Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,

who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

Hello!

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

Now that's term time working.

Offered at Amazon.

Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.

Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.

Conditions apply.

WBUR Podcasts, Boston. Today's the day, five out of five. My name is Andrew Cooper.

I'm a fifth grade teacher in Salt Lake City Public Schools, Salt Lake City, Utah.

I've been teaching in Salt Lake for 10 years.

Come on! Fifth grade boys and girls present in generally two entirely different ways.

The boys in that formalized classroom setting, they tend to be attention-seeking in ways that are former kind of overt.

So they're doing things like jumping out of their seats, they're shouting out answers.

They're like very energetic and like they want to be seen, both by their teacher and by their peers.

All right, thanks for you going to get started on your math spiral review.

I'm in right now, in my class I have a boy who is...

He's a force of nature.

Sitting down for long periods of time and paying attention is like not, it's not working.

And what we found that works is like one-on-one, like me sitting next to him.

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