Sentences with phrase «making schools and all communities»

They pleaded their case for making schools and all communities safe.
This feeling of making your school and community proud can help the kid become a better sports person, if they plan to do so in the future.
IEL's Coalition for Community Schools is working with community school initiative leaders to enhance local capacity to make schools and communities healthier places for all by bridging the gap between the health and education sectors.
Because music teachers make our schools and communities better, more harmonious places through the power of what they do for our children.
They pleaded their case for making schools and all communities safe.

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Musk made a name for himself by founding The Kitchen, a restaurant that emphasizes community through food and its attendant nonprofit, which helps build school gardens.
After giving $ 100 million to Newark, New Jersey schools, $ 120 million to Bay Area schools, and 18 million Facebook shares (now worth $ 1.9 billion) to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, they made the audacious announcement that they would give away 99 % of their Facebook stock during their lifetime, an amount currently valued at $ 45 billion.
Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.
Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»
Former Intercept reporter Juan Thompson was arrested by the FBI on March 3 in connection with bomb threats made to at least eight Jewish community centers and schools and the Anti-Defamation League's Manhattan headquarters.
Discussion groups, online communities, and user - made games on Steam are reportedly being used to glorify school shooters and mass shootings.
The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.
West Boca Raton Community High School, «The Addams Family»: Ensemble in a Musical, Ancestors; Sets, Matthew Fread, Ryan Hartman, Nick Morelli and Cristina Rodriguez; Make - up, Marianne Alex, Amanda Helbling, Cori Rosenthal and Missy Varela
«This strong vote of confidence from the AACSB demonstrates the tremendous progress we have made at Haskayne to improve the student experience, research important business topics and engage with our community,» says Jim Dewald, dean of the school.
And I know that my community, our schools and public gathering places are not made safer by any person having access to the best killing tool the Army could put in my hanAnd I know that my community, our schools and public gathering places are not made safer by any person having access to the best killing tool the Army could put in my hanand public gathering places are not made safer by any person having access to the best killing tool the Army could put in my hands.
When Lonny is not working to make a positive impact in his community, he hangs out at home with his wife, dogs, and 3 children including his daughter who is a freshman in the drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
It gives an Inclusivity Award to schools which make a positive impact to the unity of the local community, whose students interact with and respect each other and actively reject prejudice and discrimination.
[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.
The point to be made, then, is that as a community of persons that seeks to understand God truly, a theological school is a community seeking to learn concepts, that is, to grow in abilities and capacities relative to God.
At bottom, changes in a school's concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted in chapter 2 that distinguish schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about in some one way, and if so, how; what sort of community a theological school ought to be; how best to go about understanding God.
We have just seen that, far from unifying them, the fact that theological schools are theological makes them irreducibly different from one another because of different theological judgments about the nature of the Christian thing, what it is to understand God, and what sort of community a theological school is.
Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.
4) making the divinity school environment more conducive to conversation, community and worship
Every citizen, every parent, every teacher and administrator must make decisions about what shall be taught in homes, schools, churches, industry, and community.
The crucial ecology of institutions — community, public school, home and church — which once unconsciously supported the church school and made it viable has eroded.
That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.
The Vaughan School has a tradition of making a more thorough discernment concerning the catholicity and suitability of applicants to their particular educational community.
Schools that are racially integrated — assuming that the way integration is achieved promotes unity rather than division in the community — will have the greatest need and opportunity to provide those daily experiences that make this real for children.
Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.
Thus implicitly and explicitly the denominations in their concern for the education of ministers, and the schools entrusted with the task, make it evident that they think of themselves increasingly as branches or members of a single community, as orders and institutions with special duties or assignments to be carried out in partnership with other branches of one society.
The criticisms of the programme are made in the interests of assisting the continuing discussion on the best way to present sex education in Catholic schools and in the wider community.
This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old School Cafe, how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local communities.
This school has made us conscious of the fact that the witnesses gathered in the New Testament are not only individual witnesses — free witnesses, one might say; they are already situated in a believing community, in its cult, its preaching, and the expression of its faith.
The charity also supported local partners to rebuild schools, repair damaged water systems, help communities restore their means of making a living and prepare for future disasters.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
Schools, which once came from and created community, now teach students that they have to make it on their own and at the expense of others.
Such a culture can make LGB pupils and staff feel marginalised, and not valued or understood within the school community
This has allowed hospitals and schools to be built in the farmers» local communities, and improvements to be made on their homes.
«Our goal is to change the way people think about recycling and encourage other organisations and community members to get on board and install a Simply Cups bin their workplace, park or school, and make a difference to future generations.»
Meat Free Monday is a global citizenship project which aims to encourage school communities to reduce their meat and fish consumption in order to help children and young people make healthier food choices whilst simultaneously encouraging a responsible attitude to the planet.
As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.
* The Salad Bars 2 Schools grants in Bettendorf Community School District were made possible by donations from Warden Hutterian Brethren and Potatoes USA.
In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.
After high school, she played two years at Solano Community College, again made various all - tournament teams and earned partial scholarship offers to Cal State Fullerton, Southern Colorado and Fresno State.
That doesn't just penalize the player, it penalizes the whole team (and the athletic department and the school and the community), so it makes sense to deliver a punishment that focuses on the individual rather than a punishment that impacts the group.
Our pupils will make the most of it, and it will help enormously to develop and increase the popularity of the game in school and in the local community.
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This was a sacrifice we were willing to make, and it it didn't feel like much of a sacrifice — we lived in a beautiful community with great weather, wonderful parks and schools, and easy access to the beach, mountains, snow.
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.
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