Sentences with phrase «drive conversations about»

Science itself can drive our conversations about the importance of diversity, as it provides us with the data to understand how systemic bias and discrimination impact our communities and how best to change it.»

For me, «playing in my lane» means using my position as PwC's chairman and senior partner to drive conversations about race and diversity, to drive change and ask the hard questions within PwC and the profession in which we compete, and to have the discussion with other CEOs and corporate leaders.

LGBT Network CEO and founder Dr. David Kilmnick, center, listens as Joe Laricchiuta, 24, a teacher at Sachem Central School District, speaks during an annual conference held by the LGBT Network at Stony Brook University that aims to drive the conversation about bullying in schools, May 1, 2018.

If you've been on this site before, you know that I like to have a meaty, science - driven conversation about any topic.

Our lab actively advocates for honest, data - driven conversations about the failings of the current education delivery system, the impact of poverty on student learning, and the necessity for designing and building new systems that guarantee that our twin educational goals of equity and excellence are achieved for each and every child.

As Common Core - aligned Smarter Balanced test scores trickle in, it is important to reflect on who is driving the conversation about student achievement.

trickle in, it is important to reflect on who is driving the conversation about student achievement.

However, we find that strengths - based, evidence - driven conversations about teacher and student development can be exactly what teachers need to tune their practices for the rest of the year.

Indie MEGABOOTH works to drive the conversation about indie games out into the larger gaming industry, addressing discoverability issues and creating support networks.

Added to that are all the women whose thought leadership via blogs, social media and elsewhere drove the conversation about the present and future of legal tech.

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Millennials are used to interacting with brands on social media, and they are more likely to share their opinions of things they strongly like and dislike, as well as drive conversations on topics that they care about, Pearson says.

It's easy to get caught up in conversations about gender disparity, the haves and have - nots, and a variety of other topics that make great headlines and likewise drive click - throughs.

Jean and I had long conversations about how we could turn typical corporate philosophy upside down, moving away from solely handing out money to becoming a true partner for frontline organizations and leveraging absolutely everything the company possessed in order to drive progress.

Would the effort «matter»; would it help drive the direction of the public conversation about abortion?

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

We must be able to talk about what is messy or sad, to have hard conversations with colleagues who are driving us crazy.

It was an insightful and inspirational conversation about how global trends including the Sustainable Development Goals are driving new market opportunities.

That's the thrust of a big hiring push Gawker is making this year, which involves staffing up in technology, native advertising and bloggers to stir up conversation about products — all with the goal of ultimately driving readers to purchase.

Importantly, that relationship has since deteriorated — and Alphabet is embroiled in an unusual and messy legal fight with Uber — after a series of conversations about working together on self - driving cars fell apart.

After Sunday afternoon began to turn into conversations about what to do for supper and for the evening ahead, tossing out suggestions of drives, parks, playgrounds, pools, we realised that we really didn't want to go anywhere or do anything but be here, home, together.

I've had conversations in the middle of the Ethiopian countryside about Arsenal's barren spell without a trophy, talked about tactics in Jerusalem hotels and driven for five hours to take a Texan to Burnley to witness a 1 - 1 draw.

1991 Cheers Celtics star Kevin McHale is driven to distraction by an inane bar conversation about how many bolts are in the Boston Garden's parquet floor.

Fernando Alonso has revealed he held conversations with Mercedes about a 2017 Formula 1 drive, but admitted there was little point discussing it.

The drives were quite cathartic after a crazy year and my husband and I managed to have long conversations about important and unimportant things that we never seem to have or make time for.

While my conversation with them a few months ago was about the importance of marital contracts for newlyweds, my more recent conversations were about midlife couples, the ones who are driving the so - called gray divorce — those 50 and older — which is growing.

Strike up a conversation about families at the dinner table or while driving in the car.

I suppose the story begins a few years ago, (~ 2012) when Romain and I were on a drive up north, and I, after having an on - again / off - again conversations about baby names, suggested the name Clover for a girl we might have one day.

Plan that first conversation for a time while you and your son are alone and driving somewhere that takes about 30 - 45 minutes to reach.

The age of your child and their experience with Instagram can drive your family conversation but please know there is no right or wrong way to talk about online privacy issues and social sharing.

Despite the structural advantages that go with being a Democrat in the Ninth Congressional District, it's Turner and his surrogates who have driven the agenda by keeping the conversation about Barack Obama, who is deeply unpopular with many of the district's white Catholic and Israel - hawk Jewish voters, rather than the agenda of the very conservative House majority Turner would be joining.

Some advocates for closing the jail are concerned about the growing involvement of the real estate industry, afraid it might overshadow the issues of criminal justice reform that should be driving the conversation.

But Brian Sampson, president of the state chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors, said the conversation about union wages driving up project costs is a necessary one to have.

The three conversations were about equally distracting and led to substantially degraded driving, marked by less scanning for potential hazards, monitoring mirrors less regularly and showing poor surveillance at pedestrian crosswalks and four - way stops.

That is why we are excited about getting the conversation on gene drives going early.»

Millions of people are struggling with little or no sex drive, and we all need to start the conversation about it.

If you are thinking about getting this book, DO IT NOW and help drive the book and the conversation about traditional foods to the top of the Best Seller List.

Thank you to SanDisk for sponsoring today's conversation about the Connect Wireless Flash Drive.

Peele's push into directing comes at a time in America when socially provocative mainstream fare has the potential to permeate the national consciousness and drive vital conversations about race, inclusion and empathy for otherness.

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

We're Tennessee and four gal pals (Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoe Bell, and Tracie Thoms) on location from a film shoot, have endless conversations about who is doing what with whom while driving around.

0:00 — Intro / In - House Stuff 8:35 — Review: Lockout 36:45 — Headlines: Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley Join Iron Man 3, Francis Lawrence to Direct Catching Fire, Analyst Recommends Variable Ticket Pricing, Magic Mike Trailer 52:40 — Other Stuff We Watched: Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Summer School, Joe Versus the Volcano, Edward Scissorhands, The Three Stooges, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, About Schmidt, Birth, The Phantom, Game of Thrones, The Streak, Soldier, Escape from L.A., The Conversation, Girls 1:32:15 — Junk Mail: Actors That Are Insane, Movies You Can't Believe Are Out on DVD, Childhood Movies that Drove Your Parents Nuts, DVD Lending, Movies You Think You'll Probably Hate, What Happened to Dustin Hoffman?

They want to drive the national conversation about rethinking education for the 21st century through convenings, as well as advocacy, research, and program development.

It drives their hidden passions to the surface, and reinvigorates conversation about purpose in their lives.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

I facilitate it, but the students really drive the conversation, and they talk about what they think is interesting from whatever we've read.»

For years, student test scores drove much of the conversation about school quality and student learning.

This book goes well beyond the noise on learning space design that focuses on pretty Pinterest classrooms and moves towards a more sophisticated conversation about how learning spaces support and drive brain - friendly learning.

«But the way students are organizing themselves, underscoring the urgency of this issue, and driving a new conversation about how to ensure school safety and a school climate conducive to learning at the highest level gives us reason for hope.

When schools underwent community - driven school design, we watched school leaders open up conversations about school design that went beyond «engagement» or «partnership.»

«Then, instead of bickering over interest - group - driven politics, we could have a substantive, national conversation about how to refine the much - needed reforms so they create the best opportunities for kids who need them most.»