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In this session with Mesa Public Schools» programs and experience being the backdrop, best practices and learnings about the powerful impact of family and cultural connections on student engagement, achievement and personal success will be explored.

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Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Takeaways include features of the Berkshire System from the shareholders» viewpoint: (1) Berkshire is unusually congenial to taxable shareholders, enhancing compounding rates considerably; (2) Berkshire's internal cultural features such as autonomy, decentralization, and permanence help attract sellers of high - quality companies to selll to Berkshire at reasonable prices with managers who stay on and become substantial shareholders; and (3) There is a close symbiotic connection between features (1) and (2) that reinforces Berkshire's high compounding rate and long time horizon.

Takeaways include features of the Berkshire System from the shareholders» viewpoint: (1) Berkshire is unusually congenial to taxable shareholders, enhancing compounding rates considerably; (2) Berkshire's internal cultural features such as autonomy, decentralization, and permanence help attract sellers of high - quality companies to sell to Berkshire at reasonable prices with managers who stay on and become substantial shareholders; and (3) There is a close symbiotic connection between features (1) and (2) that reinforces Berkshire's high compounding rate and long time horizon.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

There is also a short essay on «cultural connections» devoted to music, namely Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah.

I'm doing a project on the history of peanuts and peanut butter in South America for cultural connections.

He is counting on a family committed to maintaining cultural connections and continuing contact with his siblings.

Each chapter in the book is devoted to one of five objects and each builds on the cultural relevance of materials, exploring the connections between artists» materials and their everyday life; showing how materials could be used philosophically and playfully.

As a Central Florida cultural event in its 24th year, the Florida Film Festival exerts a pull on filmmakers, especially those with local connections.

However, no connection is made between the information on the page and the chapter's historical theme, and there is no overall concept of culture that might explain the cultural artifacts depicted.

The students held an unveiling ceremony for the plaque in front of their principal, a handful of members from the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, teachers, school board members, a federal judge with a personal connection to internment, a former detainee, and a few of the relatives of the individuals commemorated on the plaque.

The success of the financial - literacy program at the Ariel Community Academy depends on three major elements: a financial - literacy curriculum that begins early on and is developmentally appropriate, community partnerships that provide connections to reality and parent involvement in financial - literacy learning, and a cultural sensitivity in the methods of instruction that encourage student choice and the development of decision - making skills.

Summary: This article speaks about the writer's experiences in New Zealand where education focuses on a student's cultural heritage and helps them understand their heritage and make connections with their learning.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

Spagna said some traits, such as having a cultural connection with students, may also have a positive effect on a person's ability to be a good teacher.

The evaluation focused on three key areas: 1) Implementation (training, staffing, promotion, availability, methods for sustainability, curricular connections), 2) Participation (methods of adoption / education, level of participation, parent / teacher / food service worker roles) and 3) Attitudes (changes in diet / nutrition - related knowledge, behavior, impact of cultural differences, food likes / dislikes, expectations, influences on food selection, etc.).

Indeed, at a time when younger Americans don't identify with Israel as earlier generations did, the establishment of a connection through language could lead to business, cultural and political connections later on.

Teachers should offer: (1) collaborative learning, which entails collaborative intellectual exchanges among students and ensures that all classroom participants are actively involved in the learning process; (2) meaningful learning, which builds on student experiences and knowledge by making connections to significant events in their lives; and (3) cultural resources, which pro-actively build on the cultural, family, and community assets, values and practices students bring from home (Boykin & Noguera, 2011; Ramani & Siegler, 2011; Yeager & Walton, 2011).

Veteran ELL teacher Becky Corr describes an activity in which educators identify various cultural groups to which they belong and begin to form connections based on those shared experiences.

The restriction on calculation aids and internet connections still stems from a serious cultural issue we have in mathematics teaching — the type of questions that we ask.

Is the closeness of a connection based on shared racial, cultural, religious, or other identity factors?

They are the duo behind a sustainable travel blog Drink Tea & Travel, traveling the world in search of outdoor adventures, cultural experiences, human connections, and ways to make a positive impact on the destinations and communities they visit.

During the session, Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government elaborated the city's historic and cultural roots, which can make a strong tie that connects Macao with peoples of different regions around the world, with more friendly visits, exchanges and cooperation based on Macao's diverse cultural gems, such as cultural heritage, religion, Macanese community, returned overseas Chinese and immigrants as well as historic connections with Portugal.

Each spring DC celebrates its vibrant connection with Japan commemorating the gift of the cherry trees with special cultural performances on the Tidal Basin, culinary events, kite flying, music, dance, and themed tours.

