Sentences with phrase «enact change in their communities»

This beautiful book compiles interviews with influential women — from poets to scientists to business icons — on how they fought through adversity to enact change in their communities and the world at large.

Camelback works with local entrepreneurs with promising ideas, and empower them to enact change in their communities by providing financing, networking and coaching.

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In an ultimate story of small business savvy enacting huge community change, a group of female elders from the Wirlu - murra Aboriginal community in Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 millioIn an ultimate story of small business savvy enacting huge community change, a group of female elders from the Wirlu - murra Aboriginal community in Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 millioin Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 million.

Proposed laws include allowing local governments to enact their own restrictions on offenders, changing the legal definition of a school to include pre-K and kindergarten, and holding risk assessment hearings before an individual is allowed in a community.

Established in the vibrant educational community of Pittsburgh, PA, The Wrinkled Brain Project is focused on enacting meaningful, measurable change in STEM education at the local level.

These people offered thoughtful, nuanced perspectives on the issues facing our students in urban communities: these perspectives helped to elevate thinking and provide a platform for exploring measures by which to enact sustained, productive changes both in and beyond the classroom.»

When I was in the classroom, I taught in an immigrant community with many undocumented students, and I developed a passion for working with them and a desire for helping to enact change on their behalf.

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.

Matchbook created a school model that relates to the wishes and needs of students, teachers, parents, and community stakeholders in order to enact real and sustainable change.

In enacting our value of collaborative learning, we support teachers in building learning communities that lead to transformational changIn enacting our value of collaborative learning, we support teachers in building learning communities that lead to transformational changin building learning communities that lead to transformational change.

Unfortunately, those most affected by the earliest symptoms of a climate change are typically communities most reliant upon consistent weather and the least capable of coping when such patterns change — but still the world seems to dally in enacting legislation sufficient to combat it.

One important way to do that is to enact policies that offer the most vulnerable communities in the world the support they need to combat the impact of climate change and help them and the rest of the world transition to a low - carbon global economy.

The groundbreaking (and highly controversial) change, enacted in August, shook the bitcoin community this year, where tensions were high and social media was a firestorm of finger - pointing and slander.

In a potentially positive change, reserve and reporting requirements constraining construction and commercial lending by community banks under Dodd - Frank, the banking reform law enacted in 2010, could easIn a potentially positive change, reserve and reporting requirements constraining construction and commercial lending by community banks under Dodd - Frank, the banking reform law enacted in 2010, could easin 2010, could ease.

COMMUNITY — We strive to enact the change we want to see in the world, through charity at home and abroad