Sentences with phrase «around diversity issues»

In Canada, an increasing immigrant population has forced all of us to develop some reflexes around diversity issues.

Not exact matches

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

The Kapors, who invested early in Uber, are known in Silicon Valley for both their investing prowess but also their passion and engagement around issues of diversity in the tech industry.

Moving forward, Hornsey says Uber will work with outside diversity and inclusion experts «who have been working on these issues for longer than we've been around — and who are working to make change happen.»

Mark - Viverito promised to help lower the rate of school suspensions, backed by a coalition of council members who have been advocating around suspension and school diversity issues.

In most universities, individuals are not trained to deal with the social issues that revolve around diversity.

Including situations such as poor performance, sickness absence, or handling issues around exclusion or diversity.

The Roundtable also provides skills - based training in areas such as inclusion or social - emotional learning, and a forum for discussion around larger issues of diversity or education reform that will shape our work moving forward.

Eddie Moore, founder of the Privilege Institute, works to move beyond dialogue and into action around issues of diversity, power, privilege, and leadership.

Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation have hosted 116 Community Conversations around the U.S., engaging more than 70,000 teachers, parents, and community members in meaningful dialogue about today's most profound issues, including respecting diversity, promoting tolerance, and creating social change.

At Teachers College, she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for eight years Doctoral and Master's students, and scholars in the field of education facilitate informal conversations around issues of race and diversity for the Teachers College community.

This course is organized around three common core topics - communication and media, global issues, social relationships - and two of five options - cultural diversity, customs and traditions, health, leisure, science and technology.

At Teachers College, she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for eight years, national scholars, doctoral, and pre-service and in - service Master's students, and young people facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues involving diversity and teacher education for the Teachers College / Columbia University community.

The event, sponsored by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), National Council of American Indian / Alaska Native School Board (AIAN), Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE), National Black Council (NBC), and National Hispanic Council (NHC), is focusing on building the capacity, knowledge, and skills of school board members around issues of access, equity, and diversity in public education.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

But, as Lillie from Around the World L said in her post on the issue, the main problem with the event hinged on the dearth of racial diversity.

The Golds») thoughtful selection of paintings, works on paper, photographs and sculpture represent an unprecedented look at the diversity of aesthetic threads and array of issues that characterize work being made in and around Los Angeles today,» states the UAM's website.

That cohort returned to campus with best practices and ideas for innovation around the issue of diversity and equity to be shared among all faculty, administration, and staff.

This exhibition aims to convey the diversity of the Latin American experiences and identities within the UK through various cultural and artistic expressions and create a dialogue around different issues.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary art from the Bay Area and around the world that reflects the profound issues and ideas of our time, expands the boundaries of artistic practice, and celebrates the diversity of human experience and expression.

Under the title of «Islands, Constellations and Galapagos», the 6th Yokohama Triennale aims to open up possibilities for discussion around various issues such as isolation and connectivity, imagination and guidance, distinctness and diversity, among others.

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

This unique combination of diversity and common ground enables Forest Trends to better understand different perspectives around economic incentives for forest conservation and establishes a powerful platform from which we can survey the horizon for emerging issues and opportunities.

As outgoing Law Society President Karen Clearwater explains in the May 2015 issue of Communiqué 2.0, Law Society benchers have been considering how to address a lack of diversity, in skills, experience, gender, culture and more, around the bencher table.

«The reality is there is a lot of good practice around this but we still need better numbers,» says Sasha Scott (pictured right), director at Inclusive Group, a consultancy that helps firms tackle unconscious bias and other diversity issues.

Compared to last year, YouTube found this year's top ads were more likely to take a stand on socio - political issues, with seven of the top 10 spots created around themes of inclusion, diversity or empowerment.

2,500 engineering professionals from around the world took part in our Voice of the Workforce survey, providing their thoughts on a range of industry issues and topics such as diversity, skills shortages and the ageing workforce.

1,600 technology professionals from around the world took part in our Voice of the Workforce survey, providing their thoughts on a range of industry issues and topics such as diversity, skills shortages and the ageing workforce.

There is an increasing awareness around the issue of equality and diversity amongst employers with many seeing the advantages of recruiting a diverse workforce.

In addition, I ask you to please notice those colleagues around you who are working to engage others, who are writing, mentoring, teaching and researching multicultural issues in group work and making contributions to group psychology practice, with a focus on promoting understanding and respect for diversity.

-- new content on the role of fathers, pupil voice and listening to children, taking an holistic view of the child, and current issues around diversity and inclusion.

Therefore it is vital that adults are mindful of how they approach issues of diversity around children.

She is a senior consultant with Visions, Inc., a firm that offers services facilitating multicultural / diversity training, providing intervention / mediation around cross-cultural issues, and helping provide multicultural lenses for strategic planning.