How native speakers pronounce “school”

from college and that my father had never graduated from high school she refused to signed the final adoption

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

It was interesting. When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

while this man talked to her mother about all the problems Gillian was having at school, because she was disturbing people, her homework was always late, and so on.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

She's a dancer. Take her to a dance school." I said, "What happened?"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

They did ballet, they did tap, jazz; they did modern; they did contemporary. She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School. She became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

She became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet. She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School, founded the Gillian Lynne Dance Company,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I had just turned 22 when I finished my first semester of graduate school at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

do we expect the 8-year-olds to do it? School is an intrinsically social experience.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

So, if we're talking elementary school, I would say no.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

this research on how print is better. For elementary school, let's just get rid of all the one-to-one devices, go

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

in good governance, whether you trust your police force, whether your children can walk to school safely, whether your dignity is preserved.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

The very word for many of you conjures unhappy memories of boredom in high school biology or physics class. But let me assure that what you did there

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

(Laughter) The only problem is that when I graduated from medical school, I didn't get one of those little doohickeys

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

For me, it was Mr. Malloy. He was my high school statistics teacher. Hello, Mr. Malloy, if you're watching this.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

I've said for like a decade, my dream job is to be a middle-school science teacher, and I will be.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

I saw a headline, it was a very clickbaity headline: “Waymo hits an eight-year-old outside of a school.” And I was like, oh my God.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

And then they described what happened, and it was outside of a school and there was a car parked. And if I remember correctly, there was a kid,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

where we’re helping people who are in school to be mechanics, to actually become mechanics of autonomous vehicles,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

I’m irritable, and I probably shouldn’t be driving a car. But this is how many American teenagers feel every single school day. Many of the, shall we say,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

that skyrocket during adolescence. In our work with teens from LA Unified School District, we found that teens with sleep problems were 55% more likely

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

to have used alcohol in the past month. In another study with over 30,000 high school students, they found that for each hour of lost sleep,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Teens from districts with later start times get more sleep. They're more likely to show up for school. School absences dropped by 25% in one district,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

They're more likely to show up for school. School absences dropped by 25% in one district, and they're less likely to drop out.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Updating bus routes, increased transportation costs, impact on sports. Care before or after school. But these are problems we have to work through.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

And Robbins, by definition, is a food desert. The liquor store is often where I picked up my lunches before school -- Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and a pop --

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and a pop -- a meal the teachers over at my Catholic school often criticized. Even still, my family had love.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

You feel a “second wind” come on. And despite everything, you leave for school in a really good mood. Sleep deprivation can briefly induce euphoria.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

(Laughter and applause) I would come home from school, throw some pillows on the floor,

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

where everything is taken away from you, from your childhood to the right to go to school, to your parents' right to go to work,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

This is certainly true of kids; the number of middle school teachers who show my videos in their science classes

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

He couldn't see the trash polluting our rivers or our broken school bus or hospitals with outdated equipment.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

The Taliban took control of my town and decreed that girls could no longer go to school. I knew what life would be like for me without an education.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

and I could bring attention to girls like me who did not have the opportunity to be in school. And that's when I realized

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

That this new version of the Taliban wouldn't ban girls from school or oppress women. The Afghans I spoke with didn't believe it.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

Today in Afghanistan, girls are not allowed to attend school past sixth grade. It is a crime.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

and before I was even born, they were stopping girls from school in parts of Afghanistan. Yet we have no international laws against gender apartheid,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

"I found it in my platonic life partner." His best friend, who he had known since high school, who had moved across the country to be near him,

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

There's this great piece in The Atlantic. It was written by a high school teacher named Paul Barnwell. And he gave his kids a communication project.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

and the shared vulnerability, right? And so in school we have that. We have that through our lunch period.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

So people that are traveling, people that have just moved to the city, people that have just started school, people that have just retired, right? Those are the people to try to connect with versus, you know,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Sure, some setbacks bonk you over the head. You fail a class, you're kicked out of school, a business investor pulls out, a relationship ends,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

and share a bit more about themselves. Think about this as if you're talking to a child coming home from school. If you ask them,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

overall better health, more confidence. We know that studies show that sports participation in girls in high school and women in college

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

and I even made the US national team. I did that while I was at Johns Hopkins Medical School. I don't really recommend that combination.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

And so I had to head home in 2000. I went back to medical school, and I watched my friends row in Sydney from patient rooms in the hospital,

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

And I thought that female athletes deserved more. So when I headed back to med school, I decided to contact the US Olympic Committee,

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

So that's why they don't want to share it with me" or, "I'm not done with med school yet. That must be why they're not sharing this information."

