For the third time in less than 10 years, a distracted motorist in downtown Covington has taken out a section of St. Scholastica Academy’s ornate, iron fence. Authorities say Ryan Julian Reyes, 20, was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck east on East Boston Street at 8:46 p.m. Saturday when his three passengers distracted him as he approached the dog-leg curve just past North Theard Street in front of the girls’ high school.
Ted Jackson, The Times-PicayuneSt. Scholastica Academy officials expressed dismay that they are faced with having to repair the fence for the third time since it was installed in 2003.
Reyes missed the turn left; ran off the road; climbed the curb; and barreled into the fence, “causing major damage to (it) and the vehicle,” the accident report indicates. Police accused him of careless operation of a motor vehicle.
An Acadian Ambulance crew responded to the wreck, but Reyes and his passengers refused aid, saying their parents would get them examined by a doctor, according to Covington police.
Court records show the crash happened as Reyes, of the 100 block of St.
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As professionals who care about our students and the quality of the lessons we prepare and deliver, we do from time to time want to explore certain aspects of our practice in more depth. One way of doing this is by carrying out an action research project. ‘Project’ makes it sound rather grand and formal but it doesn’t have to be as inaccessible as it sounds. Classroom-based research is simply a method for finding out more about teaching and learning which then, in theory, makes you a better teacher and also helps your students become better learners. So how do you go about doing it?
On your own
There are loads of things you can do by yourself which reveal plenty about you as a teacher – your attitude to your work and your students, your role in the classroom, your management techniques, your lesson planning abilities, etc. The first thing you need to do is think about which aspect of your lessons you want to research. Looking
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Monday
Hey! How was your weekend? As you can see from last week I was really busy! But today Im excited to get back to class. I should’ve gotten up as usual at 7am but but this morning I pushed the wrong button on my alarm and I overslept and woke up at 8.50am. Classes begin at 9.15am.. Oh dear! I decided to go during the break because we’re not allowed to join class after 9.30. I was pleased to finally get into school and say hello to my teacher and friends and catch up with the news over the weekend.
Thursday
The previous two days I was sick but today was a lot of fun as we played a game called the “yes-no-game”. It seems to be very easy because you’re having a conversation with another student and they ask you a very simple question, but you can’t use yes or no for answering. So instead of using no we should use “actually, sometimes, it depends…”. As I said it seems to be very easy but it actually isn’t. We use ‘yes’ or ‘no’ so much that it becomes so automatic and I didn’t even notice I was using them! Moreover our teacher decided to
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The more important it is, the more likely there will be a cover-up. . . . Im not very proud of Penn State and how it reacted to this. Im pretty disappointed, and so are a whole lot of people.
Dr. Smiths timely book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court.
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The state-run Recovery School District released a proposed list of building assignments Thursday for the public schools in New Orleans, many of which are still housed in temporary quarters. It’s the next step in sorting out what the district will look like when the city’s massive school construction program is completed sometime in 2016.
Michael DeMocker, The Times-PicayuneThe RSD released a proposed list of building assignments Thursday. Some could be controversial, like moving KIPP to the renovated Colton building on St. Claude Ave., pictured here in March.
The list is still up for discussion. The district is planning three community meetings in different parts of the city to gather input next week, with final decisions coming next month.
Most of the proposed building assignments were expected. And in fact, many of the city’s schools are already in their permanent location. But for the schools operating out of trailers, the final say on their building assignment will at least offer some certainty about their place on the map.
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Tags: Building, Building Assignments, Recovery School District, School District