Sentences with phrase «challenging conversations about»

It's an entry point to venture into challenging conversations about both spectrums of the migration arc: those who leave and those who are left.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Increases the capacity of colleagues to identify and use multiple assessment tools aligned to state and local standards; b) Collaborates with colleagues in the design, implementation, scoring, and interpretation of student data to improve educational practice and student learning; c) Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection in order to engage colleagues in challenging conversations about student learning data that lead to solutions to identified issues; and d) Works with colleagues to use assessment and data findings to promote changes in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning.

Kaepernick's moment inspired part of the nation to begin holding challenging conversations about progress.

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So while the new regulations have kickstarted a conversation about women in senior positions, the next challenge will be implementing these policies in a meaningful way.

This wasn't quite like the typical conversations I have about the common challenges of running a startup with entrepreneurs, investors, and fellow technology reporters.

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley and his CEO coach, former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna, had a frank conversation about the challenges of running a start - up at Friday's Northside Festival.

Jon Duschinsky, Conversation Farm CEO and one of the creators behind the Ice Bucket Challenge, talks about the need for making philanthropy profitable.

I really appreciate him to enter the conversation about my current challenge and help me advance my thinking.

As we deal with friends and challenges and new influences, we've had more conversations about what it means to guard your gates beyond just slapping your hands over your ears.

We want to engage our generation in a deeper conversation about faith, challenging worldviews and causing people to see God outside the box they've put Him in.

When I have led or participated in conversations in churches and Christian organizations about the desire and challenge to keep growing in both numbers and multiethnicity there is always a moment when someone throws up her hand to say, «But our doors are open to everyone!

I'm not here to whine about these challenges, I'm here to open up a real conversation about them so that we can figure out how we overcome and thrive.

What has surprised me the most about these conversations is the wide range of responses I get when I pose questions or challenges.

Specifics — whether a plain language, line - by - line explanation of budgeting or an honest conversation about how money and marriage can be challenging — instead of a general message of «doing a better job managing our resources» would have provided a balm for my soul.

Kate Bowler is an assistant professor in the school of divinity at Duke University, the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, and host of Everything Happens, a podcast featuring honest conversations about life's toughest challenges.

We had a candid conversation about the region, its challenges, who can work with the IMB, and why emerging missional churches in the states can be great partners in Central and Eastern Europe.

Our last conversation about William Webb's Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals certainly generated a lot of responses, particularly concerning the role of women in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culture.

Advances on those fronts just might, as well, reopen the public conversation about the nature of freedom, offering opportunities to challenge the debasement of freedom into willfulness (license) and reconnecting freedom to the true and the good.

about Working together for good water stewardship: a conversation with Nestlé on transforming a challenging sector

I've found that it's often easiest to have a conversation about something challenging if Laurel and I are doing something together, whether that's baking or walking home from school.

It may seem to be a challenge to get the conversation past the idea of babywearing being a fad or fashion statement, but I encourage you to use this assumption as an icebreaker, so to speak, about the benefits of not only babywearing but also attachment - based parenting.

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

In an exclusive conversation with Mediaplanet, the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, opens up about the challenges — and rewards — of pushing toward a healthier lifestyle.

The 50 + questions about your current parenting become the focus of a conversation with me where we will both celebrate your successes and look at what is especially challenging right now.

The purpose of the event is to encourage pregnant women and new mums and dads to talk «Out Loud» and to have open and honest conversations about the joys and challenges of parenthood.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

However, I am reminded of our conversations about birthday cupcakes, sneaking carrots in smoothies, and a few others where you've insisted on creating a «kid - friendly» version of life that bears no resemblance to the real thing for your kids with respect to mental and emotional challenges such as refusing a cupcake when everyone else is eating them, or being confronted with the irrationality of one's own food refusals by surprise.

After my post «To spank, or not to spank» was published on APtly Said, my friend Ingrid and I had a conversation about the challenges of raising kids and how difficult it is at times to discipline them in a positive way — moreover, how hard it is to keep our composure, especially when we are distressed with other matters in our lives.

