Sentences with phrase «of civic activity»

For those inexperienced with running and voting for office, churches are a seedbed of civic activity.

He and his wife Leslie are involved in a broad range of civic activities in the Millbrook area, most involving their children.

Tuesday, January 17th is also a National Day of Racial Healing, and you can visit www.dayofracialhealing.com to learn more about all of the civic activities you, your organization or community can do on January 17.

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Philips, for its part, is working with a number of European cities on an urban lighting system that uses sensors to determine optimum lighting levels for the amount of street activity, saving energy while still providing a safe civic environment.

This Festival combines family - friendly activities, entertainment and usually, an ice cream sundae — all sponsored, hosted and supported by the Downtown Merchants, area companies, civic organizations and volunteers of the Seacoast.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

For instance, citizens often act together through diverse associations, contexts, activities, and civic relationships in order to achieve their social ends and purposes independently of the state.

Sin and waywardness, rightness and righteousness, characterize, therefore, the activities of civilizations and civic groups as well as citizens.

Workers sacrifice much of their privacy to the workplace, not to mention their time, which could be spent on other activities, whether that be family life, civic engagement or just sleeping.

Martin Luther, the first of the Reformers to formulate a radically new understanding of the Christian idea of vocation, argued that any kind of regular and legitimate work in the world — manual labor, parenting, civic activity — could be a vocation or a calling so long as the Christian did that workout of love for Cod in service to humankind.

It's these ideas — not the biblical concept of an actual Satan — that serve as motivation for their high - profile civic activities.

The city minister, busily engaged in church activities and active in all manner of worthy civic causes, may forget the fact that for many, many people a city is a cold, lonely place.

The era of women's busy and important civic service, however, wound down as domestic helpers grew scarce, and as professional social workers and administrators took over many of the activities that had previously been controlled by unpaid volunteers.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

He is now an estate planner with the Trust Company of Georgia and involved in many Atlanta civic activities.

Participating in a civic organization such as the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts will help your child learn new skills, develop a sense of responsibility, and enjoy outdoor sports and other outdoor activities.

Consider a variety of civic organizations - like Scouting and 4 - H - and religious activities — like youth group — that may be of interest to your teen.

I want my children to actively engage in our society, so I participate with and in front of them in civic activities.

A frequent lecturer for professional and civic groups, «he was a very good speaker and could just entertain you with his way of promoting any activity that he was involved in,» his daughter - in - law said.

At an event sponsored by the Brennan Center and New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD)-- a coalition of business, civic and philanthropic leaders who favor campaign finance reform — New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled new disclosure requirements for non-profits engaging in political activities.

Markets and market values, in particular, were threatening because they invaded areas of human activity that were central to the building of civic character.

The Council's public tech division was a unit first created under Mark - Viverito as part of an effort to modernize the Council, increase outreach to communities of color and increase participation among communities typically less involved in civic activity.

I appreciate it is an important issue for some, but more needs to be done If one contrasts the amount of civic campaigning activity and public support behind the Scottish Constitutional Convention in the early 1990s (building on a range of efforts over a longer period), then it is clear that there has been no campaign in England of similar.

As you may know, the Act enables councils working in co-operation with their communities to get Government help to assist them in reversing the decline of local services, dealing with fuel poverty, protecting the environment and obtaining greater involvement in civic activity.

«At this juncture, it has become necessary to ask all conscionable representatives of the Nigerian people, civil society activities, labour and its social partners, to stand up and be counted, by discharging their civic responsibility of exposing what is undoubtedly another hot pursuit against the Roghinga's of 21st century.

Evelyn Vossler has been a community activist for over 20 years, dedicated to improving the lives of Riverside and Black Rock residents through her civic and church activities at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Buffalo.

The organizations and agencies listed in the Directory offer a wide variety of programs and services, including ESL and civics classes, citizenship assistance and legal advice, public benefits and health insurance access, employment training and job placement, youth activities and senior centers, and immigrant rights and civic engagement projects.