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

and just get overeducated and overcompensate. So I finished med school. I went off and studied biostatistics and epidemiology

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

I went off and studied biostatistics and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. I went to Penn and did my internal medicine residency.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

And we wanted to inspire other people to do this work. Our first conference was at a small school outside of Boston. They donated the space to us.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

We became depressed and stressed, and our athletes did too. School was canceled. Sports were canceled.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Can you tell us more about that experience? Amelia Nagoski: Well, it began with me going to school while I was getting my doctorate in musical arts in conducting.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

if you are a teacher, where every day is filled with stressors? AN: I taught school for five years. That's how long I made it. I burned out after four years and then I pushed through one more year.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

You've never seen a school like this. In the middle of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

These students are part of the Brooklyn Steam Center, a public high school that looks and feels more like an engineering studio

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

And none of it happened by accident. I lead a school design organization called Transcend. And when we began working with the Brooklyn community,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

kids are growing into. So with the school's founders, we stitched together decades of practice and research,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

And when you see it, it feels obvious. Of course, school should be like this. But if it's so obvious,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Transcend recently surveyed 70,000 students across the US. Less than half said they loved school. Two thirds said it's boring.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

And the older students get, the worse it gets. Nearly three quarters of third-graders say they love school, but by high school,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Nearly three quarters of third-graders say they love school, but by high school, barely a quarter say they do.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

You ask, "How was school today?" And you hear one word.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Here's the truth most of us don't say out loud. School isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

R and D, and community participation applied to the life of a school. That's how Brooklyn Steam came to be.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

It's also how Van Ness Elementary in Washington, DC redesigned school around a simple idea. Kids learn best when they feel seen.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

district leaders to imagine school that truly centered the whole child. Nurturing mind, body and relationships

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Nurturing mind, body and relationships while confronting the real trauma that many students carried into school. So we integrated effective practices from other settings.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

And community-based design works in places that couldn't be more different. It's how Matthew, a high school senior in rural North Dakota, went from dozing through class to forging his own path

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

in every sense of the word, after discovering blacksmithing. His school was ready because it had been redesigned around real-world learning,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

wants schools that keep growing with the world around them. School cannot be something we redesign once a century. We need community-based design as a muscle,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Something built in, not bolted on. A continuous way of evolving how we do school together. So when we ask,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Whenever I tell people I work at a middle school, they often lean back and suck their teeth.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

and it makes sense. Middle school is a time like no other. It's when significant biological, neurological and emotional changes

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

Well, some might ignore deodorant but overuse Axe body spray. You can find them holding up the walls during the school dance. And there's usually a desire to be treated like an adult,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

This was me in sixth grade, and like many middle school students, I was earnest, I was goofy,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

and I was just discovering who I wanted to be. Now I had no idea that I'd go on to teach middle school. They say the grade levels you teach are most reflective of your personality.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

So I'm not quite sure what it says about me that I later went on to found a middle school for boys. But in all seriousness,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

However, there were some that were not exactly what I had in mind. A group of middle school boys created these collages that were comical, if not concerning.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

Instead of chalking it up as mindless activities or typical middle school behavior, I decided to investigate.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

And at the same time, I too had an “aha!” moment. It became clear to me that middle school boys are so impressionable and so full of potential.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

are so impressionable and so full of potential. But what if I told you those same middle school boys could lead us to a more just and equitable society

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

when it comes to race, class and other social factors? I knew that middle school is fertile ground for this work. And my reflection led me to identify three critical skills

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

and the third is community. Now these three C's stand as the pillars of my school to show people that middle schoolers can redefine masculinity.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

to show people that middle schoolers can redefine masculinity. Now number one, confidence is essential to teach in middle school. Students are exploring their identities,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

but rather rooted in a deep sense of self. And so what my school does is move away from either-or thinking. Instead of boys believing that they have to choose

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

To counter the messages that society tells boys to constrict their emotions, my school practices a variety of communication methods, both intrapersonally and interpersonally.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

by the vulnerability and kindness of each of my students, it's still a middle school. It's this liminal space between childhood and adulthood.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

My students don't even show me that this future is possible, but this future is here, with middle school boys leading the way. Thank you.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

and by doing so, they taught people to read in her Citizenship School model and empowered 700,000 new voters.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

A thousand organizers is not enough. GirlTrek is going to create the next Citizenship School. And in doing so, we will train 10,000 frontline health activists

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Now, this research by Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago Business School is quite amazing because it tells us a simple thing.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

with barbershops and health, which began in Chicago in medical school. The very first research project that I worked on as a medical student

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

Great. Those of you that said no clearly aren't middle-school teachers. (Laughter)

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

These are actual examples drawn from the 1,000-plus middle-school teachers I've surveyed about this word.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

a meme that went massively viral last year. It's full of current middle-school slang words, like "rizz," "gyat" and "skibidi,"

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

France when he was six was kicked out of school for misbehavior went through multiple jobs and ultimately learned 18

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