The younger Giuliani, a Queens native who works for NYC Council Minority Leader Jimmy Oddo, has had several conversations with the Senate Republicans about a potential challenge to Democratic Sen. Tony Avella, according to a GOP source with knowledge of the discussions.

Labour will not understand why it lost unless part of the conversation is a discussion about why they ended up being led by someone who was defeated by so many of the challenges of leadership, why he took them to their second - worst mauling since the 1930s and why they allowed this to happen.

(I know you like to challenge my account of Englishness - and of course there are many plural accounts and resonances in any large nation - but I can't see how or on what grounds you could possibly seek to deny me an equal claim to that identity, or to having a voice in the conversation about what we want to make of it, on which I expect I've been as engaged as just about anybody else).

Today's summit is not just about securing the agreements, it's been a different kind of events, not having speeches and talking to ourselves, having open challenging conversations asking tough questions.

Maurice Glasman has provided a strong sense of intellectual and political challenge across the party, talking about this as «a completely agitational idea to provoke a conversation about what went wrong with the Blair project».

«Last night I had a very in - depth conversation with a number of very committed, focused local elected officials from the city of Hartford and I was edified in so many ways, in detail, on a granular level, of some of the fiscal challenges far beyond the knowledge that I had on this topic,» Ganim told an audience of about 50 people.

Joined by business leaders, entrepreneurs, and regulatory experts, the Commission seeks to engage business owners and community leaders in a conversation about challenges and potential solutions for small businesses to thrive in New York City.

Last week on the Campbell Conversations, we heard Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner talk about the city's deep financial challenges, and also reflect on the Destiny USA saga.

A conversation with Zatz about the future of Gardiner is always an upbeat one, with emphasis on why it's such a wonderful place to live and will undoubtedly continue to be so, even during challenging economic times.

She challenged the seminar participants to take on small acts of engagement ---- and creative ones (Dr. Nadkarni was wearing a blazer she helped design to encourage conversations about ecology).

«I wanted to try to foster a conversation about these more challenging parts of the field,» Boyle said.

But the two plant scientists sometimes step away from their microscopes and specimens to have honest conversations with their colleagues about the challenges of doing research.

By focusing on a specific set of case studies to which genomic techniques might be applied we will be able to drill down on these scientific challenges but also open the larger conversation about the rights and responsibilities of these new technologies.

Sodoku, Scrabble, Bridge or even a regular, challenging conversation with a friend about new or demanding topics, can work wonders with memory improvement.

The conversation about which foods contain vitamin D can be a bit challenging because the WHFoods list for vitamin D is quite short.

We will talk about your challenges and how you can overcome them through conversation, helpful exercises, handouts, and goals setting.

Tamblyn tells BuzzFeed that she hopes «to elicit some fresh, challenging conversations and examinations of who we are as a society» by flipping the gender norms, and says the book is about «survivors of rape and the commodification, denigration, and manipulation of their stories by everyone from the American media to the judicial system,» as well as also being «a story about how we dangerously demonize and mythologize women.»

In the brightly lit, open bar space, conversation was far easier, and it turned out some of the boys I'd spoken to had told their dates about my challenge, so I spent half an hour telling anecdotes from my dates so far, and laughing at the images brought up when one guy decided to google «merkin» on his phone!

The rather negative, over-confident Casey opened conversation with Aaron by calling him a «Blind Date virgin», something he bantered back to by calling her a «Blind Date slut» — a slur which cut a bit close to the bone after a comment my date on Saturday made about my challenge!

A rule I've probably broken with every single Challenge date who has known about the 30 Dates by 30 blog, because my best and worst dates ALWAYS comes up in conversation!

How to start a conversation with bike girls of interest can be a challenge and below are some of the best ways to go about it.

During their conversation, they talk about how the film came about, Daniel Day - Lewis» process and preparing to play a dressmaker, the challenges of filming in London when you need dailies, how the crew reacts when you cross the line (the invisible 180 - degree mark of a shot / reverse - shot), and much more.