Sentences with phrase «constructive actions»

You can take a number of constructive actions, including:

She writes that community engagement can also assist lawyers and students in converting rage at injustice into constructive actions, but she does not describe how this process might unfold.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

With that in mind, here are seven constructive actions you can take to heal the rift in your relationship:

But that still leaves plenty of scope for constructive action.

Empathy is good, but it must be combined with constructive action to have real impact.

«Fear is overdone concern that prevents investors from taking constructive action when they should.»

Before there can be constructive action, there must be a goal and a motive and willingness to pay the cost.

But Larry, shouldn't the poor targets, er, I mean people, have thrown popcorn at the gunman, instead of actually taking constructive action????

Often such specialized communities can mobilize expertise and engender the commitment and visibility necessary for constructive action.

Moral responsibility is not primarily a burden «imposed» on the individual by society, but an opportunity for constructive action, voluntarily acknowledged.

Collecting information often involves direct exposure to problems; this tends to reinforce motivation to take constructive action.

What concrete plans will you make for this constructive action?

This awareness often motivates the constructive action of either getting out of a mutually destructive marriage or of getting counseling.

That is, it is constructive action, based upon persistent goodwill, and directed towards «overcoming evil with good».

The meeting was organized to explore diverse needs, to foster the discovery of common ground, and spark constructive action that will ultimately benefit all stakeholder groups.

Following the Future Search model, the 2011 Home Birth Consensus Summit, held in October at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA, fostered the dialogue needed to spark constructive action towards safe, culturally competent, and respectful care for women who desire home birth.

But if you spend all your time complaining instead of taking constructive action to solve your problem, your dissatisfaction will just return in a few days.

With such repetitive and significant associative links firmly established, taking that Children's Tylenol and chucking it in the trash would be a really constructive action step.

Don't spend a ton of time feeling guilty about being privileged; instead, put that time and energy toward constructive action to support those who aren't privileged in the same way.

Visit the Opportunities for Constructive Action web site for online resources and information from HGSE faculty members in response to the events of September 11.

This negativity bias also means that smaller, day - to - day stressors tend to take precedence in our thoughts, leaving less room for positive framing or constructive action planning.

In five cities, we helped students and teachers conduct survey research about their own schools, supported dialogue and constructive action around their research results, and nurtured youth leadership all along the way.

We learned that meaningful student voice must: be inclusive, be woven into the daily fabric of school, target substantive issues, involve asking and listening by all parties, and lead to constructive action.

In five cities, we helped students and teachers conduct survey research about their own schools and supported dialogue and constructive action around their research results.

Critical Pedagogy is a philosophy of education described by Henry Giroux as an «educational movement, guided by passion and principle, to help students develop consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, and connect knowledge to power and the ability to take constructive action.»

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

In so doing, he has written one of the most morally courageous books of our time, one that will long linger in the conscience of all who encounter it, and one that — just perhaps — may move the world to constructive action.

Knowing what to do can redirect your panic into constructive action.

If your message lays the groundwork for constructive action for individuals as well as groups, it can be translated to new concerns as they arise.

These can be simultaneously signs and their own manifestation, constructive action as its own best advocate.

This belief discourages constructive action, and can result in irrational acts by people in despair, individually, or as nations, willing to do anything to derail the juggernaut we are told is carrying us, inevitably, to destruction.

Though the United States has (at best) sat on its hands and (at worst) actively hindered constructive action to combat climate change for the past eight years, with the changing of the guard coming (not soon enough), the next president can jump start action on climate change by employing the well established Clean Air Act to unify state carbon projects and administer a national cap - and - trade program.

They want to see constructive action.

«The time has come for constructive action that draws strength equally from business, government, and non-governmental stakeholders,» said Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of Connecticut - based GE, in a statement timed for the day before George Bush's backing of alternative technologies.

Right now the most constructive action appears to be on other threads (Anastassia and Nick)-- let's enjoy it.

This all went to my not well received suggestion that we take constructive action to create standing forests in the vast areas of under - used land in the USA, preferably on a whole North American continental basis.

«There is obviously no magic bullet that would alleviate the environmental crisis, but some obvious opportunities exist for constructive action [and] we can not afford for the pace of social change to be slow,» Ross and his colleagues write.

Today, law firms have to be sensitive and be prepared to take constructive action if a significant number of partners believe there are areas of practice the firm ought to be in so that it may provide better service to its key clients, or there are practice areas in which the firm is so weak that it would be doing its clients a favor by eliminating it and referring them to better specialists.

Hibshman said she tries to redirect these thoughts to constructive action.

In this way rather than being triggered into grumpiness you are using the experience of being grumpy as a trigger to take constructive action to address the root cause.

Using compassionate, yet compelling tone, Rabinor provides a much - needed bridge for couples to get even the angriest of exes to understand the importance of an amicable co-parenting relationship and how to actually put the understanding into constructive action.

He talked about the importance of public conversations that can help us move from a discourse of blame to constructive action.

How do we take constructive action with intent — the intent to smash this racist system while honouring Elijah and all those before him who are victimised by race - based injustice?

We learned that meaningful student voice must: be inclusive, be woven into the daily fabric of school, target substantive issues, involve asking and listening by all parties, and lead to constructive action.

Not exact matches

They understand that their actions can affect others» feelings, they manage their own range of feelings so they can remain constructive and not destructive, they learn from and work through setbacks, they are able to genuinely show others they care, and they continue through life to flourish socially.

This means that, whether it's positive or constructive, women are less likely to be told what specific actions contributed to the team / company objectives or how they can improve.

For this setup to remain constructive, the price action should hold above the 40 - week MA and the higher «swing low.»

Drilling down to the daily chart (below), we see $ EIDO potentially forming «higher lows» within the base, which is a sign of constructive price action.

Again however, we closely monitor trend uniformity, and will act on it if we see constructive developments from market action.