Sentences with phrase «fostering means a way»

«To me fostering means a way I can give back to a community that gave me so much with my two little rescues.

Not exact matches

I mean there are no guarantees either way but adopting through foster care gives us time to think and imagine what a good fit might be.

Spoiled Mommy — Being a mother myself, I'll admit I'm biased, however I think all moms, whether they are mother's by way of birthing a child, adoption, fostering, or any other means, deserves a little bling to commemorate the blessing of being called, «Mom.»

Stonyfield organic yogurt is highly nutritious, and produced in a way that helps foster a healthy environment... Plus it also makes a mean smoothie.

Fostering local communities and traditional ways of life is meant to rebuild altruism at the local level, while highlighting national identity is intended to help reach a broader «common good».

«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at large - scale — can have beneficial impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.

We are all about fostering a love of hand making and discussing the ways traditional domestic handcrafts have meaning and context in our everyday lives.

We are all about fostering a love of hand making and discussing the ways traditional domestic handcrafts have meaning and context in our everyday lives.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

As the learning continues, the students reflexively develop their own methods of making meaning through active engagement in classroom activities, and both teachers and students are able to experience success in a way that fosters excitement in learning.

Schools should foster world peace by teaching ways to resolve individual and group conflict through nonviolent means.

Presentations at the NCTE Conference were about narrative as a way of fostering student engagement and motivation, narrative as a way to understand other people's cultures or environments, narrative as a way to create student voice, narrative as a spur to innovative thinking, narrative as a way to learn any academic discipline, narrative as a form of persuasion, narrative as a way to create personal meaning and new knowledge, narrative as an impetus for social change, narrative as a way to inspire creativity, narrative as the beginning of inquiry, narrative as an expression of imagination, narrative as a reflection on one's own process of learning, and narrative as the basis of collaboration among those with multiple perspectives.

The story is told in flashback by a former foster child who found a way to express her deepest emotions through the secret meanings of flowers.

We want to partner with you to help you feel confident and prepared to help your dog settle into your home, whether that means educating you on how to best set up your space, helping you get up speed on how to use positive training technique to help your dog gain basic skills to be their most adoptable, or helping more experienced fosters learn ways to work with dogs who may need additional help to thrive.

We simply put it this way, if we keep every foster dog we foster then that means that we won't be able to help anymore dogs because we wouldn't have the space.

This means implementing a multi-pronged approach of providing good care, fair, reliable behavior testing, rehabilitation if needed, and a commitment to making adoption an appealing option to the public by way of education, a foster home network, cooperation with rescue groups, good customer service, clean facilities, spay / neuter before adoption, and liberal adoption hours.

It may also mean there's more readiness to embrace complexity and uncertainty instead of trying to downplay these factors when considering ways to foster human progress on a finite planet.

Knowledge of common virtues involves not only engaging with the meaning of specific virtues, but issues associated with the idea of virtues as a way to foster ethical behaviour and respect for human rights.

We are all about fostering a love of hand making and discussing the ways traditional domestic handcrafts have meaning and context in our everyday lives.