Sentences with phrase «conversations about how»

During this period, we had many conversations about how to better develop games, and [we were] thinking about trying to do it ourselves.

We're having conversations about how Matchmaking might support the more challenging activities in Destiny.

Likewise, the CDC is engaging in serious conversations about how the industry can continue to mitigate the impact of future outbreaks.

Plus, your Vanguard sales executive stands ready to have broader conversations about how to reflect clients» goals through this next stage of active management, i.e., a low - cost and targeted approach to factors.

My hope is that by making my college compact with my three boys, and having open, transparent conversations about how loans work, I can help them to graduate college ideally debt free.

They have had several conversations about how they are going to organise their lives after the baby and have agreed that Jenny will take 9 months off work after the birth and then she will return to her job 3 days a week.

The publishing industry has spent the past few weeks reeling from the insights provided by DBW and AuthorEarnings into what book sales data actually feels like for the rights holders involved, if not actually providing meaning discussion and furthering conversations about how accurate comparative sales data can help authors and publishers.

Our goal is to inform educators and policymakers, as well as spark conversations about how best to enable every child to succeed under ESSA.

Participants should take a proactive approach and have conversations about how best to understand the research on summer learning loss for different student populations at all grade levels.

Without any language of judgment, «missed opportunities» became genuine conversations about how a teacher was working to become better.

In our conversations about how to best use these new tools, we have to keep a few things in mind.

Teachers, coaches, after - school staff, and employers can use this resource to facilitate conversations about how young people can reach their full potential by developing nonacademic skills.

Community Conversation: School Finance In March 2017, The Mind Trust and UNCF hosted a «community conversation» on the topic of «School Finance,» which engaged the local community in conversations about how schools are funded and how funding varies across school type and based on the population of students served.

The state snapshots do not rank or grade the states; instead, they are intended to prompt conversations about how states are doing in supporting the whole child, where they need to go, and what strategies states can use to ensure they are meeting the comprehensive needs of children.

«With the largest racial achievement gap in the country,» said Evers, «we need to have tough conversations about how Wisconsin will improve education for all students.»

It meant getting folks at the same table city - wide and having hard conversations about how to deploy resources.

This does not mean prescribing a set of rules for them to follow, but rather engaging them in conversations about how they can best respond to the actions and emotions of their school community members.

For instance, the twice - monthly meetings of instructional leadership directors in one district included facilitated conversations about how the ILDs handled certain situations with principals and the practical pros and cons of various approaches.

Our families and communities deserve robust conversations about how our schools are performing, straight talk about what is and isn't working, and ideas about how to build a shared agenda for the future.

In the online discussions and face - to - face meetings, the members of the learning community, the teachers and the university educators, engaged in numerous conversations about how to overcome these barriers (e.g., lack of access to technology).

It is vital that the district engage the community in conversations about how to use the funds and clearly communicate the impact of the funding on students and staff.

We need to have more conversations about how we assess student learning as well.

Along with Steve Barr and Marshall Tuck, I was part of important conversations about how labor leaders, truly progressive labor leaders, could work for educational justice through our education reform work.

«At the beginning of this new school year, we need our district and union leaders to move past the stalemate and instead, focus their energy on the important work of implementing the new system as a tool to have meaningful conversations about how teachers and students keep growing.»

«This led to school - wide and cross-sector conversations about how to improve students» skills and facilitate a better transition from high school to college,» researchers wrote.

Educators often find ourselves engaged in conversations about how to address achievement disparities, discipline issues, the recruitment and retention of effective teachers and administrators, but how often do we allow students to weigh in on the subject?

At New Brunswick Middle School (NJ)-- a priority school recently named a State and National School of Character — every student is engaged in ongoing action - linked conversations about how to improve the school, community, and wider world.

Discussing the recommendations, cautions, and ideas in this paper with their students may foster conversations about how and why English teachers may effectively use technology.

ParentCamp is a free «un-conference» that brings parents, caregivers, community leaders, educators, and children together to have conversations about how best to support students.

No matter where I am, whether it is a physical location or virtual, I am always hearing conversations about how technology can be used to engage students effectively.

And, it confuses several different issues around virtual learning, leading to uninformed commentaries that further polarize and inflame what could be good conversations about how best to implement digital learning.

This research has helped to engage arts leaders in conversations about how arts education programs are structured and implemented.

«The best education around gender violence and the most effective by far in working with men,» says Katz, «is having honest conversations about how cultural attitudes and beliefs about manhood... both contribute to perpetration and, in many cases, impede men's and young men's likelihood of challenging and interrupting abuse.»

Rather than cast aspersions and demagogue the issue, teachers need leaders willing to have courageous conversations about how to modernize and improve retirement security for all of our nation's teachers.

One possibility is that studies like this help us pay attention to the fact that our students have writing lives, that they routinely engage in writing - intensive work that is complex, and that it is useful to engage our students in conversations about how writing works in the world.

The goal of this case study is not to critique whether or not the response to the death of Michael Brown was appropriate, but rather to catalyze conversations about how system - level leaders can organize to combat structural racism in schools and communities in pro-active ways to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.

Rather, I was engaged in professional and personal conversations about how China might, through ongoing professional development in project learning, purposefully increase the amount of creative thinking in China.

We need more open and honest conversations about how to systematically, concretely, and effectively address such comments when we hear them in our school halls, meeting rooms, or street corners.

The last few years have brought some exciting advances in artificial intelligence and with it, many conversations about how it might render large swaths of the workforce, including teachers, redundant.

Have frank conversations about how being gifted might be perceived by others, both negatively and positively, and how might deal with these perceptions.

I facilitate a blog for conversations about how we «ought» to teach ELA for the good of humanity and am interested in reading and writing practices that enable us to bear witness to our lives and the lives of others.

There's a big difference between conversations about how to make education more productive and those that are focused entirely on cost - reduction.

And when these mirror - holding exercises are followed by honest and authentic conversations about how to recast and readjust behaviors, then feedforward can run its powerful course.

Just over a year later, it's coming to the big screen and generating Oscar buzz, as well as conversations about how its story — which centers on the decision by Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and editor - in - chief Ben Bradlee to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971 — relates to First Amendment struggles in 2017.

Not only does the film joke about none of them being worthy for heaven, but it includes conversations about how overpaid and overvalued they are in society.

In the conversations about how to capture what Beachler was concocting on film Morrison — who made history this year as the first woman to be nominated for the cinematography Oscar for her work on «Mudbound» — said Coogler referenced a variety of inspirations including Ron Fricke's nonverbal «Baraka» and «Samsara,» «The Godfather,» «Sicario» and «The Dark Knight.»

I'm about done talking about this film, but was super thrilled to have many thought - provoking conversations about how this film takes the Star Wars franchise in bold new directions.

But then there began gradual conversations about how we could resurrect him.

All we get is bickering, mixed with conversations about how marriage is hard, and the stupidest thriller outline you have ever seen, laden with cliches that are hard to imagine that actual brains thought would work.

Expect to jump right into conversations about how to meet up, or even cyber sex shortly after logging on for your first time.