Sentences with phrase «community agents for change»

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Volunteerism Be an agent for change in your community while growing skills to equip you for your career

While I've spoken at many of them, and Passion has influenced them around the world, I want to be able to lay down at the feet of Jesus and say I gave it a shot — I tried to build into the local community of faith that he gave his life for, that he loved, and that he believed is the best agent for change in the world.

The scientific community, the medical fraternity, health managers, breastfeeding advocates and international health organizations have missed out on a powerful «change» agent for early initiation and hence short and long term breastfeeding success.

Moreover, he says that the fellowship is an «agent of change» for the U.S. scientific community.

This basic idea has been taken up by a section of the solar physics community, and a good recent summary of the evidence for the proposition that solar variability is an agent, if not the main agent, of the perceived recent climate change associated with global warming, is given in Hoyt & Schatten (1997).

Children, youth and students have played an important role as agents of change, participating actively in discussions that affect their future, advocating for a transformation in their learning environments and bringing the messages of sustainability and global citizenship home to parents and communities.

Teachers selected for the fellowship want to be the «chief agents of change» in their local communities, according to the organization.

Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools ® is an education - based project that uses sports and education programs to activate young people to develop school communities where all youth are agents of change — fostering respect, dignity and advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities.

A pioneer in the education reform movement in Washington DC, Chavez Schools is known for developing teachers into leaders and for empowering our students to be agents of change in the community.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

Odiaka Gonzalez is the executive director for Oakland Leaf, a nonprofit that utilizes creative education to develop young leaders to become agents of change in their community.

An exhibited ability to work with children in a caring and respectful manner in order to create a joyful, caring classroom environment where instructional time includes community building, conflict resolution, skill - building, and empowering students to be peacemakers and agents for positive social change

For years, communities there lacked long - term strategies to build strong charter schools and also lacked local agents pushing for chanFor years, communities there lacked long - term strategies to build strong charter schools and also lacked local agents pushing for chanfor change.

Meeting once a month, SLYCE includes a curriculum of leadership learning lessons and resources that build students» capacity as change agents and prepares them for involvement in their communities.

Jaumont's role in educating all parents to understand the benefits of bilingual education, as well as in supporting parents of all backgrounds in organizing themselves, has been without equal, for from the beginning he knew that only parents and communities could be change agents.

In this capacity, teachers and students see themselves as agents for classroom change, achievement, and community and family engagement (Gay, 2013; Ladson - Billings, 2001).

Thank you for helping them become the premier agents of social change within and for the communities that they will serve.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Our leaders are influential agents of change who impact not only students and schools but entire communities, producing high school graduates well prepared for college, careers, and beyond.

Design for Change empowers students to be socially aware and proactive change agents in their commChange empowers students to be socially aware and proactive change agents in their commchange agents in their community.

These teachers believed that schooling should help students become critical change agents who felt capable of and responsible for addressing social injustices in their communities.

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (Scout Press) Already longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, this debut from literary agent Clegg (Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man) is a scorching depiction of a community's grief after a life - changing event.

Throughout WVC, Pathway plans to fully demonstrate its commitment as a «change agent for good» by raising funds for three charities connected to causes important to the veterinary community.

The Community Arts Engagement Minor is for students who wish to work in art / design education and socially engaged art / design practices in venues that do not require a teaching credential, such as K - 12 private schools, museum education departments, community arts centers, correctional facilities, therapeutic arts programs, design companies that focus on educational materials, and the use of art and design as an agent for positive sociaCommunity Arts Engagement Minor is for students who wish to work in art / design education and socially engaged art / design practices in venues that do not require a teaching credential, such as K - 12 private schools, museum education departments, community arts centers, correctional facilities, therapeutic arts programs, design companies that focus on educational materials, and the use of art and design as an agent for positive sociacommunity arts centers, correctional facilities, therapeutic arts programs, design companies that focus on educational materials, and the use of art and design as an agent for positive social change.

Touching over 1,000,000 business change agents from 86 countries across the globe via sustainablebrands.com and our social media channels, the community is raising the bar for how brands worldwide think about how to create and deliver value in the 21st century.

He served as one of the local coordinators for the 2010 US Social Forum, organizing over 300 Detroit - area volunteers to host 20,000 + activists and community change agents to 5 days of workshops, panels, concerts, and work projects.

Indigenous Climate Action is the only Indigenous climate justice organization in Canada and is working to prioritize Indigenous peoples and communities as agents of change for climate change solutions.

If this position were adopted in the vernacular law of individuals, communities and eventually formalised by the state, it could change the role of private property, from being a fundamental cause of the present environmental crisis, to being an agent for its mitigation.»

When I expressed my frustrations and spouted out all that I wanted to do, they pushed me to bring them a proposal and they helped me a to develop what essentially became the «nuts and bolts» of LWOW: putting students from all over the world on teams with multi-disciplinary mentors and having them tackle law's problems and in the process create innovations in legal education and practice, and build a community of change agents that would serve as a networking platform for future job prospects and lateral moves.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Vision - driven change agent with career - long record of sales strategy, community development, and non-profit management success for leading organizations Proven talent for aligning operations strategy and objectives with established community development and non-profit management paradigms to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures.

The Australian Government must invest in a strengths - based approach to community rebuilding and recovery, and recognise that that our female leaders are the greatest agents for change and empowerment in this country.

It may limit the representative body's ability to be an effective agent for change for the Indigenous community.

He identified as a challenge «closing the gap» between the expectations of government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in order to avoid the credibility problems of previous bodies, to ensure that it has influence with government and is an effective agent of change for communities.

I am proud to be an advocate for the unique and powerful roles that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses have in the health system and their communities, as agents of change.

The Australian nation must invest in a strengths - based approach to Indigenous community rebuilding and recovery, and recognise that that our female leaders are the greatest agents for change and empowerment in this country.

«The Australian nation must invest in a strengths - based approach to Indigenous community rebuilding and recovery, and recognise that that our female leaders are the greatest agents for change and empowerment in this country,» she said.

They will discuss the evidence base for the effectiveness of using community health workers (CHWs) as change agents to address health disparities in Native and other low - resource communities.

«The Australian nation must invest in a strengths - based approach to Indigenous community rebuilding and recovery, and recognise that our female leaders are the greatest agents for change and empowerment in this country,» she said

As an in - home, community - based model that focuses on all elements of the youth's natural ecology, the family is engaged as a central change agent for the youth's behavior.

At The Diana Award we believe that young people are the best agents for change in their schools, communities and online.

I have worked for a small independent real estate company for over 12 years now, and although my position and responsibilities have changed since I started, at virtually all points I have had a comprehensive view of every agent's sales performance and commission income, as well as their involvement in company, community and industry activities.

Knit together common interests and concerns from across the country and across the entire spectrum of real estate settlement service providers to successfully advocate for independent agents and their like - minded partners in the real estate settlement service community in order to effect positive change on the title industry.

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