Sentences with phrase «important policy conversation»

We do not believe that the 2015 DGAs are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability

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We spark important conversations, help women build their network, recognize women through speaking engagements and the Wendy McDonald Awards and advocate for policies that benefit gender diversity in leadership.

I am not Mom enough to think that the debate over how to feed our youngest children — an important and nuanced conversation about nutrition, and workplace policy, and government responsibility, and gender relationships — can be boiled down to a simplistic, unrepresentative, staged photograph.»

First, it's important to agree on a few things as soon as you see the conversation headed toward gun policy.

«Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future,» Gibson said.

«I think the most important effect science can have in policy is to be present within the conversation when policy is being discussed, formulated, and strategized,» said Wong.

This won't erase those ideas from people's minds and the conversations we have on the street, but if it dampens those conversations in the spheres that end up controlling a lot of our lives — where our cash will go and what policies and laws should be in in our culture — then that's really important, because those conversations have tremendous power.

«I got to experience a variety of different challenges, participate in nearly every higher education policy debate, and craft new policy that has shaped the conversation in higher education in important ways,» Smith says, citing her work on the college scorecard and the financial aid shopping sheet as among the initiatives she found most interesting.

Join Teach Plus on Thursday, November 17, from 5 - 7:30 pm for an important conversation on the questions surrounding student growth measures with experts Noah Bookman, LAUSD Program and Policy Development Advisor, Dr. Rob Meyer, research professor and Director of the Value - Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, and Chris Bertelli, Executive Director at The College - Ready Promise.

A fresh, independent evaluation of your programs, policies, and student outcomes is a powerful way to identify needs in your school or district and to start important conversations about equity in your community.

We are excited to join the important education policy conversation in the District of Columbia, and we look forward to collaborating with the Mayor, District Government agencies, the members of the Council, advocates, community members, education providers, and education researchers.

Most analysts in the education policy conversation agree that teacher quality is the most important in - school variable shaping students» educational outcomes.

Given the complex needs and challenges that Lampron's students face, it's a huge and important question to tackle — and it's led to a core team of teachers, district staff, support staff, and administrators engaging in conversations around topics such as discipline policies, classroom management, staff roles, forming relationships with students, and shifting school culture to understand the impact of trauma.

In a recent e-mail conversation on polar bears and climate policy, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, who for decades has been an important voice on climate science and policy, echoed the idea that this widening push is what matters.

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon policy.

We submitted our paper to an open - access «Discussion» journal (ACPD) in hopes of engaging the scientific and policy - making communities in an important conversation about the urgency of reducing fossil fuel emissions and the adequacy of current and proposed policies.

Communicating the policy relevance of different varieties of uncertainty, including imprecision, ambiguity, intractability and indeterminism, is an important part of this conversation.

«If the marijuana policy works out, then it may be an important stepping stone to opening up the conversation for change in regards to other illicit substances and how we try to target them and assist the people who are addicted to them,» says Gorham.

But I am also convinced that further conversation between these wings of Anglo - American public law is important, for we are all struggling with the tension between the supremacy of law and the need for sound, politically responsive policy in a complex world.

Sixty - one percent of newly married couples say they discussed combining auto policies before they were married, but only 30 percent believed their spouse's driving record was an important enough topic for a premarital conversation, the NAIC survey found.

A conversation with an auto insurance agent can seem like insurance involves upsell after upsell; while this is true to some extent, it's important to realize that being fully protected by auto insurance means investing in a range of different policies that all work together.

As these conversations evolve, however, we feel it's important to take a step back, examine the research and practice available, and identify our gaps in knowledge in order to effectively move forward in our policy conversations.

Conversations with Real Insight is a new initiative from NAR that features Realtors ®, policy makers and industry leaders who will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding about the important issues affecting real estate today.