Sentences with phrase «challenge status»

«Our mission is to develop products and technology that challenge the status quo, expand the digital publishing market, and enable our partners to offer their users unrivaled access to digital content,» Findaway World says.

Is there a way out or are you trapped forever?Set in the mid-twentieth century South Africa amidst the bitter three - way struggle for dominion between the Boers, British, and black South Africans, An Examined Life is a tale of extraordinary courage shown by a remarkable white man, who dared to challenge the status quo, forsaking everything he had worked so hard to achieve, and what most people would hold dear above everything else.

He is responsible for a number of international patents stemming from ideas that set out to challenge the status quo in one way or another, life experience which gave him his tenets: always challenge accepted norms, the past is never dead, and believe what you read at your peril.

I like to challenge the status quo by presenting information about subjects that most people don't study or have never thought about.

I truly believe it is time to challenge the status quo and do away with overly grand idle animations, and make sure the movements of a character standing still are every bit as subtle as the ones you employ or him during the rest of the game.

What these superstars all have in common is talent, passion, and the mindset to challenge the status quo and forge their own path.

But after years watching its European (primarily German) competitors redefine the luxury segment, Caddy is finally determined to challenge the status quo.

A fitting addition to our line, it will challenge the status quo in its class.»

«I saw my role to act as a change agent to challenge the status quo, in the reasoning that more of the same would not lead to a different outcome.

This is a segment typically dominated by German makes like the two listed above, but Alfa recently decided to challenge the status quo by introducing the 505 - horsepower Giulia QF, inspiring enthusiasts the world over to proclaim the return of one of the world's greatest performance brands.

«Kia has always been willing to challenge the status quo, and with next year marking our 20th anniversary in the U.S., we are making our boldest statement yet and redefining what the Kia brand stands for with the launch of the K900,» said Michael Sprague, executive vice president, marketing & communications, KMA.

His insightful writings always challenge the status quo, and this article is no exception.

Will America be willing to challenge the status quo?

If you envision PLCs as collaborative problem - solving teams, one would expect that they frequently create questions and ideas that challenge the status quo.

«My job is to support, to shine a spotlight, to replicate success, to talk about excellence, but also to challenge the status quo,» Duncan said.

We work with organizations that seek to challenge the status quo and grow their impact for the greater good.

As Secretary, she'll be able to challenge the status quo and foster an environment that encourages innovation and achievement for all.

Where students are unprepared to be successful, then we have to challenge the status quo.

Excellence: We have high standards and challenge the status quo Responsibility: We understand the urgency of our work Initiative: We come with ideas and we make them happen Teamwork: We believe we are more powerful together than we are alone Enthusiasm: We take joy in the work we do Courage: We embrace the unknown

My job is to support, to shine a spotlight, to replicate success, to talk about excellence, but also to challenge the status quo.

Leaders must challenge the status quo, inspire a mutual vision, empower through teams, lead by example, and encourage the heart to persist.

We continue to challenge the status quo in higher education and remain hyper - focused on student - centered learning, outcomes, and success.

What is your message for parents who may want to pull their children off the fast - track but believe they just can't; i.e. they're concerned about how their kids will remain competitive if they challenge the status quo?

Characterizing «teaching as a political activity,» she also advocates for the empowerment of new educators who she argues should challenge the status quo.

Here, professional teachers are seen as broadly contributing to the quality of education; they advocate for equitable policies that challenge the status quo, their purview is extended to include debates over the purposes of schooling, and their success is judged on more than students» performance on standardized tests.

After all, we will never catch back up with the rest of the world if we don't challenge the status quo and allow competition to constantly force us all to take our game to the next level!

«To refuse to challenge the status quo that is failing thousands of African - American students year after year... that's what I call racist,» she said at a school board meeting in early April, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Foster the capacity to critique and challenge the status quo within the field of educational leadership.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

«Those are the kinds of things that would be taken away from rural districts that are trying to challenge the status quo and get better.»

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand up to entrenched special interests, but if we're going to improve schools we have to be willing to challenge the status quo with bold reform.

For example, Ms. Lewis credits Mr. Johnson with allowing her to challenge the status quo when, as the head of the science department at Rockville Centre's South Side High School, she led an effort to explore how to improve outcomes for low - income and minority students.

Let's challenge the status quo in SAISD by putting policies in place that protect our undocumented students and families.

Dr. Perry is a fierce advocate for educating low - income, minority children, and he is never afraid to challenge the status quo.

The Daniels Fund honors his vision through its support of K - 12 educational reform initiatives such as charter schools, portable vouchers for tuition assistance, and significant innovations that challenge the status quo.

[We seek] to challenge the status quo and create conditions in which our children have the opportunity to be more academically successful.»

It is possible to challenge the status quo while honoring good teachers and defending public education,» Broad wrote in a 2012 Education Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.»

The commemoration, he argues, was always meant to put «explicit attention on structures of domination that need to be thought about and reflected on when we shape curriculum and decide how we're training up students to challenge the status quo and to imagine social transformation.»

To be the most effective educational leaders, we need to design a balance between managing the operational side of our roles and the creativity and vision needed to challenge the status quo.

If an act of solidarity does not question the layered aspect of structures and agency that lie upon each other in any situation and does not seek to challenge the status quo, then it is dubious whether this act can be seen as true solidarity and not simply a conscience - soothing, guilt - justifying act of charity.

To accomplish our goals, I often had to challenge the status quo.

In any given week, Adam Mostogl might be helping young entrepreneurs to kick - start their companies, stimulating small businesses to challenge the status quo, challenging communities to understand their potential or teaching hundreds of students to embrace innovation to solve the problems of the future.

But I wasn't surprised by how difficult it is to challenge the status quo.

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

Our teachers, parents, students, and staff demonstrate enormous courage every day as they challenge the status quo.

And we have to continue to challenge the status quo.»

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

The challenge is to use a variety of strategies — investment, capacity building, the creation of competition, parallel structures that challenge the status quo — to help the schools and districts themselves do a better job.

If we don't, history has already provided a glimpse as to what might happen... disruptive innovation compels educators to go against the flow, challenge the status quo, take on the resistance, and shift our thinking in a more growth - oriented way... There is time to go down the path less traveled and create systems of excellence that will be embraced by our learners and in turn better prepare them for their future.

Elisa shares four ways to challenge the status quo.