Sentences with phrase «youth voices in»

Global Youth Voices In 2005, WKCD's Barbara Cervone traveled to a small village in Tanzania to work with secondary students on creating a photo essay about life there.

The #MoveEquity chat also touched on a few specific issues, such as how to include youth voices in active transportation initiatives, as well as how to address concerns of gentrification.

How important was it to include youth voices in this year's conference, and how might young people gain greater agency in their communities and schools from AOCC?

Global Youth Voices In 2005, WKCD's Barbara Cervone traveled to a small village in Tanzania to work with secondary students on creating a photo essay about life there.

A student - led, culturally responsive solution to the achievement gap, the center aims to amplify youth voice in the community.

The #YouthvGovNC hearing on February 7, 2018 was a quintessential example of the power of the youth voice in leading the fight against climate change.

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September afternoons in the schoolyards of my youth were filled with the merry voices of children....

I spent the summer of my sophomore year at an evangelical youth camp in Northern California, a place of timbered fields and boundless blue skies, where, given enough time and stillness and soft - spoken encouragement, one could not help but hear the voice of God.

In response to the petition, the White House added its voice to a growing chorus of opposition to such therapies while doing little to clarify the petition's confusion: «We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer youth,» wrote Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama.

After all, every religious voice I heard in my youth - whether it was from the pulpit or in the news - told me that I was evil and that there was something wrong with me.

When the match was over, Joachim Low did not hesitate in voicing his gratification in regards to his youth team as the head coach of the German national football team said: Continue reading →

Durham youth who want a voice in their local government are now being invited to apply to serve on the Durham Youth Commisyouth who want a voice in their local government are now being invited to apply to serve on the Durham Youth CommisYouth Commission.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

Contacting local elected officials and youth sports program directors with your firsthand account of issues in youth sports is a starting point for voicing your concerns, and directing them to the Recommendations for Communities not only shows that you are serious about your complaint but that you are also committed to resolving the issues by providing an action plan.

When my children are naughty, bickering or otherwise causing trouble, I find myself sheepishly remembering certain instances from my youth in which I behaved the same (or worse) and a voice in my head pipes up «Karma!»

«Hector has been a powerful progressive voice — championing affordable housing for youth and seniors, fighting for the environment, standing up for our immigrant community, and leading a progressive caucus in the County Legislature.

Afua Atta - Mensah, executive director of Community Voices Heard and a Working Families Party (WFP) leader, who is the child of Ghanaian immigrants, ran for district leader in Central Harlem in 2015 due to neglect of the West African population and lack of youth engagement.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Educating the gathering on electoral issues, the Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr. Serebour Quaicoo, urged the youth in the Ashanti Region not to be passive about issues regarding the 2016 general elections but do their best to fully participate and let their voices be positively heard.

We therefore wish to add our voice to the numerous calls by well meaning Ghanaians to the youth in the region, to continue to exercise maximum restraint and sustain the prevailing peace in the region to enable the new government to implement its good policies for the benefit of all.

With record youth unemployment feeding fears of a «lost generation» and high profile protests around cuts to education, rising fees and the cutting of EMA, finding effective mechanisms to elevate young people's voice in the political process is becoming ever more pressing.

This historic change, which brings New York in line with 48 other states, is also thanks to the voices of impacted youth and families, faith leaders, advocates, providers, legal service organizations, Family Court Judges, and citizens who have spent many years urging New York to Raise the Age!»

He appealed to the president to let the voice of Niger Delta youths count in the nomination of another Ondo State representative in the board.

In the lead - up to Tuesday's devastating defeat for Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum voiced his broad opposition to LGBT rights bills, saying they are «dangerous» for America's youth.

Helen believes that in these challenging times we Democrats must hold to our values and commitment to equality and justice for all, especially women, our youth, working families, veterans and the unheard voices of our community.

While in only the first months after treatment for tumors involving both vocal cords, the youth's voice has returned to near normal for a young man of his age.

Men generally prefer higher - pitched voices in women, which is associated with a higher amount of estrogen and youth, while women prefer deeper voices, which is associated with masculinity and a higher amount of testosterone.

