Sentences with phrase «building of community emphasized»

For example, Mr. Sinclair's building of community emphasized activities that helped students see each other as individuals with the goal of understanding across racial / ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic boundaries.

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«Intuitive puts a lot of effort into building and maintaining a positive corporate culture that emphasizes community, ethics, and commitment to the people within the organization.

emphasizes the public expression of what is known, the crucial importance of language, texts, and tradition — linking to and building up a community of learning and knowledge.

You know all teens are not getting pregnant or getting their partners pregnant and we are building on positive factors in the community instead of emphasizing risk factors and negative behaviors,» Burstein explained.

The authors also emphasize the relevance of reconciling biodiversity conservation and human rights standards through rights - based instruments, as well as capacity building for indigenous peoples and local communities.

Often isolated, arts teachers from the study schools emphasized the value of the community built across the network.

Restorative Practices are based on principles and processes that emphasize the importance of positive relationships as central to building community and restoring relationships when harm has occurred.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

By emphasizing in each activity the importance of trusting one another, classroom leaders build a sense of classroom community.

Explicitly writing into the plan the need for creating a strong culture and climate, which «emphasizes environment and supports needed for the sustainability of a safe school where productive work can occur (e.g., data competency, resource management, building leadership capacity, cultural awareness, communication strategies, professional learning communities, Universal Design for Learning, social and emotional learning).»

Attendance improves when a school community offers a warm and welcoming environment that emphasizes building relationships with families and stresses the importance of going to class every day.

BLTs, comprised of 5 - 12 participants, will emphasize building communities and trust, peer observations and feedback, examining student work, and text - based discussions; they will meet at least four hours per week.

Some were funny, others tugged the heartstrings, but all emphasized the importance of writers building their own communities.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

Instead, he emphasizes the importance of nationhood, the kind of nation building, or community building, really, that was a principal part of the Black Power and Black Arts Movements and that he expressed in one of his early paintings titled «Nation Time» (1969).

«In addition to offering artists time and space to develop their practices, the Center emphasizes community - building as an important aspect of fueling artistic endeavor.

Artists will learn: - Methods of organizing community around social impact through arts and culture emphasizing available assets over deficits - Tools and activities to engage dialogue, break down barriers, and create a shared language among key stakeholders - Incorporation of art into city planning and urban development - How to negotiate, read / build contracts, and build robust budgets that both account for all aspects of project expense, including artist fee, and reflect the story of your project to funders and stakeholders.

While the Studio Museum in Harlem undergoes construction on its new David Adjaye — designed building, the museum staff will present a series of satellite projects that emphasize its commitment to its neighborhood and community under its inHarlem initiative.

In the spirit of our newest course book, A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World, we want to emphasize meaning over material goods, strengthen relationships, and build community.

The program is a result of the implementation of the Sustainable Management System, built to make the Hotels and Resorts operations as efficient as possible, emphasizing the company's meaningful and long - lasting commitment to «our clients, our employees, our community, and our environment, a commitment to the highest levels of the organization and outlined on our sustainability policy.»

Family support programs emphasize a proactive approach toward the prevention of problems including the following characteristics: partnership with families built on a relationship of mutual respect; participants as a vital resource in program decision - making and governance; community - based and culturally relevant services; education, information and skill - building for parents; and voluntary participation.

For example, in the African American culture, in which community is valued over independence (Ford & Kea 2009), guidelines for some activities (like snack) may emphasize relationship - building behaviors — passing the food bowl — over independent adaptive skills — taking an appropriate portion of a self - serve snack.

Jeff Duncan - Andrade emphasizes the importance of building a caring and supportive community for students in schools.