She took math and reading workbooks home so her children were always ahead in school.
Among the conference guests was 7-year-old David C. Pickard, who survived his grandfather's academic memorial by reading workbooks and skipping one of the lectures to get ice cream with his mother.
When Mr. Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, his mother woke him up for at 4 a.m. for English lessons; meanwhile, in Chicago, Mrs. Obama's mother was bringing home math and reading workbooks so her children would always be a few lessons ahead in school.
About 175,000 Starbucks employees watched videos and read workbooks that focused on the concept of so-called implicit bias when 8,000 U.S. stores closed Tuesday afternoon for training.
"What do you want to study next?" My mum would write up a list of things to read, workbooks to complete, and so on, and the length of my school day was up to me.
"What do you want to study next?" My mom would write up a list of things to read, workbooks to complete, and so on, and the length of my school day was up to me.
And on a recent morning, as they do each day, they gathered in Marc Yablonka's classroom in Chinatown, reading aloud from workbooks in hopes of learning enough English to get by in America.
I opened the package at the post office and read (the workbook) at red lights on the way home.
He had to read a workbook full of scenarios of characters who are angered or rattled and point out how they should best react.
They were asked to read the workbook before the interviews were carried out.
I tried psychotherapy, meditation, yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy workbooks, stacks of reading on neuroplasticity and mindfulness, lightbox therapy, acupuncture, 3-mile a day walks, neurofeedback, hypnosis, journal writing, snorting aromatherapy oils, and, in my most desperate moments, prayer.
