Sentences with phrase «across languages and cultures»

Our school uses a variety of methods across languages and cultures to communicate with all families and community members about the school's vision, mission, goals, activities and opportunities for students.

This suggests that we use similar sounds if we want to depict sensory information across languages and cultures.

As a person responsible for communicating science faithfully across language and culture, you have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Not exact matches

«Sometimes I sit across from a kid in Madrid, Spain or in Brazil and we don't share a language or a culture, but we share these stories,» he said.

Theres a reason, I think He is raising up people to reach this people group, and it's hard to reach a people group if you don't speak their language and if you offend their culture every time you come across them.

Some people regard it as a diminutive of Ana, meaning it can work across a variety of cultures and languages.

This interactive map not only helps learn geography, but it also teaches your child about the people who live across the world, different languages, explains about each culture and has lots of fun learning games.

While that's not always possible, Twitter is not the place to try to fake authenticity — especially across cultures and languages.

Communication across cultures and languages is easier when you're in the same room, says Neil Goldsmith, chief executive officer of Evolva, a biotech company with sites in Switzerland, Denmark, the United States, and India.

«These are ethnic groups with traditional societies and deep roots across eastern Russia and China, whose culture, language and populations are rapidly dwindling,» added lead author Veronika Siska, also from Cambridge.

The international community of scientists may help to abolish war by setting an example to the world of practical cooperation extending across barriers of nationality, language, and culture.

Across cultures and genders, the athletes demonstrated similar victorious body language.

The broad appeal of these studies is likely to be related to the universal nature of music throughout history and across cultures, as well as the intrinsic relationship between music and language.

The universal body language of sports The Olympics are a good place to study the gestures of victory and defeat — raised arms, slumped shoulders — many of which are consistent across sports and cultures.

However, in Far From the Madding Crowd, not only does the highly eccentric Dane revisit a language that has somewhat stained his otherwise accomplished filmography but he perversely provokes himself by undertaking an adaptation of one of the most revered quintessential British novels of all time and a novel that has already been exhausted by adaptations across the board in popular culture.

Our goals include deepening and expanding our connections to diverse communities, cultures, languages, and regions across the United States.

eLearning is a fast growing industry, and as people interact with each other across borders, it's becoming essential that not only the language be accurate and precise, but the usage of the language be appropriate to the target location and culture.

Mason: Students, especially those in middle and high school, might resist teachers» attempts to «teach» texts steeped in popular culture, especially across the boundaries of race, class, language background, and privilege.

HDP courses cover subjects as varied as language and literacy development, educational neuroscience, prevention science and practice, early childhood education policy, assessment, gender and relationships, moral and civic development, and development across cultures.

«At Mary Glasgow Magazines, we've been very effective in engaging young people in language learning; our magazines and online resources are a way of connecting teenagers to the real lives of their counterparts across the world and bringing other cultures vividly to life in a way that excites teens.»

Schools that emphasize PBL across the curriculum often use the same collaboration rubric across grades and disciplines, encouraging a common language and schoolwide culture.

Natalie Middleton is the PR / Communication Manager for VIA, a company focused on helping global organizations communicate across boundaries of language, comprehension and culture, by delivering services such as eLearning, translation...

Using data collected at EF centers in different parts of the world, the project focused on adolescents» academic writing proficiencies across different first languages / cultures (China, Russia, U.S.) and across different types of texts.

It is true that the power and energy of participation, enabled by mobile and portable computing devices in the hands of every citizen with the ability to surpass containment and censorship can successfully build social change collectives across geographies, enemy lines, languages and cultures where it was impossible.»

Last fall, our regional educational laboratory, REL Northwest, joined with REL Central and REL Pacific to organize a convening of tribal representatives from across the country to examine how our education system can incorporate indigenous language and culture and what research can increase and improve those efforts.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

By taking into account cultural differences, locale and language — you can create a global learning system which is equally effective across all cultures and countries, and still provides the online training that you require for your organization.

She works with school district administrators and teachers across the country to customize and deliver systemic approaches to literacy development through instructional practices that integrate culture, language, and cognition to expand and accelerate student learning and achievement.

PBE is defined as an immersive learning experience that «places students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences — using these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum.»

PBE is an immersive learning experience that «places students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences, using these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum.»

One of the most exciting aspects of our son's education is the Spanish immersion program that has cultivated his love for language and laid the foundation for him to communicate with many more people across cultures and around the world — and yet none of this will be measured by the MAP test.

The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference examines the pedagogical and political supports necessary to give language minority students a high - quality education in mainstream classrooms.

The AAPI community is also the fastest - growing racial group in the United States — representing more than 48 ethnicities, over 300 spoken languages, varied socioeconomic status, and distinctions across immigration history, generational status, culture, and religion.»

United by a common history and joined by a squiggly, contentious border, India and Pakistan are like a lopsided Venn diagram containing shared and disparate cultures, languages, religions, ecosystems, values, and traditions across a combined population of approximately 1.4 billion people.

In his New Yorker article, Dalrymple states, «In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religion.»

«We believe books have the power to connect us across language, country, and culture,» but only made available for US customer?

It's an extremely diverse country, with vast differences in geography, climate, culture, language and ethnicity across its expanse, and prides itself on being the largest democracy on Earth.

As you would expect from the largest archipelago on the planet, Indonesia has an incredibly diverse landscape and culture, with over 300 languages spoken, the world's 2nd largest tropical forest, 130 active volcanoes and 1,000's of spectacular temples spread across the islands.

«As the global gamer population continues to become very richly diverse across geographies, cultures, languages, genders, ethnicities, and so on, those who create games need to accept the fact that this is the world in which we live.

Jonas» work, which has been exhibited extensively across the globe since the early 1970s, is dedicated to the exploration of non-linear narratives, oral history, as well as past and current politics; it translates popular culture, anthropological influences, and literary sources into a reduced and minimalist language of gestures, objects, and signs as an expanded notion of sculpture.

Performance, in particular, has emerged as a flexible vehicle for these artists living under politically repressed regimes because it is able to speak across the multitude of cultures, languages, tribes, identities, songs and landscapes of South Africa and beyond.

The exhibition will address how written language can be a central question in the relationships between different cultures and civilizations, and how artists across the world play with alphabets, characters, words and phrases.

Employing the language of museum display, the artists chart the recurrence of forms and themes across cultures and history, to reveal unexpected relationships and affinities.

The interplay of two cultures, languages, and cities, as well as his rebelliousness enfolded in beauty, resonates across his life and work, and finds its place in this exhibition.

Working across different media and contexts, the artist is fascinated with the rules and systems that inhabit language and culture and the way these systems are both productive and constraining.

The Deutsche Guggenheim's recent group exhibition «Found in Translation» read like a rejection of typical metaphors surrounding the process of translation, where translation becomes a site of disengagement or misunderstanding that represents impermeable barriers across language, culture, religion and time.

Weaving across expanses of water, land, history, language, and cultures, the film traces the epistolary correspondence of two women at the beginning of the nineteenth century, one in Suesca, Colombia, and the other in Beirut, to engage with the social, political and epistemological possibilities of desire.

Having an experienced risk management team, one familiar with the local language, regulations and business cultures — and the specific obstacles to project development that can arise — is the best way for investors to ensure their financial aims are realised, and further the spread of renewable energy across Southeast Asia.

We understand multinational corporations require a law firm that understands their business and is able to provide local expertise while at the same time overcoming the diversity of language and culture across Europe.

«Some of the topics being covered are soft skills in terms of managing conflicts around compliance and global responsibility and privilege across borders, culture and language — things that people aren't likely to get in traditional continuing professional development programs,» says Creighton.