Baumol and his contributors argue that despite the continuing rises in the relative cost of health care and other important civic activities, our societies can afford them.

He cut down on his film appearances in the late»70s, devoting most of his time to his many civic activities and business concerns; during this period, he also founded the Black Economic Union.

If we're going to redefine civics to include a much wider range of participation than we previously did and look at what kids really are doing when they're engaging in civic activity, absolutely central to that is the fact that they've got access to new media.

In the days leading up to their final presentation at the Massachusetts State House in Boston — Civics Day, as it's called — my classroom becomes a flurry of activity.

For instance, service learning programs bring curricular activities outside of the classroom and into the local community, by encouraging students to engage in civic duty such as volunteering.

HGSE is well situated to develop a field - building program and train a new generation of early career researchers, building on current research, faculty, doctoral student interests, and activities relating to civic learning and civic action.

Young adults who had participated in sports activities when they were in high school report higher levels of civic engagement than those who did not participate, according to a study from the University of Maryland College Park.

Activists pressure schools to redefine «civic education» in terms of influencing public policy and engaging in political activity - while giving short shrift to being a good parent, dependable neighbor, and conscientious member of the nongovernmental institutions that compose civil society.

The study investigates students» knowledge and understanding of civics and citizenship, but also their attitudes, perceptions and activities related to the learning area.

KQED Education provides educators and young people multimedia content, experiential activities, and professional tools to create learning environments of the 21st century by promoting civic engagement, creative expression, and problem solving using digital media.

Analyzing parenting youth's participation in school - sponsored civic engagement activities and the role of literacy in their development as active members of their communities.

Service Learning To promote the benefits of combining classroom instruction, experiential learning, and civic engagement, TwHP suggests activities, highlights case studies, and provides other resources on the topic of service learning.

In their 1995 study of civic involvement, political scientists Sidney Verba, Kay Schlozman, and Henry Brady asked politically active Americans why they engage in an array of civic and political activities.

Campbell demonstrates that the more homogeneous the community or the school, by various measures, the greater the degree of participation in voluntary civic activities.

The study also found that parents empowered by choice became «more likely to see a connection between education and the civic institutions of society, to say that their children were learning how government works, and to be involved themselves in civic activities.»

This begins with demonstrating the power of technology to support specific social studies activities and projects that together center on the development of children's (a) «personal civic beliefs,» (b) «capacity for social and public action,» (c) «ties to their localities and the world outside,» and (d) «awareness of past present and future» (Cogan et al., 2000, p. 50).

This amounted to a return of more than $ 2 for every taxpayer dollar spent and a social return of nearly $ 4 for every dollar spent.13 The social return included benefits such as improved skills and human capital, greater lifetime civic engagement, lower delinquency and criminal activity, and even improved health status for volunteers.14 Cost - benefit analyses of more than 50 individual AmeriCorps programs have yielded similar results.15

Our goal is to create a base of informed adults with positive feelings about charter schools who we can target in the future for various advocacy - related efforts, including enrollment and civic engagement activities.

The vision of Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is to develop an intrinsic desire and purpose within our students, that will nurture confidence for authentic leadership opportunities to investigate, collaborate, and resolve issues of inquiry, involving all academic disciplines and extracurricular and athletic activities, within an atmosphere of encouragement steeped in high expectations and natural rewards, thereby yielding healthy, well - rounded, moral, accountable, and compassionate advocates of human rights, national resources, independent means, and civic responsibility.

Its main focus is on how human activity including that of governments, TNCs and civic society groups as well as indigenous groups have a role to play in determining the Arctic Region's future.

They should participate in civic activities, including working for or against candidates for election and discussing public issues at all levels of government.

Little or not attention has been given to the fact that teachers are already involved in multiple activities inside and outside the classroom that have pervasive and diffuse student outcomes in terms of academic achievement, socio - emotional development and civic engagement.

But the existence of different abilities and their relevance to performance in a wide variety of school activities does not mean that they play equal roles in allowing children to learn the material in English lit, American history, chemistry, civics, and advanced algebra.