Sentences with phrase «for fostering conversations»

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As office walls came down nationwide, business leaders discovered that the move not only opened up more space for equipment and staff, but also fostered conversation, collaboration and team - building among employees.

Today, he works as a media consultant for a variety of brands, organizations, and startups, to foster an ongoing conversation about entrepreneurship, including The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Cool Hunting, SCORE, and OPEN Forum, where he serves as Editor - at - Large.

Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed on students or young faculty members, those living in the tensions between the academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.

In addition, the «About this blog» section above states as part of its purpose,»... fostering a global conversation about the role of religion and belief in readers» lives,» and like I said before, unfortunately for me and others like me, your beliefs and the beliefs of others like you can play a role in our lives, so we are involved already.

During a particularly lively conversation about fostering qualities of grit and perseverance in children, I even volunteered to write an article about it for the school newsletter.

As I become a more frequent blog commenter myself, I'm learning how great that feature is for fostering true «conversation» (versus leaving a comment and then forgetting to ever come back to see if anyone responded.)

Understanding how mothers manage television for kids can foster positive, nonshaming conversations between clinicians and low - income parents about TV, which could ultimately help reduce screen time, Domoff said.

It is expected that cross-cutting conversations at this session will foster synergy for future collaborations.

I wanted to foster a week of conscious body - positive conversation, so I challenged everyone to wear a wiggle dress every day for a week, post their photos on Insta / Facebook with the hashtag #WiggleWeek, and show our bodies and each other some love!

Getting known a great deal about one another before this first date due to chatting online for a while should provide you with considerable leeway to easily discuss each other peoples lives, interests, fostering to not head to negative aspects though — keep your conversation inside a positive happy note.

Once you see someone you'd like to get to know more about, Free Dating America's live chat can instantly connect you — fostering conversation and determining if you're right for each other.

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.

Among its benefits, practitioners mention drawing on the value of open conversations to foster deep thinking and analysis, developing a group culture for learning, and enhancing communication skills.

We're always looking for new opportunities to elevate educator voices and foster conversations about student learning.

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?

You might also consult Facing History's guide Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations for additional strategies and resources to help promote active listening, intellectual engagement, and thoughtful reflection in your classroom.

He notes that this «makes for great conversations about learning with students and fosters ownership in our work together.»

Crucial Conversations is a two - day course taught by VitalSmarts that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high - stakes, emotional, or risky topics — at all levels of your organization.

For example, agreeing as a staff to abide by the Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations (Singleton & Linton, 2006) can foster productive conversationConversations (Singleton & Linton, 2006) can foster productive conversationsconversations about race.

You might also consult the Facing History resource Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations for additional strategies and resources to help promote active listening, intellectual engagement, and thoughtful reflection in your classroom.

Develop essential questions, differentiate your conversations during the pre - and post-observation conversations, and foster a growth mindset for the life - cycle of professional learning for teachers.

«The research placed a great deal of importance on fostering conversation with their friends, so we looked at a fresh approach for Saturn that would lend itself to this idea.»

Overall, we are hoping that the webinar will foster further conversation among librarians about ebooks and that it will be an opportunity to discuss the implications that digital books present for our collections and for readers (as people, not devices).

«We struck up a conversation with a foster mom for a rescue group.

Since most dogs are adopted without an opportunity to meet them, we use Skype, videos and phone conversations with the foster families to insure that each prospective adopter has all the information possible to make a great choice for a furever family member.

The intensity of their conversations ultimately fostered the early conservation movement's definitions of wilderness and the differing needs for national parks and national forests.

Envisioned as a forum for collaboration and conversation, the ICA will serve as an incubator for innovation, a pilot space for curatorial and educational practices, and a source of programming that will foster experimentation across artistic disciplines.

«A Crossroads of collections» fosters a «conversation» between private and public collections in our surrounding area of influence in order to define our new and changing reality, in this way opening up a new path for the museographic reinterpretation of the CAAM's holdings.

The plan will guide the work of the museum for decades to come and by sharing the plan with the public Chinati hopes to foster conversation among scholars and like - minded institutions about the preservation and stewardship of sites created by artists.

«For nearly fty years, the Studio Museum has been a trailblazer in the cultural conversation, fostered the careers of emerging artists of African descent, and served as an anchor in Harlem,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

There's a lot more on innovation and science here, including my conversations on the «ecology» of innovation with Andrew Hargadon, my piece on Fostering Education for Innovation (and Vice Versa) and my summary of the recent Energy Innovation 2010 conference.

In 2015 she was awarded the inaugural PEN Canada / Ken Filkow Prize for her «tenacity in uncovering an abuse of power, and commitment to fostering a national conversation in the face of censorship.»

According to the site's mission statement, the goal of Ms. JD is to foster dialogue about women in the law by providing a space for online conversations about issues facing women lawyers in the workplace.

If the first day of Scaling Bitcoin focused on fostering constructive dialogue, day two moved the conversation toward defining how that dialogue would proceed following the event and how such discussion could coalesce into a clearer vision for the open - source technology's future.

You obstruct your job search if you don't look for ways to foster conversations with people who could potentially lead you to a hiring manager or recruiter, whether directly or indirectly.

* We find permanent and / or foster homes for rescued Stuffed Animals (SAs), and we provide shelter, snuggles and good conversation in the interim.

This webinar, presented by Judy Jablon, will explore how to use staff meetings for engaging professional conversations that foster continuous quality improvement.

But open - ended questions are not only good for therapy; they are also key to fostering engaging conversations in our everyday lives.

By teaching a process that facilitates relational change, Helen and Harville aim to establish healthy relationship as this society's primary cultural value which will lead to greater civil conversation and foster a legacy of stability and peace for generations to come.

Planning for this trip reminded me of a few conversations I had over the years with foster and adopted...

As an objective mediator for this therapy, I will foster a safe and positive atmosphere, facilitating conversation according to your family needs.

While we believe that foster care and adoption - themed movies can be a great vehicle for opening the door to conversations about foster care and adoption, parents should always determine if they feel comfortable exposing their child to a movie's story, messages or themes.