Sentences with phrase «year teaching a year»

For nine years I taught Year 8 Anglophone English, IGCSE World Literature, IGCSE Global Perspectives and IB English A (L&L) at a bilingual secondary school in France.

Karen has just started the school year teaching a year 1 and year 2 composite class.

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I had no idea how to professionally let him know that I was so thankful for what he'd taught me, but that I had decided to take a new job after three years.

«This is deeply ingrained bias and years of culture that have long taught men to speak up and loud and with authority and the rest of us [women] to listen when they do so.»

Based in Carlsbad, California, Jazzercise's instructors teach its total - body conditioning program to almost half a million participants each year in the United States and more than 30 other countries.

For the past 40 years, educators taught students to write a business plan and then go execute it.

But the former dominatrix says the very premise all of her trainings is based on — the idea that hidden power dynamics often impact minorities and women in unfair ways — seemed totally foreign to so many would - be students five years ago when she started teaching.

A couple million years of evolution have taught us how to survive by making right decisions.

How it Innovates: While most competing teaching platforms offer the same features as they did 15 years ago (like delivering quizzes and publishing grades), D2L is already leading a major shift in the industry: It's harnessing data and analytics to become the Netflix of education.

He failed his university entrance exams twice before gaining admission to Hangzhou Teachers University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) per month.

She says her years at Virgin have taught her that you can have just as much impact as a business leader as you can as a doctor.

The 45 - year - old actress and her lifestyle brand are under fire for promoting severe weight loss and teaching people «how to be as thin as possible without dying,» according to one critic.

Out of that drive for answers came the idea for Scherf's 12 - year - old company, PrioHealth, and a program called MeMoves, which uses music, patterns and movement to help teach children and adults like Rowan to calm their nerves and make connections.

You can't teach a marketing guru the equivalent of years of university data science training in his spare time.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

His school tried to fire Anderson, who has taught for 15 years, for excessive absences.

Before that, he was doing the actual chef thing as John Mitzewich, working in kitchens for years and eventually teaching at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco.

High Definition Video — In 2007, after spending a couple years teaching high school math and working in the non-profit arena, I went to work for an HD video conferencing start up developing a training and certification program.

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

During his first year, Willerer earned almost the equivalent of his teaching salary.

In his first major book in 20 years, the motivational guru wants to teach you how to master the investment game.

For years, I taught leaders around the globe to avoid terror's edge.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

One of these women is Alicia Bint, a 33 - year - old freelance illustrator from Milton, Ont., who was taught to knit as a child by her grandmother.

«To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman who has gained recognition through the achievements of her husband, which contravenes what we have been taught over the last four years at Wellesley.»

Three years later, it had its own building, including a state - of - the - art teaching commercial winery, the award - winning College Cellars.

I'd be invited to speak to corporate audiences but would make excuses such as «What can a 26 - year - old possibly teach a successful businessman?»

«Tech has radically shifted how we think about productivity and learning, yet we're still teaching our children the same way we taught them 100 years ago,» says Geoff Ralston, founder of 2 - year - old education technology incubator Imagine K12.

I used to ask this question of college students in an entrepreneurship course I taught for many years.

«As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, «the father of value investing,» have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.»

I mean I'm shooting Top Chef Junior with 13 - year - olds who are teaching me something new about food every single day.»

He's a self - taught coder, having dropped out of college after only a year to start a company.

Over the past 87 years, McKinsey has taught the world how to think about business.

Last year, in an attempt to address the growing STEM skills gap in Britain, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) led a collaborative effort by 29 organizations to give every 7th grader in the country a pocket - sized programmable computer that helps teach coding in a simple, fun, and accessible way.

[Corinne] has a brother who was two years older than her and he used to teach my younger two math and they could pick things up very quickly.

And, as they do every year, in 2014 my clients have taught me some indespensible business lessons that we'd all be wise to heed in 2015.

Beedie also offers a three - year EMBA tailored specifically to British Columbia's northwest region, with courses taught at local institutions in Prince Rupert, Terrace and Kitimat.

Andrew teaches chess three times a week to underprivileged children and will be helping high - school age students find summer jobs this year.

The course Duncan took adopted a novel language - teaching approach conceived by the school's Arabic program four years ago.

In addition to the $ 10,000, Cowden will receive a suite of Mentor software products, which teach business owners to use popular programs like Microsoft Office, and a one - year subscription to Entrepreneur.

Before my experiment of a year without flying, I would have seen not flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness, joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so on didn't depend on flying.

Since opening about a year ago, Bello says he's taught more than 2,000 students how to work their dough.

If the year taught investors anything, it's not to bet on predictions.

Twenty - five years after turning her Princeton senior thesis into a national education reform program called Teach for America, Kopp is taking her model global.

Years of trial and error have taught me that I prefer to eat much larger infrequent meals and not to start eating until later on in the day.

«We teach maximizing value in three to five years and selling.»

Kent Monroe, a marketing professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, says such applications are based on pricing concepts he's been teaching his students for years.

Frank Giustra has spent roughly two decades giving money away, but every year teaches him something fresh about philanthropy.