Riesco collaborates with Manhattan Theatre Club's education program, helping at - risk youth in public high schools and correctional facilities develop a voice through theater.

Rebel will look at Salinger's youth, his time spent in conflict during World War II, finding love, enduring loss and years of rejection letters from The New Yorker, which fuelled chronic writer's block but also helped him find his voice.

The festival also champions the roles and voices of native women and youth in the filmmaking process.

We get the basics of Ferdinand's (voiced with genuine gentleness by John Cena) story, with his youth surrounded by other bulls who look forward to the «glory» of the bullfighting ring and his escape to an idyllic farm, where a young girl takes him in as her pet, and his winding up back where he started.

Sort of a Russian companion piece to Erik Gandini's nonfiction Videocracy, which looked at modern Italian life and the high - glitz, low - information media culture promulgated by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, documentary Putin's Kiss throws a light on dissident voices and oppositional political groups in the former Soviet Union, where once - and - present president Vladimir Putin has in ways both subtle and not - so - subtle encouraged the stifling of political foes and those seeking greater governmental transparency through a youth group known as Nashi.

THE BOOK OF LIFE Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, and Ron Perlman are among the voice talent in this animated comedy about a youth who has adventures in three otherworldly realms.

In her free time she is a designer for the Survival of the First Voices Festival and works with Native youth.

Online Model United Nations is about giving youth a voice and fostering the skills needed to solve the problems they must solve in the future.

DeGennaro, director and founder of Unlocking Silent Histories, describes the experience of introducing indigenous youth in Guatemala to the art of documentary filmmaking and watching them find their voices.

To help schools harness the power of youth voice and make e-safety learning fun and effective, Childnet is inviting schools to join its youth leadership programme to train young people to be peer educators in their school community.

There are lots of organizations out there dedicated to youth voices and performance poetry, and in addition to linking to a few of those, I've collected some articles and lesson plans about using spoken word in the classroom.

Love this brazen piece by four teen girls, performed at Youth Speaks» festival Brave New Voices, the largest ongoing spoken word event in the world.

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

One most important target is good quality education, in which educators and community members are also learners, children, adolescents, youths have their voices heard, and all of them can act as change agents, as active citizens.

Projects that give youth a voice about civic issues are likely to be relevant and engaging for today's students, some of who will have their first chance to vote in November.

Guest blogger Donna DeGennaro, director and founder of Unlocking Silent Histories, describes the experience of introducing indigenous youth in Guatemala to the art of documentary filmmaking and watching them find their voices.

Elevate youth voice by training students in Theater of the Oppressed, Playback, and other powerful performing arts modalities.

I will leverage my positionalities as an educator, a school counselor, and as an Asian American woman with an HGSE master's degree, to work alongside youth to center their voice and power to transform educational systems and larger society in which we all live.

From a youth empowerment standpoint: We know from research on youth participatory action and youth organizing that when young people are given a voice in shaping the policies and practices in their school, there are benefits for both the young people and the school.

The youth contributing to our Global Youth Voices collection has included affluent teens in Beijing along with the sons and daughters of coffee farmers in rural Ethiopia; young Burmese refugees in a Bangladesh border camp along with university students in cities across Hunyouth contributing to our Global Youth Voices collection has included affluent teens in Beijing along with the sons and daughters of coffee farmers in rural Ethiopia; young Burmese refugees in a Bangladesh border camp along with university students in cities across HunYouth Voices collection has included affluent teens in Beijing along with the sons and daughters of coffee farmers in rural Ethiopia; young Burmese refugees in a Bangladesh border camp along with university students in cities across Hungary.

For 15 years, from 2001 to 2016, WKCD reached far and wide to document and broadcast the voices and vision of the next generation, supported by the adult allies in and outside school that these youth counted on.

The Rendell Center for Civics and Civics Engagement leveraged strategies and concepts from the fields of civic education, student voice, and distributed leadership to build a youth - adult school governance system and schoolwide civic literacy curriculum at Edwin M. Stanton Elementary School in the School District of Philadelphia.