary powers and a broom that whisks her away to Hogwar — uh, Endor College, a school of magiIn the film, Mary (voiced by Hana Sugisaki and Ruby Barnhill) finds herself in a bit of a mess when she ventures into a forest during a thick fog and finds a flower that gives her temporary powers and a broom that whisks her away to Hogwar — uh, Endor College, a school of magiin a bit of a mess when she ventures into a forest during a thick fog and finds a flower that gives her temporary powers and a broom that whisks her away to Hogwar — uh, Endor College, a school of magic.

In a modern, cold, cookie - cutter world, a little girl (voiced by Interstellar's Mackenzie Foy) and her mother (Rachel McAdams) settle into a new home, chosen because it will allow the girl to attend a nearby prestigious school.

The environmental one is clear, and it's voiced by Dustin Noble (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), an environmental activist from a small organization that has photos of what fracking did to his family's farm (dead cows in a field) and a science demonstration for the local school of what could — or, as he believes, will — happen if fracking becomes the norm in their town.

I try to ignore those who don't believe children should use technology in schools by remembering what it is like to listen to one voice all day, no matter how interesting the person.

By not collaborating, they face the very real possibility that courts and state legislatures will continue to disregard their voices in attempting to improve schooling opportunities.