Sentences with phrase «community learn from the situation»

Looking back after ten years» experience as a teacher and as a human, I see that my reaction to the event did nothing to help me, my students or the school community learn from the situation.

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Hinton said de Blasio's first deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, found out in late February when DCAS Commissioner Lisette Camilo, who had recently taken over the agency, learned of the situation from a local community board and put a hold on all deed restriction modifications.

I am from the largest city in Kansas, Wichita, and I learned so much about the importance of building a community of tight - knit, ride - or - die, friends that have your back regardless of any situation.

Using a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the district hired a consultant, William McKersie, to work with a group of administrators and teachers who were tasked with researching the best situations for the smaller learning communities.

Folk education is «learning that happens when individuals and communities come together to celebrate culture and life in order to critically analyze challenging and especially oppressive situations, to build a knowledge base [and] to apply that knowledge to create alternative possibilities for the institutions in which we live and work» (as quoted from the Folk and People's Education Association of America web site at http://www.peopleseducation.org/).

We collaborate closely with regional partners to learn about and understand the particulars of the local situation; these partners bring perspectives from numerous sectors and constituencies: from civil society organizations to policymakers to water regulators to communities.