Karang Setra Hotel, Spa and Cottages is a great place to enjoy the different facilities that are on offer for you including the incredible swimming pool located in the gardens which flow up the hillside to where the cottages are located and are fully landscaped incorporating not only the facilities such as the bars and restaurants and the gym and the sports facilities but also the cultural Javanese ornamentation which creates a connection with the land and the culture when you are in the grounds of this modern hotel.

The Public Knowledge Library serves as the main hub for Public Knowledge, a series of artist projects, research collaborations, and programs designed to promote public dialogue on the cultural impact of urban change and build new connections between ideas, individuals, and communities.

This exhibition is comprised of paintings, photographs, and works on paper that investigate the psychological concepts of darkness, the dreamscape and its connection to the night, and the inter-connectedness of the environment with cultural and artistic discourse.

In addition to the artworks on view there will be a display by the School of Psychology, Bangor University comprising cultural artifacts, documents and other items showing the connection between physical objects and our cognition.

We'll examine the evolving design styles and the role of the pioneer designer in society, with an emphasis on notable works, subjects and themes; and their cultural, political and social connections.

He typically gravitates toward cultural theorists, poets and critics — Stuart Hall's posthumous memoir, «Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands,» about growing up in Jamaica in the 1930s; Fred Moten's «In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition,» on the connections between jazz, sexual identity and radical black politics; Judith Butler's «Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence,» a look at the vulnerability and aggression that followed Sept. 11.

One is trying to make art that relates, trying to work out a cultural identity that would separate them in some fashion from certain things in America that were objectionable, working on a cultural identity — trying to work out some connection with the concept or idea of Africa.

The aim is to offer fresh perspectives on Tibetan Buddhist images that have rarely been understood outside of their cultural and devotional contexts, and to forge new connections between different spheres of artistic practice, both traditional and modern.

# 1: Cartagena reflects on the cultural traditions of the people, the history and the deep connections to the colonial past,...

By anthologizing essays, documents, and interviews by leading critics, historians, and artists on issues of site - specificity, conceptualism, feminism, and architecture practice, Surface Tension reveals the connections between cultural production and the very spaces in which such work functions.

Entitled «Memory,» the exhibition reflected on connections between personal and collective memory, a meditation on the function of the museum and the making of cultural history.

Based on memory and intimate observations of the contemporary world, the works draw out connections between surface and essence, and between individual and cultural identity.

He is also the co-founder of Perfect Crossovers ltd, a Beijing - based cultural consultancy group, providing leading artistic directions and services destined for foundations, museums, collections, brands and creators, focused on the visionary connection between Asia and the rest of the world.

Academically, Massouras» research is focused on institutional history, and in 2014 he was awarded Paul Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his project entitled Casts and Iconoclasts: The Twentieth - century Plaster Cast and the Reproduction of Culture which uses the history of plaster and casting to explore cultural shifts, art historical connections and theories of education.

These posters celebrate the close connection between art and a life lived, the intractable stamps beloved cultural ephemera leave on our experiences.

As Lynne Westmoreland says on the Humane Connection blog, «We can declare our individual independence from advertising, cultural «norms,» and unhealthy and inhumane actions.

The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers call «cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I call our «inconvenient mind.»

But as experimental studies show, it's possible to disable or blunt culture's heuristic influence: when people's cultural identities are affirmed, they don't experience the threatening affective response, or are less influenced by it, as they consider information that challenges beliefs that pre-dominate in their group; when they can't discern a consistent connection between the cultural identity of advocates and positions on some risk issue, they can't simply adopt the position of the advocate whom they perceive as having values most like theirs.»

Alaska is home to 40 % (229 of 566) of the federally recognized tribes in the United States.171 The small number of jobs, high cost of living, and rapid social change make rural, predominantly Native, communities highly vulnerable to climate change through impacts on traditional hunting and fishing and cultural connection to the land and sea.

Although programming largely focuses on Indigenous healing and cultural practice, activities are open to all and encourage cross-cultural connection.

During his infamous treason trial, the one that sent him to his long imprisonment on Robben Island, Mandela made the connection between his cultural heritage and the struggle against apartheid explicit:

The fraudsters even played on cultural connections where they existed.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association submits this brief to the Members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights («Committee»), in connection with the review of Canada's sixth periodic report.

[2] A judge may represent his or her country, state, or locality on ceremonial occasions or in connection with historical, educational, or cultural activities.

The proposal is to place an «infinitesimal» tax on internet and mobile phone connections and directing that tax revenue to cultural industries.