Sentences with phrase «meaningful voice in»

We are tremendously proud of our clients and honored to give them a strong and meaningful voice in court by fighting to hold careless and negligent parties accountable by pursuing justice in personal injury and wrongful death cases relating to motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, defective products / devices, dangerous drugs, and other harmful conduct.

Tellingly, it's the board's opposition to climate change risk assessments that underscores why long - term shareowners need a second reform opposed by the board: a meaningful voice in the election of directors.

By empowering communities to have a meaningful voice in transportation decisions, institutionalizing «best practices» internally and externally across DOT programs, and sharpening enforcement tools to ensure compliance, the Department ensures that EJ is an integral and effective part of all of its activities.

Provide necessary information for these stakeholders to have a meaningful voice in local and regional transportation decisions; and

posts Another faux pro-public education group targets Connecticut (12/18/12) and Teacher - led organization that gives teachers a meaningful voice in policy is expanding in CT!

on Teacher - led organization that gives teachers a meaningful voice in policy is expanding in CT!

So a group of dedicated individuals formed a new, «teacher - led» advocacy organization that «elevates the profession by giving teachers a meaningful voice in the policies that shape our careers and classrooms.»

Yet we are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing New York standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee said in a statement.

Let the professionals in education have a meaningful voice in the decisions impacting education within the state.

Sojourners Magazine just published a blog comment / letter to the editor I wrote in response to a previous article by Nicole Baker Fulgham, «Beyond «Superman,»» which referenced «Waiting for Superman» in recommending that meaningful reform must involve all stakeholders having a stronger, more meaningful voice in school decision - making.

E4E is a national teacher - led organization working to ensure that teachers have a meaningful voice in the creation of policies that impact their classrooms and careers.

«We are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing NY standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» said Karen Magee, President of NYSUT.

«Activism is about having a meaningful voice in decisions that affect our lives,» Simon said.

«My single goal is to give people who live in the district a meaningful voice in the decisions that affect their lives.»

Not exact matches

When you find your voice, and your audiences start to react positively, that builds self - confidence and self - esteem and allows you to find yourself in a meaningful way.

Our examination of these notable subjects has proven to us, rather predictably, that say on pay's sophomore year came with converging compensation practices as well as meaningful reform in response to the shareholder voice.

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

I hope when I overcome my illness I can be like you and become an advocate and voice for those in similar situations as well as for healthy, slower, more meaningful living.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

We've amplified their voices in these exclusive videos as they share how meaningful their open adoption experiences have been.

I understand that the legislature thinks it should make itself more meaningful in the overall scheme of things, but after almost a decade of executive government the legislature has turned into a junior partner, reactive and indolent, an echo rather than a voice.

In her work at the UFT, Janella has championed equity for students and a more meaningful voice for educators.

«New Yorkers should understand that lawmakers» actions did not result from meaningful debateand good judgment — it resulted from political expediency — and it will have harmful consequences to people and communities now and for a long time to come.CSEA will seek better ways to hold elected officials accountable and ensure that the voices of working people will be heard and addressed in New York state.»

The county committee system was originally designed to give ordinary New Yorkers a voice in their party organization, but with little understanding or available information of how the arcane system works, few take advantage of it in a meaningful way, and in each borough, thousands of seats are vacants at any given time.

The findings suggest that voice - hearers have an enhanced tendency to detect meaningful speech patterns in ambiguous sounds.

Happn co-founder and CEO Didier Rappaport said in a statement: «This new voice feature provides our members with another opportunity to connect on a more personal level and create meaningful relationships.»

As debut features go, this one rubs shoulders with the likes of Terrence Malick's «Badlands», Charles Burnett's «Killer of Sheep» and Terence Davies's «Distant Voices, Still Lives» for the sublime fluency of its technique and conviction in the belief that a film doesn't need a beginning, middle and end to be meaningful, dramatic and poetic.

Keeping it real Practical experience, real examples and authentic voices are key in bringing sustainability alive and making it meaningful and relevant to children and young people.

As described earlier, Child - to - Child is grounded in meaningful children's participation, incorporating a six - step methodology that allows for children to have a voice in naming, designing, and implementing solutions to the issues that affect them.

MR: I think that many people (and perhaps the loudest voices) are less interested in meaningful dialogue and solutions in the middle and more interested in proving that they are right and that those who have different opinions aren't just wrong but are bad people.

He was already a successful entrepreneur — Partovi was part of the founding team that sold voice recognition pioneer Tellme Networks to Microsoft in 2007 — but he was looking for something more meaningful as his next step.

The key to having meaningful discussions in our classrooms is establishing a culture that values all of the voices in the room, and the more opportunities we give students to think, talk, and listen to each other, the more empowered they'll be to join the conversation.

Dana L. Mitra describes the evolution of student voice at Whitman, showing that the students enthusiastically created partnerships with teachers and administrators, engaged in meaningful discussion about why so many failed or dropped out, and partnered with teachers and principals to improve learning for themselves and their peers.

Researchers can continue their efforts to measure the significance of these approaches in a variety of ways, including establishing the causative effects of student voice, student engagement, and Meaningful Student Involvement.

Each of these roles can include student voice; few currently involve students in meaningful ways.

Though the bill ultimately wasn't passed, we expanded the conversation around student voice in more meaningful school decision - making locally and nationally.

Dedicated to improving schools in substantive ways, different voices in Australia have been promoting Meaningful Student Involvement, student voice and student engagement have been discussed, codified, researched and examined in Europe for more than three decades.

Roger Holdsworth is one of the longest standing and most successful advocates and allies for student voice, student engagement and Meaningful Student Involvement in the world.

Through the Meaningful Student and Family Engagement initiative, OKF increased district and school capacity to ensure the voices and priorities of over 500 youth and families of color were included in school improvement processes and reform efforts — including development of school plans, budgets, and policies at the district level and at three partner schools.

SoundOut is widely recognized as a foremost education training organization in the world today focused on student voice, student engagement and Meaningful Student Involvement.

The panel touched on school climate and culture, what it means to have true and meaningful student voices embedded in your school, and how education truly frees students from negative situations.

With its learning cycle and outcomes firmly based in research and practice, Meaningful Student Involvement can provide useful frameworks for teachers to engage student voice beyond simplistic and tokenistic measures.

When adults do not engage student voice in meaningful ways throughout the school environment, students may feel compelled to make their voices heard by adults.

Meaningful Student Involvement amplifies student voice in ways many people don't anticipate.

Students feel valued when they have an opportunity to voice their opinions in a meaningful way.

Creating opportunities for meaningful involvement for students, teachers, and parents is growing in many communities, while the federal government is increasingly asking how and where nontraditional voices can be engaged in decision - making.

While student voice happens all the time in classrooms, meaningful involvement does not.

Unfortunately, in many ways the idea of student voice and choice is being used as a surrogate for actually understanding Meaningful Student Involvement.

Across the United States and around the world, students are organizing themselves into energized, focused and powerful organizations in order to promote student voice in education reform in substantive and meaningful ways.

In my work focused on promoting student voice through SoundOut, I have identified the following skill building and knowledge - sharing areas becoming developed when schools are committed to Meaningful Student Involvement.