He remembered his pupil as "a fairly exceptional student," pleasant and personable enough, liked and trusted sufficiently to be made head of his school house and a school monitor.
We recommended use of several kernels in order to make attendance more reinforcing and the lessons more participatory, and to create peer pressure for attendance: prize-bowl, random calling, peer-to-peer tutoring, tootle notes, response slates, pleasant greetings to students by program staff in the halls, and student jobs.
Recently, the University of the West of England (UWE) proposed a smoking ban across large areas of its Frenchay campus in the hope of making a more pleasant place for students and staff.
Seven Kings High School, London: revamp the school quad with murals, plants, benches and water, to make it a pleasant area for students to eat, meet, relax and enjoy their surroundings.
Alexander Stirling, the first secretary at the British embassy in Santiago reported back to London that although the students were pleasant enough individuals they were depressingly immature.
But the widely touted "health" budget, which was released on 18 February, contained several pleasant surprises for postgraduate students and the academic community in the form of new investments in science, technology, and postsecondary education.
They testified that Mr. Malvo had been a pleasant child and a good student until he fell under Mr. Muhammad's spell.
She is remembered by her students as both pleasant and exacting, a formidable presence whom Mr. Hubbard's friends regard as the wellspring of her son's discipline and ambition.
Over a cup of coffee at a Starbucks on her block, she utters a familiar complaint: her twenty-year-old students are very pleasant, but they have no interst in ideas.
It has also seen anecdotal success with policies focused on making school a more pleasant place to be for students, like a peer mediation program, which Tammy Kuykendall, a district spokeswoman, credited with improving attendance rates.
And in an effort to give teachers and students a more pleasant environment than the sweltering classrooms many endured last year, the Board of Education installed 7,900 new air-conditioners, but 2,800 classrooms were still without them.
