Sentences with phrase «abandoning their best practices»

In this age of teacher accountability, many teachers are afraid of losing their jobs so they are abandoning their best practices and shifting their focus to preparation for the state tests and away from developing thoughtful learners.

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If you will to practice mutual admonition toward your brothers and sisters, to reconcile yourselves with those whom you have offended, to abandon all envy, hate, and evil will toward everyone, and to also love your enemies, and do good to them, then let each say: I will.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

's «common solution» requires that the newcomer focus on examining some old and «sinful» conduct and ideas, abandoning some old and harmful behavior, correcting some old and harmful wrongs, learning and practicing some widely recognized and accepted religious virtues, passing on those techniques, and helping others to get well.

• If we have an anxious style, we can use our dating practice to get better at helping our little kid selves understand that when others take time for themselves, we are not abandoned.

Certainly anyone who still regards print as the core (read: best - paying) part of their practice has reasons to fret, what with film studios having largely abandoned spending on print advertising and arts sections unlikely to ever regain the pages they've shed.

Perhaps It's Time to Abandon the Union: Last week's Three Thoughts noted George W. Bush Center scholar Jay P. Greene's conclusion that school reformers would be better off starting their own institutions in order to successfully spur school reform, and force traditional districts and other players to abandoned failed practices.

Ofsted has abandoned its policy of publishing good practice to help to dispel myths that it insists on «prescribed methods of teaching and learning».

FAAWO focuses on best practices for humane organizations and its members work closelyto rescue, shelter, rehabilitate and place abandoned and orphaned animals in their forever homes.

We will be the exemplary rescue group for South Central Montana by executing exceptional business practices and by working with other rescue and humane organizations to develop a network of volunteers and supporters to create a better world for abandoned pets.

For starters, quit feeding ferals: Beyond sustaining strays, the practice often leads to delinquent pet owners to abandon their cats outdoors, assuming they will be well cared for.»

His practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture, and some of his most well - known projects involved laboriously cutting holes into floors of abandoned buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), slicing a suburban villa in two.

All the Rules Will Change presents the best known but least seen of these careers: the studio painter of the 1960s, who began the decade as a conventional Abstract Expressionist, and ended it by closing his studio and abandoning a practice of painting that -LSB-.....]

Just as Lewandowsky couldn't take the perspectives of climate sceptics in good faith — he had to probe inside their minds, using a shoddy internet survey — Read does not take issue with the arguments actually offered by actual climate change - denying libertarians, he takes issue with his own fantasy libertarian, abandoning all the rigour and practice that the discipline he belongs to has established over the course of millennia, to score cheap rhetorical points.

A far better approach would be to let the free market handle this problem: Users who do not want their data harvested and used to target them for either advertising or manipulative politics should consider abandoning the platforms that practice that data - mining.

Your odds of being that candidate increase exponentially when your resume abandons outdated principles and instead uses active, engaging writing and best practices to create a document that gets results.

Best practices for setting relevant goals include getting buy - in, documenting what you intend to do, phasing goals in over time, monitoring progress, modifying them as appropriate, abandoning goals that no longer make sense, and celebrating those that have been achieved.