Sentences with phrase «little changes in the community»

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When the Church finally begins to demonstrate that abuse survivors are greatly loved and valued members of our Christian community, I have little doubt that many of them will be the greatest supporters of those influencing for change in this area.

Here in D.C., many positive changes have been made to the menu in the last year, but precious little has been done in the way of involving parents or the community in those changes, or in educating children about why they should be eating something other than their beloved chicken nuggets and tater tots.

Find out how your pregnant body is changing and your little one is developing or talk to other mums due at the same time as you in the community.

We, at API, often talk about the ripple effect we can create by the little changes each of us makes in our families and in our communities.

This will provide MPs with the opportunity to debate the current lack of protection for pubs, the fact that local communities have so little say over the future of their local, despite clear «moral ownership» of their local pubs - and will also suggest ways in which the planning system can be changed to ensure that local residents have the powers they need to protect their local pubs.

But as our cities grow and change it's also right that we allow some green belt land — especially those areas in which there is very little green to be seen — to become new communities for families and new neighbours.

However, the researchers found that communities with the highest level of diversity in what they fished for saw little or no change in revenue.

Changes in infrastructure and land use had little effect on the poverty in surrounding communities.

For instance, Ancha said, a recent survey showed that community leaders living along the coast of eastern China's Zhejiang province have little knowledge of climate change, and sea - level rise has failed to gain a foothold in the government's priorities.

A little - known grant program that supports academic research to help communities adapt to climate change and manage their coastal and lakeshore resources is on the chopping block in the Trump administration's budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

In general, the changes, which the state school board is scheduled to vote on next month, would make it a little easier for schools in poor communities to do well and.In general, the changes, which the state school board is scheduled to vote on next month, would make it a little easier for schools in poor communities to do well and.in poor communities to do well and...

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

This book, based on a little school in a rural town of Minnesota, describes the creation of and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can be and do.

Deb Neal, the school's community outreach director, said $ 500,000 has gone into renovating the building and while they're a little behind schedule, most of the changes are cosmetic — such as new carpet, repairing windows and adding shelving, sinks and water fountains in classrooms.

We can talk in our little community about how the publishing industry is changing and that the very earth beneath our feet is shifting.

It seems likely that the government would continue to play a significant role in working with lenders and communities in support of affordable housing and home loans, but the administration is suggesting changes that could make home loans less affordable for first time buyers with little cash and moderate income families currently depending on FHA for buying homes or refinancing existing mortgage loans.

Regardless of how much time you have or where you live, we have suggestions for how you can do little things to make big changes for animals — in your community and around the world.

«The little change here and there has made a big difference in the local animal welfare community.

«At the end of the day, the leaders are working in pursuit of their organization's vested self - interest, most of the changes they are likely to instigate will affect those organizations internally, and will exert very little impact on the arts community at large.»

You get a measure of these changes from the old pictures in Ny - Alesund's tiny museum, dedicated to the miners who first created this little community and dug in blizzards, winters of total darkness and bitter cold until 1962, when explosions wrecked the mine, killing 22 people.

Once upon a time the oceanic consequences of changes in atmospheric CO2 were of interest for a little community of scientists.

The SHIFT Festival at South Bank, London in 2010 underlined this ambition and the Sea Change Expeditions, led by Ruth Little, explored island communities in Scotland and their work to make themselves self sustaining and carbon neutral.

I see no difference between what is happening in the climate change debate courtesy of nutters like Lew and Oreskes and what is happening in the wider community, where the unwitting use of politically incorrect words and phrases is increasingly becoming the subject of ludicrous and lengthy official investigations which amount to little more than officially sanctioned witch hunts.

We have a small, tightly knit and perhaps even insular community that everybody is relying on for accurate information on how the Earth's climate is changing over time, and what influence human activity is having on it, yet there appears to be little of self - auditing activity in that field, but rather, if anything, more of a wagon - circling going on...

While some individual scientists have clearly taken these lessons to heart, I see very little sign that attitudes in the broad climate science community have changed.

While the United States continues the ridiculous debate on the science of climate change (see «Climategate» scandal, which is a result of hacked e-mails from a British research institute, but seems to be getting most play in the United States; but see also this excellent response by the U.S. scientific community organized by a colleague), little such doubt lingers in China, a country governed by technocrats with degrees in engineering and science.

By choosing to portray these issues as negative rather than presenting them as opportunities for truly radically evolutionary change, to cultivate compassion, patience, gratitude, by playing into people's fears, insecurities, worries and by too little emphasizing genuinely positive emotional responses the environmental community is just activating ways of thinking that stifle the very creativity and openness to new ideas that is needed in this hour of human need.

Caribbean communities that contribute very little to climate change are some of the most vulnerable, and representatives from many met in October 2016 in Grenada to share experiences and build technical capacity.

This is a problem that should be solved: it is in the interests of all members of the legal community who write regularly to have access to these time saving software packages, as this is a place where immediate efficiency improvements could be made with little expense or change in work style.

While we've been marveling at how Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have used social media to push for change in our gun laws, a little - noticed subculture called «Cruzers» or the «Niko Community» has grown up alongside them.

As successive reports have told us, most recently the 2009 edition of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Report [1], it is difficult to make sustained progress and there has been very little change in the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples relative to the rest of the Australian community in recent years.