Sentences with phrase «who approach schools»

In fact, so long as teachers and schools who approach schooling with that kind of commitment are indeed serving children effectively, such a system will permit them to flourish and to escape so many of the procedures and requirements that can frustrate teachers today.

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Joe Seiner, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, recently told me he believes certifying Uber drivers as a class ignores the different «economic realities» that affect drivers who approach Uber as a full - time job or career and those who use it for occasional income supplementation.

Blankmeyer, who according to the criminal complaint suffers from depression and attention deficit disorder, first approached Stonehill officials with a complaint about her roommate, Laura, violating the school's rules by having sex with her boyfriend without her permission.

Or, the group focuses on doing deep dives into each other's businesses similar to the case study approach anyone who attended business school would be familiar with.

But I will say that in school, I had some professors who took more of the bad cop approach.

Critics argue that students who drop out of school lack the well - rounded approach to innovation and discovery; Thiel disagrees.

The most unnerving incident was when one of Kleinfeld's daughters, a student at Harvard Business School, was approached on campus by someone who asked to «friend» her on Facebook; the person also spoke to her friends, fishing for information about her family.

Two months into his new job, Haynie approached Melvin Stith, a Vietnam War veteran who was then dean of Syracuse's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, with the idea for an entrepreneur bootcamp for veterans.

Columbia Business School professor Benjamin Graham, who is considered the father of value investing, was a big proponent of the approach.

Hogg took a harder - edged approach in a recent Twitter confrontation with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who mocked Hogg and criticized him for «whining» after the high school senior shared news that he was rejected by several colleges.

In this corner we have Professor Randall Thomas of Vanderbilt Law School who said this approach made sense because it «lends itself to allowing these nominees, if elected, to focus on independent decision - making and fulfilling their fiduciary obligations on behalf of shareholders.»

To me I would rather have a friend who I respectfully disagreed with on a view, who I could still find approach and say «we differ on views, but that you are still a cool person but, once you finish you vigil, would you like to come volunteer and paint the school?»

My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to nonprofessionals who are in training to lead growth groups.

While encamped on the banks of a river, Washington was approached by Delaware Indian chiefs who desired that their youth be trained in American schools.

Shortly after dropping out of grad school I was approached by a podcast network who offered to help me produce the the My Darling Vegan podcast, which gave me the confidence I needed to continue following my dreams.

The Australian who has led the national team to success in the Six Nations and in tests against Australia will give school children a taste of the national team's approach to the game at the annual clash between Oxford and Cambridge Blues at Twickenham this year.

«Development and review of an emergency action plan guarantees that a coordinated approach is in place,» adds Lemak, founder of Lemak Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics in Birmingham, Alabama, who also serves as medical director of Major League Soccer and is on the medical advisory board of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

Over some of the last few pages i have read there have been messages about how Jamie shouldn't blame the schools but should approach the «big» people who have control.

With the end of the school year approaching, it's time we thought about giving back to those who are always there for our...

As the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach, our thoughts turn to those children who rely on school meals for their nutrition.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

As the holidays approach, our thoughts turn to those children who rely on school meals for daily nutrition.

Bottom line is that teachers often bear the behavioural brunt of the inadequacies of children's lunch (school provided or home made) and for some schools radical approaches may seem more worth the fallout than others who may favour a softly creeping change.

Help your tween develop possible conversation starters, and encourage your child to approach children who are new at school or in the neighborhood.

«Based on their responses, I may change my approach to socialization and early school skills at first, because some kids who have stayed home with a parent and haven't interacted with peers much don't know general school rules such as sharing, waiting in line, not touching others, and not talking when someone else is.

Michele is also the recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Nurse's Association Award for Public Service and the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing's Lillian R. Goodman Award which recognizes a doctoral student who exemplifies a humanitarian approach to leadership, scholarship, and a deep commitment to the development of professional practice, education and research.

Dr. Markham lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her family — and considers her kids - a daughter graduating from high school and a son graduating from an Ivy League university — to be proof that her parenting approach produces responsible, self - disciplined, considerate and happy kids who achieve in the world and stay deeply connected to their parents.

Many fathers were recruited by approaching fathers who came into school and inviting them to participate.

Dr. Markham lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her family — and considers her kids — a daughter graduating from high school and a son graduating from an Ivy League university — to be proof that her parenting approach produces responsible, self - disciplined, considerate and happy kids who achieve in the world and stay deeply connected to their parents.

Our approach is one that has so far successfully married most if not all of the opinions from both sides of the education divide relating how education can or could be delivered, and from this we have achieved a broad and successful outcome, that benefits all of the children who attend our school.

It is a very special school for many reasons, not just the options available for attending... the staff at Hollinsclough have a very flexible approach to teaching and learning and they treat the children as individuals and value their diverse experiences, while also creating a group of children who are very close to each other.

Hollinsclough school is a great choice for us as they provide a normal state school education, while also actively supporting parents who wish to Home Educate their children and they truly tailor their approach to suit individual requirements.

And now I have principals approach me who say, «I was at a principals meeting recently and heard how great BIC is — can you start it at my school?»

At present children who are using the Flexi - Schooled approach at our academy, are required to attend for what we call the three «Core Days» of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

This cross-section is effectively our «customer base» and is made up of a mix of parents from the Elective Home Education community, through to those parents who have become dissatisfied with the approach of their local school and or local authority.

Children who transfer out of a Waldorf school into a public school during the earlier grades probably have to upgrade their reading ability and to approach the science lessons differently.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

This interactive workshop is designed for teachers, counselors, school staff and administrators who want an effective discipline approach that integrates social and emotional learning while reducing challenging student behaviors.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

SH: Julie Abrera at School Nutrition Foundation was a big part of that, and she approached us based on our size and the number of kids who qualified for free / reduced meals, as well as looking at our participation rate at breakfast — it was obvious we could do a better job of getting kids participating in breakfast.

If there are no boys in a school, girls are more likely to take a more positive approach to their social environment,» says Tamara Hill, a child and adolescent mental health therapist who attended an all - girls college.

But the biggest problem I've had all along with this approach is that it does not address the needs of elementary school children, who are the biggest consumers of the federally - subsidized meals program.

An excellent approach for the parents of preschool and school - aged children who think, «It was so much easier when they were nursing — now what?»

Pinpoint other parents who don't want their kids to be rewarded with junk food — and approach school officials as a group.

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).

[286] The approach was also criticised by Stephen B. Shepard, dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, who commenting on the phone hacking scandal, said: «It's wrong.

Among the supporters in the crowd was former «Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon, who praised de Blasio's approach, especially when it comes to public schools.

A Long Island high school is taking a gender - neutral approach in the interest of equality for transgender grads, who won't have to choose between blue gowns for males and white for females.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.