Sentences with phrase «conversation about choices»

Instead, we should deliver feedback as questions, as neutral observations of accomplishment («You gave five complete examples»), or as whole - class conversation about the choices various writers make.

This opens a conversation about choices and consequences, which helps the student build decision - making skills rather than feeling powerless in the face of authority.

«Those of us in favor of eating or serving meat need to be able to have an informed conversation about our choices, and that includes the choices we make for our pets.»

So when your kids choose to disobey you, have a conversation about their choices and what they can do differently next time.

«We had extensive conversations about this choice, but we feel that any candidate we endorse must be 100 % on board with our agenda.»

If we reframe it, instead, as a conversation about choice and economic prosperity, we stand to gain so much more — bike riders and car drivers alike.

Not exact matches

The company said it has had constructive conversations with Peltz about a board seat as well as «strategic choices to transform P&G.»

N fact, God doesn't belong in this conversation at all; but that IS what we were talking about before you decided to try and misrepresent that * I * have control of the choices I make.

They're out there playing a risky sport, and other ones are having those conversations with their wives or are even talking about walking away from the game... I think at that level, you want players to have informed consent, and you want them to know what the right choice is to make.»

Members had lively interactions and conversations with the students about healthy, nutritional eating, and about making the right choices in food selection.

This large locally handcrafted table seats you «family style» where you can be close to your friends for casual conversation and fun while enjoying & learning about the wines of your choice.

One of my neurosurgeons is a boxing fan and we've had multiple conversations about how to balance our professional identities with our choice of entertainment.

While the conversation lately has been about how many socioeconomically disadvantaged women are having children outside of marriage as well as the rise in choice motherhood, don't be surprised if we start talking instead about how more young couples are finding that it's a much better deal — and a heck of a lot easier — to find someone who'll be a good person to co-parent with than it is finding a soul mate.

But having a conversation about the lie is where the learning happens for your child and is where you can influence better choices for more consistently responsible behavior.

They weren't so successful in actually having an open conversation about different parenting styles and why people might make the choices that they make in their families.

If something comes up, if there are comments made, if his feelings are hurt, or if he has to defend his choices, then at the end of day when we go home, we'll have conversations, we'll bring it up, we'll talk about how does it feel, do you want to dress this way, do you want to dress differently, and this is part of the reason I believe also that it's an innate expression of who he is.

My kids and I watched the documentaries Food, Inc and Forks Over Knives as a way to get the conversation going on what we wanted to do about our food choices.

Children learn very quickly how much effort it takes to burn off specific amounts of calories from their favorite foods, which can and will lead to further, in depth conversations about making healthier food choices.

My doula work is committed to supporting those who are traditionally left out of conversations about their rights and choices around reproductive justice — especially women of color, trans and queer - identified people.

«Why Not Home: The Surprising Birth Choices of Doctors and Midwives» is about «changing the conversation about birth in America and spreading evidence - based information about birth across settings.»

Thinking about it, the closest analogy I can come up with is a discussion at a party — again, strangers brought together through a social connection, participating in a conversation by choice in a public place.

«Lifestyle» is a word that comes up frequently in conversations about residency choices for physicians, independent of whether they are physician - scientists.

His work expands the conversation about ethnic neighborhoods beyond the Chinatowns and other urban «enclaves,» where poor residents of similar ethnicity have often lived because they lacked other choices.

Two additional episodes will follow in December and January, again featuring conversations with UC scientists, researchers and sustainability experts about everything from making environmentally friendly dietary choices to cutting down on packaging waste.

In my late 20s I made a conscious choice to seek out people who supported what I value, like being in the outdoors, taking fun group - exercise classes, eating healthy food, traveling, being silly, having meaningful conversations about relationships, growing old, reading good books, parenting, and all the other things that fill me up.

In our conversation with Jessicca, we talk about her own decision to choose home birth, and through that process how she picked up on the trend of colleagues of hers making the same choice.

It always feels good to share body positive, health positive choices, especially when they can ignite a conversation between friends about the deeper issues of life.

I want to change the conversation we're having about weight loss and nutrition from the latest bio-hack and fad diet, to simple, sound, smart and sustainable healthy choices that help us truly thrive and become a lifestyle.

I mainly eat vegetarian so conversation about vegetarian options is very important to me; especially when it reduces the amount of choices there are.

Online dating sites often pressure singles to subscribe, make a snap judgment about people, and swipe for hours on end, which can foster inauthentic conversations between people brought together by algorithms instead of by choice.

If a conversation goes south, just move on to the next person and don't worry about making a bad choice or wasting time.

The only sense to be made of it is that Taking Lives intends some sort of angry statement about a woman's choice of career over family (an early conversation chides Illeana for, essentially, being successful in a traditionally male profession), finding a fugitive breed of Ashley Judd - like glee in punishing its powerful feminine centre with physical abuse - into - mutilation, rape of a kind, and a brutal disdain for her intelligence and discretion.

«A lot of much needed constructive conversations about equality»: Chris Hemsworth praises Critics Choice awards for addressing «women's rights»

So it is that we bring together in this issue the best of the new evidence on how choice may be affecting public schools as well as a robust, informed conversation about its longer - term potential.

But in the evolving landscape of public education, with ever - present conversations about school choice and concerns about school quality, that is changing.

Faculty members do have choices to make, but the conversations at the AACTE are about «dispositional knowledge» and how to engage prospective teachers in the debates about liberalism and education.

This poll may shine a light on the situation in regards to the Common Core specifically, but my guess is that the same pattern applies to conversations about teacher tenure, school choice, and other education policies.

The system was design to require trainees to think about what they should say as they went through the conversation as opposed to effectively being a multiple choice test, each time selecting the best one of five choices.

«In fact,» Hess concludes, «educational competition can not be divorced from discussions about testing, teacher certification, school district governance, educational administration, or other frustrating conversations that many school choice proponents have long wished to avoid.

While it didn't ultimately become law, it's stoked the conversation about educational choice in the state and how we can empower families to find schooling options that work for their kids.

Bertie goes about things, his choices, conversations, decision making and his exploring, in a bit of a different way.

Increasingly, the conversation is no longer about whether to have school choice.

They kids are given the choices to answer the «what» question that will help to make a short conversation about their weekend.

It's time for honest conversations about what that means, especially given the demand and need for more high - quality choices.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

For the same reason that accepting a scholarship moved families from the object of a conversation to the subject of a conversation about educational opportunity, these same families» decisions to leave one school and to keep their child enrolled in a school of their choice for as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.»

We need to have a broader conversation about these topics, and we need to make sure that we are sending the message that the education we provide is worth every penny — no matter whether it's funded by tuition, scholarships, school choice or local philanthropy.

Hopefully part of the conversation about school choice can move beyond the fiscal impact and onto what really matters: what school choice means for families and their children.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Julio talks about the importance of school choice and empowering communities and parents — it's a great conversation.