Sentences with phrase «about systemic change»

He joined Our Children's Trust to lead the organizing network to bring about systemic change through a climate justice lens.

Bringing about systemic change?

Taken together, they suggest something even more significant, that schools are complex systems and that comprehensive arts programs can bring about systemic change, perhaps in ways that are unique.

- David Callahan in Inside Philanthropy (Ed Funders Need to Think Bigger About Systemic Change.

The initiative works towards developing programmes that meets the priorities and needs of both India and the UK and bring about a systemic change in the educational sector of both India and the UK.

Bringing about systemic change?

I've written a lot about the systemic changes we need to put in place to ensure that all children and families have access to high - quality public schools.

Earlier this month, Nevada Succeeds invited the community to engage in policy discussions about the systemic changes around which the state needs to develop consensus.

We need to think about the systemic changes required to integrate a large amount of variable renewables into an infrastructure that wasn't designed for it.

But no one has yet done anything about systemic changes.

Not exact matches

Science itself can drive our conversations about the importance of diversity, as it provides us with the data to understand how systemic bias and discrimination impact our communities and how best to change it.»

When UNGC, DNV GL and MMGI made the Global Opportunity Report we asked more than 5,500 leaders worldwide about their views on systemic change.

Looking at the answers through a gender lens reveals new insights about how female leaders think, and especially how they look at opportunities for systemic change.

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Systemic and cultural changes must be made, and this kind of posturing distracts from talk about actual solutions.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

Work together towards systemic change by educating public officials, institutions and the community about policies and practices that promote, protect and support breastfeeding.

That would include making «systemic changes» based on recommendations from an outside consultant and publicly posting all job vacancies, improving poll worker staffing with better pay and better training, and communicating more clearly with voters about poll sites, election days and registration statuses.

If it turns out this is a systemic problem, rather than just the standard story of the prison service being slow to respond to change, they'll kick up a fuss about it.

And third, if problems arise, we assume that we personally can not do much about them, because they are too systemic or, alternatively, are mostly caused by a few biased people (who could be changed through specialized training).

The other major change I've made recently is reducing my protein intake by about 50g per day since I decided to take some time off from the gym for systemic recovery.

And that this wasn't a diet but a systemic change on how I think about powering my body, as well as learning to listen to what my body was communicating.

In a not so festive season when we've all been thinking hard about a lot of terrible thinkings like corrupt governments and oligarchies, sexual misconduct and systemic isms that make life such an oppressive mess for so many people (and damage everyone — even the opporessors — since we all are truly in this life together) as well as the terror of both climate change and this particular cold snap (I'm super sick right now, yay!)

After years of systemic failure at Desert Trails Elementary, in 2011 parents with children at the school formed an autonomous organization, the Desert Trails Parent Union, and went door - to - door, working alongside other parents, to develop an agenda for change and get the word out about this new legal right they had.

«Through Richard Elmore's Politics in Education course, I gained a deeper understanding of the political complexity of systemic change, how to think about addressing structural impediments to change, and how to be politically strategic, in addition to instructionally focused, to better achieve excellence through equity for all learners,» said Jewell - Sherman.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

JW: Choice, in and of itself, won't bring about the kind of systemic change that we need.

The more I learned about systemic challenges but also opportunities to shape a more equitable education field, the more I wondered whether museum education versus community organizing versus policy work would be the best career pathway for change.

As one put it, school reformers who hoped to receive NASDC grants had to «cast aside their old notions about schooling — to start with a clean sheet of paper, and be bold and creative in their thinking, and to give us ideas that address comprehensive, systemic change for all students for whole schools.»

JW: An expanded federal role will allow our entire nation to cut through some of the political fog that has prevented good, sound ideas about how to change our schools from getting the go - ahead to proceed as part of a major systemic reform strategy.

Deeply personal and insightful, Surreal Change contextualizes the past, present, and future of school reform to help leaders continue to bring about lasting, positive, systemic change in their organizChange contextualizes the past, present, and future of school reform to help leaders continue to bring about lasting, positive, systemic change in their organizchange in their organization.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

That's great for those students who are going to benefit from it, but in terms of talking about real systemic change, I would be looking at other states like Arizona and Florida and Indiana of the leadership on that, not necessarily Illinois at least not at this point.

Taking a bit of offense at Petrilli's statement that reformers should use Lewis» challenge as an opportunity to win teachers over to systemic reform, Weingarten declares that Petrilli and others should «change course» and «try listening to what Karen and the Chicago educators are saying about how to improve schools».

«Successfully implementing systemic change will require an engaged and committed reform community of all stakeholders — teachers, business leaders, parents, policy makers — engaging in an open dialogue about how to best help our nation's students.

At the NYC Leadership Academy, we believe in meeting districts where they are, supporting them in having the hard conversations about the existence and impact of personal and systemic racism on students, and then helping them develop strategies for making and maintaining change that will work for their communities.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

It's about making a life - changing difference for students by staying involved in all aspects of the work, ensuring that policies successfully reach classrooms, and keeping parents engaged in order to build lasting, systemic momentum focused on what's best for kids.

Learn more about how we have partnered with Education Pioneers to effect systemic change in urban education.

«The groundswell has not created the systemic change we have been striving for,» said Elaine Wolff, a local social worker who has been raising awareness about the link between domestic violence and animal abuse.

Think about your car — you no doubt «avoid systemic change» all the time — you check the tire pressure, you use the right oil and change it regularly, you keep the level of brake fluid above the bottom of the reservoir so no air bubble gets in, you keep the cap on the brake reservoir so no moisture contaminates the fluid.

While others argue endlessly about what are the «appropriate» words and phrases what can be said and not said about «climate change» and «global warming» and their now obvious inter-connectedness and systemic causation regards 21st century «extreme weather events».

Now for climate change work, we don't care so much about the actual temperature, but do want to know about the trend, so it is possible to create an alternative algorithm that is free from the systemic biases caused by attempts to merge thousands of low grade temperature records together.

I'm talking chain - themselves - to - the - White - House - fence - stop - traffic - at - the - Capitol kind of crazy, because I think if we all make enough noise about this, we might be able to trade a lousy Keystone pipeline for some really good systemic responses to climate change.»

Similarly, climate change will not be mitigated, let alone stopped or reversed, unless all the countries of the world become serious about systemic, total, and orchestrated reorientations of their economies and societies» ways of living on the Earth.

It will take citizens working in their own communities, region by region, to create the kind of systemic change that will lead to sustainable economic practices — practices that foster ecologically responsible production of goods and a more equitable distribution of wealth. Local currencies are a tool to bring about such change. BerkShares are about building community while building the local economy.

The proposed Action Plan also details the government's intentions to bring about other systemic changes, involving the Ontario OHSA and its enforcement to comprehensively address sexual harassment.

Without concrete commitments from the provincial and federal governments to systemic change, the Inquiry risks being more about words than action.

Bernie Williams told the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls about the abuse she endured since childhood, and said systemic changes are needed.

FAMILY MATTERS CENTER uses the concepts of Systemic Family Therapy, not placing blame on oneself or others, but works to change our patterns of thinking, communicating, and behaving so that we can get along better with the people we care about.