Sentences with phrase «where school bells»

Apple, as part of its response, yesterday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High School.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High School.

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Days where I feel frazzled to get all 5 of us ready and out the door by the time the school bell rings, having a hot breakfast for them makes me feel a bit like «supermom».

Right now, meals are prepared in the central kitchen and transported hot to schools, where the food lies waiting for the lunch bell.

She was moving from a preschool with a flexible start time to an elementary school where the bell rang at 7:50 a.m. sharp.

If a teacher wants a disruptive student out of class, security escorts the student to an office, where he or she is often treated like a troublemaker and then sent to detention to sit silently for a period of time after the last school bell rings.

When the bell rang for early dismissal on a recent afternoon at Cold Springs Middle School in Nevada, students sprinted toward the buses while teachers filed into the library, where posters filled with the names of every child in the 980 - student school covered the School in Nevada, students sprinted toward the buses while teachers filed into the library, where posters filled with the names of every child in the 980 - student school covered the school covered the walls.

History teacher Jane Uyeda, who has taught at Oxbow since the beginning, recalls with distaste her experience in more traditional schools, where students ran from one bell to the next and had less opportunity to explore.

It's harder for kids in poverty and in single - parent homes, especially those attending large, impersonal middle and high schools where students change subjects, teachers and work groups every 50 - 90 minutes in response to a bell (the proverbial «factory model»).

At one of the schools where I served as the principal, we had the original bell that was used to announce the school day's start and end.

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

Imagine a school with no classrooms, bells, or textbooks where students work at their own pace, are not graded, and can decide what to study.

But how different is that from a school that rings a bell ahead of hymn singing in assembly, where pupils are obliged to wear caps or boaters, where the school charity is Christian Aid?

Schools were run like factories, he said, in which students moved at the sound of a bell from class to class, where teachers lectured to them for hours on end, and where students were expected to learn in the same way at the same pace.

100 years ago we built schools where teachers taught for an hour and a bell would signal the end of the lesson, why should we teach that way today?

Imagine a school with no classrooms, bells, or textbooks where students work at their own pace, are not graded, and are able to decide what to study.