Sentences with phrase «how engaged citizens»

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So we need to engage these youth and we need to figure out how we can help them to get what they need to be productive citizens.

How can Canada successfully engage China and other Asian powers in a human rights dialogue that benefits their citizens?

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

I'm looking for educational resources that I can share with others in an effort to engage more citizens in how our election system actually works.

Similarly, an article promoting the use of such tools, entitled «How to use social networks to engage with citizens «by Kelly Dempski of Accenture appears in Computing of 10 February 2011.

With the combination of cutting - edge digital technology and a large audience of highly - engaged activists, StandUnited is poised to redefine how the petition process can empower citizens, voters, taxpayers, small businesses and other like - minded activists to speak with a unified voice.

Those national organizations that figure out how to overcome this gap and successfully engage with these outspoken citizens stand to reap some big rewards.

She will be presenting on One Region Forward, how citizens can get engaged and involved and what the goal of the initiative in Western New York is.

Knowing that people come to the platform to talk about what they care about, we have developed a politics and government programme essentially to understand how our platform is being used, not just during elections, but also to help governments engage with their citizens and also to see what the risks related to our platform in elections are and what opportunities and programmes can be put in place to address the risks.»

In fact we recall how on August 20th 2015 a group of NDC activists engaged the media to communicate how they had been financially resourced by the leadership of the NDC, led by its General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia to ILLEGALLY recruit over 10,000 Togolese CITIZEN»S to register on the Ghana electoral roll in 2012.

In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear arms.

«There is considerable interest in the policy community, among scientists themselves, and among engaged citizens to understand how the fast - paced world of scientific inquiry and innovation is shaping our world,» Michael Dimock, the president of Pew Research Center, said in a statement.

Some might see the film as lionizing Gore, but it's a fascinating primer on how to engage and train citizen activists, from the grass roots to the corridors of power.

To teach students how to be actively engaged citizens, you have to enable them to practice active engagement.

Journal Reflection: A Resource Guide for Community Service Leaders and Educators Engaged in Service Learning explains how to initiate and sustain thoughtful journal - keeping while encouraging youngsters to be active and creative citizens.

In order to engage as citizens, to vote at the local and national level, they need to understand how local issues — such as the rising cost of gasoline or environmental degradation — are shaped by world events.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

They become more engaged citizens who understand «how everyone and everything in a community is interconnected,» according to educator and author Sarah Anderson.

We need to teach students how to be effective collaborators in that world, how to interact with people around them, how to be engaged, informed twenty - first - century citizens.

Online, they are also invited to reflect on how they fit into the wider world and our unfolding human story — one important facet of becoming more informed, thoughtful, and engaged «global citizens.»

Each snapshot also has initial ideas for how families, educators, and communities can make targeted and innovative improvements to support the whole child and help students become productive adults and engaged citizens.

«Berman pushes us to consider how more than service opportunities or isolated courses in contemporary issues will be needed if students are to become engaged citizens.

The goal is for students to understand the important role local government plays in community development and learn how to become engaged citizens now and in the future.

Dr. Clougherty: My biggest hope is that every student will love to come to school every day and that they are learning how to be engaged, meaningful citizens in our community.

Overall, how do we best prepare them to be caring people, ethical workers, and engaged citizens today and in the future?

In any presidential election year, the months before the election afford middle and high school teachers a great opportunity to engage students in the new The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (C3s) These new frameworks center on guiding students in activities so that they can see how citizens apply civic virtues and democratic principles and have the opportunity to see actual civic engagement in the democratic process.

June 20, 2018 14th Annual Character Education Conference Character Education: The Pathway to Student Success Join Wisconsin's brightest educators as they come together to learn how to inspire and empower students to become engaged and ethical citizens.

How can we engage students in meaningful learning and help them become effective citizens?

The research contributes to building an improved understanding of 1) how different intensities of disaster affect children in different contexts and 2) the structures needed to realise the benefits of engaging children as active citizens and agents of change at the sub-national and local scale.

It will showcase how neglected lots can be transformed into a self - sustaining micro-communities, providing housing and fresh food via engaged citizens.

As a government employee, I'm inspired to see how open data has lead to information tools that both engage citizens and serve them in ways that we would never think of.

But I'll be back, and I suggest you, too, persevere, because, if, as ReadWriteWeb opines, even the U.S. government open access data initiative data.gov has whole lot to learn from the Brits, our government desperately needs to see how those who «get it» are engaging their citizens; and our informed readers need to do what they can to cause it to get it, too.

The LFO said she will «research and build connections among the education, legal, and urban planning sectors to explore how our physical environments impact diverse youth, their education, and their ability to engage as citizens in issues that matter to them.»

Through keynote presentations, breakout sessions and the resource fair, participants will interact with like - minded colleagues to share and learn strategies on how to engage their students and help them develop into ethical citizens.

Join Wisconsin's brightest educators as they come together to learn how to inspire and empower students to become engaged and ethical citizens.